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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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Feds: New Mob Regime Ran Sports Bets, Extorted Victims, Sold Drugs From Philly To Jersey Shore Feds: New Mob Regime Ran Sports Bets, Extorted Victims, Sold Drugs From Philly To Jersey Shore
Feds: New Mob Regime Ran Sports Bets, Extorted Victims, Sold Drugs From Philly To Jersey Shore The mob didn't disappear from Philadelphia and the Jersey Shore after former leaders Joseph Ligambi and Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino were sent to prison, federal authorities revealed Monday. Over the past five years, in fact, new leadership of the Philly and Atlantic City La Cosa Nostra beefed up the ranks, commanding illegal sports gambling, extorting victims through loansharking, selling cocaine, heroin and opioids -- even conspiring to kidnap a drug dealer who sold them bad dope, they said. Fifteen reputed mobsters and associates of the organized crime family were charged in a …

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Police & Fire
Bogota PD: Burglar Found In Homeowner's Living Room Attacks Officer Bogota PD: Burglar Found In Homeowner's Living Room Attacks Officer
Bogota PD: Burglar Found In Homeowner's Living Room Attacks Officer A homeless burglar attacked a police officer after a startled Bogota resident found him in his living room early Monday, authorities said. The resident told police he heard a banging at his door, then went downstairs and found Abraham Reyes-Castro, 28, in his living room, Sgt. Geoffrey Cole said. Reyes-Castro, a Mexican national whose most recent address was in Elmwood Park, tried locking himself in a room when the resident called police, Cole said. Reyes-Castro refused to comply with their orders, then attacked one of the officers, the sergeant said. Police took Reyes-Castro into cu…

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Police & Fire
Fire Consumes Emerson Home Fire Consumes Emerson Home
Fire Consumes Emerson Home A fast-moving fire destroyed an Emerson multi-family home before dawn Monday. “All residents, firefighters and police are safe,” Mayor Danielle DiPaola said after the three-alarm Clinton Street blaze was finally declared under control just before 6:30 a.m. The house was a total loss, however. It was being razed Monday morning. Three families were living in what had originally been a single-family home and was converted into three units. A total of 13 people reportedly were living there, although responders said they believe there may have been more. Flames quickly engulfed the Emerso…

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Police & Fire
16th-Floor Fire Doused At Paterson High-Rise 16th-Floor Fire Doused At Paterson High-Rise
16th-Floor Fire Doused At Paterson High-Rise PHOTOS: No serious injuries were immediately reported in a Sunday night fire that ravaged a top-floor apartment of a Paterson high rise, responders said. The 16th-floor blaze broke out at the Riverview Towers building on Presidential Boulevard around 9 p.m., posing challenges overcome by city firefighters. Intense flames and smoke could be seen from the street as some residents on the floors below stood on their balconies for protection from possible smoke. Firefighters had the main body of two-alarm fire knocked down within 20 or so minutes and under control in under 40. Firefighters…

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Passaic Man Stabbed, Killed In Fight Outside City Nightclub Passaic Man Stabbed, Killed In Fight Outside City Nightclub
Passaic Man Stabbed, Killed In Fight Outside City Nightclub Detectives were reviewing surveillance video after a Passaic man was stabbed and killed during a pre-dawn fight Sunday outside a city nightclub, authorities said. JuanManuel Marquez, 36, was “bleeding and unresponsive” when taken by ambulance to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center following the stabbing outside the Fiesta Lounge at the corner of Parker and President streets around 2:30 a.m., Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Passaic Police Chief Luis A. Guzman said in a joint release. He pronounced dead at the hospital about an hour later, they said. Valdes and Guzman didn’t…

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Feds Charge Pair In Luxury-Watch Robbery Spree Involving Kardashian BFF Feds Charge Pair In Luxury-Watch Robbery Spree Involving Kardashian BFF
Feds Charge Pair In Luxury-Watch Robbery Spree Involving Kardashian BFF Federal authorities have captured two men wanted for robbing luxury watches at gunpoint from, among others, a close reality-TV friend of Kim Kardashian’s known as "Foodgod" in Englewood Cliffs. Victor Rivera, 29, and Michols Pena, 38, were identified and captured with significant help from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, said Audrey Strauss, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Strauss also thanked police from Englewood Cliffs, Weehawken and Nassau County for their assistance. Rivera, who was captured in Miami, is accused of robbing Jonathan Cheban of a $2…

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Police & Fire
Garfield Woman Charged With Allowing Saddle Brook Landscaper, 59, To Have Sex With Pre-Teen Garfield Woman Charged With Allowing Saddle Brook Landscaper, 59, To Have Sex With Pre-Teen
Garfield Woman Charged With Allowing Saddle Brook Landscaper, 59, To Have Sex With Pre-Teen UPDATE: A Garfield job coach allowed a Saddle Brook landscaper to have sex with a pre-teen, authorities charged. Roseann Maru, 40, was charged with child endangerment after detectives learned that she “allowed the conduct to take place” while the youngster was in her care, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Special Victims Unit investigators from his office charged Jeffrey Pinto, 59, with having sex with the pre-teen in Garfield, Saddle Brook and Pennsylvania after being notified by the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency. He remained held Saturday in the Bergen Cou…

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Palisades Park Police Sergeant's New Book Examines Changing Role Of Law Enforcers In Film Palisades Park Police Sergeant's New Book Examines Changing Role Of Law Enforcers In Film
Palisades Park Police Sergeant's New Book Examines Changing Role Of Law Enforcers In Film A history of how law enforcement was portrayed on the big screen in the first half of the 20th century had never been written -- until now. A Palisades Park police veteran who's also a prolific author has just released his fifth book, "Law Enforcement in American Cinema, 1894-1952," which examines the history of police and policing on the big screen during that period. "Film is a site where public sentiments toward the police are both created and reflected," Sgt. George Beck wrote. Cineastes have often focused on the way gangsters and other criminals are romanticized in movies -- or film, …

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UPDATE: Woman, 18, Struck, Killed On Route 17 In Paramus UPDATE: Woman, 18, Struck, Killed On Route 17 In Paramus
Update: Woman, 18, Struck, Killed On Route 17 In Paramus An 18-year-old woman was struck and killed early Saturday on southbound Route 17 in Paramus, responders said. "The victim was walking in right lane of the highway" when she was struck around 5:30 a.m. near the Garden State Parkway overpass and Midland Avenue, Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg told Daily Voice. Furious efforts to save her life failed. The driver remained at the scene as the victim was taken to a nearby hospital.  No other information about the crash was immediately available. The highway remained closed at Midland Avenue for nearly four hours before reopening. CHEC…

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SEEN THEM? 'Armed, Dangerous' Pair Wanted For Shot Fired At Hackensack Crowd SEEN THEM? 'Armed, Dangerous' Pair Wanted For Shot Fired At Hackensack Crowd
Seen Them? 'Armed, Dangerous' Pair Wanted For Shot Fired At Hackensack Crowd Hackensack police again asked the public for help finding a man who they said fired a shot into a crowd from a car driven by his girlfriend. No one was struck when Jymir Outcalt, 20, of Bethlehem, PA  fired a .45-caliber round into the crowd outside the Alston Arms apartments on Newman Street shortly before 6 pm. Aug. 19, Detective Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. Police obtained arrest warrants for Outcalt – who reportedly has ties to the Hackensack and Newark areas -- and his girlfriend, Star Johnson, 22, of Hackensack, who DeWitt said was driving a rented Toyota Camry at the time. The Cam…

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