Local Tattoo parlor Operator Arrested for Numerous Criminal Offenses

On Friday July 25, at about 10:00 p.m. Yancey County Sheriff Deputies and Burnsville Police Officers executed a search warrant at Rocks Tattoo Parlor on West Main Street, Burnsville. Joshua Grant” Rock" Ramsey 32, of a Mars Hill address, was taken into custody. He was served with 11 arrest warrants charging him with two counts of Sexual Battery, eight counts of Tattooing/Piercing Minors underage, and one count of False Imprisonment.  Lt. Tom Farmer of the Yancey Sheriff's Department stated that complaints of underage drinking and drug use in addition to the improper conduct taking place at the tattoo parlor had to be stopped and efforts to keep it stopped will continue. Several individuals inside the premises who were present when law enforcement arrived were temporarily detained as well. One individual was held after it was revealed that he was wanted in California on Felony Dangerous Drug charges, another was found to be in possession of marijuana and others in possession of open containers of beer.