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[–] 33 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Yokeley approached a Wilmington police officer and claimed his two juvenile granddaughters had discovered two suspicious pills in ice cream they’d purchased from Dairy Queen

Sounds like he wasn't trying to drug them, fortunately I guess. Either way the guy is still off his rocker.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago

    Or, he was trying to drug them and the children found the drugs, so he tried to make them think it wasn't him.

    At the very least, we know he had the drugs, and we know he put them in the ice cream where they could have been consumed by his granddaughters.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago*

    It was him. People on Dairy Queen salary don’t slip mdma into kids ice cream

    However, surveillance video later revealed that Yokeley himself was seen placing the pills into both of the girls’ treats. The pills reportedly tested positive for MDMA and cocaine, as noted in an arrest warrant. The authorities said they have evidence he slipped drugs into the girls' ice cream.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Sounds like he wasn’t trying to drug them

    How did you come to that conclusion?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    They mean he set up the drugs to report and create some kind of spectacle, instead of adding them to drug the grandkids.

    Intended to drug the ice cream, didn't intend to let the grandkids consume the ice cream.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Intended to drug the ice cream, didn’t intend to let the grandkids consume the ice cream

    Um ya, I dont buy that story at all

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I certainly wouldn't trust him either, but fact is, he told the cops about the drugs he planted.

    He could've just not done that, or drugged ice cream from a tub at home, or told the kids they're sprinkles or something.

    To be its pretty clear that he didn't intend to directly harm the kids, and was "just" willing to put them into a stressful situation where an accident could have resulted in harm, anyway.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    How do you come to this conclusion? Comment below you got it right. He tried to drug them, they found out, he tried to save face. Him approaching the officer first does not indicate his innocence.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Why would he choose those drugs if he was trying to drug them? They're stimulants.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    They're... drugs. So yes, he (intended) to drug them. Who gives a fuck what the exact composition is?

    These illegal stimulants could have harmed and even killed them. He put them in their ice cream, neither they nor their parents were aware and didn't consent to consuming the pills. Even if he intended to "catch" it, a million different things could have prevented that. He gambled with those girls' lives to create a fake political enemy. If he had done that to my kids, I would have had to resist retaliating against him, and I'm not even a parent!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm asking for his motive. I believe he put the pills in there because he wanted to make a scene about it. Not because he wanted them to ingest them. The article doesn't state how this was done, did the children ever possess the ice cream while it was contaminated? Or did he take them, plant the drugs, and head for the counter?

    Either way he should have the book thrown at him for this and if there's more information out there and I'm wrong, fine but I just don't see how speculating that he intended to drug them makes sense given the facts presented in the article.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    he allegedly slipped illegal drugs into his granddaughters' ice cream.

    Yokeley himself was seen placing the pills into both of the girls’ treats.

    It happened. Unless the reporters received wrong information (which happens), he absolutely committed the crime, which is a felony. So no, he wasn't just "making a scene", and his intent doesn't matter, because again, those drugs could have still ended harming those children.

    But I did edit my comment to clarify that he attempted to drug them, or at least there was the risk of that happening accidentally...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    @lightnsfw@reddthat.com is making sense here. Throw the book at him and maybe have a psych eval done. Republican, so might as well check his computer for child porn.

    That being said, spiking a kids ice cream with ecstasy pills makes no sense. It tastes awful, they would be hard to chew and an obvious foreign object in ice cream. If the girls didn't OD, they'd be bouncing off the walls.

    I could see someone that doesn't actually know anything about drugs thinking this is a good way to frame someone. In reality, Drugs Are Really Expensive, as well as MDMA users/dealers generally not being willing to hurt children for nothing.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I read the article. Nothing about those quotes makes it clear that the ice cream was in possession of the girls after he drugged it. He could have given it to them or ordered it for them, making it "theirs", then taken it back to add the pills and make his scene. If he wanted to drug them why not just let them eat it? And why those drugs that don't produce any of the typical effects someone would want to drug someone for?

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