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'Drunken stupor': Court documents detail the night that sent Rob Ford to rehab

Rob Ford’s sister told police the Toronto mayor was smoking crack cocaine with her one night in late April in the company of a drug dealer and a friend of Ford’s who is facing criminal charges, according to newly released documents. The documents, filed with a court by police to obtain a search warrant, said Kathy Ford was twice interviewed by investigators after reports surfaced last May of a second video allegedly showing the troubled mayor smoking crack. Police said she told them that her brother arrived at her house “intoxicated” but not “high,” and that he was drinking and “kidding around fighting” with Alexander Lisi in the basement of her home, but that Lisi was never assaulted.

Kathryn Ford and Robert Ford were smoking crack cocaine that night. Lisi was not doing drugs.

Court documents

In the documents released Wednesday by a judge, police say they believe the second video was surreptitiously recorded on April 26 by James. Police requested a search warrant to obtain three cellphones from James, which they believe may contain other recordings. In the documents, police say they believe they will find video and audio that may provide evidence of drug possession by Ford, and both drug trafficking and drug possession by James. The allegations are part of a police investigation, dubbed Project Brazen 2, sparked by the reports about the second so-called “crack” video.