It wasn’t the rod they were looking for.
When cops couldn’t find a gun in a Bronx man’s home, they settled for taking out his mother’s sex toys and displaying them around the apartment, the 22-year-old claims in a lawsuit.
Even though no gun was found, Dwight Anderson said, he and his mother were arrested at gunpoint and charged with criminal possession of a weapon. They were released the next day on their own recognizance.
Anderson returned to the home he shares with his mother to find the place trashed by cops, who damaged his television, his PlayStation video-game console and his clothes — and left his mother’s sex toys out for all to see, the suit says.
“The police officers also took all of my mother’s personal objects and put them around the house, which was very embarrassing,” Anderson said in the notice of claim.
“After they were arraigned, they came home to find his mother’s personal items — dildos, if I can be frank — placed around the house by police,” Anderson’s lawyer, Paul Prestia, said.
“I felt disrespected,” Anderson told The Post. “I felt angry. I felt violated. I felt like they took advantage and they could do anything they want.”
He said cops even left one of this mother’s sex toys on his bed.
Anderson said he was at home with his mother on Jan. 19 when cops burst in, guns drawn, and ordered them down on the floor.
“One officer had a shield and pushed me down to the ground,” said Anderson. “I didn’t know why I was being arrested.”
He said he was handcuffed and taken to the 41st Precinct station house, where he was held overnight until his arraignment.
Meanwhile, the suit says, cops were ransacking the apartment. Anderson said his TV, iPod and Playstation were damaged beyond repair.
Cops, who had a search warrant, apparently had found a gun on another floor of the Andersons’ apartment building, and arrested him and his mother.
Several months after the arrest, the charges were dismissed.
A police spokesman did not immediately return a call for comment.
Anderson’s mother has filed a separate lawsuit against the city.
In his suit, Anderson requests unspecified damages for false arrest and imprisonment, negligent training of police officers, property damage and malicious prosecution.