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movEST Vancouver fire- aghters had a stubborn on their hands hursday afternoon on

hartwell Drive.

Firefighters were called to the 400 block of Chartwell at 2:30 om.

map A two-storey home was being menovated when fire struck in the Bsemient.

Said Ron Olson, West Vancouver

istant fire chief, “It was so

okey the first truck in was com- letely hidden by srnoke. It was Bvisibic.”

The fire took approximately one meour to knock down and caused an metinvated $200,000 damage to the

ructure.

The roof and basement were par-

estroycd.

“It was a tough, miserable fire,” wilson said.

# The cause of the blaze temai der investigaion.

: Anna Marie D'Angelo

Sews Reporter ngelo@nsnews.com

[ERE is only one Jeffery Joseph oranger.

He is not a criminal. Loranger has neve Sepuse problems with the law. ae Despite that, Loranger, 21, has been plagued with hassles Meith the police for about a year, His troubles began after criminal Shayne Whaley was pulled bver by a North Vancouver Mountic. Whaley flashed Loranger’s iver’s licence as identification. m . “You know how pissed off 1am. This guy is using my driver's cence that’s expired, with a picture of me when I was 16 and aectting: away with it with the cops,” said Loranger.

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Loranger said his driver's licence “was lost” about two years ago.

“He (Whaley) always makes a consistent error on my address that the cops should pick up on. It just blows your mind,” said Loranger.

Loranger grew up in North Vancouver and works at a service station.

Since Whaley first impersonated Loranger, police have come to Loranger’s home with a warrant for his arrest. Loranger was not home on that November day last year.

He went to the police station “knowing he had done noth-

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WEST Vancouver firefighters responded Thursday to a house fire in the 1460-b!ock of Chartwell Drive. The fire caused extensive damage to the home. The cause of tie fire remained unknown to press time.

ing wrong” and asked what was going on. Loranger was promptly arrested.

“They don’t want to believe you. They want to think you are the criminal. ‘Oh, we've got him,” said Loranger.

Loranger said he agreed to be fingerprinted to prove to police he was not the criminal they were looking for. This despite being taller, heavier and having a different eye color than that of the suspect.

“I didn’t want a lawyer or anything. I knew I had done noth- ing wrong,” said Loranger.

He said Whaley used his name in run-ins with the law in Vancouver, West Vancouver and North Vancouver.

Loranger had to carry documentation and a police file num- ber for three months while, he said, police straightened out the problem on their computer system.

Loranger said that if he was pulled over during that time,

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