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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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Englewood Cliffs Man Gets 14 Years In Fed Pen For $7.8M Law Firm Swindle, Huge Cocaine Deal Englewood Cliffs Man Gets 14 Years In Fed Pen For $7.8M Law Firm Swindle, Huge Cocaine Deal
Englewood Cliffs Man Gets 14 Years In Fed Pen For $7.8M Law Firm Swindle, Huge Cocaine Deal An Englewood Cliffs man was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison Friday for a pair of high-priced schemes – one to steal $7.8 million from two high-powered law firms where his wife was a partner and another to traffic more than 44 pounds of cocaine. Both Melvin Feliz, 54, and Keila Ravelo, 55, previously admitted that they’d formed two limited liability companies that purported to provide litigation support for Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and Hunton & Williams -- but, in fact, didn't. Ravelo, who’d been a partner with both firms, approved invoices submitted by her husband. …

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Jersey Shore Driver Stopped By Garfield PD Jumps Into Passaic River Jersey Shore Driver Stopped By Garfield PD Jumps Into Passaic River
Jersey Shore Driver Stopped By Garfield PD Jumps Into Passaic River A Jersey Shore man stopped by a Garfield police officer on Friday hopped out of his car and into the Passaic River, authorities said. Officer Jaroslaw Wdowiak stopped the 46-year-old driver from Toms River in the parking lot of the Custom Gas Station at the intersection of River Drive and DeWitt Street shortly after 12:30 p.m. Wdowiak was returning to his cruiser to write summonses when the driver suddenly got out, dashed around a fence and clambered down the riverbank and into the water, Deputy Police Chief Ronald Polonkay said. Two civilians helped the officer pull the man from the…

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Two Hospitalized In Route 17 Pileup Two Hospitalized In Route 17 Pileup
Two Hospitalized In Route 17 Pileup UPDATE: A chain-reaction crash on Route 17 Friday afternoon sent two people to the hospital. Taken to Hackensack University Medical Center were two drivers -- one 32 out of Clifton, the other 57 out of North Arlington -- following the crash on the northbound highway in Hasbrouck Heights shortly after noon. Borough firefighters extricated one of them (see photos). The first vehicle, driven by a 62-year-old Rutherford resident, hit another, sending it into two more vehicles and a tractor-trailer just north of Franklin Avenue, authorities said. A Jeep was among the badly damaged vehicle…

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California Man Gets 7 Years For Flying To NJ For Sex With 11-Year-Old Girl California Man Gets 7 Years For Flying To NJ For Sex With 11-Year-Old Girl
California Man Gets 7 Years For Flying To NJ For Sex With 11-Year-Old Girl A California man was sentenced to seven years in state prison Friday for traveling to Elizabeth for what he believed was sex with an 11-year-old girl. Ian Brewer, 25, of Pomona, began exchanging emails last December with a man whom he believed was offering him the opportunity but was really an undercover New Jersey State Police detective, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. The detective claimed that he and his girlfriend were part of a group that met regularly to have sex with the child, Grewal said. Brewer agreed to pay $500 for a weekend of oral sex from the girl, the att…

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Trash-Toting Tractor-Trailer Tips On Route 46 Ramp Trash-Toting Tractor-Trailer Tips On Route 46 Ramp
Trash-Toting Tractor-Trailer Tips On Route 46 Ramp A trash-hauling tractor-trailer tipped Friday on the Route 46 ramp to the New Jersey Turnpike and Route 80 in Ridgefield Park. The driver escaped serious injury, responders said. Heavy wreckers were needed to right the rig, which dumped its load on the side of the roadway. LandfillJerry DeMarco The westbound ramp from Route 46 was closed while workers offloaded the trash into a roll-off dumpster and heavy-duty wreckers righted and removed the rig. Westbound traffic was backed up for miles. Westbound Route 46 traffic stretched for miles as heavy-duty wreckers righted the rig on the…

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Heroes: Ridgefield Park Police Revive Two OD Victims At Once Heroes: Ridgefield Park Police Revive Two OD Victims At Once
Heroes: Ridgefield Park Police Revive Two OD Victims At Once Ridgefield Park police revived two overdose victims with Narcan at the same time. A frantic, screaming companion led responding Sgt. William Morton and Officers Brian Ooms and Chris Beirne into the Park Street apartment shortly before 11:30 p.m. Thursday, Police Chief Joseph Rella said. In the bedroom they found a limp 32-year-old woman face down and turning blue, the chief said. As two of the officers administered Narcan, the other looked for any drugs or paraphernalia that would help assess her condition. That's when he found an unconscious 30-year-old male victim, also f…

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Bergen Prosecutor: Career Criminal Nabbed With 5,000 Heroin Folds, Crack Bergen Prosecutor: Career Criminal Nabbed With 5,000 Heroin Folds, Crack
Bergen Prosecutor: Career Criminal Nabbed With 5,000 Heroin Folds, Crack An ex-con with a 25-year criminal history was carrying 100 heroin bricks when detectives stopped his SUV in Garfield, authorities said. David Clay, 45, of Paterson remained held in the Bergen County Jail awaiting a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack on charges of carrying both the 5,000 heroin folds and a half-ounce of crack for sale. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said detectives from his Narcotic Task Force and Garfield police stopped the unemployed dealer's 2007 Audi Q7 Monday on River Road. Musella estimated the value of the drugs found in the ve…

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Shots Fired Report Produces Paterson Gun Arrest, North Haledon Man Charged Shots Fired Report Produces Paterson Gun Arrest, North Haledon Man Charged
Shots Fired Report Produces Paterson Gun Arrest, North Haledon Man Charged Paterson detectives investigating a shots-fired report nabbed a North Haledon man with a loaded handgun and 30 heroin folds, authorities said. Detectives Mustafa Dombayci and Yamil Pimienta spotted Julio Rivera, 36, “maneuvering an object in his front waistband several times” as he approached a double-parked vehicle near the corner of Union Avenue and Jasper Street around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, city Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. They seized Rivera and found him carrying a 9mm semi-automatic handgun and the heroin, Speziale said. Rivera remained held on drug and weapons charges…

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NYC Mom Who Fled With Young Daughter After Infant Son Died Found At South Hackensack Motel NYC Mom Who Fled With Young Daughter After Infant Son Died Found At South Hackensack Motel
NYC Mom Who Fled With Young Daughter After Infant Son Died Found At South Hackensack Motel EXCLUSIVE: A Queens woman who went missing with her 2-year-old daughter after the NYPD began investigating the death of her infant son was located Thursday afternoon at a South Hackensack motel, Daily Voice has learned. South Hackensack and Hackensack police found Carla Garriques at the Travelodge by Wyndham off Route 46 after the NYPD pinged her cellphone there, law enforcement sources said. Garriques was with her 2-year-old daughter, who was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center in the custody of the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency, they said. No charges had bee…

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Firefighters Douse Teaneck Blaze Firefighters Douse Teaneck Blaze
Firefighters Douse Teaneck Blaze VIDEO: Firefighters doused a Teaneck blaze Thursday afternoon. Responders found flames shooting from the windows of the vacant State Street building shortly after 1 p.m. They had the bulk of the fire knocked down within 15 minutes. No injuries were reported. Hackensack and Englewood firefighters were among the mutual aid responders.

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