Crown prosecutors have dropped all remaining criminal charges against Anthony Sayers, co-host of HGTV Canada’s The Unsellables from Cineflix Productions.

Sayers now intends to sue the Toronto Police Service for wrongful conduct in bringing the original four extortion, fraud and criminal harassment charges against him stemming from work done at a Toronto home by his private contracting business.

“When the Toronto police charged me and put me in jail, I was shattered,” Sayers recalled Wednesday.

“They threatened to let the entire world know that they were going to charge me and then they followed through on that threat. They said I am a criminal. I am not a criminal,” he added.

Following a request from Sayers’ legal team for his arresting officers, detectives Tony Vella and Robert Ermacora, to produce and see evidence against the TV host and private contractor, crown attorney Michael Callaghan withdrew all remaining charges against Sayers before Justice Wolski in court 503 at Old City Hall.

Crown prosecutors are compelled to drop criminal charges against an accused if they do not have sufficient evidence to secure a conviction in a court of law.

In the notice of intended action against the Toronto Police Service, and detectives Ermacora and Vella, Sayers’ lawyers say a press release issued by 53 Division on March 14 aimed to ³embarrass and humiliate² Sayers and undermine his ability to earn a livelihood.

The Unsellables co-host was arrested on March 12 in connection with an extortion investigation stemming from renovations done in February at the Toronto private residence.

Sayers’ lawyers also contended that his reputation was trodden on because he is on TV.

Toronto-based Sayers is now cleared to return to The Unsellables, a co-production between HGTV Canada and HGTV US, now about to shoot its third season on location in the US.

A spokesman for Sayers indicated he is hopeful to participate in the continued success of the show.