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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
Join Westwood Police For Pre-Snow Bowl Special Olympics Fundraising Dinner Join Westwood Police For Pre-Snow Bowl Special Olympics Fundraising Dinner
Join Westwood Police For Pre-Snow Bowl Special Olympics Fundraising Dinner An exclusive four-course, prix fixe dinner at Westwood’s popular Caffe Anello next week will help raise funds for Special Olympics New Jersey. Members of the Westwood Police Department and PBA Local #206 who will be participating in this year’s Snow Bowl at MetLife Stadium (March 15) are hosting the event. It begins Monday, Feb. 25, at 5:30 p.m. Cost is $75 each. Space is limited. DONATIONS also can be made to the non-profit Westwood Police Officers Association. Since its inception, the Snow Bowl has raised more than $2 million that has gone to help more than 25,000 special needs athlet…

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Police & Fire
Englewood Man Charged With Killing Parents Remains Held In Psyche Ward At New Bridge Englewood Man Charged With Killing Parents Remains Held In Psyche Ward At New Bridge
Englewood Man Charged With Killing Parents Remains Held In Psyche Ward At New Bridge UPDATE: More than 24 hours after his arrest, an Englewood man charged with stabbing his parents to death several days ago remained held for psychiatric treatment in police custody Sunday at New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus. Detectives captured Pawel Michael Boduch the night before, after he went back to retrieve his father's car from the local ShopRite in Englewood, where authorities said he left it. The 43-year-old former real estate appraiser hid behind the store, then was caught as he approached the 2014 Honda Accord, a law enforcement official told Daily Voice. Several hours earlie…

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SUV Crashes Into Ridgewood Garage SUV Crashes Into Ridgewood Garage
SUV Crashes Into Ridgewood Garage Two people were hospitalized with what appeared to be minor injuries Sunday afternoon after an SUV crashed into a detached garage in Ridgewood. The Godwin Avenue garage sustained moderate structural damage, drawing a village subcode official, in the 2 p.m. crash. Both occupants were taken by ambulance to The Valley Hospital. A flatbed tow truck removed the vehicle. Village police, firefighters and EMS responded. Boyd A. Loving took the photo and contributed to this report.

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Woman, 18, Struck By Car In Ridgefield Being Taken Off Life Support Woman, 18, Struck By Car In Ridgefield Being Taken Off Life Support
Woman, 18, Struck By Car In Ridgefield Being Taken Off Life Support An 18-year-old woman struck by a car in Ridgefield last Saturday afternoon was being taken off life support so that her organs can be donated, her brother said. Sarah Ye Eun Kim was hospitalized in critical condition after she was struck on Shaler Boulevard near Pleasant View Terrace, right near her home, around 4 p.m. Feb. 9. "The past week has been the hardest time for our family as we've had to hear from doctors of her near full brain dead state," said her brother, Pastor Paul S. Kim. "She took her first test [Friday] morning to see if she is brain dead and the result came back tha…

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Police & Fire
Authorities: Man Charged With Killing Englewood Parents Days Earlier Captured Returning For Car Authorities: Man Charged With Killing Englewood Parents Days Earlier Captured Returning For Car
Authorities: Man Charged With Killing Englewood Parents Days Earlier Captured Returning For Car UPDATE: More than 24 hours after his arrest, an Englewood man charged with stabbing his parents to death several days ago remained held for psychiatric treatment in police custody Sunday at New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus. Detectives captured Pawel Michael Boduch the night before, after he went back to retrieve his father's car from the local ShopRite in Englewood, where authorities said he left it. The 43-year-old former real estate appraiser hid behind the store, then was caught as he approached the 2014 Honda Accord, a law enforcement official told Daily Voice. Several hours earli…

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Wallington PD Nabs Accused Robber In Vicious Beating Of Gas Station Attendant With Hammer Wallington PD Nabs Accused Robber In Vicious Beating Of Gas Station Attendant With Hammer
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…

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Police & Fire
Hawthorne Ambulance Knocked On Its Side, Three Removed Hawthorne Ambulance Knocked On Its Side, Three Removed
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…

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Police & Fire
Rochelle Park PD: Rookie Officer Snags Allendale Driver Who Registered .30 After Hitting 4 Cars Rochelle Park PD: Rookie Officer Snags Allendale Driver Who Registered .30 After Hitting 4 Cars
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 …

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Jeweler Caught Trafficking Child Porn, Bergen Prosecutor Says Jeweler Caught Trafficking Child Porn, Bergen Prosecutor Says
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…

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News
Greenwich Lawyer Paid India Government $2M Bribe For New Cognizant Office Complex, Feds Charge Greenwich Lawyer Paid India Government $2M Bribe For New Cognizant Office Complex, Feds Charge
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…

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