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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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Critically Injured Motorcyclist Airlifted In Route 287 Crash Critically Injured Motorcyclist Airlifted In Route 287 Crash
Critically Injured Motorcyclist Airlifted In Route 287 Crash A critically injured motorcyclist was airlifted following a crash Saturday afternoon on Route 287 in Wanaque, responders said. The cyclist suffered severe head trauma and a broken leg crashing into a guardrail on the northbound side of the highway near mile marker 56 around 3:15 p.m., they said. Responders said he was intubated and flown aboard AirMed One to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson. The Tallman, NY fire chief had been passing and stopped to assist, responders said. All lanes were reopened shortly before 5:30 p.m. New Jersey State Police were investigating. *****…

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Police & Fire
ROUTE 21 CRASH: Paterson Driver, 18, Ejected, Killed, Passenger Clings To Life ROUTE 21 CRASH: Paterson Driver, 18, Ejected, Killed, Passenger Clings To Life
Route 21 Crash: Paterson Driver, 18, Ejected, Killed, Passenger Clings To Life UPDATE: An 18-year-old Paterson man was killed in a horrific crash Friday night that ejected him onto the other side of Route 21 in Passaic, responders said.  His passenger, who they said also was ejected, remained hospitalized Saturday, according to authorities. Jasdanny Villalta was driving a 2011 Honda Accord that collided with a 2016 Chevy Silverado driven by a 49-year-old Plainfield man on the northbound highway near Exit 11B shortly before 10:30 p.m., Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Passaic Police Chief Luis Guzman said Saturday afternoon. Villalta was pronounced…

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Christie Tests Positive For COVID-19 Christie Tests Positive For COVID-19
Christie Tests Positive For Covid-19 "I just received word that I am positive for COVID-19," former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie tweeted shortly before lunchtime Saturday. Christie, who helped President Trump prepare for the first presidential debate earlier this week, joins a list of people in Trump's inner circle -- as well as the president himself and First Lady Melania Trump -- who have reported positive coronavirus results. Former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, who also helped the president with debate prep, announced Friday that she had tested positive, as did Trump's campaign manager, Bill Stepien. “No one …

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Police & Fire
Paterson PD: Lunchtime Dealer Busted With Heroin, Crack On Deserted Dead End Paterson PD: Lunchtime Dealer Busted With Heroin, Crack On Deserted Dead End
Paterson PD: Lunchtime Dealer Busted With Heroin, Crack On Deserted Dead End Paterson detectives nabbed a drug dealer with 254 heroin folds after watching him sell crack just before lunchtime on a pair of out-of-towners on an otherwise deserted dead end, authorities said. Detectives responding to a resident's call were watching around 11:45 a.m. Friday as Jerome W. Potts, 35, sold several vials of crack to a Ringwood man, 59, on East 12th Street in the Bunker Hill section of the city, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. After securing a warrant to search Potts’s first-floor apartment, the detectives returned to find him selling crack to a 53-year-old Elmwood Park m…

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New Milford PD: Officers Capture Motorcycle Thieves New Milford PD: Officers Capture Motorcycle Thieves
New Milford PD: Officers Capture Motorcycle Thieves New Milford police nabbed a pair of thieves who'd just loaded a motorcycle into a van before dawn Friday and took off, authorities said. Officer Michael Lafrano stopped the Perth Amboy pair on River Road and Faller Drive after a caller at a Columbia Street apartment complex alerted police around 3:30 a.m., Detective Lt. Kevin Van Saders said. The van, it turned out, had a license plate stolen from a vehicle parked in the same complex, the lieutenant said. The stolen motorcycle was in the back, he said. Sgt. George Herrero and Officers Samuel Gerais and Daniel O’Neill assisted in arresting…

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Bergen Prosecutor Asks Parents To Check After Youth Program Director Swaps Nude Pics With Kid Bergen Prosecutor Asks Parents To Check After Youth Program Director Swaps Nude Pics With Kid
Bergen Prosecutor Asks Parents To Check After Youth Program Director Swaps Nude Pics With Kid UPDATE: The recently-hired director of a before- and after-school program in Saddle Brook exchanged nude images with a victim under 16 and had conversations on social media with several juveniles that "included sexually explicit dialogue," Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Friday. Jack T. Anderson, 25, of Fair Lawn, also met with one of the minors at least three separate times, the prosecutor said. Anderson has worked extensively with youngsters the past several years in New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts, records show. Musella asked that any parent or guardian who determ…

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SEEN HIM? NJ Career Criminal Stole $70,000 In Jewelry From Home, Carlstadt Police Say SEEN HIM? NJ Career Criminal Stole $70,000 In Jewelry From Home, Carlstadt Police Say
Seen HIM? NJ Career Criminal Stole $70,000 In Jewelry From Home, Carlstadt Police Say Carlstadt police turned to the public for help finding a fugitive ex-con who they said stole more than $70,000 worth of jewelry and other valuables from a borough home. Dwayne Thorpe, 51, who has dozens of felony convictions out of several New Jersey counties the past few decades, has spent much of his adult life in prison. Carlstadt police said he and fellow ex-con Jose Andujar climbed through a resident’s window on the 400 block of 8th Street, ransacked a bedroom and bolted out the back door with the goods on July 13. Responding officers notified by residents captured Andujar as he tried…

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Director Of Saddle Brook School Program Jailed On Child Sex Abuse Charges Director Of Saddle Brook School Program Jailed On Child Sex Abuse Charges
Director Of Saddle Brook School Program Jailed On Child Sex Abuse Charges UPDATE: The recently-hired director of a before- and after-school program in Saddle Brook exchanged nude images with a victim under 16 and had conversations on social media with several juveniles that "included sexually explicit dialogue," Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Friday. Jack T. Anderson, 25, of Fair Lawn, also met with one of the minors at least three separate times, the prosecutor said. Anderson has worked extensively with youngsters the past several years in New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts, records show. Musella asked that any parent or guardian who determines …

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Personal Physician: Trump Can Fulfill Duties While Quarantined Following Positive COVID Test Personal Physician: Trump Can Fulfill Duties While Quarantined Following Positive COVID Test
Personal Physician: Trump Can Fulfill Duties While Quarantined Following Positive COVID Test President Trump's personal physician said he could fulfill his duties as president "without disruption" while quarantined, following the announcement early Friday that he and First Lady Melania Trump both tested positive for COVID-19. “We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately,” the president tweeted shortly before 1 a.m., following a visit to a private fundraiser at his golf course in Somerset County. “We will get through this TOGETHER!” It takes up to six days for symptoms such as fever, a cough and breathing trouble to emerge from the respiratory virus that’s killed m…

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One Dead, One Wounded In Paterson Street Shooting One Dead, One Wounded In Paterson Street Shooting
One Dead, One Wounded In Paterson Street Shooting A 24-year-old Paterson man was killed and another man wounded in a shooting Thursday night, authorities confirmed. Responders furiously tried to resuscitate Kelvin Mejia after finding him in the street at the corner of 20th Avenue and East 29th Street shortly before 9 p.m. Mejia was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a release Friday. The second victim, 29, arrived at the hospital in a private vehicle and remained there after surgery, they said. Valdes an…

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