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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
Feds: Jersey Shore Man Busted With Child Porn Collection Feds: Jersey Shore Man Busted With Child Porn Collection
Feds: Jersey Shore Man Busted With Child Porn Collection Federal Homeland Security agents on Wednesday arrested a Jersey Shore man who they said collected child pornography. Agents began investigating Joseph J. Punderson, 31, of Island Heights after receiving a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Tracing emails and social media accounts, they learned that Punderson “received and possessed images and videos of child sexual abuse downloaded from the Internet,” Carpenito said. U.S. Magistrate Judge Tonianne J. Bongiovanni ordered Punderson held without bail on charges of recei…

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Feds: Trio Stole $1.5M Worth Of High-End Vehicles Out Of NJ, Rockland, CT, Long Island Feds: Trio Stole $1.5M Worth Of High-End Vehicles Out Of NJ, Rockland, CT, Long Island
Feds: Trio Stole $1.5M Worth Of High-End Vehicles Out Of NJ, Rockland, CT, Long Island A trio of thieves who snatched high-end vehicles in New Jersey, Rockland County, Long Island and Connecticut often used one stolen car to swipe another, federal authorities said. In one instance, they said, the Essex County crew members stole a Maserati GranTurisimo at the Jersey Shore and drove it to New City in Rockland, where they took a Range Rover and a Porsche. A predawn police pursuit followed before the Maserati driver hit the gas and slammed it head-on into a police vehicle, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. The suspects fled in another vehicle, he said. Authorities later recov…

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Bayonne Businessman Sentenced To Fed Pen In Tax, Bankruptcy Fraud Bayonne Businessman Sentenced To Fed Pen In Tax, Bankruptcy Fraud
Bayonne Businessman Sentenced To Fed Pen In Tax, Bankruptcy Fraud A Bayonne businessman man who used check-cashing businesses to hide hundreds of thousands in income he earned from his construction companies was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison on Wednesday. Patrick Franconeri, 57, must serve all of the plea-bargained sentence for tax evasion and bankruptcy fraud because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. Franconeri failed to file a tax return or request an extension for 2014 after earning taxable income of $1,362,950, on which he owed the IRS $558,439 in payments, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. He earned the money as the owner …

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Police & Fire
Authorities: Released Porch Pirates Rob Bicyclist On Hackensack Street Authorities: Released Porch Pirates Rob Bicyclist On Hackensack Street
Authorities: Released Porch Pirates Rob Bicyclist On Hackensack Street Two men charged with stealing dozens of packages from residents' porches in several Bergen County towns robbed a bicyclist on a Hackensack street the same day they were released from custody, authorities said Wednesday. Rochelle Park police last Friday captured Kelvin Hernandez Brioso and Francisco Castillo Rodriguez, both 22 of Hackensack, following a string of package thefts. They sent both to the Bergen County Jail, only to have a judge release them following a detention hearing, authorities said. Just after 8:40 p.m. that same day, Brioso and Rodriguez grabbed an adult bicyclist near t…

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Gunman Fires Shot From AK-47 Into House During Paterson Police Chase Gunman Fires Shot From AK-47 Into House During Paterson Police Chase
Gunman Fires Shot From AK-47 Into House During Paterson Police Chase A gunman running from Paterson police fired a shot from an AK-47 that went into a home Tuesday night, authorities said.  Detectives John Traynor and Mustafa Dombayci saw the gunman running with the rifle down 16th Avenue toward Rosa Parks Boulevard shortly before 11:30 p.m. Tuesday and began chasing him, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. “At one point, he carelessly fired the weapon into the air with detectives still in pursuit,” Speziale said. The bullet went into a home, but no one was struck, he said. The detectives, meanwhile, took cover while continuing to follow the gunman, …

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Police & Fire
PHOTOS: Jeep Rolls Down, Tips On Lodi Street PHOTOS: Jeep Rolls Down, Tips On Lodi Street
Photos: Jeep Rolls Down, Tips On Lodi Street No one was hurt when an unoccupied Jeep rolled down a Lodi street and got wedged onto a short wall. The emergency brake apparently was off Tuesday night when the Jeep headed down the block and toppled in front of a home near the corner of Kipp Avenue and Prospect Street. Nutchies towing service righted and removed it. Nutchies towing service handled the job.Joe Fehl for DAILY VOICE Righting....Joe Fehl for DAILY VOICE On its feet.Joe Fehl for DAILY VOICE

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Feds: NJ Couple's Online Dating Scam Costs Those Looking For Love $6 Million Feds: NJ Couple's Online Dating Scam Costs Those Looking For Love $6 Million
Feds: NJ Couple's Online Dating Scam Costs Those Looking For Love $6 Million A married South Jersey couple orchestrated an online dating scam that wooed victims out of more than $6 million, federal authorities said. Martins Friday Inalegwu, 31, and his wife, Steincy Mathieu, 24, both of Burlington County’s Maple Shade, employed several accomplices – many of them living in Nigeria – to romance victims online and then take their money, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Craig Carpenito said. After making initial contact through dating and social media sites with phony identities, the thieves struck up what appeared to be romantic relationships with the victims either throug…

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News
2020 New York City Marathon Cancelled 2020 New York City Marathon Cancelled
2020 New York City Marathon Cancelled What was to be the 50th running of the New York City Marathon, scheduled for Nov. 1, was cancelled Wednesday by COVID-19. New York Road Runners (NYRR), the event organizer, said it decided to cancel the world’s largest marathon "due to coronavirus-related health and safety concerns for runners, spectators, volunteers, staff, and the many partners and communities that support the event." The 50th running of the TCS New York City Marathon is now scheduled for Nov. 7, 2021. "While the marathon is an iconic and beloved event in our city, I applaud New York Road Runners for putting the health a…

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Police & Fire
UPDATE: Missing Retired Law Enforcement Officer Found With Stab Wound In Bergen County Park UPDATE: Missing Retired Law Enforcement Officer Found With Stab Wound In Bergen County Park
Update: Missing Retired Law Enforcement Officer Found With Stab Wound In Bergen County Park The search for a distraught retired law enforcement officer ended when rescuers found him bleeding from an apparently self-inflicted stab wound in a wooded area of a Bergen County park early Tuesday evening. The 66-year-old victim's wound wasn't considered life-threatening, responders said. Rescuers carried him out of the woods on a stretcher in the Dunkerhook area of Saddle River County Park in Paramus a few miles from his home after concerned loved ones called police. A waiting Paramus Medical Services rig took him to Hackensack University University Medical Center with a police escort …

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Longtime Hudson County Political Fixer Tied To JC Mayor Indicted By Federal Grand Jury Longtime Hudson County Political Fixer Tied To JC Mayor Indicted By Federal Grand Jury
Longtime Hudson County Political Fixer Tied To JC Mayor Indicted By Federal Grand Jury A federal grand jury returned an indictment Tuesday against a former political operative from Hudson County who’s accused of evading taxes on payments from builders and developers to expedite their projects, among other crimes. Thomas “Tommy” Bertoli, 62, a North Bergen native now living in Matawan, has worked political campaigns throughout the state for more than 40 years -- among them, Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop’s successful 2005 council run and victorious 2013 mayoral campaign. Federal authorities zeroed in on the Bertoli’s dealings with builders and developers through several of…

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