It's made even weirder because the WRAL article is written such that it sounds like he was trying to fake some sort of drug scandal? Like, these are expensive drugs, nobody's wasting one of them on some guys random kid they encounter on their shift at DQ
I was also trying to figure out the endgame here and coming up flat
WRAL is trash tbh
In fairness it's not really that out there that a Republican election official would be able to procure hard drugs and would be willing to waste them trying to do some light fraud with disastrous personal consequences to himself
Oh yeah not about this specifically, just in general, Raleigh news reporting is questionable
The news and observer might as well be The Sun