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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

More Than A Feline: Port Authority Officers Rescue Stray Cat At GWB A group of contractors weren’t kitten when they alerted Port Authority Police Officer Brian Gleason to a furmidable feline who’d scampered up scaffolding between the George Washington Bridge’s upper and lower levels. Gleason and two PAPD Emergency Services Unit officers joined the workers on the north walkway midspan, climbing the scaffold toward the stray cat, Port Authority Spokesperson Lenis Rodrigues said. They captured the malnourished purrpetrator with a snare, then took the kitty to the PAPD command center in Fort Lee in a crate, she said. After pawsing for ample food and water, Gle…

by Jerry DeMarco

11/28/2019

Police & Fire

Come Have Coffee, Conversation With Englewood Police Englewood police are hosting the popular "Coffee With a Cop" get-together on Dec. 12. The majority of contacts the public has with law enforcement comes during emergencies or emotional situations -- not always the best times for relationship-building, Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said. The highly successful "Coffee With a Cop" program provides a relaxed, informal setting where community issues can be discussed and relationships built, the deputy chief said. No cell phones, devices, or distractions -- just coffee, cops and conversation. Come meet Englewood's finest from 9 a.m.…

by Jerry DeMarco

11/28/2019

Police & Fire

Oakland 'Candy Man' Doc Who Dubbed Himself ‘El Chapo Of Opioids' Admits Scamming Insurers An Oakland doctor who boasted of being the “El Chapo of Opioids” will be sentenced to a plea-bargained five years in state prison after admitting that he submitted $32,000 in bogus health insurance claims. Under the terms of his deal with the state, Robert Delagente will be sentenced to the five years on Jan. 10 in exchange for pleading guilty to health care claims fraud during a hearing in Superior Court in Hackensack. Delagente, 45, admitted that he submitted seven fraudulent claims to Blue Cross/Blue Shield of New Jersey totaling $32,006 between May and December 2016 while practicing at …

by Jerry DeMarco

11/27/2019

Police & Fire

CO Scare Clears Saddle Brook Day Care Center A Saddle Brook day care center that had 15 children and staff inside was evacuated Wednesday when carbon monoxide detectors were activated, authorities said. A propane tank being used by workers in an adjoining storefront that formerly housed the Kim-Bridge card and flower shop apparently was to blame for the incident at the TLC Plus III on Market Street, Police Chief Robert Kugler said. An ambulance was dispatched as a precaution but wasn't needed, Kugler said. "The contractor was using a propane-fueled concrete cutter," the chief said. "Fumes swept through building into the daycare cente…

by Jerry DeMarco

11/27/2019

Police & Fire

Teaneck Car Fire Spreads To Home What began as a driveway car fire quickly became a house blaze in Teaneck Wednesday afternoon. The fire extended to a 2½-story home in the 500 block of Tilden Avenue around 4:30 p.m., a responder said, adding that everyone got out safely. As flames raced through the attic and basement, fire officials, concerned that there might be people trapped inside, raised the call to three alarms. Less than 20 minutes or so later, all firefighters were ordered out of the building. The fire was declared under control shortly before 5:30 p.m., about an hour after it began. Mutual aid included firefi…

by Jerry DeMarco

11/27/2019

Police & Fire

Garbage Truck, SUV With Kids Inside Collide In Alpine Only minor injuries were reported when a garbage truck collided in Alpine with an SUV reportedly carrying a few children late Wednesday morning. The 62-year-old garbage truck driver and a 34-year-old Cliffside Park woman driving the SUV refused medical attention following the crash at the intersection of Closter Dock Road and Anderson Avenue shortly before 11:30 a.m., Police Chief Christopher Belcolle said. Responders said three children who were in her vehicle weren't seriously injured, either. No summonses were immediately issued, said Belcolle, adding that an investigation was continuin…

by Jerry DeMarco

11/27/2019

Police & Fire

Oradell PD: Fleeing Suspect In $14,000 ID Theft Case Fights With Officers One of three New York City men accused of trying to pull $14,000 from an identity theft victim’s account fought with Oradell police who captured him and his alleged accomplices, authorities said. Officers responding to a fraud-in-progress call from the Chase Bank branch on Kinderkamack Road last Thursday arrested Alexander Percy, 40, of Queens on the spot, Police Chief William Wicker said. Moments earlier, Percy “attempted to wire-transfer $14,000 from an identity theft victim to an unknown account,” Wicker said. He was carrying a bogus Illinois driver’s license and a Discover credit card …

by Jerry DeMarco

11/27/2019

Police & Fire

Accused Boonton Bank Robber Captured UPDATE: 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 o…

by Jerry DeMarco

11/27/2019

Police & Fire

Hit-Run Sedan Severely Injures Ho-Ho-Kus Resident Walking Dog Near Ridgewood SEE ANYTHING? Ho-Ho-Kus police sought the public's help finding the hit-and-run driver whose sedan struck and severely injured a borough woman as she walked her dog near the Ridgewood border Tuesday night. The 57-year-old pedestrian was in a marked crosswalk on North Maple Avenue at 1st Street when she was struck around 7 p.m. by a red sedan that then kept going north on Maple, Ho-Ho-Kus Police Chief Christopher Minchin said. The victim sustained severe head trauma that required surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center, he said. One of the witnesses scooped up the woman's dog, who…

by Jerry DeMarco

11/27/2019

Police & Fire

Seen HIM? Clifton Police Search For Temple Burglar Seeking the public's help, Clifton police released a surveillance image Wednesday of a man who they said broke into two synagogues. In one burglary, the bandit climbed through a second-floor window and made off with expensive jewelry, police Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. The break-ins occurred in the Delawanna section of the city on separate days last month, Bracken said. "There's no indication that these were bias incidents," the lieutenant said. Anyone who sees or can identify the man in the photo is asked to contact the Clifton Police Detective Bureau: (973) 470-5908. Callers can…

by Jerry DeMarco

11/27/2019

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