Early this week, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford dropped in on a public meeting long enough to say hello to the councillors and then head out to the parking lot to put "Rob Ford" magnets on all the vehicles parked there. Dave Thomas/QMI Agency
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford leaves his Etobicoke home, Friday May 17, 2013. The Toronto Star published a story that claims someone has a video of the mayor allegedly smoking crack. Craig Robertson/QMI Agency
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford at a press conference where he said the casino deal is dead if the province won't agree to the hosting fee of $100-million a year. (Veronica Henri/QMI Agency)
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford speaks to the media as he leaves his home in Toronto, May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Mark Blinch
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford leaves his Etobicoke home, Friday May 17, 2013. The Toronto Star published a story that claims someone has a video of the mayor allegedly smoking crack. Craig Robertson/QMI Agency
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford leaves his home in Toronto, May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Mark Blinch
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford leaves his home in Toronto, May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Mark Blinch
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford leaves his home in Toronto, May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Mark Blinch
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford speaks to the media as he leaves his home in Toronto, May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Mark Blinch
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford leaves his Etobicoke home, Friday May 17, 2013. The Toronto Star published a story that claims someone has a video of the mayor allegedly smoking crack. Craig Robertson/QMI Agency
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is swarmed by reporters as he enters his offices at Toronto City Hall May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Brett Gundlock
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford leaves his Etobicoke home, Friday May 17, 2013. The Toronto Star published a story that claims someone has a video of the mayor allegedly smoking crack. Craig Robertson/QMI Agency
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is swarmed by reporters as he enters his offices at Toronto City Hall May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Brett Gundlock
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford leaves his home May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Mark Blinch
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford leaves his Etobicoke home, Friday May 17, 2013. The Toronto Star published a story that claims someone has a video of the mayor allegedly smoking crack. Craig Robertson/QMI Agency
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford leaves his home in Toronto, May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Mark Blinch
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford leaves his home in Toronto, May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Mark Blinch
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford enters his offices at Toronto City Hall May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Brett Gundlock
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TORONTO ? A west-end Toronto apartment complex linked to the Toronto Mayor Rob Ford crack-cocaine scandal was the target of a police raid Thursday morning.
Toronto Police blocked off vehicular traffic leading to 320 Dixon Rd. in the city's Etobicoke area around 5 a.m.
The building is believed to be the same complex where an alleged video of the mayor smoking crack cocaine was being stashed.
Ford has said no such video exists and that he does not use crack cocaine.
Police said about 30 warrants were executed, targeting guns and drugs, and the raids were a part of an operation called Project Traveller.
Chief Bill Blair is expected to update the media at police headquarters at noon.
A QMI Agency photographer at the scene estimated there were at least 30 police cruisers and close to 100 officers at the scene.
?I've never seen so many cruisers at one scene in my life,? Dave Thomas said.
The Kingsview Village complex has a history of gun violence.
On May 21, less than a week after American website Gawker said it had been offered the alleged video, there was a shooting on a 17th-floor apartment. A man in his 20s suffered a gunshot wound to his leg.
Several days after the shooting, QMI Agency was told the holder of the alleged video also lives on the 17th floor.
Toronto Police won't talk about the video or the shooting, so it?s unclear if the two are connected.
The man who is believed to have shot the 90 seconds of footage with his cellphone, and may have been killed for it, also lived in Kingsview Village.
Anthony Smith, 21, was shot to death outside a King St. W. nightclub March 28. His 19-year-old pal, who can?t be named because of a publication ban, was wounded.
Both men are also in a much-publicized photo where they and a third man appear to be socializing with the mayor.
That photo is believed to have been taken outside a house 15 Windsor Rd. That street is connected by a pathway to the Dixon Rd. highrise complex.
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