A Las Vegas homeowner claims her vacation was spoiled after a distressing call from the police informed her about a wild 200-person party occurring in her mansion.
The chaotic event took off at Vegas resident Jamie Lewis’ property on Saturday night, as police reported that hundreds of disruptive teenagers broke in and caused havoc inside.
Videos captured a flood of young individuals exiting Lewis’ residence once law enforcement arrived, with prior clips showing them dancing on her countertops and wrecking her home furnishings.
Lewis said she was unaware of the chaos at her home until receiving a call from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police at around 10:30pm Saturday night, asking her if she was hosting a huge party.
‘I really thought it was a fake call,’ she told Fox5Vegas.
Lewis said she only realized it was true when her neighbors also called her soon after to warn her that her mansion was being used as a party palace.
She said they sent her horrifying videos of the teenagers all around her home, and said that made her race home and ‘cut our trip short.’
Police believe the wild party was part of a terrifying new trend known as ‘mansion partying’, where teens break into vacant properties while their owners aren’t home and stage huge events inside, often charging for entry to make a profit.
Footage showed a wave of young people emerging from Lewis’ home after police showed up, after they were seen dancing on her countertops and destroying her home decor
Investigators believe the teens entered Lewis’ home by kicking in a garage door, and have launched an investigation to determine how they knew Lewis wouldn’t be home.
The Las Vegas Metro police described the break-in at Lewis’ home as a ‘juvenile disturbance’, and issued only two citations, one for a ‘vehicle stop’ and one for a ‘person stop.’
Lewis said she has been left stunned that the unexpected party would take place at her home, and is facing having to pay thousands in repairs including her front door, smoke detectors, and countertops.
‘The feeling of being, first of all, vandalized and then just 1000% being violated is something that you just don’t ever want to have to deal with,’ she said.
Lewis said she has shared her footage across social media and is working with the police to track down the perpetrators, adding: ‘I have to do something about this. I cannot let this happen to somebody else.’
Footage from neighbors captured the moment cops showed up to end the party, which led a mass of the teenagers inside to flee the scene and evade the officers.
Police are seen arriving at Lewis’ home as the party rages on inside the home, with Lewis saying she only realized the shocking party was in her mansion when she saw footage sent to her by neighbors
Hundreds of teens were seen dancing in Lewis’ home, and she says she is facing having to pay thousands in repairs including her front door, smoke detectors, and countertops
Lewis’ elderly neighbor Joe Neal said he was relaxing at home when he was startled by the commotion across his shared fence with Lewis.
‘(I’m) 77-years-old, and to hear a bunch of noises, and look in your backyard, and it looks like there’s a hell of a party going on and you weren’t invited,’ he joked to Fox5Vegas.
He said he went outside at the same time the cops showed up to shut down the party, and was even pushed aside by one of the teens as they used his yard as a getaway route.
One of the partiers used a bolt-cutter to cut through the lock on his side fence, a tactic that raised his suspicions over how ‘spontaneous’ the party really was.
‘Who comes to a party and brings bolt cutters?’ he questioned.
‘They’re not somebody wanting to party, that’s somebody wanting to steal.’
Investigators say the unauthorized party at Lewis’ home is not the first-time a mob of teenagers have swarmed an empty home in the area and used it for a wild bash.
Lewis’ elderly neighbor Joe Neal, 77, said he was relaxing at home when he was startled by the commotion across his shared fence with Lewis
Neal said one of the partygoers even pushed him out of the way as they evaded cops, and showed off the lock on his side fence that the revelers cut with bolt cutters
It is believed that the parties are an organized effort by local youths to occupy a home for a night, and often charge money for other teens to enter to make a profit off the events.
Lewis said since sharing her story, she has learned that the party at her home was just one of a spate of break-ins across the area in north-west Las Vegas.
‘It’s called a mansion party, and these kids go from house to house to house, sometimes multiple houses in the same night. They charge money at the door, they bring in a DJ,’ she said.
‘Be vigilant for your property, if you see a strange car, if there’s too many kids in your neighborhood, something feels off, call the police right away,’ she warned.
