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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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Consultant Admits Bribing Former NJ Assemblyman Consultant Admits Bribing Former NJ Assemblyman
Consultant Admits Bribing Former NJ Assemblyman A computer consultant admitted in federal court Wednesday that he bribed a former New Jersey state assemblyman currently under indictment in connection with a series of kickback schemes. Jeanmarie Zahore, 56, of Rahway told a U.S. District Court judge in Newark via teleconference that he made the corrupt payments when Willis Edwards III was the acting business administrator for the city of Orange. Zahore received a $350,000 contract without competitive bidding from the Orange City Council in September 2015 for JZ Nettech, a computer consulting business that he operated from his home, U.S. A…

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GOTCHA! Saddle River Patrol Officer Nabs Wanted Rockland Sex Offender From Washington Township GOTCHA! Saddle River Patrol Officer Nabs Wanted Rockland Sex Offender From Washington Township
Gotcha! Saddle River Patrol Officer Nabs Wanted Rockland Sex Offender From Washington Township A Saddle River patrol officer on the lookout for car thieves caught a fugitive sex offender wanted out of Rockland County sleeping in his car, authorities said. Michael Rosen, 32, of Washington Township, remained held Wednesday in the Bergen County Jail pending extradition proceedings on a fugitive warrant issued by a judge in New City. Saddle River Police Officer Diana Golonek was on patrol when she spotted a 2009 Audi sedan parked with its high beams on and temporary license tags on Chestnut Ridge Road around 5 a.m. Tuesday, Police Chief Jason Cosgriff said. It being a prime time of day …

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Rapper Fivio Foreign Charged With Assaulting Pregnant Girlfriend At Edgewater Condo Rapper Fivio Foreign Charged With Assaulting Pregnant Girlfriend At Edgewater Condo
Rapper Fivio Foreign Charged With Assaulting Pregnant Girlfriend At Edgewater Condo The rapper known as Fivio Foreign remained held in the Bergen County Jail on charges that he assaulted his pregnant girlfriend over the weekend. Police arrested Maxie Lee Ryles III, 30, following the alleged incident at his apartment in The Alexander luxury high-rise in Edgewater on Saturday, records show.  Ryles's 24-year-old girlfriend, who is pregnant with their second child, told police that Ryles punched her in the back of the head, kicked her and hit her with a glass bottle before pushing her into the hallway without clothes, records show. He, in turn, said she set him up. A Centra…

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Paramus School Therapist From Washington Township Loses License For Kissing, 'Sexting' Student Paramus School Therapist From Washington Township Loses License For Kissing, 'Sexting' Student
Paramus School Therapist From Washington Township Loses License For Kissing, 'Sexting' Student A Washington Township youth therapist had her license permanently revoked for making out and exchanging suggestive texts with a 17-year-boy she was counseling from a private Paramus High School, authorities said Wednesday. Tara Cardinale, 39, pleaded guilty to criminal sexual contact rather than go to trial following her arrest by members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit earlier this year. Cardinale, who worked at the Alliance Academy, agreed to the permanent revocation of her New Jersey license as a clinical social worker as a condition of the plea, Attorney General G…

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Packed Garbage Truck Tips On Route 17 Ramp Packed Garbage Truck Tips On Route 17 Ramp
Packed Garbage Truck Tips On Route 17 Ramp A fully loaded garbage truck tipped over on a Route 17 exit ramp late Wednesday morning. The driver was hospitalized with back and neck injuries after climbing from the rig, which rolled onto its side on the ramp from southbound Route 17 onto eastbound Linwood Avenue in Ridgewood by the Stop & Shop at the Paramus border shortly after 11 a.m. Ridgewood police, firefighters and EMS were joined by Paramus police. A heavy duty wrecker righted and removed the truck and a DPW crew cleaned up the mess. The ramp was reopened shortly after 2 p.m. Route 17 ramp to Linwood Avenue in Ridgewo…

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Passaic County Pair Bagged $80,000 In Back-To-Back Bank Robberies Passaic County Pair Bagged $80,000 In Back-To-Back Bank Robberies
Passaic County Pair Bagged $80,000 In Back-To-Back Bank Robberies Two men nabbed by the FBI following bank robberies in Passaic and Little Falls just weeks apart were indicted by a federal grand jury in Newark. Nicholas Ortiz, 37, of Paterson, and Jose Soto, 49, of Passaic, have remained in federal custody since their March arrests for robbing a PNC branch in Passaic of $35,000 and a Valley National Bank in Little Falls of $45,000. One of them pointed a silver and black gun at customers and employees at the Main Street Valley National branch in Little Falls on Feb. 27, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. The other then "jumped over a teller counter …

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COVID-19: Fewer Flying, But More Caught Carrying Guns At Airports COVID-19: Fewer Flying, But More Caught Carrying Guns At Airports
Covid-19: Fewer Flying, But More Caught Carrying Guns At Airports An Essex County traveler caught trying to bring a loaded gun through a Newark Airport checkpoint late last week wasn't a rarity: Even though far fewer people are flying because of the coronavirus, the TSA says, more passengers are packin'. Airline traveler volume since the pandemic hit has been 60% to 80% lower than last year. Yet, with 11 weeks left in 2020, the TSA reports as many guns seized this year as in all of 2019, "when passenger volume was significantly more robust," said Thomas Carter, the TSA’s security director for New Jersey. Some examples: A Pennsylvania man was caught wit…

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GOT VIDEO? Englewood Police Investigate Alleged Assault At Protest March GOT VIDEO? Englewood Police Investigate Alleged Assault At Protest March
GOT Video? Englewood Police Investigate Alleged Assault At Protest March Englewood police investigating an alleged assault during a protest march asked the public for video from the incident. Officers directing traffic during the “No Justice, No Peace” march up East Palisade Avenue last Friday were alerted to a man down in the street. The 51-year-old victim, who was bleeding from the lip, said he got into a tussle with a male demonstrator carrying a megaphone, Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said. The man was taken to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center after being treated at the scene, the deputy chief said. No arrests were immediately made. The march…

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GOTCHA! JC Fugitive Wanted For Contraband Drone Drops Into Fort Dix Prison Captured In Vermont GOTCHA! JC Fugitive Wanted For Contraband Drone Drops Into Fort Dix Prison Captured In Vermont
Gotcha! JC Fugitive Wanted For Contraband Drone Drops Into Fort Dix Prison Captured In Vermont U.S. Marshals in Vermont captured a Jersey City fugitive wanted for smuggling tobacco, phone chargers and other contraband into the federal prison at Fort Dix using drones. Jason “Juice” Loayza, 29, was scheduled for a first federal court appearance appearance Wednesday in Burlington following his capture on Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. The smuggling operation lasted several months before officers at Fort Dix spotted a drone with a dangling fishing line hovering above a housing unit, Carpenito said. They found the bolts removed to a rooftop hatch, along with an inmate with …

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J&J: Mystery Illness Pauses Largest COVID Vaccine Trial J&J: Mystery Illness Pauses Largest COVID Vaccine Trial
J&J: Mystery Illness Pauses Largest COVID Vaccine Trial A mystery illness suffered by a participant has put the largest COVID-19 vaccine trial on hold, drug maker Johnson & Johnson announced. The New Jersey-based company – which sought 60,000 volunteers mostly over 60 – didn’t describe the illness or identify the patient in any way. “We must respect this participant's privacy,” J&J said in a statement. “We're also learning more about this participant's illness, and it's important to have all the facts before we share additional information.” J&J said it would provide transparent updates throughout the development of the randomized, …

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