Where is Joey Arrance?
That the question the B.C. Director of Civil Forfeiture is asking after running into trouble serving the former Prince George resident and alleged gangster with an order related to seizing nearly $220,000 worth of jewelry and cash said to have been accumulated as proceeds of crime.
Attempts to serve Arrance with an order requiring him to provide documentation supporting his claim that the items were attained legitimately have run a dead end, according to a notice of application filed this week.
It was determined that Arrance's last two known addresses were the Fraser Regional Correctional Centre in Maple Ridge and, as of April, an East Vancouver home, according to the application.
When a process server showed up at the home, the current occupant said he did not know who Arrance is and had been returning his mail to the post office for a year.
Moreover, there is currently no lawyer of record for Arrance.
Arrance was a big name in the news for a time beginning in September 2010 when police seized a loaded gun and a dummy grenade from a 4300 block Foster Road home in Prince George that he and two woman were living in.
In November, a tattoo parlour Arrance allegedly owned at the corner of Victoria Street and Seventh Avenue was gutted by fire and less than 24 hours later a blaze erupted at the Foster Road home, claiming the life of one of the women.
Police treated both fires as suspicious but no one has since been charged.
According to the director, Arrance continued to run a drug trafficking scheme from the Prince George Regional Correctional Centre during the time he had been in custody there, noting he made 671 phone calls from the location.
Police identified Arrance as a junior member or "striker" with the Renegades Motorcycle Club, an affiliate of the Hells Angels and Game Tight Soldiers organized crime groups.
In May 2012, Arrance, who remained in custody since his September 2010 arrest, was sentenced to a further three-and-a-half months in jail and then banned from coming within 100 kilometres of Prince George for a further 18 months.
Arrance also faced a charge of sexually assaulting a woman at the Renegades clubhouse in July 2010. In November 2011, he was found not guilty of the offence following a trial before a provincial court judge.
The director is seeking to take control from Arrance of nearly $25,000 in cash and 10 items of jewelry adding up to nearly $195,000 in value and will be in court today seeking permission to notify Arrance of the order via a legal notice in The Province newspaper.
If granted, Arrance will have 30 days to respond. If that does not occur, the director can then apply to take control of the items without taking any further steps.
