Mayor Rob Ford was videotaped “consuming what appears to be a narcotic” while in the company of several people last February, according to a police document.

It’s the first official description of the infamous video of Ford apparently smoking crack cocaine and making homophobic and racist remarks. Ford told television interviewers this week that the last time he did drugs (and he said it was crack cocaine) was when the video was shot and he put that at a year ago or longer.

The Toronto Police document is part of materials prepared by Crown lawyers in advance of an attempt by the media to have more of the blacked-out document detailing the Ford investigation released. The case will be argued beginning Wednesday.

The document, prepared by Project Brazen 2 detective Joyce Schertzer, describes the case against Alexander “Sandro” Lisi, the man accused of extortion in connection with an attempt to obtain the embarrassing video.

Project Brazen 2 is the name of the special police squad investigating Ford and others in Toronto.

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None of the allegations in the document have been tested in court.

Police begin the three-page document stating that Lisi is “an associate of the Mayor of Toronto” and someone whom the Mayor has described as “a personal friend of his.”

Police say Lisi “became aware (in May) of a video that depicted the Mayor of Toronto in a compromising, intoxicated position. The video appears to show the Mayor of Toronto consuming what appears to be a narcotic.”

The Star and U.S. website Gawker published stories on the video late in the day on Thursday, May 16.

The police document states that the video was filmed in February 2013 and done “surreptitiously.” The document also states that “the Mayor was apparently in the company of several individuals at the time of the recording.” No identities of those people are given in the document.

In an interview aired Tuesday on NBC’s Today Show, Ford said this week that he was drunk when the video was made. “I wanna see it … I can barely remember it. I was very, very inebriated,” he told host Matt Lauer.

A lengthy document filed in support of a search warrant for Lisi’s parent’s home states that the video was unsuccessfully offered for sale — to a CTV cameraman — last February. The Star was then approached on April 1 by a man trying to sell the video, and Gawker in the middle of May.

Not long before the Star and Gawker published stories in May describing the video, Lisi became aware that someone was trying to “sell the video to various media outlets,” police state, alleging he made aggressive attempts to obtain the video.

“(Lisi) placed several threatening/extorting phone calls to individuals he felt may be in possession of the video recording,” the document states, noting the time period of the alleged threats was Thursday, May 16 to Saturday, May 18. “The accused insinuated that there would be consequences for the failure to return the video recording depicting the video images of the Mayor.”

The targets of the alleged extortion attempts were Liban Siyad and Mohamed Siad. Siad is the man who filmed the video, the Star has previously reported. Both men lived near the Dixon City towers that are a stone’s throw from 15 Windsor Rd., the bungalow where the video was filmed. Siad is also the man who tried to sell the video to the Star. The police search warrant document suggests his associate, Liban Siyad, tried to sell it to CTV.

The police description of the video filmed in February — of Ford apparently doing drugs at the time — is at odds with comments by Ford in recent days. Ford has said he has not done drugs for a year.

The police document states that Lisi was unsuccessful in obtaining the video.

Previously, the Star has reported that Lisi and an unknown associate also went to 15 Windsor Rd. on Tuesday, May 21 and made aggressive attempts there to find people involved with the video. The police charges are not related to his visit that day.

Detectives obtained the video from a deleted hard drive in a laptop seized June 13 by police in the massive Project Traveller guns and gangs raids.

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The Star was told in early August by a source that police had retrieved two videos, but the police document states that the deleted files were not recovered until Oct. 29. Lisi was arrested on the extortion charge two days later, and the police document states he was arrested “in relation to his efforts to recover the video recording of the Mayor consuming narcotics.”

Media lawyers, including Star lawyer Ryder Gilliland, are arguing for the release of more of a police search warrant relating to Project Brazen.