Virginia parents charged with throwing drinking party for 100 to 300 teens at their $3M home

A Virginia couple was busted for hosting an out-of-control underage party for hundreds of teenagers who packed their $3 million home in one of the nation’s wealthiest neighborhoods.Aubrey and Lisa Vaughan were charged with Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor and Maintaining a Common Nuisance for the chaotic gathering at their McLean home on Nov.6, the Fairfax County Police said.Officers responded to Vaughan’s home on the 1400 block of Woodacre Drive after neighbors complained about the gathering that drew the mass crowd of “100 to 300” young revelers just after 9 p.m.Cops found dozens of allegedly drunk teens wandering around the streets, the smell of alcohol wafting through the air, disorderly conduct and fireworks being fired off outside the home.
Police confronted the Vaughans outside their house and questioned the couple about the large bash that was organized for their teenage son, which they claimed they had been supervising.“No, we haven’t had any alcohol,” Lisa Vaughan said, according to bodycam footage of the confrontation.One officer laughed at her answer and asked if she was joking.“I’m not joking.We’ve been making sure there’s no backpacks, no alcohol,” Vaughan said.“You don’t smell it in the air right now,” the officer questioned.
“It reeks like liquor.We got drunk kids walking everywhere,” a second officer said.After his arrest, Aubrey Vaughan doubled down on his actions for hosting the party at his home, blaming the uninvited teens for ruining the celebrations.“When people see this, put themselves in the shoes as a parent,” Vaughan told Fox 5 DC.
“We want our kids at our house so we can watch them and the reality is this could happen to anybody.“We had zero idea that ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth graders would come to an eighth grader’s party,” he said.“But they did.”A large firework explosion went off behind the home, interrupting the conversation in the front yard.Officers raced to th...