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Jerry DeMarco

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jdemarco@dailyvoice.com

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Born in Newark and raised in Hudson County, Jerry DeMarco is a 38-year veteran of the news industry and a renowned breaking news reporter. He has covered local, county and state police, as well as the FBI, ATF and other federal agencies.

DeMarco joined Daily Voice in 2015 after six years running Cliffview Pilot, one of the nation's few independent breaking news sites. As an independent publisher, he helped establish Local Independent Online News, a national trade organization.

Prior to launching his own site, DeMarco served as a reporter for the Bergen Record, Stamford Advocate, Rockland Journal News, News Tribune, and Trenton Times.

DeMarco has won national recognition for his investigative work, including Clarion, Heywood Broun and Deadline Club awards. He's changed public policy and managed several major projects -- including one that helped put a corrupt public official in federal prison and another that forced a sitting New Jersey attorney general from office for her participation in a Bergen County traffic stop involving her boyfriend.

DeMarco regularly lectures at a graduate course in media relations at Fairleigh Dickinson University and previously was an adjunct professor at Lehman College in the Bronx.

He has a Bachelor's Degree in English from St. Peter's University in Jersey City.

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Police & Fire

Another ONE: Tractor-Trailer Jackknifes On Notorious Route 287 Stretch Yet another tractor-trailer jackknifed on Route 287, jamming traffic again and spilling a large amount of fluid on the highway Thursday morning. No injuries were reported in the mishap, which closed the left and center lanes on the northbound highway in Oakland just after 9:30 a.m. New Jersey State Police responded, along with Oakland police, firefighters and hazardous cleanup units. It was another in a series of crashes that has plagued that stretch of highway for years and brought pleas for relief from area residents who fear someone has to die before the situation is examined and rectif…

by Jerry DeMarco

09/10/2020

News

Firefighters Douse Overnight Blaze In Passaic A fire that may have begun in a trash can ravaged a Passaic home before dawn Thursday. Eight family members fled the 2½-story home on De Bell Court without injury after the three-alarm blaze broke out shortly after 3:30 a.m. Smoke and flames poured from the front and side of the house after the fire ran up the walls to the attic. Firefighters had the blaze under control in a little over an hour. Firefighters had the blaze on De Bell Court in Passaic under control in a little over an hour.James Wood Sr. Mutual aid at the scene or in coverage of the city was provided by colleagues from …

by Jerry DeMarco

09/10/2020

Police & Fire

Passaic Police Traffic Stop Turns Up Gunshot Victims A Passaic police officer who stopped a speeding car after hearing gunshots found three injured city men inside, authorities said. A 20-year-old occupant was found with a gunshot wound that wasn’t considered life-threatening during the stop at Tulip and Oak streets shortly before 12:30 a.m Monday, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Passaic Police Chief Luis A. Guzman said in a joint announcement. Two 18-year-old men were also injured -- one with a graze wound and the other with cuts from broken glass, they said. The gunshot victim was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Cent…

by Jerry DeMarco

09/09/2020

Police & Fire

Attorney General: South Jersey Driver On Meth, 39, Apparently ODs After Crash A driver who ran from police after crashing his car in the parking lot of a South Jersey shopping center died of an apparent overdose after telling them he was high on meth, authorities said. A Voorhees Township police officer reported seeing the 39-year-old driver’s vehicle speed through the Voorhees Town Center lot and crash into a curb around 3 p.m. Sunday, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. The driver got out and ran after seeing the officer, Grewal said Wednesday. After chasing him down, the officer “struggled to restrain and handcuff him,” the attorney general said. “A ba…

by Jerry DeMarco

09/09/2020

News

NJ Men Who Thought They Were Meeting Underage Girls For Sex Headed To Prison Two South Jersey men were each sentenced to a plea-bargained four years in state prison Wednesday for trying to lure what they thought were underage girls to meet them for sex. The “girls” whom William Singleton, 25, of Pemberton, and Charles Schlottfeld, 28, of Bayville met online were actually undercover detectives. Singleton and Schlottfeld were snagged during “Operation Open House,” a multi-agency undercover sting led by Grewal’s office that produced the arrests of two dozen men who he said used social media to try and hook up with underage teens. Singleton and Schlottfeld each thought…

by Jerry DeMarco

09/09/2020

News

Cuomo: Indoor Dining Returning To NYC Restaurants, Customer Snitch Line Created Indoor dining resumes in New York City restaurants in three weeks, but at 25% capacity, with a bunch of restrictions and with an army of enforcement inspectors poking around. Stool pigeons also will be welcomed, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday. Restaurants that want to open at 25% capacity on Sept. 30 must follow a strict set of rules, the governor said: Temperature checks at the door for all customers: Someone at each table will be required to provide contact information for tracing if needed (phone number, email, etc.); No customer service at the bars, only at seats; Tables must be…

by Jerry DeMarco

09/09/2020

Police & Fire

SUV Rolls In Crash At Busy Paramus Intersection A minor arm injury was the only reported casualty after an SUV rolled onto a Paramus resident's lawn in a crash Wednesday afternoon at one of Bergen County's busiest intersections. The black Jaguar overturned after collided with a Toyota sedan on East Ridgewood Avenue at Sandor Court across from the A&S Trading service station near the Fashion Center between Route 17 and the Garden State Parkway. Paramus police, firefighters and EMS responded. Flatbed tow trucks removed the vehicles. Boyd A. Loving reported this story and took the photos. The SUV collided with this Toyota sedan o…

by Jerry DeMarco

09/09/2020

Police & Fire

‘Patient Brokers' Admit Bribing, Flying NJ Drug Addicts To Cali Rehab Clinics UPDATE: Two out-of-state men admitted paying “recruiters” to bribe drug addicts in New Jersey to go to rehab centers that they got business from -- some of which were as far as California. Seth Logan Welsh, 26, of Forest Hill, MD, and John C. Devlin, 33, of Baltimore told a U.S. District judge in Trenton via teleconference that they hired a Red Bank bank man, among others, to carry out the scheme so they could collect referral fees from the rehab centers. That man, Peter Costas, paid addicts several thousand dollars to use specific rehab centers in New Jersey and other states -- whether th…

by Jerry DeMarco

09/09/2020

Police & Fire

Couple Shot Near Notorious Paterson Drug Corner A 39-year-old Pennsylvania man was in critical condition and a 60-year-old Paterson woman injured after a Wednesday morning shooting near one of the Silk City’s deadliest drug corners. Police found the victims at the crime-ridden Carroll Street apartments near Governor Street around 9 a.m., Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint statement. The man had been struck three times, responders said. Both were taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson and were expected to live, Valdes and Baycora said. They didn’t say …

by Jerry DeMarco

09/09/2020

Police & Fire

Hero: Saddle Brook Police Officer Coaxes Distraught Youth, 15, Off Highway Ledge Route 46 was closed down and an air mattress was inflated beneath a Bergen County overpass as police tried to convince a troubled 15-year-old not to jump. Officers found the Saddle Brook teen perilously perched on the Outwater Lane overpass in Garfield, near the Lodi border, around 10 p.m. Tuesday, Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler said. “The parents said the youth left the home in a crisis state of mind,” Kugler said Wednesday. “They were deeply concerned for the juvenile's well-being.” The teen, apparently upset over a conflict involving a life choice, had climbed the curved fence…

by Jerry DeMarco

09/09/2020

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