Mayor Rob Ford was observed urinating in broad daylight behind an Etobicoke public school and dumping empty liquor bottles during one of his many meetings with Alexander “Sandro” Lisi detailed in police search warrant documents released Thursday.

The bizarre incident was one of several involving the mayor caught by police conducting surveillance on Lisi and the mayor this summer as part of Project Brazen 2, a drug trafficking investigation that is a spinoff of the major guns and gangs operation, Project Traveller.

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On the afternoon of July 28, police conducting surveillance at Lisi’s home on Madill St. in Etobicoke noticed Ford driving around the neighbourhood in his black Escalade. They followed the mayor to determine if he was going to meet with Lisi, according to the search warrant documents.

Ford was tracked to an LCBO at Crossroads Plaza at Weston Rd. and Highway 401, where security cameras inside the LCBO recorded the mayor making a purchase and leaving. Ford then bought food at a McDonald’s drive-thru before driving to an empty parking lot behind Scarlett Heights Entrepreneurial Academy, the school Ford and his brother, Doug, attended. The mayor was then observed getting out of his Escalade and dumping a plastic bag into a nearby garbage can, the documents say.

Lisi arrived shortly after, in his Range Rover. Photos that appear to have been taken from the air show Lisi parking about 6 metres away from the mayor, walking over to Ford’s vehicle and getting in on the passenger side. The two men “engaged in conversation” for about 30 minutes, the document says, but “shortly after this, Mayor Ford exits the driver’s seat of the Escalade (Lisi stays in the Escalade), walks to the treed area (where Lisi’s vehicle is parked), urinates, then returns to the driver’s seat of the Escalade.”

A photo included in the police documents appears to show Ford standing between Lisi’s Range Rover and a tree.

Shortly after, Lisi got out of Ford’s Escalade and threw a McDonald’s bag into the same garbage can used earlier by Ford.

After the pair left, police officers went through the garbage can and found what are “believed to be two empty vodka bottles” — one for Iceberg Vodka and the other for Russian Prince Vodka— in the plastic bag Ford threw away earlier. Lisi’s garbage is described in the documents as “a submarine sandwich bag.” Also found by police were two McDonald’s receipts.

All the items were seized and photographed.

Allegations in the police search warrant have not been proven in court. Lisi and an Etobicoke drycleaner are the only people charged in the case.

On Aug. 13, a Tuesday, Lisi was at home when he received a call from a cellphone associated with Deco Adhesive Products, the police documents released Thursday say. Ford’s family-owned business is Deco Labels & Tags.

Police then followed Lisi to what the documents refer to as Weston Wood Park, now called Douglas Ford Park in honour of the mayor’s entrepreneur/politician father. Ford arrived at the park in his Escalade a few minutes later, after which the pair “met and made their way into a secluded area of the adjacent woods where they were obscured from surveillance efforts and stayed for approximately one hour,” according to the documents.

The two men emerged from the woods and drove away in their own cars. Police then went into the woods and located the area in the park where Lisi and Ford met, where they found a vodka bottle and a juice bottle, which they seized.

“So as not to reveal that the original bottles were seized replacement bottles were left behind,” the documents say.

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The search warrant materials also discuss Ford’s appearance at the Taste of the Danforth festival on Aug. 9, when eyewitnesses described the mayor as slurring his words and having trouble standing.

Earlier that day, police saw Ford and Lisi leave Lisi’s home in the mayor’s Escalade. At the time, Lisi’s Range Rover was not at his home, but parked unoccupied behind Scarlett Heights Entrepreneurial Academy. A short time later, Lisi was seen returning home in his Range Rover, the documents say.

The police materials about that day include a Toronto Star story about the mayor’s appearance at the Danforth street festival and a photo of the mayor taken at the Esso station at Scarlett Rd. and Edenbridge Dr. in Etobicoke later that night. The documents note that the gas station is where Ford and Lisi were observed by police meeting on several occasions.

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