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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 Nabbed By Elmwood Park PD Was Wanted For Accidentally Shooting Companion Driver Nabbed By Elmwood Park PD Was Wanted For Accidentally Shooting Companion
Driver Nabbed By Elmwood Park PD Was Wanted For Accidentally Shooting Companion A man who was carrying a stolen gun loaded with hollow-point bullets when he was arrested by Elmwood Park police was wanted for an accidental shooting in Paterson earlier this year. Brandon Diaz, 21, of Paterson was sitting in a parked car with the 21-year-old victim near the corner of 20th Avenue and Jackson Street when a gun he was holding went off, authorities said Wednesday. The victim arrived at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson via private vehicle, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said. Investigators identified Diaz …

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Bail Reform: Wayne Man Busted For Theft, Released, Arrested Again Bail Reform: Wayne Man Busted For Theft, Released, Arrested Again
Bail Reform: Wayne Man Busted For Theft, Released, Arrested Again Hours after he was arrested and then released by Wayne police for stealing a wallet at a local Wendy’s, a township man was caught burglarizing a nearby motel room, authorities said. The victim who lost his wallet told police that he called to freeze his credit cards and discovered that they’d already been used at an AT&T store, the Ramada Inn – and even at the Wendy’s itself, Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. While speaking with police, the man received an alert that his card was being used at the AMC Theater on Willowbrook Boulevard. Officers rushed over but couldn’t find their suspect, D…

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HEROES: Bergen Mom, Son Rescued From Rising Floodwaters HEROES: Bergen Mom, Son Rescued From Rising Floodwaters
Heroes: Bergen Mom, Son Rescued From Rising Floodwaters Floodwaters had reached the bottom of their SUV's windshield when heroes from Norwood rescued a Demarest woman and her young son during Tuesday's downpour. It was one of several saves throughout the late-afternoon thunderstorms that rocked North Jersey. First, DPW Supt. Robert Tracy grabbed hold of the Mercedes to keep the swollen brook from sweeping it under a Walnut Street bridge, Police Chief Jeffrey Krapels said. Then Police Officer Daniel Sullivan and Detective Perry Duelfer got the mom and her 10-year-old boy out, assisted by Sgt. Sal Russino, the chief said. Both were fine, he sai…

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Employee Stabbed By Customer In Argument At Route 17 Gas Station Employee Stabbed By Customer In Argument At Route 17 Gas Station
Employee Stabbed By Customer In Argument At Route 17 Gas Station UPDATE: A Queens man remained jailed after police said he stabbed a Route 17 gas station attendant in Paramus. 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 remained in stable condition, Ehrenberg said. …

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NJ Prep School Teacher Says Divisive Policies Forced Her To Quit NJ Prep School Teacher Says Divisive Policies Forced Her To Quit
NJ Prep School Teacher Says Divisive Policies Forced Her To Quit A Bergen County prep school teacher says a "hostile culture of conformity and fear" drove her to quit her job. Dana Stangel-Plowe said students entered her English class at Dwight-Englewood High School seeing themselves "not as individuals, but as representatives of a group, forcing them to adopt the status of privilege or victimhood." Then came "accepting as fact" that "people born with less melanin in their skin are oppressors, and people born with more melanin in their skin are oppressed," Stangel-Plowe wrote in her resignation letter.  "Men are oppressors, women are oppressed, and so …

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Elizabeth Man Admits Bribing Postal Carriers To Steal Checkbooks, Credit Cards From Mail Elizabeth Man Admits Bribing Postal Carriers To Steal Checkbooks, Credit Cards From Mail
Elizabeth Man Admits Bribing Postal Carriers To Steal Checkbooks, Credit Cards From Mail A Union County man admitted Wednesday that he offered bribes to postal workers to steal check books and credit cards from the mail, federal authorities said. U.S. Postal Inspection Service agents watched as Jabre “Jab” Beauvoir, 22, of Elizabeth met with a carrier in a mail van in Secaucus and collected a package that they’d planted, a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Newark says. Beauvoir – using the handle “Neck Tat” -- believed he was getting a stolen iPhone 6 Plus, it says. The carrier told them that Beauvoir had offered $20O for every stolen check book and a split of the proc…

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Clifton Police Car Crashes During Pursuit Of Repeat Offender Following Store Burglary Clifton Police Car Crashes During Pursuit Of Repeat Offender Following Store Burglary
Clifton Police Car Crashes During Pursuit Of Repeat Offender Following Store Burglary A Clifton police car crashed during the pursuit of a repeat offender wanted for series of smash and grab burglaries in Bergen and Passaic counties, authorities said. Joseph Holman, 41, of Passaic was wanted for a string of incidents, including the May 13 burglary of a Clifton Avenue business where the front window was smashed and lottery tickets and other items were stolen, Lt. Robert Bracken said. Detectives had obtained a warrant for Holman’s arrest when officers responding to a burglary call – also on Clifton Avenue – spotted him riding a bicycle around 3 a.m. Monday, Bracken said. They…

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Multi-Alarm Fire Ravages Oakland Home Multi-Alarm Fire Ravages Oakland Home
Multi-Alarm Fire Ravages Oakland Home Two firefighters suffering heat exhaustion were hospitalized during a fast-moving fire that began in an attached garage and extended to an Oakland home. No other injuries were reported in the noontime Ramapo Valley Road fire, which went to five alarms for coverage Tuesday amid extreme temperatures. Firefighters from Franklin Lakes, Mahwah, Pompton Lakes, Waldwick and Wyckoff assisted their Oakland colleagues. Ramapo Valley Road was temporarily closed between Navajo Way and Franklin Avenue. The cause remained under investigation, although authorities don't believe it was suspicious, Oaklan…

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Police & Fire
Mini Cooper Goes Airborne, Slams Into Minivan On Route 17, Leaves Other Driver Gravely Injured Mini Cooper Goes Airborne, Slams Into Minivan On Route 17, Leaves Other Driver Gravely Injured
Mini Cooper Goes Airborne, Slams Into Minivan On Route 17, Leaves Other Driver Gravely Injured UPDATE: Authorities identified the driver of a speeding Mini Cooper that flew into a minivan on Route 17, critically injuring an Orange County driver, as a 33-year-old warehouse worker. Witnesses told police that Christopher Macias of Guttenberg, NJ 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 separating the exit and e…

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14 Arrested In ICE Protest At Bergen County Jail 14 Arrested In ICE Protest At Bergen County Jail
14 Arrested In ICE Protest At Bergen County Jail Fourteen protestors were arrested – one of whom was charged with assaulting an officer – during another anti-ICE demonstration at the Bergen County Jail. Those arrested were part of a group that held an overnight vigil across from the jail aimed at stopping the deportation of Marvin Jerezano Peña. Peña has been arrested by police in Red Bank and had a federal deportation hearing scheduled Tuesday in Newark, they said. Trespassing protestors prevented vehicles from entering and leaving the sally port used to shuttle inmates and detainees in and out of the lockup in Hackensack, Bergen Count…

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