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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

Authorities: NYC Defendant Who Crashed Stolen Mercedes On GWB Is Serial Car Thief UPDATE: An 18-year-old New York City resident busted after crashing a car stolen from a Paramus dealership at the George Washington Bridge has been arrested several times – and almost immediately released – after committing similar crimes. New Jersey State Police were investigating Nyaomi James, who crashed a Mercedes stolen from a Paramus dealership Thursday night into four vehicles on the bridge while trying to flee, Daily Voice has learned. James, who police say has family in Teaneck, was accused last month of stealing a $150,000 Land Rover from an Englewood Jaguar dealership several wee…

by Jerry DeMarco

08/01/2020

Weather

Expert: Hurricane Isaias Will Likely Come And Go Quickly, With More Rain Than Anything Hurricane Isaias will likely bring plenty of rain to New Jersey this Tuesday but not the kind of wind anyone should be overly concerned with, one of the area’s leading weather experts said Saturday. “What usually happens with tropical cyclones as they move northward is the heaviest rain tends to fall to the west of the track and the center, while the strongest winds tend to be to the east of the track,” meteorologist Joe Cioffi said. Predicting weather accurately days in advance is next-to-impossible, with meteorologists making their most educated guesses and hoping for the best. Now and t…

by Jerry DeMarco

08/01/2020

Police & Fire

Feds Charge More Retired NFL Players In $3.4 Million Health Fraud Three more former NFL players, one of them from the Jersey Shore, were among several who federal authorities said illegally collected $3.4 million in a massive health care scam. Darrell Reid, 38, of Farmingdale, who played linebacker for the 2007 Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos and the Indianapolis Colts, was among the three additional players named in a U.S. District Court indictment. The others are former Tennessee Titans and Cincinnati Bengals defensive end Antwan Odom, 38, of Irvington, Alabama and Anthony Montgomery, 36, of Cleveland, who played defensive end for the team formerly k…

by Jerry DeMarco

08/01/2020

Police & Fire

Clearer Video: Staples Customer Thrown Down, Leg Broken, By Woman Who Refuses To Wear Mask SEEN HER? Clearer video shows a woman assaulting a Staples customer in Hackensack, breaking the victim’s leg, after she asked the assailant to wear her coronavirus mask. Recognize her? Margot Kagan, 54, of Teaneck was using the fax/copy machine at the Hackensack Avenue store Wednesday afternoon when the suspect approached another machine with her face mask pulled below her mouth, Detective Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. Kagan, who’d had liver transplant surgery four months ago and was walking with a cane, said she asked the woman to put on her mask. SEE VIDEO ABOVE The woman became angry and…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/31/2020

Police & Fire

Feds: Elizabeth Predator Lured Out-Of-State Escorts To NJ, Choked, Raped, Threatened Them For more than four years, an Elizabeth man lured out-of-state escorts to New Jersey with promises of tens of thousands of dollars for sex – then slapped, choked, raped and threatened them, authorities charged. An indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Newark on Friday added two more victims, bringing the total to four charged to Jose Torres, 42. Torres met the women through websites for online escorts and on Backpage.com beginning in May 2015, an FBI complaint on file in U.S. District Court in Newark says. Promising big money, he “persuaded, induced and enticed” the commercial sex …

by Jerry DeMarco

07/31/2020

Police & Fire

Paterson PD: Detectives Disarm Garfield Man Reaching For Loaded Rifle Quick-moving Paterson police detectives grabbed a Garfield man as he reached for a loaded gun during a traffic stop, authorities said. Alerted by a tipster, the Narcotics Division detectives saw Brian Rochester, 23, “brandishing what appeared to be a short-barreled assault rifle” near the corner of 16th Avenue and Carroll Street, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Rochester then put the weapon in the back seat of a car nearby and got into the front passenger seat before the vehicle pulled away, Speziale said. After the detectives stopped the near Rosa Parks Boulevard and Pearl Str…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/31/2020

Police & Fire

Video: Rochelle Park Police Brothers Take 80 Years Experience Into Retirement CLAPOUT: One thing the coronavirus can’t prevent is the clap-out for retiring police veterans like the one held Friday for Rochelle Park Chief Robert Flannelly and his brother, Capt. William Flannelly. Fellow department members, other emergency responders, current and retired chiefs from other towns and borough well wishers wore masks and social distanced during a rousing sendoff outside headquarters for the brothers, who have a combined 80 years of police experience between them. Incoming Police Chief Dean Pinto had plaques made and Blue Line watches customized for the occasion. The local…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/31/2020

Police & Fire

Prosecutor: Rockland Man Attacks Black Women In Bergen, Captured After Texas Wild Boar Crash A white Rockland County man made racist comments to three black women outside a Bergen County liquor store, then smashed their car with a baseball bat, injuring two of them, before fleeing, authorities said. Carson Goodman, 21, of Sparkill was captured in Pecos County, TX, on Friday after his car slammed into a 400-pound wild boar on a local highway and a responding sheriff’s officer discovered that he was a fugitive from justice, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Goodman, who’d been hiding out with a relative, became a suspect soon after Northvale police were called to the Bevera…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/31/2020

Police & Fire

Englewood Man In Hudson River Crime Spree Charged With Assaulting Bergenfield Officer Two weeks after he was busted for a crime spree at a Hudson River marina, an Englewood man spit in a Bergenfield police officer’s face while deliberately banging his head several times inside a squad car, authorities said. Jason Pinilla, 19, “became extremely uncooperative and resisted arrest” after officers caught him with pot behind the Hoover Elementary School on Murray Hill Terrace on Thursday, Detective Lt. William Duran said. “Once he was subdued and placed into the rear of the police vehicle, he was acting erratic and began to bang his head into the partition,” Duran said Friday. Pi…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/31/2020

Police & Fire

NJ Woman Supplied Brother, 71, With Children For Sex, Authorities Charge A 71-year-old New Jersey native had sex with children supplied to him by his sister, authorities charged. George Sappah paid his sister to make two youngsters under 13 available to him for sex several times, Warren County Prosecutor James L. Pfeiffer. The sister, Greta Sappah, threatened the children if they didn’t comply, he said. George Sappah of East Stroudsburg, PA, remained held Thursday in the Warren County Correctional Center in Belvidere pending an Aug. 7 first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court. A judge on Thursday released Greta Sappah, 65, of Hope, NJ, with conditi…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/31/2020

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