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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

Wallington PD Nabs Accused Robber In Vicious Beating Of Gas Station Attendant With Hammer Wallington police identified and arrested an accused masked robber who they said viciously beat a gas station attendant with a huge hammer while taking $300. George Marcelino-Perez, 24, of Passaic was the bandit caught on surveillance video dressed all in black “like a ninja” and pacing up and down Main Avenue with a mask Tuesday morning before attacking the attendant in the Citgo station office, Chief Carmello Imbruglia said. Marcelino-Perez yanked the attendant from his chair and hit him several times with the hammer, demanding money, authorities said at the time. After unsuccessfully at…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/16/2019

Police & Fire

Hawthorne Ambulance Knocked On Its Side, Three Removed One person sustained what were characterized as minor injuries after a Hawthorne ambulance got knocked on its side by an SUV in a late Friday night crash. Three people inside the Hawthorne Volunteer Ambulance Corps rig had to be removed and taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center after the crash at Goffle Road and Lafayette Avenue. Another responder was behind the wheel of the SUV, headed to another call, authorities said. Mayor Richard Goldberg said visited the victims in the ER and was grateful that no one were seriously injured. He praised the first responders for their professi…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/16/2019

Police & Fire

Rochelle Park PD: Rookie Officer Snags Allendale Driver Who Registered .30 After Hitting 4 Cars A drunk Allendale driver who registered nearly four times the legal blood-alcohol limit made it to work in Rochelle Park – after hitting four other vehicles in the parking lot of his building, authorities said. Officer Joseph Buono, a rookie officer on one of his first patrol tours behind the wheel, searched the West Passaic Avenue office building following Monday’s 9:40 a.m. call, Sgt. Ed Kukalski said. He found 26-year-old Robert J. McCarthy on the third floor. “He said he had to go work,’ Kukalski said. Moments earlier, McCarthy’s 2015 BMW had struck several parked vehicles in the lot …

by Jerry DeMarco

02/16/2019

Police & Fire

Jeweler Caught Trafficking Child Porn, Bergen Prosecutor Says Bergen County cyber crimes detectives arrested a jeweler from West New York who they said was trafficking child porn online. A judge ordered Sezcan Gonturk, a 32-year-old Turkish national, released under New Jersey’s 2017 bail reform law after a detention hearing last Friday, a day after his arrest. Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said his Cyber Crimes Unit found Gonturk with more than 100 digital files “depicting nude or sexually explicit prepubescent children.” He also distributed more than 25 of the images, the prosecutor said. Gonturk is charged with possession and distrib…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/15/2019

News

Greenwich Lawyer Paid India Government $2M Bribe For New Cognizant Office Complex, Feds Charge A Greenwich lawyer conspired to pay government officials in India a $2 million bribe to pave the way for an office complex there when he was the chief legal officer of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp, a federal indictment charges. Steven Schwartz, 51, and former Cognizant president Gordon Coburn, 55, of Beaver Creek, Colorado, approved the payoff to secure the necessary permits for construction, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Craig Carpenito said Friday. To cover up the scheme, the pair and others “agreed that a third-party construction company would obtain the permit by making the illega…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/15/2019

Police & Fire

Update: Aid Arranged For Fort Lee Fire Victims, Police Say Blaze Didn't Seem Suspicious UPDATE: A fire that began in a crawl space and eventually destroyed a Fort Lee apartment building Thursday night didn’t claim any lives, produced three minor injuries and didn’t appear suspicious, authorities announced. Several measures were being taken to assist the victims, they said. “The Red Cross, New Jersey State Police Office of Emergency Management and Fort Lee Office of Emergency Management are working together with other borough departments to provide assistance for the displaced residents,” Police Capt. Matthew Hintze said late Friday afternoon. The borough established an offici…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/15/2019

Police & Fire

Tech Consultant Buys 400+ Cellphones With Hackensack Company's Money, Sells Them On eBay A tech consultant used a Hackensack company's money to buy $200,000 worth of cellphones that he then sold on eBay, authorities charged. Michael Acosta, 34, of North Bergen used his position in the company to buy more than 400 phones without authorization from its service provider between October 2015 and September 2018, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Friday. He “later sold them on eBay for his own personal gain,” Calo said. Acosta was issued a summons and released pending a Feb. 20 first appearance in Bergen County Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack on charge…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/15/2019

Police & Fire

Exclusive Photos: Route 17 Shut Down After Tractor-Trailer Yanks Down Wires In Ramsey In one of the most frustrating of coincidences, Route 17 on Friday afternoon was closed in both directions again after a tractor-trailer got tangled in utility wires in Ramsey -- dangling them over the highway and requiring that poles be replaced like they were during a traffic nightmare two weeks ago. The UPS rig was pulling out of the northbound side's Quick Chek when it snagged the wires, closing the highway in both directions from Allendale Road to Lake Street, responders said. Like last time, the utility poles will have to be replaced. That means: Northbound Route 17 would remain c…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/15/2019

Police & Fire

Oops! Fleeing Cat Burglar Mistakes Maywood Police Car For His Lyft Ride, Rochelle Park PD Says A burglar who fled a Rochelle Park couple's home after waking them became an easy grab for police when he mistook a police vehicle for a Lyft ride, authorities said. The sound of someone trying to open their rear porch door awoke the Catherine Street couple around 10 p.m. Thursday, Detective Sgt. James DePreta said. Moments later, they found 28-year-old Nicholas Maziot, who'd climbed in through a second-story window, he said. Maziot climbed out the same window, jumped from the roof to the ground, then hid outside while summoning a ride through his Lyft app, the sergeant said. By that…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/15/2019

Police & Fire

Recognize HIM? Video Released Of 'Calm, Composed' Englewood Bank Robbery Suspect Englewood police on Friday released surveillance video of a man they believe is the "calm and composed" robber who fled with an undisclosed amount of cash from a local bank earlier this month. City detectives worked with the FBI were to review “a multitude of surveillance video sources,” to produce the one released Friday, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell said. The robber, “possibly armed with a long weapon,” wore a hooded coat, a mask that hid most of his face and gloves when he entered the Bank of America branch on Park Place around 9 a.m. Feb. 2, Torell said. After collecting the cash, he…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/15/2019

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