200 teens break into woman’s home while she was away to throw a house party
LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) - A homeowner said roughly 200 teenagers broke into her home and threw a party while she was out of town.
On Saturday around 10:30 p.m., Jamie Lewis said she got a call from Las Vegas Metro Police asking if she was having a party.
“Of course I said no, and to be fair, I really thought it was a fake call,” she said.
Lewis said it was not until her husband got a call from neighbors that she realized what was happening in their home.
“Seeing the videos, and realizing that we needed to get home, we needed to cut our trip short,” she said.
Lewis posted a video of the party online. The video shows around 200 teenagers at her home partying. She said the teens kicked in a door in her garage.
“The feeling of being, first of all, vandalized, and then just 1,000% being violated is something that you just don’t ever want to have to deal with,” Lewis said.
Video from neighbors shows police arriving at the home and the group of teenagers scrambling.
Joe Neal, a neighbor, said some teenagers jumped over his back fence and ran through his backyard.
“[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 said.
Neal said one teenager even pushed him aside as they cut through the lock on his side fence to evade the police.
“Who comes to a party and brings bolt cutters?” he said. “They’re not somebody wanting to party, that’s somebody wanting to steal.”
Lewis said she filed a report with police, but she’s taking it into her own hands to figure out the identity of the teenagers involved.
“I have to do something about this,” she said. “I cannot let this happen to somebody else.”
Lewis said that since sharing her story online, she has heard similar stories from the area.
“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,” Lewis said.
KVVU learned about similar stories from across the country.
In March, WSMV reported that teens in Nashville, Tennessee, caused more than $100,000 worth of damage after breaking into and partying inside a newly built, empty home.
In 2022, in Goodyear, Arizona, KPHO reported on a group of teens who broke into a vacant million-dollar home to host a massive party.
Lewis said she does not know how the group knew her home would be empty. She hopes that by sharing her story, she can prevent this from happening to anyone else.
“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,” Lewis said.
Police confirmed they responded to her home Saturday night for a “juvenile disturbance.” They said they issued two citations, one for a “vehicle stop” and one for a “person stop.”
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