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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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Police & Fire
2-Hour Food Run? Upstate NY Pair Had 1,100 Heroin Folds, Infant In Car, Hawthorne Police Say 2-Hour Food Run? Upstate NY Pair Had 1,100 Heroin Folds, Infant In Car, Hawthorne Police Say
2-Hour Food Run? Upstate NY Pair Had 1,100 Heroin Folds, Infant In Car, Hawthorne Police Say Hawthorne police who found 1,100 heroin folds in a stopped Jeep said the upstate New York driver told them that she and two men had come more than 135 miles to Paterson with a 2-year-old infant in the car "to get Spanish food." Victoria Declemente, 29, of Stamford, NY “appeared very nervous” when she was stopped on Goffle Road near Mohawk Avenue for several violations, Detective Sgt. Matthew Hoogmoed said. After claiming they’d driven all that way to Paterson for food, Declemente couldn’t remember exactly where, Hoogmoed said. Eventually, she admitted they’d come to buy drugs, he said. Of…

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Weather
How’s This Forecast? No Rain, Wind, Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Sky Fires – Just Snugglin' Weather How’s This Forecast? No Rain, Wind, Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Sky Fires – Just Snugglin' Weather
How’s This Forecast? No Rain, Wind, Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Sky Fires – Just Snugglin' Weather Tired of hurricane and tornado warnings? Had enough pictures of skies on fire? Snuggle up, folks: Our local weather expert has the perfect forecast for you. Know that nice weather we’ve been having? It’s going to continue, meteorologist Joe Cioffi said. “What a beautiful day it is outside,” Cioffi said Saturday. “As an added bonus, the sky is free from smoke from the West Coast wildfires. “We have no weather issues other than a few clouds coming into the mix on Sunday,” he said. “Days will be cool and nights will be chilly into Tuesday....The radars are silent and can take a vacation sinc…

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Police & Fire
New Milford Firefighters Douse House Blaze New Milford Firefighters Douse House Blaze
New Milford Firefighters Douse House Blaze PHOTOS: New Milford firefighters doused a smoky house blaze Saturday. The fire broke out in the rear of the Plympton Street home shortly after 4 p.m. and caused extensive damage. No serious injuries were immediately reported. The Plympton Street fire in New Milford caused significant damage.DAILY VOICE 535 Plympton Street, New MilfordAiden Flannery for DAILY VOICE The fire on Plympton Street in New Milford broke out shortly after 4 p.m.Aiden Flannery for DAILY VOICE At the scene.DAILY VOICE There was no immediate word on the possible cause of the Plympton Street fire in New…

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Police & Fire
Attempted Abduction Of Boy, 13, Reported At Washington Township Shopping Center Attempted Abduction Of Boy, 13, Reported At Washington Township Shopping Center
Attempted Abduction Of Boy, 13, Reported At Washington Township Shopping Center A 13-year-old boy told police two men in a pickup truck tried to abduct him near a busy Washington Township shopping center on Saturday. Police were interviewing him, reviewing area surveillance video and looking for witnesses among the crowd of shoppers and businesses in an attempt to corroborate his account. The investigation continued through the afternoon into early evening Saturday with no results, authorities said. The youngster told police the passenger got out of the parked truck, extended his arm and said "give me your hand" on Finnerty Place near Washington Town Center around 11:…

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Police & Fire
Overnight Fire Destroys Three Paterson Homes Overnight Fire Destroys Three Paterson Homes
Overnight Fire Destroys Three Paterson Homes A pre-dawn fire swept through three Paterson homes on Saturday, displacing 29 people. No serious injuries were reported in the four-alarm blaze on Redwood Avenue near Union Avenue. The fire broke out shortly before 4 a.m. in the rear of one of the homes and quickly spread, going from two alarms to three in barely 10 minutes, responders said. A fourth alarm was transmitted only 10 minutes after that as firefighters were forced to battle the flames from the exterior. They had the blaze knocked down a little less than two hours after the initial call. The fire consumed the initial home and c…

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Police & Fire
Indictment: Union City Man Pressured Child Into Sending Sex Pics, Then Shared Them On Facebook Indictment: Union City Man Pressured Child Into Sending Sex Pics, Then Shared Them On Facebook
Indictment: Union City Man Pressured Child Into Sending Sex Pics, Then Shared Them On Facebook A Union City man who authorities said pressured a child into sending him sexually explicit images that he then shared on Facebook was indicted by a federal grand jury in Newark. Ramon Zelaya, 36, also “used Facebook to conspire with an individual in the Dominican Republic to sexually abuse the individual’s minor child, create images of that abuse and send the images to Zelaya, who then distributed the images among various Facebook accounts he controlled,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Zelaya, “representing himself as a teenaged boy, used Instagram communications to persuade a child to…

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Police & Fire
Sandwiches, Candy, Scratchoffs, Heroin: Paterson Store Owner Busted, Drugs, $16,575 Seized Sandwiches, Candy, Scratchoffs, Heroin: Paterson Store Owner Busted, Drugs, $16,575 Seized
Sandwiches, Candy, Scratchoffs, Heroin: Paterson Store Owner Busted, Drugs, $16,575 Seized A Paterson merchant supplemented his income selling heroin and more from his store right next to a public school, authorities said. Narcotics Division detectives watched Jose Acevedo, 51, sell seven heroin folds to a city man at MC Power Grill and Deli on Union Avenue, next door to the K-4 No. 14 school, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. They then then raided the business and Acevedo’s Garrison Street home, seizing various drugs, as well as more than $16,500 in alleged proceeds, he said. Acevedo was carrying 40 heroin folds when they arrested him outside the store during the simu…

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News
Women's Rights Champion Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies At 87 Women's Rights Champion Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies At 87
Women's Rights Champion Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies At 87 It wasn't a stretch to call Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg a rock star. A private interment service will be held at Arlington National Cemetery for the petite but fiery champion of gender equality, who died Friday in Washington, D.C. Her family was with Ginsburg, who died of complications from metastatic pancreas cancer, the court said. She was 87. "Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature," Chief Justice John Roberts said "We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg…

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Police & Fire
Feds: NJ Crew Used Postal Workers, High School Students To Steal, Forge COVID Stimulus Checks Feds: NJ Crew Used Postal Workers, High School Students To Steal, Forge COVID Stimulus Checks
Feds: NJ Crew Used Postal Workers, High School Students To Steal, Forge COVID Stimulus Checks A group of criminals recruited New Jersey postal service employees to steal federal COVID-19 stimulus checks and paid high school students to help cash them, authorities said. The defendants -- who were associates of a group calling itself “the Members” -- recruited U.S. Postal Service employees to steal checks, checkbooks, debit cards, and credit cards from the mail in exchange for cash, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. They then forged the signatures of the account holders and made the checks payable to high school students and others who’d given them access to their accounts, also in …

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Police & Fire
FBI STING: Ex-Paraguayan Lawmaker, Husband Admit Roles In $2 Million Drug Money Laundering Plot FBI STING: Ex-Paraguayan Lawmaker, Husband Admit Roles In $2 Million Drug Money Laundering Plot
FBI Sting: Ex-Paraguayan Lawmaker, Husband Admit Roles In $2 Million Drug Money Laundering Plot A former member of Paraguay’s Congress thought that she and her husband were laundering $800,000 in drug money when they’d actually been caught in a New Jersey-based FBI sting, federal authorities said. Cynthia Elizabeth Tarragó, 41, also promised the purported drug traffickers that she could get them large quantities of cocaine at a good price, they said. Both Tarragó and her husband, Raimundo Va, 45, took guilty pleas in exchange for leniency at sentencing, admitting in federal court in Trenton this week that they conspired to launder what they believed would be as much $2 million in drug…

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