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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

New England Patriots Owner Robert Kraft Charged With Soliciting Massage Parlor Sex New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was charged with soliciting sex following a prostitution sting at a string of day spas in Florida, authorities said Friday. The months-long sting produced two misdemeanor solicitation counts – issued to the 77-year-old Kraft as summonses -- stemming from visits to a spa in Jupiter, Police Chief Daniel Kerr said at a news conference. The Patriots, in turn, said in a statement: "We categorically deny that Mr. Kraft engaged in any illegal activity. Because it is a judicial matter, we will not be commenting further.” More than two dozen people were caugh…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/22/2019

Police & Fire

Elmwood Park Police Capture Lyndhurst Man, 44, In Street Robbery Of Boy, 15 UPDATE: Elmwood Park police captured one of two men who they said robbed a 15-year-old boy of his cellphone Thursday night. Linden Browne-Jones, a 44-year-old Barbadian national living in Lyndhurst, was taken into custody around 2 a.m. Friday with help from Lyndhurst police, Elmwood Park Police Chief Michael Foligno said. He was charged with first-degree robbery and possession of a weapon -- a folding knife that the chief said was used to rob the teen on Market Street around 8 p.m. The victim told police he was walking near the CVS when Browne-Jones and an accomplice got out of a red SUV …

by Jerry DeMarco

02/22/2019

Police & Fire

Discarded Cigarette Ignited Fire That Ravaged River Vale Home, Responders Say UPDATE: A smoldering cigarette discarded in a planter ignited a fire that blew through the roof of a River Vale home last week, authorities said. A resident of the Pascack Avenue home "was smoking a cigarette outside hours earlier," a law enforcement contact with direct knowledge of the incident told Daily Voice. "She put it out in a planter and it smoldered for hours until it ignited." Two dogs were rescued from the 2½-story home near the Harrington Park border after the fire broke out the night of Feb. 13, authorities said. No one else was inside, they said. Responders included firefigh…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/22/2019

Police & Fire

Elmwood Park Police ID Suspect In Street Robbery Of Boy, 15 A 15-year-old boy told Elmwood Park police that two robbers – one armed with a folding knife – took his cellphone Thursday night. The victim said he was walking on Market Street near the CVS when the robbers got out of a red SUV and approached him around 8 p.m., Police Chief Michael Foligno said. One of the robbers “brandished a black and silver folding knife and held it to the victim's chest and demanded everything he had,” while “threatening to stop him,” chief said. The victim only had a cell phone, which he handed over,” Foligno said. The robbers got back into the SUV and took off, he…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/21/2019

Police & Fire

Pedestrian, 69, Struck In Fair Lawn A 69-year-old pedestrian struck by a car Thursday night in Fair Lawn was hospitalized with injuries that police said didn't appear life-threatening. The Glen Rock woman was being treated for head and hip injuries after being struck by a 2015 Nissan Rogue while crossing Fair Lawn Avenue near River Road between parked cars just after 5 p.m., Sgt. Brian Metzler said. She was taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center by a Paterson ambulance, he said. The 59-year-old female SUV driver from Belleville remained at the scene, the sergeant said. Police were investigating.

by Jerry DeMarco

02/21/2019

Police & Fire

Shoelace, Glue Traps: Fort Lee Detective, Officer Nab Postal Box Fishing Thieves Fighting the growing trend of check thefts from postal boxes, Fort Lee police nabbed a Teaneck man and a companion who they said had collected a bundle with a shoelace and glue traps. Detective Dimitri Findanis and Officer Michael Kelly first spotted an illegally parked 2013 Nissan Altima near a drop box on 15th Street on Friday, Capt. Matthew Hintze said. They then saw Adrian Baucum, 19, of Teaneck standing nearby, Hintze said. Both recognized Baucum from previous incidents – he’s awaiting trial on a host of ID theft charges -- so they approached him and the Altima, the captain said. The…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/21/2019

Police & Fire

Hearing Set For Driver In Gas Station Crash That Killed Dad, Teenage Son, Attendant UPDATE: A detention hearing was scheduled this Monday for a Susssex County man who authorities said overdosed on heroin before his SUV went airborne, smashing into a killing a father and son and an attendant at a gas station on Route 23 in Wayne early Tuesday. Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes said her staff will ask Superior Court Judge Ernest M. Caposela during a 10 a.m. hearing in Central Judicial Processing Court in Paterson to order 29-year-old Jason Vanderee held in the Passaic County Jail pending trial. Vanderee, of the Glenwood section of Vernon Township, was charged with th…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/21/2019

Police & Fire

New Milford Man Charged With Assaulting 4-Month-Old Baby An unemployed New Milford man was charged with assaulting a 4-month old infant who was unresponsive when rushed to the hospital with head injuries, authorities said. Travis Weber, 28, remained held in New Bridge Medical Center in police custody for psychological treatment since his arrest last Thursday, eight days after the infant was taken to the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood. An investigation produced charges of aggravated assault and child endangerment against Weber, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. A first appearance had yet to be scheduled in Central Judicial Proce…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/21/2019

Police & Fire

Police: Mahwah Motorist Who KO'd Ramapo College Power In Crash Was DWI A Mahwah motorist said an icy roadway sent his pickup into a utility pole, taking wires down and cutting power to Ramapo College and surrounding homes Wednesday night – but police said he was intoxicated. The 2017 Ford F-150 crashed during the freezing rain on Route 202 near the entrance to the college’s sculpture studio just after 10 p.m., Police Chief James N. Batelli said. Almost immediately, the police communications desk began to get calls about area power failures, he said. Responding Officers Timothy Letavish and Matt Buonocore also noted that “utility pole lights were not operating…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/21/2019

Police & Fire

'Crusade' Continues: 16,000 Heroin Bags Seized, $25,400 Confiscated In Paterson Raid Paterson narcotics detectives seized a whopping 16,000 individually packaged folds of heroin – along with $25,400 in suspected drug cash -- during on ongoing series of raids, this time in what’s considered a quiet area of the city near Bunker Hill. A tipster led them to the second-floor apartment in the tidy two-family home on East 18th Street, where city Police Director Jerry Speziale said drugs were distributed to other dealers through the city – delivered in an older-model Buick Lacrosse. The detectives stopped the Buick on Wednesday, then raided the home around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Spez…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/21/2019

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