Three prosecutions. All failed. A fabricated emergency deployed against a citizen within 7 hours of complaining to Federal Parliament. Now escalated to the Queensland Premier. Five years of alleged state-facilitated misconduct — documented here, in full, with official records.
Between 2020 and 2025, Anthony Smith was the target of a sustained campaign of harassment, identity theft, drug trafficking under his stolen identity, impersonation, and false complaints by an individual operating online under the aliases @kandykingX, @beat_slaya, @The_real_Tony_smith, @Au_BigFella, and others.
Smith's attempts to report this conduct to NSW Police as a victim were systematically not investigated. During the same period, NSW Police prosecuted Smith three times on complaints from @kandykingX. All three prosecutions failed. The same Police Prosecutor — Nicholas Nicolas — appeared in all three matters.
When Smith escalated his complaints to Federal Parliament in June 2025, NSW Police initiated a fabricated emergency welfare intervention against him in Queensland within 6 hours and 52 minutes — justified by a Triple Zero call that official GIPA records confirm never occurred.
Alleged NSW Police conduct includes: writing false entries into operational records (COPS); threatening involuntary mental health intervention when Smith attempted to report in person; ignoring a Cybertrace forensic report identifying @kandykingX as the operator of impersonation and drug-selling accounts; fabricating a Triple Zero call to trigger a cross-border health emergency; falsely claiming Smith had recent psychiatric history at St Vincent's Hospital (disproven); providing briefings to the NSW Minister for Police containing statements contradicted by the agency's own GIPA releases; and destroying records after prosecution collapsed.
@kandykingX is unpunished. The officers involved are unpunished. Both are capable of doing this again to someone else.
For years, Anthony Smith provided Kings Cross Police with detailed evidence of a sophisticated online criminal operation run by the individual operating as @kandykingX, who used Smith's identity and photographs to sell illicit drugs and commit fraud at scale.
@kandykingX operated multiple Telegram accounts including @The_real_Tony_smith and @frost_rich using Smith's name and photo to advertise and sell methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin.
The operation ran a structured funnel: Squirt.org ("RandyManDan") → Telegram @Au_BigFella → primary drug account @kandykingX. All sales final. Uber Parcel delivery available.
A $4,600 professional forensic report by Cybertrace explicitly linked @kandykingX's email address to a Microsoft account created under the name "Anthony Smith," proving identity theft. ISP: Swoop. IP: 103.53.118.254.
S/Cst Duncan Handley dismissed the Cybertrace evidence as "incoherent." Kings Cross PAC made a formal decision "to not investigate further." No arrest was made. @kandykingX continued operating.
Crime reported: Identity theft, drug trafficking, forgery, stalking
Subject: @kandykingX
Evidence provided: $4,600 Cybertrace forensic report, IP addresses, Telegram drug sale logs, bank records, video evidence
Police response: S/Cst Duncan Handley dismisses as "incoherent." Formal decision: "not investigate further."
Crime reported: Harassment via a single alleged missed phone call
Subject: Anthony Smith (the original whistleblower)
Evidence provided: An unverified sworn statement from @kandykingX
Police response: Pursuit across state lines, charges laid (H81615839), brief of evidence prepared for court — before Telstra records were even reviewed.
Three prosecutions. One complainant (@kandykingX). One prosecutor (Nicholas Nicolas). Three OICs (Hammer, Mewburn, Dellenty). In each case, the brief contained evidence directly incompatible with the sworn allegations — and in each case the prosecution proceeded regardless.
NSW Police alleged Smith breached bail by contacting @kandykingX via Signal. The prosecution relied on Optus subscriber records to prove it.
Seven counts: four of recording an intimate image (s.91P Crimes Act 1900), two of distribution (s.91Q), one AVO breach. Four recording counts and the AVO breach dismissed — not guilty. Two distribution counts: $500 fines each on recklessness as to consent.
Charged under s.474.17 Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth). Three allegations: (1) Smith called @kandykingX on 4 September 2023 from mobile [number redacted]; (2) Smith sent messages from an "unknown profile" on 17–18 July 2023; (3) Smith operated the "legalabuse" Instagram account, which @kandykingX claimed not to have discovered until 23 November 2023.
On 25 June 2025, Anthony Smith lodged a formal complaint with the office of the Hon. Tanya Plibersek MP — a Federal Cabinet Minister — detailing the Kings Cross PAC's multi-year failure to investigate identity theft, drug trafficking, and hacking by @kandykingX. Within 72 hours, NSW Police had fabricated an emergency and mobilized Queensland Health to conduct a cross-border intervention against him.
Smith lodges a formal complaint with Hon. Tanya Plibersek MP's office detailing @kandykingX's criminal operation and the Kings Cross PAC's failure to investigate — including evidence of impersonation on Telegram via @kandykingX and @The_real_Tony_smith to sell drugs. The complaint escalates a local policing failure to federal level, triggering a high-priority response protocol.
Plibersek's office formally forwards the complaint via ministerial correspondence to the Hon. Yasmin Catley, NSW Minister for Police. The NSW Police Force is now formally required to report to their Minister, who must answer to her Federal counterpart.
An email from the Police Commissioner's office marked "High Importance" arrives at the Central Metropolitan Region Command — the authority overseeing Kings Cross PAC. It demands a full report and explanation regarding the allegations of inaction raised by Plibersek's constituent. The command is under direct pressure from the top of the chain.
Kings Cross Police contact Queensland Health (MHCALL RedCab) initiating an "urgent" welfare check on Anthony Smith in Queensland — hundreds of kilometres away. The justification given to QLD Health: Smith had made self-harm threats via Triple Zero. This was a fabrication. A COPS search of all welfare CAD messages in the Sydney City area for the 48-hour period 25–26 June 2025 returned no record relating to Smith.
Kings Cross Officer 'Brendan' emails QLD Health to follow up the welfare check. In doing so, he inadvertently reveals the true purpose of the operation. This constitutes a direct written admission of retaliatory motive.
"...the reason why I ask... is the gentleman... has made further complaints to a Federal Ministers Office and I need to respond to them."
This is not ambiguous. The officer did not write "I am concerned for this person's welfare." He wrote "I need to respond to them" — referring to a Federal Minister's office. The welfare check was an administrative intelligence-gathering exercise triggered by political pressure, not a health intervention.
A standard cross-border welfare check, requiring coordination between NSW Police and another state's health service, would not typically be mobilized in under 7 hours. The speed alone confirms this was a punitive, political response.
The email sent by Kings Cross Officer 'Brendan' to Queensland Health on 25 June 2025 contains four demonstrable falsehoods — each contradicted by official records obtained under GIPA or the QLD Right to Information Act.
Falsehood: Officer claimed Smith made "self harm threats via triple zero about jumping in front of a train."
Fact: NSW Police GIPA Decision (Ref: 0834658) confirms NO RECORD of any such call exists. An internal COPS search of all Sydney City welfare CAD messages for 25–26 June 2025 returned nothing relating to Smith. The threat was fabricated to force interstate police attendance.
Falsehood: The welfare check was a medical necessity.
Fact: Officer admitted in writing on 27 June: "The reason why I ask [for the outcome] is the gentleman has made further complaints to a Federal Ministers Office and I need to respond to them." The check was a tool to manage a political complaint, not a health crisis.
Falsehood: Officer described Smith's complaints as "targeted at the victim" — framing @kandykingX as victim.
Fact: Smith was reporting identity theft and drug trafficking by @kandykingX. Police reframed whistleblowing as harassment to justify silencing the reporter.
Falsehood: Officer told QLD Health that Smith "last presented to St Vincent's Hospital in Darlinghurst in 2021."
Fact: QLD Health's subsequent clinical assessment found no evidence supporting this claim. It was medically disproven — another fabrication used to establish a false psychiatric history.
"Anthony was calm and polite during the telephone conversation, rapport was developed, and he engaged willingly and with ease during assessment. Socially appropriate. Able to share information."
Speech: Normal range in rate, tone, and volume.
Mood: "I am upset NSW Police this is not fair."
No homicidal thoughts identified or voiced during assessment.
Anthony denies current thoughts and plans of suicide.
Anthony denies current thoughts and plans of harming others.
Insight & Judgement: Intact. Anthony does have capacity currently to make informed decisions about his mental health care.
MDT review (Dr G Carrasco, SMO): "No rationale for MHA. Declined service." — Case closed to RCACT.
"It was determined under section 58(1)(b) of the GIPA Act, that it did not hold any information relating to a '000' call as described in the access application."
Internal review finding: "I have decided under section 58(1)(b) of the GIPA Act, that the agency does not hold the information requested by you."
"This office conducted a search in COPS for every 'concern for welfare' CAD message created in the Sydney City area (which includes Kings Cross) in the 48-hour period 25–26 June 2025. None of these messages related to you."
"I would also note that it would be very unusual for NSW police officers wishing to report concerns for a person resident in another state to contact an agency other than the Police Force in that area."
Three prosecutions. Same prosecutor. Same complainant. Three OICs. Exculpatory material in each brief before charges were laid. A fabricated emergency deployed within hours of a ministerial complaint. Administrative shutdowns of evidence submission. Records deleted after prosecution collapsed. This is an operational pattern.
Prosecution 1: Optus records relied upon to prove Signal contact after OIC admitted in writing they would not show it.
Prosecution 2: Screenshots from @kandykingX's own public gaming broadcast charged as covert home recordings. Detective confirmed no offending images existed — 11 weeks before hearing.
Prosecution 3: Telstra records showing no call was made sat in the same brief as the Facts Sheet alleging it. OIC held them 99 days before charging.
The dates, content, and structure of Smith's uninvestigated victim reports appear to have been repurposed as the alleged offending dates in charges against him.
From receipt of the Plibersek ministerial complaint to initiation of a cross-border welfare check: 6 hours and 52 minutes. Justified by a Triple Zero call that no record confirms ever occurred.
Briefings to the NSW Minister for Police contained statements directly contradicted by records later released under GIPA.
Inspector Martha Winch (Professional Standards) formally ended communication on 9 December 2024: "my communication with you will be ending" and "You will not be provided any information regarding [subject] at any time."
NSW Police Internal Review (File: 3 858525): "Constable Dellenty advised that upon finalisation of the local court matter some information she had received that was not saved on ViewIMS had been deleted." Potential breach of the State Records Act 1998.
"Evidence is not what is seen, but what is ignored."
On 9 March 2026 — nine months after NSW Police deployed Queensland Health as a cross-border instrument of retaliation — a formal letter was sent directly to Queensland Premier David Crisafulli MP demanding a state-level response. The letter was titled: "Queensland Sovereignty and Resident Safety — NSW Police Weaponised Queensland Emergency Services Against a Political Complainant."
The core allegation to the Premier: A sworn officer of another state fabricated a mental health emergency to deploy Queensland's emergency resources against a Queensland resident — not to protect him, but to surveil him and retaliate for a lawful democratic act. It occurred on Queensland soil. It consumed Queensland resources. It was used to suppress accountability for documented misconduct — including an 18-month malicious prosecution that collapsed in court on 10 June 2025.
The full evidence chain — including the RTI release, the NSW GIPA denial, the clinical outcomes, and a complete timeline — was provided as a public record available on request.
RTI release JIA/U25/13749 from Queensland Health is now a public government record. It contains the NSW Police referral email and the officer's 27 June 2025 follow-up, which reads:
"The reason why I ask is the gentleman, as of yesterday, has made further complaints to a Federal Ministers Office and I need to respond to them."
This email — sent the day after the welfare check — establishes that the intervention was a response to ministerial complaints, not a health crisis.
NSW Police GIPA Decision (Ref: 0834658) confirms the Triple Zero call cited as the basis for the QLD emergency referral does not exist in any COPS record. NSW Police confirmed: "it did not hold any information relating to a '000' call as described in the access application."
A COPS search of every welfare CAD message in the Sydney City area for 25–26 June 2025 returned no record relating to the subject. The emergency was fabricated.
That the Premier's office direct the Crime and Corruption Commission to investigate whether Queensland emergency services were improperly weaponised by interstate police through fabricated grounds.
That Queensland formally raise a state-level complaint with the NSW Government and the NSW Law Enforcement Conduct Commission regarding the misuse of Queensland's emergency referral framework by NSW Police.
That Queensland consider legislative or inter-governmental agreement reforms to prevent Queensland residents from being targeted via interstate misuse of welfare referral protocols without jurisdictional authority or oversight.
That Queensland ensure the subject is not subject to further cross-border retaliation while these matters are under investigation — given the pattern of conduct already documented.
"A Queensland resident was raided by proxy for complaining about police. You have the standing and the responsibility to respond."
1. Political_Retaliation_The_Weaponized_State — Full case brief
2. GIPAA-2020-0834658 — Notice of Decision (no Triple Zero record)
3. 1 858928 IR NOD 2 — Internal Review Notice of Decision
4. Cybertrace Investigation — Impersonation and harassment documentation
5. SMITH Anthony JIA/U25_13749 C1238088 CIMHA — QLD Health RTI Release (clinical record and officer email chain)
The following documents are referenced across the prosecutions and the June 2025 retaliation. Each was either present in a brief of evidence, obtained under GIPA or RTI, or produced by a third-party forensic or clinical provider. Where a document is marked exculpatory, it was held by police prior to or at the time of charging.
Total Result Count: 0. No calls on [number redacted] during the alleged week. Service cancelled August 2023 — before the alleged call was made. Held in the same brief as the Facts Sheet alleging the call.
Shows @kandykingX's alias @beat_slaya was the first follower of Smith's 'legalabuse' account from 26 July 2023 — four months before @kandykingX swore he discovered it on 23 November 2023.
The OIC's own screen recording, held in the brief, showed @kandykingX commenting on Smith's posts before the date he swore he first became aware of the account's existence.
Recorded in COPS: "police could not find any images that would constitute an offence." The four recording charges proceeded to hearing regardless.
OIC admitted in writing the Optus records would not show Signal-app contact — the very contact the prosecution was attempting to prove. Prosecution proceeded to hearing regardless.
Identified @kandykingX's email as linked to a Microsoft account created under "Anthony Smith." ISP Swoop, IP 103.53.118.254. Police dismissed it as "incoherent."
Documents the ministerial complaint pathway: Plibersek → Catley → Commissioner's office → Kings Cross PAC. Establishes the direct causal chain from political complaint to welfare check mobilization.
Contains the NSW Police email referral (Officer 'Brendan'), the QLD Health clinical assessment (calm, polite, insight intact, no risk, declined service), and the 27 June 2025 "smoking gun" email admitting the true motive.
Confirms NSW Police holds no information relating to a Triple Zero call. COPS CAD search for all Sydney City welfare messages 25–26 June 2025: none relating to Smith. States it would be "very unusual" for NSW Police to contact a QLD agency rather than QLD Police.
"Constable Dellenty advised that upon finalisation of the local court matter some information she had received that was not saved on ViewIMS had been deleted." Court case dismissed 10 June 2025. Potential breach of State Records Act 1998.
@kandykingX's own public gaming livestream — the source of the four images that formed Prosecution 2's recording charges. The images were screenshots from this stream, not covert home recordings as sworn.
"My communication with you will be ending" and "You will not be provided any information regarding [subject] at any time." Imposed while a prosecution was active and complaints were pending.
Formal request for state-level intervention: CCC investigation, state complaint to NSW/LECC, legislative reform to prevent interstate welfare protocol misuse. Enclosures include RTI release JIAU25/13749 and GIPA decision 0834658.
Contains the complete QLD Health welfare check file including NSW Police referral, clinical assessment (no risk identified, case closed), and Officer 'Brendan's' 27 June 2025 email admitting the real motive for the interstate check.
Prosecution 3 withdrawn and dismissed after @kandykingX attended court and refused to give evidence. Costs application refused. Magistrate stated words to the effect that police "did nothing wrong" — made without the complainant giving evidence, and notwithstanding exculpatory material present in the prosecution brief 99 days before charge.
Closing letter dated 16 June 2025. Defence representation in Prosecution 3. Noted concerns: solicitor unfamiliar with Telstra records in the brief; did not subpoena Meta records as instructed; did not call Tom Mellor as witness; did not call the Cybertrace investigator. Costs application not advanced on the documentary grounds available — specifically the Telstra iASK records and the Meta Business Record.
The Member for Sydney also made formal representations on behalf of Smith regarding the ongoing issues with Kings Cross Police. GIPA requests for records relating to Greenwich's inquiries were refused — NSW Police cited "overriding public interest against disclosure" and classified the correspondence as a "Deliberative Process."
The same NSW Police Prosecutor appeared in all three prosecutions across three years, three different OICs, and two different court locations. One witnessing officer (Farmilo) appeared in two of the three matters. No explanation for this persistent assignment has been provided.
Complaints have been made to the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC), NSW Ombudsman, and to Federal and State Ministers. Responses have in several cases been contradicted by the agency's own records released under GIPA. The LECC informed Smith he would "soon be blocked from their server."
A formal letter was sent directly to the Queensland Premier requesting: (1) the CCC investigate whether Queensland emergency services were improperly weaponised by interstate police; (2) Queensland formally raise a state-level complaint with the NSW Government and NSW LECC; (3) legislative reform to prevent interstate misuse of welfare referral protocols; and (4) protection from further cross-border retaliation. The letter was accompanied by five enclosures including both the GIPA and RTI releases establishing that the Triple Zero call never occurred and that the officer admitted the true motive in writing.
The letter characterised the conduct as a breach of Queensland sovereignty: "A NSW Police officer fabricated a mental health emergency to deploy Queensland's emergency resources against a Queensland resident — not to protect him, but to surveil him and retaliate for a lawful democratic act. It occurred on Queensland soil."
Note to journalists, lawyers, and parliamentarians: Documentary evidence underlying the claims on this site — including the Telstra iASK records, Meta Business Record, COPS entries, OIC written admission, QLD Health RTI release JIAU25/13749, GIPA release GIPA-2025-0925657, GIPA decision REV-2025-0858528, and the formal letter to QLD Premier Crisafulli — is available for review. Contact details below.
This matter has been formally escalated to the Queensland Premier's office as of 9 March 2026. A cross-border pattern of alleged state-facilitated misconduct involving both NSW and Queensland government resources is now on the public record.
If you have experienced similar conduct by NSW Police or Kings Cross PAC, have information relevant to this case, or are a journalist or researcher covering police accountability — please reach out. If you have had contact with the individual operating as @kandykingX, @beat_slaya, @The_real_Tony_smith, or @Au_BigFella on Telegram, I would particularly like to hear from you.
NSW Police misconduct can also be reported to the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) at lecc.nsw.gov.au or the NSW Ombudsman at ombo.nsw.gov.au. RTI requests to QLD Health can be made at health.qld.gov.au.