The GOP election chairman of Surry County, North Carolina, was arrested after allegedly drugging the ice cream of his two granddaughters with cocaine and MDMA.

In a statement by the Wilmington police department, James E. Yokeley, 66, the chair of the Surry County Board of Elections, “flagged down” an officer on August 8 at a convenience store to report that his two granddaughters found “two hard objects” in their ice creams, purchased at a nearby Dairy Queen. The objects were found to be pills.

Neither juvenile ingested the pills, and field testing showed them to contain illegal narcotics. The pills were subsequently sent to a state lab for further testing.

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During the investigation, officers examined video footage which showed Yokeley placing the pills in the ice cream of his g

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