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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

Update: Substantial Haul Likely In Little Falls Bank Robbery Two men in masks robbed a Little Falls bank branch at gunpoint Thursday afternoon, rifling through tellers' drawers and herding employees into the vault, responders said. One of them held a handgun while the other went behind the counter at the Valley Bank on Main Street and removed money from the tellers’ drawers around 2:20 p.m., Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes and Little Falls Police Chief Steven Post said in a Thursday evening news release. Responders told Daily Voice the robbers then herded employees into the vault and took more cash. Although authorities wouldn't say how mu…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/27/2020

Police & Fire

Haworth PD: Drugged Closter Driver Tosses Heroin Bags Out Car Window A Closter driver tossed several bags of heroin out of his car as a Haworth police officer pulled him over, authorities said. Officer Andrew Soltes was stopping Nick Linaris, 42, on Haworth Avenue around 10:15 a.m. Tuesday when he saw the 10 folds of heroin come flying out the window, Detective Sgt. Justin Fox said. Soltes found Linaris carrying Xanax, some loose heroin and drug paraphernalia, Fox said. Linaris, who Fox said admitted being under the influence of heroin, was taken into custody and sent to the Bergen County Jail on various drug-related charges, as well as evidence tampering. …

by Jerry DeMarco

02/27/2020

Police & Fire

Paterson Police Sergeant Indicted By Federal Grand Jury A Paterson police sergeant stole money from a suspect, then lied on reports to protect himself and his department accomplices, an indictment returned Thursday by a federal grand jury in Newark charges. Sgt. Michael Cheff, 49, of Paterson signed off on bogus reports submitted by a group of rogue officers he supervised who routinely violated citizens’ civil rights by stopping and searching them on the street and in vehicles, the indictment says. Cheff “routinely received a portion of these stolen monies from some of these officers and signed off on corresponding false police reports about th…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/27/2020

Police & Fire

Photos: Four Vehicles Towed After Pileup Off Route 17 In Ramsey Four vehicles all had to be towed after a chain-reaction crash Thursday off Route 17 in Ramsey. No serious injuries were reported in the incident at the intersection of East Crescent Avenue and Lake Street. Ramsey police, firefighters, EMS and Ramsey Rescue all responded. Upper Saddle River police assisted with traffic control. Boyd A. Loving took the photos and contributed to this account.

by Jerry DeMarco

02/27/2020

Police & Fire

Deadlocked Jurors End Child Sex Assault Trial Of Upper Saddle River Business Owner The child sex assault trial of a former construction company owner from Upper Saddle River ended with jurors in Hackensack unable to reach a verdict. Bergen County prosecutors said they will seek a new trial against Louis Tantillo, 55, following the mistrial. The jury of eight men and four women began deliberating Tuesday morning. Early Wednesday, they told Superior Court Judge Robert M. Vinci they didn't think they could reach the required unanimous decision. After a few more hours of deliberations, the judge accepted the deadlock. This comes after judges previously dismissed two indic…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/27/2020

Police & Fire

Feds In Newark Bust Contractor Who They Said Scammed Public Library Federal authorities on Thursday arrested a Union County businessman who they said pulled off a pair of scams, one of which cost the Orange Public Library $40,000. Shenandoah Adams Sr., 54, of New Providence initially bought an East Orange site on Hilton Street in 2014 on behalf of his property management company, then arranged for a $153,562 loan to a “close associate” knowing that person didn’t have the money to pay his company the balance of the $225,000 purchase price, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. At the March 2015 closing, Adams had his associate write a worthless check to cover …

by Jerry DeMarco

02/27/2020

Police & Fire

Authorities: Fleeing Drug Buyer Hits Paterson Detectives With Car A heroin buyer from Pennsylvania hit two Paterson detectives and a police vehicle with his car, then bailed out and ran before he was caught, authorities said. Police vehicles surrounded a BMW driven by Hamad Ramadan, 24, of Allentown at Governor and Carroll streets – a notorious drug corner – after watching him buy what turned out to be 23 heroin folds, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. As they moved in, Ramadan threw the car into reverse, hitting the two detectives and the police vehicle, Speziale said. He then drove a couple of blocks before bailing out and running on Rosa Par…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/27/2020

Police & Fire

SEE Anything? Assailant Stabs Hawthorne Pedestrian Hawthorne police were trying to find anyone who witnessed a stabbing on a local street. The 26-year-old victim told police he was walking near Enterprise Rent-A-Car on Goffle Road around 8:40 p.m. Wednesday when the assailant began following him on foot, asking for money, Detective Sgt. Matthew Hoogmoed said. “The victim said he was struck in the back and when he turned around, he saw the suspect holding a knife and realized he had been stabbed,” Hoogmoed said. Bystanders called police and the victim was later taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center with injuries that weren’t conside…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/27/2020

Police & Fire

Police: Detectives Capture Teens Who Stabbed Clifton Man In Chest During Street Robbery Clifton detectives tracked down two boys – one of them 14 – who they said stabbed a city man in the chest while robbing him. The robbers also cut the 43-year-old Clifton victim on his face when they attacked him near the corner of Highland and Parker avenues on Jan. 3 before fleeing with $300 in cash, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. He was treated at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center and survived his injuries, Bracken said. Clifton detectives, meanwhile, identified both teens – 17 and 14 – and took them into custody on Tuesday with help from their colleagues in Passaic, the lieutenan…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/27/2020

Police & Fire

NYC Men Nabbed By Closter Police In ID Thefts Free Again Two accused identity thieves from New York City were in the wind again after being arrested by Closter police. Rory Bartley, of Brooklyn, and Isaiah Penny, of Queens were arrested on identity theft charges in December and subsequently released pending further court action, Closter Police Chief John McTigue said. Detectives drew up additional charges after they said they tied them to what amounted to more than 50 bogus IDs. The pair, both 22, were “involved in a conspiracy to defraud multiple victims’ identities, bank accounts and other personal financial accounts,” McTigue said. Police re…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/26/2020

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