Wealthy Hamptons exec stole $141 in fish, sandwiches: cops
Now she's on the hook!
The wealthy founder of a posh Hamptons concierge service was busted for stealing salmon and fluke from a beloved local market — after a fishy history of allegedly swiping other culinary goodies, cops said Wednesday.
Jenene Ronick, 52, who runs the high-end firm Luxury Attache, allegedly stuffed her bag to the gills with a $74 wild salmon steak, a $67 cut of fresh fluke and two deli sandwiches at the upscale Red Horse Market in East Hampton on June 10, police said.
8 Jenene Ronick, the founder of a Hamptons concierge service, was caught stealing fish from an East Hampton market.
Getty Images for Hamptons Magazine
Ronick — who lives in a palatial $7 million, seven-bedroom abode in nearby Amagansett — allegedly then dumped the seafood haul in her electric pickup truck and went back for more, according to police and a shop worker.
The sticky-fingered foodie — whose concierge company boasts swanky clients such as Dior, Sotheby's and Cartier — was then spotted by a worker allegedly trying to snatch a $100 porter steak, the employee said.
'She was acting dumb,' Anthony Pineda, whose dad owns the market, told The Post. 'She was pretending she was on the phone, and I see her with a giant bag of groceries.'
'I asked everyone, did you, did you ring her up? And everyone's like, 'no.''
8 Ronick's 2024 Ford F-150 electric pickup during the April incident.
Obtained by NY Post
Cops tracked down Ronick, using a description of her 2024 Ford F-150 electric pickup and license plate, and charged her with petit larceny.
The alleged seafood snatcher has been in a sea of trouble in recent months for allegedly making off with items from at least two other businesses, police said.
'It's part of a pattern,' East Hampton Village police Detective Sgt. Jennifer Dunn told The Post.
8 Ronick allegedly swiped $141 in merchandise from the Red Horse Market in East Hampton on June 10.
Tom McMorrow for the NYPost
8 Police claims Ronick stole items including wild salmon steak and fresh fluke form the market's fish counter.
Tom McMorrow for the NYPost
Ronick was accused of stealing dozens of eggs from a roadside stand in East Hampton Town on several occasions last year, according to cops. She was also accused of swiping household items in from a CVS in February.
Her company, which boasts an office on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, provides concierge service, travel planning and destination management to well-heeled New Yorkers and companies.
The firm serves residents of luxury condos by assisting them with a 'wide range of lifestyle requests,' according to its website. It also helps commercial properties recruit 'top talent,' and has provided 'high-end' corporate travel planning to firms ranging from Adidas to UBS.
Luxury Attache bills itself as 'redefining the hospitality industry' with 'sophistication and bespoke service that is unrivaled.'
8 Ronick allegedly stiffed a Hamptons egg stand in April.
Obtained by NY Post
8 Ronick driving her Porsche in 2023 during another alleged theft at the egg stand.
Obtained by NY Post
During the other incidents of alleged theft, Ronick repeatedly stiffed the egg stand — which uses a box for cash and the honor system — before zipping off in her late-model Porsche convertible sports car, according to police.
The egg-stand owners began tracking her after-hours visits early this year, using surveillance cameras, and determined she had cheated them out of at least $30, cops said.
The owners told police they just wanted the eggs paid for — and for Ronick to never come back — but ultimately didn't press charges, according to police.
8 Ronick started the high-end firm Luxury Attache.
Kevin Czopek/BFA.com / Shutterstock
'They paid. They apologized. It's not like she's going to do it again,' one of the stand's owners said at the time.
When police visited the address connected to the vehicle caught on camera by the farm stand, they were greeted by Ronick's husband, author and entrepreneur David Ronick, at the couple's sprawling seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom estate with a pool on Bluff Road.
He immediately forked over the $30 for the eggs, when cops told them why they were there, according to police.
8 Ronick also allegedly stole from a local CVS in February.
Google Maps
Ronick was also accused of stealing items, including toilet paper, cough drops and dish detergent, from a CVS near Red Horse Market on Feb. 10, according to police. She was later forbidden from returning to the store.
Ronick, who is scheduled to be arraigned June 25, told The Post she took the items from Red Horse Market because the store's Apple Pay wasn't working.
'It was a misunderstanding and it was taken care of the next day,' she said.
She claimed the egg theft and CVS incidents were also both misunderstandings that 'never turned into anything.'
Asked about the alleged pattern of theft, she said, 'None of that is true.'
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