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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

‘Operation Reboot’: 7 Bergen Men, Juvenile Busted With 32,500 Child Porn Images Men from seven different Bergen County towns were busted with more than 32,500 child porn images combined -- among them, a trucker from Westwood who alone had 5,733 illegal files, authorities said. Detectives who participated in “Operation Reboot” arrested the men and a juvenile while seizing files from online accounts and electronic devices of victims “as young as infants and toddlers to pubescent children aged 13-16, in nude, semi-nude, or sexually explicit poses, including child rape videos and images,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Some of those nabbed trafficked images, …

by Jerry DeMarco

08/29/2020

Police & Fire

Another Tractor-Trailer Crashes Off Route 287 A tractor-trailer rolled off Route 287 and down an embankment before dawn Friday. It was another in a series of crashes that has plagued that stretch of highway for years. The System Freight rig out of Jamesburg rolled off the northbound highway near Exit 59 to southbound Route 208 in Oakland at 4:25 a.m., New Jersey State Police Trooper Alejandro Goez said. The right and center lanes remained closed as a pair of heavy-duty wreckers from DeFalco's in Chatham pulled it from the trees after sunrise, he said. Traffic remained backed up for miles past mid-morning. The driver was taken to Ha…

by Jerry DeMarco

08/28/2020

Police & Fire

Update: Fairview Man Charged With Vehicular Homicide In Deaths Of Couple On GWB UPDATE: Authorities charged a Fairview driver with two counts of vehicular homicide in the deaths of a Bronx couple killed in a crash Friday on the George Washington Bridge. https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/cliffsidepark/police-fire/fairview-man-charged-with-vehicular-homicide-in-deaths-of-couple-on-gwb/793270/ ****** PREVIOUS POST: A Bronx couple was killed in a Thursday morning crash on the George Washington Bridge's lowel level, authorities said. Muharem Frluckaj, 52, was driving a Honda CRV that collided with a Chevy Corvette in the westbound lower-level lanes shortly before 9:30 a.m…

by Jerry DeMarco

08/27/2020

Police & Fire

Sheriff: Church Bell Ringer Who Played On Celine Dion CD Caught With Child Porn A Passaic County sheriff’s security guard who’s also been a church handbell ringer for more than a quarter of a century was charged with having dozens of child porn images on his computer. Brian Tricoli, 49, of Hawthorne “self-reported a computer issue that he believed was related to possible child pornography that was stored on his computer,” Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. Tricoli "turned over his computer and phone to detectives at that time and was suspended with pay on June 12 while detectives continued the investigation,” Berdnik said. “Detectives using several tools available to l…

by Jerry DeMarco

08/27/2020

Police & Fire

Victim In Paterson Beating Dies, Hawthorne Ex-Con Charged With Murder Authorities upgraded charges against a Hawthorne ex-con to first-degree murder after a man whom they said he kicked, punched and pistol whipped died of his injuries. Tyheem T. Jones, 37, was “pacing back and forth in the middle of the street” while “breathing heavily and sweating profusely” when officers responding to an assault call found him near the corner of Auburn Street and Godwin Avenue around 4 a.m. Thursday, authorities said. Nearby, they found the victim on the ground with a large gash on the right side of his head. Reyes has been "repeatedly punching and kicking him for several …

by Jerry DeMarco

08/27/2020

Police & Fire

Body Of Missing Bogota Man, 48, Recovered From Hackensack River UPDATE: A body recovered Thursday afternoon from the Hackensack River was that of a Bogota man who went missing last week, responders said. He'd been in the water for several days, they said. Felix Enrique Martinez, 48, left his home and headed toward Palisades Avenue last Thursday morning (Aug. 20), borough police said at the time. He appeared in need of medical attention, they said. Responders from Hackensack and Ridgefield Park searched the river soon after Martinez was reported missing without success. Responding this Thursday were Hackensack firefighters, the Bogota and Ridgefield…

by Jerry DeMarco

08/27/2020

Police & Fire

California Man Caught In Sting Admits Traveling To NJ To Have Sex With 11-Year-Old Girl A California man will be sentenced to seven years in state prison after admitting Thursday that he traveled to Elizabeth for what he believed was sex with an 11-year-old girl. The “father” who arranged the scenario was actually an undercover New Jersey State Police detective, authorities said. Ian Brewer, 25, of Pomona, began exchanging emails with the undercover detective in December 2019, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. “The undercover detective said that for a fee, Brewer could sexually assault the 11-year-old daughter of his girlfriend,” Grewal said. The detective claime…

by Jerry DeMarco

08/27/2020

News

Justice Department Considers Whether Murphy, Cuomo COVID Nursing Home Policies Killed Thousands U.S. Justice Department officials said they are trying to determine whether COVID-19 policies of New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo “may have resulted in the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents." Federal authorities said they hadn't launched an investigation. Rather, they said, they're conducting preliminary inquiries into COVID policies in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan while considering a possible civil rights investigation under a federal law that protects the rights of residents in state-run nursing homes, among others. Letters…

by Jerry DeMarco

08/27/2020

Police & Fire

Seen HER? Help Sought Finding Missing River Vale Woman, 74 Authorities sought the public's help Thursday finding a 74-year-old woman with dementia who wandered off from a senior housing complex in River Vale. Video surveillance captured Monica Yun leaving the River Vale Senior Residence at 8:51 a.m. and walking south on Cedar Lane, Police Lt. Peter Martin said. She was seen wearing a blue shirt, white pants, flip-flops and carrying a blue blanket, he said. Yun is 5”5” tall and weighs roughly 150 pounds, Martin said. She may have been in the area of the River Vale Country Club on Rivervale Road. The River Vale Senior Residence…

by Jerry DeMarco

08/27/2020

Police & Fire

Rubbing People The Wrong Way: More Massage Therapists Lose Licenses In NJ New Jersey authorities this week revoked the license of the ninth massage therapist in the past year for “inappropriate and unwanted sexual contact” with a client who literally put her trust in his hands. John R. Popper, 48, of Little Egg Harbor was convicted earlier this year of harassment by offensive touching for placing his hand on a client’s vagina during a massage at Hand and Stone spa in Somers Point. In turn, the state Board of Massage and Bodywork Therapy permanently barred him from working as a massage therapist in New Jersey ever again because he “engaged in professional miscond…

by Jerry DeMarco

08/27/2020

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