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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

Bergen Prosecutor's Detective Nabs Paterson Pair With 45+ Pounds Of Coke On Route 80, Feds Say Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives nabbed two Paterson men with more than 45 pounds of cocaine during a traffic stop, federal authorities said Thursday. Carlos Nieves and Yocadis Montas-Cepeda, both 24, were handed over to federal agents for prosecution, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. The pair were arrested on their way from Paterson to the Bronx last November after a detective with the prosecutor’s Narcotics Task Force stopped their Kia Sorrento on eastbound Route 80 for having tinted windows. The officer received consent to search the vehicle after learning that Nieves had been b…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/07/2019

Police & Fire

Clifton PD: Thug Mugs Church-Goer Waiting For Ash Wednesday Service A repeat offender from Fair Lawn mugged a woman as she waited for a church to open in Clifton for Ash Wednesday, said police who arrested him. The 46-year-old Paterson woman was standing outside of St. Brendan's Church on Lakeview Avenue when a car drove onto the sidewalk and Marc Terwilliger got out, holding some type of metal object, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. Terwilliger, 21, grabbed the woman’s purse, then knocked her down when she resisted and fled with it in the vehicle, he said. Clifton firefighters treated the victim at the scene for arm and leg injuries, the lieutenan…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/07/2019

Police & Fire

Englewood Business Burglary: Wise Owner Kept Register Empty, Police Say For the third time in recent weeks, Englewood detectives were investigating a break-in at the same luncheonette. Officers found the front glass door to the KNT Food Store on West Hudson Avenue shattered just before midnight Saturday, Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said. Nothing appeared to be taken, Halstead said, adding that “display shelves and merchandise all appeared to be undisturbed.” The owner responded and confirmed that all merchandise was accounted for. The secured cash register was ajar – but, wisely, the owner hadn’t left any money in it, Halstead said. “Note to store o…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/06/2019

Police & Fire

Ex-Medical Residents Charged With Mahwah Man's 'Molly'-Inducted Death Two former medical residents who authorities said manufacturing and sold Molly and LSD were charged with giving a Mahwah man the homemade drugs that killed him. Anthony M. Kopiecki and Molly R. Campbell, both 29 and from Brooklyn, are charged with strict liability for a drug-induced death, among other offenses, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Wednesday. The victim was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, where he was pronounced dead, after the May 7 overdose last year at a private residence in Mahwah, Calo said. “An autopsy conducted by the Rockland County Medical …

by Jerry DeMarco

03/06/2019

Police & Fire

Bergenfield Dad Admits Trafficking Child Porn A married Bergenfield father admitted Wednesday that he trafficked child pornography. Pleading guilty to the crime, Barry Goldstein told a federal judge in Newark that he had “explicit conversations” with an undercover agent about “the sexual abuse of children” while also sharing “images depicting child abuse,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. The conversations began last May, before Goldstein -- a 46-year-old transportation supervisor for an environmental waste management company -- began sharing images of children being sexually abused, Carpenito said. Federal agents raided …

by Jerry DeMarco

03/06/2019

Police & Fire

Authorities: Swift-Moving Paterson Police Officers Capture Fleeing Street Robbers A squadron of Paterson police officers responding to a pair of armed robberies before dawn Wednesday found two suspects hiding in a backyard, authorities said. Police were searching for four thugs who robbed a 40-year-old city man at gunpoint in the 300 block of Crosby Avenue and a 57-year-old resident around the corner on Manchester Avenue just after 4 a.m., Police Director Jerry Speziale said. The robbers reportedly were dressed all in black, wearing masks, with one carrying a handgun, he said. The four suspects had been walking in the middle of James Street, coming from Ryerson Ave…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/06/2019

Police & Fire

Mystery Solved: Glen Rock Police Find Driver Of 'Stolen' Car Found Smashed, Abandoned MYSTERY SOLVED (UPDATE): Glen Rock police tracked down an unlicensed Paterson driver who they said crashed a relative’s unregistered, uninsured sedan in town and left it there, authorities said. https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/fairlawn/police-fire/mystery-of-sedan-found-smashed-abandoned-in-glen-rock-solved-driver-charged/749342/ ****** ORIGINAL STORY: A sedan reported stolen out of Paterson was found smashed and abandoned in Glen Rock at dawn Wednesday. Both front airbags had deployed on the wrecked 4-door Honda Accord, which authorities said had no keys inside. Police did find severa…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/06/2019

Police & Fire

Garfield PD: Arrest Made In Street Mugging Of Woman From Woodland Park A Clifton man with a criminal history mugged a 28-year-old Woodland Park woman, said Garfield police who charged him with aggravated assault and robbery. Officer Benjamin Marceca was flagged down by the victim in the area of Belmont and Pierre avenues just after 7:45 p.m. Saturday, Capt. Darren Sucorowski said. Marceca learned that she’d been “assaulted by a male acquaintance she was meeting on Cambridge Avenue,” Sucorowski said. Wilby Tapia, 34, “reportedly grabbed her by the hair, pulling her down, and then assaulted and choked her,” the captain said. He then “went through her purse and…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/06/2019

Police & Fire

Fire Blows Through Roof Of Ramsey Home UPDATE: Flames blew through the roof of a Ramsey home Wednesday morning. Authorities hadn’t yet determined the cause of the three-alarm School Street blaze, Police Chief Bryan Gurney said after firefighters knocked it shortly before 10 a.m. No one was home when it broke out less than an hour earlier, he said. Firefighters had to battle the flames from outside, deluging the 2½-story wood frame structure with streams of water. "Most fire damage kept on third floor through the roof," the Ramsey Volunteer Fire Department reported. "Water damage throughout the structure." Ramsey Res…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/06/2019

Police & Fire

Teen Driver Gets Summons In Crash That Split River Vale Utility Pole, KO'd Area Power UPDATE: A 17-year-old River Vale driver who had to be removed through the sunroof after a crash split a utility pole in two -- knocking out power to the area -- received a careless driving summons, police said. The 2016 Honda CRV was headed south on Rivervale Road when it suddenly veered to the right, onto the curb and struck the pole near New Street a little over a week ago, River Vale Detective Sgt. Peter Martin said. The vehicle landed on its side, while the top portion of the pole remained “suspended in the air above the vehicle, being held up only by utility wires, including high-tensi…

by Jerry DeMarco

03/06/2019

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