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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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$1 Million Settlement Collected By Fair Lawn Driver Rear-Ended Stopping For Pedestrian $1 Million Settlement Collected By Fair Lawn Driver Rear-Ended Stopping For Pedestrian
$1 Million Settlement Collected By Fair Lawn Driver Rear-Ended Stopping For Pedestrian A Fair Lawn driver collected a $1 million settlement for a rear-end crash that his attorney said forced him to change jobs. Gjon Lahu, 35, stopped to let a pedestrian cross Fair Lawn Avenue in September 2017 when his vehicle was struck from behind. Lahu was seriously injured and required physical therapy, chiropractic treatment, epidural injections and other surgery as a result, his attorney, Mark McBratney of Siegel Law in Ridgewood, told NJLaw.com. Lahu, who was an auto mechanic at the time, had to take a less-strenuous job as a school custodian because of his injuries, McBratney said. …

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FBI Smashes Jersey Shore Gun-Running Ring: Fugitive Brothers Still At Large FBI Smashes Jersey Shore Gun-Running Ring: Fugitive Brothers Still At Large
FBI Smashes Jersey Shore Gun-Running Ring: Fugitive Brothers Still At Large A Monmouth County man and his brother were being sought by federal authorities who charged them and three other people with running guns from Florida to the Jersey Shore. Fugitives Waldin “Manin” Espinosa-Ozoria, 31, of Freehold and Manuel “Chino” Espinosa-Ozoria, 30, of Bartow, FL are charged with conspiring to illegally sell firearms, including handguns and a semi-automatic rifle, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Arrested on similar charges were Enrique “El Enano 13” Quijada, 23, also of Freehold, Javier “Broly” Rodriguez-Valpais, 31, of Morganville, and Jacquelyn Dejesus, 41, also of …

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Authorities: Phone Threats To Passaic County School Unfounded Authorities: Phone Threats To Passaic County School Unfounded
Authorities: Phone Threats To Passaic County School Unfounded Someone made "unsubstantiated" threats to Lakeland Regional High School in Wanaque this week, authorities said Thursday. "There is no immediate danger to the community at this time," Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Wanaque Police Chief Robert Kronyak said in a brief release Thursday afternoon. The unspecified number of threats were phoned in, they said. "The investigation remains active and ongoing. More information will be released once it becomes available," the release says. Anyone with information about the threats is asked to contact the prosecutor's tips line at 1-87…

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Entrepreneur From Wayne Admits Ducking $550,000 In Employment Taxes At Fair Lawn Businesses Entrepreneur From Wayne Admits Ducking $550,000 In Employment Taxes At Fair Lawn Businesses
Entrepreneur From Wayne Admits Ducking $550,000 In Employment Taxes At Fair Lawn Businesses A Wayne entrepreneur who authorities said owned and operated several businesses in and around Fair Lawn admitted in federal court that he ducked nearly $550,000 in employment taxes. Dennis Saccurato, 68, told a judge during a teleconferenced plea hearing in Trenton that he failed to withhold, report and pay over employment taxes to the IRS from 2014 through 2016, federal authorities said. Saccurato also admitted that he was required to file IRS Form 941 on a quarterly basis but failed to do so, IRS-Criminal Investigation Special Agent Robert Glantz said. All told, Saccurato failed to pay o…

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Hudson 'Runner' In $3.5M Accident Insurance Fraud Scheme Gets Year And Day In Federal Prison Hudson 'Runner' In $3.5M Accident Insurance Fraud Scheme Gets Year And Day In Federal Prison
Hudson 'Runner' In $3.5M Accident Insurance Fraud Scheme Gets Year And Day In Federal Prison A Hudson County man is headed to federal prison for a plea-bargained year and a day for recruiting accident victims for an insurance fraud racket that racked up $3.5 million in bogus medical bills. Luis G. Aguirre, 57, of Kearny admitted in March that he worked as a “runner,” steering accident victims to various chiropractors, medical imaging centers and others who billed PIP insurance plans for medically unnecessary services. Health care providers gave Aguirre $500 in cash for each victim he delivered, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Aguirre and an employee from an auto body shop…

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COVID-19 Outbreak Closes Meadowlands Racetrack To Public COVID-19 Outbreak Closes Meadowlands Racetrack To Public
Covid-19 Outbreak Closes Meadowlands Racetrack To Public The Meadowlands Racetrack will remain closed to the public until at least Saturday after "a few" staff members tested positive for COVID-19, officials said. “Over the past several days the medical team has identified a few individuals [who] tested positive for COVID-19 that they acquired either in the workplace or at home," Meadowlands Racing & Entertainment said in a statement. "Out of an abundance of caution the entire facility will be shut down for top to bottom sanitization,” they added. "Contact tracing is ongoing." Officials said they expected to reopen the East Rutherford t…

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Palisades Parkway PD: Fleeing Newark Car Thieves Captured After Calling Uber To Cliffs Palisades Parkway PD: Fleeing Newark Car Thieves Captured After Calling Uber To Cliffs
Palisades Parkway PD: Fleeing Newark Car Thieves Captured After Calling Uber To Cliffs Palisades Interstate Parkway police waited out a pair of teenage thieves from Newark who bailed from a stolen vehicle, hid in the woods along the cliffs above the Hudson River, then called an Uber to pick them up. An officer tried stopping the Audi A5, reported stolen out of Livingston, on the northbound parkway in Alpine early Monday afternoon, Sgt. First Class Raymond Walter said. The same vehicle had been chased by police in Madison before dawn that same day, he noted. The parkway driver hit the gas before quickly exiting onto Henry Hudson Drive and heading down the hill into the Alpine…

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Police & Fire
Worker Struck By Steel Beam Rescued From Fourth Floor Of HackensackUMC Construction Site Worker Struck By Steel Beam Rescued From Fourth Floor Of HackensackUMC Construction Site
Worker Struck By Steel Beam Rescued From Fourth Floor Of HackensackUMC Construction Site HEROES: A worker was rescued after he was struck and pinned beneath a steel beam on the fourth floor of a Hackensack University Medical Center construction site on Thursday. With help from the construction company, the victim was secured into a basket by city firefighters and HUMC paramedics and then lowered by a crane after he was struck in the lower extremities by the I-beam at the Atlantic Street construction site shortly after 11 a.m., Hackensack Fire Capt. Justin Derevyanik said. Members of the third platoon Rescue 1, Ladder 1, Engine 2, Deputy 3 Car 2, police and HUMC BLS and ALS…

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Woman Rescued From Rape Attempt On Busy Paramus Street Woman Rescued From Rape Attempt On Busy Paramus Street
Woman Rescued From Rape Attempt On Busy Paramus Street A good Samaritan rescued a Paramus woman who was tackled and pulled into the bushes on a local street in broad daylight by a would-be rapist carrying a knife, authorities said. The 35-year-old victim told police she was walking on Oradell Avenue near Wilsey Court and the Garden State Parkway when Hector W. Alameda, 34, of Paterson approached her shortly before 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. Alameda asked her where the bus stop is, then demanded she kiss him, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. The woman said she yelled and tried to get away, but Alameda knocked her down, groped her and “attempted …

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Authorities: Paterson Police, Federal Agents Bust Drug-Dealing Couple With 1,000 Heroin Folds Authorities: Paterson Police, Federal Agents Bust Drug-Dealing Couple With 1,000 Heroin Folds
Authorities: Paterson Police, Federal Agents Bust Drug-Dealing Couple With 1,000 Heroin Folds Paterson detectives working with federal Homeland Security agents nabbed a drug-dealing couple with nearly 1,000 heroin folds, along with fentanyl, pot and $2,892 in suspected proceeds, authorities said. Investigators were watching as Carlos Gomez walked out of his East 29th Street basement apartment Wednesday night with several heroin bricks in his hand, city Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Gomez got into a car and drove away before they stopped and arrested him near the corner of 17th Avenue and East 31st Street. Detectives made another stop an hour later, arresting the mothe…

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