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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

Police: Car Burglar Caught With Crystal Meth Was Living Under Porch Of Clifton Home A man who'd been living under the back porch of a Clifton home was caught breaking into cars in the area before dawn Friday, police said. A passerby notified police, who began searching the Lexington Avenue neighborhood around 1:30 a.m., Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. Officers eventually found Omar Torres, 40, hiding beneath a backyard porch, he said. Torres had been living there undetected "for quite some time," Bracken said. He was processed on charges of possession of burglary tools, crystal meth and drug paraphernalia and released pending a hearing. ****** ALSO SEE: Detect…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/18/2019

Police & Fire

Gas Leak Temporarily Clears Neighboring Saddle Brook Homes A gas leak in a vacant house forced the evacuation Thursday night of some neighboring homes in a Saddle Brook neighborhood. Residents were "advised it was safe to return to their homes" a short time after the leak was reported in the Colonial Avenue home near the Helen Smith school, Police Chief Robert Kugler said. Police secured the scene and were joined by firefighters and EMS workers, the chief said. A PSE&G crew tended to the leak once firefighters gained entry, he said.

by Jerry DeMarco

10/17/2019

Police & Fire

Garfield Police Charge Clifton Driver In June Pedestrian Hit-Run Garfield police charged a 30-year-old Clifton man with a June hit-and-run crash that seriously injured a pedestrian. Dwayne M. Chess Jr. was driving a four-door Kia Forte that struck the 56-year-old victim on River Drive just south of Belmont Avenue shortly before 9:30 a.m. June 20, Capt. Richard Uram said. The car kept going south on River Drive with a damaged windshield and hood, he said. The victim "suffered multiple broken bones, among other injuries," for which he was still rehabilitating, Uram said Thursday. Detective Michael Latona charged Chess Jr with assault by auto and lea…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/17/2019

Police & Fire

Jurors Convict Passaic Man Of Leaving Route 21 Crash That Seriously Injured Newark Man A Passaic man faces several years in state prison for walking away from a Route 21 crash that seriously injured a Newark driver. Jurors in Paterson convicted Elijarh Hogges, 32, on Thursday of aggravated assault, assault by auto, leaving the scene of a crash resulting in serious injury and victim endangerment following a week-long trial in Superior Court. Hogges drove a 2013 Audi Q5 through a red light at the Dayton Avenue intersection and struck the 37-year-old victim’s 2012 Chevy Malibu, which was exiting the Route 21 ramp, on May 27, 2017, Senior Assistant Passaic County Prosecutor Julie…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/17/2019

Police & Fire

False ALARM: Woman Outside School Wasn't Trying To Lure Child Into Minivan, Police Say A woman picking up her children from a Woodland Park elementary school Wednesday afternoon was mistakenly thought to be trying to lure a youngster into her minivan, police said Thursday. The woman was standing in front of the Beatrice Gilmore School (grades 3-4) at dismissal when the child mistakenly interpreted her actions, Woodland Park police said. "After a thorough investigation it was found that the woman in question was picking up children of her own and was signalling past the child who alerted us to this incident," the department said in an update. "Everything was confirmed with all…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/17/2019

Police & Fire

GWB Jumper's Body Recovered From Hudson Rescuers recovered the body of a 21-year-old man who jumped to his death Thursday afternoon from the lower level of the George Washington Bridge. Port Authority police who heard an NYPD alert of a possible suicidal person at the George Washington Bridge found an abandoned vehicle on the Manhattan-bound side shortly after noon, authority spokeswoman Lenis Rodrigues said. Less than 10 minutes later, officers "saw a man floating in the Hudson River below the westbound side of the bridge," she said. The NYPD Harbor Unit brought the body to the Ross Dock in the Fort Lee section of Palisade…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/17/2019

Weather

NOT SO FAST: Nor'easter Winds Aren't Gone, Meteorologists Warn Although things seemed calm Thursday, forecasters said a powerful Nor'easter that slammed into North Jersey the night before, flooding streets and toppling trees, wasn't gone yet. Trees struck two houses in Hawthorne, as well as in: Glen Rock on Edgemont Road; Hackensack on Kansas Street; Franklin Lakes on Dakota Trail; Ho-Ho-Kus on Brookside Avenue. They also downed utility lines in various towns, including Emerson, knocking out power to several thousand area customers, and in Allendale (Darlington Avenue and Upland Road), where wires caught fire. Damage from downed trees and limbs wer…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/17/2019

Police & Fire

Found! Missing Passaic Hospital Patient, 67, Found Sleeping On Porch A 67-year-old Passaic woman who walked out of a hospital overnight Thursday wearing only a light gown and yellow socks was found and returned before lunchtime, authorities said. A resident who found Yolanda Roa sleeping on a porch a few blocks from St. Mary's Hospital dialed 911 and a responding officer identified her, Passaic Police Chief Luis Guzman said. "She's in good health, being returned to the hospital," Guzman told Daily Voice shortly before 11 a.m. Surveillance footage showed Roa walking out of the hospital more than eight hours earlier. Police issued a screen shot from the vide…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/17/2019

Police & Fire

Contractors Break Gas Line, Fair Lawn Homes Evacuated A gas leak forced the temporary evacuation of some homes in a Fair Lawn neighborhood Thursday morning. Contractors penetrated the high-pressure main line at Franciscan Way and Plaza Road North just after 8 a.m. Police, firefighters and PSE&G responded.

by Jerry DeMarco

10/17/2019

Police & Fire

Feds Smash World's Largest Dark Web Child Porn Network By Following Bitcoin Trail Federal authorities have smashed the world’s largest dark web child porn marketplace, arresting a whopping 337 people around the world – some of them in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut -- all thanks to bitcoin. To sniff out the network, investigators used a unique strategy. "Welcome to Video" was one of the first websites of its kind to monetize exploitation videos of infants, toddlers and other children, "one of the worst forms of evil imaginable," one federal prosecutor said. The network used bitcoin because of the difficulty in tracing it, the Justice Department said in a complaint…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/16/2019

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