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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

Glen Rock PD: Hawthorne Man Who Made Library Bomb Threat Nabbed At Ridgewood Bus Station Glen Rock police arrested a Hawthorne man who they said emailed a bomb threat to the borough public library. Carlos R. Pabon, 33, was arrested at the Ridgewood bus terminal early Wednesday evening and charged with making terrroristic threats and causing a false public alarm, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. A Bergen County Sheriff's Bomb Squad swept the building after patrons left and staff put the Rock Road library into lockdown after the director received the email saying "a bomb was about to go off in the building," Ackermann said. "No explosive devices nor any other item of a suspicio…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/10/2019

Police & Fire

Paramus PD: Route 4 Stop Turns Up Loaded Guns, 100 Heroin Bundles, $15,000 Cash Paramus police found two New York City men with a pair of handguns, 100 bundles of heroin and $15,000 in drug cash during an overnight Route 4 traffic stop, authorities said. The driver was unable to maintain a single lane while driving a 2014 Acura sedan on the eastbound highway at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. Officer William Stallone determined that the license plates didn’t match the vehicle and stopped it, he said. Stallone was joined by fellow Officers Donald Liu, Officer Tim Reed and Officer Michael Mordaga. While interviewing the two vehicle occupants, …

by Jerry DeMarco

10/10/2019

Police & Fire

Update: Worker, 37, Killed In Crash At American Dream Mall A worker hospitalized after a collision at the American Dream mall in East Rutherford on Wednesday has died, authorities said. Eric Papenfuhs, 37, of the Hunterdon County town of Hampton, was brought to the trauma unit at Hackensack University Medical Center with life-threatening injuries after a Bobcat utility vehicle he was operating crashed into the back of a flatbed around 2:15 p.m., they said. Papenfuhs was working for Sentinel Systems of Hewitt. Once known as Xanadu and long considered a white elephant, the $5 billion “mega mall” is scheduled to officially open on Oct. 25. OSHA…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/10/2019

Police & Fire

Authorities ID Pedestrian, 33, Struck, Killed In Ridgefield UPDATE: Ridgefield police detectives fulfilled next-of-kin notification and, in turn, publicly identified a 33-year-old borough woman who was struck and killed by an SUV at a notorious borough intersection earlier this week. A 78-year-old Fort Lee driver was behind the wheel of the Honda CRV that struck Patricia H. Sagna as she crossed Route 5 at Maple Avenue Monday night, Deputy Police Chief Robert Meurer said. Sagna was pronounced dead at the scene, he said. The Bergen County Prosecutor's Fatal Accident Investigations Unit joined borough police in the investigation. The Bergen County She…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/10/2019

Police & Fire

Lyndhurst Police Stolen Car Chase Ends With Newark Crash, 3 Burglary Suspects Seized A Lyndhurst police stolen car chase through Nutley and Belleville before dawn Wednesday ended with a crash off Route 21 in Newark and the arrests of three burglary suspects. Officer Rich Jasinski was on patrol on 10th Street when he saw a Honda Accord headed east on Kingsland Avenue tailgating another vehicle and going back and forth across the double-yellow line, Detective Sgt. Vincent Auteri said. Jasinski followed the Accord to Ridge Road, then onto Park Avenue and 8th Street before it returned to Kingsland headed west. Discovering that the sedan had been reported stolen out of Fairfiel…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/09/2019

Police & Fire

Former Bergen Special Needs Counselor, 53, Charged With Sexually Assaulting Underage Student Authorities charged a former Long Island woman who had been working in a supervisor position at a New Jersey special needs school with the statutory rape of an underage student. Ellen Terpening, a divorced animal rescue worker formerly of Floral Park in Nassau County, remained held Wednesday in the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing. Terpening "engaged in sexual conduct" with the student between September 2016 and March 2018 while she was the youngster's assistant counselor at the Brownstone School in Saddle Brook and at her home after she had left her position at the school, Be…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/09/2019

Police & Fire

Indictment: Jersey Shore Officer Schedules Sex With Undercover Detective Posing As Girl, 15 A suspended Jersey Shore police officer seeking sex with a 15-year-old girl arranged a tryst with what turned out to be an undercover investigator, an indictment returned Wednesday charges. Richard C. Conte, 48, of Farmingdale, used his work phone at the Howell Township Police Department to chat with the investigator with the New Jersey Regional Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Although the investigator “repeatedly indicated that ‘she’ was 15 years old,” Conte “continued to chat with her online and email her,” claiming that he was o…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/09/2019

Police & Fire

Special Needs Counselor From Long Island Charged With Sexually Assaulting Underage Student Authorities charged a former Long Island woman who had been working in a supervisor position at a New Jersey special needs school with the statutory rape of an underage student. Ellen Terpening, a divorced animal rescue worker formerly of Floral Park in Nassau County, remained held Wednesday in the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing. Terpening "engaged in sexual conduct" with the student between September 2016 and March 2018 while she was the youngster's assistant counselor at the Brownstone School in Saddle Brook and at her home after she had left her position at the school, Be…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/09/2019

Police & Fire

Bergen Special Needs Counselor Charged With Sexually Assaulting Underage Student Authorities charged a former Long Island woman who had been working in a supervisor position at a New Jersey special needs school with the statutory rape of an underage student. Ellen Terpening, a divorced animal rescue worker formerly of Floral Park in Nassau County, remained held Wednesday in the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing. Terpening "engaged in sexual conduct" with the student between September 2016 and March 2018 while she was the youngster's assistant counselor at the Brownstone School in Saddle Brook and at her home after she had left her position at the school, Be…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/09/2019

Police & Fire

Former Morris Teacher/Camp Counselor Gets 15 Years In Federal Prison For Producing Child Porn A former teacher and counselor from Morris County must serve the next 15 years in federal prison for directing live sex abuse videos of young children and getting a boy to send him naked photos that he shared with another. The sentence handed down Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Newark is part of a deal struck with the government by Colin M. Skeele, 33, of Florham Park, who pleaded guilty to producing child pornography in exchange for a more lenient sentence than he’d have received if convicted at a trial. Skeele, who’d worked at a boys’ summer camp in Hardwick and in parochial schools in…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/08/2019

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