One resident of the home where Mayor Rob Ford was photographed with murder victim Anthony Smith has been convicted of trafficking cocaine.

Another was found guilty of possessing a prohibited weapon.

In 2011, Elena Johnson, the 51-year-old daughter of homeowner Lina Basso, was convicted of trafficking in cocaine.

Her brother, Fabio Basso, was convicted in 2005 of possessing a prohibited weapon.

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Neighbours of 15 Windsor Rd. said Johnson, who lives at the house with her elderly mother and brothers Fabio, 45, and Mario Basso, 40, is known to have drug problems. Police frequently visit the address, which is notorious for drugs, according to people who live in the area.

Officers were at the Etobicoke home on May 21, the same night a 27-year-old man was shot in the leg at a nearby highrise on Dixon Rd.

Police were called to the Windsor Rd. address about 11 p.m. for an assault, police spokesman Mark Pugash said Thursday. A man had forced his way inside the house and assaulted two people with a weapon. He fled on foot eastbound on Kingsview. Blvd.

A Toronto EMS spokesperson confirmed that a man and woman living in the area were taken to hospital with “very minor injuries” at the same time as the Windsor Rd. incident.

No arrests have been made.

It’s not clear whether there’s a link between the highrise shooting and the Windsor Rd. assault. The Star has been told by police the shooting was accidental.

It’s been almost three weeks since the Star revealed two reporters had seen a video of the mayor appearing to smoke crack cocaine and uttering a homophobic slur.

Sources later told the Star that Ford blurted out to staff the video could be located in an apartment on the 17th floor of 320 Dixon Rd. — the same floor where the shooting occurred, according to sources.

Ford has denied he smokes crack cocaine and that the video exists.

The image of Ford in front of the Basso house with three young men is not part of the video, but was provided to the Star by men attempting to sell the video. Two of the men in the picture were shot outside a nightclub in March. One victim, Anthony Smith, was killed while the other was shot in the arm and back but survived.

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In the weeks since the Star located the house in the photo, reporters have tried to speak to the residents of 15 Windsor Rd. on numerous occasions. Johnson called Star reporters “scavengers.” Fabio Basso refused to comment when approached by the Star while leaving a TD Canada Trust bank. He jumped on a bike and pedaled away, turning back to give an obscene gesture.

Fabio went to high school with Ford, according to friend David Profitt.

In 2005, Fabio was convicted of possessing a spring-activated knife, a prohibited weapon. He was fined $250. In the same incident, he was charged with stealing “a quantity of Brad Nails” from a Home Depot. That charge was withdrawn.

And in January 2012, court records show he was arrested after stealing “multiple blu-ray DVDs and TV wall mounts” from a Walmart store and defrauding the company “of fabric softener.” The theft charge was withdrawn the next month, but Fabio Basso paid a $500 fine in connection with the fraud.

Johnson was charged with the cocaine trafficking offence in February 2006, pleaded guilty in March 2011 and was given a suspended sentence and six months’ probation. On the same day, she also pleaded guilty to stealing a lipstick from The Bay in a different 2006 incident.

The rundown bungalow is on a pleasant street of well-kept homes.

In 2011, concerns about people with drugs and guns leaving the Dixon Rd. apartment building and walking north onto Windsor Rd. led to a request to ward councillor Doug Ford to close the walkway.

“Windsor Road residents maintain that the presence of this pedestrian connection aggravates crime and vandalism in the area, and have asked the Ward Councillor to have it closed,” a city report from October 2011 states.

The walkway was closed. The report to the city noted that about 300 children attending schools in the area typically used the walkway from the Dixon Rd. apartments.

Robyn Doolittle can be reached at (647) 404-4740 or rdoolittle@thestar.ca

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