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RandySF

(86,306 posts)
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 03:43 AM Aug 2025

Local GOP Elections Chair Accused Of Drugging Granddaughters' Ice Cream

The GOP chair of a local elections board in North Carolina has been arrested and charged for allegedly putting MDMA and cocaine in his grandchildren’s ice cream.

James Yokeley — a Republican who was selected to chair the Surry County Board of Elections in June — flagged down an officer at a Sheetz convenience store to inform him that his two granddaughters found pills in their Dairy Queen Blizzards, according to the Wilmington Police Department.

After it was determined that the two hadn’t ingested the substances, preliminary field tests indicated that the pills were illegal narcotics and they were taken to a state lab for further testing.

Video footage showed Yokeley placing the pills in his grandchildren’s frozen treats, per Wilmington Police.


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/north-carolina-elections-chair-james-yokeley-granddaughters-ice-cream_n_68afbe5ce4b0d635adb3d21c

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AZJonnie

(4,035 posts)
1. Pretty obvious he was trying to run a scam
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 03:54 AM
Aug 2025

If he actually wanted to give the kids drugs, he wouldn't have flagged a cop down to report it. Probably wanted to get a lawsuit going is my guess.

Also, never heard of 'cocaine pills'

FadedMullet

(1,019 posts)
2. The MAGA movement has encouraged terrible people, once afraid to run for office, to do so now because......
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 04:50 AM
Aug 2025

.........they see that the American electorate has terrible standards and has elected evil people to office.

Oopsie Daisy

(6,670 posts)
3. Looking at his mugshot... I would have guessed MAGA child molester. They all have a "certain look" to me.
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 06:12 AM
Aug 2025

Festivito

(13,918 posts)
4. I bet: kids found pills, then cop was flagged. Ecstasy, a kindly date rape drug.
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 06:14 AM
Aug 2025

Empathy, good feeling, ... grooming.

prodigitalson

(3,209 posts)
7. Ecstacy is a closer to a trippy amphetamine
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 07:22 AM
Aug 2025

Insane to give to children but I have never heard it called a drd.

Festivito

(13,918 posts)
11. I don't think anyone has classified a grooming drug, but Ecstasy would seem to fit.
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 07:59 AM
Aug 2025

He's not the brightest bulb. After all, he's GOP.

If the kid would become hyperactive, empathetic, and feeling high, it might in his mind have a chance to work the grooming.

mopinko

(73,943 posts)
12. i wouldnt call it drd, but
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 09:24 AM
Aug 2025

i did have a guy try to give it to me when we hooked up. i was already gonna do him, but he wanted me to fall for him hard.
i can def see it as a grooming thing.

 

Hornedfrog2000

(866 posts)
5. You know the old saying
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 06:24 AM
Aug 2025

Republicans fuck little kids. Headed by king pedo donald trump. Best friend of jeffrey epstein.

Scrivener7

(60,076 posts)
10. Definitely they do, but this is weird. He flagged down the cop before the kids ingested the pills.
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 07:43 AM
Aug 2025

It sounds more like he has a beef with someone in the store or was looking for a lawsuit payout from Dairy Queen.

Creepy however you look at it.

yellowcanine

(36,828 posts)
6. Wow that's messed up in so many ways.
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 06:39 AM
Aug 2025

At try he least should be a restraining order keeping him away from those kids.

yardwork

(69,648 posts)
9. Surry County NC is a strange place.
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 07:41 AM
Aug 2025

There have been issues with corruption there for a long time but this is extreme,

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