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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

Fair Lawn Burglary Victim Spots Suspect Day Later FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- A day after video surveillance captured images of a burglar who took $250 from a Fair Lawn home, the victim saw the suspect and alerted police. The Essex Place resident returned home just before 9 a.m. Wednesday to find a side door ajar and seeral rooms ransacked, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. A neighbor's surveillance system caught images of the intruder, he said. Just after 11:30 a.m. Thursday, the victim saw the suspect -- 22-year-old Abdulla Taylor -- walking by his house, Metzler said. The resident "approached him while taking photographs...on his cellphone" a…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/03/2016

News

Bergen's Innovative Mental Health 'Empower House' Serves Women 16 To 22 HACKENSACK, N.J. -- An innovative mental health care facility serving young Bergen County women from 16 to 22 officially opened its doors in Hackensack with a ribbon cutting. “Empower House is the next step in our administration’s commitment to supporting mental health care that specifically addresses unique challenges in different communities,” County Executive Jim Tedesco said during a brief ceremony Wednesday at the Essex Street facility. “The young women who will join our team of leaders, instructors, and mental health professionals at Empower House will find a program dedicated to serv…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/03/2016

Police & Fire

Port Authority Police Emergency Unit Celebrates Graduation Atop GWB FORT LEE, N.J. -- A group of Port Authority police officers brought their colleagues from other departments up the cables of the George Washington Bridge during training for dealing with emergencies at the Hudson River span. The joint training "bridge walk" hosted by the Port Authority Police’s Emergency Service Unit included members of the New York City Police Department ESU, Jersey City Police ESU and New York City Department of Corrections, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. The authority's elite unit held the session, in part, "to celebrate members from e…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/03/2016

Police & Fire

$150G Bail Set For Hackensack Bank Teller Accused Of Sexually Touching Girl HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A judge ordered a married bank teller from Hackensack held on $150,000 bail after authorities accused him of touching "an intimate part" of an underage girl's body last summer. Oscar G. Munoz, 22, was charged with sexual assault by contact and child endangerment folloing a joint investigation by city police and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit. He remained held in the Bergen County Jail following what Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said was his arrest Monday.

by Jerry DeMarco

03/03/2016

Police & Fire

Moonachie Woman Charged With Assaulting Girl MOONACHIE, N.J. -- A Moonachie woman was jailed on charges of smacking a girl in the face, injuring her. Jessica Mercer, 47, was charged with simple assault and child endangerment. She remained held on $25,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail following her arrest Wednesday. Mercer, who is single and unemployed, "is to have no contact with the victim and cannot return to the victim’s residence, as conditions of bail," Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Thursday. A March 16 arraignment was scheduled.

by Jerry DeMarco

03/03/2016

Politics

NJ's Largest Newspaper Calls On Christie To Quit New Jersey's largest newspaper on Thursday joined the chorus of media calling on Gov. Chris Christie to resign -- while suggesting that a recall election may be in order. Absent from the state 72 percent of the time in 2015, Christie "has made it abundantly clear that governing New Jersey is a distant second priority for him, far behind the demands of his personal ambition," the Star-Ledger Editorial Board writes. "In any other job, he would have been fired long ago," it says in the editorial, entitled "Chris Christie, resign for N.J.'s sake." If "his fir…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/03/2016

News

Lodi Chef Named Rising Star LODI, N.J. — A Lodi chef had the right ingredients to be named a rising star in his field by the James Beard Foundation. Joseph Cuccia, 28, was named a chef under 30 to watch. Cuccia works at 17 Summer in his hometown of Lodi. He opened the restaurant a year ago after his catering business continued to grow. Cuccia said he did not expect to be receive the honor from James Beard Foundation, a national organization that celebrates all things food. "It was cool," he told Daily Voice. "It's one of those things that you, that every chef, wants even to be nominated. The fact th…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/03/2016

Police & Fire

U.S. Attorney: Marshals Nab 20-Year Fugitive In Poland Disco Killing GARFIELD, N.J. -- Nearly two decades after authorities in Poland said he beat a man to death there, U.S. Marshals Wednesday morning found him living in Garfield. Rafal Kaldon, 38, was being held without bond after Marshals brought him before a federal judge in U.S. District Court in Newark later in the day. Under an extradition treaty, he will have a hearing aimed at returning him to Poland to face murder charges, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said. "On the evening of Aug. 25, 1996, Kaldon and an accomplice allegedly entered a disco in Poland, walked up to a man, and without speaking …

by Jerry DeMarco

03/02/2016

Police & Fire

Lodi, Saddle Brook Firefighters Douse Car Blaze LODI, N.J. -- Lodi and Saddle Brook firefighters knocked down a car fire on the Riverview Avenue ramp above Route 80 in Lodi early Wednesday afternoon. No injuries were reported in the 1:45 p.m. blaze.

by Jerry DeMarco

03/02/2016

Police & Fire

Illegal Parking Leads to Arrests Of Wallington Driver, Passenger WALLINGTON, N.J. -- A Wallington man who'd parked illegally with the motor running had heroin, hypodermic syringes and a passenger wanted on a warrant in his Jeep, borough police said. Sgt. Tomasz Kruk busted both after spotting the illegally parked vehicle on Wallington Avenue just after 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, Detective Lt. Shawn Kudlacik said. After obtaining consent to search the Jeep from the driver, 25-year-old Przemyslaw Gradowski, the officer reported finding 11 wax folds labeled "SECOND2NONE," one labeled "LEGEND" and nine unlabeled -- all containing heroin -- along…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/02/2016

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