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The alleged Rob Ford “crack video” was the focus of a drug investigation that led to the arrest of one of his friends, according to a police document released Thursday.

The nearly 500-page document details evidence police collected in order to get a search warrant for Ford’s friend Alexander Lisi.

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An overview of the investigation contained in the document says that an experienced detective was assigned to investigate allegations that a video showed Ford smoking crack cocaine.

The allegations surfaced in May when reporters from Gawker reported they were shown the video.

The Toronto Star also published a photograph of the mayor with three men, one of whom — Anthony Smith — was gunned down on a city street. The other two men in the photo, which was taken in front of a house, were arrested as part of “Project Traveller.”

The document says police compared that photograph to an address that a confidential informant told police was a “crack house,” and found it had the same colour, overhanging light, white trim, brick colour and pattern.

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