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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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Ridgewood Boy, 9, Hit By Vehicle Ridgewood Boy, 9, Hit By Vehicle
Ridgewood Boy, 9, Hit By Vehicle A 9-year-old Ridgewood boy was hospitalized with lower leg injuries after he was struck by a car Wednesday afternoon, police said. The boy ran out from in front of a parked car on Spring Avenue near South Van Dien Avenue and struck the side of a 36-year-old village woman’s Volvo wagon around 1 p.m., Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke said. He was alert and conscious when taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, she said.

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Route 17 Crash: Rockland Driver Was Drunk, Had THC Products For Sale, Bergen Prosecutor Says Route 17 Crash: Rockland Driver Was Drunk, Had THC Products For Sale, Bergen Prosecutor Says
Route 17 Crash: Rockland Driver Was Drunk, Had THC Products For Sale, Bergen Prosecutor Says A 22-year-old Rockland County man was intoxicated when his speeding sports car slammed into a tractor-trailer in a horrific overnight crash on Route 17 in Paramus over the weekend, authorities said. Davil LaFontant, of Nanuet, was charged with aggravated assault, assault by auto, and drug possession in the crash, which injured him and a 20-year-old female passenger, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Wednesday, April 21. LaFontant, who’s unemployed, plowed a 2019 Dodge Charger into the side of an Amazon Prime rig that was parked on the right shoulder of northbound Route 17 in front…

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ROUTE 17 WRECK: Rockland Driver Was Drunk, Had THC Products For Sale, Bergen Prosecutor Says ROUTE 17 WRECK: Rockland Driver Was Drunk, Had THC Products For Sale, Bergen Prosecutor Says
Route 17 Wreck: Rockland Driver Was Drunk, Had THC Products For Sale, Bergen Prosecutor Says A 22-year-old Nanuet man was intoxicated when his speeding sports car slammed into a tractor-trailer in a horrific overnight crash on Route 17 in Paramus over the weekend, authorities said. Davil LaFontant was charged with aggravated assault, assault by auto and drug possession in the crash, which injured him and a 20-year-old female passenger, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Wednesday. LaFontant, who’s unemployed, plowed a 2019 Dodge Charger into the side of an Amazon Prime rig that was parked on the right shoulder of northbound Route 17 in front of the Suburban Diner shortly …

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Prosecutor: Passaic County Home Health Aide Beat Child, 12, With Belt, Assaulted Adult Rescuer Prosecutor: Passaic County Home Health Aide Beat Child, 12, With Belt, Assaulted Adult Rescuer
Prosecutor: Passaic County Home Health Aide Beat Child, 12, With Belt, Assaulted Adult Rescuer A home health aide from Passaic County beat a 12-year-old child with a belt, then assaulted an older woman who tried stop her, authorities said. Two other youngsters – one 14, the other 6 – witnessed the assaults by Lwanda Segura, 34, of West Milford on the child and a 54-year-old township woman, they said. A grand jury in Paterson indicted Segura on five counts of child endangerment and two each of aggravated assault and witness tampering, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said Wednesday. Segura was released following the May 2020 incidents and ordered released by a judge soon a…

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Worker Falls 50 Feet From Hackensack Apartment Building Project Worker Falls 50 Feet From Hackensack Apartment Building Project
Worker Falls 50 Feet From Hackensack Apartment Building Project A worker survived a fall of nearly five stories from an apartment building under construction in Hackensack on Wednesday, authorities said. The 45-year-old framer from Newark was intubated in critical but stable condition at Hackensack University Hospital following the mishap on Kinderkamack Road near westbound Route 4 shortly before 1 p.m., they said. The victim “misstepped and fell approximately 50 feet onto a concrete slab,” Detective Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. “He was conscious but bleeding from his head and appeared to have injuries throughout his body,” DeWitt said. City police, fir…

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Pedestrians, Driver Hospitalized In Dumont Crash Pedestrians, Driver Hospitalized In Dumont Crash
Pedestrians, Driver Hospitalized In Dumont Crash Two pedestrians and a driver were hospitalized following a chain-reaction crash in Dumont, responders said. None of the injuries appeared life-threatening, responders said. A minivan driver had stopped to let the pedestrians cross at the corner of New Milford Avenue and Pine Street when the vehicle was rear-ended by a truck around 7 p.m. Tuesday, responders said. The Dumont Volunteer Ambulance Corps took the two pedestrians to Hackensack University Medical Center. One had arm, face and head injuries, while the other sustained various bumps and bruises. The driver, who complained of whip…

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Philly Man Admits Smuggling $200K In Gun Parts To Turkey, Republic Of Georgia Philly Man Admits Smuggling $200K In Gun Parts To Turkey, Republic Of Georgia
Philly Man Admits Smuggling $200K In Gun Parts To Turkey, Republic Of Georgia A Philadelphia man admitted Tuesday that he conspired to smuggle more than than $200,000 worth of gun parts out of the United States to Turkey and the Republic of Georgia, authorities said. Samet Doyduk, 35, told a federal judge in Camden that he and others bought upper receivers, barrels, and magazines for several different types of Glock handguns from suppliers in the United States. After repackaging them, he said, they exported the defense parts to their customers using false labels. Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said Doyduk and the others used credit cards, Pay-Pal accounts, an…

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Wyckoff School District: Principal Might've Avoided Lengthy Suspension Had He Cooperated Wyckoff School District: Principal Might've Avoided Lengthy Suspension Had He Cooperated
Wyckoff School District: Principal Might've Avoided Lengthy Suspension Had He Cooperated UPDATE: Administrative Law Judge Nanci Stokes said she'll tell the state commissioner of education that the Wyckoff Board of Education doesn't have to reinstate Eisenhower Middle School Principal Christopher Iasiello while it continues an investigation. Stokes said Iasiello's appeal to immediately be reinstated doesn't "clearly and convicingly" prove that he's suffering irreparable harm, that there's a "reasonable probability of ultimate success" or that he'll endure greater harm than the Board of Education. It also doesn't establish any legal right to his claim, she found. The principal's …

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Paterson Dad Charged With Beating 3-Month-Old Infant Unconscious At Route 46 Mall Paterson Dad Charged With Beating 3-Month-Old Infant Unconscious At Route 46 Mall
Paterson Dad Charged With Beating 3-Month-Old Infant Unconscious At Route 46 Mall A Paterson man was charged with beating his 3-month-old infant unconscious at a Route 46 shopping center. Woodland Park police were called to The Plaza 46 shopping center on a report of an unresponsive infant in early January, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Acting Woodland Park Police Chief John Uzzalino said Tuesday. The girl was rushed to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, where doctors “discovered various internal injuries,” they said in a statement. Detectives from Valdes’s office interviewed several witnesses over three months before arresting Elie Kiame, 34, on Mo…

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Motorcyclists In Predawn Police Pursuit From Popular Fair Lawn Tavern Surrender Motorcyclists In Predawn Police Pursuit From Popular Fair Lawn Tavern Surrender
Motorcyclists In Predawn Police Pursuit From Popular Fair Lawn Tavern Surrender Two motorcyclists who recklessly eluded police during a pre-dawn chase that began outside a popular Fair Lawn tavern turned themselves in to face charges, authorities said. An officer who responded to a call that the men were drunk when they left the Dutch House on Fair Lawn Avenue chased the pair into Saddle Brook before losing them shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Both Nicholas Jacobson, 24, of Saddle Brook, and Nicholas Ryan, 23, of Middlesex were later identified with help from Saddle Brook police and the Bergen County Sheriff's Office, Metzler said. They later tur…

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