Ex-con held without bail after Carlstadt police revive boy, 17, who smoked synthetic pot

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 28-year-old Carlstadt man who was arrested after police said he gave a 17-year-old boy a synthetic marijuana cigarette that required a Narcan save was ordered held without bail on a parole violation.

Jerry DeMarco

04/18/2015 2:07 p.m.

A Superior Court judge in Hackensack yesterday ordered Steven Strauss held in the Bergen County Jail pending a hearing.

Strauss was charged with child endangerment and possessing and distributing a synthetic cannabinoid to a minor after Officer’s Felix D’Amico and Jonathan Rood responded to a Madison Street residence Wednesday night, Carlstadt Police Chief Thomas Nielsen said.

D’Amico gave a Narcan blast to the boy, who “almost immediately” woke up and vomited, the chief asid.

Carlstadt EMS and an ALS unit from Hackensack University Medical Center responded.

The boy was taken to HUMC for treatment, Nielsen said.

The officers also seized the K2 cigarette, he said.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy CARLSTADT PD

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