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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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Left Penniless By Embezzler, Ridgefield Park Boy Scouts Get Surprise Gift From Police Left Penniless By Embezzler, Ridgefield Park Boy Scouts Get Surprise Gift From Police
Left Penniless By Embezzler, Ridgefield Park Boy Scouts Get Surprise Gift From Police A Bergen County Boy Scouts chapter that authorities said had its bank account drained by a thieving Scout master got an unexpected boost from local police. Ridgefield Park detectives charged Christopher Infantino, 58, of New Milford with embezzling more than $11,000 from the Boy Scouts of America Troop 3 last July. The troop was left penniless while the charges against Infantino moved through the court system. Enter Ridgefield Park Police Chief Joseph Rella. In a rare move, Rella agreed to let the village PBA Local 86 extend its annual “No Shave November” fundraising campaign through Febr…

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Bergen Sheriff’s Officer Charged With Forgery, Suspended Without Pay Bergen Sheriff’s Officer Charged With Forgery, Suspended Without Pay
Bergen Sheriff’s Officer Charged With Forgery, Suspended Without Pay A Bergen County sheriff’s officer was suspended without pay after authorities charged him with forging a required personnel document. Peter Servidio, 41, of Paramus submitted the forged document when staff sought to verify information that he’d provided to Sheriff Anthony Cureton’s Office of Professional Standards, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Thursday. The prosecutor didn't specify what type of document Servidio submitted, although a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity told Daily Voice that it was part of a follow-up to a random fitness-for-duty revie…

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Married State Police Couple Lied About Jersey Shore Bar Brawl, NJ Attorney General Charges Married State Police Couple Lied About Jersey Shore Bar Brawl, NJ Attorney General Charges
Married State Police Couple Lied About Jersey Shore Bar Brawl, NJ Attorney General Charges Video shows that a married New Jersey State Police detective couple lied when they claimed they weren’t involved in a North Wildwood bar fight early last year, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Thursday. Detective Sgt. 1st Class Gregory Ogden, 52, and Detective Sgt. Dorothy Ogden, 46, both of Hammonton, received summonses Thursday charging them with falsifying or tampering with records, Grewal said. Video from the bar shows Gregory Ogden pushing people and trying to get at a man who bouncers were escorting out of the Exit 6 bar on Feb. 20, 2020, the attorney general said. Ogen is seen…

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Police & Fire
Clifton Police Car Goes Airborne During Chase, Knocks Down Signs, Pole In Garfield Clifton Police Car Goes Airborne During Chase, Knocks Down Signs, Pole In Garfield
Clifton Police Car Goes Airborne During Chase, Knocks Down Signs, Pole In Garfield UPDATE: A Clifton police officer escaped serious injury after his SUV went airborne and rolled into a utility pole in Garfield, snapping it from its base, during a late-night pursuit, authorities said. The officer tried stopping a motorist on Ackermann Avenue near Route 21 for careless driving shortly before 11 p.m. Wednesday, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. He ended up pursuing the driver after the sedan sped off onto northbound Route 21, he said. The chase continued on River Road to Outwater Lane, with the fleeing motorist turning off his lights and driving recklessly, the lieutenant…

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Fugitive From Bronx Wanted For Befriending, Then Robbing PalPark Man In Cliffside Surrenders Fugitive From Bronx Wanted For Befriending, Then Robbing PalPark Man In Cliffside Surrenders
Fugitive From Bronx Wanted For Befriending, Then Robbing PalPark Man In Cliffside Surrenders A fugitive who robbed a Palisades Park man he befriended at a local bar surrendered to Cliffside Park police this week after ducking them for 18 months. Christian Dominguez, 31, of the Bronx met the victim at Legends in Palisades Park in August 2019, Deputy Chief Vincent Capano said. He offered to give the 25-year-old victim a ride after he told Dominguez that he was going to buy some cocaine, the deputy chief said. They drove to the end of dead-ended Franklin Avenue, behind a commercial parking lot on Anderson Avenue (pictured), where Dominguez suggested they get out to smoke a cigarette,…

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HEROES: Port Authority Responders Rescue Dog Caught At Bottom Of Escalator HEROES: Port Authority Responders Rescue Dog Caught At Bottom Of Escalator
Heroes: Port Authority Responders Rescue Dog Caught At Bottom Of Escalator A dog’s rear paw had gotten caught at the bottom of a Journal Square PATH station escalator when his yelps and owner’s desperate screams brought Port Authority Police Officers Anthony Manfredini and Matthew Maiello. Manfredini quickly hit the escalator’s emergency stop button while Maiello summoned an emergency service’s unit at the Jersey City transportation hub, PAPD Spokeswoman Lenis Valens said. Emergency Service Unit Officers Mark Legic, Andrew Vignapiano and Eric Block arrived quickly and unbolted the escalator’s claw plate while Manfredini held and comforted the injured Pomeranian na…

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Jersey Shore Man, 68, Who Lured Out-Of-State Teen Admits Collecting Raw Sexual Videos From Her Jersey Shore Man, 68, Who Lured Out-Of-State Teen Admits Collecting Raw Sexual Videos From Her
Jersey Shore Man, 68, Who Lured Out-Of-State Teen Admits Collecting Raw Sexual Videos From Her A 68-year-old Monmouth County man who local authorities said had sex with an out-of-state girl he lured to his home after posing as a young boy struck a deal with federal prosecutors, pleading guilty to child porn possession. Local authorities had removed the child from the Union Beach home of Herman Christopher Jensen when the FBI began investigating his online activities. They soon learned that Jensen had assumed the identity of a 17-year-old boy named Kevin Bennett on Facebook “in order to entice and solicit [the girl] to send nude and sexually explicit images over the internet,” Acting …

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Paterson Woman Beat Teen With Electrical Cord, Authorities Charge Paterson Woman Beat Teen With Electrical Cord, Authorities Charge
Paterson Woman Beat Teen With Electrical Cord, Authorities Charge A Paterson woman was released pending court action after beating a teenager with an electrical cord, authorities said. City police notified the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit after receiving a report of the 15-year-old requiring treatment for injuries that they said were inflicted by Julissa Rosario, 33. Authorities arrested Rosario after interviewing the victim and witnesses, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint release. They charged her with aggravated assault, child endangerment and weapons possession, th…

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Bergen Girl, 7, Accidentally Run Over By Family Member's SUV Bergen Girl, 7, Accidentally Run Over By Family Member's SUV
Bergen Girl, 7, Accidentally Run Over By Family Member's SUV A 7-year-old Leonia girl was hospitalized with serious injuries after she was run over by an SUV driven by a relative in what authorities said was a tragic accident. It was dark and raining steadily when the driver dropped off four passengers in a parking lot near the corner of Grand Avenue and Fort Lee Road shortly before 8:30 p.m. Monday, according to a borough police report. The girl inadvertently moved into the path of the Ford Explorer as it exited the lot and was run over by a front tire, it says. She was rushed to Hackensack University Medical Center with chest injuries that weren’t…

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ROUTE 80 BUS BRAWL: Ex-Con, Companion Charged With Macing Passengers ROUTE 80 BUS BRAWL: Ex-Con, Companion Charged With Macing Passengers
Route 80 BUS Brawl: Ex-Con, Companion Charged With Macing Passengers An ex-con and his companion Maced fellow passengers during a brawl that broke out on a bus headed west on Route 80, New Jersey State Police said. Anthony Ginwright, 57, and Gloria Bates, 45, both of Atlantic City, also tried to use a Taser during the incident, they said. Troopers responding to a fight in progress came upon the bus near westbound mile marker 67.2 in Ridgefield Park around 5 p.m. Tuesday. They charged Ginwright with three counts of assault, making terroristic threats, possession of drug paraphernalia and several weapons offenses, including being an ex-con in possession of Ma…

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