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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

Dead Man Found Struck By Train In Ridgewood RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- A man was struck and killed by a train in Ridgewood late Thursday -- but authorities weren't sure which one hit him. Crew members on the eastbound 1134 train saw him "lying across adjacent tracks" north of Glen Avenue around 10:30 p.m., NJ Transit's Jennifer Nelson told Daily Voice. "They went to investigate and discovered that he was dead," she said. "We don't know what train hit him. We don't know when," Nelson said about a half-hour later. She couldn't immediately confirm a report by Daily Voice sources that a suicide note was found.The m…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/10/2016

Events

Popular Children's Author Dan Gutman Visits Northvale Bookstore NORTHVALE, N.J. -- Children's fiction writer Dan Gutman visited Books and Greetings in Northvale Thursday afternoon to promote his new book, "Flashback Four." The New York Times bestselling author's new series "blends fascinating real history with an action-packed and hilarious adventure," a posting for the shop says. "Four very different kids are picked by a mysterious billionaire to travel through time and photograph some of history's most important events," it says. "This time," the post says, "the four friends are headed to 1863 to catch Ab…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/10/2016

Police & Fire

Judge Finds Lodi Man Who Killed Grandmother, 85, Not Guilty By Insanity LODI, N.J. -- A judge in Hackensack on Thursday found a Lodi man not guilty by reason of insanity in the shooting death of his 85-year-old grandmother as she slept on a couch. Joseph Bariso, 30, — who’d gone AWOL from the Army — shot Olga Bariso, four times on Dec. 29, 2013 as she lay sleeping on her living-room couch, according to Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Danielle Grootenboer. He then fled, she said. After disposing of the gun, which was never recovered, he “had the presence of mind” to go to a Target store and change his clothing, Grootenboer said at the time. Authorities issu…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/10/2016

Events

Easter Bunny Returns To Fair Lawn With Fire Co. 3 FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- The Easter Bunny returns to Fair Lawn on Saturday, March 26 atop a borough fire truck, with gifts for all youngsters. Fair Lawn Fire Company #3 has several stops planned. Have your cameras ready, company members said. 10 a.m.: Boyd/Bryant Place 10:20 a.m.: Lyncrest Place 10:40 a.m.: T.J. Middle School 11 a.m.: Gregory Park (CARROT BREAK) 12:30 p.m.: Arcadia Road 12:50 p.m.: Berkshire/29th St. 1:10 p.m.: Brookdale Park 1:30 p.m.: Warrent Point School

by Jerry DeMarco

03/10/2016

Police & Fire

PIP Police Pick Off 6 Pounds Of Pot At Englewood Cliffs Rest Stop ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. -- Two Palisades Intertate Parkway police officers seized six pounds of marijuana that has just been flown in from California after they smelled pot while investigating a car with tinted windows, authorities said. Lt. Jesse Cohen and Officer Timothy Conboy approached the white Mazda with New York license plates at the Mobil station Monday afternoon, Police Chief Michael Coppola said. While asking the driver for his paperwork, they smelled pot, he said. Sgt. Fabricio Salazar and Officer Jeffrey Lamboy joined their colleagues and the trio was ordered out of the car, Co…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/10/2016

Police & Fire

Cliffside Park Firefighters Quickly Knock House Blaze CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. -- Cliffside Park firefighters quickly doused a house fire Thursday afternoon in the 400 block of Gorge Road.

by Jerry DeMarco

03/10/2016

Sports

Berkeley College Knights Win Title With 24th Straight Victory WOODLAND PARK, N.J. -- The Berkeley College Knights' 24th straight win gave them their second straight United States Collegiate Athletic Conference (USCAA) Division II National Men’s Basketball title. The Knights beat Central Penn College, 107-88, in New Rochelle for the longest winning streak in school history. Earlier this year, the team also captured the 2016 Hudson Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (HVIAC) Championship, its eighth title in school history.Berkeley College has six locations in New Jersey – Woodland Park, Paramus, Clifton, Dover, Newark and Woodbridge. “All seas…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/10/2016

Police & Fire

Trucker Rigs Rig With Fishing Wire To Beat GWB E-zpass, Police Charge FORT LEE, N.J. -- A tractor-trailer driver from Yonkers used fishing line to flip up the license plate of his rig to avoid the E-Zpass toll at the George Washington Bridge, Port Authority police said. Officer George Kwiecinski spotted the white 2006 Freightliner with no front plate around 7:15 p.m. Monday, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. The rear trailer plate "was bent up to defeat EZPass security cameras," he said. After stopping the truck, Kwiecinski found the front plate "rigged on a hinge with monofilament fishing line that ran into the cab," Pe…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/10/2016

Police & Fire

Off-Duty Officer Helps Fairview Police Nab Chicken Restaurant Robber FAIRVIEW, N.J. -- An off-duty police sergeant helped Fairview officers grab a North Bergen man who they said bolted from a local fried chicken restaurant after grabbing $85 from the cash register. Ricardo Allen Demby, 31, entered Prince Chicken on Anderson Avenue just before 9 p.m. Wednesday, grabbed the cash and took off, Police Chief Martin Kahn told Daily Voice. The owner tried stopping him, but Demby pushed past and headed south on Anderson Avenue into North Bergen, where on off-duty Guttenberg police sergeant intervened, Kahn said. Demby was being held on $75,000 bail in the Bergen Co…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/10/2016

Sports

Rams All Star Cheering Holds Hackensack Open House HACKENSACK, N.J. -- RAMS All Star Cheering in Hackensack is holding an open house next month to celebrate a decade in Bergen County. The organization, launched in Union City more than 30 years ago, trains and coaches teams that travel across the country -- as well as those who compete only in New Jersey who begin as young as age 5. Its boasts of being "a brick wall that never crumbles." The free event will feature vendors, refreshments, a 50/50 raffle, giveways -- and, of course, performances by some of the teams -- as well as information about how youngsters can try out. The ev…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/10/2016

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