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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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Young Man Drowns At Closed Lake In Mahwah Young Man Drowns At Closed Lake In Mahwah
Young Man Drowns At Closed Lake In Mahwah A Hudson County man who drowned despite an intense effort by rescuers to save him at a closed swimming lake at Darlington County Park in Mahwah didn't know how to swim, friends and loved ones said. Loved ones, neighbors and others have been trying to comfort the family of Kevin Acevedo at the 51st Street apartment in Weehawken where he'd lived his entire life. Kevin had just turned 21 two weeks ago, they said. He and his friend, Andrew Florez, 20, also of Weehawken, weren't supposed to be in the lake, which is open for swimming only on weekends this time of year, Bergen County Sheriff's P…

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Pedestrian Struck, Killed By Bus In Haledon Pedestrian Struck, Killed By Bus In Haledon
Pedestrian Struck, Killed By Bus In Haledon A 67-year-old pedestrian from Haledon was struck and killed by a commuter bus in town late Thursday afternoon, authorities confirmed. The driver was making a left from Belmont Avenue onto West Haledon Avenue when the bus struck the woman shortly before 4:30 p.m., NJ Transit spokeswoman Lisa Torbic said. The woman was taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead shortly after 6 p.m., Torbic said. The driver was the only occupant of the #703 bus from American Dream in East Rutherford to Haledon, she said. Investigators from the Passaic County prosecutor's an…

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Mobster Sent To Federal Prison For Beating Husband Of ‘Real Housewives Of NJ’ Cast Member Mobster Sent To Federal Prison For Beating Husband Of ‘Real Housewives Of NJ’ Cast Member
Mobster Sent To Federal Prison For Beating Husband Of ‘Real Housewives Of NJ’ Cast Member A Lucchese crime soldier was sentenced Thursday to a plea-bargained 2½ years in federal prison for throwing the current husband of former “Real Housewives of New Jersey” cast member Dina Manzo a beating in exchange for an extravagant gift from her well-known ex. John Perna, 44, of Cedar Grove testified last October that Thomas Manzo hired him in 2015 to assault David Cantin, who was dating Dina at the time. Perna told a federal judge he was armed with a “slapjack” when he and another Lucchese associate followed Cantin to a Passaic County strip mall and attacked him on July 18, 2015. In exc…

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Clifton Man Charged With Sexually Abusing Child For Years Clifton Man Charged With Sexually Abusing Child For Years
Clifton Man Charged With Sexually Abusing Child For Years A Clifton man sexually abused a child over the course of several years and then intimidated the victim into not reporting it, authorities said. Alejandro Arotoma-Chavez, 45, abused the youngster at homes in Clifton and Paterson from October 2009 to September 2015, then pressured the child in a car in Wayne in September 2018, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said Thursday. A grand jury in Paterson returned an indictment charging Arotoma-Chavez with three counts each of aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and child endangerment. He has remained held in the Passaic County Ja…

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NYC Man Jailed In Stabbing Of Route 17 Gas Station Attendant NYC Man Jailed In Stabbing Of Route 17 Gas Station Attendant
NYC Man Jailed In Stabbing Of Route 17 Gas Station Attendant UPDATE: A Queens man remained jailed after police said he stabbed a Route 17 gas station attendant in Paramus during an argument over a rewards card. Kevin Reid, 38, argued with the attendant over the use of a Speedway pass at the Speedway station on the southbound highway near A&S Drive on Wednesday, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. Reid then pulled a knife and stabbed the 23-year-old pump jockey from East Orange in the chest, the chief said. Police and EMS workers rendered aid before the victim was taken to the trauma unit at Hackensack University Medical Center, where he re…

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Driver Of Airborne Mini Cooper That Slammed Into Minivan On Route 17 Identified, Charged Driver Of Airborne Mini Cooper That Slammed Into Minivan On Route 17 Identified, Charged
Driver Of Airborne Mini Cooper That Slammed Into Minivan On Route 17 Identified, Charged Authorities identified the driver of a speeding Mini Cooper that flew into a minivan on Route 17, critically injuring its driver, as a 33-year-old warehouse worker from Hudson County, New Jersey. Witnesses told police that Christopher Macias of Guttenberg was racing the driver of another vehicle – believed to be a Camaro – when he failed to negotiate the exit ramp to Hoboken Road on the southbound highway shortly before 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 8, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The other vehicle kept going, they said. Macias’s Mini Cooper hit the grass triangle median separating …

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Driver Of Airborne Mini Cooper That Slammed Into Minivan On Route 17 Identified, Charged Driver Of Airborne Mini Cooper That Slammed Into Minivan On Route 17 Identified, Charged
Driver Of Airborne Mini Cooper That Slammed Into Minivan On Route 17 Identified, Charged UPDATE: Authorities identified the man behind the wheel of a speeding Mini Cooper that flew into a minivan on Route 17, critically injuring its driver, as a 33-year-old warehouse worker from Hudson County. Witnesses told police that Christopher Macias of Guttenberg was racing the driver of another vehicle – believed to be a Camaro – when he failed to negotiate the exit ramp to Hoboken Road on the southbound highway shortly before 1 p.m. Tuesday, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The other vehicle kept going, they said. Macias’s Mini Cooper hit the grass triangle median separatin…

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Fair Lawn Boy, 9, Clings To Life, Loved Ones Hold Onto Hope After SUV Accident Fair Lawn Boy, 9, Clings To Life, Loved Ones Hold Onto Hope After SUV Accident
Fair Lawn Boy, 9, Clings To Life, Loved Ones Hold Onto Hope After SUV Accident Friday promises another ray of hope for the family of a 9-year-old Fair Lawn boy critically injured in a tragic accident last month. Aiden D'Angelo "is opening his eyes and moving his limbs," his father said Thursday. The news is heartening to many. There are Aiden's parents, Joe and Jessica, as well as his brother, Luca. There are the neighbors who called 911 and rushed into the street after Aiden was struck by a Honda CR-V on 17th Street near Morlot Avenue on May 26. There's the local police officer who held Aiden's head in his hands, the EMS workers who took him to St. Joseph's Re…

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Camden Pedestrian Struck, Killed By Police Car Camden Pedestrian Struck, Killed By Police Car
Camden Pedestrian Struck, Killed By Police Car Following procedure, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office is reviewing the death of a Camden woman who was struck by a police vehicle, authorities announced Friday. The as-yet unidentified pedestrian was crossing Mount Ephraim Avenue at Woodlynne Avenue when she was struck by the marked Camden County Metro Police Department vehicle shortly before 11 p.m. Thursday, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said."The officer was not responding to any police alert at the time of the accident," Grewal said. "The officer immediately stopped and radioed for assistance.  "The pedestrian was…

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GOTCHA! Hit-Run Driver Who Seriously Injured Lyndhurst Woman Claims He Was Carjacked GOTCHA! Hit-Run Driver Who Seriously Injured Lyndhurst Woman Claims He Was Carjacked
Gotcha! Hit-Run Driver Who Seriously Injured Lyndhurst Woman Claims He Was Carjacked A cocaine-carrying driver who fled after his sedan struck and seriously injured a Lyndhurst pedestrian claimed he’d been carjacked moments earlier and wasn’t behind the wheel, authorities said. It was all a lie, they said. Samuel Torres, 38, of Nutley was charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in serious bodily injury, hindering his arrest and drug-related offenses, records show. Torres was driving a 2017 Toyota Camry when it struck Joy Dempsey, 56, at the corner of Grant and Valley Brook avenues near her home shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark M…

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