Two Toronto Police documents related to Mayor Rob Ford, which include details of the night last April when he allegedly smoked crack cocaine with sister Kathy Ford in her basement and beat up his friend Sandro Lisi, have been filed in court as part of new search warrant applications.

The Star has gone to court seeking access to the sealed documents. Friday, Justice Ian Nordheimer made an order that will bring the Star’s application back to court in two weeks, after Crown attorneys have determined what they want kept secret.

The documents include portions of an interview police conducted with Kathy Ford.

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Ford’s midnight activities on Saturday, April 26, were part of a flurry of bad behaviour that led to the mayor taking a leave of absence and entering a rehab facility in Muskoka.

Previously, the Star published an account of the night, detailing how Ford partied with Lisi, sister Kathy and a young man nicknamed “Jugga James,” who was involved in the drug trade. Ford repeatedly used a highly offensive racial slur and pummelled Lisi until he cried, according to James’ account to the Star of the evening.

The Star viewed three video clips from the night, which show Ford smoking from a homemade pipe shared with his sister. James’ iPhone microphone was broken and only white noise can be heard on the video clips.

According to sources, the Project Brazen 2 squad that has been probing Ford and Lisi became interested in the April night in Kathy’s basement following publication of accounts in the Star and publication by the Globe and Mail of a photograph showing Ford smoking from the pipe. The Globe paid $10,000 for a series of still photos.

The police have conducted a lengthy interview of Kathy Ford concerning the events of the evening, and that interview is referenced in the search warrant documents. Police have also included an affidavit related to a 20-year-old man named Michael James, who uses the nickname “Jugga.” Among the information the police were seeking were the original three videos filmed by Michael James.

Toronto Star lawyer Ryder Gilliland appeared before Justice Nordheimer on Friday seeking access to the search warrant documents. A court document obtained by the Star shows both search warrant applications were sealed on June 9. Those applications were filed by Toronto Police Det. David Lavallee, a member of the Brazen 2 squad, and the search warrants were approved by Justice David Cole.

In his application, Gilliland wrote that the issues related to the ongoing investigation of Ford “continues to be a matter of great public interest deserving of public oversight.” In his order, Nordheimer asked for the sealed warrants to be made available to Crown attorneys who on Sept. 19 will come back to court with edited versions of the warrant.

The documents the Star is seeking are referred to as an “information to obtain” a search warrant. These documents are filed in court in support of an application by police to search a home, apartment, business, or to gather information from items including a cellphone, iPad or computer. The documents are sealed, as have been all other search warrant documents related to the Ford case.

Over the past year, the Star and other media have been successful in getting previous information-to-obtain documents unsealed, and many of the revelations about Ford’s activities have come from these documents.

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Ford has insisted recently that all of his bad behaviour is behind him, following his treatment at the GreeneStone rehab clinic over the summer. Ford did not reply to a request Friday to discuss the new documents.

Those following the Ford story will recall that between January and April this year, Ford had a series of incidents in which he was recorded making racist or lewd comments. At the Steak Queen restaurant in January he was seen on video rambling in a Jamaican patois making profane comments about Chief Bill Blair. Driving drunk in March shortly after his Jimmy Kimmel appearance he unleashed a tirade of racist comments, and called himself “the most racist guy around.”

In April the Toronto Sun released an audio recording of Ford sounding off at an Etobicoke bar, saying, “I’d like to f-----g jam” fellow mayoral contender Karen Stintz. Ford, who was drunk, made disparaging remarks about Italians, referring to a “a dumb f---ing w-p over there.” Around the same time, the Globe published images of Ford smoking from what appeared to be a homemade crack pipe in his sister’s basement.

Soon after, the Star travelled to Kingston to meet the 20-year-old man who said he filmed those images. He showed the eight minutes of video to the Star and recounted over a two-hour interview Ford’s comments that evening in late April. The man (he called himself Jugga and Jugga James) said he is a friend of Kathy Ford, 53, and came over that night at her request to “meet the mayor.”

James described a drug-fuelled night where Ford puffed out his chest, challenged him to a fight, then asked him to “feel my muscles.” James said Ford was visibly impaired and got into an altercation with Lisi, knocking him down and pummelling him until he was “crying like a baby.”

James said that when Kathy intervened in the attack on Lisi, Ford pushed and kicked his sister before backing off. He alleged that she then lit up a crack pipe.

“Give me some of that,” Ford said, according to James, and grabbed the pipe.

James, who is black, said Ford repeatedly used the word “n-----” to refer to him and also to former Toronto Community Housing boss Eugene Jones, whom Ford supports.

“No n----- gets fired in my town. When I get re-elected that n----- is going to be back in charge,” Ford said, according to James’ account of the night.

After the physical altercation, Lisi sat quietly on his own for the next hour, James said.

Lisi is facing extortion charges over allegations that he aggressively tried to retrieve the original crack video in May 2013. Ford has been subpoenaed to testify in the preliminary hearing into those charges next year.

This week, Lisi and his Range Rover were spotted in front of the Toronto Star’s offices at 1 Yonge St. When asked by a Star reporter what he was doing in the area, Lisi replied that he was waiting for a female friend to “use the washroom” at a nearby building.

The Star inquired as to the progress of Lisi’s extortion case.

“You would know better than I do,” Lisi said, before returning to his Range Rover, which was parked in a bike lane in front of a bus stop, and sped away.