Police have laid charges in the murders of a former Hells Angel, his brother and his brother’s wife.

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.