K2 Overdoses Spur Big Boy Deli Workers' Arrest, Cops Say

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — More than a dozen people overdosed on synthetic marijuana called “cotton ball” this weekend and now four employees of a Brooklyn deli face criminal charges, said police.

Emergency responders rushed to the corner of Broadway and Wyckoff Avenue — on the border of Bushwick and Bed-Stuy — where 15 people were suffering from an overdose of K2 at about 7:30 p.m. Saturday night, police said.

No one died from an overdose but at least 14 people were hospitalized, NBC News reported.

Four men who worked at Big Boy Deli on Broadway and Myrtle Avenue were arrested and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance and selling untaxed cigarettes, police said.

Raddwan Alsaidi and Ashraf Rayshani were charged with selling untaxed cigarettes while Marcial Cortez and Tyquan Holley face possession charges, said police.

This is not the first Big Boy Deli found itself at the center of a K2 epidemic — the store was raided after 33 people became sick after smoking the synthetic drug, DNAinfo reported at the time.

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