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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

Schools

Bergen Sheriff, BCC Officials Debut Deaf And Hard Of Hearing Communication Card A colorful new communication card aims to help officers at the Bergen County sheriff's substation at Bergen Community College and the deaf and hard of hearing understand one another better. The cards, which will be demonstrated during a simulated traffic stop at a kickoff event at the school on Friday, use words and pictures that “outline the expectations or needs of the individuals on either side of the conversation,” Sheriff Anthony Cureton said. They also “offer tips for law enforcement officers to consider when interacting with someone hard of hearing,” the sheriff said. The college’s …

by Jerry DeMarco

11/07/2019

Police & Fire

Police: Woodland Park School Board Candidate Busted For DWI A candidate who finished out of the running in this week’s Woodland Park school board election was charged with DWI last month after registering more than twice the legal limit on a blood-alcohol test, police records show. Officer Justin Castro said in a police report that he spotted a four-door 2017 Ford driven by Jason Snyder, 27, just before midnight Oct. 5. In his report, Castro said that he saw Snyder “brake suddenly, activate his right turn signal” less than 100 feet from the corner and turn right onto Nesser Lane from McBride Avenue. He then followed the vehicle as it turned onto S…

by Jerry DeMarco

11/07/2019

Police & Fire

More Charges Added Against Morris County Math Teacher Accused Of Stalking Student A Morris County grand jury on Wednesday added official misconduct charges against a Mount Olive High School math teacher accused of stalking and harassing a student. Tajinder Tung, 48, of Stewartsville, "stalked a student and committed acts that constituted a course of alarming conduct, both inside and outside of the school" while he was teaching at the high school between 2017 and May 2019, Morris County Prosecutor Fredric M. Knapp and Acting Chief of Investigations Chris Kimker said in a joint release. Tung originally was arrested and charged on a complaint in August. The case was then p…

by Jerry DeMarco

11/06/2019

Police & Fire

Saga Of Bergen-Hudson Scrap Metal Company That Conned Customers Out Of Millions Closes After two years, four guilty pleas and several years worth of combined sentences, a massive federal case ended quietly Wednesday against a North Jersey scrap metal company that conned customers of several million dollars over nearly two decades. David Bartek, 55, of Wood Ridge, became the only convict to not get any federal prison time when he was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Newark to eight months home confinement and five years of supervised release. The government’s case against Cinelli Iron & Metal Co. (CIMCO) publicly began when with Bartek, the company’s former CF…

by Jerry DeMarco

11/06/2019

Police & Fire

Police Converge On Ex-Con At Lyndhurst Motel After Lengthy Pursuit A recent parolee with a lengthy rap sheet was chased by police and then taken into custody by tactical officers after he barricaded himself in a Lyndhurst motel before dawn Wednesday, authorities said. Sgt. Rick Pizzuti was on patrol around midnight when he found a Toyota Camry with an expired temporary registration tag in the parking lot of the Winslow Motor Inn on Rutherford Avenue, Detective Sgt. Vincent Auteri said. Eventually, 30-year-old Quaire Wilson of Bloomfield got into the Camry and pulled out of the lot, he said. Pizzutti then tried to pull him over, but Wilson hit the gas and …

by Jerry DeMarco

11/06/2019

Police & Fire

Witnesses Help Clifton Police Nab Fleeing Business Burglar Hailing Cab Clifton police responding to a commercial burglary call found their suspect trying to hail a cab. Witnesses told responding officers that the burglar fled toward Paterson after breaking into the Main Street business around 1 a.m. Tuesday, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. The front glass door was smashed and cash and cigarettes stolen, he added. Officers established a perimeter and began a yard-by-yard search, assisted by a Passaic County sheriff’s K-9 unit. Then they spotted him on Getty Avenue. Police arrested Luis A. Beabrut, 43, of Paterson and recovered the proceeds. He was charged…

by Jerry DeMarco

11/06/2019

Police & Fire

Infant, 1, Struck By Car In Fort Lee A 1-year-old girl was hospitalized with a head injury Wednesday morning after a vehicle knocked her from her stroller in Fort Lee. “Sun glare is one of the possible factors” in the 7:37 a.m. crash on Main Street at Gerome Avenue, police Capt. Ricky Mirkovic said. A mother was pushing her daughter when a 2018 Honda Civic driven by a 48-year-old Edgewater man hit the stroller, knocking it over, Mirkovic said. Any possible charges or summonses were pending the results of an investigation by the Fort Lee Police Department Traffic Bureau, he said. The investigation closed Main Street betw…

by Jerry DeMarco

11/06/2019

Police & Fire

Saddle Brook PD: 'No Credible Threat' From Student's Snapchat Post, Teen 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 …

by Jerry DeMarco

11/05/2019

Police & Fire

North Arlington PD: Officer Injured, Other Escapes Harm From Newark Motorist Fleeing To Hudson A North Arlington police officer injured his arm while another escaped harm when a repeat offender from Newark aimed his car at them and then sped off from an overnight traffic stop, authorities said. The officers and, later, their colleagues from Kearny chased the fleeing car before the pursuit was terminated in Jersey City before dawn Tuesday. Borough police were preparing complaints at North Arlington Police Headquarters a short time later when the driver – identified as 26-year-old Luigie X. Castillo – walked in and surrendered, Captain Robert J. Reilly said. Officer Jason Rivera initi…

by Jerry DeMarco

11/05/2019

Police & Fire

California Rig Driver Caught With Kilos Of Heroin, Fentanyl In Morris Gets 27 Months In Fed Pen A Salvadoran national will likely be deported after serving a 27-month plea-bargained federal prison term for driving a tractor-trailer that contained 22 pounds of heroin and nearly nine pounds of fentanyl when authorities stopped it in Morris County. Joselito Colindres, 42, of Riverside, CA, previously admitted in U.S. District Court in Newark that he knew the drugs were in the trailer when he got to Pennsylvania, but he kept going to New Jersey, anyway. Authorities converged on the rig in North Jersey on Oct. 21, 2018, arresting Colindres, who they said had been living in the country lega…

by Jerry DeMarco

11/05/2019

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