Ford may have offered alleged gang members cash, car in exchange for video
Alleged gang members from a Dixon Road neighbourhood may have tried to blackmail Rob Ford for money and bragged about having a lot of “dirt” on the embattled mayor, including alleged photos of him with heroin and other drugs, as well as a video which shows him smoking from a glass pipe, court documents suggest.
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One of the shocking allegations to come out of the ITO involves the possibility of Ford doing heavy drugs hours before he was scheduled to attend a community cleanup event in Etobicoke on April 20, 2013.
Police say they intercepted a phone call that day at 12:54 a.m. where an allegedgang member received a call from someone telling him that he needs to go to 15 Windsor Dr. -- a residence police have called a crack house -- because Ford is there and “wants some drugs.” Ford has said he has known the family who lives at 15 Windsor Dr. for years.
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Hours later, one of the alleged gang members was recorded saying he has “so much pictures” of Ford “doing the hezza,” which is believed to be slang for heroin. Another man was heard telling the other to take a picture because of what it would be worth but the first male indicates that “the picture did not go through.”
Just before 6 a.m., the wiretap caught another conversation about Ford. The young man on the phone said he was at 15 Windsor Dr. and that the mayor was “smoking his rocks today,” the ITO says.
Later that morning, while the mayor took part in the public event at Colonel Samuel Smith Park between 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., police say they heard on the wiretap two young men discuss how Ford’s cellphone was stolen and how they planned to get it back to him without stirring up trouble.
“The named parties were intercepted deliberating how to give back the phone to avoid any issues, but stated that they are not concerned about Ford calling the police because they have a picture of him “on the pipe”,” the ITO says.
Ford’s phone was never officially reported stolen to police.