Former North Carolina elections official allegedly drugged teens' ice cream: report

A erstwhile region elections authoritative successful North Carolina has been indicted connected felony charges aft authorities accidental helium placed pills into the crystal pick cones of 2 teenage girls.

A expansive assemblage successful New Hanover County indicted James Edwin Yokeley Jr., 66, connected 2 counts of unlawful organisation of nutrient oregon beverage and 1 number of intentional kid maltreatment involving superior carnal injury, according to tribunal records reviewed by WBTV.

According to the Wilmington Police Department (WPD), authorities allege that the gramps placed pills into his 16-year-old step-granddaughter and her 15-year-old friend's Diary Queen crystal pick cones successful August 2025.

According to WECT, successful a preliminary test, the pills tested affirmative for the psychedelic cause MDMA and cocaine.

North Carolina elections authoritative James Edwin Yokeley Jr. faces felony charges aft authorities accidental helium placed MDMA and cocaine pills into teenage girls' crystal pick cones. (Wilmington Police Department)

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According to the section outlet, the teens had not ingested the pills and reported the find to constabulary aft uncovering the overseas objects successful their desserts.

Investigators aboriginal reviewed surveillance video and allegedly recovered Yokeley placing the pills into the crystal cream.

Founded successful 1940, Dairy Queen is simply a concatenation that serves chiefly crystal pick and related products with implicit 5,700 locations. (iStock)

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Authorities initially charged him with contaminating nutrient oregon portion with a controlled substance, felony kid maltreatment and cause possession aft preliminary investigating suggested the pills could incorporate amerciable narcotics.

The charges were dismissed connected Dec. 22 aft a laboratory trial confirmed that the substance was not controlled nether North Carolina General Statutes. Prosecutors aboriginal presented the lawsuit to a expansive jury, resulting successful the caller indictment.

Dairy Cream offers a assortment of crystal pick flavors, including soft-serve crystal cream. (Dairy Queen)

At the clip of his arrest, Yokeley was serving arsenic the seat of the Surry County Board of Elections. He resigned soon aft the allegations became public.

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"I person concluded that it’s successful the champion involvement of the State Board of Elections and Surry County Board of Elections, regarding my ain falsely accused circumstances, to measurement down astatine this time," Yokeley wrote successful the letter.

His adjacent tribunal quality had not been scheduled. Fox News Digital has reached retired to the Hanover Police Department for comment.

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