A 66-year-old grandfather and local election board leader in North Carolina was arrested after he allegedly attempted to drug his two young granddaughters by placing narcotics in their ice cream. James E. Yokeley Jr. was taken into custody earlier this week and charged with two counts of felony contaminating food or drink with a controlled substance, felony child abuse, and felony possession of a Schedule I narcotic, authorities announced.

According to a news release from the Wilmington Police Department, an officer patrolling on Aug. 8 was flagged down by Yokeley at the Sheetz gas station in the 2500 block of Shipyard Boulevard. Yokeley notified the officer that his two juvenile granddaughters had just found "two hard objects in the ice cream they had recently purchased at the Dairy Quee

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