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rfmcdonaldWhat commentary can I add to Kevin Donovan's Toronto Star article?
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Mayor Rob Ford behaved in a manner “indicative” of drug trafficking last year and was a frequent visitor to an Etobicoke crackhouse where gang members hung out and where the infamous video was filmed just over a year ago, according to police documents released by a judge Wednesday.
Just after the video was made, Mohamed Siad, who is now facing drug trafficking charges, boasted in a “selfie” video that he had just captured the mayor of Toronto doing drugs. That is how you catch a person “slipping” or “catch a mayor smoking crack,” Siad explains in the short video, filmed in a car, which is described in the police documents.
The documents also reveal that while police have the crack video, they are missing a potentially key recording — Video # 13 on Siad’s phone — that may shed light on what else happened at the crackhouse, at 15 Windsor Rd., last February.
These details have emerged from portions of a recent search warrant document that police used on Jan. 14 to get telephone records for numerous people, including Ford; his former “logistics” man and occasional driver, David Price; former Ford assistant Thomas Beyer; Siad and several others connected to the case. Justice Ian Nordheimer ordered the release of these new documents, while certain portions remain subject to a publication ban until a hearing next week.
A more recent search warrant, approved and sealed on March 7, is the subject of a further application by the Toronto Star and other media to have its contents released. At least some of that document could be released next week. The Star believes that particular warrant was filed in an attempt to obtain video and audio recordings in the iCloud account controlled by Ford friend Alexander “Sandro” Lisi.
Detectives with the Project Brazen 2 investigation are continuing to probe allegations related to Ford, Lisi and others. Lisi has been charged with extortion in connection with attempts to retrieve the crack video from Siad and another man.
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In the newly released document, detectives state that their surveillance of Ford and Lisi last year, including multiple meetings and phone calls, led them to believe that Ford and Lisi’s actions were “indicative to that of drug trafficking.” Lisi was charged with drug trafficking in the fall. Ford has not been charged.
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