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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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GRANDPARENT SCAM: Elderly Hillsdale Resident Loses $9,000, Police Make Arrest GRANDPARENT SCAM: Elderly Hillsdale Resident Loses $9,000, Police Make Arrest
Grandparent Scam: Elderly Hillsdale Resident Loses $9,000, Police Make Arrest A Hillsdale woman lost $9,000 in a “grandparent scam” to a Paterson thief who was identified and arrested by borough detectives, authorities said. Elvis Guzman-Silia, 44, was nailed following a two-month investigation, Police Chief Chief Robert Francaviglia said Tuesday. The victim told police a caller convinced her that her grandnephew had been arrested following a traffic accident and that she had to pony up $9,000 to bail him out, Francaviglia said. A courier posing as a bail bonds worker then came to the victim’s house and collected the cash, the chief said. Guzman-Silia was identifie…

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Multi-Vehicle Crash Closes Route 80 Multi-Vehicle Crash Closes Route 80
Multi-Vehicle Crash Closes Route 80 A multi-vehicle crash involving a jackknifed tractor-trailer backed up westbound Route 80 in Bergen County for miles Tuesday afternoon. There was no immediate word on injuries following the crash at mile marker 67.7 in the local lanes approaching Hackensack around 2:30 p.m. Ridgefield Park firefighters extricated an occupant. The view from the Teaneck Road bridge.Charisse Viscomi Santos for DAILY VOICE

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Crimestoppers Pays: Family Who Helped Police In Hackensack Robbery Rewarded Crimestoppers Pays: Family Who Helped Police In Hackensack Robbery Rewarded
Crimestoppers Pays: Family Who Helped Police In Hackensack Robbery Rewarded Cash fell from his pockets as a robber ran from a Hackensack 7-Eleven before dawn one recent morning. Police caught him in the McDonald’s parking lot across the street with help from some civilians. Crimestoppers awarded a $500 check to a city couple and their young son for assisting. Pierre Zuniga, Paola Silva and their son, Samuel, collected the check during a visit to police headquarters with city Detective Capt. Darrin DeWitt and Detective Michael Koenig, who handled the case. Crimestopppers of Bergenfield, Bogota, Englewood, Teaneck, Hackensack and South Hackensack offers rewards of…

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'Attack On NYC': Lodi Used Car Salesman Made Bogus Threats, Authorities Charge 'Attack On NYC': Lodi Used Car Salesman Made Bogus Threats, Authorities Charge
'Attack On NYC': Lodi Used Car Salesman Made Bogus Threats, Authorities Charge A used-car salesman from Lodi sent texts to police of an attack that he said was “set to take place” in New York City, said authorities who charged him with causing a false public alarm. Authorities zeroed in on Miguel Baez, 43, after police received a text from a caller using an ID anonymizer, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Working with police from Franklin Lakes, Little Ferry and Lodi, members of Musella’s Cyber Crimes Unit “quickly determined that several such messages were sent but they were all false and there was no such threat,” the prosecutor said. Baez was arrested Mo…

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Feds, Locals Smash Burglary Crew That Targeted Asians In NJ, PA Feds, Locals Smash Burglary Crew That Targeted Asians In NJ, PA
Feds, Locals Smash Burglary Crew That Targeted Asians In NJ, PA A second-story burglary crew whose methods were based on “stereotype and opportunity” worked from a hit list of more than 50 homes owned by Asians in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, federal authorities charged Tuesday. Local, state and federal law enforcement authorities who teamed up to smash the ring found notes in the defendants’ cars “containing the home addresses of individuals of Asian descent with derogatory descriptive terms to identify the ethnicity of the homeowners,” Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Rachael A. Honig said. Crew members got those addresses by breaking into the vict…

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Scooter Rider Critically Injured In Passaic Crash Scooter Rider Critically Injured In Passaic Crash
Scooter Rider Critically Injured In Passaic Crash An electric scooter rider was clinging to life Tuesday morning after being struck in Passaic, responders said. Witnesses said the late-30s victim ran a red light and was struck by a minivan at the intersection of President and Parker Streets shortly after 10:30 a.m. He was unconscious when taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center, responders said. The driver, meanwhile, remained at the scene and cooperated with police, who notified the Passaic County prosecutor's fatal accident team. City firefighters and EMS also responded.

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Paterson PD Raids Stash House That Supplied Open-Air Drug Market At City Park Paterson PD Raids Stash House That Supplied Open-Air Drug Market At City Park
Paterson PD Raids Stash House That Supplied Open-Air Drug Market At City Park Dealers were doing brisk business at an open-air drug market in and around a Paterson park when city police raided their stash house, seizing 1,500 heroin folds, nearly 100 vials of crack and two handguns. As the investigators watched, a three-man team of dealers took orders and retrieved drugs for buyers from an apartment over a Rosa Parks Boulevard storefront around the corner from Barbour Park, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said Tuesday. After a series of arrests, they obtained warrants and hit the apartment, he said. There, the director said, they seized: a .38-caliber Taurus…

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Lyndhurst Detective Seizes Loaded Gun, Drugs After Motel Check Lyndhurst Detective Seizes Loaded Gun, Drugs After Motel Check
Lyndhurst Detective Seizes Loaded Gun, Drugs After Motel Check A Lyndhurst police detective seized a stolen gun and drugs after seeing a deal go down outside a local motel, authorities said. Detective Nick Abruscato was doing a routine commercial property check around 9 p.m. Monday when he saw the sale happen in the parking lot of the Quality Inn on Polito Avenue, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. He recognized Aldred Negron, 40, of Newark from previous incidents, then stopped his Cadillac STX after Negron drove off. Abruscato quickly discovered five bags of cocaine and two bags of Molly, the lieutenant said. He then found a .380-caliber handgun loa…

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NYC Men In Tropicana Brawl Stabbings Indicted NYC Men In Tropicana Brawl Stabbings Indicted
NYC Men In Tropicana Brawl Stabbings Indicted UPDATE: One of two New York City men accused of stabbing a pair of New Jersey patrons at an Atlantic City casino tossed two knives and 14 cocaine vials under a vehicle when police found him, a state indictment alleges. Jabari O. Cummings, 31, of Brooklyn was sitting in the vehicle outside AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City, where the victims had been taken after a predawn brawl at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino, the indictment returned in Trenton says. Seeing police approaching, Cummings tried to stash the drugs and weapons, it says. Authorities charged Cummings and Delro…

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Ridgewood Ex-Con Charged With Cyber-Harassment For Messages On Facebook, Elsewhere Ridgewood Ex-Con Charged With Cyber-Harassment For Messages On Facebook, Elsewhere
Ridgewood Ex-Con Charged With Cyber-Harassment For Messages On Facebook, Elsewhere A Ridgewood ex-con was arrested after he ignored a restraining order and continued sending a woman messages online, authorities said. Dereck Peter Miller, 43, is charged with invasion of privacy, harassment, cyber-harassment and contempt, among other counts. Miller has served several years in state prison the past two decades for convictions on a variety of offenses, including robbery, burglary and theft, records show. Miller more recently called the victim "very suggestive names" in messages through Facebook and other online applications, according to a police report. He remained held Mo…

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