The chair of the Surry County Board of Elections is facing charges after illegal drugs were found in his granddaughters’ ice cream earlier this month, authorities said.

James Yokeley, 66, is charged with contaminating food or drink with a controlled substance, felony child abuse and felony possession of Schedule I narcotics, according to the Wilmington Police Department.

He's now facing calls to resign from the county elections board.

The charges are connected to an incident on Aug. 8 in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Police said Yokeley flagged down officers at the Sheetz gas station on Shipyard Boulevard to report two pills found in the recently purchased ice cream of his two juvenile granddaughters. Medics checked the girls and found that none of the substances had been ingested, polic

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