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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 Raid Lodi Home, Bust Resident On Child Porn Charges Feds Raid Lodi Home, Bust Resident On Child Porn Charges
Feds Raid Lodi Home, Bust Resident On Child Porn Charges A Lodi man was ordered detained by a federal judge Tuesday after agents said they found him trafficking child pornography. Joseph Ganaro, 42, used BitTorrent to collect and share child sex-abuse images, which agents accessed, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. They found 10 video files containing child pornography from an IP address assigned to Ganaro’s Avenue D near the state MVC office and charged him with distributing the images, the U.S. attorney said. Carpenito credited special agents of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations New Jersey Division a…

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New Jersey Named Most Hated State In America New Jersey Named Most Hated State In America
New Jersey Named Most Hated State In America If you’re the type who takes polls seriously, New Jersey’s got yours right here. That’s right: New Jersey – which once claimed the top spot in a survey of states least likely to give to charity – is Number 1 again. This time it’s in a survey that named it America’s most hated state. The methodology used by BestLife magazine included an independent poll of 320,000 Instagram followers nationwide by of illustrator and amateur researcher Matt Shirley. Sure enough, those driving the “Hatred Index” against New Jersey most were folks from New York Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Delaware. Also in…

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Hackensack Firefighters Free Crash Victims Trapped In Bushes Hackensack Firefighters Free Crash Victims Trapped In Bushes
Hackensack Firefighters Free Crash Victims Trapped In Bushes A Jeep and a sedan ended up on separate lawns after colliding Tuesday afternoon in Hackensack. Firefighters freed two women in the Jeep after it plowed into bushes outside a home on Summit Avenue near Anderson Street shortly before 1:30 p.m. Neither they nor an elderly man who was alone driving the sedan appeared seriously injured. The sedan got the worst of it in the crash on Summit Avenue in Hackensack.Rula Kanawati for DAILY VOICE The SUV and its occupants were relatively unharmed.Rula Kanawati for DAILY VOICE Cleanup needed.Rula Kanawati for DAILY VOICE ALL PHOTOS: Rula Kanaw…

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New Milford Planning Board CM, Fire Lieutenant Jailed On Child Porn Charges New Milford Planning Board CM, Fire Lieutenant Jailed On Child Porn Charges
New Milford Planning Board CM, Fire Lieutenant Jailed On Child Porn Charges UPDATE: New Milford Fire Lt. Angelo DeCarlo got underage girls he had online sexual chats with to send him naked photos, authorities charged. Armed with a search warrant, detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office took DeCarlo into custody at his Princeton Street home while seizing evidence early Tuesday. The Cyber Crimes Task Force members had learned that 55-year-old account manager "used the Internet to view, download, possess, and share digital files depicting nude and/or sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children," Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. "In …

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Legalize It? NJ Pot Supporters First Need To Know Where To Find It On Ballot, Advocates Say Legalize It? NJ Pot Supporters First Need To Know Where To Find It On Ballot, Advocates Say
Legalize It? NJ Pot Supporters First Need To Know Where To Find It On Ballot, Advocates Say Polls show most New Jerseyans want marijuana legalized, but what Garden State voters may not know is that the question is on the back of the election ballot. A recent survey by the Stockton University Polling Institute found 66% of New Jersey respondents favoring legalized leaf. Separate polls have gotten 65% and 61% thumbs up, respectively. But those are polls, not elections. The difference: Referendum questions always go at the end of ballots, which usually leads to slimmer margins than polls. This year, the cannabis legalization question is on the back of the ballot. It’s left some a…

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Northvale Driver Charged With Intentionally Crashing Into Couple In Norwood Northvale Driver Charged With Intentionally Crashing Into Couple In Norwood
Northvale Driver Charged With Intentionally Crashing Into Couple In Norwood UPDATE: A 21-year-old Northvale driver intentionally slammed his Jaguar into an SUV on a Norwood road, critically injuring one of the occupants, in an apparent suicide attempt. Solomon Kim, who suffered back and leg fractures, “intentionally crashed into the victim’s vehicle, causing the injuries” to a man and woman, both 46, Tuesday afternoon on Livingston Street, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The impact sent the couple’s Infiniti spinning into a wooded area and leaving a long debris field. The couple also were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, where the woman …

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Who Shot Unidentified Man Found Dead On Banks Of Passaic River? Who Shot Unidentified Man Found Dead On Banks Of Passaic River?
Who Shot Unidentified Man Found Dead On Banks Of Passaic River? Investigators were trying to identify a man found shot dead in a park in Paterson over the weekend. The victim’s body was found along the banks of the Passaic River in Pennington Park shortly after 9:30 a.m. Sunday, authorities said. He’d been shot more than once, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a brief release. They didn't say whether a gun was found at the scene. The New Jersey State Medical Examiner’s Office was conducting an autopsy to determine how the man was killed – and, authorities hope, who he is. Anyone with informa…

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Paterson Passenger, 18, Killed, Two Injured When Car Rolls Down Route 80 Embankment Paterson Passenger, 18, Killed, Two Injured When Car Rolls Down Route 80 Embankment
Paterson Passenger, 18, Killed, Two Injured When Car Rolls Down Route 80 Embankment UPDATE: Two men remained hospitalized following a Route 80 crash that killed an 18-year-old Paterson man Sunday night. Diego Guzman and another passenger were thrown from a car that veered off the westbound highway and rolled down an embankment through a bank of trees above Route 19, New Jersey State Police said. Guzman was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver and other passenger who was also ejected, both 18, were taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson. Paterson police and firefighters also responded.

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Food Delivery Driver Turns Tables On Serial Robber, Paterson Police Say Food Delivery Driver Turns Tables On Serial Robber, Paterson Police Say
Food Delivery Driver Turns Tables On Serial Robber, Paterson Police Say A Haledon man who had deliveries sent to a Paterson location so he could swipe cash from drivers had the tables turned when a would-be victim overpowered him and called police, authorities said. In doing so, the driver for a Turkish-Mediterranean restaurant in Totowa helped city police crack a string of thefts from drivers from various local eateries. Walter Pardo, 29, had the deliveries made each time to the same Granite Avenue address while claiming that he needed the driver to bring change because he only had a $100 bill, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Once the driver arriv…

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Authorities: DWI Car Salesman Flees After Hitting Pedestrian In Front Of Elmwood Park Police Authorities: DWI Car Salesman Flees After Hitting Pedestrian In Front Of Elmwood Park Police
Authorities: DWI Car Salesman Flees After Hitting Pedestrian In Front Of Elmwood Park Police A Hackensack car salesman from Elmwood Park who’d turned 21 just hours earlier was drunk when he struck and critically injured a pedestrian with a sedan right in front of borough police and then took off, authorities said. Omar Firozvi was driving a Ford Fusion that struck an 18-year-old New York man who was standing next to a disabled vehicle on River Drive near Marginal Road shortly after 2 a.m., Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Borough police officers who were assisting the driver whose car broke down witnessed the crash, then chased and quickly caught Firozvi, who’d kept goin…

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