The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club isn’t just some freewheeling band of bikers doing donuts on highways and chasing bar fights.

But as an organization, the Hells Angels are not a criminal organization. “The patch is similar to a flag. You don’t want it desecrated, you don’t want it disrespected.

George Christie became a full-patch Hells Angeles in the Los Angeles chapter in 1976. Six months later, he became president before becoming a club leader of the Ventura chapter in 1978.

A member of the Pagan’s Motorcycle Club, who goes by the street name “Hellboy,” was sentenced Monday to four years in prison for the brutal beating of a Hells Angels associate at a Newark ...

The patch means he’s killed for the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. The black-powder comedy ended in a standoff between outlaws and the good guys, a gunfight ended by the shotgun whose blast ...

Hells Angels local member from New York consoles mourner from California for Vincent Girolamo outside of Provenzano Funeral Home, 1979. Keith Torrie/NY Daily News Archive/Getty Images ...

Police will be watching the funeral of a full-patch Hells Angels Motorcycle Club member in Oakville on Sunday, after the 55-year-old was gunned down in a targeted hit outside a Burlington ...

CODY -- The metal-plated Purple Heart insignia attached to the side of the Harley vibrates as the biker guns his motorcycle up U.S. Highway 16.