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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

Seen HIM? Man Wanted For Questioning After 'Concerning' Comment About Local NJ High School A reward was being offered to anyone who can hep authorities find a man who they said recently made a "concerning" reference to a local school while in a Morris County store. The 50-something person of interest entered the Eagle Rock Avenue business in East Hanover Township on Thursday, made the comment and left, according to the Morris County Shereiff's Crimestoppers. www.copcall.org "The comment was concerning to the employee, as it referenced 'the high school'," a Crimestoppers bulletin says. Anyone who knows or has seen the man in the surveillance shot taken at the store is asked to …

by Jerry DeMarco

12/13/2019

Police & Fire

‘Pretty Bird’: Roosters Rescued From Paterson Cockfighting Ring Get TLC At St. Hubert's Dozens of roosters rescued from a Paterson cockfighting ring are being “re-homed” by an acclaimed Morris County shelter. “We’ve been calling them all ‘Pretty Bird,” said Rebecca Burton, the vice-president of operations at St. Hubert's Animal Welfare Center in Madison, which handles distressed animals. “There are approximately 50 birds not spoken for by adopters or being transferred out to our shelter partners," Burton said. A few "have signs of old wounds and scarring in the eyes," she said. Otherwise, the roosters are in fine fettle. One just went to a shelter partner, the Animal Welfar…

by Jerry DeMarco

12/13/2019

Police & Fire

Nassau County CIO Sentenced To Federal Prison In $1.14 Million Bribe Scheme A Roslyn man was sentenced Friday to a plea-bargained two years in federal prison for demanding bribes from the owner of two New Jersey IT staffing firms to get contracts from a Texas financial services company. Mark Berger, 59, must serve all of the sentence handed down by a U.S. District Court judge in Trenton, New Jersey. There’s no parole in the federal prison system. Berger was the chief information officer of SWBC, a financial services company based in Texas, with "the ability and authority to hire certain companies to perform work," U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Craig Carpenito said. …

by Jerry DeMarco

12/13/2019

Police & Fire

Self-Described ‘El Chapo Of Opioids' Doctor From Oakland Indicted Again, This Time By The Feds An Oakland physician who already pleaded guilty to state insurance fraud charges has been indicted on federal counts of prescribing opioids without a legitimate medical reason and doctoring records to cover it up. FBI agents in May arrested Robert Delagente -- who they said called himself the “Candy Man” and the “El Chapo of Opioids” – during raids at two of his offices in Oakland. Federal authorities began investigating Delagente, 45, after two former employees accused him of firing them because they didn’t want to participate in his schemes. Delagente routinely prescribed oxycodone, Perc…

by Jerry DeMarco

12/13/2019

Police & Fire

Video: Medical Episode Causes Five-Vehicle Fair Lawn Chain-Reaction Crash, Two Hospitalized Two people were hospitalized in a chain-reaction Fair Lawn crash involving five vehicles, police said. It began when a 66-year-old Fair Lawn driver suffered a medical episode on Fair Lawn Avenue near Abbott Road shortly before 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. First, his 2019 Audi hit a traffic safety bollard and pedestrian crossing sign, Metzler said. Then the Audi rammed into a 2007 Saturn and two parked vehicles -- a 2017 Nissan and a 2019 Toyota, he said. The impact pushed the second vehicle into another Toyota, sending that car into a parking lot, the sergeant said. The …

by Jerry DeMarco

12/13/2019

Neighbors

Donate Directly To Restore Franklin Lakes Church Demolished By Arson Fire Those who want to donate to the rebuilding of Most Blessed Sacrament Church in Franklin Lakes can do so directly instead of responding to what could be bogus GoFundMe campaigns."Father John Job and the staff of Most Blessed Sacrament Church are very appreciative for the outpouring of support and prayers from not only our parishioners but also the community," a statement issued Thursday said. "Many people have reached out to us in regards to donating for the restoration of the church." You can mail a check to: Most Blessed Sacrament Church787 Franklin Lake RoadFranklin Lakes, NJ 07417 Plea…

by Jerry DeMarco

12/12/2019

Police & Fire

Hero: Hasbrouck Heights Police Sergeant Finds Missing Diabetic Woman In Englewood A Hasbrouck Heights woman who’d gone missing was slipping into a diabetic coma when a borough police sergeant played a hunch and found her in Englewood the next day. The 49-year-old woman’s husband reported her missing shortly before 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. She told him she was going to her doctor’s office in Paramus when he'd spoken to her earlier that day, Detective Lt. Michael Colaneri said. That was the last he’d heard from her, he said. After a call found the doctor’s office closed, police entered her as a missing person in the National Crime Information Center’s missing persons file, Co…

by Jerry DeMarco

12/12/2019

Police & Fire

Got Photos, Video From Jersey City Shooting? The FBI Needs Them The FBI has created a virtual depository for photos and videos that can help in the investigation of Tuesday’s gun battle in Jersey City. “We live in a technological era where people capture information without even realizing it,” said Special Agent in Charge Gregory W. Ehrie. “We have long said that members of the public – who say something when they see something – are a force multiplier in our efforts to deter and fight crime,” Ehrie said. “We ask your assistance, now, in our effort to determine as much as we can about what happened on Dec. 10 in Jersey City so that calm can be restore…

by Jerry DeMarco

12/12/2019

Police & Fire

Englewood Collision Sends Both Drivers To Hospital A sedan collided with a Jeep on a busy Englewood street, sending both drivers to the hospital and jamming the area's early Thursday commute. A 2014 Acura ILX driven by a 25-year-old city woman was headed west on East Palisade Avenue when it collided with a 2019 Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by a 17-year-old Franklin Lakes girl headed in the opposite direction at the corner of North Woodland Street just before 8 a.m., Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said. City firefighters had to extricate one of the drivers, Halstead said. Neither had life-threatening injuries when taken to Englewood Hos…

by Jerry DeMarco

12/12/2019

Events

'No One Fights Alone': Loved Ones, Friends Rally As Fearless NJ Performer's Cancer Returns Multi-talented entertainer Olivia Hutcherson of Ridgefield was still basking in the glow of a Manhattan book release party when she got the news that the breast cancer she’d fought off four years ago had not only returned. It’s Stage 4. Days after the launch of “The Show Must Go On,” a collection of Hutcherson’s poems, her lead oncologist told her that the returning cancer had metastasized to her bones, lymph nodes and spine. Those who know her weren’t surprised when Olivia dug in, undergoing 10 rounds of radiation in 10 days. That’s what she’s all about. “I remember laying in those big,…

by Jerry DeMarco

12/12/2019

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