Edward and Audrey Cramer have reached a settlement with Buffalo Township and three of its police officers after the township couple's home was raided for marijuana plants that were actually hibiscus.

A settlement has been reached with Buffalo Township and three of its police officers after a township couple sued them for wrongfully ransacking their home while looking for marijuana plants that were actually hibiscus.

Details on the settlement agreement between Edward and Audrey Cramer of Buffalo and the township and police officers Sgt. Scott Hess, Patrolman Jeffrey Sneddon and Lt. Timothy Derringer are not known.

Attorney Al Lindsay, who is representing the Cramers, was unavailable for comment Wednesday.

Attorney Kyle McGee, who is representing the township and named officers, declined to comment.

Nationwide Insurance and agent Jonathan Yeamans were previously named on the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, but those parties reached a confidential settlement in June.

The original lawsuit claimed that township police obtained a search warrant based on photographs taken by Yeamans after he was at the Cramers' home to assess damage from a large tree falling on the house. After Edward Cramer left to run errands, the suit says Yeamans “reentered the property and took photographs of the flowering hibiscus plants in the Cramers' back yard.”

Yeamans sent the photos of what he thought were marijuana plants to the police, the lawsuit states.

When police arrived at the home on Oct. 7, the lawsuit states, they roughly handcuffed Audrey Cramer and led her outside in her underwear and bare feet. When her husband arrived 30 minutes later, he had guns pointed at him and both were cuffed and held in the back of a hot police car for 4½ hours, the lawsuit states.

The lawsuit claims Audrey explained to police that the plants were hibiscus, but police told her that her husband had lied to her about raising hibiscus and was actually raising marijuana.

Buffalo police officers searched the home looking for marijuana, causing damage inside and emotional stress to the Cramers, the lawsuit states.

The township denies officers treated the Cramers in a forceful manner and claims no damage was done to the house during officers' search. The township also denied that the Cramers were held in the back of the police car for hours, saying they were detained for under an hour in the vehicle and later allowed back inside the while police conducted the search.

Eventually police figured out the plants were not marijuana and released the Cramers.