Hells Angel killed former biker: police
Nova Scotia RCMP allege a well-known Hells Angels member is responsible for killing a former biker who has been missing for 11 years.
Documents filed at provincial court in Truro Thursday state that police think Jeffrey Albert Lynds killed Randy Mersereau, who disappeared in October 1999.
Last May, Lynds was arrested in Truro and flown to Montreal to face two charges of first-degree murder in another case. Lynds is charged with killing a hit man and a bystander outside a McDonald's restaurant in Montreal last January.
Lynds has pleaded not guilty to both charges. He will be back in a Montreal courtroom on Jan. 11.
Salmon River man charged as accessory
In the 1990s, Lynds was a close criminal associate of Mersereau. Shortly after Mersereau disappeared in October 1999, Lynds became a member of the Hells Angels, leading police to speculate he may have been involved in Merserau's murder.
The documents containing the allegations against Lynds were filed in support of a charge against a Truro-area man.
Gerald Leslie MacCabe, of Salmon River, was arraigned Thursday on a charge of being an accessory to murder in connection with the Mersereau case.
The documents filed in Truro provincial court allege that Lynds killed Mersereau and MacCabe helped Lynds escape.
MacCabe, 43, was remanded to the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Dartmouth until his next court appearance on Dec. 7.
MacCabe was ordered not to have any contact with 10 people, including Jeffrey Lynds and his nephew, Curtis Lynds.
Police continue to search for remains
Meanwhile, RCMP investigators are searching a wooded area on Hiram Lynds Road in Colchester County in relation to this investigation. The Lynds family owns a lot of property on that road.
Police will not say whether they have recovered human remains.
In October, police changed Mersereau's disappearance to a homicide case.
The RCMP said they found a clue that could lead to solving the mystery of Mersereau's disappearance after searching a house and property on Onslow Mountain in Colchester County for seven days.
Mersereau, 48, was last seen in the Truro and Shubenacadie area on Halloween weekend in 1999. Police found his car on Highway 102 between Truro and Halifax.
He disappeared about a month after escaping a bomb blast at a used car dealership in Bible Hill that injured seven people. Police said he was involved in a drug war with the Angels, his former club.
In September 2000, his brother, Kirk Mersereau, was killed in Centre Burlington, near Windsor, N.S.