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The 16-year-old, whose parents were in Portland, called the
authorities to break up his own bash after scores of revelers
descended on the home on Saturday night in Puyallup, south of
Seattle, local station KOMO-TV reported.
Before they entered the residence, members of Pierce County's
multiple agency "Party Intervention Patrol" heard glass break
and a fight erupt, and they later seized a set of brass knuckles
from one partygoer.
The boy asked police for help after "as many as two dozen kids
escaped from the home, broke down his parents' back fence as
they stampeded across a neighbor's yard, and sprinted into a
nearby forested area," Pierce County said in a statement.
Bonney Lake Police spokesman Rob Hoag supervised the party
patrol which visited the home that night.
"It was not their first rodeo," he said, referring to some of
the troublemakers, who he said had prior arrests. "It's easy to
spread the word on Facebook and Twitter."
Police arrested 27 people aged 15 to 20 for possessing alcohol,
and an 18-year-old with an outstanding warrant for driving under
the influence, the county said.
It described the party as "huge," with dozens of cars outside
and beer and liquor bottles strewn around the house, which also
had "a strong odor of marijuana," the statement said.
(Reporting by Eric M. Johnson; Editing by Daniel Wallis)
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