Documents damning to Ford

 (Update)

The early release of more blockbuster allegations about Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and his knowledge of the crack video. Newly released documents reveal details on police wiretaps. Those documents say police overheard gang members talking about delivering drugs to Mayor Ford and having pictures of him using drugs not just crack cocaine. Keep in mind, none of this has been proven in court.

Reports say new court documents released Wednesday allege Mayor Rob Ford may have tried to buy a video that appears to show him smoking crack cocaine, two months before the news of a video first broke in May. The police documents say wiretaps recorded a conversation between two men in March discussing obtaining the video, one man offering 5-thousand dollars and a car.

There are other allegations in the documents as well. One man suspected of trying to sell the video, used slang terms to say he had pictures of the Mayor doing heroin. The documents also allege Ford’s cell was stolen while he was at a drug house after calls were made arranging a drug delivery, and that Lisi exchanged marijuana to an alleged gang member for the phone’s return.

Also, the court documents say Ford may have been set up by drug dealers taping him taking drugs knowing how valuable the information could be.

The documents were used by police to get a search warrant of Ford’s friend and occasional driver Alexander Lisi’s property. This latest information had originally been blacked out when 300 pages of court documents were released on Halloween.

Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair and Toronto City Councillors are reacting to the news.

Bill Blair: “Our responsibility is to get our investigation to gather all of the evidence and place it before the courts. It’s precisely what our officers have done in this case and it’s up to the courts to determine what, in the public interest should be released. They’ve done so now so I think we’ve done our job. I don’t believe it’s appropriate for the police to comment on the evidence. Our job is to put it before the courts. We’ve done that job and the courts have seen fit to do what they see fit to do with it.”

Toronto City Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong: “More than crack cocaine. Now, now cocaine, heroin, all these other illegal substances. Then there has to be the full disclosure of what his involvement was with those drugs and those gang members.”

Toronto City Councillor Adam Vaughn: “You think you can’t be shocked any more. You know, the lies the damage he’s doing to himself personally is astonishing. And that his family can’t get him any help, scares me!”