More bombshells are contained in a weighty police document used to obtain a search warrant for Mayor Rob Ford’s friend and occasional driver, according to a Star analysis of court information already released.

“Project Traveller and the Rob Ford connection” is the bold heading atop one section of still-sealed information. The pages are blacked out pending an ongoing court challenge.

Project Traveller was the recent guns and gangs investigation that saw massive arrests in north Etobicoke. Police Chief Bill Blair has said information learned in that probe led to the creation of the Ford investigation, dubbed Project Brazen 2. (Brazen 1 was an unrelated Scarborough investigation.)

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Nearly 500 pages of a document presented before a judge to obtain a warrant to search Alexander “Sandro” Lisi’s home were released Thursday. Half is censored pending a court challenge by the Star and other media lawyers.

In examining the document, the Star has learned that some remarkable information remains sealed.

Whether any of the censored pages relate to the mysterious second video the Star first learned about in early August, and Blair confirmed last week, is not known.

The Star has been told by two sources this second video also features the mayor. Blair has said the second video is “relevant to this investigation.”

In his dramatic Thursday news conference Blair answered a question about whether Ford was in the first video. The chief first said the mayor was in “those” videos, then caught himself and only spoke about the first video.

“I think it’s fair to say that the mayor does appear in those, in that video, but I am not going to get into the detail of what activities are depicted on that video,” Blair said.

The two videos — Blair also said there may be at least one more in police possession — were recovered from a hard drive belonging to a person arrested in the Project Traveller raids. Blair has made it clear police now have the video Star reporters saw six months ago showing Ford smoking what appears to be crack cocaine and making homophobic and racially charged remarks.

Videos aside, there are many clues to other potential bombshells in the police information. Blair told reporters Thursday the Brazen 2 investigation was into “other criminal activity” detectives learned of during the Project Traveller case.

In another section of a document liberally peppered with Ford’s meetings and phone calls with Lisi, an accused drug trafficker, 11 blacked-out pages are described as information in the possession of lead investigator Det. Sgt. Gary Giroux on May 18, the day after the video scandal broke.

An officer tasked with compiling evidence for the eventual search warrant on Lisi and an Etobicoke dry-cleaner, writes: “I have spoken to Detective Sergeant Giroux and learned the following. . . ” Nearly a dozen completely black pages follow.

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Sections are blacked out either because they contain wiretap information or because they reveal sensitive information dealing with people who have not been charged and are considered “innocent third parties.”

Lisi was charged Thursday with extortion over allegations he tried to get the infamous crack video back from the man who made it at 15 Windsor Rd., a bungalow called a “crack house” by police, and where police suspect utility bills were being paid by Ford. Earlier, Lisi was charged with drug trafficking.

Giroux led a five-detective squad to investigate allegations involving Ford immediately after the Star and the U.S. website Gawker broke stories detailing how Ford was videotaped smoking what appears to be crack cocaine and being goaded off camera by a man (still unknown to the Star) to make the statements.

The lengthy document reveals a meticulous police investigation that included surveillance of Ford, Lisi and others from an airplane, cameras mounted on telephone poles, and from a special mobile team of officers.

Massive sections of the document containing what are described as “transcripts” are blacked out. The publicly released documents describe how police received authorization for wiretap surveillance on many occasions, including times close to when the Star published a story detailing the crack cocaine video.

None of the results of those taps have been released pending a court challenge by the Star and other media before Superior Court Justice Ian Nordheimer.

A related challenge is proceeding before Nordheimer in connection with the Project Brazen 2 search warrant documents. In that case, Star lawyer Ryder Gilliland and other lawyers will submit arguments in writing by this Friday.

Also blacked out in the Project Brazen 2 document are most of the interviews with former Ford staffers.

The document shows that detectives conducted detailed interviews — the results are almost completely censored but for some details on where they occurred — of top former Ford officials, including former communications chief George Christopoulos, former chief of staff Mark Towhey, former special assistant Nico Fidani and current staffer Dave Price.

The result of those interviews take up nearly 40 blacked out pages in the document.

In the case of Towhey, one tantalizing comment is revealed: “Towhey had suspicions that Sandro was a drug dealer.”

A careful reading of the document also reveals that police, for unknown reasons, set up surveillance on more than just Ford and Lisi. Detectives watched a house at 51 Benway Dr. in north Etobicoke this summer. That turns out to be where a red Ford Mustang used by Lisi was parked. Some of the activities officers observed are blacked out.

In one instance, detectives watched the resident, Kenneth Boot, go in and out at various times, using a cane at one point, walking with a limp and “minor tremors” and then later, after receiving an unknown visitor, walking without the cane. The police, in their reports, do not explain the importance of that observation, and part of their report is blacked out.

The Star discovered that 51 Benway was named in a February police news release related to a missing woman, Jaclyn Dawe, 35, who was last seen there on Feb. 9, 2013.

Police spokesman Mark Pugash said Saturday that Dawe is still missing. There is nothing in the document, other than the address, to connect the missing woman to Boot or Lisi.

As with many sections of the document, it raises more questions than it answers due to the large portions that are blacked out.

Kevin Donovan can be reached at kdonovan@thestar.ca or (416-869-4425)

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