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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
Customer Denied Bathroom Cause Of COVID Does His Business In Glen Rock Liquor Store Aisle Customer Denied Bathroom Cause Of COVID Does His Business In Glen Rock Liquor Store Aisle
Customer Denied Bathroom Cause Of COVID Does His Business In Glen Rock Liquor Store Aisle Glen Rock police were trying to identify a liquor store customer who dropped his pants and did his business in an aisle after he was told the bathroom was closed because of coronavirus restrictions. Detectives were reviewing surveillance video from the Bottle King on Prospect Street after the visitor “proceeded to defecate on the floor of a store aisle and left the building” when he was denied bathroom access, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. “The store manager was advised of the procedure to sign a complaint under a Glen Rock borough ordinance that prohibits individuals from defecating or…

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Paterson Detectives Seize 91 Heroin Folds, 17 Vials Of Crack, Bust Two Paterson Detectives Seize 91 Heroin Folds, 17 Vials Of Crack, Bust Two
Paterson Detectives Seize 91 Heroin Folds, 17 Vials Of Crack, Bust Two Paterson detectives responding to neighborhood complaints busted two 18-year-old dealers with 91 heroin folds, 17 vials of crack and two ounces of pot, authorities said. Narcotics investigators watched a drug deal go down in broad daylight on Sherman Avenue near Union Avenue before moving in on the seller, Ismael Leon, and his lookout, Anthony Hernandez, neither of whom lives on the block, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. In addition to the drugs, they seized $275 in suspected proceeds, Speziale said. They charged Leon and Hernandez with various drug counts and released them pen…

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Bergenfield Cyberstalker Admits Sending Nude Pic Links To Pals, Relatives Of 23 Victims Bergenfield Cyberstalker Admits Sending Nude Pic Links To Pals, Relatives Of 23 Victims
Bergenfield Cyberstalker Admits Sending Nude Pic Links To Pals, Relatives Of 23 Victims A Bergenfield man admitted in federal court that he posted naked and semi-naked photos online that he claimed were of nearly 24 victims and then sent links to those pics to their families and friends. Rino Diamante, 25, of Bergenfield, told a U.S. District Court judge in Newark during a videoconference earlier this month that he continued the harassment for nearly four years, beginning in January 2016, stalking some of his victims on Facebook. Diamante said he posted the photos of people who knew and didn’t know on online forums such as 4Chan.com and volafile.com. He “also admitted to con…

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Police & Fire
Responding To Dispute, Washington Township PD Bust Resident With Variety Of Drugs, $10,000 Cash Responding To Dispute, Washington Township PD Bust Resident With Variety Of Drugs, $10,000 Cash
Responding To Dispute, Washington Township PD Bust Resident With Variety Of Drugs, $10,000 Cash Evidence in plain sight produced the arrest of a Washington Township man who local police said had a variety of drugs along with more than $10,000 in suspicious proceeds. Township officers responding to a dispute at a Manhattan Avenue home spotted the visible contraband, investigated and arrested Robert Marino, 60, Police Chief Richard Skinner said Thursday. Marino was charged with several drugs counts, as well as possession of criminal proceeds (money laundering) and drug paraphernalia. Police sent him to the Bergen County Jail only to have a judge order Marino released hours later, pendi…

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Police & Fire
Arrests Of East Orange Brothers Leads Detectives To Accused Gunman In Paterson Shooting Arrests Of East Orange Brothers Leads Detectives To Accused Gunman In Paterson Shooting
Arrests Of East Orange Brothers Leads Detectives To Accused Gunman In Paterson Shooting Detectives captured an accused gunman after arresting two brothers from East Orange in connection with a shooting in Paterson earlier this month. Christian Patterson was arrested early Thursday, two days after detectives nabbed brothers Delshawn and Keyshawn Wright. Authorities charged all three with attempted murder, aggravated assault and weapons offenses. Patterson, 29, and Delshawn Wright, 22, also were charged with being convicted felons in possession of firearms. Patterson shot the 22-year-old victim three times at the corner of East 23rd Street and Park Avenue on Aug. 9 while Keysh…

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News
Maskless Tweet Aboard Flight Gets Ex-Navy SEAL Who Claims He Killed Bin Laden Banned By Delta Maskless Tweet Aboard Flight Gets Ex-Navy SEAL Who Claims He Killed Bin Laden Banned By Delta
Maskless Tweet Aboard Flight Gets Ex-Navy SEAL Who Claims He Killed Bin Laden Banned By Delta A retired Navy SEAL who claims to have killed Osama bin Laden single-handedly said he was banned from Delta Air Lines after he tweeted a maskless selfie while aboard a packed flight this week. "[T]his attempt at a joke did NOT go over well...," Robert J. O'Neill later tweeted. I do wear a mask," he added. "I had my mask in my lap. Everyone has gone crazy." O'Neill apparently was violating Delta rules aimed at preventing the spread of COVID-19 on its flights when he tweeted the photo with the caption "I'm not a p---y." The tweet went viral before O'Neill said his wife removed it. Delta …

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Sports
Subway Series Opener Postponed After Mets Player, Staffer Tested Positive For COVID Subway Series Opener Postponed After Mets Player, Staffer Tested Positive For COVID
Subway Series Opener Postponed After Mets Player, Staffer Tested Positive For COVID The first game of this weekend's Subway Series was postponed, along with the New York Mets' game Thursday night in Miami against the Marlins, after at least two people in the Mets organization tested positive for the coronavirus, Major League Baseball announced. The Mets were trying Thursday night for a four-game sweep against the Marlins before returning home Friday to face the Yankees in a three-game series at CitiField. They now will focus on "additional coronavirus testing and contact tracing," MLB said in postponing the games. Two members of the organization who tested positive were a…

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Police & Fire
SEE ANYTHING? Hackensack Police Search For Street Shooter SEE ANYTHING? Hackensack Police Search For Street Shooter
SEE Anything? Hackensack Police Search For Street Shooter A gunman fired a shot on a Hackensack street that scattered bystanders and quickly brought city police. No one was struck by the .45-caliber bullet fired outside the Alston Arms apartments on Newman Street near Essex Street shortly before 6 p.m. Wednesday, Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. A witness reported seeing the possible gunman run north on Newman Street while a small group of people ran south after the shot rang out, DeWitt said. A small, silver-colored sedan with Florida license plates -- possibly a Toyota Camry -- fled the scene driven by a man wearing a white and black shirt, white shor…

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Police & Fire
Lifeless Girl, 13, Pulled From Backyard Mahwah Pool Lifeless Girl, 13, Pulled From Backyard Mahwah Pool
Lifeless Girl, 13, Pulled From Backyard Mahwah Pool A 13-year-old girl was clinging to life after responders pulled her from a backyard pool in Mahwah on Thursday. The girl was among visitors to a Snow Drive home when she drifted into the deep end, responders said. The others apparently didn't know how to swim and, instead, tried to get her to grab onto items so they could pull her out, they said. Police instantly got to the home, on a private road off a dead end, and furiously tried to revive the victim before she was rushed to the hospital. The prognosis wasn't good given how long she's been under, they said. Mahwah a month ago had two …

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Alert Resident Helps Garfield Police Nab Paterson Van, Bicycle Thieves Alert Resident Helps Garfield Police Nab Paterson Van, Bicycle Thieves
Alert Resident Helps Garfield Police Nab Paterson Van, Bicycle Thieves Two thieves using a van stolen out of Maywood were snatching bicycles in Garfield overnight when a resident's call brought police, authorities said Thursday. Responding officers stopped the van on Route 46 and nabbed repeat offenders Jose Gonzalez, 40, and Emmanuel Bernard, a-30-year-old Dominican national. Both live in Paterson. A Spring Garden Lane resident alerted police to the thefts shortly after 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, Capt. Richard Uram said. The van had its headlights off when Officer Jaroslaw Wdowiak spotted it on Shaw Street, Uram said. Wdowiak stopped the van in Elmwood Park, whe…

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