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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

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

Police & Fire

Two Kids, Other Driver Hospitalized After Mahwah Crash Two schoolchildren and an adult were hospitalized after a crash in Mahwah Friday morning, authorities said. A Toyota Rav IV was making a left onto Ridge Road from Lydia Lane in Ramapo Ridge when it struck by a Lincoln sedan heading south around 8 a.m., Police Chief James A. Batelli said. The female Rav IV’s driver had her son and daughter in the back seat, Batelli said. All were wearing their seat belts, he said, adding that the airbags deployed. The driver of the sedan, who was also wearing a seat belt, was taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood after complaining of neck and chest pain…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/15/2019

Police & Fire

Police Chase: Rochelle Park Officers Nab Postal Box 'Fishing' Thieves, Feds Interested A pre-dawn police chase ended Friday when a trio Rochelle Park officers caught a group of thieves from Queens believed to be members of a large metropolitan-area ring that fishes checks and cash from postal boxes, authorities said. Officer Brian Gallina spotted the three tampering with a group of boxes on Rochelle Avenue just after 5 a.m., Police Chief Robert Flannelly said. “They were using a Snapple bottle with a ribbon tied around it wrapped in a sticky pad,” the chief said. Seeing the officer, they immediately took off in a car parked nearby, leading a chase down Route 17 that end…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/15/2019

Police & Fire

Ex-Teaneck Tech Execs Paid India Government $2M Bribe For New Office Complex, Feds Charge The former president and former chief legal officers of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp in Teaneck paid government officials in India a $2 million bribe to pave the way for an office complex that would have supported thousands of employees and been of the company’s largest facilities there, a federal indictment charges. Steven Schwartz, 51, of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Gordon Coburn, 55, of Beaver Creek, Colorado, approved the payoff to secure the necessary permits for construction, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said Friday., To cover up the scheme, the pair and others “agreed that a …

by Jerry DeMarco

02/15/2019

Police & Fire

Seen HIM? Englewood Liquor Store Thief Had Distinctive Disguise, Walk He covered himself with a huge sheet of plastic, wore a reflective vest and had a distinctive walk, said Englewood police who released surveillance video Friday of a thief who snatched cash from a liquor store. The thief headed straight behind the counter at Oprandy’s Wine & Liquor store last Friday night and grabbed the cash – then was scared off by the two owners, dropping some of the undisclosed proceeds as he ran, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell. Responding officers recovered some of the dark clothing he was wearing, along with the plastic sheet, a short distance away, Torell said. …

by Jerry DeMarco

02/15/2019

Police & Fire

Closter PD: Two Stolen Car Pursuits End In Crashes, Unlocked Vehicles Swiped Left And Right Plagued by a skyrocketing number of vehicle thefts, Closter police have recently had two pursuits, both of which ended in crashes while fielding several reports of cars stolen from outside borough residents’ homes. As always, the stolen cars were left unlocked with key fobs inside, authorities said. “It is becoming increasingly more dangerous for the Closter Police and the residents of Closter every time a vehicle is stolen or these individuals come to Closter in attempt to steal another vehicle,” Detective Sgt. Vincent Aiello said. “Many of these incidents involve gang activity.” Shortly …

by Jerry DeMarco

02/15/2019

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