Staff Writer 

Cape Elizabeth High School students will be attending classes from 7:30  to 11:30 a.m. tomorrow morning (Saturday)  to make up for Monday’s cancellation due to extensive damage done to the building Sunday night. 

Captain Brent Sinclair with the Cape Elizabeth Police Department said they suspect nine boys and one girl caused upwards of $10,000 in damage in a “well planned attack.”

All of the suspects are students at the school, and although they have all come forward to take responsibility for the vandalism, Sinclair said police are still putting together the pieces to determine the details of the crime.

Based on their investigation so far, police believe the suspects entered the school through a window they had unlocked during the normal school day. After parking their cars off school grounds somewhere around midnight on Sunday, one of the suspects entered through the window and let the others in. 

The suspects put tape over surveillance cameras on the inside of the building and some even wore gloves to prevent the police from identifying any fingerprints left behind, Sinclair said. 

“We know what happened, everybody’s just trying to get their story straight,” he said.

Although the police normally patrol the area around the high school, Sinclair said the vandals used flashlights and cell phones to navigate through the dark building to avoid turning on any lights and being spotted from outside.

“The town is the real victim,” Sinclair said. 

Principal Jeffrey Shedd could not be reached for comment.