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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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South Hackensack PD: Officer Nabs 3 With Drug Assortment In Middle Of Route 46 South Hackensack PD: Officer Nabs 3 With Drug Assortment In Middle Of Route 46
South Hackensack PD: Officer Nabs 3 With Drug Assortment In Middle Of Route 46 A South Hackensack police officer nabbed three people carrying an assortment of drugs after he found them stopped in a car in the fast lane outside a Route 46 motel, authorities said. Officer Kyle Skelley rolled up on a Nissan sedan outside the Congress Inn on the highway’s eastbound side at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday, Capt. Robert Chinchar said. He quickly discovered active warrants for two of the occupants, Susan A. Smith, 36, and Dwayne L. Sweet, 39, both unemployed, of Paterson, Chinchar said. A consent search of the vehicle turned up heroin, crystal meth, Ecstasy, illegally obtained Xanax pill…

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ICE Puts Hold On Landscaper Jailed For Sexually Assaulting Cliffside Park Pre-Teen ICE Puts Hold On Landscaper Jailed For Sexually Assaulting Cliffside Park Pre-Teen
ICE Puts Hold On Landscaper Jailed For Sexually Assaulting Cliffside Park Pre-Teen ICE has issued a detainer on a Guatemalan national charged with the statutory rape of a Cliffside Park pre-teen. Fairview police received the tip that led to the arrest two weeks ago of Ervin Figueroa-Osuna, a 20-year-old landscaper who lives in the Cumberland County town of Bridgeton, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Detectives from Musella’s Special Victims Unit learned that Figueroa-Osuna “engaged in multiple acts of sexual penetration with the child over the course of four weeks,” the prosecutor said. Anyone under the age of 16 is deemed incapable of consenting to sex, under…

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BUSTED! Feds Charge NJ Postal Carrier With Dumping Election Ballots BUSTED! Feds Charge NJ Postal Carrier With Dumping Election Ballots
Busted! Feds Charge NJ Postal Carrier With Dumping Election Ballots Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested a postal carrier from Kearny who they said dumped 1,875 pieces of mail -- including general election ballots and campaign flyers – instead of delivering them. Nicholas Beauchene, 26, was nabbed by special agents of the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General after a Saddle Brook man reported finding dumped bundles of mail in a dumpster behind a North Arlington bank. Beauchene tossed 1,875 pieces of mail – including 99 general election ballots destined for residents in West Orange and 276 campaign flyers from local candidates for West Orang…

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Police & Fire
SEEN HIM? Wayne Police ID Peeper Who Took Upskirt Pic Of Woman In Mall Bathroom Stall SEEN HIM? Wayne Police ID Peeper Who Took Upskirt Pic Of Woman In Mall Bathroom Stall
Seen HIM? Wayne Police ID Peeper Who Took Upskirt Pic Of Woman In Mall Bathroom Stall Wayne police turned to the public Wednesday for help finding a Newark fugitive who they said took an “upskirt” photo of a woman using a toilet in a Willowbrook Mall bathroom. Aware that authorities were searching for him, Mohammad Abass, 40, fled the area and was believed to be in upstate New York or Vermont, Detective Capt. Daniel Daly said. He may be driving a gray or silver 2004 Honda Accord with New Jersey license plates: A12LGM. The woman told police she was using the facilities at Macy’s on Aug. 14 when the man “reached under from the stall beside her while holding a cellphone from …

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Police & Fire
Firefighters Douse Mahwah Basement Blaze Near Rockland Border Firefighters Douse Mahwah Basement Blaze Near Rockland Border
Firefighters Douse Mahwah Basement Blaze Near Rockland Border Firefighters doused a basement blaze Wednesday that severely damaged a Mahwah home near the Upper Saddle River and Rockland borders. No injuries were reported in the two-alarm blaze, which broke out shortly after 3:15 p.m. on Tam-O-Shanter Drive in the Scotch Hills section of the township barely a quarter-mile from Airmont, NY. Mutual aid responders either at the scene or in coverage included firefighters from Ramsey, Midland Park, Allendale, Upper Saddle River, Oakland, Franklin Lakes, Waldwick and Wyckoff, Tallman, Suffern and Hillburn. Several companies provided mutual aid in the Ma…

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Police & Fire
Murder Charged Against Rutherford Man Who Claimed Brother He Hacked Dead Had Demons Inside Him Murder Charged Against Rutherford Man Who Claimed Brother He Hacked Dead Had Demons Inside Him
Murder Charged Against Rutherford Man Who Claimed Brother He Hacked Dead Had Demons Inside Him UPDATE: A Rutherford man claimed that he was trying to remove demons from his younger brother's body after he stabbed, slashed and hacked him dead, soaking the apartment they shared in blood, responders said. A recorded history of domestic violence ended when Uriel Adames-Gomez, 29, dialed 911 shortly before 8 p.m. Tuesday and said he'd just stabbed Gabriel Adames-Gomez, 26. Adames-Gomez told borough police that "he had stabbed and killed his brother," Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Officers responding to the call found Adames-Gomez in front of the Union Avenue building acros…

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Mailman Charged With Stealing, Cashing Checks From Hackensack, Maywood, Leonia Residents Mailman Charged With Stealing, Cashing Checks From Hackensack, Maywood, Leonia Residents
Mailman Charged With Stealing, Cashing Checks From Hackensack, Maywood, Leonia Residents A postal carrier from Hackensack stole and cashed checks sent to customers on his route in town, in Leonia and in Maywood, said federal authorities who arrested him Wednesday. Juan Torres, 27, deposited the money into a bank account he controlled, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Torres was scheduled for a first appearance via videoconference Wednesday afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Cathy L. Waldor in Newark. Special agents with the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General have charged him with mail theft and bank fraud. Carpenito credited the agents and postal inspector…

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Police & Fire
Rutherford Man Claims Brother He Hacked Dead Had Demons Inside Him, Responders Say Rutherford Man Claims Brother He Hacked Dead Had Demons Inside Him, Responders Say
Rutherford Man Claims Brother He Hacked Dead Had Demons Inside Him, Responders Say UPDATE: A Rutherford man claimed that he was trying to remove demons from his younger brother's body after he stabbed, slashed and hacked him dead, soaking the apartment they shared in blood, responders said. A recorded history of domestic violence ended when Uriel Adames-Gomez, 29, dialed 911 shortly before 8 p.m. Tuesday and said he'd just stabbed Gabriel Adames-Gomez, 26. Adames-Gomez told borough police that "he had stabbed and killed his brother," Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Officers responding to the call found Adames-Gomez in front of the Union Avenue building acros…

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Police & Fire
HEROES: Hackensack Firefighter Helps Resuscitate Rochelle Park Trucker In Route 80 Crash HEROES: Hackensack Firefighter Helps Resuscitate Rochelle Park Trucker In Route 80 Crash
Heroes: Hackensack Firefighter Helps Resuscitate Rochelle Park Trucker In Route 80 Crash An off-duty Hackensack firefighter pulled a local driver through the window of a pickup truck and helped resuscitate him following a crash on Route 80 in Elmwood Park, authorities said. The driver's GMC Sierra struck three other vehicles before slamming into the concrete divider on the westbound highway around 3:45 p.m., State Police said. Deputy Chief John Taylor was headed home when he pulled over, broke the back window of the pickup and, with the help of two other motorists, got the 63-year-old victim from Rochelle Park out and onto the roadway. Taylor and one of the motorists conducted…

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Authorities: Man Stabs Brother Dead In Rutherford Apartment, Dials 911 Authorities: Man Stabs Brother Dead In Rutherford Apartment, Dials 911
Authorities: Man Stabs Brother Dead In Rutherford Apartment, Dials 911 A man stabbed his brother dead in a Rutherford apartment Tuesday night, then dialed 911 from there to report it, authorities said. "The male victim died as a result of stab wounds, and one suspect is in custody," Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said, noting that it was a domestic violence assault. "No other individuals are believed to be involved."    The Bergen County Prosecutor's Major Crimes Unit joined Rutherford police at the Union Avenue building across from Union School and next to Rutherford Fire Department's West End firehouse shortly before 10 p.m. Union Avenue wa…

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