Crime & Safety

Woman Used Stolen Credit Card at Gas Station: Cops

Police are asking for the public's help to find her. Police say the credit card was stolen from a shopping cart at a supermarket.

(SCPD photo )

Suffolk Police are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate a woman who they say used a credit card stolen from a shopping cart at a supermarket last week.

According to police, a purse containing two credit cards was stolen from a shopping cart at the ShopRite located at 95 Sunrise Highway in East Patchogue around 6:40 p.m. on April 14.

A short time later, the woman pictured above used one of the credit cards at the BP gas station located at 5665 Sunrise Highway in Holbrook, police said.

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