A Moorestown teenager who had explosives materials in a lab in his basement and brought them to a friend’s house to use in a school project had no malicious intentions, authorities said. “It was a science project that they were doing,” Moorestown police director Patrick Reilly said at a press conference on Monday.

Police say what appears to have started as a science project resulted in the FBI and New Jersey state police discovering a bomb lab in the basement of one teen's Moorestown home.