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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

Grease Is The Word: Accused Cooking Oil Thief Gets Violent, Wayne Police Say One of two men busted while driving through Wayne with a vat of stolen cooking oil in their van spat and urinated in a police car and had to be shackled when he refused to stop fighting officers, authorities said. Copper, catalytic converters and cooking oil continue to be items of choice for thieves looking to make a quick – and illegal – buck. It was around 7 a.m. when Wayne Police Officer William Hall stopped a van for multiple violations and smelled grease, Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. Both occupants were covered in oil and wore rubber gloves with a “visible sheen,” the captain said.…

by Jerry DeMarco

05/09/2023

Police & Fire

Two-Family Home Deemed Unstable After Pickup Crash In North Arlington Building inspectors deemed a two-family house in North Arlington uninhabitable after a pickup truck slammed into it early Monday evening. There was no immediate word on the condition of the driver whose GMC Sierra plowed into the foundation and garage of the corner house on Bogle Avenue at River Road just south of the Lyndhurst border around 5 p.m. May 8. North Arlington police, firefighters and EMS responded. The pickup was headed south on River Road when it slammed into the foundation of the two-family house on Bogle Avenue in North Arlington.Kyle Mazza/UNF News for DAILY VOICE River…

by Jerry DeMarco

05/08/2023

Police & Fire

Hive & Seek: 12,000 To 15,000 Bees Have House-Swarming Party In Downtown Ridgewood Tens of thousands of honeybees had a hive-swarming party that temporarily closed a stretch of downtown Ridgewood on Monday. It wasn't immediately clear what brought the colony to the tree in front of the Starbucks on East Ridgewood Avenue. Perhaps there was a promise of more honey and shorter working flowers. Village police summoned Frank Mortimer, a local beekeeper who recommended that the colony be removed from their perch 30 feet up a tree. Firefighters brought a ladder truck to hoist Mortimer, who needed roughly a half hour to neutralize the threat. An unprotected firefighter who acco…

by Jerry DeMarco

05/08/2023

Police & Fire

Worker's Leg Broken By Fallen Beam At Site Of Future Teaneck Senior Housing Complex A worker suffered a compound leg fracture during a mishap on the site of a developing senior housing community in Teaneck, authorities said. The 23-year-old worker was walking between two metal I beams at ground level when one of them tipped onto his leg shortly after 1 p.m. Monday, May 8, Teaneck Police Chief Andrew McGurr said. Fellow workers at the site pitched in to lift the beam off their injured colleague’s leg, the chief said. Members of the Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps then took him to Hackensack University Medical Center, McGurr said. Police, firefighters and an ALS unit fro…

by Jerry DeMarco

05/08/2023

Police & Fire

Perv Caught Snapping Cellphone Pics Of Woman Changing At Willowbrook Mall H&M: Police A pervert took upskirting to another extreme when he stuck a cellphone under a dressing room curtain at the Willowbrook Mall to snap photos of a woman getting changed, authorities charged. The woman screamed and a companion chased the upskirter from the H&M store, Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. The companion gave a description to Wayne Police Officers Matt Bernardo and Kim Fryer, who reviewed security video and saw Christian E. Tellobazan, 40, of Bloomingdale run from the mall, get into a black SUV and take off, the captain said. Following up, Detective Nicole Georgia identified Tellob…

by Jerry DeMarco

05/08/2023

Police & Fire

Montclair State Junior Who Collected Child Porn Got Kids To Send Sex Vids, Authorities Charge Investigators who arrested a student at Montclair State University for collecting child porn made a frightening discovery after raiding his dorm room, authorities said. The MSU junior from Burlington County had contacted underage children online using a bogus identity, then engaged them in sexually explicit chats – and even had some send him videos of them pleasuring themselves, they said. Keyon Luff, 21, of Edgewater Park, was arrested by state Division of Criminal Justice detectives assisted by Montclair State police during a raid of his on-campus dorm room last week, New Jersey Attorney …

by Jerry DeMarco

05/08/2023

Police & Fire

26 Pounds Of Fentanyl Seized In Passaic: Twin North Bergen Brothers, Associate Charged New Jersey State Police seized more than 26 pounds of fentanyl worth $1.2 million on the street while charging twin brothers from North Bergen and an associate with slinging the deadly drug from a township residence and an apartment in the city of Passaic. Detectives from NJSP Drug Trafficking North Unit raided drug dens in Passaic and Hudson counties following the arrest of Edwal Mercedes, 39, during a traffic stop, authorities said. Mercedes was carrying a bogus driver's license and more than $10,000 in suspected drug cash, Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and NJSP Supt. Col. Patrick J…

by Jerry DeMarco

05/08/2023

Police & Fire

Motorcyclist, 71, Could Lose Leg From Emerson Crash: Responders A 71-year-old motorcyclist was in serious condition following a collision Monday morning in Emerson, authorities and responders said. Responding Emerson police officers swiftly applied a tourniquet to the Lyndhurst motorcyclist's right leg just about the ankle following the crash at the corner of Forest and Revere avenues outside Beth El Cedar Park Cemetery around 9 a.m. May 8. He nonetheless could lose the rest of his leg, responders said. His other leg was broken, as well, and he suffered internal injuries, they said. The 51-year-old driver of the other vehicle, from Washington Town…

by Jerry DeMarco

05/08/2023

Police & Fire

SWAT Standoff: Elmwood Park Man Throws AC Unit, Flaming T-Shirts Out Window Before Surrender A three-hour SWAT standoff ended overnight when a barricaded Elmwood Park man with a violent history -- one that includes fighting with police -- agreed to surrender. Syed Uddin, 37, of Franklin Street was "shouting obscenities on the porch of the residence and appeared to be under the influence of some type of substance" when police arrived shortly before 9:30 p.m. Sunday, May 7, Elmwood Park Police Chief Michael Foligno said. They tried talking with him, but Uddin ran inside, locked the door and continued shouting at them from a second-floor window while bashing the wall with a metal obj…

by Jerry DeMarco

05/08/2023

Police & Fire

Driver Hospitalized After SUVs Collide In Westwood Westwood firefighters freed a driver after his SUV got T-boned by another. The extricated driver walked to an ambulance under his own steam while bleeding from the head and was taken to a hospital following the crash at the corner of Kinderkamack Road and Westwood Avenue around 10:30 a.m. Sunday, May 7, responders said. The other SUV's driver was shaken but otherwise OK, a witness said. At the scene of the crash at Kinderkamack Road and Westwood Avenue mid-morning Sunday, May 7.Nancy Triggiani-Musco Police are investigating the cause. Nancy Triggiani-Musco took the photos. The BMW…

by Jerry DeMarco

05/08/2023

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