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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

Bayonne Ex-Con Charged With Murder In Shooting Death Of Jersey City Man Authorities on Wednesday charged a Bayonne ex-con with murder in the shooting death of a man on a Jersey City street the night before. Bernard Wilson, 27, gunned down 38-year-old Abimael Fuentes on Brinkerhoff Street between Monticello and Bergen avenues around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said Wednesday. Fuentes was taken with an abdominal gunshot wound to Jersey City Medical Center, where Suarez said he was pronounced deceased at 1:41 a.m. Members of Suarez's Homicide Unit seized Wilson at his home Wednesday morning and recovered two guns, the pro…

by Jerry DeMarco

04/22/2020

Police & Fire

Feds Smash Hundreds Of Online Coronavirus Scams -- And Tell You What To Look For Federal authorities said they've gotten help from domain providers and others in smashing hundreds of online sites exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to commit fraud and other crimes. As of Tuesday, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) had received and reviewed more than 3,600 complaints related to COVID-19 scams, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Many of them “operated from websites that advertised fake vaccines and cures, operated fraudulent charity drives, delivered malware, or hosted various other types of scams,” federal officials said in a release. To attract traffic, t…

by Jerry DeMarco

04/22/2020

Obituaries

An Irish Wake During A Modern Plague: How Covid-19 Denied Heartbroken Family A Proper Goodbye Coronavirus didn't exist when Eileen Callaghan of Bergenfield was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma last fall. It was here in full force, though, when her daughters recently had to leave the 88-year-old Irish family matriarch at the ER door. One of them, Bridget Callaghan-Kane, wrote about her family's experience with their mom's subsequent death "and the world we find ourselves living in at this time in history." An Irish Wake During A Modern Plague Anyone with a drop of Irish blood knows what an Irish wake is, the going-away party that was thrown for an Irish man or woman…

by Bridget Callaghan-Kane

04/22/2020

Police & Fire

Oakland Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting Two Kids An unemployed Oakland man sexually assaulted two pre-teens, authorities said Wednesday. Leonel DeJesus-Alvarado, 36, was arrested after Oakland police received a 911 call Monday that the child had been illegally touched at a local residence, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. An investigation with the prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit determined that he “sexually touched one juvenile on one occasion and another juvenile on multiple occasions,” Musella said. DeJesus-Alvarado, of Riverside Drive, remained held Wednesday in the Bergen County Jail pending his first appearance in Centr…

by Jerry DeMarco

04/22/2020

Police & Fire

Bayonne Ex-Con Charged With Murder In Shooting Death Of Jersey City Man Authorities charged a Bayonne ex-con with murder in the Tuesday night shooting death of a man on a Jersey City street. Bernard Wilson, 27, gunned down 38-year-old Abimael Fuentes on Brinkerhoff Street between Monticello and Bergen avenues around 10:30 p.m., Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said Wednesday. Fuentes was taken with an abdominal gunshot wound to Jersey City Medical Center, where Suarez said he was pronounced deceased at 1:41 a.m. Members of Suarez's Homicide Unit seized Wilson at his home Wednesday morning and recovered two guns, the prosecutor said. They char…

by Jerry DeMarco

04/22/2020

Police & Fire

Saddle Brook, Fair Lawn Police Combine To Catch Accused Home Burglar Saddle Brook and Fair Lawn police teamed up to nab a repeat offender following a residential burglary. No one was home when Adam Zengel, 23, of New Brunswick entered the Saddle Brook home near the corner of North Midland Avenue and Rosol Lane through a rear window sometime overnight Monday into Tuesday, Detective Capt. John Zotollo said. Zengel fled with several expensive electronic items, he said. Saddle Brook police identified and caught him with help from Fair Lawn police, Zotollo said. Zengel's criminal record includes mostly minor drug-related arrests out of several municipalities in…

by Jerry DeMarco

04/22/2020

News

Chipotle Paying Feds Record $25 Million Fine For Foodborne Virus That Sickened Customers Chipotle Mexican Grill has agreed to pay the federal government an unprecedented $25 million to resolve criminal charges stemming from a foodborne virus outbreak that sickened more than 1,100 customers nationwide, the Justice Department announced. The fine -- the largest ever in a federal food safety case -- is part of a three-year deferred prosecution agreement that will allow the California-based company to avoid a criminal conviction if it complies with an improved food safety program, DOJ officials said Tuesday. Papers filed in federal court in Los Angeles on Tuesday charge Chipotle wit…

by Jerry DeMarco

04/21/2020

Police & Fire

'Giving You Corona, Hope You Die': Imprisoned Female Killer Charged With Assaulting Officers A state prisoner serving a 15-year sentence for stabbing a Camden woman to death tried to cough and spit on correctional police officers, telling them, “I’m going to give you corona and I hope you die,” authorities said. Lettie “Shay” Carstarphen, 29, “intentionally and forcefully coughed and tried to spit at correction officers” while in a clinic at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Union Township, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Tuesday. Carstarphen stabbed and killed a 29-year-old woman during an Oct. 1, 2010 fight on Line Street in Camden, records show. She…

by Jerry DeMarco

04/21/2020

Police & Fire

'May You Fill The Heavens With Your Bagpipes': Jersey Shore Boater Killed In Storm ID'd The worst fears of many were realized Thursday when responders recovered the body of a 67-year-old boater who'd gone missing before a tornado-like thunderstorm hit the Jersey Shore earlier this week. "We are heartbroken to announce that our dear band mate and friend Matt Conway was finally located today after going missing Tuesday rowing his boat in the Toms River," fellow members of the Shamrock and Thistle Pipes and Drums wrote Thursday afternoon. "The loss of our dear brother is immeasurable and will be felt by us for years to come." His wife, Patricia, reported Conway, 67, of Ocean Ga…

by Jerry DeMarco

04/21/2020

Police & Fire

Authorities: East Rutherford Police Stop Man Trying To Torch Home With People Inside HEROES: East Rutherford police nabbed a local man just as he was about to torch a home with three people inside, authorities said. Officers responding to a noon call Monday of a man entering a White Terrace home carrying a gas saw him place the red plastic container on the front steps, Deputy Police Chief Philip Taormina said. Police evacuated the home and found Fabrizio R. Jimenez, a 51-year-old married mapping developer, in a bedroom with a propane tank and a torch, Taormina said Tuesday. They arrested Jimenez and charged him with three counts of attempted murder, two weapons offenses an…

by Jerry DeMarco

04/21/2020

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