Feb 2, 2018 By Messenger Staff 2 min read

A Carmichaels man has been charged for allegedly giving two 16-year-old girls free-hand tattoos at a Center Township residence last month.

Darren Alexander Rose, 22, was charged with two misdemeanor counts of tattooing a minor. The charges were formally filed by state police on Jan. 25.

According to the affidavit of probable cause filed before Magisterial District Judge David Balint, Rose claimed he asked the teens multiple times if their parents gave them permission to get tattoos. The girls, whose names were redacted from court documents, told state police in interviews they did not have permission.

The girls told police that they were picked up and taken to the residence on Covered Bridge Road in Holbrook, which one girl described as having been set up as a tattoo station, with a chair, ink and a tattoo gun on a tray, the affidavit states.

Both tattoos were on the girls’ stomachs, police said. One tattoo was a green and black alien head, and the other was a face in black ink made of a circle, two Xs and a line, according to the affidavit.

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.”

Rose is scheduled to be arraigned on the charges on March 1 before Balint, and his preliminary hearing has been tentatively scheduled for March 5.