The owner of Peachtree City's only tattoo parlor has been arrested for manufacturing marijuana in Villa Rica home.

Authorities apprehended Rodney Pendleton and his wife Erica Pendleton on Wednesday evening after receiving a tip that the couple was running a narcotics business from their home and in the presence of their three children, ranging in age from 2 to 8, officials from the West Georgia Drug Task Force said Thursday.

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Rodney Pendleton

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Authorities raided the home on 114 Louise Lane and arrested Erica Pendleton, 24, after finding both processed marijuana and an unspecified number of marijuana plants in the basement, according to a police report.

The Fayette County Drug Task Force later picked up Rodney Pendleton, 38, at the request of the West Georgia Drug Task Force as he was making his way home along Ga. Highway 74 in Tyrone.

Both Pendletons now face felony charges of manufacturing marijuana and trafficking.

Efforts to reach Pendleton by cell phone Thursday afternoon were unsuccessful.

The heavily tattooed Rodney Pendleton created a stir of sorts in Peachtree City back in April when he, his brother and their father invested $50,000 to open their own ink emporium in the conservative enclave.

The news didn't exactly go over well with Peachtree City officials, who hastily passed regulations clearly designed to make it difficult for Pendleton to do business.

"It's discrimination, " Pendleton said at the time. "I didn't know I was going to make so many people upset. I didn't know I was the source of everything that's wrong in the city."