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riversedge

(77,782 posts) Thu Aug 28, 2025, 12:27 AM Aug 28

NC county elections chair accused of putting cocaine, MDMA in granddaughters' ice cream

Source: wral.com

The chairman of the Surry County Board of Elections was charged after Wilmington police said they found evidence he placed illegal narcotics in his granddaughters' ice cream.

Posted 4:40 PM today Updated 5:14 PM today
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James Yokeley Jr.
By WRAL staff

The chairman of the Surry County Board of Elections was charged after Wilmington police said they found evidence he placed illegal narcotics in his granddaughters' ice cream.

On Aug. 8, James Edwin Yokeley Jr. told an officer that his two juvenile granddaughters found two pills in ice cream purchased from Dairy Queen on Oleander Drive.

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Yokeley was charged with contaminating food or drink with a controlled substance, felony possession of schedule 1 narcotics and felony child abuse, records show. He was transported to the New Hanover County Detention Center and posted a $100,000 secured bond.

..............In June, Yokeley, a Republican, was selected by State Auditor Dave Boliek to serve as chairman of the Surry County Board of Elections.

Read more: https://www.wral.com/news/local/surry-board-elections-drug-ice-cream-wilmington-august-2025/

The granddaughters did not eat any of the ice cream, which is the only good part about this story.

philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_
The chair of a North Carolina county Board of Elections was charged for allegedly drugging ice cream with MDMA and cocaine and giving them to his two granddaughters

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NC county elections chair accused of putting cocaine, MDMA in granddaughters' ice cream (Original Post) riversedge Aug 28 OP

WTH? Why did he want to harm his grandkids? To be caught on video, they must have been outside the ice cream shop? Deuxcents Aug 28 #1

"Why did he want to harm his grandkids?" LudwigPastorius Aug 28 #3

Ding, ding, ding! Dem2theMax Aug 28 #7

HE WAS NOT TRYING TO HARM THE GIRLS wanderer54 Aug 28 #8

Sounds like he wanted to Cosby them to rape them. Mawspam2 Aug 28 #2

Hey girls! Let's go to Dairy Queen! 1. Is this their first DQ visit together? 2. There needs to be a deep investigation NBachers Aug 28 #4

He's the one who reported it wanderer54 Aug 28 #5

he is still a seriously sick fuck Skittles Aug 28 #9

Sounds like he got caught and trying to blame others? bluestarone Aug 28 #11

I may be wrong, but wouldn't that combination make them horny and energetic? Buddyzbuddy Aug 28 #6

Republicans are insane! Clouds Passing Aug 28 #10

Parents protect your children from the 3-C's, even if they are relatives. republianmushroom Aug 28 #12

Deuxcents

(24,014 posts)

1. WTH? Why did he want to harm his grandkids? To be caught on video, they must have been outside the ice cream shop?

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Aug 28, 2025, 12:45 AM

Aug 28

LudwigPastorius

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3. "Why did he want to harm his grandkids?"

Reply to Deuxcents (Reply #1)

Thu Aug 28, 2025, 01:04 AM

Aug 28

He's a Republican, so he was probably trying to "prime" them for sexual assault.

Dem2theMax

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7. Ding, ding, ding!

Reply to LudwigPastorius (Reply #3)

Thu Aug 28, 2025, 02:19 AM

Aug 28

We have a winner. Has to drug them so he can assault them. Maybe they won't remember, so he can get away with it. Or was he going to 'sell time with them' to his GOP friends?

Waiting to see if the family makes excuses for him.