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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

New South Hackensack Deputy Chief Boasts Extensive Investigative, Supervisory Experience An experienced and respected South Hackensack police commander has taken another step up in a distinguished career. Joined by family, friends and colleagues, new Deputy Police Chief Robert Kaiser was sworn to the post on Thursday, the latest achievement in his 30 years on the force. As captain, Kaiser managed the day-to-day operations of criminal investigations, internal affairs and firearms training the past nine years. He’d already been directly supervising the Detective Bureau as a sergeant beginning in 2005. Kaiser, who turned 51 a little over a week ago, served for two years with th…

by Jerry DeMarco

01/11/2020

Police & Fire

Midland Park Mailman Gets 364 Nights In County Jail In Ridgewood Hit-Run Death UPDATE: Thanks to a plea deal, a postal carrier from Midland Park who fled the scene after striking and killing a Hawthorne man in Ridgewood won’t be going to state prison for his crime. A judge in Hackensack on Friday allowed Rafael Ramos, 48, to keep his job during the day while serving 364 consecutive nights in the Bergen County Jail as his plea-bargained sentence for the hit-and-run death of Edward Rao. Ramos was charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident after running over and killing Rao, a 54-year-old former Ridgewood real estate agent, on West Ridgewood Avenue near the vill…

by Jerry DeMarco

01/11/2020

Police & Fire

Update: Pedestrian, 76, Killed In Oakland, Others In Ridgewood, Waldwick Hospitalized A 76-year-old West Milford woman who was struck by a sedan in Oakland early Friday night died shortly after arriving at the hospital, authorities said. Nina Weil was trying to cross Ramapo Valley Road near the intersection of Elm Street when she was struck around 6:30 p.m. by a 2006 Toyota Corolla operated by a 67-year-old Orange County, NY driver, police Lt. Christian Eldridge said Saturday. Weil had a weak pulse and was bleeding from the head as CPR was conducted in the ambulance en route to the hospital. She was later pronounced dead at to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson…

by Jerry DeMarco

01/10/2020

Police & Fire

Paterson PD: Teen Who Tried To Tip Away From Group Had Loaded Gun, Magazine, 50 Heroin Folds Paterson police nabbed a 16-year-old boy who was carrying a handgun with a high-capacity magazine, hollow-point ammunition and 50 folds of heroin. Detectives John Farfan and Luis Roca of the Street Crime Unit approached a group of people gathered in the area of North Main and Arch streets around 7 p.m. Thursday when the teen walked away while trying to hide something in his clothing, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. They found him carrying a semi-automatic handgun, along with the illegal magazine, ammo and drugs, Speziale said. The teen was being held in the Essex County Detention Cent…

by Jerry DeMarco

01/10/2020

Police & Fire

ICE Asks Bergen Authorities To Hold Northvale Kitchen Worker Jailed On Child Porn Charges A Guatemalan national living in Northvale was arrested on child porn charges following a raid at his home, authorities said. Carlos Geovani Guillen, a 27-year-old restaurant line cook, “used the Internet to view, download, and possess approximately 35 digital files depicting nude and/or sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children, and also share at least one such video online,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Friday. Investigators from Musella’s Cyber Crimes Unit arrested the kitchen worker -- who's also known as Carlos Geovani Guillen -- following a warranted search of…

by Jerry DeMarco

01/10/2020

Police & Fire

Hoboken Police Officer Headed To Emergency Call Injured In Crash A Hoboken police officer was hospitalized with injuries that responders said weren’t life-threatening after a sedan struck her patrol SUV Friday afternoon. The BMW struck the driver’s side door on a residential stretch of Adams Street between 1st and Newark streets around 3:30 p.m. Officer Cynthia Rivera, who was taken by ambulance to Hoboken University Medical Center, was headed to an emergency call of a dispute in progress when the crash occurred, police said. Her SUV was driven from the scene. The BMW was towed. The other driver didn't appear injured. Boyd A. Loving took the photo an…

by Jerry DeMarco

01/10/2020

Police & Fire

Blaze Consumes Route 35 Strip Club Flames blew through the roof of a Sayreville strip club on Friday. The fire broke out at the XXXV Gentlemen’s Club on Routes 35/9 around 2 p.m. and quickly went to three alarms. Police closed several area roads, including the ramp from the highway to Old Route 4. No injuries were immediately reported. 35 XXXV Gentlemen's Club, SayrevilleCOURTESY: ABC7 Eyewitness News

by Jerry DeMarco

01/10/2020

Police & Fire

Fairview Deliveryman Charged With Sexually Assaulting Pre-Teen A Fairview delivery driver sexually assaulted a pre-teen in town, authorities charged. Mario A. Castaneda, 40, who recently worked for Amazon, remained Friday in the Bergen County Jail pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court on charges of aggravated sexual assault of a victim under 13 and child endangerment. After Fairview police were told of the alleged assault three weeks ago, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said, his Special Victims unit joined them in an investigation. Castenada, of 4th Street -- a Cliffside Park native who's also lived Palisades Park -- w…

by Jerry DeMarco

01/10/2020

Police & Fire

Hitler 'Had A Point': Outrage Grows Over Monmouth Pizza Manager's Alleged Anti-Semitic Texts The story of a Monmouth County teenage pizza delivery driver who accused his boss of an anti-Semitic texting tirade continued to spread Friday, with many expressing outrage and no response yet from the business owner. Nicholas Bogan, 17, told ABC7 on Thursday that he’d only begun working part-time at Maurizio’s Pizzeria & Italian Ristorante in Eatentown a little over a week earlier when he asked on Sept. 20 for the first night of Rosh Hashanah off. In response, he said, he got a series of offensive messages from his manager, Francesco Scotto Di Rinaldi, that he said were shared with two…

by Jerry DeMarco

01/10/2020

Police & Fire

Remember THE Sixties? This Weekend's Warm Temps Could Set Record We may not see much sunshine again for a couple of days, but temperatures in North Jersey and neighboring counties already are pushing toward 60 degrees – and could break records for this early in the year. From eastern Pennsylvania to southern New England, “it is all about warm air,” meteorological expert Joseph Cioffi said Friday. Area temperatures on Friday were already climbing toward 50 -- barely two days after dropping into the 20s. “We don’t see any weather issues for tonight into Saturday other than clouds, some patchy fog, and the outside chance for a shower,” Cioffi said. “Temper…

by Jerry DeMarco

01/10/2020

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