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,...
Sounds like he wasn’t trying to drug them, fortunately I guess. Either way the guy is still off his rocker.
Or, he was trying to drug them and the children found the drugs, so he tried to make them think it wasn’t him.
At the very least, we know he had the drugs, and we know he put them in the ice cream where they could have been consumed by his granddaughters.
Unless he never tried MDMA before I doubt it. There is no way anyone that ever tasted mdma believes you can hide it in ice cream without the child immediately spitting it out
Let’s all take a step back and recognize that this is not a man making thoughtful decisions. He put drugs in ice cream for his granddaughters. His thought process isn’t likely to be anything we can fully comprehend.
Can you imagine being the parents here? “Honey, your dad slipped ecstasy into the girls’ ice cream again. Could we please just go back to the Guatemalan babysitter?”
This is the take I’ve been looking for that has been strangely absent in the comments. Can you imagine if your partners dad did this?
If the ice-cream had bits in it they might have just not chewed on it enough to recognize a pill or taste …
I don’t believe for a second he did not have the intent of drugging them… most likely had in the back of his mind if they got very ill he’d get them to a hospital and still blame what they ate.
So you have also never tasted mdma. Even a tiny crumb will make you gag the second it touches your tongue
Yeah I try to avoid ingesting unhealthy drugs :-D
The incident is bad enough without trying to exaggerate it.
He was trying to frame people.
Inconclusive
Kind of depends on what is sold to someone as ecstasy. If its actual crystalline MDMA then it wouldnt be in a pill. It was probably 2CB which is often sold as ecstasy even though it isnt MDMA, the effects are somewhat similar enough. 2CB is generally a large and tasteless chalky pill
It was him. People on Dairy Queen salary don’t slip mdma into kids ice cream
How did you come to that conclusion?
They mean he set up the drugs to report and create some kind of spectacle, instead of adding them to drug the grandkids.
Intended to drug the ice cream, didn’t intend to let the grandkids consume the ice cream.
Yeah about that, why not drug his own ice-cream or coffee, he’d be sure he could cause a ruckuss then. Now he planned to drug kids, “hoping” they’d notice it and taking the risk they wouldn’t.
It’s all very fishy.
He has to frame it to SAVE THE CHILDREN or some such.
Um ya, I dont buy that story at all
I certainly wouldn’t trust him either, but fact is, he told the cops about the drugs he planted.
He could’ve just not done that, or drugged ice cream from a tub at home, or told the kids they’re sprinkles or something.
To be its pretty clear that he didn’t intend to directly harm the kids, and was “just” willing to put them into a stressful situation where an accident could have resulted in harm, anyway.
How do you come to this conclusion? Comment below you got it right. He tried to drug them, they found out, he tried to save face. Him approaching the officer first does not indicate his innocence.
Why would he choose those drugs if he was trying to drug them? They’re stimulants.