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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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Fair Lawn PD: Man Seized For Violating Order Of Protection Fights With, Spits On Officers Fair Lawn PD: Man Seized For Violating Order Of Protection Fights With, Spits On Officers
Fair Lawn PD: Man Seized For Violating Order Of Protection Fights With, Spits On Officers A Fair Lawn man led borough police on a brief foot chase, then spit on and fought with officers after violating an order of protection, authorities said. Brandon Hernandez, 25, ran from officers who responded to a call to a 1st Street residence Wednesday afternoon, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. When they finally grabbed him, Hernandez fought with and spit on the officers before being subdued, Metzler said. Members of the Fair Lawn Volunteer Ambulance Corps took him under police guard to Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus for an evaluation. He was later transferred to the Bergen County …

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Police: Peeping-Tom Contractor Hid Video Camera In Paramus, Wayne Family Bathrooms Police: Peeping-Tom Contractor Hid Video Camera In Paramus, Wayne Family Bathrooms
Police: Peeping-Tom Contractor Hid Video Camera In Paramus, Wayne Family Bathrooms A contractor hid a micro camera that recorded video in bathrooms at homes in Paramus and Wayne, authorities said. The Paramus victim went to local police after finding the camera, with a micro-SD memory card, hidden in a bathroom wall, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said Wednesday. Detectives learned that the homeowner had hired Romeo Sanchez, 47, of West New York to replace a window, Ehrenberg said. Sanchez "had not finished the job and reported that he would return at a later date and time," the chief said. Detective Mark Pinajian examined the device's memory card and found "several vid…

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Englewood Cook Charged With Sexually Assaulting Underage Waldwick Girl In Allendale Englewood Cook Charged With Sexually Assaulting Underage Waldwick Girl In Allendale
Englewood Cook Charged With Sexually Assaulting Underage Waldwick Girl In Allendale A cook from Englewood was charged with having sex with an underage Waldwick girl he apparently met on a dating app, authorities said. Police searching for the girl after she’d been reported missing found her Sunday night in Allendale with Seti Tonge, 22, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Tonge was taken to Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus before he was booked into the Bergen County Jail early Monday. A judge soon after ordered him released pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. Tonge is charged with sexual assault and child enda…

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Bergen Prosecutor: Feds Capture Parolee In $500,000 Ponzi Scheme Bergen Prosecutor: Feds Capture Parolee In $500,000 Ponzi Scheme
Bergen Prosecutor: Feds Capture Parolee In $500,000 Ponzi Scheme U.S. Marshals captured an ex-con who ran a Ponzi scheme while on federal probation that swindled a Fort Lee investor, among others, out of more than $500,000, authorities said. Giuseppe Valentino, 52, “solicited multiple investors in his company, Rhineau LLC, by representing that he had developed a proprietary algorithm for the execution of binary options,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Wednesday. A judge issued a warrant for Valentino’s arrest in March after Financial Crimes Unit detectives found that he’d collected a half-million dollars that he used for himself without inves…

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Palisades Park Warehouse Worker, 19, Charged With Statutory Rape Palisades Park Warehouse Worker, 19, Charged With Statutory Rape
Palisades Park Warehouse Worker, 19, Charged With Statutory Rape A warehouse worker from Palisades Park was charged with statutory rape. Edison Moreno Teletor, 19, was charged with sexual assault of a child between 13 and 16 and child endangerment on Saturday, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Members of Musella’s Special Victims Unit took Teletor, of Broad Avenue, into custody following an investigation with borough police, who’d fielded the initial complaint last Wednesday, he sad. Teletor was ordered freed by a judge in Hackensack within hours of being booked into the Bergen County Jail. Statutory rape occurs in New Jersey when one of the …

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Police & Fire
Troubled Woman Barricaded In Bergenfield Home Troubled Woman Barricaded In Bergenfield Home
Troubled Woman Barricaded In Bergenfield Home A troubled woman barricaded herself for several hours inside a Bergenfield home before she was taken into custody. Area streets remained closed as members of Bergen County SWAT and Regional Crisis Negotiation teams joined borough police at the Maiden Lane home after the standoff began around 12:30 p.m. It continued for more than five hours before the SWAT team forced its way in and seized the woman without further incident. She was taken to Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus for an evaluation.

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Not One, Not Two, But Three Tractor-Trailers Crash On Notorious Route 287 Stretch Not One, Not Two, But Three Tractor-Trailers Crash On Notorious Route 287 Stretch
Not One, Not Two, But Three Tractor-Trailers Crash On Notorious Route 287 Stretch A driver was serious injured during a series of tractor-trailer crashes that closed both sides of a notorious stretch of Route 287 in Oakland, jamming traffic until well after sunrise Wednesday. Two rigs crashed separately on the rain-soaked highway's northbound side near Skyline Drive barely 15 minutes apart just after 2:30 a.m.  A medical chopper was summoned for the seriously injured driver and then cancelled because of the weather. Responders said he'd been ejected from the cab of his rig. Another tractor-trailer tipped in the southbound lanes about four hours earlier. State Police …

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HELP SOUGHT: Poodle Thrown From Car In Paterson Clings To Life, Reward Offered HELP SOUGHT: Poodle Thrown From Car In Paterson Clings To Life, Reward Offered
Help Sought: Poodle Thrown From Car In Paterson Clings To Life, Reward Offered An emaciated poodle clung to life Tuesday as PETA offered a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever threw him from a car in Paterson. "If this little dog had been taken to an animal shelter, he would have had a chance at finding a family who would love him like he deserves,” PETA Vice President Colleen O'Brien. “But instead, he was tossed out of a car like a piece of trash.” The poodle, named Bear, was receiving intensive veterinary care for his injuries, which include pelvic fractures, skin lesions, and a possible skull fracture and herniated …

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Jersey City Officer Admits Collecting No-Show Traffic Detail Money Jersey City Officer Admits Collecting No-Show Traffic Detail Money
Jersey City Officer Admits Collecting No-Show Traffic Detail Money A Jersey City police officer admitted via teleconference in federal court in Newark on Tuesday that she collected more than $9,000 with a colleague's help for what turned out to be no-show traffic duty. Gicella Sanchez, 36, struck a plea deal with the government rather than go to trial for the scheme after it was sniffed out by the FBI. Police departments routinely provide off-duty officers to direct traffic on certain jobs by private contractors. The officers are required to “complete and provide…a voucher that indicated, among other things, the hours worked on particular off-duty ass…

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Body Of Bergen Man Who Drowned 5 Weeks Ago Recovered From Deepest Part Of Lake Tahoe Body Of Bergen Man Who Drowned 5 Weeks Ago Recovered From Deepest Part Of Lake Tahoe
Body Of Bergen Man Who Drowned 5 Weeks Ago Recovered From Deepest Part Of Lake Tahoe The body of a Closter man who went missing in Lake Tahoe five weeks ago was found more than 1,500 feet below the surface, authorities said. Ryan Normoyle, a talented 29-year-old woodworker, had recorded the final cellphone images of himself happily jumping off a rented boat that he’d rented on Aug. 10 during a three-week West Coast vacation last month. “It looks like he was playing around in the water didn’t know the boat was in gear,” South Lake Tahoe Police Lt. Travis Cabral said. The Dumont native "wasn’t able to make it back to the boat,” which washed up in Glenbrook, Nevada, Cabral sa…

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