TORONTO

Mayor Rob Ford says he isn’t aware of the allegations against his friend Alexander Lisi outlined in a police document seen by the Toronto Sun.

“I just got in from Texas,” he said Monday night. “I didn’t even know about it.”

When explained to him that a document shows Lisi was being investigated for trying to retrieve a cellphone that a source told the Sun belongs to the mayor, Ford politely said he “didn’t have anything to say tonight.”

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

Earlier Monday evening, Councillor Doug Ford laughed when contacted about the police document that suggested a friend of the mayor was looking to broker a deal to retrieve the politician’s stolen cellphone for marijuana.

“It’s a joke,” he said.

The mayor’s brother chuckled for 20 seconds or so.

Calling it “politically motivated,” Doug Ford said he’s “getting tired of it.”

The document, obtained by the Toronto Sun, indicates a second investigative project spun out of the Project Traveller drugs and guns raid that led police to assertions a friend of Mayor Rob Ford’s — Alexander Lisi — was trying to offer marijuana in a trade for the cellphone.

Lisi was recently arrested outside of Etobicoke’s Richview Cleaners and charged with offences, including trafficking marijuana and possession of proceeds of crime.

Jamshid Bahrami, owner of the dry cleaners, was also charged with possession of cocaine, trafficking marijuana and conspiracy to commit an indictable offence.

The police document indicates Lisi expressed a desire to retrieve a cellphone on behalf of an associate.

A source has confirmed to the Toronto Sunthat the associate was Rob Ford.

Doug Ford dismissed the whole notion as “B.S.”

Doug expressed to me last week how he believed Toronto Police had been surveilling his family last summer.

And Monday night he said this is more smear coming from people trying to get the mayor out of office.

He said “of course” this internal document was leaked to media.

Meanwhile, Toronto Police will not respond to direct questions if the mayor is under investigation or is a person on interest.

Still it’s out there for discussion — including at Queen’s Park Monday where reporters threw it at Premier Kathleen Wynne.

“The police are handling the situation, I’m just not going to weigh in,” she said.

Handling the situation?

There is so much ambiguity in this situation, it’s becoming untenable.

When asked about the document, Toronto Police spokesman Mark Pugash said “we don’t comment on cases before the courts.”

Doug Ford said Monday night if there are allegations against the mayor, an outside, impartial police service should be brought in for that. It should also look at how the media got private documents.

For now, he said, he considers this more of the same attacks as his brother has faced for months.

“I don’t even care anymore,” he said. “We will deal with it.”