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Man who showed journalists alleged Rob Ford crack video arrested, offered tape to police for plea deal


Friday, August 2, 2013

This picture of Anthony Smith and Rob Ford was given to Gawker by drug dealers who claimed to have a video showing the Toronto mayor smoking crack.
This picture of Anthony Smith and Rob Ford was given to Gawker by drug dealers who claimed to have a video showing the Toronto mayor smoking crack.

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A man who allegedly showed a video to journalists that appears to show Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine has reportedly been arrested.

The Toronto Star says that Mohamed Siad, 27, sat in a car parked at an apartment complex on Dixon Road on May 3 and played the alleged video on a cellphone three times.

John Cook, the editor of U.S. website Gawker, who was shown the same video, said Friday that Siad appears to be the same man he met in Toronto, although he could not be certain.

Siad was arrested in June as part of a sweep targeting gang activity, namely the Dixon City Bloods, also known as the Dixon Goonies. Police say the gang centred on their alleged criminal activity around apartment complexes on Dixon Road.

He was charged with 14 counts of conspiracy to commit an indictable offence, four counts of trafficking cocaine, three counts of participation in a criminal organization as well as four firearm charges.
Siad was stabbed in jail for his alleged role in bringing police attention to gang activity because of the video, the Toronto Sun reported.

Citing sources, the newspaper said Siad tried to get a plea deal by offering to give the video to prosecutors, which they reportedly rejected because they wouldn’t be able to confirm it was Ford smoking crack in the video.

The Star said the Crown attorney on the Project Traveller case would not discuss the Siad case, nor would police, nor Siad’s lawyer, who cited solicitor-client privilege.

The Star has previously identified two other men arrested in the raids as those pictured in a photo appearing to also show Ford with his arm around homicide victim Anthony Smith.

Ford has denied the picture indicates he has ties to drug dealers, saying he takes pictures with a lot of people.
He has also said that he does not use crack cocaine and the alleged video does not exist.

With files from The Canadian Press

 





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