OAKLAND — A 19-year-old Berkeley man, posing as an Airbnb guest from Chicago, duped an Oakland couple who returned home to find their home trashed after a party on New Year’s Eve, police said.

The renter, whose name has not been released by police, was arrested on suspicion of felony vandalism. He was released on bail over the weekend.

In the rental agreement between host and guest, there was a stipulation of no parties and only three visitors allowed, according to police.

Officers were first called to the house, in the 200 block of Santa Clara Avenue, just before 10 p.m. on Dec. 31, and found a large number of juveniles drinking and blocking the street outside the home.

Police said two couches valued at a total $5,000 were damaged, there was broken glass and blood smeared on a wall, and someone broke into at least one liquor cabinet and damaged some plants. An overall damage figure was not released.

A neighbor had called the home’s owner, Reshma Vasanwala, who was out of town, to tell her about the party at her house. She returned before midnight, but the partyers had left.

The house on Santa Clara Avenue was littered with “tons of booze, broken glass, cigarettes,” Vasanwala told the ABC7 News.

The renter returned the next day to the house, and police arrested him there.

Vasanwala told ABC7 that she thought she was renting to a man from Chicago, and that “he seemed very mature and was very polite.”

Airbnb issued a statement saying, “We have zero tolerance for this kind of behavior and our team is working quickly to make this right. We have banned this guest from Airbnb, and our Trust and Safety team has reached out to the host to work with them under our $1 Million Host Guarantee, which covers a host’s property in the rare event of damage.”