Grew up in the mid-west, son of a motorcycle gang leader. I was "patched" into the club at the early age of 16 helping to run drugs and weapons to local and national gangs including the IRA. When I was 24, a good friend of the club who did most of their ink took me on as a Tattoo apprentice. My fathers plan was to open a local Tattoo store to help launder money as well as run prostitution out of, and I was going to be running it. To pull off the charade and fool authorities, i had to learn how to Tattoo. I apprenticed for two years and then traveled around for another two years to learn the trade from others. At the age of 28, just as I was getting ready to head back home to open a shop, the ATF raided our compound arresting everyone for drug and prostitution charges. With my family and my club now in jail I had some hard decisions to make. I bolted to CD in hopes of finding work at a tattoo shop or opening one of my own until I can make enough money to figure out my next step...
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