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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

Prosecutor: Freehold Woman, 25, Was Killed By Ex-Boyfriend UPDATE: Authorities have known for months that a 25-year-old Freehold woman whose body was found Sunday was killed by her "on and off" boyfriend, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced Monday. Stockbroker John Ozbilgen, 29, left a note for his parents before committing suicide in November, weeks after Stephanie Parze was reported missing , Gramiccioni said during a news conference in Freehold. "He stated that he had had enough and that he could not do life in prison,' the prosecutor said. "He also admitted that what his parents would hear in the news was true, excep…

by Jerry DeMarco

01/27/2020

Police & Fire

Jersey Shore Bomber Gets 3rd Life Sentence For Trying To Kill Linden Officers Who Caught Him A wannabe terrorist from Elizabeth who’s already serving double-life in federal prison received yet another lifetime sentence for trying to kill five Linden police officers who captured him after he detonated bombs at the Jersey Shore and in New York City in 2016. Superior Court jurors in Elizabeth last October convicted Ahmad K. Rahami, 31, of five counts of attempted murder -- one for each of the officers -- as well as aggravated assault and weapons offenses. On Friday, State Superior Court Judge John M. Deitch sentenced Rahami (also known as Ahmad K. Rahimi) for those convictions. Raham…

by Jerry DeMarco

01/26/2020

Police & Fire

Body Of Bergen Pizzeria Employee Who Went Missing Found In Rockland A massive search on Sunday turned up the body of a Bergen County pizzeria employee in Rockland County, more than a month after he'd gone missing. The body of Wilson Atz-Roldan was found in the water at the foot of Lake Antrim off Route 202 (Wayne Avenue), Suffern police said. More than 80 volunteers from search and rescue organizations from across New York and New Jersey joined police and crews from Community Search and Rescue (COMMSAR) in searching for At-Roldan, an employee of Kinchley's Tavern in Ramsey who went missing on Dec. 21. An autopsy was being scheduled to determine the cause …

by Jerry DeMarco

01/26/2020

Police & Fire

Fair Lawn Exterior House Fire Doused Fair Lawn firefighters quickly doused an exterior house fire Sunday afternoon. A garage at the Terhune Place home sustained minor injuries. Fair Lawn police, EMS and Heavy Rescue joined firefighters at the scene. The cause wasn't immediately determined.

by Jerry DeMarco

01/26/2020

Police & Fire

Passaic Sheriff: Warrant Detectives Seize Paterson Pair With 500 Heroin Folds, Five Bags Of Pot Passaic County sheriff's detectives in an unmarked car nabbed two Paterson men with 500 heroin folds during a traffic stop, authorities said. The Fugitive Warrant Squad detectives pulled a van over for running a stop sign in the area of Straight Street and Godwin Avenue around 6 p.m. Friday, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. As they approached, they noticed passenger Jihad King, 28, furtively moving his hands around his stomach as if to conceal something, Berdnik said. They also smelled burnt marijuana, he said. A search turned up the heroin envelopes, along with five medium-sized zip-lock…

by Jerry DeMarco

01/26/2020

Police & Fire

Watch: Sheriff's Program Provides Freedom To Bergen Police, Navy Vet Who Suffered Stroke Sometimes you don’t have to move heaven – just a little bit of earth -- to help someone in need. Retired Washington Township Police Capt. Joe Sacchi spent most of his adult life serving others while on the local force and in the U.S. Navy. So it was with immense respect and pride that a team of law enforcement officers united with a group of inmates to assist Sacchi, 81, who suffered a stroke several years ago. It had begun getting more difficult for Carol Sacchi to get her husband in and out of their home as they aged. But Township Police Sgt. Roy Scherer found the answer – as well as a…

by Jerry DeMarco

01/25/2020

Police & Fire

Bergen, Hudson Bail Reform Car Burglar Arrested Yet Again -- 500 Feet From Edgewater Police HQ Police have nearly lost count of the number of times serial car burglar Isaiah Jones has been released only to strike again in community after community in Bergen and Hudson counties. It happened again Friday night when Edgewater police said they caught Jones entering unlocked vehicles in the parking lot of a River Road shopping center barely 500 feet from their headquarters. The 29-year-old Bayonne resident has become a local bail reform poster boy of sorts. Two weeks ago, Edgewater police arrested Jones for breaking into vehicles at the Viva Margarita Restaurant on Old River Road, across…

by Jerry DeMarco

01/25/2020

Police & Fire

Hawthorne Man Dies After Falling Through Ice At Monksville Reservoir UPDATE: A Hawthorne man who fell into the Monksville Reservoir in Ringwood while apparently ice fishing Friday afternoon died a short time later, authorities said. Robert R. Trojanowski, 54, was taken by ambulance to Chilton Hospital in Pequannock, as were two Ringwood police officers who jumped in to save him. Trojanowski fell through the icy lake about 100 feet from shore in the Long Pond Ironworks State Park sometime around 2 p.m., responders said. Two Ringwood police officers went after him before all three were pulled out by colleagues from Ringwood and West Milford, they said. The i…

by Jerry DeMarco

01/24/2020

Police & Fire

Englewood Cliffs Driver, 75, Charged In Palisades Park Hit-Run That Injured North Bergen Woman UPDATE: Palisades Park police tracked down an SUV driver who they said took off after hitting a 19-year-old North Bergen woman at a notorious intersection. The 75-year-old female Englewood Cliffs motorist received traffic summonses for leaving the scene of an accident with injuries and failing to yield to a pedestrian after officers “checked different combinations of the license plate and matched up surveillance video,” Capt. Anthony Muccio said Friday. The victim was heading south on Broad Avenue when she was struck by the woman’s Kia Soul in the crosswalk at East Columbia Avenue around 7:…

by Jerry DeMarco

01/24/2020

Police & Fire

Unemployed Man Charged With 6,000 Child Porn Files At Dumont Home, Bergenfield Hangout An unemployed Dumont man shared nearly 1,000 of 6,000 or so child pornography files that detectives seized Friday from his home and at a hangout in Bergenfield, authorities said Friday. Timothy G. Schilling, 34, was being held in the Bergen County Jail pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack on possession and distribution of child pornography charges. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said detectives from his Cyber Crimes Unit arrested Schilling and seized the files from both his Highwood Drive home and “a temporary residence he occasionally used in…

by Jerry DeMarco

01/24/2020

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