A man accused of hiding narcotics in his grandchildren’s ice cream was also the chair of the county’s Board of Elections, according to officials in Eastern North Carolina.

The suspect has been identified as 66-year-old James Yokeley Jr., and he is the same person who reported pills were found in the ice cream on Aug. 8, the Wilmington Police Department said in an Aug. 27 Facebook post.

Yokeley stepped down as chair of the election board Thursday morning after Republican State Auditor Dave Boliek, who appointed Yokeley to the board, asked for his resignation.

Investigators have not released a motive.

“A Wilmington Police Officer was flagged down by James Yokeley at the Sheetz gas station at 2517 Shipyard Blvd. Mr. Yokeley informed the officer that his two juvenile granddaughters had

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