A North Carolina elections official resigned this week after he was arrested for reportedly spiking his grandchildren’s ice cream with illegal drugs.

His arrest was confirmed by police in Wilmington.

James Yokeley arrest

What we know: According to the Wilmington Police Department, 66-year-old James Yokeley flagged down a police officer at a gas station on Aug. 8 and said his two granddaughters found two hard objects in ice cream they got at Dairy Queen. The children had not ingested the pills. According to The New York Post , the girls were 15 and 16 years old.

The pills were later determined to be illegal narcotics.

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Investigators later reviewed video footage that showed Yokeley was the one who

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