James Edwin Yokeley Jr. — the 66-year-old Republican chairman of the Surry County, North Carolina, Board of Elections — faces serious criminal charges after authorities in Wilmington, North Carolina, revealed he allegedly slipped illegal drugs into his granddaughters' ice cream.According to Raleigh,...
  • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
    313·
    23 hours ago

    I assume he tried to drug his grandaughters, the girls discovered the pills, and then he had to play dumb and come up with a story “Dairy Queen must have put those in there!!”

    • kautau@lemmy.world
      331·
      21 hours ago

      No, he definitely wanted to use this to stoke the fire in the minds of the “drug problem” locally. The DQ is probably staffed by some minority or other group that he hates, so if the optics show those “evil people putting drugs into innocent little white girls food” to create more hatred. Just pure evil.

      According to Raleigh, North Carolina NBC affiliate WRAL News, on August 8, Yokeley approached a Wilmington police officer and claimed his two juvenile granddaughters had discovered two suspicious pills in ice cream they’d purchased from Dairy Queen on Oleander Drive.

      However, surveillance video later revealed that Yokeley himself was seen placing the pills into both of the girls’ treats. The pills reportedly tested positive for MDMA and cocaine, as noted in an arrest warrant. The authorities said they have evidence he slipped drugs into the girls’ ice cream.

      • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
        11·
        21 hours ago

        I don’t think that’s “definite”.

        It also doesn’t really make a ton of sense, as you can easily propagandize and villainize without personally exposing your granddaughters to drugs and risking severe legal troubles, by twisting facts or straight up making shit up “they’re eating the dogs” style.

        The paragraphs you quoted don’t really support one theory over another about his motives

    • Boddhisatva@lemmy.worldEnglish
      144·
      22 hours ago

      I don’t know. If the kids had eaten those pills, they would have been fucked up or dead. Either way, authorities would have gotten involved. I suspect that this was his plan from the beginning.

      Edit: Wait, is MDMA a date rape drug? I assumed he was staging this to go after DQ. Was he instead trying to drug them to assault them?

        • zwerg@feddit.org
          21·
          6 hours ago

          I dunno, cocaine and MDMA are both uppers. I dont know anything about date rape drugs, but having your victim 120% awake doesn’t seem like a great plan.