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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
Cook At Pearl River Tavern Had 200 Child Porn Images On Phone, In Cloud, Authorities Say Cook At Pearl River Tavern Had 200 Child Porn Images On Phone, In Cloud, Authorities Say
Cook At Pearl River Tavern Had 200 Child Porn Images On Phone, In Cloud, Authorities Say A cook at a popular Pearl River tavern was charged with having more than 200 child porn videos and images on his phone – including nine of child sexual abuse. Joseph Kosa, 28, who works at Mickey’s Tavern, was convicted nine years ago of possession of child pornography and served three years probation as a result, criminal records show. He was arrested again during a raid at his Hawthorne, NJ home, which followed a four-month investigation that identified several illegal video files stored on a cloud, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said Thursday. “During a preliminary forensic e…

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Police & Fire
Veteran Bergen Dentist, 82, Struck, Critically Injured In Hawthorne Veteran Bergen Dentist, 82, Struck, Critically Injured In Hawthorne
Veteran Bergen Dentist, 82, Struck, Critically Injured In Hawthorne A veteran dentist from Upper Saddle River was critically injured when he was struck crossing a Hawthorne street Thursday night, authorities said. Ronald Van Slooten, 82, was taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson after the 8:47 p.m. crash on Lafayette Avenue near Llewelyn Avenue, authorities said. Van Slooten was struck and thrown into the windshield by a 2013 Subaru Impreza operated by a 40-year-old Hawthorne man who remained at the scene, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Hawthorne Police Chief Richard McAuliffe said. The Passaic County Sheriff's Office r…

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Police & Fire
Passaic County Sheriff: Cook At Pearl River Tavern Had 200 Child Porn Images On Phone, In Cloud Passaic County Sheriff: Cook At Pearl River Tavern Had 200 Child Porn Images On Phone, In Cloud
Passaic County Sheriff: Cook At Pearl River Tavern Had 200 Child Porn Images On Phone, In Cloud A cook from Passaic County who works at a popular Rockland tavern was charged with having more than 200 child porn videos and images on his phone – including nine of child sexual abuse. Joseph Kosa, 28, who works at Mickey’s Tavern, was convicted nine years ago of possession of child pornography and subsequently served three years probation, criminal records show. He was arrested again during a raid at his Hawthorne home, which followed a four-month investigation that identified several illegal video files stored on a cloud, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said Thursday. “During …

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Victim, 55, Hospitalized, Suspect Seized In Washington Township Stabbing Victim, 55, Hospitalized, Suspect Seized In Washington Township Stabbing
Victim, 55, Hospitalized, Suspect Seized In Washington Township Stabbing A 55-year-old man was hospitalized after being stabbed in the head Thursday afternoon in Washington Township in what appears to be a domestic incident. A 54-year-old resident was taken into custody and a hunting knife was recovered from the Washington Township home where the stabbing occurred, said Capt. Richard Skinner, the officer in charge of the department. Charges of aggravated assault and weapons possession were expected once detectives concluded interviews with family members. The conscious and alert victim was loaded into an ambulance, his head bandaged, and taken to Hackensack Un…

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Police & Fire
Bogota Police Charge Newark Man Wanted In NYC With Knifepoint Threat Bogota Police Charge Newark Man Wanted In NYC With Knifepoint Threat
Bogota Police Charge Newark Man Wanted In NYC With Knifepoint Threat Bogota police arrested a wanted Newark man after they said he pulled a knife on a local resident before dawn Thursday. The resident came to headquarters around 1 a.m. to report the alleged threat by Aaron Lorenzo, 31, of Newark, Sgt. Geoffrey Cole said. Lorenzo had visited the victim’s apartment with a friend of a friend, Cole said. Soon after a description was given out to patrol officers, Sgt. Thomas Riedel and Officer Ryan Ward found him. Lorenzo, who was wanted on an arrest warrant out of New York City, gave them several bogus names, Cole said. They also found him carrying a small amo…

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Police & Fire
Handyman Busted After Ridgewood Woman Finds Hidden Camera In Her Bedroom Handyman Busted After Ridgewood Woman Finds Hidden Camera In Her Bedroom
Handyman Busted After Ridgewood Woman Finds Hidden Camera In Her Bedroom A handyman working on a Ridgewood woman’s home installed a secret camera in her bedroom so he could spy on her, authorities said. Jose Lema, of West Orange, who turned 44 on Tuesday, was arrested Thursday and charged with burglary and attempted invasion of privacy, village Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke said. The victim went to police last month after finding the “surreptitiously placed” small digital camera, which had a clear view of her bed, after Lema did work in her home, the chief said. Lema was released pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack.

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Prosecutor: Northvale Man With Child Porn Stash Had Sex Chats, Got Pics From Underage Girls Prosecutor: Northvale Man With Child Porn Stash Had Sex Chats, Got Pics From Underage Girls
Prosecutor: Northvale Man With Child Porn Stash Had Sex Chats, Got Pics From Underage Girls A 23-year-old Northvale electrician created a bogus identity to have online sex chats with two underage girls whom he convinced to send him nearly two dozen “nude or sexually explicit” photos of themselves, authorities charged. Ronald S. “Ronnie” Rovito Jr. used the screen names “buyingnudes2019,” “whoop_w,” or “ncruzan,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Thursday. Detectives with Musella’s Cyber Crimes Unit raided Rovito’s parents’ Paris Avenue home on Wednesday and discovered that he’d “used the Internet to view, download, or possess approximately 390 digital files depicting nude…

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Weather
COLD SNAP: Temps In Teens, 20s Headed Our Way COLD SNAP: Temps In Teens, 20s Headed Our Way
Cold SNAP: Temps In Teens, 20s Headed Our Way Snow in't the issue: The kind of cold that ordinarily doesn't hit the tri-state area 'till New Year’s Eve is “the real story” for Friday and Saturday, an expert meteorologist warns. Temperatures in North Jersey, Rockland and areas just north will be in the 20s and low 30s on Friday – but that’s just the start, Joe Cioffi said in a Thursday report. On Saturday, “it’s going to be teens and 20s just about everywhere,” he said. Predictions of snow for the tri-state area this weekend are “a big yawn,” Cioffi said. It’s the approaching cold front that should concern people, he said. “It would …

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Police & Fire
Bergen College Student Charged With Child Porn Blackmail Following Raid Bergen College Student Charged With Child Porn Blackmail Following Raid
Bergen College Student Charged With Child Porn Blackmail Following Raid A 23-year-old Dean's List student tried to blackmail a victim using child pornography, said New Jersey State Police who arrested him during an early-morning raid at his Closter home. Pritkumar Patel, who recently attended Berkeley College, remained held Thursday in the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing. He's charged with: Cyber harassment by sending or posting obscene material with the intent to harm or cause fear; Criminal coercion through the threat of exposure or ridicule (blackmail); Extortion; Child endangerment by storing and/or maintaining child pornography; Sexual con…

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Student, 17, Who Made Saddle Brook School Threat Taken Into Custody Student, 17, Who Made Saddle Brook School Threat Taken Into Custody
Student, 17, Who Made Saddle Brook School Threat Taken Into Custody UPDATE: A 17-year-old Saddle Brook High/Middle School senior athlete who posted a threat on Snapchat was taken into custody by police and suspended from school, Mayor Robert White said Thursday. Police signed delinquency complaints against the boy -- whose identity wasn't disclosed because he's a minor -- charging him with making terroristic threats, cyber harassment and harassment. He also was dismissed from his volunteer as a junior firefighter with the township, authorities told Daily Voice. The action follows what the mayor called a "disturbing" Snapchat message that the boy posted on …

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