There's no indication outlaw bikie gangs were involved in the shooting of a woman on the Gold Coast, police say.

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Police divers hoping to find the weapon are searching canals near the Gold Coast home where the woman, 26, was shot in the thigh about 8.15am (AEST) on Monday.

Detectives on Tuesday revealed there may have been a second victim.

They're following information that a man may have been injured, although the nature of any injury isn't known.

Detective Superintendent Dave Hutchinson said the man may have left the house, in Namatjira Court at Broadbeach Waters, before police arrived.

He said police were still trying to piece together what happened, and other people who were at the house when the shooting occurred were helping with inquiries.

He said detectives were yet to interview the injured woman, who underwent surgery on Monday.

"She's still in intensive care, but her injuries are certainly not life threatening," Det Supt Hutchinson told reporters.

He confirmed that members of Taskforce Hydra, set up to investigate the activities of outlaw motorcycle gangs, were involved in the investigation on Monday but had since withdrawn.

"There's nothing to suggest that outlaw motorcycle gangs are involved in this incident," he said.

"No Taskforce Hydra members are on the Gold Coast today."

He refused to say if people caught up in the drama were known to police, nor would he say if any drugs were found inside the house.

"I don't want to talk about operational matters at this point in time," he said.

Police began their investigations after ambulance officers called to the house alerted them. It was the fourth shooting on the Gold Coast this month.

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Finks bikie gang member Troy Mercanti is expected to serve an extra four months in jail for refusing to answer questions at an Australian Crime Commission inquiry.

43 year-old Mercanti is already serving a two year and four month sentence for assault which does not finish until April next year.

He was called before an ACC inquiry into organised crime last year, but refused to answer 10 questions.

District Court Judge Allan Fenbury imposed a 12 month jail term but Mercanti can be released on a good behaviour bond after serving four months.

His partner, Tammy Kingdon, was in court for the sentencing.

She was due to be sentenced earlier today for stealing from a trust fund belonging to the children of a rival bikie gang but the case was adjourned.

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Tom Flanagan's remarks that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be assassinated were not merely "ill-considered" or "regrettable," but were, in fact, criminal and should be prosecuted.

So far this year, 39 journalists have been killed trying to bring the truth to light. Flanagan's words, if acted upon, would bring it to 40. Every year, journalists around the world live in fear of death or threats to their livelihoods.

But those threats don't just exist in countries with corrupt regimes or totalitarian states. They occur in Canada regularly and, unfortunately, they have been acted upon.

Brian Smith was leaving the newsroom after a shift one night when he was gunned down. Michel Auger survived a near-fatal shooting the day after his Montreal newspaper published his article about the Hell's Angels. Tara Singh Hayer's journalism career was ended by gunfire a decade after he was left paralyzed from the first attempt on his life.

Then there are threats that don't always make the news. The subtle suggestion by police to "be a good driver" after a critical story is printed; the use of public dollars to financially punish a newspaper critical of local government; or the threat of jail time for journalists who don't give up sources.

Flanagan's comments are just the tip of the iceberg. That they come from a university professor and someone with considerable influence in the upper levels of government make them all the more reprehensible.



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Leslie Douglas Greenwood has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting of Barry Kirk Mersereau and Nancy Paula Christensen in 2000. He is also charged with the attempted murder of ex-Hells Angel Randy Mersereau in 1999 and being an accessory after the fact in the murder of Randy Mersereau later that same year.

RCMP arrested Greenwood without incident at a residence in Bramber, Hants County at 12:30 a.m. Thursday, RCMP provincial spokeswoman Sgt. Brigdit Leger said.

The 41-year-old who has no fixed address was held overnight and taken to Halifax provincial court Friday for arraignment on the charges. He remained in cells during the brief proceeding as duty counsel John Black appeared on his behalf. The lawyer waived reading of the charges and the case was moved to Truro provincial court on Jan. 11 to set a date for a preliminary hearing. Greenwood was ordered to jail until that time.

Crown Shauna MacDonald said the case was heard in Halifax only because the Truro court wasn’t sitting on Friday.

Believed to be suffering from cancer, Greenwood has a series of convictions for offences, including drug possession, theft, break and enter, fraud, forgery, possessing a restricted or prohibited weapon, possessing a device to obtain telecommunication service and piracy.

Spokeswoman Leger answered few questions about the continuing investigation, but she did say that Greenwood was known to all three victims.

Kirk Mersereau and his wife Nancy were shot execution-style in their home in Centre Burlington, Hants Co. A neighbour discovered their bodies on Sept. 10, 2000. The couple's 18-month-old son was in his crib, unharmed.

In their book, The Road to Hell: How the Biker Gangs are Conquering Canada, journalists William Marsden and Julian Sher wrote that Kirk Mersereau had issued a $50,000 contract on the heads of those he held responsible for the murder of his brother, Randy.

A founding member of the Halifax chapter of the Hells Angels, Randy Mersereau left the gang in the ’90s and set up his own drug network. In the book, it’s suggested that he hooked up with a rival biker gang, the Bandidos, and it was rumoured that he had put a contract out on Hells Angels Nomads David (Wolf) Carroll and Maurice (Mom) Boucher and Halifax Hells Angel Michael McCrea.

On Sept. 23, 1999, a bomb exploded at a Bible Hill car dealership, injuring several people. Randy Mersereau escaped with his life, but his luck wouldn’t last long. He went missing on Oct. 31, 1999 and police uncovered human remains believed to belong to Randy Mersereau last Sunday in a wooded area off Hiram Lynds Road in North River, Colchester County.

Biker informant Dany Kane, now deceased, told investigators that the biker gang had Randy Mersereau shot dead and buried him with the gun used to kill him.

Leger said that officers are still working with the medical examiner’s office to determine the identity of the remains found and the exact cause of death.

Last week, RCMP arrested Gerald MacCabe and charged the 43-year-old Salmon River, Colchester Co. man with being an accessory after the fact in the murder of Randy Mersereau. Documents filed in Truro provincial court repeat the claims made in the Halifax court files: that Jeffrey Lynds murdered Mersereau.

But Lynds, a Colchester County man who became a full-patch Hells Angel in 2001, has not been charged in the murder of Randy Mersereau. In fact, no one has been charged in that killing.

Leger wouldn’t say whether they’re looking at charging Lynds or anyone else in relation to this crime.

Lynds and two other Halifax Hells Angels went to jail in 2003 for drug dealing, in a case that led to the collapse of the Halifax chapter later that same year. After his release, Lynds joined the Nomads in Ontario. RCMP arrested him May 30 in Bible Hill in the murder of two men in Montreal on Jan. 24. Police said they found a loaded handgun on him at the time.

As for other Hells Angels whose names surfaced in these cases, Boucher is in prison serving time for a series of other murders and Carroll is still listed as wanted by police on other charges, including murder.

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Kelowna member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club has had yet another brush with the law.

Joseph Bruce Skreptak, 43, allegedly broke into a house on Froelich Road in Rutland on Nov. 1 and assaulted a father and son. The father had to be treated in hospital.

Const. Steve Holmes with the Kelowna RCMP says Skreptak was charged with break and enter with intent, aggravated assault, assault and uttering threats.

Two weeks ago, Skreptak was one of four men in a speeding vehicle pulled over by police near Salmon Arm. Skreptak and the three other men, who are also associated with the Hells Angels, face a long list of charges in connection with the seizure of guns, ammunition, knives, clubs and bear spray.

In 2005, Kelowna RCMP busted a marijuana grow-operation in a home owned by Skreptak. The biker said the dope belonged to his tenants and he was never charged.



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member of the Last Rebels Motorcycle Club was sentenced Friday to time served for his role in a plan to smuggle guns and other weapons into a David Allan Coe concert at a Huntington bar in 2006.


In June, Thomas E. Geer, 58, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit a violent crime in aid of racketeering for planning to use a guitar case to get guns and ax handles into the Monkey Barrel.


The Last Rebels, a smaller club affiliated with the Pagans Motorcycle Club, wanted to use the weapons to confront members of a rival gang who were rumored to be planning on going to the concert, according to court records. Although Coe canceled the gig for unrelated reasons, members of the Last Rebels did bring weapons to the concert.

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Chatting with bikers not breach of Pammett's probation - Peterborough Examiner - Ontario, CA: "Bob Pammett wasn't breaching his conditional sentence when he was spotted with members of the Outlaws motorcycle gang this summer, a Peterborough judge ruled Friday.
'(And) if Pammett had stopped to chat with anyone but a biker, I don't think we'd be here,' Madam Justice Esther Rosenberg said.
Pammett, a convicted cocaine dealer who openly admits to being a member of the Bandidos biker gang, was serving a two-years- less-a-day conditional sentence that went into effect May 21. It was from an assault conviction from the Niagara Region.
For the first year Pammett is under house arrest but is allowed out from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturdays for 'shopping, food, clothing and other necessities.'
Rosenberg said Pammett provided a 'reasonable excuse' to explain, in what he called a coincidence, why he ran into members of the Outlaws gang first at the Tim Hortons at Lansdowne St. E. and Ashburnham Rd. and then at a Brown St. home, associated with known Outlaws biker associate Rory Vader, on July 24.
Pammett testified he wanted to rent a room at the Brown St. home and had stopped at the Tim Hortons when he was on his way to getting his tires checked."

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