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Redditsux@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 19 hours ago

Republican election chief accused of slipping MDMA, cocaine into granddaughters’ ice cream

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Republican election chief accused of slipping MDMA, cocaine into granddaughters’ ice cream

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Redditsux@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 19 hours ago
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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,...
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    Why does he have coke and ecstasy?

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      Why don’t you?

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        Because the party of small government tells me what I can and can’t put in my body.

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        Why don’t I?

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        Too broke. I just suck whip-its.

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          A whippet dog with a concerned expression

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          So that’s why we haven’t seen /u/whip-its around here in a while.

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      More importantly, how are they better at finding these drugs than I am?

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      He probably just had some ecstasy and that had a little cocaine in it. Also if they just did a Marquis test before sending it off both mdma and cocaine can show as the same color so they would just go with that until they get confirmation from the lab.

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