A fishy report of alleged shooting victim

THE HUNT for a mysterious shooting victim inside an East New York apartment turned into what civil rights lawyers say is a classic case of over-the-top police tactics — a search without a warrant, sweeping arrests and allegations of trumped-up charges.

Police said they recovered two guns, but a lawyer involved in the case said that didn’t justify the cops’ actions.

The incident on Oct. 6, 2015, started when a gunman fired two shots at a Dodge Caravan driven by Tyreek Robinson, 24, but owned by his brother.

The brother, Anthony Robinson, 32, was cooperating with police on the street about an hour later when other cops stormed up to the family’s fourth-floor apartment on Wortman Ave.

They banged on the door and demanded to be let in.

“They were supposedly of the belief someone was shot and inside the apartment,” said Scott Brettschneider, Tyreek Robinson’s lawyer. “Then why didn’t they just knock down the door?”

After a half hour, a frightened Tyreek Robinson cracked open the door.

Roughly 10 cops from the 75th Precinct — led by then-Officer David Grieco — rushed in, guns drawn.

The eight men inside the apartment — Tyreek, his brother Tyquan, their cousin Clifton Scurry, and five friends — were forced to stand outside in the hall as the cops ransacked the place, the defendants said.

The police then arrested them all for marijuana possession, claiming evidence was in plain sight — despite the fact the suspects would’ve had at least a half hour to hide it.

Cops claimed they waited until the search warrant was approved the next day to scour the apartment — a search that turned up two guns stashed in the freezer.

They charged Scurry and the Robinson brothers for the guns, then also cuffed their mother, Sheila Robinson, and her fiancé, Terry Green, for possession of a knife, bad checks and other forged instruments.

Tyreek Robinson is awaiting trial on his gun charge.

Grieco is among about a dozen cops cited in a lawsuit filed by four people who were in the apartment and slapped with marijuana charges that were later dismissed. The four wouldn’t comment. Brettschneider, however, said the entire incident is a textbook case of police run amok, making wrongful arrests not based on any credible suspicion.

“I think the problem is — and this is the perfect example of it — that they go out and make these blanket arrests,” he said.