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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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North Arlington PD: Bicyclist, 13, Struck, Kearny Colleagues Help ID Fleeing SUV Driver North Arlington PD: Bicyclist, 13, Struck, Kearny Colleagues Help ID Fleeing SUV Driver
North Arlington PD: Bicyclist, 13, Struck, Kearny Colleagues Help ID Fleeing SUV Driver Kearny police helped their North Arlington colleagues identify a fleeing driver moments after an SUV struck a 13-year-old bicyclist Thursday afternoon, authorities said. The girl wasn’t seriously injured after being struck at the corner of Exton and Schuyler avenues around 1 p.m., Police Chief Scott Hedenberg said. “Great job by our officers and Kearny police working together,” he said. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS ****** UPDATE: A pharmacist from North Bergen was charged with assault by auto for a horrific crash last month on Route 17 in Hasbrouck Heights that left a teenage victim still…

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North Bergen Driver Charged In Horrific Route 17 Crash In Hasbrouck Heights North Bergen Driver Charged In Horrific Route 17 Crash In Hasbrouck Heights
North Bergen Driver Charged In Horrific Route 17 Crash In Hasbrouck Heights UPDATE: A pharmacist from North Bergen was charged with assault by auto for a horrific crash last month on Route 17 in Hasbrouck Heights that left a teenage victim still critical, authorities announced Thursday. Kal Elhoregy, 52, was driving a 2017 BMW M3 that slammed into a 2002 Chrysler Town and Country minivan parked in the Kentucky Fried Chicken lot on the southbound highway at high speed shortly after 9 p.m. Oct. 24, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The Chrysler had two occupants, both 19, Musella said. Although the male passenger was ejected, the female driver was more ser…

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Sussex Dentist Admits Tax Fraud Sussex Dentist Admits Tax Fraud
Sussex Dentist Admits Tax Fraud A Sussex County dentist admitted in federal court in Newark that he filed a false tax return with the IRS. Richard Golembioski, 61, of Vernon failed to report $114,566 in income from his dental practice on the 2012 return, as well as other amounts during the following four tax years, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Rather than go to trial, Golembioski took a deal from the government, pleading guilty to making and subscribing to the single false return, authorities said. U.S. District Judge Madeline Cox Arleo scheduled sentencing for March 8. Carpento credited IRS-Criminal Investigatio…

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COVID-19: Authorities Close Packed Paterson Nightclubs COVID-19: Authorities Close Packed Paterson Nightclubs
Covid-19: Authorities Close Packed Paterson Nightclubs Paterson police raided several nightclubs -- and closed a couple -- that they said were packed with patrons in violation of social distancing regulations, among other offenses. More than 300 people were packed into Besan Café on East Railway Avenue club one night when police showed up one night -- and more than 160 the next time, Speziale said. That wasn't all, he said. Summonses were issued for not having an entertainment license, smoking in public and creating or maintaining a dangerous condition, he said. The Gypsy Lounge on Getty Avenue club also was closed after police found more tha…

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Not Again: Ford Recalls Explorer In NJ, NY, CT, MA Not Again: Ford Recalls Explorer In NJ, NY, CT, MA
Not Again: Ford Recalls Explorer In NJ, NY, CT, MA Ford is recalling more than 375,000 Explorers to repair or replace a a suspension part that can break and cause crashes. Customers will notified beginning Nov. 30, the automaker said, adding that dealers will inspect the vehicles and replace parts if necessary.  The SUVs in the U.S. and Canada from the 2013 through 2017 model years built by Ford in Chicago were connected to 13 crashes causing six injuries. They were sold or registered 22 states -- including New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts -- and six Canadian provinces. Steering control on the vehicles has been red…

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Young Teens Busted For Election-Day Dealing In Paterson, 376 Heroin Folds Seized Young Teens Busted For Election-Day Dealing In Paterson, 376 Heroin Folds Seized
Young Teens Busted For Election-Day Dealing In Paterson, 376 Heroin Folds Seized Electioneers weren't the only ones working the streets of Paterson on Tuesday. Two boys – one 15, the other 17 – were among four people nabbed by city police with a combined 376 heroin folds, authorities said. They also seized more than $1,800 in drug proceeds. Detectives moved in after watching a trio slinging heroin at the corner of Broadway and Summer Street, near the city public library, around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, city Police Director Jerry Speziale said. They collected the crew members’ stash of 353 folds and seized Shameek T. McDougald, 26, Shequan Roberts, 21, and a boy, 15, he said.…

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YouTube Channels Livestream Fake Election Results YouTube Channels Livestream Fake Election Results
YouTube Channels Livestream Fake Election Results It was bound to happen: Several YouTube channels broadcast fake presidential election results hours before any state polls closed on Tuesday. At one point, eight of the top 20 videos found under "LIVE 2020 Presidential Election Results" in YouTube search displayed spammed graphics with bogus figures, according to Insider. Similarly, the top four search results for "Presidential Election Results" led to streams with incorrect information, while a search for “Election Results” produced three of the same streams. Tens of thousands of viewers, at minimum, likely watched, experts said. One cha…

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Gold's Gym In Paramus Closes For Good Gold's Gym In Paramus Closes For Good
Gold's Gym In Paramus Closes For Good Compact discs officially replaced cassette tapes as the preferred medium of recorded music when Mike Epstein and Art Carril opened Gold’s Gym in Paramus. The partners endured plenty of ups and downs over the past 28 years – mostly ups – and thought they just might survive the COVID crisis when they reopened after a 6-month shutdown. After two months, though, they’ve been unable to continue. With heavy hearts, Mike and Art closed their gym for good Tuesday night -- 8 p.m., to be precise. “It was great to be able to open back up and help people again,” they wrote in a joint post, “but at t…

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Pregnant Paterson Woman ID'd Accused Killer Before She Died, Authorities Say Pregnant Paterson Woman ID'd Accused Killer Before She Died, Authorities Say
Pregnant Paterson Woman ID'd Accused Killer Before She Died, Authorities Say UPDATE: An ex-con whom a pregnant Paterson woman identified as her killer shortly before she died was convicted of murder following a jury trial. Donqua “Quay” Thomas, 32, faces a minimum of 30 years in state prison without parole, with the possibility of a lifetime term, when he is sentenced on Sept. 22. The woman he killed, Remy Lee, 31, was two weeks away from delivering their newborn son when Thomas shot her four times in broad daylight in a parking lot at the city’s Brooks-Sloate Terrace co-ops on Oct. 29, 2020, jurors in Paterson found. Thomas had been sitting in a car, waiting …

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Atlantic City Man Gets 6½ Years In Fed Pen For $2.5 Million Tax Fraud Atlantic City Man Gets 6½ Years In Fed Pen For $2.5 Million Tax Fraud
Atlantic City Man Gets 6½ Years In Fed Pen For $2.5 Million Tax Fraud An Atlantic City man was sentenced to 6½ years in federal prison for running a $2.5 million “mortgage recovery” tax scam. Kenneth Crawford Jr. will have to serve just about all of the sentence because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. The judge also ordered him to serve three years of supervised release and pay $1,393,511 in restitution to the United States. Crawford led a ring that obtained refunds from the IRS for clients who were facing foreclosure or behind on their mortgage payments and weren’t entitled to them, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Crawford and his accom…

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