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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

Imprisoned Hackensack Child Molester Charged With Stalking A sex offender from Hackensack serving time in state prison for repeatedly molesting a local girl was charged with stalking, records show. In doing so, Favio F. Maldonado violated a no-contact order, according to county records. Maldonado, a 35-year-old former customer service representative, was sentenced to a mandatory minimum of nearly seven years in July 2018 for molesting the victim over the course of more than a year, beginning when she was nine. The Honduran native was arrested following an investigation that began when the girl told authorities in 2014 that he'd touched her over and…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/07/2019

Police & Fire

Fair Lawn Detectives Nab $2,000 Burglary Suspect In Paterson Fair Lawn detectives didn’t need long to identify, catch and charge a Prospect Park man with making off with $2,000 in coins during a local burglary. Detectives Anthony Lugo and Bryan Rypkema went to Paterson, where they stopped 22-year-old Alexander Tallman in his car on First Avenue, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. The day before, they said, he broke into a Lake Street residence and stole the coins, leaving blood and fingerprints behind. The Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification collected the evidence. Tallman was charged with burglary and theft and was released pending a h…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/07/2019

Police & Fire

Paterson 'Hot Spot' Detectives Seize Ex-Con With Loaded Gun, Drugs Detectives with a targeted Paterson police detail seized a local ex-con who was carrying a loaded gun along with cocaine and pot, authorities said. Detectives Salvatore Macolino and William Palomino and Detective Sgts. Mohan Singh and Wayne Bizzaro were focusing on hot spots for drug-dealing and violence when they spotted Glenn Martin on East 23rd Street near 11th Avenue, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. Seeing the investigators, Martin hustled away, trying to conceal what turned out to be a fully loaded .40-caliber Taurus handgun, Speziale said. Palomino took Martin into custody, afte…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/06/2019

Police & Fire

Woman, Dog Injured In Separate Coyote Attacks, Ramapo Reservation Closed UPDATE: Fish and wildlife police set up traps in the park, which was expected to remain closed for a week -- possibly two -- or until some coyotes are captured, Daily Voice has learned. READ MORE: https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/mahwah/police-fire/update-ramapo-reservation-remains-closed-indefinitely-following-coyote-attacks-on-woman-dog/777065/ ****** ORIGINAL STORY: A woman and a dog were injured in separate coyote attacks Saturday at the Ramapo Valley County Reservation in Mahwah, authorities confirmed. Their injuries didn't initially appear serious, responders said. The woman …

by Jerry DeMarco

10/05/2019

Police & Fire

Passaic Sheriff: Driver Punches, Threatens Officer After Stop What could’ve been just another traffic stop changed when the driver punched a Passaic County sheriff’s officer, then threatened to come after him once he’s released from custody, authorities said. Officers pulled over a Kia driven by 21-year-old Marquis Wedderburn near the intersection of East 28th Street and 15th Avenue in Paterson, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said Saturday. A computer check showed no registration, he said. Wedderburn made news earlier this year when his mother snitched on her drug-dealing son after he tried hiding from sheriff's detectives who’d seen him toss 450 bags of…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/05/2019

Police & Fire

North Arlington Burn Victim Airlifted To Barnabas From Lyndhurst A North Arlington woman was flown to St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston after she was severely burned Saturday afternoon in a cooking flashover. An ambulance brought the 45-year-old Madison Street victim to the Riverside County Park field in Lyndhurst, where an AirMed One chopper picked her up shortly before 1 p.m., Capt. Robert Reilly said. Reilly thanked Hackensack University Medical Center, along with Lyndhurst police, firefighters and Police Emergency Squad members who established the landing zone.

by Jerry DeMarco

10/05/2019

Police & Fire

Update: Arrest Made In Paterson DoorDash Delivery Driver Murder UPDATE: The assailant who shot and killed a DoorDash driver as she made a delivery in Paterson earlier this month followed the victim from the pickup at a drive-through fast-food window to her destination before ambushing her, authorities said. The killer's accused driver, 34-year-old ex-con Quadir Whitaker of East Orange, was arrested Monday afternoon and charged with murder and weapons offenses in the cold-blooded killing of 43-year-old Petra Rhoden the night of Oct. 4. The actual shooter had been neither arrested nor identified as of early Tuesday afternoon, however. Nor did authorities…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/05/2019

Police & Fire

Paterson Ex-Con Captured, Charged With August Street Slaying An ongoing dispute ended when a Paterson ex-con pulled a gun and shot another in the back, killing him, on a city street, authorities said Saturday in announcing the accused murderer’s capture. Lavar Bellfield, 35, was charged with murder and weapons offenses – including being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm – in the Aug. 4 slaying of 28-year-old Kevin Lewis in front of 271 Summer Street near Broadway. Bellfield’s criminal history includes a three-year state prison stretch for aggravated assault, eluding police with a risk of injury to others and selling drugs on school proper…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/05/2019

Police & Fire

NJ Transit Driver Injured In Ridgefield Park School Bus Crash Gets $2.25M In Settlement A driver who suffered spinal injuries that kept him from ever returning to work when his NJ Transit bus was struck from behind by a school bus in Ridgefield Park received a $2.25 million settlement, a published report says. Miguel Alvarez had stopped to collect passengers on eastbound Route 46 when his bus was struck from behind on June 22, 2017, aggravating a previous injury, attorney Edward Capozzi, told New Jersey Law Journal. Capozzi filed a personal injury suit on Alvarez’s behalf against Felix Rodriguez-Esprit, the driver of the Morgan Educational Services bus, in Superior Court in Ha…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/04/2019

Police & Fire

Authorities: Pedestrian Struck, Killed By FedEx Truck On Route 23 In Wayne Still Not ID'd More than a day after a man was struck and killed by a FedEx truck on Route 23 in Wayne, authorities hadn't yet been able to identify him. The victim was pronounced dead at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center shortly before 10:30 a.m. Thursday, a little over a half-hour after he was struck on the highway's northbound side near Black Oak Ridge Road, authorities said Friday. The body was later taken to the state Regional Medical Examiner's Office in Newark for an autopsy -- and, hopefully, positive identification, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Wayne Police Chief Jack McNiff…

by Jerry DeMarco

10/04/2019

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