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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

Trucker Charged With Vehicular Homicide, Assault In NJ Crash That Killed Suffolk Man A chain-reaction crash on the NJ Turnpike that claimed the life of a Long Island man was caused by a Seattle truck driver, said New Jersey State Police, who charged him with vehicular homicide. Stefan (Stephen) Shipinkoski, 22, remained held Thursday in the Bergen County Jail on death-by-auto and assault-by-auto charges following his arrest Wednesday. Shipinkoski was driving a Freightliner box truck in Ridgefield, New Jersey that rear-ended a Nissan Altima, igniting the chain-reaction crash on the Turnpike’s southbound western spur just after 2 p.m. Saturday, NJ State Police Trooper Alejand…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/31/2019

Police & Fire

Trucker Charged With Vehicular Homicide, Assault In Fatal NJ Turnpike Crash A chain-reaction crash on the NJ Turnpike in Ridgefield that claimed the life of a Long Island man was caused by a Seattle truck driver, said State Police who charged him vehicular homicide. Stefan (Stephen) Shipinkoski, 22, remained held Thursday in the Bergen County Jail on death-by-auto and assault-by-auto charges following his arrest Wednesday. Shipinkoski was driving a Freightliner box truck that rear-ended a Nissan Altima, igniting the chain-reaction crash on the Turnpike’s southbound western spur just after 2 p.m. Saturday, NJ State Police Trooper Alejandro Goez said. Luis Choez-Pad…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/31/2019

Police & Fire

Elmwood Park Man, 20, Charged With Having 18,806 Child Porn Files, Sharing 8,215 An unemployed Elmwood Park man was caught with 18,806 child pornography files, many of which he shared with others, authorities said. Justin K. Kinchen, 20, was taken into custody following a raid at his home in the Elmwood Terrace apartments, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Cyber Crimes Unit investigators found the trove of images “depicting nude and/or sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children,” Musella said, 8,215 of which he “used several social media and file-sharing applications to share with others.” Kinchen remained held Thursday in the Bergen County Jail pe…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/31/2019

Police & Fire

Correction: Late Teaneck Native, 66, Wasn't Current Resident Of New Milford Nursing Home CORRECTION: A Daily Voice story earlier today incorrectly stated that a Teaneck native who died this past week had been a patient at a New Milford nursing home when a fire broke out there two days earlier. Maurice Walker, 66, who died Saturday in Englewood, wasn't a patient at the CareOne Woodcrest facility at the time of last Thursday's fire, said Arthur Frisch, the company's regional director of administrator support. Borough police confirmed that Walker wasn't among those hospitalized with smoke-related issues stemming from the small fire, which they said was confined to an unoccupi…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/31/2019

Police & Fire

Update: Dog Leads Police To Family Of Pedestrian, 64, Struck Crossing Fair Lawn Street A dog led police to the family of a 64-year-old pedestrian who was struck while crossing a Fair Lawn street Wednesday night, authorities said. Both he and the 61-year-old driver of the SUV that hit him in a crosswalk on Berdan Avenue just after 6:30 p.m. were hospitalized, Police Sgt. Brian Metzler said. The pedestrian was reported in critical condition with head and leg injuries in the Intensive Care Unit at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, Metzler said. The driver was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with chest and arm injuries, he said, adding that a 6…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/30/2019

Police & Fire

Heroes: Suicidal Woman, 19, Rescued After Jumping From Palisades In Cliffside Park Cliffside Park firefighters rescued a distraught 19-year-old woman who plunged nearly 30 feet after jumping from the top of the Palisades in a suicide try Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. The woman was taken to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, responders said. She sustained a head and ankle injury and had various cuts and bruises from the fall, Police Capt. Vincent Capano said. The woman jumped from the area at the bottom of Bender Place off Gorge Road and Laird Avenue -- across from the Riello high-rise on Gorge Road below -- around 4 p.m., the captain said. The Cliffside Par…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/30/2019

Police & Fire

Google Maps Warn Of Speed Traps: Right Or Wrong? Police nationwide are concerned that a Google Maps feature that shows their real-time locations around the world could end up seriously injuring or killing civilians – or them. Last week, iOS users got the ability to report crashes, traffic slowdowns and speed traps across the country, a crowd-sourcing tool that a much smaller number of Android users have had since last year. Police argue that the global update, which competes with Google-owned Waze, could keep or put more drunk or drugged drivers on the road. “Revealing the location of checkpoints puts those drivers, their passengers, and…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/30/2019

Police & Fire

Seen HIM? Authorities Hunt Paterson Fugitive Who They Said Shot Mom’s Neighbor Dead Authorities turned to the public for help Wednesday in their search for a Paterson ex-con who they said opened fire during a weekend dispute with his mother’s downstairs neighbors, killing one of them and wounding the slain man’s brother. David Talmadge, 26, is charged with murder, attempted murder and various weapons offenses, including being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Troy Oswald said in a joint announcement. Talmadge was at his mother’s Belle Avenue apartment when he got into an argument with brothe…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/30/2019

Police & Fire

Heroes: Palisades Parkway Police Rescue Suicidal Man Who Tried Driving Car Off Cliffs Palisades Interstate Parkway police took a distressed Bronx man into custody after he tried to drive his car off the cliffs 400 feet above the Hudson River and then said he wanted to commit suicide by cop, authorities said. Englewood Cliffs police transferred a 911 call from a witness who said the 29-year-old emotionally disturbed man “appeared to be attempting to drive [his] vehicle over the cliff’s edge” at the Rockefeller Lookout high atop the Palisades, Lt. Jock H. Watkins Jr. said. Contacted by PIP police on his cellphone, the driver “confirmed that he was in emotional distress” and “s…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/30/2019

Police & Fire

Paterson PD: Sweep Of Illegal After-Hours Clubs Continues With Raid At Popular Hookah Lounge It was sometime around 3 a.m. when patrons began arriving for a highly-publicized party at a popular Paterson hookah lounge, authorities said. Among those who turned up at Besan Café on East Railway Avenue were city inspectors, who'd shut the business down following a police raid earlier this year. Addressing illegal clubs is both a quality-of-life and regulatory issue, authorities say. For one thing, they tend to attract crime. For another, the owners and operators avoid both regulation and the necessary fees and taxes that honest business owners pay. City authorities said community membe…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/30/2019

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