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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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Driver Charged With Trying To Lure Lyndhurst Girl Says He 'Did Nothing Wrong' Driver Charged With Trying To Lure Lyndhurst Girl Says He 'Did Nothing Wrong'
Driver Charged With Trying To Lure Lyndhurst Girl Says He 'Did Nothing Wrong' A 15-year-old Lyndhurst girl kept walking when a driver pulled up and asked if she wanted a ride to the park. Moments later, she said, he approached her on foot. Police were called, but the stranger had gone. Later that day, Officer Matt Giunta stopped a Toyota Camry on Ridge Road that matched the vehicle described by the frightened girl. Giunta and backup Detective Nick Abruscato arrested the driver, whom the teen later identified as her stalker, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. MD Sikder, 29, of Lyndhurst claimed he tried talking to the girl and “did nothing wrong,” Auteri said. He w…

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Paterson Man Charged With Sexually Abusing Pre-Teen Paterson Man Charged With Sexually Abusing Pre-Teen
Paterson Man Charged With Sexually Abusing Pre-Teen A Paterson man is charged with sexually abusing an 11-year-old child last summer. A grand jury in Paterson returned an indictment charging Odell Avent, 43, with abusing the youngster last July 29, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said. Avent has remained held in the Passaic County Jail since his arrest and awaits a July 20 arraignment on charges of aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, attempted aggravated sexual assault and child endangerment. Assistant Passaic County Prosecutor Alyssa DiSturco of Valdes’s Special Victims Unit is handling the case for the st…

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Paramus Passersby Rescue Victims After SUVs Collide Head On, Burst Into Flames Paramus Passersby Rescue Victims After SUVs Collide Head On, Burst Into Flames
Paramus Passersby Rescue Victims After SUVs Collide Head On, Burst Into Flames HEROES: Passersby pulled three victims from their vehicles following a fiery wrong-way head-on crash Friday night in Paramus that critically injured one of the drivers, authorities confirmed. A BMW SUV carrying two men was headed south on the wrong side of Paramus Road near Alpine Drive when it slammed head-on into a Honda SUV occupied by a female driver shortly before 5:30 p.m., Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. Passersby, including a member of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, pulled the victims out before the vehicles were consumed by flames. The female driver was very seriousl…

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Paterson Police Officer Charged With Assault, Misconduct Paterson Police Officer Charged With Assault, Misconduct
Paterson Police Officer Charged With Assault, Misconduct A Paterson police officer beat a victim with his fist and a flashlight, kneed him in the face, then filed a bogus report about it, authorities charged. Spencer Finch, 44, of Mahwah assaulted the victim on May 26, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said Friday without identifying where or under what circumstances. “The aggravated assault took place while the defendant was on-duty and in uniform,” Valdes said. “The defendant then prepared, signed, and submitted a police report describing the incident that contained several false statements,” she added. A first appearance via v…

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Indictment: Son Of Paterson Man Charged With Child Sex Assault Made Victim Change Story Indictment: Son Of Paterson Man Charged With Child Sex Assault Made Victim Change Story
Indictment: Son Of Paterson Man Charged With Child Sex Assault Made Victim Change Story UPDATE: The son of a Paterson man accused of sexually abusing a child was indicted on witness tampering charges, authorities said. Ramon Cabrera, 41, made the victim retract sex abuse allegations against Juan Cabrera-Gonzalez in a video that he recorded, an indictment returned by a grand jury in Paterson alleges. Cabrera’s father was charged with several sex-related offenses in May 2019 after detectives from the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office investigated a report by the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency that a child in his care was being sexually abused. The Special Vi…

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Authorities: PA Fugitive Nabbed With Bogus Docs At Little Ferry Bank Authorities: PA Fugitive Nabbed With Bogus Docs At Little Ferry Bank
Authorities: PA Fugitive Nabbed With Bogus Docs At Little Ferry Bank A Pennsylvania fugitive was carrying bank receipts in different names when Little Ferry police nabbed him at a local branch, authorities said. Police were called when Ian James, 37, of the Bronx tried to make a transaction -- which he said was to help pay child support -- Thursday afternoon at the TD Bank on Main Street, Chief James Walters said. James gave a bogus name, Social Security number and driver's license from Georgia when officers arrived, Walters said Friday. They fingerprinted him and and found an extraditable warrant out of Harrisburg, as well as another bogus driver's license…

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Babysitter Gets Three Years For Fondling Wayne Youngster, 13, After Sharing Booze, Pot Babysitter Gets Three Years For Fondling Wayne Youngster, 13, After Sharing Booze, Pot
Babysitter Gets Three Years For Fondling Wayne Youngster, 13, After Sharing Booze, Pot UPDATE: A 33-year-old babysitter was sentenced to three years in state prison Friday for fondling a 13-year-old Wayne youngster after giving the victim booze and pot. Joseph Montgomery of Paterson wasted little time accepting a deal from prosecutors after authorities charged him in February with aggravated criminal sexual contact, criminal sexual contact and child endangerment. He pleaded guilty in March to a single second-degree child endangerment charge that requires him to serve 2½ years before he'll be eligible for parole. Wayne police had responded to a local home on Jan. 2 on a …

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Jamaican Man, Peruvian Woman Admit Smuggling 22 Pounds Of Cocaine Into Newark Airport Jamaican Man, Peruvian Woman Admit Smuggling 22 Pounds Of Cocaine Into Newark Airport
Jamaican Man, Peruvian Woman Admit Smuggling 22 Pounds Of Cocaine Into Newark Airport Two people in two days this week admitted smuggling more than 22 pounds of cocaine combined into Newark Airport. Perez Omar Gibbs, 38, of Jamaica told a federal judge in Newark via videoconference that he hid more than six pounds of coke in two bags of coffee and four picture frames aboard a flight from Montego Bay, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. In an unrelated case, Honig said, Yolanda Fonseca Melgarejo, 59, a legal permanent resident of the United States and a citizen of Peru, told another judge in Newark that she concealed more than 15 pounds in chocolate candy on a flight …

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10 Years After: Bergen Man Busted On Child Porn Charges Again 10 Years After: Bergen Man Busted On Child Porn Charges Again
10 Years After: Bergen Man Busted On Child Porn Charges Again A landscaper from Waldwick who was busted on child porn charges nearly 10 years ago was back in custody after detectives caught him this time with more than 600 illegal files, authorities said. Jakob Menzo, 31, was arrested after detectives raided his Dow Avenue home on Thursday, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Members of his Cyber Crimes Unit found that Menzo “used the Internet to view, download, and possess more than 600 digital files depicting nude and/or sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children,” the prosecutor said. Menzo was living in Ramsey, attending Bergen…

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Bergenfield Home Ravaged By Fire Bergenfield Home Ravaged By Fire
Bergenfield Home Ravaged By Fire UPDATE: Fire ravaged a Bergenfield home early Friday. A resident and her son got out safely after the three-alarm East Clinton Avenue blaze -- just off South Washington Avenue -- broke out around 7 a.m., friends and neighbors said. Flames tore through the second floor into the attic as the fire spread. Firefighters had the blaze doused within an hour, then remained to douse pockets of flame. A home behind it also was evacuated out of an abundance of caution. Mutual aid responders included firefighters from Bogota, Dumont, Englewood, Hackensack, Teaneck and Tenafly. No injuries were rep…

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