Backers Offer Bail Help to Hells Angels Leader

Two supporters of Hells Angels leader George Christie Jr. have offered to put up five properties in Northern and Southern California to help bail him out of jail pending trial on drug and racketeering charges.

Defense lawyers declined to identify the two supporters or explain their connection to Christie, 54, who has been jailed in lieu of $1-million bail for seven months.

A bail hearing on the source of money behind those properties was postponed until next week at the request of prosecutors. Chief Deputy Dist. Atty. Jeff Bennett said he wants time to identify the property owners and their ties to the Hells Angels leader.