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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

Bergen Sheriff: 23 County Jail Staffers, ICE Detainee Medically Cleared Several Bergen County Jail staffers have been medically cleared to return to work after testing positive or quarantining at home for being in close contact with someone COVID-19 positive, Sheriff Anthony Cureton said. A total of 13 corrections officers, nine sheriff's officers and one nursing staff member have or are returning, the sheriff said Tuesday. An ICE detainee who tested positive for COVID-19 also was cleared to return to general population, he said, adding that four ICE detainees remained in isolation. No county inmates are any longer in isolation, the sheriff noted. Cureton a…

by Jerry DeMarco

04/21/2020

Police & Fire

Authorities: Summit Police Officer Seriously Injured In Head-On Stolen Car Crash A Summit police officer was seriously injured when a stolen car slammed head-on into his cruiser during an overnight chase Tuesday, authorities said. Officer Anthony Pyzik, 31, remained in serious but stable condition at Morristown Medical Center with multiple fractures and several cuts on his head following the crash, they reported. Police arrested the driver of the stolen vehicle, identified as 18-year-old Walleed Wheeler, and passenger Dante Brown, 20, both of Newark. Officers were pursuing the car east on Morris Avenue when it crossed the center line and slammed head-on into Pyzik's c…

by Jerry DeMarco

04/21/2020

Police & Fire

Fire Destroys Hunterdon County Bagel Shop Fire consumed a Hunterdon County bagel shop and deli overnight Tuesday. Firefighters responding to a 1:22 a.m. call found a fully-involved blaze, with flames shooting through the roof, at the Bagelsmith Food Store and Deli on Route 173 in Union Township, just off Route 78. An exterior operation eventually doused the blaze before all units were cleared shortly before 4:30 a.m. No injuries were reported. Firefighters found Bagelsmith engulfed.Pattenburg Volunteer Fire Company Among the responders were the Pattenburg Volunteer Fire Company, Hunterdon County fire coordinators, the Pattenb…

by Jerry DeMarco

04/21/2020

Police & Fire

Excuses For Violating Coronavirus Emergency Orders Push NJ Police Officers' Patience Wild excuses have begun piling up from New Jerseyans accused of violating state coronavirus emergency orders, authorities say. A Passaic woman told police she drove to their headquarters before dawn Monday because her ex-boyfriend was tailing her, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Police found the ex, identified as 21-year-old city resident Frianky Nunez, and wrote him a summons for traveling without a legitimate reason in violation of state coronavirus emergency orders. They weren’t done, though. They issued the same summons to the woman, Lucero Dalia, 21, and her passenger, …

by Jerry DeMarco

04/20/2020

Police & Fire

Responders: Clifton Man, 44, In Route 3 Crash Died Of Medical Cause A 44-year-old driver killed in a Monday morning crash on Route 3 in Clifton apparently suffered a medical episode, responders told Daily Voice. The 2012 Hyundai Elantra driven by Anton Dittrich of Clifton veered onto the westbound shoulder and scraped along the divider for about 100 yards before coming to a stop near the Bloomfield Avenue exit shortly before 10:30 a.m., authorities said Monday afternoon. Responders administered CPR, to no avail. Dittrich was pronounced dead at St. Mary’s Hospital about 15 minutes later, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Clifton Police Ch…

by Jerry DeMarco

04/20/2020

Police & Fire

'Gonna Run You Over If I See Anyone Get Tested': South Jersey Man Charged With Facebook Posts “I’m gonna run you all over with my SUV if I see anyone getting tested,” a South Jersey man posted on Facebook after learning that a local Rite Aid opened a free drive-thru coronavirus testing site, authorities said. Police in the Camden County town of Barrington arrested local resident Joseph M. Carr, 30, on Sunday on charges of making terroristic threats and violating state coronavirus emergency directives, state Attorney General Gurbur S. Grewal said. The Barrington pharmacy on Monday became one of two Rite-Aids in New Jersey who’s set up testing sites outside their stores. Another …

by Jerry DeMarco

04/20/2020

Police & Fire

Gun Violence: Essex Prosecutor's Detectives Help Probe Six Newark Homicides In 21 Days Investigators continued to pursue leads Monday in the deaths of three different people gunned down on city streets in less than a week. That makes six homicides in 21 days. Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II said he has dedicated members of his Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force, which includes Newark police detectives, to investigating the killings: Khalif T. Ransom, 36, of Durham, North Carolina was shot dead in the 200 block of West Runyon Street around 3:30 p.m. Friday; Nasir Clayton, 17, was pronounced dead at University Hospital after someone shot him less than…

by Jerry DeMarco

04/20/2020

News

Cosby Among Celebs Denied Prison Release For Coronavirus, Others More Fortunate COVID-19 concerns may have freed some lesser-known convicts but not Bill Cosby, Bernie Madoff or R. Kelly. Lawyers for Cosby appeared to have some help earlier this month when Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf allowed a temporary reprieve for an estimated 1,500 to 1,800 vulnerable and nonviolent prisoners at or close to their release dates. The only trouble was: Sex offenders in the Keystone State aren’t eligible for reprieves, a corrections spokesperson said. That rules out Cosby, 82, who’s serving a three- to 10-year sentence in a state prison outside Philadelphia for drugging and sexually assa…

by Jerry DeMarco

04/20/2020

Police & Fire

Authorities: Union County Nightclub Caught Serving Amid Covid-19 Closure A Plainfield business owner told police that he thought that patrons waiting for takeout orders from his restaurant could drink at his bar, authorities said. Wrong. Cristobal Sanchez, 62, was charged with violating state coronavirus emergency closure orders by police who said they found three customers drinking at the bar and others sitting at tables Saturday night at the Tequila Club on East 5th Street. Sanchez told them he "thought he was allowed to serve them alcohol inside the premises" because the patrons "were waiting for take-out orders," state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal …

by Jerry DeMarco

04/20/2020

Police & Fire

Even With Flying Down 95%, Guns, Knives, Ammo Still Turn Up At Airport Checkpoints, TSA Says At a time when barely 100,000 people a day are flying out of airports across the country, TSA agents at LaGuardia found a traveler carrying two knives and two boxes of ammo in a carry-on, authorities said Monday. That wasn’t the worst example. Agents at a TSA checkpoint at Boston Logan Airport caught a woman trying to carry a handgun on her flight. So did TSA agents at Yeager Airport in Charleston, WV. “They might be wearing masks,” TSA Public Affairs Spokesperson Lisa Farbstein said. “But TSA officers are still able to spot a gun in a carry-on bag.” A year ago Sunday, TSA agents across t…

by Jerry DeMarco

04/20/2020

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