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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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Woman Believed Drowned In Bergenfield Pond Found Safe And Sound More Than 150 Miles Away Woman Believed Drowned In Bergenfield Pond Found Safe And Sound More Than 150 Miles Away
Woman Believed Drowned In Bergenfield Pond Found Safe And Sound More Than 150 Miles Away UPDATE: You can understand the concern, given recent events, when it was believed a woman had drowned in a pond in Bergenfield. You could also imagine the collective relief when it turned out to be a false alarm. The Bergen County Regional SCUBA Task Force was called after borough police and firefighters responded to Coopers Pond late Friday, April 29. Operations were suspended an hour or so later. That's because authorities discovered that the 50-year-old woman who was believed drowned was safe and sound -- in Rhode Island. It was on April 22 when an 18-year-old high school student drown…

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SEE ANYTHING? Deliberately Set Elmwood Park Brush Fire Draws Investigators SEE ANYTHING? Deliberately Set Elmwood Park Brush Fire Draws Investigators
SEE Anything? Deliberately Set Elmwood Park Brush Fire Draws Investigators UPDATE: Someone apparently ignited a brush fire in Elmwood Park at a particularly dangerous time. Fortunately, borough firefighters made quick work of the blaze, which broke out in a wooded area off Gilbert Avenue and Mola Boulevard between 6:30-7 p.m. Friday, April 29. The Bergen County Prosecutor's Arson Squad was alerted after a gas can was found in the area, responders said. The pattern of the fire was also a dead giveaway. One area resident said it wasn't the first time, either. "I'm extremely concerned," he said. "This is a disturbed person that is doing this."  Low humidity and p…

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Hawthorne Firefighters Protect Home From Garage Blaze Hawthorne Firefighters Protect Home From Garage Blaze
Hawthorne Firefighters Protect Home From Garage Blaze Hawthorne firefighters quickly doused a detached garage fire, protecting a borough home. The blaze broke out in a garage on Summer Street behind the homeowner's Lafayette Avenue residence around 10 p.m. Friday, April 29. Firefighters split the work dousing the garage fire and protecting the rear of the home. They knocked down the main body of the fire within 15 minutes, and the blaze was declared under control at 10:20 p.m. Overhaul was completed less than an hour later. No injuries were reported. The Hawthorne Volunteer Ambulance Corps, Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary and borough polic…

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Port Authority Officer Charged With Filing Bogus Medical Reports To Collect Paid Leave Port Authority Officer Charged With Filing Bogus Medical Reports To Collect Paid Leave
Port Authority Officer Charged With Filing Bogus Medical Reports To Collect Paid Leave A 13-year Port Authority police veteran illegally milked a paid medical leave by submitting bogus records, authorities charged. Marie Paz, 43, was charged with two counts of forgery before being released pending a May 13 first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Jersey City, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. Paz, of Woodhaven, Queens, "submitted falsified medical records to her employer to receive additional paid medical leave," Suarez said on Friday, April 29. The prosecutor credited her office's Public Integrity Unit and the Port Authority of New York and New Je…

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High-Tech Toll Evader Nabbed By Port Authority PD High-Tech Toll Evader Nabbed By Port Authority PD
High-Tech Toll Evader Nabbed By Port Authority PD VIDEO: New technology isn't just for crime fighters. Just ask Port Authority police, who thwarted a unique toll-evasion move at the Holland Tunnel. A Dodge Durango driven by Sean Nicholas Seagers, 32, of the Bronx drew an officer's attention shortly before 7:30 a.m. Friday, April 29, because it was missing a front license plate, Port Authority Spokeswoman Lenis Valens said. As the truck was about to roll through a cashless lane, Seagers hit a switch and a black panel slid down over the rear license plate, Valens said. Police who staff New York metropolitan area bridges and tunnels often se…

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Stuck Truck Throws Monkey Wrench Into Ridgewood Rush-Hour Routine Stuck Truck Throws Monkey Wrench Into Ridgewood Rush-Hour Routine
Stuck Truck Throws Monkey Wrench Into Ridgewood Rush-Hour Routine A major Ridgewood thoroughfare was closed for more than an hour after a delivery driver's truck got stuck in the middle of a U-turn. The driver told village police his brakes locked up as he headed down Garber Square and realized the truck wouldn't clear the railroad bridge off North Broad Street around 8 a.m. Friday, April 29. The FreshPro Distributors truck out of West Caldwell ended up stuck on the median, blocking traffic in both directions. All Points Towing got the driver out of his predicament while police detoured motorists coming off Franklin and West Ridgewood avenues. No injur…

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NJ Police Can Now Pursue Stolen Vehicles, AG Says NJ Police Can Now Pursue Stolen Vehicles, AG Says
NJ Police Can Now Pursue Stolen Vehicles, AG Says Police in New Jersey can now pursue stolen vehicle thieves, state Acting Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced on Friday, April 29. Officers and officials at all levels of law enforcement in New Jersey welcomed the news -- with one caveat: A repeal or readjustment of bail reform must be next. Platkin's move, which is effective immediately, reverses a policy update made by his predecessor, Gurbir S. Grewal, in December 2020. "Based upon recommendations from Law enforcement executives, county prosecutors and OPIA (Office of Public Integrity and Accountability) staff, I have dete…

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Englewood Landscaper Already Held In Rape Of Co-Worker's Wife Charged With Child Sex Assault Englewood Landscaper Already Held In Rape Of Co-Worker's Wife Charged With Child Sex Assault
Englewood Landscaper Already Held In Rape Of Co-Worker's Wife Charged With Child Sex Assault UPDATE: A landscaper accused earlier this month of raping a sleeping Englewood woman also sexually abused a child last summer, authorities said they’ve learned. Detectives made the discovery while investigating claims that Ulises Ramirez Argueta, a 31-year-old El Salvador national, slipped into a co-worker’s bed and raped his wife while she was sleeping on April 11, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Argueta, it turns out, also sexually assaulted a child who was 16 years old or younger last August, an investigation by Musella’s Special Victims Unit detectives and Englewood police f…

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Two Pre-Teens Raped By Clifton Man In Passaic, Authorities Charge Two Pre-Teens Raped By Clifton Man In Passaic, Authorities Charge
Two Pre-Teens Raped By Clifton Man In Passaic, Authorities Charge A Clifton man sexually abused two different pre-teens at a residence in Passaic, authorities charged. Pedro Perez-Guadalupe, 42, became the target of an investigation after school staff members reported that one of the victims “disclosed being sexually assaulted in the past” by him, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said. Among witnesses interviewed by Special Victims Unit detectives from her office was the child, as well as a second child, both of whom told them of being sexually assaulted by Perez-Guadalupe “on multiple occasions at a residence in Passaic,” Valdes said. A secon…

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Man Who Showed Up For Sex With 'Girl,' 13, At NJ Motel Sent To Federal Prison Man Who Showed Up For Sex With 'Girl,' 13, At NJ Motel Sent To Federal Prison
Man Who Showed Up For Sex With 'Girl,' 13, At NJ Motel Sent To Federal Prison A Bronx man was sentenced to two years in federal prison for arranging what he thought would be sex with a 13-year-old girl at a New Jersey motel. Eduardo Silva, 44, must serve the entire term because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. U.S. District Judge Renée Marie Bumb also sentenced him to lifetime supervised release during a hearing in federal court in Camden on Thursday, April 28. Silva used a social media app to ask the “minor” whether she was “into older guys,” U.S Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. He then “sent a series of explicit online communications and text mess…

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