A booze-fueled Halloween house party in posh Dix Hills drew hundreds of teenagers who apparently paid to attend — and now the adult homeowners are facing charges, cops said.
Married couple Philip Bacarella and Rita Baccarella, both 51, were busted after an underage drinking fest at their Seward Drive home ended with two 16-year-old girls sickened from apparent alcohol poisoning, Suffolk County police said in a news release.
Cops didn’t say if the couple was home at the time of the party, which was advertised on social media with claims that more than 500 people were attending.
The party was so large, it included a party tent and portable toilets, according to police.
Officers were called to the party for a possible overdose around 9:40 p.m. and found “several hundred teenagers at the house and in the surrounding neighborhood.”
The two sickened teens — who didn’t live in the home — were taken to Huntington Hospital for treatment, cops said.
The homeowners were arrested under the county’s “social host law” and charged with allowing consumption of alcohol by minors and endangering the welfare of a child.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the couple had children or if they were directly involved in planning the illicit shindig.
They were given desk appearance tickets and are due in Central Islip court Nov. 20.
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