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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.

Jerry DeMarco's Contributions

Police & Fire

Englewood Officers Injured While Arresting Unruly Driver: Police A driver was in custody after an incident on Saturday that sent two Englewood police officers to the hospital. Officers responding to a call of a parked driver who appeared unconscious found Alpha Diallo, 28, of Englewood in a BMW sedan with New York license plates on West Englewood Avenue near Humphrey Street a little after 11 a.m. on April 22, Lt. Fred Pulice said. Officers Michael McCue and Michael Holland banged on the driver's side window but had trouble waking him, the lieutenant said. Once he came to, Diallo ignored the officers, put the car in gear and tried to maneuver out of a ti…

by Jerry DeMarco

04/22/2023

Police & Fire

Busy Dealer Nabbed With Coke, Smack, Cash: Passaic County Sheriff A dealer from Woodland Park was nabbed with nearly a quarter pound of cocaine, a dozen bundles of heroin and more after detectives watched him in action, Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik said. The sheriff's narcotics detectives stopped Edwin Olmedo, 34, as he drove on Route 23 in Wayne mid-afternoon Friday, April 21. Warranted searches turned up nearly four ounces of coke, the bundles of heroin, Xanax and Oxycodone pills and $1,391 in suspected drug cash, the sheriff said on Saturday. The detectives also arrested two Little Falls men whom Berdnik said Olmedo was seen selling to in se…

by Jerry DeMarco

04/22/2023

Police & Fire

Discarded Fire Pit Embers Blamed For Glen Rock Garage Fire UPDATE: Discarded embers from an outdoor fire pit ignited a detached garage fire in Glen Rock earlier this month, authorities said. The embers “had been placed in a bucket directly next to the garage,” sparking the April 12 fire at a Beech Road residence, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said earlier this week. Responding police and firefighters found the homeowner trying to douse the blaze with a garden hose, the chief said. Firefighters from Fair Lawn and Hawthorne provided mutual aid. No injuries were reported.

by Jerry DeMarco

04/21/2023

Police & Fire

Bi-State Bust: 32 Pounds Of Pot Plus Hash, 'Shrooms Seized By Bergen Narcs A Bergen County duo -- one from Lodi and the other Saddle Brook -- were busted along with an associate from Queens with 32 pounds of pot, more than a pound of hash and some psilocybin mushrooms for sale, authorities said. Anthony Nunez, 32, of Richmond Hill was arrested by members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Narcotic Task Force after a search of his vehicle in Fort Lee turned up 14 pounds of marijuana and some mushrooms, Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Jose A. Castro-Lopez, 34, of Lodi was arrested after a search of his vehicle in Saddle Brook produced three pounds of pot, the prosecuto…

by Jerry DeMarco

04/21/2023

Police & Fire

Brutal Murderer Of Bergen County Woman Sent To Prison For 55 Years UPDATE: An East Rutherford man was sentenced to 55 years in state prison for brutally kidnapping, stabbing and strangling a female neighbor. Francis "Frank" Tattoli, 30, won't be eligible for parole for nearly 48 years for the Christmastime 2016 slaying of Mone’t Thomas, 25, in the Summer Street apartment building where both lived. Thomas, who was born in Teaneck, worked as a manager of group sales for the Holiday Inn in Secaucus. She lived in the building with her boyfriend and bulldog. She'd just taken the dog for a walk when she was attacked in the hallway. Surveillance…

by Jerry DeMarco

04/21/2023

Police & Fire

Drunken, Bloodied Bus Passenger From Hawthorne Taken Into Custody In Glen Rock A blood-soaked drunken bus passenger from Hawthorne who’d been cutting herself was taken into protective custody by Glen Rock police, authorities said. Officers found the 29-year-old woman when they responded to the Harding Plaza station on a report of a disturbance onboard an NJ TRANSIT bus, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. She was “in a highly intoxicated state, covered with blood, with apparent self-inflicted knife wounds on her arms,” the chief said, adding that she “could not care for herself.” An ambulance took her to Bergen New Bridge Medical Center for detox and medical care, he s…

by Jerry DeMarco

04/21/2023

Police & Fire

Wounded Paterson Man, 19, Charged With Separate Shooting Outside Church A 19-year-old Paterson gunman who was wounded in a shooting last week had shot another city man a week earlier, authorities announced Thursday, as gang warfare in the Silk City continued to rage. Desmar Ferguson and two others -- another 19-year-old man and a 13-year-old boy -- were shot near the corner of East 18th and Fair streets around 9 p.m. last Friday, April 14. All three were brought to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center for treatment of non-fatal wounds, said Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and New Jersey State Police Major Frederick P. Fife, the interim officer in …

by Jerry DeMarco

04/20/2023

Police & Fire

Drug Sting Nabs City Teen Selling 10 Bricks Of Heroin In Bergen: Prosecutor An 18-year-old unemployed Paterson man got stung selling 250 bags of heroin to a Bergen County undercover detective and another 250 on the street, authorities said. Naje Dior Brabson remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Thursday, April 20, while awaiting a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said members of his Narcotic Task Force chased Brabson down on Tuesday after seeing him sell five bricks of heroin. He'd previously sold five bricks to an undercover detective, the prosecutor said. Brabson was charged with tw…

by Jerry DeMarco

04/20/2023

Police & Fire

6-Week-Old Paterson Child Dies Suddenly: What Happened? Authorities are investigating the early-morning death of a 6-week-old child in Paterson. City police and firefighters responded to a 911 call at a second-floor apartment in a multi-family house on 9th Avenue off East 18th Street at 6:18 a.m. Thursday, April 20, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said. The infant was found in cardiac arrest and rushed to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, responders said. Doctors there pronounced the baby dead at 6:56 a.m., Valdes said. The prosecutor didn't classify the death as a homicide or otherwise and didn't say whether anyone was taken…

by Jerry DeMarco

04/20/2023

Police & Fire

'Not Mine,' Says Traveler Caught With Gun, Ammo At JFK Airport: TSA An upstate New York man not only insisted he had "no idea" how a gun and ammunition for it ended up in his carry-on bag at JFK Airport, authorities said. "He also claimed the gun didn't belong to him," TSA Spokesperson Lisa Farbstein said. The firearm with a separate box containing five bullets triggered an alarm at a Transportation Security Administration X-ray unit on Wednesday, April 19, Farbstein said. Port Authority police summoned to the checkpoint took the Liberty, NY, man into custody and seized the gun and ammo, she said Thursday. “It is the busy spring travel season," said John…

by Jerry DeMarco

04/20/2023

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