NEW HANOVER COUNTY, N.C. (WBTV) – A former chair of a county elections board in eastern North Carolina was recently indicted on three new charges after allegedly drugging his granddaughter’s and her friend’s ice cream.
James Yokeley Jr. was additionally charged on Jan. 20 with intentional child abuse – serious physical injury and two counts of unlawful distribution of food or beverage.
Yokeley was arrested in August after reportedly flagging down an officer at a Sheetz gas station in Wilmington. Officers said that Yokeley told them his granddaughter and her friend found hard objects in their ice cream, which was ordered at the Dairy Queen on Oleander Drive…