Farmington Hills Chief: Police Spent 32 Hours at Planned 'Project M' Party House

All tolled, spent about 32 hours dealing with , which made headlines after an invitation went viral on Twitter. 

Police Chief Chuck Nebus said Monday the department became aware on Thursday that a house party was planned for a home on Briarwyke. Officers chased young people away from the home that night as word spread through a Twitter account belonging to Harrison High student Mikey Vasovski. 

Nebus said Vasovski had permission to give "a small house party of about 20-30 people, with his father on site". Ultimately, Vasovski's father helped police put a stop to the party, when it became clear things had gotten out of hand.

"When I read Internet comments such as 'let's take a moment to appreciate this kids house now, because tomorrow it's going to be gone', that caused me concern and I could sense teens were making the connection between Project M (Farmington Hills) and the movie Project X," Nebus said.

According to IMDb.com, the movie centers around a party planned for a few teens that draws more than 1,000 people after it is announced on Craigslist.com and radio. In the end, an entire city neighborhood is destroyed. Project M was also posted on Craigslist.com, and Vasovski was interviewed on a local radio station. 

While WDIV-TV news reported that the department sent 10 squad cars to the scene on Friday, Nebus said that was false. "We would not have 10 cars even working," he said. 

While no overtime hours were required to deal with the incident, Nebus said, a patrol officer was assigned to the home all day on Friday and most of the night. Youth arrived from as far away as Lansing and Grand Rapids, he said.

"Even during the daytime on Friday, we had kids showing up at the home, television crews on the street and neighbors who were worried about property damage in the subdivision," Nebus said. "Even though we did not spend overtime, when we remove a police officer from district patrols, it impacts response times, visibility and (there is) loss of production."