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PETERSBURG, Ill. (WAND) - Police are trying to find out who used an excavator to knock down part of a house in Petersburg Tuesday night. 

The Petersburg Police Department took to Facebook to say someone gained access to an excavator between 5:05 and 5:25 p.m. that was parked at 208 Sheridan. 

The person than used it to knock down the front half of the house. 

No one was home at the time. 

Police are asking anyone with information to call them at (217) 632-7137.

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