TORONTO

Mayor Rob Ford’s associate and part-time driver allegedly offered marijuana in an attempt to retrieve the civic leader’s stolen cellphone.

Alexander ‘Sandro’ Lisi was arrested on drug charges on Oct. 1 as he left Richview Cleaners in Etobicoke.

But according to a police document, Lisi was part of a months-long Toronto Police operation dubbed “Brazen 2” which spun out of the high-profile Project Traveller gang investigation.

“Lisi was heard to be brokering the return of a cellular phone stolen from an associate of his, with a payment of marijuana,” the document says.

A source has confirmed to theToronto Sun that the phone Lisi was trying to retrieve belonged to the mayor, who had it stolen from him earlier that week.

The document says the operation that culminated in Lisi’s arrest was headed up by veteran homicide investigator Det.-Sgt. Gary Giroux.

Reached last night shortly after he returned from a trip to Texas, Ford said he didn’t know much about the allegations.

“I don’t want to talk about it tonight. I just got here. I just don’t really know much about it,” the mayor said.

During Project Traveller, police monitored the communications of alleged Etobicoke drug dealers. In March 2013, according to the document, police intercepted some kind of communication between Lisi and a suspect named in the Project Traveller investigation.

Police began surveillance on Lisi to obtain “lifestyle information” on June 14. The report says he used “numerous counter surveillance techniques” to avoid police detection. But despite those efforts, police found that he made numerous visits to Richview Cleaners at 250 Wincott Dr.

Police alleged in the report that their surveillance led them to believe that Lisi was providing marijuana that was being sold out of the cleaners.

An undercover officer was sent into the cleaners in August to attempt to establish if drugs were being sold at the business.

On Aug. 27, the undercover officer allegedly bought a small quantity of marijuana from the owner, Jamshid Bahrami, who was later arrested during the same raid that netted Lisi. The document also alleged that Bahrami told the undercover cop that Lisi had provided him with the drugs.

Police claim that on Sept. 4 Bahrami again sold pot to the undercover officer — one pound for $2,400.

On Oct. 1, Bahrami is alleged to have sold the officer half a pound of weed for $900.

Hours after the last deal went down, officers swooped in and busted Bahrami and Lisi as the pair exited the cleaners. Lisi was allegedly found with a small quantity of marijuana in a ginger ale can and $900 in police buy money the undercover officer has given to Bahrami.

Toronto Police spokesman Mark Pugash said in an e-mail that the force doesn’t comment on cases before the courts.