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Cape Elizabeth Police Chief Neil Williams said the case involving the 15-year-old Cape boy arrested two weeks ago after bomb-making material was found in his parents’ basement on Meadowview Lane is out of police hands.

“We’ve done our job,” Williams said. The case has been passed on to the juvenile division of the District Attorney’s office who will review the case and decide what charges will brought against the boy.

The charge Cape police arrested him on was criminal use of explosives, but that could change if the DA’s office decides enough evidence exists to link the boy with the pipe bomb found on Casino Beach on June 12.

The Cumberland County DA’s office said they had received the case from the Cape Elizabeth Police Department, but Communications Manager Jo Morrissey said that it would be “an indeterminate amount of time” before any decision would be made about what charges will be brought against the boy.

The family of the 15-year-old boy did not return phone messages and their lawyer could not be identified. Chief Williams said that the family’s lawyer had contacted the DA’s office, however.

According to the original summons the boy’s court date is set for Aug. 4.

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