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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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Rush-Hour Routes To GWB Jammed After Tractor-Trailer, Dump Truck Collide Rush-Hour Routes To GWB Jammed After Tractor-Trailer, Dump Truck Collide
Rush-Hour Routes To GWB Jammed After Tractor-Trailer, Dump Truck Collide Both drivers were hospitalized after a tractor-trailer and dump truck collided near the entrance to the George Washington Bridge early Tuesday. Neither injury was considered serious. The crash at the extremely busy intersection at Lemoine Avenue and Bruce Reynolds Boulevard, shortly before 4:30 a.m., ended up jamming morning rush-hour traffic on the bridge's approach roads. Fort Lee police, firefighters and EMS responded, along with ABC Towing, which used a heavy wrecker to right the toppled tractor-trailer.  A fuel spill had to be cleaned up following the crash near the entrance to t…

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Paterson Native Charged With Assaulting Ex-GF, Carrying Drugs In Garfield Paterson Native Charged With Assaulting Ex-GF, Carrying Drugs In Garfield
Paterson Native Charged With Assaulting Ex-GF, Carrying Drugs In Garfield Garfield police captured a Paterson native who they said assaulted a former girlfriend, damaged her property and then fled after she kicked him in the groin. Officers Daniel Drazek and Isaac Perez found Shakar Bragg, 33, near the corner of Lanza Avenue and Davision Street following last week's incident, Capt. Richard Uram said. Bragg, who was out of breath and sweating, gave them a fake name and was arrested, Uram said. The officers also found him carrying heroin, the captain said. They charged Bragg with aggravated assault, simple assault, criminal restraint, burglary, hindering and drug…

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Video Shows Armed Sussex Man Rushing Police Before He's Shot, Killed Video Shows Armed Sussex Man Rushing Police Before He's Shot, Killed
Video Shows Armed Sussex Man Rushing Police Before He's Shot, Killed Video footage released Monday shows police shooting and killing a Newton man as he came at them pointing what authorities said turned out to be a semi-automatic handgun. Three uniformed police officers in the Sussex County town were responding to a 911 call on July 4 from a concerned family member who said Gulia Dale, III, 61, had a gun, Acting New Jersey Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck said. The units arrived and blocked in Dale as he backed a pickup truck from the driveway of the Clive Place home around 9:30 p.m., police dashcam video shows. Dale at first complies with orders to exit t…

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Korean War Vet, 92, Charged With Hit-Run Crash That Injured Young Bogota Bicyclist Korean War Vet, 92, Charged With Hit-Run Crash That Injured Young Bogota Bicyclist
Korean War Vet, 92, Charged With Hit-Run Crash That Injured Young Bogota Bicyclist UPDATE: A 92-year-old Korean War veteran from Bogota was the driver who kept going after he hit a boy on a bicycle, injuring him, over the weekend, authorities said Monday. Joseph Toth told police he thought he'd struck a tree branch on Larch Avenue near his home around 8:45 p.m. Saturday, Bogota Police Sgt. Geoffrey Cole said. The 14-year-old victim was treated at Hackensack University Medical Center for an arm injury following the crash, he said. An officer on patrol spotted the damaged vehicle in Toth's driveway late Sunday, the sergeant said. He was charged with leaving the scene…

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NJSP: Driver Critically Injured In Route 287 Crash NJSP: Driver Critically Injured In Route 287 Crash
Njsp: Driver Critically Injured In Route 287 Crash UPDATE: A 25-year-old driver was fighting for his life following an overnight crash on Route 287 in Mahwah, authorities said. Zachary Krawczyk of Chester, NY, who apparently had been returning home from a weekend softball game in Mercer County when the crash occurred. Krawczyk was headed north when his Subaru rear-ended a Honda, running it into the center guardrail near mile marker 67.7, around 2:45 a.m. Sunday, New Jersey State Police Sgt. Philip Curry said. "The Subaru ran off the road to the right and struck a tree," Curry said. Krawczyk, was airlifted to St. Joseph's Regional Medical …

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NJ Transit: Train Conductor Assaulted At Ridgewood Station, Arrest Made NJ Transit: Train Conductor Assaulted At Ridgewood Station, Arrest Made
NJ Transit: Train Conductor Assaulted At Ridgewood Station, Arrest Made WATCH: Disturbing cellphone video recorded on a New Jersey Transit train shows a man accused of assaulting a conductor spewing hateful profanity against him. https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/ridgewood/news/watch-commuter-accused-of-assaulting-nj-train-conductor-calls-him-n-word-fggot-more/813886/ ****** ORIGINAL STORY: Ridgewood police nabbed a commuter who they said assaulted a conductor at the village train station late Monday afternoon. The conductor was taken by ambulance to the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood for treatment of injuries that weren't considered serious. His assailant --…

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Police: Hackensack Mechanic Chokes Woman, Beats Boy Who Tried To Save Her Police: Hackensack Mechanic Chokes Woman, Beats Boy Who Tried To Save Her
Police: Hackensack Mechanic Chokes Woman, Beats Boy Who Tried To Save Her A Hackensack auto mechanic assaulted a juvenile who tried to rescue a woman he was choking, authorities charged. Jorge E. Reina, a 40-year-old Colombian national, was charged with assaulting the same boy in 2016, records show. The woman told officers who responded to the 911 call shortly before 8 a.m. this past Friday that Reina “became enraged during an argument and strangled her with his hand,”  Capt. Darrin DeWitt, the officer in charge of the Hackensack Police Department, said Monday. The boy, 15, intervened and a struggle continued outside, where Reina allegedly “slammed the juve…

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Police: DWI Driver From PA Demolishes Utility Pole Off Route 46 In PalPark Police: DWI Driver From PA Demolishes Utility Pole Off Route 46 In PalPark
Police: DWI Driver From PA Demolishes Utility Pole Off Route 46 In PalPark A drunk driver from Pennsylvania escaped serious injury when his sedan slammed into a utility pole off Route 46 in Bergen County, authorities said. Austin Palmer, 21, was behind the wheel of a 2010 Nissan Altima that toppled the pole on Grand Avenue near West Columbia Avenue shortly before 6:30 a.m. Sunday, Palisades Park Police Sgt. Alex Monteleone said. Palmer, of Fallsington, PA was brought to Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck -- where Monteleone said a blood sample was taken -- following the crash near an industrial building that once housed the Soap Factory disco just off westbound …

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Police: Driver Crashes Stolen SUV On Route 17 During Paramus Pursuit Police: Driver Crashes Stolen SUV On Route 17 During Paramus Pursuit
Police: Driver Crashes Stolen SUV On Route 17 During Paramus Pursuit A police chase ended when the driver crashed a stolen SUV into a utility pole on Route 17 in Paramus before dawn Monday, authorities said. Officer Nicholas Tanelli began pursuing the 2018 Audi SQ5 after it sped past him on the southbound highway shortly before 1:30 a.m., Ehrenberg said. The driver -- identified as Terrence T. Smith, 19, of Newark -- was wearing a ski mask, adding that he and a passenger wore black gloves. Smith made a hard turn into the exit between the Marshalls and Chipotle before barreling back onto the highway, he said. Tanelli was joined by Sgt. Sean Nutland and Offi…

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Police: Probationary Driver Who Crashed Off Route 17 Registers Nearly Twice Legal Alcohol Limit Police: Probationary Driver Who Crashed Off Route 17 Registers Nearly Twice Legal Alcohol Limit
Police: Probationary Driver Who Crashed Off Route 17 Registers Nearly Twice Legal Alcohol Limit A probationary driver was drunk when he crashed his car off Route 17, authorities said. Samuel E. Holloman III of Wood-Ridge lost control of the 2015 Lexus while trying to exit the southbound highway at Henry Street shortly after 4 a.m. Friday, Police Capt. Joseph Rinke, the officer in charge of the Hasbrouck Heights Police Department, said Monday. The vehicle struck the island divider and came to rest on the south side of Henry Street with a blown front tire, he said. Holloman registered a .15% blood alcohol level on an Alcotest -- nearly twice the legal limit, records show. Police charg…

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