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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

Clifton Woman Seeks Public's Help In Hit-And-Run Crash Outside House CLIFTON, N.J. -- A Clifton woman was hoping to help find the driver responsible for slamming into a friend's car and then taking off Tuesday night. It happened on Heburn Road between 5:45-6:30 p.m., Stephanie Kane said. "He was visiting our house and was parked on the street," she said. "When he went out about a half hour-45 minutes later, his brand new car had been hit." The front driver's side fender and bumper were damaged, she said. Left behind was a chunk of tail light. Kane said her next-door neighbor "saw a greyish color SUV (looked like a Jeep) back out o…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/02/2016

Police & Fire

Lyndhurst Officer Finds 93 Crack Bags, $13K Cash, Arrests Newark Couple LYNDHURST, N.J. -- A Lyndhurst police officer turned up 93 bags of crack and $13,000 in suspected proceeds after a routine traffic stop of a Newark couple. Officer Chris Cuneo could see "cash strewn all over" the 2008 Ford Explorer that was headed east on Kingsland Avenue with a cracked tail light and inoperable third brake light when he stopped it Tuesday afternoon near Tenth Street, Capt. John Valente told Daily Voice. The crack was found in the vehicle and on the passenger, identified as Edda Vasquez, 35, he said. She and driver Shawn Beachum, 37, were taken into custody and t…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/02/2016

Police & Fire

School Bus Crashes In Moonachie SOUTH HACKENSACK, N.J. -- No injuries were immediately reported after a school bus got into a crash with a van and tractor-trailer at Huyler Street and Bruce Court in Moonachie just after 7:30 a.m. Wednesday. "My kids texted some students who responded from the bus and reported that no one was hurt," the Rev. David Wehrle, pastor of Leonia United Methodist Church, told Daily Voice. Local districts contract with the First Student bus company to transport high school students to and from Bergen Tech in Teterboro.

by Jerry DeMarco

03/02/2016

Schools

Cliffside Park Cheerleaders Keep Reaching Heights CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. -- Cliffside Park is boasting the top competitive cheeleading team in its division in the entire U.S. for the second year in a row -- but there's more to come. The Raiders Elite, a Cliffside Park Recreation Department competitive cheerleading team, now heads to the U.S. Finals in Providence, R.I. on May 7-8. While placing first in its division during a tournament last month in Pennsylvania, the Elite nailed the highest score of the session, repeating as Grand National Champions. Team members: Dorothy Anderson Jessica Stomber Ashley Olivelli Alexa Olivelli Melan…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/02/2016

Police & Fire

Lyndhurst Police: Can You Help ID Woman Who Stole Charity Box? LYNDHURST, N.J. -- Lyndhurst police released surveillance photos Tuesday in the hope that the public can help identify a woman who they said swiped a charity money box from the counter of a 7-Eleven nearly two weeks ago. The accused thief placed a large block coat over the box, covering it, then picked up both and left while the clerk was distracted the monring of Feb. 18, Police Capt. John Valente said. He didn't know how much the box contained or what charity it was for. The woman was described as about 45 years old, with black hair, and wearing dark sunglasses, black pants, a leopard-pa…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/01/2016

Police & Fire

Call Of 'Guy Named Jonathan' On Roof With Bomb Clears Saddle Brook Walmart SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- A call from a woman that someone was on the roof with a bomb cleared the WalMart and neighboring stores in Saddle Brook Tuesday afternoon. The Bergen County Sheriff's Office Bomb Squad and K9 unit swept the evacuated stores after the 3:15 p.m. call, during which the "older-sounding" woman said, "There's a guy named Jonathan on the roof with a bomb," Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler told Daily Voice. Officers also walked the roof without finding anything, he said. As it turned out, two workers had been up there doing some type of repairs, wit…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/01/2016

Police & Fire

Bank Teller Helps Saddle Brook Police Nab Maryland Suspect In $20G Thefts SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- A quick-thinking bank teller helped Saddle Brook police arrest a Maryland man on fraud charges after they said he pulled $20,000 from victims' accounts at various banks. Terrell Hale, 25, of Hyattsville was still at the Capital One branch on Market Street when Detective Capt. Vincent Laurentino, Detective Lt. John Zotollo and uniformed officers responded to the call Monday, Police Chief Robert Kugler said. Hale "presented the teller a fraudulent Maryland driver’s license in an attempt to identify himself as the account holder" while trying to withdraw $1,500,…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/01/2016

News

Afternoon Crash Jams Hackensack intersection HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A Tuesday afternoon crash thickened traffic at Main Street and Hackensack Avenue in Hackensack. No immediate injuries were reported in the collision, which occurred around 3:15 p.m.

by Jerry DeMarco

03/01/2016

Police & Fire

Washington Township Businessman Admits Federal Dietary Supplement Fraud WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- A Washington Township businessman who operated a series of dietary ingredient companies in New Jersey admitted in federal court Tuesday that he sold methamphetamine precursor chemicals. David Romeo, 46, also pleaded guilty to a separate scheme to defraud purchasers of dietary supplements -- to the tune of $7 million altogether -- and money laundering. “This case underlines the need for both consumers and the government to be vigilant in investigating what the American public is ingesting in the guise of weight loss or health enhancement supplements,” said Princi…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/01/2016

Police & Fire

NJ Man Who Got Girl To Strip Online 'Growing Threat,' ICE Warns A South Jersey man on Monday admitted blackmailing a a 16-year-old Canadian girl into stripping naked on a webcam while he recorded her -- as part of what the Homeland Security authorities warned parents is a "growing threat." Michael Van Culin, 32, of Salem County, "stalked a number of underage girls on the Internet, blackmailing them into sending him sexually explicit photos of themselves or exposing themselves on a webcam," acting New Jersey Attorney General John J. Hoffman said. An investigation by the state Division of Criminal Justice and ICE Homeland Security Inve…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/29/2016

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