Man operating a Chalmette tattoo shop booked with illegally tattooing a minor without parental consent

A man who operates a tattoo shop in Chalmette has been booked with illegally tattooing a minor, a 14-year-old girl, without parental consent, Sheriff James Pohlmann said.

Charles “Davie’’ Thonn, 35, 2312 Lena Drive, Chalmette, who operates Voodoo Tattoos at 414 West Judge Perez Drive, was arrested Aug. 8 and booked with illegally tattooing a minor without parental consent. He has been released on $7,500 bond.

The mother of a 14-year-old girl reported to the Sheriff’s Office that her daughter had received a tattoo at the shop but said she hadn’t given her permission, which is required by law before a minor can get a tattoo, the sheriff said.

The mother said she had never been in the shop until she went to complain to the operator, who she said told her he hadn’t done anything illegal and asked her to leave.

When sheriff’s deputies investigated, Thonn handed over a copy of a consent form dated June 20, which had the mother’s signature, and said the mother had been in the shop with the girl and he watched the mother sign the form.

But the mother said the signature on the form wasn’t her signature and showed Dep. Jason Hunter her driver’s license, which the deputy compared to the form’s signature and found the two to be different, the sheriff said.

The deputy also met with the daughter and the teen-ager acknowledged her mother hadn’t given permission for her to get a tattoo and wasn’t aware she had gone to the shop. The girl said she copied her mother’s signature onto the consent form and Thonn did the tattooing at the shop, Sheriff Pohlmann said. The teen also said two of her friends went with her to the shop.

Thonn was arrested afterward.