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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

Photos: Fire Destroys Rutherford Home Fire destroyed a nearly 100-year-old Rutherford home early Saturday. No injuries were reported in the four-alarm Walnut Street blaze, which broke out around 4 a.m. and eventually blew through the rear roof and side of the 2½-story home. It was knocked down within two hours. The cause wasn't immediately determined. Firefighters from Carlstadt, East Rutherford, Moonachie, North Arlington and Secaucus were among those providing mutual aid. ALL PHOTOS by DAMIEN DANIS The Walnut Street fire in Rutherford broke out around 4 a.m.Damien Danis for DAILY VOICE The cause wasn't immediately…

by Jerry DeMarco

12/07/2019

Police & Fire

Englewood PD: Pedestrian Struck, Seriously Injured, Hit-Run Driver Returns A 50-year-old Englewood woman was hospitalized with serious injuries after being struck by an SUV whose driver initially took off but then returned, police said. The 2019 Buick Enclave's driver, also 50, said she was headed south on Broad Avenue at the intersection of Meadowbrook Road around 5:40 p.m. when "she heard a thud," Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said. "She said she noticed the victim in the street and panicked," then kept going, the deputy chief said. "She returned some time later, realizing, according to her, that she had struck the pedestrian," he said. Responders foun…

by Jerry DeMarco

12/06/2019

Police & Fire

Hero's Welcome Surprises Rookie Little Ferry Police Officer Deployed Overseas Steve Linde was a full-fledged Little Ferry police officer all of a week when he was deployed to Africa with the U.S. Army National Guard early this year. He returned Friday to a hero's welcome. The 25-year-old borough native was hired as a police officer in November of last year, passed his field training and hit the street -- but not for long. Linde, who was graduated from Montclair State University in 2016, enlisted with the National Guard a year earlier for a six-year hitch that ends in February 2021. He was deployed on Feb. 4 to the country of Djibouti in the Horn of Africa and condu…

by Jerry DeMarco

12/06/2019

Police & Fire

Montvale Man Who Murdered Parents, Brothers Denied Parole Again An infamous Bergen County convict who shot and killed his parents and two younger brothers in their Montvale home during Thanksgiving weekend 43 years ago must spend at least another nine years behind bars before he'll be eligible again for parole. A state appeals court on Friday ruled that the New Jersey State Parole Board had good reason to deny a bid for freedom last year and make Harry De La Roche wait until 2028 before he can make a seventh application for release. De La Roche was an 18-year-old freshman at The Citadel military college in South Carolina when authorities said he shot an…

by Jerry DeMarco

12/06/2019

Police & Fire

Update: Route 17 Jammed By Two Poles Downed In Truck Crash Police reopened some lanes on Route 17 mid-Friday morning after a box truck ran off the road and slammed into a utility pole outside the BMW dealership on on the southbound side in Ramsey during the early rush. The toppled pole pulled down another with it just before 7:30 a.m., stretching sparking wires across the highway and forcing police to close Route 17 in both directions. It remained closed at Lake Street for more than three hours after the crash -- backing traffic north into Rockland and south to Paramus -- before police began reopening northbound lanes around 10:40 a.m. Southbound r…

by Jerry DeMarco

12/06/2019

Police & Fire

Gotcha! Boonton Bank Robber Captured, Authorities Say A Boonton man was captured and charged with robbing a local Wells Fargo bank eight days ago. Andrew T. Merceruio, 37, was being held in the Morris County Correctional Facility in Morristown, charged with bank robbery and theft, authorities said. Merceruio, a native of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was captured on surveillance video on Nov. 27, when he robbed the Wells Fargo branch on Wootton Street, they said. No weapon was displayed, nor threats made, when the robber demanded money and made off with $2,000, responders said. Morris County Prosecutor Fredric M. Knapp, Acting Chief of Invest…

by Jerry DeMarco

12/05/2019

Police & Fire

Survivors Of Palisades Park Stabbing That Killed 2 Friends Warn Students About Sudden Violence “I don’t want to die,” a mortally wounded Tommy Johnston told his friend Yang Chung after they and two other Palisades Park High School football players were stabbed on Broad Avenue the night before Labor Day 1992. Johnston, 17, had just been stabbed twice in the chest during a fight with two boys from Ridgefield Park. He died at the hospital. Their friend, Philip Raymondo, 16, died on the steps of police headquarters. He’d been stabbed in the heart. Chung and Gino Zilocchi, now both 43, described the horrific murders of their friends to two groups Thursday during assemblies at Palisades …

by Jerry DeMarco

12/05/2019

Police & Fire

Watch: State Police Pursuit Begins On GSP In Clark, Ends With Arrest On Route 3 In Clifton A 20-mile New Jersey State Police chase partially captured on video began in Clark and ended with the arrest in Clifton of a driver who authorities said fought with troopers before being subdued. A trooper doing laser speed enforcement tried pulling over the Honda CRV near Exit 135 on the northbound Garden State Parkway around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, NJSP Major Brian Polite said, but the driver kept going. Backup troopers quickly joined the pursuit, as did Clifton police. The driver turned off the Parkway at Exit 153B onto westbound Route 3 in Clifton and quickly hit traffic. The driver -- …

by Jerry DeMarco

12/05/2019

Police & Fire

Alarm Malfunction Locks Down Northern Valley Regional HS What turned out to be a malfunction of an automated lockdown system brought a fleet of police to Northern Valley Regional High School's Old Tappan campus on Thursday, authorities said. Administrators and two Class III special law enforcement officers assigned to the school quickly determined that the activation was accidental, Old Tappan Police Chief Thomas M. Shine said. The lockdown was lifted and the day's activities resumed, he said. School officials were investigating.

by Jerry DeMarco

12/05/2019

Police & Fire

Area Tour Company Founder Indicted On Federal Child Porn Trafficking Charges The founder of a nature tour company operating from the Jersey Shore north to Poughkeepsie and southern Connecticut was found with 6,800 photos and 120 videos of child sexual abuse, an indictment returned by a federal grand jury alleges. Federal Homeland Security agents arrested Vaughn Tiedeman, 46, of Living Adventure Tours, in February on distributing child pornography charges. A grand jury in Newark added receiving and possession counts, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said Thursday. Between July 2018 and January 2019, Tiedeman, of West Milford, “distributed at least 50 videos a…

by Jerry DeMarco

12/05/2019

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