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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
UPDATE: Fairview Man Charged With Vehicular Homicide In Deaths Of Couple On GWB UPDATE: Fairview Man Charged With Vehicular Homicide In Deaths Of Couple On GWB
Update: Fairview Man Charged With Vehicular Homicide In Deaths Of Couple On GWB UPDATE: Authorities charged a Fairview driver with two counts of vehicular homicide in the deaths of a Bronx couple killed in a crash Friday on the George Washington Bridge. https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/cliffsidepark/police-fire/fairview-man-charged-with-vehicular-homicide-in-deaths-of-couple-on-gwb/793270/ ****** PREVIOUS POST: A Bronx couple was killed in a Thursday morning crash on the George Washington Bridge's lowel level, authorities said. Muharem Frluckaj, 52, was driving a Honda CRV that collided with a Chevy Corvette in the westbound lower-level lanes shortly before 9:3…

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UPDATE: Paterson Blaze Destroys Multi-Family Home, Damages Others, Displaces 53, Injures Two UPDATE: Paterson Blaze Destroys Multi-Family Home, Damages Others, Displaces 53, Injures Two
Update: Paterson Blaze Destroys Multi-Family Home, Damages Others, Displaces 53, Injures Two Flames tore through several connected Paterson homes overnight Thursday, displacing 53 residents. Two civilians sustained minor injuries in the four-alarm Mill Street blaze, which destroyed a ground-floor hair salon and all of the apartments in the building where it began shortly before 2:30 a.m. One resident climbed out his second-floor apartment window before firefighters rescued him. Three surrounding residences sustained varying degrees of damage, officials said. "All of the buildings are interconnected and have common spaces for fire to travel,” Fire Chief Brian McDermott explained. …

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HEROES: NJ's Finest, Paterson's Bravest Rescue Female Trio In Route 80 Tractor-Trailer Crash HEROES: NJ's Finest, Paterson's Bravest Rescue Female Trio In Route 80 Tractor-Trailer Crash
Heroes: NJ's Finest, Paterson's Bravest Rescue Female Trio In Route 80 Tractor-Trailer Crash VIDEO: Three women whose sedan slammed into the back of a tractor-trailer on the shoulder of Route 80 were all expected to survive thanks to a trio of New Jersey State Police troopers and Paterson firefighters. Troopers George Ward, Edgar Rodriguez and Gary Rokoszak of Troop B in Totowa were the first on the scene of the crash on the highway's eastbound side just after 3 a.m. Friday. They found a front-seat passenger outside a Honda sedan that had struck the rig -- and both the driver and rear-seat passenger trapped inside. "The driver was conscious and alert," State Police reported, "but …

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Prosecutor: South Jersey Couple Busted With 700 Heroin Folds, AK-47, $300,000 Drug Cash Prosecutor: South Jersey Couple Busted With 700 Heroin Folds, AK-47, $300,000 Drug Cash
Prosecutor: South Jersey Couple Busted With 700 Heroin Folds, AK-47, $300,000 Drug Cash A South Jersey couple with an infant were caught with 700 heroin folds, an AK-47 and nearly $300,000 in drug cash, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Wednesday night. An investigation that began in Bergen County brought Musella’s investigators to the Ewing Township home of Pedro DeJesus, 28, and Frances Perez-Arias, 22. Assisted by prosecutor’s detectives and sheriff’s officers from Mercer County and Ewing police, the investigators raided the couple’s home and conducted a court-approved search on Tuesday, Musella said. “During their search, detectives located approximately 700 glas…

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Police & Fire
Newark Ex-Con Caught With 3,151 Heroin Folds, 455 Crack Vials, Gun Must Do 7½ Years In Fed Pen Newark Ex-Con Caught With 3,151 Heroin Folds, 455 Crack Vials, Gun Must Do 7½ Years In Fed Pen
Newark Ex-Con Caught With 3,151 Heroin Folds, 455 Crack Vials, Gun Must Do 7½ Years In Fed Pen An ex-con from Newark must spend the next 7½ years in federal prison after city police caught him with 3,151 heroin folds, 455 crack vials and a loaded gun. Terrance Bradley, 28, must serve the entire plea-bargained sentence because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. Newark police were watching as Bradley sold drugs near a Renner Avenue residence on Dec. 6, 2018, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Armed with a search warrant, they raided the home the next day and found the drugs, a loaded 9mm semi-automatic pistol and $6,000 in suspected proceeds in Bradley’s bedroom, Carpeni…

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Police & Fire
Glen Rock PD: Worker Who Abandoned OD Victim Caught With 40 Heroin Folds, Crack, Syringes Glen Rock PD: Worker Who Abandoned OD Victim Caught With 40 Heroin Folds, Crack, Syringes
Glen Rock PD: Worker Who Abandoned OD Victim Caught With 40 Heroin Folds, Crack, Syringes A Jersey City laborer working a Glen Rock home renovation was arrested by police who said they found him carrying 40 heroin folds, crack and more after he abandoned an overdosing co-worker. Officers responding to a call of an injured man on a sidewalk turned a collapsed 47-year-old heroin user from Garfield over to EMTs while chasing down another man who fled the scene, Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. That man, Nathaniel Smith-Trowell, told the officers that he was employed by the injured user -- who, he said, began “freaking and tripping out.” As Smith-Trowell spoke, a h…

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PHOTOS: MINI Ends Up On Top Of Parked Car In Crash With Pickup, Sedan In Westwood Crash PHOTOS: MINI Ends Up On Top Of Parked Car In Crash With Pickup, Sedan In Westwood Crash
Photos: Mini Ends Up On Top Of Parked Car In Crash With Pickup, Sedan In Westwood Crash No serious injuries were immediately reported in a three-vehicle crash Wednesday afternoon in Westwood. Firefighters had to extricate the driver of a sedan involved in the crash with a pickup truck and a MINI Cooper that plowed through a fence and a row of hedges and landed on a parked car on Old Hook Road near Emerson Road around 1:45 p.m. Borough police temporarily closed the road for an investigation and clearing of the wreckage. The MINI ended up on top of a parked car.Aidan Flannery for DAILY VOICE

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Feds: Terrorist In NYPD Knife Attack Motivated By Islamic Extremists, Body Cam Video Released Feds: Terrorist In NYPD Knife Attack Motivated By Islamic Extremists, Body Cam Video Released
Feds: Terrorist In Nypd Knife Attack Motivated By Islamic Extremists, Body Cam Video Released VIDEO: A Bosnian national illegally in the U.S. claimed he stabbed an NYPD officer in the neck and then shot at his backups in a videotaped incident because of his support for violent Islamist extremism, federal authorities said Wednesday. The revelation comes the same day that federal authorities in Brooklyn unsealed an indictment charging Dzenan Camovic with robbery and weapons offenses. The NYPD on Wednesday also released body camera video of the attack (see below). The surveillance video above shows Camovic rounding a Brooklyn street corner and slashing the unsuspecting officer’s neck…

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News
NEW RULES: CDC Now Says Exposed Healthy People 'Don’t Necessarily' Need COVID Test NEW RULES: CDC Now Says Exposed Healthy People 'Don’t Necessarily' Need COVID Test
NEW Rules: CDC Now Says Exposed Healthy People 'Don’t Necessarily' Need COVID Test Healthy people who’ve been exposed to COVID-19 “do not necessarily need a test” if they don’t have symptoms, the Centers for Disease Control said this week, reversing a previous recommendation. The CDC previously urged testing for anyone who'd come into close contact with an infected COVID patient, whether or not they themselves had symptoms. The centers now says that most healthy people should be tested if they develop symptoms following an exposure – among them, fever, cough or shortness of breath -- but not necessarily if they don't. Some experts agree with the new guidelines, although …

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Palisades Park PD: Detective Nabs FedEx Imposter Stealing Cellphones From Porches To Ship To DR Palisades Park PD: Detective Nabs FedEx Imposter Stealing Cellphones From Porches To Ship To DR
Palisades Park PD: Detective Nabs FedEx Imposter Stealing Cellphones From Porches To Ship To DR A Palisades Park detective captured a porch pirate from Paterson who posed as a FedEx worker to collect iPhones illegally shipped to residents throughout New Jersey and then send them to a storeowner in the Dominican Republic, authorities said. TMobile authorities alerted borough police to a package scheduled for delivery at a 4th Street address late last week, said Capt. Anthony Muccio, the officer in charge of the department. In the box were six iPhone 11s valued at $699 each, he said. Authorities suspected a bogus delivery because they were prepaid for with an American Express card on a…

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