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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

Teammates Rally For College Lacrosse Stars From Oakland, Long Island Killed In Crash Current and former members of the Mount Olive University women's lacrosse team are trying to help the families of two teammates -- one from Bergen County, the other from Long Island -- who were killed in a crash in North Carolina last week. The group launched the GoFundMe campaigns for the families of Ann Wray and Madison Mergl to "bring [them] home and to pay for all unexpected funeral costs," wrote one of the players, Caitlin Gore. Wray, a sophomore agribusiness major who starred at Indian Hills High School in Oakland, and Mergl, a freshman exercise science major, were in a Jeep with sev…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/17/2020

Sports

Brady To Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Sports Radio Host Says Tom Brady is signing with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Wednesday, sports talk-radio host Colin Cowherd reported Tuesday afternoon. After six Super Bowl wins in 20 years with the New England Patriots, the future Hall of Famer announced Tuesday morning that he wasn't re-resigning with them. Pundits on Monday speculated that the only true destination the "GOAT" could end up if he left was in Tampa Bay. “I have somebody telling me this morning – this is very interesting – this is not a football source, it's an icon source, it is somebody in Tom’s stratosphere who knows Tom and is a famous perso…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/17/2020

Police & Fire

Bergen Sheriff Suspends Evictions Amid Covid-19 Pandemic Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton on Tuesday suspended all evictions until further notice amid the coronavirus pandemic. This order follows recent measures taken by Gov. Phil Murphy and County Executive Jim Tedesco urging residents to work from home and practice social distancing, the sheriff said. “Issuing eviction notices during this heightened public health emergency is counter-productive to the mission of our agency and the goal of mitigating the spread of COVID-19," Cureton explained. "At this time, I have ordered operations to focus primarily on assisting local police departments…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/17/2020

Police & Fire

Feds: Longtime Fugitive From Brazil Surrenders In Major NJ Mortgage Fraud A long-time Brazilian fugitive flew returned to New Jersey on Tuesday to face federal charges in a long-running mortgage fraud, authorities said. Isaac DePaula, 40, of Brazil, had been on the run since federal authorities first charged him in a 2012 complaint and then a grand jury in U.S. District Court in Newark indicted him four years later. He flew in to Newark Airport on Tuesday to face the indictment, which charges him with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and three counts of bank fraud, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. A federal judge ordered DePaula’s release pending further court…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/17/2020

Police & Fire

Covid-19: Rochelle Park Police Limit Non-Emergency Contact In an effort to protect the public – and themselves – from the spread of the coronavirus, Rochelle Park police joined law enforcement agencies throughout New Jersey who are handling non-emergencies by phone. Police Chief Robert Flannelly said Tuesday that his officers “will continue to respond to all matters which present an imminent risk to public safety, crimes in progress, and to those which require the collection of evidence.” However, they’ll go with phoned reports “where an immediate response is not necessary.” Flannelly also asked that anyone seeking to come to police headquarters f…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/17/2020

Police & Fire

High-Speed Stolen Car Chase From Paramus Ends In Crash, Arrests In Bloomfield Paramus police seized two Newark men in Bloomfield following an overnight car chase and crash Tuesday that began after the owner of a BMW left it running at a Route 17 gas station in Upper Saddle River, authorities said. The driver went in to make a purchase at the Valero station on the highway's northbound side shortly after 2:30 a.m. when another car pulled in and two thieves in masks and hoods got out, they said. The transport vehicle -- a white Infiniti Q50 stolen out of East Rutherford -- and the BMW 8 Series both took off, Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. A short time lat…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/17/2020

News

Exclusive: Family Of Saddle Brook Man Killed By Coronavirus: 'We Have To Take This Seriously' A Saddle Brook man who was the third New Jerseyan to die from the coronavirus was still active at 90 and had no underlying conditions, his family said Tuesday. “He was still working and in great shape in mind and body,” Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler told Daily Voice on behalf of the family. "There was nothing wrong with him." The victim, who turned 90 a couple of months ago, had gone snowmobiling early this month, then later developed a tickle in his throat, the chief said. He was subsequently taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, where he died Sunday, said Kugler, …

by Jerry DeMarco

03/17/2020

Police & Fire

Police: Unlicensed Hackensack Driver, 41, KO'd In Crash An unlicensed Hackensack driver was knocked out when her sedan slammed into a pickup truck and a van late Monday, authorities said. Shanice Wyche, 41, was expected to be released from the hospital on Tuesday following Monday's crash on Summit Avenue near Spring Valley Road shortly before 11:30 p.m., Capt. Nicole Foley said. Wyche was headed north in her 2004 Chevy Malibu when it crossed into the oncoming lane and hit a 2013 Ford F150 and 2018 Chevy Express both parked on the west side of the street, Foley said. The impact knocked a tire off her car, said residents who heard the crash and c…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/17/2020

Police & Fire

Update: NJ's Top Cop Urges Police To Use Discretion, Follow Covid-19 Guidelines Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal on Monday issued guidelines that law enforcement agencies across New Jersey must follow to protect the public – themselves – from the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Grewal also asked police to consider delaying criminal charges in cases that “do not imminently impact public safety” and requested that prosecutors demand defendants be held in jail pending trial only in the most serious cases. At the same time, he said, “public safety and victim safety must remain the priority in any such decision.” “Notwithstanding any court closures, law enforcement of…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/16/2020

News

'It's Bad': President Urges 10-People Group Limit, Says Covid-19 Restrictions Could Last Months President Trump, speaking with alarming concern, asked the nation on Monday to avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 and to limit discretionary travel and social visits to help stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. “We’d much rather be ahead of the curve than behind it, and that’s what we are,” the president said in announcing a set of guidelines aimed at slowing the virus, which has killed thousands around the world. “It’s bad. It’s bad," Trump said, indicating for the first time that no nation -- including the U.S. -- has control of the spiraling situation. Although he s…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/16/2020

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