A Republican election official in North Carolina was arrested after he allegedly spiked his granddaughters’ ice cream with pills containing cocaine and MDMA in early August, police said.

James Edwin Yokeley Jr., 66, flagged down officers himself on Aug. 8, telling them “his two juvenile granddaughters had found two hard objects in the ice cream they had recently purchased at the Dairy Queen,” the Wilmington Police Department wrote on Facebook .

The girls, aged 15 and 16, didn’t consume the pills, which were quickly seized and taken to a state lab for testing.

James Yokeley, 66, was charged with contaminating food or drink with a controlled substance and felony child abuse. Wilmington Police Department

Security footage at the Dairy Queen, though, cast doubt on Yokeley’s account.

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