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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.

Jerry DeMarco's Contributions

Police & Fire

Vehicle Struck By Shotgun Blast On Quiet Old Tappan Street, Local Resident Charged UPDATE: Authorities charged an Old Tappan resident whose shotgun accidentally went off in his driveway and sprayed a passing car with pellets. Darden Bilali, 46, was outside his Old Tappan Road home when the gun discharged shortly before 1:30 p.m.Thursday, hitting a car driven by a 71-year-old borough man with several pellets, authorities said. The driver wasn’t injured in the accidental misfire between Rivervale Road and Washington Avenue, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Friday. Musella’s Special Investigations Squad responded along with Old Tappan and River Vale police, a…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/23/2020

Police & Fire

Jeeps Hits Wall, Rolls In Ramsey A Jeep landed on its side after hitting a rock wall late Thursday morning in Ramsey. The driver got OK and didn't require hospitalization following the rollover at Franklin Turnpike and East Main Street around 11:15 a.m., responders said. There was on immediate word on what might have caused the crash. Members of Ramsey Rescue stabilized the vehicle. Ramsey police, firefighters and Ambulance Corps members also responded. The scene was cleared and the area was fully reopened to traffic by 11:50 a.m. ****** ALSO SEE: A troubled military veteran led Mahwah police on a brief pursu…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/23/2020

Police & Fire

Troubled Military Vet Leads Police On Brief Route 17 Chase, Apologizes, Admits He Needs Help A troubled military veteran led Mahwah police on a brief pursuit before apologizing and admitting he needed help, authorities said. Detective Christopher Fasulo was in an unmarked police vehicle when he said he saw the man’s 2005 Subaru Legacy drift over the double-yellow line twice on Ramapo Valley Road (Route 202) around 9:45 p.m. July 7. A third time it appeared that the steering wheel had been "jerked," sending the wagon “so far into the oncoming lane that a collision with a vehicle traveling in the opposite direction would have been [imminent]," the detective reported. Fasulo stopped …

by Jerry DeMarco

07/23/2020

Police & Fire

Fire At Closter Waste Management Company Sends Employee To Hospital A pre-dawn fire at a waste management facility in Closter sent an employee to the hospital for observation, responders said. The fire broke out in the Interstate Waste Services transfer station garbage bays on Railroad Avenue shortly after 4 a.m. Thursday, Detective Lt. Vincent Aiello said. Two employees tried to extinguish the blaze with a fire hose before firefighters took over, he said. One of the employees was brought to Hackensack Meridian Health's Pascack Valley Medical Center in Westwood with smoke inhalation, Aiello said. Demarest firefighters joined their Closter colleagues at t…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/23/2020

Police & Fire

Video: Defendants Identified In Stolen Car Pursuit That Ended In Fair Lawn Crash UPDATE: A Bronx man crashed a stolen sedan in Fair Lawn on Wednesday following a pursuit that began in Hackensack. Detective Sgt. John Dalton spotted the 2015 Chrysler 200, reported stolen out of New York, at the Riverside Square Mall around 3 p.m., Hackensack Police Lt. Anthony DiPersia said. When he tried to pull the car over, it sped off on westbound Route 4, he said. Paramus police picked up the pursuit when it hit their town. It continued into Fair Lawn, where Paramus Police Officer Benjamin Fox stopped it on Broadway in Fair Lawn. Driver Kenneth L. Barrer, 32, then hit the gas aga…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/23/2020

Police & Fire

Passaic County Man Charged With Shooting Dog A dog who was at first believed injured by fireworks had actually been shot, said authorities who charged a Passaic County man with animal cruelty. Wanaque police responding to DuPont and Makemoney avenues in Haskell around 10 p.m. found the dog, who was taken to the Westwood Regional Veterinary Hospital in Westwood, authorities said. “It was determined that the dog sustained injuries by a small caliber bullet,” Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Wanaque Police Chief Robert C. Kronyak, Jr. said Tuesday in a joint announcement. Charged in a complaint on Monday, they said, was T…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/22/2020

Police & Fire

'Hotspot' Policing: Paterson Detectives Seize Tec-9, Half-Pound Of Pot, Cash From Essex Driver Paterson police working a "hotspot" detail in a crime-ridden neighborhood seized a high-powered handgun favored by criminals after catching an Irvington man with a half-pound of pot, authorities said Wednesday. Detectives Mustafa Dombayci, Mohammad Bashir, and Yamil Pimienta spotted Devon Williams, 21, putting a clear plastic bag of the drug inside another bag on East 29th Street near 17th Avenue around 8 p.m. Tuesday, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. Williams ducked into a nearby business when he saw them coming, but they followed him in, Speziale said. They took Williams into custod…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/22/2020

Police & Fire

Video: Stolen Car Pursuit Ends In Fair Lawn Crash UPDATE: A Bronx man crashed a stolen sedan in Fair Lawn on Wednesday following a pursuit that began in Hackensack. Detective Sgt. John Dalton spotted the 2015 Chrysler 200, reported stolen out of New York, at the Riverside Square Mall around 3 p.m., Hackensack Police Lt. Anthony DiPersia said. When he tried to pull the car over, it sped off on westbound Route 4, he said. Paramus police picked up the pursuit when it hit their town. It continued into Fair Lawn, where Paramus Police Officer Benjamin Fox stopped it on Broadway in Fair Lawn. Driver Kenneth L. Barrer, 32, then hit the gas aga…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/22/2020

Police & Fire

FBI Links Attorney Who Killed NJ Federal Judge's Son To Similar 'Deliveryman' Killing UPDATE: The FBI on Wednesday officially linked a man who killed a federal judge’s son in New Jersey while posing as a deliveryman to the death of a fellow men’s rights lawyer from California in a similar ambush. Attorney Marc Angelucci was shot dead at his home in the San Bernadino Mountains of California on July 11 by a gunman who was believed to have dressed as a delivery driver. It was similar to an ambush the FBI says attorney Roy Den Hollander, 72, launched Sunday night at the home of U.S. District Court Judge Ester Salas. "As the FBI continues the investigation into the attack …

by Jerry DeMarco

07/22/2020

Police & Fire

Police: Passenger In Pickup Hidden In Mahwah Woods Had Fully Loaded Pistol On Her Lap "I have a gun on my lap," an Illinois woman told a Mahwah police officer who found her and a pickup driver parked in an isolated area before dawn near the Rockland County border. Officer Richard Albro spotted the 1988 GMC C15, with no front license plate, backed into the woods in a corner of Sam Braen Field across from Secor Farms -- barely a half-mile from Ramapo -- just after midnight July 6, authorities said. Because the truck "seemed purposely isolated," the officer said, he asked whether the driver, who was standing outside, or the passenger, who was in her seat, was armed. Cassandra …

by Jerry DeMarco

07/22/2020

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