Carmichaels man charged with tattooing two teens
A 22-year-old man was charged Friday for allegedly giving two 16-year-old girls free-hand tattoos at his Carmichaels home Dec. 8.
Darren Alexander Rose of Biddle Acres claimed he asked the teens multiple times if their parents gave them permission to get tattoos, according to court paperwork filed in his case.
The girls, whose names were redacted from court documents, told state police in interviews they did not have permission.
Both tattoos were on the girls’ stomachs, police said. One tattoo was a green and black alien head. The other was a face in black ink made of a circle, two Xs and a line, according to the affidavit of probable cause.
The girl with the alien tattoo told state police Rose “screwed it up.” His girlfriend, a juvenile, tried to fix it, court paperwork said.
Rose told state police her tattoo “was bad because she kept jumping when the needle would touch her.”
He is charged with two misdemeanor counts of tattooing a minor.
Rose was arraigned Friday morning before Magisterial District Judge David Curt Balint. Bail was not yet set in the case Friday afternoon.