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TattooEmergency911 will be in Greeley Sunday doing tattoo removals

Greeley Tribune - 1/27/2017

Jan. 26--Jesus Bujanda, owner of TattooEmergency911 will be at Healing Way Ministry, 1535 8th Ave, doing tattoo removal 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday.

Bujanda runs a tattoo removal business out of a retrofitted ambulance. His focus is gang tattoos, but he's able to do other removals.

"I know Greeley has a rich history with gangs," Bujanda said. He hopes to come to Greeley on at least a monthly basis to do removals. If the demand is great enough, he'll make the trip more often.

Bujanda and his wife, Gayedine, got the idea to open up a tattoo removal business thanks to their nephew. He'd been incarcerated and had a big neck tattoo. He'd had his girlfriend's name covered up with a big dog bone. When he got out, he knew he had to get the tattoo removed if he wanted to get a job.

That nephew is now doing well. He has his own concrete business. He doesn't think employers would have taken him seriously without losing the dog bone around his neck.

Bujanda has worked with at-risk youth throughout his career. He teaches auto shop at Jefferson High School in Jefferson County. If getting a dog bone removed helped his nephew get a job, he could only imagine how removing gang tattoos could help young folks just getting out of juvenile detention centers or prison.

Bujanda charges on a case-by-case basis. Check out TattooEmergency911 on Facebook or call Bujanda at (303) 818-4443.

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