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,...
It happened. Unless the reporters received wrong information (which happens), he absolutely committed the crime, which is a felony. So no, he wasn’t just “making a scene”, and his intent doesn’t matter, because again, those drugs could have still ended harming those children.
But I did edit my comment to clarify that he attempted to drug them, or at least there was the risk of that happening accidentally…
@lightnsfw@reddthat.com is making sense here. Throw the book at him and maybe have a psych eval done. Republican, so might as well check his computer for child porn.
That being said, spiking a kids ice cream with ecstasy pills makes no sense. It tastes awful, they would be hard to chew and an obvious foreign object in ice cream. If the girls didn’t OD, they’d be bouncing off the walls.
I could see someone that doesn’t actually know anything about drugs thinking this is a good way to frame someone. In reality, Drugs Are Really Expensive, as well as MDMA users/dealers generally not being willing to hurt children for nothing.
I read the article. Nothing about those quotes makes it clear that the ice cream was in possession of the girls after he drugged it. He could have given it to them or ordered it for them, making it “theirs”, then taken it back to add the pills and make his scene. If he wanted to drug them why not just let them eat it? And why those drugs that don’t produce any of the typical effects someone would want to drug someone for?