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Intruder Breaks Into Staten Island Church, Busts Security Camera

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Police are trying to determine if anything was stolen from a Staten Island church after it was broken into Tuesday night.

It happened around 8 p.m. at the Church of Saint Ann on Cromwell Avenue.

A man in dark clothing broke into a back basement window and proceeded to the front of the church and busted a security camera there, but not before another camera captured some footage of him, CBS2's Janelle Burrell reported.

That video has not yet been released by police. At this point, they say it is not clear whether the suspect took anything from inside of the church itself, which is located on a quiet residential area.

There is a school affiliated with the church and CBS2 was told it was a parishioner who noticed the church had been broken into.

The investigation is ongoing.

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