Fugitive millionaire Robert Durst, who jumped bail seven weeks ago in a grisly Texas murder, was captured in eastern Pennsylvania yesterday – trying to steal a $5 sandwich, police said.

Durst, his head shaved and with $500 in his pockets, was grabbed by security guards as he attempted to leave a Wegmans supermarket in Bath, Pa., about 85 miles west of the Big Apple.

In addition to the sandwich, Durst had taken a newspaper and a Band-Aid to cover a shaving cut on his lip.

“He probably wanted to get caught,” said Sgt. Roy Sieple of the Colonial Regional Police Department. “Things happen for a reason.”

Durst was to have been featured tonight in a segment of the Fox TV show “America’s Most Wanted.”

Durst, who often adopted the persona of a homeless person in the past, was wearing a ski parka, a plaid shirt, cargo pants and black shoes when he was busted.

“He wasn’t dressed like a pauper, but he didn’t look like a rich guy, either,” Sieple said.

The fugitive millionaire caught the eye of security guards when he rummaged through a box of Band-Aids, took one out and put it on his lip, Sieple said.

Then Durst grabbed the sandwich and attempted to leave.

Sieple said a shoplifter would normally be given a ticket, but when cops realized Durst had an out-of-state driver’s license – from New York – they ran it through the computer.

A fugitive warrant popped up – and he was arrested.

Durst admitted he was the wanted man and then clammed up, asking for a lawyer and giving one-word answers to officers’ questions.

Joel Bennett, an assistant district attorney in Galveston, Texas, said his office was preparing papers to extradite Durst if he doesn’t waive extradition.

“We got lucky,” he said of Durst’s capture.

Cops don’t know what Durst was doing in the area. They impounded the Chevrolet Corsica he was driving and hope it will give them clues.

Durst, a son of the late millionaire developer Seymour Durst, was arrested in Galveston on Oct. 9 and charged with beheading and dismembering his 71-year-old neighbor, Morris Black.

With the aid of Debrah Lee Charatan, a real-estate broker he married last January, he posted $300,000 bail the next day and vanished.

Durst is a suspect in the murder of longtime friend Susan Berman, who was shot to death in her Los Angeles home last December.

And he is under a cloud of suspicion in the disappearance of his wife, Kathleen, who was last seen Jan. 31, 1982.

Gilberte Najamy, who was Kathleen’s best friend, said she “burst into tears” when she learned of Durst’s arrest. “It was a great relief.”