PLUM, Pa. — Police say more than 60 high school-aged kids were at a drinking party in Plum over the weekend.
Two parents are now facing a long list of charges, leaving neighbors shocked.
“No parent should let that happen in their home,” said Larissa Pluck of Somerset.
A call to the Safe2Say Something program alerted police to a major underage party at a home in the Whispering Pines neighborhood in Plum on Saturday. That’s a youth violence prevention program with the state attorney general’s office.
When police arrived around 10:30 p.m., they heard someone inside yell for everyone to go to the basement.
Police met with the homeowner, Corrinne Dryburgh. She allowed officers to look through the kitchen and living room, not wanting them to go downstairs. According to police paperwork, one teenage girl in the kitchen was drinking a Surfside Vodka drink and ran from them.
In the basement officer found more than 30 teenagers, all with different alcoholic drinks.
“That’s definitely crazy,” said Dylan Webb of Monroeville.
Police said they found 25-30 opened or empty beer cans, seltzers, and malt beverages. There was a beer pong table, three bottles of vodka, and several mini bottles of flavored vodka and Jello shots throughout the basement.
“If a parent’s facilitating that, it’s definitely pretty obvious they know what’s going on, regardless of if they’re buying it all,” Webb added.
Police said there were 65 teens at the home, including one 19-year-old, seven 18-year-olds, 30 17-year-olds, 21 16-year-olds and six 16-year-olds.
Police said Dryburgh told them it was her daughter’s 17th birthday, and said the party got out of hand. She and her husband, Ian Dryburgh, were the only people older than 21 at the home, police said.
Police said this isn’t the first time they’ve had issues at this house. For one officer who responded Saturday-- it was the third time he was called to this house for massive underage parties.
“The only justification I can give the parent is they truly think having it at their house they can overview it all, but like you said once you’re getting to the number of kids, trained professional teachers can’t watch over 30 kids that aren’t drinking, let alone drinking and partying. That’s tough,” Webb said.
Channel 11 knocked at the door on Friday afternoon, but no one answered.
The Dryburghs are set to face a judge on April 15.
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