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COPS SEEK TIARA-WEARING THIEF

There she is … Ms. Convenience Store Robber.

A tiara-wearing woman decked out in a black gown was captured on a store surveillance camera using stolen credit cards to buy $360 worth of beer and cigarettes.

Suffolk police said the queen stole the three cards after swiping a woman’s purse from a Centereach bar Oct. 31 and later used them at two Long Island gas stations and a convenience store, authorities said.

Cops said the woman, believed to be in her late 20s and dressed up for Halloween, stole the purse during a party at Mulcahy’s Bar.

She then used the credit cards at a Citgo and Mobil gas stations in Ronkonkoma. The woman bought beer and windshield-wiper fluid at the two gas stations.

Melissa Lobel, 21, who owned the purse and credit cards, said she was at the bar dressed in a cat outfit when the woman swiped her bag.

“I must have turned around when I was dancing,” said Lobel, a student at Stony Brook University. “It was kind of dark and I was kind of out of it.”

On the same night, police said she used the cards at a 7-Eleven in Holtsville, where she spent $120 buying two cartons of Marlboro cigarettes.

In the video, she can be seen pulling the stolen plastic – a Bank of America debit card and Chase credit card – out of her bra and flirting with the clerk before making the purchase.

Police said a man wearing a button-down shirt and tie was seen with the thief.

The two were last seen inside a light-colored Mitsubishi.