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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
Fire Roars Through Mixed-Use Paterson Buildings, Displacing At Least 50 Fire Roars Through Mixed-Use Paterson Buildings, Displacing At Least 50
Fire Roars Through Mixed-Use Paterson Buildings, Displacing At Least 50 Flames blew through a string of attached mixed-use buildings on Cianci Street in Paterson on Monday, displacing 60 people, city officials said. No serious injuries were immediately reported in the fire, which broke out on the upper floors of an attached three-story, wood-frame building and spread through the cockloft, blowing through the roof, shortly after 1 p.m. The fire quickly went to four alarms, with three buildings involved. Firefighters continued to keep water on the blaze four hours after it began. At least 20 families were displaced, said the Red Cross, which was finding them fo…

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Police & Fire
Carlstadt PD: NYC Pair Nabbed With Stolen Car After Swiping $1,500 In OTC Meds, More Carlstadt PD: NYC Pair Nabbed With Stolen Car After Swiping $1,500 In OTC Meds, More
Carlstadt PD: NYC Pair Nabbed With Stolen Car After Swiping $1,500 In OTC Meds, More Carlstadt police captured a pair of teen thieves as they left a local supermarket with nearly $1,500 worth of stolen over-the-counter medications and vitamins, authorities said. Alerted by security at the Stop & Shop on Paterson Avenue, Officers John Sanzari and Kyle Torres spotted Jayshawn Brayboy, 19, of Queens and a Brooklyn 16-year-old pushing a cart that held a black plastic trash bag filled with the stolen merchandise last Wednesday, Police Chief Thomas Berta said. Both ran but were caught by the officers. Brayboy and the minor drove to the store in a 2000 Ford Mustang reported s…

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Paterson Janitor Charged In Waldwick Rape Paterson Janitor Charged In Waldwick Rape
Paterson Janitor Charged In Waldwick Rape A janitor from Paterson was charged with raping a woman in Waldwick over the weekend. Kenneth Brown, 39, remained held Monday in the Bergen County Jail, pending a first appearance Monday in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack, following his arrest early Saturday. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Waldwick police contacted members of his Special Victims Unit, who learned that Brown had “forcefully engaged in multiple acts of sexual penetration with the female” sometime Friday night. They arrested Brown a short time later.

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Police & Fire
Victim Shot Out Of Area, Possibly Paterson, Turns Up At Hackensack ER Victim Shot Out Of Area, Possibly Paterson, Turns Up At Hackensack ER
Victim Shot Out Of Area, Possibly Paterson, Turns Up At Hackensack ER Authorities were trying to determine where a 26-year-old New York City ex-con who turned up at Hackensack University Medical Center with a gunshot wound was struck in Paterson or if it was somewhere else. Two vehicles -- an Acura sedan and Cadillac Escalade -- pulled up to the hospital around 2 a.m. and dropped off the Queens victim and a woman, Hackensack Police Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. The victim had a gunshot wound in his left thigh, DeWitt said. Neither knew where the shooting occurred but said it was in Paterson, the captain said. After the vehicles left both of them, the sedan slam…

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Police & Fire
UPDATE: Rescued Bergen Driver Loses Leg, Survives Fiery Crash On Palisades Interstate Parkway UPDATE: Rescued Bergen Driver Loses Leg, Survives Fiery Crash On Palisades Interstate Parkway
Update: Rescued Bergen Driver Loses Leg, Survives Fiery Crash On Palisades Interstate Parkway A 52-year-old Bergen County driver lost a leg but survived a fiery crash Sunday night thanks to two good Samaritans and the Palisades Interstate Parkway police. A passing NYPD captain and a security guard got the Demarest driver and her 29-year-old passenger, also of Demarest, out of the vehicle after it rolled on the northbound parkway between Exits 1 and 2 shortly before 11:30 p.m., Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Sgt. First Class Raymond Walter said. The responding PIP police officers, Sgt. Martin Clancy and Officer Elizabeth Santos, applied a tourniquet to the driver, saving her lif…

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GOTCHA! Rutherford, New Milford Porch Pirate Flees Out Bus Window, Captured, Police Say GOTCHA! Rutherford, New Milford Porch Pirate Flees Out Bus Window, Captured, Police Say
Gotcha! Rutherford, New Milford Porch Pirate Flees Out Bus Window, Captured, Police Say A repetitive porch pirate who’d just swiped packages from a Rutherford resident’s home fled out the window of an NJ Transit bus in Passaic before police captured him, authorities said. Anthony Mendoza, 39, of East Rutherford was previously charged last month with stealing packages in New Milford and was suspected in others in that borough, as well as in Bergenfield and Wyckoff. Released under New Jersey's 2017 bail reform law, Mendoza was on a Paterson-bound bus stopped by Rutherford Police Sgt. Jeffrey Wilkinson around noon Wednesday following another theft. Seeing police, Mendoza climbe…

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UPDATE: Rescued Bergen Driver Loses Leg, Survives Fiery Crash On Palisades Interstate Parkway UPDATE: Rescued Bergen Driver Loses Leg, Survives Fiery Crash On Palisades Interstate Parkway
Update: Rescued Bergen Driver Loses Leg, Survives Fiery Crash On Palisades Interstate Parkway A 52-year-old Bergen County driver lost her leg but survived a fiery crash Sunday night thanks to two good Samaritans and the Palisades Interstate Parkway police. A passing NYPD captain and a security guard got the Demarest driver and her 29-year-old passenger, also of Demarest, out of the vehicle after it rolled on the northbound parkway between Exits 1 and 2 shortly before 11:30 p.m., Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Sgt. First Class Raymond Walter said. The responding PIP police officers, Sgt. Martin Clancy and Officer Elizabeth Santos, applied a tourniquet to the driver, saving her l…

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Missing Paramus Girl FOUND Missing Paramus Girl FOUND
Missing Paramus Girl Found Paramus police said a 16-year-old borough girl reported missing late Saturday was back Sunday afternoon, less than 24 hours later. Gianna Francesco was last seen at 11:30 p.m. Saturday at the Dunkin Donuts on Forest Avenue, they said. Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg confirmed shortly before 4 p.m. that she was safe and sound.

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One Dead, One Wounded In Freehold Shooting One Dead, One Wounded In Freehold Shooting
One Dead, One Wounded In Freehold Shooting One man was killed and another wounded in an overnight shooting at a Freehold apartment building, authorities confirmed Saturday. Responding officers found the victims at the Continental on Jackson Street shortly after 1 a.m., Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni said. One of them was pronounced dead less than an hour later, while the second was taken to an unspecified hospital, where Gramiccioni said that he was listed in serious but stable condition Saturday afternoon. The prosecutor didn’t elaborate on the nature of the shooting or say whether authorities had arrested o…

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Mahwah PD: Officers Converge On Neighborhood, Capture Rockland Burglar Amid Crime Spree Mahwah PD: Officers Converge On Neighborhood, Capture Rockland Burglar Amid Crime Spree
Mahwah PD: Officers Converge On Neighborhood, Capture Rockland Burglar Amid Crime Spree A group of Mahwah police officers quickly converged on a neighborhood during a string of burglaries and captured a Rockland County man. Jorge Lopez, 18, of Spring Valley lost his Nike slides breaking into a home and stole a pair of footwear to try and make his getaway, Police Chief Stephen Jaffe said. He was riding away on a stolen bicycle when township officers grabbed Lopez and found him carrying stolen jewelry and other items, the chief said. Responding to several 911 calls, Officers Michael Cleary, Joe Alvarez, Martin Kilroy, Timothy Letavish, Chris Lupo, John Rodriguez and Sgt. Stacy …

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