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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

Two Sentenced In Jersey Shore Child Sex Sting Two Ocean County men were sentenced to plea-bargained state prison terms for planning sexual encounters with underage teens who were actually police, authorities said. Volvi Lowinger and Brian Degnan were among 24 men nabbed in a "To Catch a Predator"-type sting dubbed “Operation Open House.” Lowinger, a 25-year-old student from Lakewood who worked at a dry cleaning business, was sentenced last Friday to four years in state prison by a Superior Court judge in Toms River after previously pleaded guilty to luring. Degnan, a 34-year-old data entry clerk from Toms River, was sentenced Tuesday …

by Jerry DeMarco

01/30/2020

Obituaries

Career Educator Bridget (Cinotti) Mastronardy, 98, Of Secaucus Memorialized TRIBUTE: Bridget Mastronardy was a career educator who devoted 37 years of her life to mentoring children in Hudson County, first as a business teacher and then as a guidance counselor. She was 98. Born to Italian immigrant parents on June 6, 1921 in Jersey City, Brigida Helen Cinotti was graduated Dickinson High School, attended John Marshall Business School, and then worked as an executive secretary for General Foods and Hoffman LaRoche. At the same time, she earned a BA in Business Administration and MA in Education, both from Seton Hall University. She became a full-time teacher of bu…

by Jerry DeMarco

01/30/2020

Police & Fire

NJ State Police Rescue Girl, 14, Forced Into Prostitution At Atlantic City Casino New Jersey State Police rescued a 14-year-old girl who they said was forced into prostitution at an Atlantic City casino hotel. They also arrested the accused human traffickers, as well as a retired state correction officer who they said paid to have sex with the victim at his home. Kurt C. Young, 52, of South Dennis Township was seized Tuesday and charged with sexual assault of a minor and engaging in prostitution with a minor, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Thursday. Two weeks ago, State Police arrested Tiffany N. Davis, 39, of Egg Harbor Township, and charged her with first-deg…

by Jerry DeMarco

01/30/2020

Police & Fire

Onetime Bergen Child Star Busted Breaking Into California Garage On Meth, Authorities Say Former Montvale child star Shaun Weiss apparently was high on meth when he was caught during a home burglary, police in California said. Weiss, 40, whose credits included several episodes on “Pee Wee’s Playhouse” and "Freaks and Geeks," as well as the “Mighty Ducks” films, broke a car window to get into a car parked in a Van Nuys resident’s garage, police in Marysville said. Police said they found him after the owner called them shortly before 7 a.m. Sunday. “Officers ordered the male out of the vehicle and took him into custody,” the department said in a Facebook post. Weiss, who admitte…

by Jerry DeMarco

01/30/2020

Police & Fire

Feds: Elizabeth Man Bribed Postal Carriers To Steal Packages Of Checkbooks, iPhones, More Federal agents on Thursday arrested an Elizabeth man who they said bribed U.S. Postal Service carriers to steal check books, credit cards and electronics from the mail. U.S. Postal Inspection Service agents watched as Jabre “Jab” Beauvoir, 21, met with a carrier in a mail van in Secaucus and collected a package that they’d planted, a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Newark says. Beauvoir – using the handle “Neck Tat” -- believed he was getting a stolen iPhone 6 Plus, it says. The carrier told them that Beauvoir had offered $20O for every stolen check book and a split of the procee…

by Jerry DeMarco

01/30/2020

Police & Fire

Edgewater Pays $3 Million In Settlement With Woman Who Fell From Yacht, Report Says The borough of Edgewater is paying $3 million of a settlement with a woman who suffered a brain injury in a fall from a yacht, a published report says. Jennifer Brashears, 48, was exiting a 50-foot yacht that had been lifted from the water by a hoist at the Edgewater Marina in July 2014 when she fell 10 feet from a platform, hitting her head, according to court papers. Brashears suffered a bleed in her brain and needed surgery that included removing a third of her skull to prevent fatal swelling and another operation to address an infection, the New Jersey Law Journal reported. This …

by Jerry DeMarco

01/30/2020

Politics

Mahwah Mayor Admits Passing Out Drunk, Pantless In Township Worker’s Bed Mahwah Mayor John Roth admitted that he was drunk when he removed his pants and passed out in a township employee’s bed during a house party earlier this month, according to a published report. Roth said in an interview that he’d had too much to drink the night of the Jan. 10 party and apologized to the employee but considered the incident a private matter, NorthJersey.com and the USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey reported. The report didn’t identify the employee, who it says declined to comment. Daily Voice is withholding the name of the employee, who is identified along with her husband…

by Jerry DeMarco

01/29/2020

Police & Fire

Funds Launched To Send Body Of Deceased Bergen Pizzeria Restaurant Employee Home Money is being raised on both sides of the North Jersey state line to transport the body of an 18-year-old Bergen County pizzeria employee home to his native Guatemala. The body of Wilson Atz-Roldan of Suffern was found Sunday in the water under the NY State Thruway bridge where Lake Antrim turns into the Mahwah River in Suffern, just off Route 202. An employee of Kinchley's Tavern in Ramsey, Atz-Roldan had gone missing more than a month earlier. "Wilson was the only family member in the United States with his father," the owners of Kinchley's said. "Now his father has the sad task of sen…

by Jerry DeMarco

01/29/2020

Police & Fire

Fort Lee Police Detective Nabs Security Guard In Two-Town Burglary Spree A Fort Lee police detective's persistence produced the arrest of a security guard who burglarized 10 vehicles in town, mostly taking credit cards, as well as seven more in Palisades Park, authorities said. Detective Richard Rochford cracked the case after he obtained surveillance video not only of the burglaries from overnight on Jan. 13 but also from a Walmart where some of the credit cards were used, Capt. Ricky Mirkovic said. After consulting with the Essex County Sheriff’s Office and East Orange police, Rochford charged Marquis D. Porter, 30, of Irvington on Tuesday with a host of offen…

by Jerry DeMarco

01/29/2020

Police & Fire

Sports TV Engineer From Indiana Indicted In Somerset Child Sex Sting A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted a sports television network engineer from Indiana who was one of 19 men snagged in an online sting after authorities said he traveled to Somerset County to meet what he thought was an underage boy for sex. Randal Wise, 43, “sent messages via an online dating application to an individual who told Wise that he was a 14-year-old boy in the eighth grade,” but actually was an undercover agent, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. These included crotch pics, he said. The six-week sting, dubbed "Operation Open Door," was orchestrated last fall by the Some…

by Jerry DeMarco

01/29/2020

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