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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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Alleged Coverup Probed After Saddle Brook Officer Leads Ridgefield PD On High-Speed Chase Alleged Coverup Probed After Saddle Brook Officer Leads Ridgefield PD On High-Speed Chase
Alleged Coverup Probed After Saddle Brook Officer Leads Ridgefield PD On High-Speed Chase A Saddle Brook police officer was suspended without pay and two of his colleagues suspended with pay Thursday following a reckless high-speed chase and alleged subsequent coverup. Saddle Brook Officer Andres Morales, 28, was off duty when a uniformed officer in Ridgefield tried to stop his speeding BMW on Broad Avenue 2:35 a.m. Oct. 3. Morales kept going, however, exiting onto Route 46 and then onto westbound Route 80, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. At the Route 80 split, Morales suddenly veered from the right local lane across several lanes into the express lanes, apparently …

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Police & Fire
'Sami's Law' Requires Signs On Uber, Lyft Vehicles To Protect NJ Riders 'Sami's Law' Requires Signs On Uber, Lyft Vehicles To Protect NJ Riders
'Sami's Law' Requires Signs On Uber, Lyft Vehicles To Protect NJ Riders New Jersey will soon require signs, QR codes and placards on Uber, Lyft and other ride-sharing vehicles to protect passengers from getting into the wrong car. “Sami’s Law” was named after Samantha “Sami” Josephson, a 21-year-old University of South Carolina student from Robbinsville who was kidnapped and stabbed to death in Columbia, SC in March 2019 by a man she mistook for an Uber driver. New Jersey’s Motor Vehicle Commission Board on Thursday approved the measure, which takes effect once it’s published in the state register. The law will require rideshare vehicles to have a lighted or r…

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Witness: Man Who Plunged To Death At Paterson's Great Falls Slipped On Rocks Witness: Man Who Plunged To Death At Paterson's Great Falls Slipped On Rocks
Witness: Man Who Plunged To Death At Paterson's Great Falls Slipped On Rocks A man who plunged to his death from atop the Great Falls in Paterson on Thursday apparently slipped and fell, a witness told police. Firefighters recovered the body of the victim who was believed to be 40 to 50 years old, after the witness said he saw him “climbing the rocks, falling forward and then falling backward,” a responder at the scene told Daily Voice. The victim had no pulse when he was pulled from the water onto land after falling around 4 p.m.  Rescuers conducted CPR in an attempt to revive him to no avail. A medical examiner was summoned to make the pronouncement. CHECK…

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Clifton Man Gets 5 Years In Fed Pen For Multi-Million-Dollar Email Scheme Clifton Man Gets 5 Years In Fed Pen For Multi-Million-Dollar Email Scheme
Clifton Man Gets 5 Years In Fed Pen For Multi-Million-Dollar Email Scheme UPDATE: A Clifton man must spend the next five years in federal prison for a massive emailing scheme that conned businesses and individuals out of more than $1 million. In addition to the prison term, a federal judge in Trenton sentenced Lawrence Espaillat, 42, to three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay restitution of $1.7 million and forfeit $12,000. Espaillat must serve the entire term for his guilty plea to conspiracy to commit wire fraud because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. Espaillat previously admitted working with co-conspirators Corry Pringley and…

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PHOTOS: Lodi Woman, Boy Extricated In Route 17 Crash Involving Tractor-Trailer, Sedans, Pickup PHOTOS: Lodi Woman, Boy Extricated In Route 17 Crash Involving Tractor-Trailer, Sedans, Pickup
Photos: Lodi Woman, Boy Extricated In Route 17 Crash Involving Tractor-Trailer, Sedans, Pickup UPDATE: A woman and teenage boy from Lodi had to be cut from their sedan after it was smashed in a multi-vehicle pileup involving a tractor-trailer Thursday afternoon on Route 17, authorities said. Members of the Paramus Volunteer Rescue Squad extricated the 27-year-old woman and 14-year-old boy after the crash closed the northbound highway around 1:45 p.m. Both were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening, Paramus Deputy Police Chief Robert Guidetti said. It began when a Hyundai Sonata rear-ended the victims’ Nissan Sentra in t…

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Feds Arrest NJ Post Office Custodian In $15,000 Theft Of Checks, Cash Feds Arrest NJ Post Office Custodian In $15,000 Theft Of Checks, Cash
Feds Arrest NJ Post Office Custodian In $15,000 Theft Of Checks, Cash Federal agents on Thursday arrested a custodian who they said stole $15,000 in checks and cash while working at an Essex County post office. Mark Gregory Jr., 27, of East Orange, swiped checks from the mail stream and cash paid by customers at a Maplewood post office, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Gregory deposited those checks into his own bank accounts in New Jersey and elsewhere, Carpenito said. Gregory was scheduled for a video-conferenced initial federal court appearance Thursday afternoon in Newark on theft and bank fraud charges. Carpenito credited special agents with the U.S…

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Authorities: Detectives Nab Paterson Dealer With Loaded Gun Authorities: Detectives Nab Paterson Dealer With Loaded Gun
Authorities: Detectives Nab Paterson Dealer With Loaded Gun Detectives investigating a Paterson shooting nabbed a city drug dealer who had a loaded gun tucked into his waistband, authorities said. City Detectives Aaron Hensz and Joehan Suarez were investigating Tuesday's shooting when they saw Quashiek King, 21, selling drugs to the occupant of a vehicle near the corner of Broadway and Summer Street shortly before 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. They ordered King to raise his hands and, when he did, spotted the handle of a 9mm Smith & Wesson semi-automatic handgun, he said. The detectives took King into custody and fo…

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Mom Struck Pushing 2 Young Kids Out Of SUV's Path Crossing Park Ridge Street Mom Struck Pushing 2 Young Kids Out Of SUV's Path Crossing Park Ridge Street
Mom Struck Pushing 2 Young Kids Out Of SUV's Path Crossing Park Ridge Street A Park Ridge mom and her two young children escaped serious injury when they were struck by an SUV crossing the street Wednesday night, authorities said. The mother was pushing a stroller with a 2-year-old child in it and holding her 6-year-old daughter's hand as they crossed Kinderkamack Road from east to west around 7:30 p.m. when they were hit by a 2019 BMW X7 whose driver was turning left from Madison Avenue, Capt. Joseph Rampolla said. The mother sustained minor injuries after getting her children out the way of serious harm, Rampolla said. She was taken to HUMC Pascack Valley Medical…

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Ex-Con Charged In Gunpoint Essex Drugstore Robbery Spree Ex-Con Charged In Gunpoint Essex Drugstore Robbery Spree
Ex-Con Charged In Gunpoint Essex Drugstore Robbery Spree Key pieces of evidence led to federal charges against an ex-con for robbing pharmacies in Belleville, East Orange and West Orange at gunpoint, authorities said Wednesday. Police recovered a gun in his girlfriend’s car that Malik Conley, 27, of Newark, used in the second holdup last December in Belleville, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Conley and an accomplice struck again a month later, this time in East Orange, Carpenito said, adding that keys to the vehicle used in that robbery were found in his pocket. Conley apparently acted alone in the Dec. 3 robbery in Belleville, an indictmen…

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GOTCHA! Cliffside Park Detective Captures Accused NYC Child Sex Trafficker Wanted By FBI GOTCHA! Cliffside Park Detective Captures Accused NYC Child Sex Trafficker Wanted By FBI
Gotcha! Cliffside Park Detective Captures Accused NYC Child Sex Trafficker Wanted By FBI A Cliffside Park detective sergeant tracked down and captured an accused child sex trafficker who authorities said was hiding out from the FBI in a house across from a grammar school. A federal judge in the Southern District of New York had issued a fugitive warrant for Martin Concepcion, 23, of Queens on charges of trafficking a minor for sex and conspiracy. A member of the FBI/NYPD Joint Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, in turn, contacted Cliffside Park Detective Sgt. William Crapara and said that Concepcion -- known as "Tito" -- might be hiding out with relatives in t…

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