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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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Religious Instructor Charged With Sexually Assaulting Paterson Student For Years Religious Instructor Charged With Sexually Assaulting Paterson Student For Years
Religious Instructor Charged With Sexually Assaulting Paterson Student For Years A religious instructor from Paterson was charged with repeatedly sexually abusing one of his students at the youngster's home for more than seven years, then beating and threatening the child as he tried to avoid being caught. Authorities were seeking other possible victims. MD Rahman, 49, who provides in-home religious instruction to various families in Paterson, was ordered held pending trial by a Superior Court judge in Paterson on Wednesday following his arrest the week before. Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said city police reported the alleged abuse to detectives from he…

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AFTERMATH OF IDA: Passaic Passenger, 70, Drowns In Floodwaters, North Jersey Begins Cleanup AFTERMATH OF IDA: Passaic Passenger, 70, Drowns In Floodwaters, North Jersey Begins Cleanup
Aftermath OF IDA: Passaic Passenger, 70, Drowns In Floodwaters, North Jersey Begins Cleanup A 70-year-old passenger drowned in the overflowed Passaic River, despite furious efforts to save him, authorities said, as North Jersey took stock Thursday of the damage from Tropical Storm Ida. Firefighters and police rescued other members of his victim’s family, Passaic Mayor Hector Carlos Lora said, as the region surveyed the aftermath in the sun-drenched light of day. “I believe just like every other municipality in the state as a whole and the tri-state area, we were caught by surprise,” Lora said. “No one could have predicted the storm would have taken such a turn for the worst.” Th…

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IDA: Firefighters Cut Hole In Paterson Bridge To Rescue Man Trapped In Passaic River Below IDA: Firefighters Cut Hole In Paterson Bridge To Rescue Man Trapped In Passaic River Below
IDA: Firefighters Cut Hole In Paterson Bridge To Rescue Man Trapped In Passaic River Below During a night full of rescues, one of the most dramatic occurred at a bridge over the swollen Passaic River. City firefighters cut a hole in the deck of the Temple Street bridge off Presidential Boulevard in Paterson to rescue a man who'd become stuck beneath it late Wednesday as a relentless downpour brought by Tropical Storm Ida bombarded New Jersey. How he ended up there wasn't immediately clear. His rescuers found the victim alert and conscious after cutting a small survey hole, responders said. They carved out a larger space using jackhammers and other heavy equipment to get the man …

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Man Who Lives Near Park Ridge Town Pool Charged With Producing Child Porn Man Who Lives Near Park Ridge Town Pool Charged With Producing Child Porn
Man Who Lives Near Park Ridge Town Pool Charged With Producing Child Porn A divorced, unemployed man who lives up the street from the Park Ridge Municipal Pool was arrested Wednesday and charged with producing online child porn, authorities said. Richard Osinski, 61, “used the Internet to view, download, and possess more than 1,000 digital files depicting nude and/or sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Osinski, of Colony Avenue, was also “coordinating the production of sexually explicit online depictions of children,” the prosecutor said. He remained held Wednesday in the Bergen County Jail pending …

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Little Ferry Police: PA Driver With Conflicting Stories Found With Gun, Mags, Hollow Points Little Ferry Police: PA Driver With Conflicting Stories Found With Gun, Mags, Hollow Points
Little Ferry Police: PA Driver With Conflicting Stories Found With Gun, Mags, Hollow Points An out-of-state driver whose story changed several times was found carrying a handgun, two high-capacity magazines and hollow-point bullets outside a Little Ferry motel near Route 46, police said. Officer Joseph Convery stopped a 2018 Chevy sedan driven by Christopher Nazario, 36, of Reading, PA after he failed to signal a turn onto Bergen Turnpike near the Capri Inn, Police Chief James Walters said. Nazario first claimed to be an EMS member and then an employee for the mayor of New York City's "Office of Criminal Justice," Walters said. Nazario also told him he'd been on vacation in Flor…

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Anti-Vax Podcast Star Joe Rogan: ‘I GOT COVID’ Anti-Vax Podcast Star Joe Rogan: ‘I GOT COVID’
Anti-Vax Podcast Star Joe Rogan: ‘I GOT COVID’ Podcast star Joe Rogan – who was blasted by the Biden Administration earlier this year for telling young people not to get vaccinated -- told his millions of followers on Wednesday, "I GOT COVID." The Newark-born comedian, who hosts the hugely popular Spotify podcast "The Joe Rogan Experience," told his 13 million Instagram followers that he was using a drug that health experts have urged the public to avoid. Rogan, 54, said in the video (see below) that he has “fevers and sweats” and “threw the kitchen sink” at the illness – including monoclonal antibodies and ivermectin, which is ordinar…

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Authorities: Ex-Con Charged With Murder In Shooting Outside Passaic High-Rise Authorities: Ex-Con Charged With Murder In Shooting Outside Passaic High-Rise
Authorities: Ex-Con Charged With Murder In Shooting Outside Passaic High-Rise A dispute between ex-cons ended with one shooting and killing the other outside a Passaic housing complex, authorities said Wednesday. Detectives from the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office and Passaic police were assisted by federal agents when they captured Nysheem T. Mann, 32, during a traffic stop on Washington Street near Broadway in Paterson early Tuesday night, they said. Mann, of Paterson, was charged with gunning down Donyell Coley two days earlier in the parking lot at Speer Village, where the 41-year-old victim lived. Coley, who was struck several times, arrived at St. Mary’s Ho…

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Mets GM Busted For DWI After Party At Owner Steve Cohen's House, Report Says Mets GM Busted For DWI After Party At Owner Steve Cohen's House, Report Says
Mets GM Busted For DWI After Party At Owner Steve Cohen's House, Report Says Acting New York Mets General Manager Zack Scott had been at the Connecticut home of team owner Steve Cohen several hours before he was busted on DWI charges, ESPN reported Wednesday. White Plains police reported finding Scott, 44, asleep at a traffic light in his 2018 Toyota SUV on South Lexington Avenue near the U.S. District Courthouse shortly before 4:30 a.m. Tuesday.  He failed a field test but refused to take a breath test or submit a blood sample, White Plains Police Capt. James Spencer reportedly told the Post, which broke the story. Scott had been at the Greenwich, CT home of Met…

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Prosecutor: 900 Images Found On Phone Of Man Who Took 'Upskirt' Pics In Edgewater Supermarket Prosecutor: 900 Images Found On Phone Of Man Who Took 'Upskirt' Pics In Edgewater Supermarket
Prosecutor: 900 Images Found On Phone Of Man Who Took 'Upskirt' Pics In Edgewater Supermarket A man who was grabbed by customers while taking "upskirt" photos of an underage girl in an Edgewater supermarket had amassed nearly 900 child porn files, Bergen County's prosecutor said. Borough officers had arrested David Chapinski, 41, of Somerset after they said he was spotted taking cellphone photos beneath the skirt of a girl on a checkout line at the Mitsuawa Market on River Road in late July. Several good Samaritans grabbed and held onto Chapinski that day until police arrived, Detective Sgt. Teddy Wetklow told Daily Voice at the time. READ MORE…. Chapinski spent eigh…

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Workers Critically Injured In Fort Lee Makeshift Scaffold Accident Workers Critically Injured In Fort Lee Makeshift Scaffold Accident
Workers Critically Injured In Fort Lee Makeshift Scaffold Accident Two workers trying to put siding on a Fort Lee home were critically injured when one fell from a makeshift scaffold onto the other, authorities said. The victims – both 65 years old from New York -- were taken to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in critical condition after Tuesday morning’s mishap on tiny Ann Street, Fort Lee Police Capt. Edward Young said. One was in traumatic arrest, responders at the scene of the 9:44 a.m. accident said. “It appears that one victim fell from a makeshift scaffold comprised of extendable ladders and wooden planks,” Young said. “That victim landed on …

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