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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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Three Wounded In Separate Paterson Shootings Three Wounded In Separate Paterson Shootings
Three Wounded In Separate Paterson Shootings Bullets continued flying on the east side of Paterson over the weekend. A 59-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman, both from the city, were struck near the corner of East 18th Street and Pearl Street shortly after 7:30 p.m. Saturday, authorities confirmed. Each got to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center for treatment in a private vehicle, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said. Another walk-in victim arrived at the hospital following a drive-by shooting at the corner of East 28th Street and 8th Avenue around 1 a.m., they said. None…

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Two Injured In Destructive Waldwick House Fire Two Injured In Destructive Waldwick House Fire
Two Injured In Destructive Waldwick House Fire Two residents were hospitalized for injuries sustained during a fire that ravaged a Waldwick home Saturday night. Firefighters found flames blowing through the roof and out second-floors windows of the West Prospect Street home when they arrived around 9:30 p.m. They had the main body of the blaze knocked in under a half hour and officially under control shortly before 11 p.m. The extent of the residents' injuries weren't immediately known, although responders said they didn't appear life-threatening. Both were taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood. The fire went to three alarms for …

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Bogota PD: Unlicensed, Unregistered Bergenfield Company Driver Had Bogus Documents Bogota PD: Unlicensed, Unregistered Bergenfield Company Driver Had Bogus Documents
Bogota PD: Unlicensed, Unregistered Bergenfield Company Driver Had Bogus Documents A Canadian citizen working for a Bergen County construction firm was carrying bogus Texas temporary registrations for several different vehicles when Bogota police stopped him, authorities said. John Connors, 29, of Ontario, Canada also didn’t have a driver’s license or valid registration for the Dodge Ram bearing the Bergenfield-based company name when Officers Matthew Luciano and George Hondros stopped him on Palisade Avenue, Sgt. Geoffrey Cole said. Police processed Connors and released him pending a hearing on three counts of possession of fraudulent government documents, Cole said. Co…

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Fire Breaks Out As Workers Demolish Former Sony Building In Park Ridge Fire Breaks Out As Workers Demolish Former Sony Building In Park Ridge
Fire Breaks Out As Workers Demolish Former Sony Building In Park Ridge UPDATE: Firefighters doused a blaze Saturday afternoon that they said began in an HVAC unit atop the former Sony building near the Rockland border in Park Ridge. The fire spread from one of three rooftop mechanical pods to the floor below in the four-story building, which a demolition crew is tearing down to make way for hundreds of new apartments on the 30-acre former electronic giant's campus just off the Garden State Parkway. A worker whom Park Ridge Fire Chief Thomas Lepore spotted on the roof after arriving at the 1:45 p.m. blaze "made his way through an unaffected area of the buildin…

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Firefighters Battle Meadowlands Brush Fire Firefighters Battle Meadowlands Brush Fire
Firefighters Battle Meadowlands Brush Fire UPDATE: The latest in a series of recent area brush fires was the biggest, as winds Friday night blew a blaze through a swath of the Meadowlands. The fire broke out shortly after 10 p.m. near the East Rutherford Public Works building off Murray Hill Parkway and Madison Circle Drive near Berry's Creek. East Rutherford firefighters thought they had most of the blaze knocked within 20 or so minutes. But a third alarm was called a little under an hour after it began. Winds kept the Meadowlands brush fire going.East Rutherford FD Off Murray Hill Parkway in East Rutherford.East Rutherfor…

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No Parole For 10 Years For Confessed Pedophile Who Sexually Assaulted Child In Clifton, Passaic No Parole For 10 Years For Confessed Pedophile Who Sexually Assaulted Child In Clifton, Passaic
No Parole For 10 Years For Confessed Pedophile Who Sexually Assaulted Child In Clifton, Passaic The family of an 8-year-old child who was sexually assaulted by a Passaic man in two different homes participated in his sentencing Friday via Zoom, authorities said. Eloy Hernandez-Garcia, 59, was arrested last October following an investigation by the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit. Rather than go to trial, Hernandez-Garcia took a deal from prosecutors, pleading guilty to two counts of sexual sexual assault on a child at homes in both Passaic and Clifton, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes said. Superior Court Judge Justine A. Niccollai sentenced Hernande…

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DONE AND DONE: Former Bergen County Police Now Officially Sheriff’s Officers DONE AND DONE: Former Bergen County Police Now Officially Sheriff’s Officers
Done AND Done: Former Bergen County Police Now Officially Sheriff’s Officers Six years of strife, acrimony and turmoil ended for good when Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton swore in 25 former county police officers and promoted a dozen others as official members of his department. A ceremony on the steps of the Bergen County Courthouse in Hackensack on Thursday completes the merger of what had been the Bergen County Police Department with Cureton’s office. “After six years of negotiations, we were able to bring closure to the matter and move forward unified as one law enforcement agency,” the sheriff said. “Together we have achieved our agency’s goals,” Cureto…

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Paterson Man, 68, Who Sexually Assaulted Three Kids Could Be Out In Less Than 7 Years Paterson Man, 68, Who Sexually Assaulted Three Kids Could Be Out In Less Than 7 Years
Paterson Man, 68, Who Sexually Assaulted Three Kids Could Be Out In Less Than 7 Years A Paterson man will be 75 before he'll be eligible for parole under a plea-bargained sentence handed down this week for sexually assaulting three children over the course of several years. Ramon Torres, 68, was arrested in November 2019 by detectives from the Passaic County Special Victims Unit. An investigation found that Ramon had “committed acts of sexual contact upon three children under the age of thirteen with whom he was acquainted…between the years of 1985 and 2019 in the City of Paterson,” Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes said. Rather than go to trial, Torres pleaded guil…

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Community Grieves Double COVID Deaths At Popular Bergen County Pizzeria Community Grieves Double COVID Deaths At Popular Bergen County Pizzeria
Community Grieves Double COVID Deaths At Popular Bergen County Pizzeria A community reeled as news spread that COVID-19 had claimed the lives of two longtime members of an extended family from the same Bergen County pizzeria. Friends, loved ones and customers from Linwood Pizza in Fort Lee prayed hard for manager Gus Karageorge and primary pie guy Manny Macancela to survive the disease. “Our hearts are broken after this week’s tragic turn of events,” the Missiris family, who own the landmark eatery near the George Washington Bridge, wrote Thursday. Karageorge and Macancela “touched both the people they worked with and the community they served,” they added. J…

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Palisades Park Day Laborer Charged With Raping Girl, 11 Palisades Park Day Laborer Charged With Raping Girl, 11
Palisades Park Day Laborer Charged With Raping Girl, 11 A day laborer from Palisades Park was charged with raping an 11-year-old girl. Santiago Quiaxan-Castro, a 37-year-old Guatemalan national, was arrested by members of Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella’s Special Victims Unit on Thursday, the prosecutor said. Borough police had told them that Quiaxan-Castro allegedly “engaged in sexual penetration with a child under the age of 13 while in Palisades Park,” Musella said Friday. Quiaxan-Castro remained held in the Bergen County Jail pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. He’s charged with aggravated s…

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