Cops raided a Brooklyn drug den early Thursday, seizing a massive trove of narcotics — including over 1,000 packets of K2, police said.
Investigators from the Brooklyn North Narcotics Division made their way into the home on Park Place near Howard Avenue in Brownsville around 6:05 a.m., where they found an assortment of drugs, paraphernalia and ammunition, cops said.
In addition to the biggest score — 1,068 packages of synthetic marijuana, also known as K2 — cops seized three Ziploc bags of cocaine, 31 clonazepam tablets and seven 9mm rounds, authorities said.
The K2 supply included 608 packages of “Cotton Ball,” a particularly dangerous strain of the drug, police sources said.
Four people were arrested, including two men who live in the building: Carlos Alvarez, 40, and Pablo Morales, 29.
Also nabbed were two women: 30-year-old Jessica Rodriguez, also of Brooklyn, and Jamie Harrison, 19, of Staten Island.
All four are charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, criminal use of drug paraphernalia, and unlawful manufacture, distribution or sale of a synthetic cannabinoid.
The bust comes just over a week after hundreds of people overdosed on a bad batch of K2 peddled out of bodegas across northern and central Brooklyn.
“Since May 19, we’ve had over 240 reported overdoses where individuals were moved to area hospitals from substances just like you see here on the table,” said NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea in a press briefing heralding the bust.
Laid out at his side were hundreds of brightly colored K2 packets, many bearing kid-friendly pictures of comic and cartoon characters, including the Hulk, the Joker and Scooby-Doo.
“You see cartoons, you see superheroes, you see things really that a 2- or 3-year-old kid is going to naturally gravitate to,” said Shea. “And that’s my natural biggest fear.”
Many of the overdoses came outside the Big Boy Deli on Myrtle Avenue and Broadway, an area that’s become so closely associated with mass K2 use that it’s been dubbed “Zombieland.”
Cops busted at least 75 people for peddling the dangerous drug in the days after the wave of overdoses, said Shea.