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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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VIDEO: NJ Mall Brawl Erupts When Male Motorist Knocks Female Driver Out Cold VIDEO: NJ Mall Brawl Erupts When Male Motorist Knocks Female Driver Out Cold
Video: NJ Mall Brawl Erupts When Male Motorist Knocks Female Driver Out Cold A driver gets out of her car screaming after she’s blocked while pulling from a space in the parking garage of a North Jersey shopping mall. Then all hell breaks loose. “You entitled, right?” the woman, who’s white, screeches at the black driver whose Jeep is blocking her sedan in the Garden State Plaza parking garage in Paramus. “Cause white people hate black people, right?” the woman says. “Shut the f**k up and move. It ain’t got nothin’ to do with color. Move, motherf**ker!!” The woman gets back in her car, reverses a few inches, then is instantly out again.  She approaches the other d…

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Ex-Con Threatens Woman With Loaded Gun, Disarmed By Family Members, Wayne Police Say Ex-Con Threatens Woman With Loaded Gun, Disarmed By Family Members, Wayne Police Say
Ex-Con Threatens Woman With Loaded Gun, Disarmed By Family Members, Wayne Police Say An ex-con who pointed a loaded gun at a woman during a domestic incident in Wayne was disarmed by family members, police said. Kenneth Marcano, 40, jumped out a window as police arrived -- but he didn't get far, they said. Wayne Police Officer Kristin Mikolaczyk was interviewing the victim and witnesses outside the home in the township's Mountain View section when she spotted Marcano running over the railroad tracks toward Lincoln Park, Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. She and Officer Erik Cueva chased him down and took the repeat offender into custody near the Lincoln Wayne Car Wash, assis…

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Motorcyclist Killed In Route 20 Crash Motorcyclist Killed In Route 20 Crash
Motorcyclist Killed In Route 20 Crash A motorcyclist was ejected and killed overnight in a crash with at least one other vehicle on a stretch of Route 20 in Paterson, authorities said. Initial details were sparse other than that the crash occurred outside the Lowe's on the northbound side of McLean Boulevard shortly before 4:30 a.m. Saturday, April 16, and that the victim was pronounced dead at the scene soon after. Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes was expected to provide further details. CHECK BACK WITH US

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HIGH-ANGLE RESCUE: Six Kids At Wayne Trampoline Park Hoisted Up Shaft After Elevator Stalls HIGH-ANGLE RESCUE: Six Kids At Wayne Trampoline Park Hoisted Up Shaft After Elevator Stalls
High-angle Rescue: Six Kids At Wayne Trampoline Park Hoisted Up Shaft After Elevator Stalls HEROES: Six youngsters who found themselves trapped between floors when an elevator jammed at a trampoline park in Wayne had to be hoisted up the shaft one at a time by firefighters. The elevator car "was stuck near the ground floor and the doors wouldn't open" for the youngsters, ages 10 to 14, who'd gone to the Rockin' Jump around 5 p.m. Friday, April 15, Police Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. "A technician was called and attempted to operate the elevator from a control panel without success," Daly said. The kids had been stranded nearly an hour when the Wayne Fire Department's Special Re…

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GOTCHA! Fairview Man Nabbed In 'Surprise' Shooting Death Of Brooklyn Ex-Con GOTCHA! Fairview Man Nabbed In 'Surprise' Shooting Death Of Brooklyn Ex-Con
Gotcha! Fairview Man Nabbed In 'Surprise' Shooting Death Of Brooklyn Ex-Con A Fairview man was charged with murdering a man who answered a knock at the door in his Brooklyn public housing apartment and was shot in the face. Andrae Robertson, 26, also was charged with gun possession in the March 8 shooting of Jerold Tindal, 47, an ex-con who reportedly was trying to turn his life around. Robertson shot Tindal in the face and bolted from the Independence Towers in Williamsburg. A father of four, Tindale had been arrested no fewer than 10 times, did three separate state prison stints and had been shot before. He was hospitalized and died six days after the shooting. …

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Big Brush Fire At Bergen-Rockland Border Threatens Home Big Brush Fire At Bergen-Rockland Border Threatens Home
Big Brush Fire At Bergen-Rockland Border Threatens Home A brush fire along the Bergen/Rockland border temporarily closed the Ramapo Reservation after sending a column of smoke skyward that could be seen in Westchester. A live wire smoldering on a tree apparently ignited the blaze on Brandt Road in the Ramapo Mountains in Hillburn, bringing firefighters from both counties, shortly before 4:30 p.m. Friday, April 15. Of immediate concern was the non-profit Tevaland animal sanctuary on the New York side, as well as a home on Split Rock Road in Mahwah with propane tanks. Neither was damaged, responders said. "We are grateful to all the firefighters…

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New Pot Law In NJ Lets Off-Duty Police Use Weed Without Consequences, State's Top Cop Says New Pot Law In NJ Lets Off-Duty Police Use Weed Without Consequences, State's Top Cop Says
New Pot Law In NJ Lets Off-Duty Police Use Weed Without Consequences, State's Top Cop Says Off-duty police officers in New Jersey can fire up a doob -- or use any other cannabis product -- under the state’s new legal marijuana law, the state’s top law enforcer said. Departments “may not take any adverse action against any officers because they do or do not use cannabis off duty,” acting New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin wrote in a memo to police chiefs and directors at the local, county and state level. Employers also cannot fire or refuse to hire workers “solely due to the presence of cannabinoid metabolites in the employee’s bodily fluid,” Platkin noted. “But to be c…

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SWAT STANDOFF: Man Barricaded In Hotel At Bergen/Rockland Border Surrenders SWAT STANDOFF: Man Barricaded In Hotel At Bergen/Rockland Border Surrenders
SWAT Standoff: Man Barricaded In Hotel At Bergen/Rockland Border Surrenders A SWAT standoff at a hotel on the New Jersey/New York border ended peacefully when negotiators talked a barricaded Passaic County man from his room. Local police cleared the floor after the North Haledon man, 53, made what were characterized as alarming phone calls from his room at the Sheraton Mahwah Hotel in Mahwah late Thursday, April 14. A Bergen County Regional SWAT Team and Regional Crisis Negotiation Team were summoned. The man apparently believed he was being either tracked or followed to the hotel -- also known as the Crossroads -- at the confluence of Routes 287, 17 and 202 in Ma…

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Ejected Driver Thrown Nearly 30 Feet In Rollover Crash Off Route 46 Ejected Driver Thrown Nearly 30 Feet In Rollover Crash Off Route 46
Ejected Driver Thrown Nearly 30 Feet In Rollover Crash Off Route 46 An ejected Clifton driver was found nearly 30 feet from a Smart car that barreled off the road and rolled down an embankment off Route 46 in Hasbrouck Heights, authorities said. The vehicle veered off the eastbound highway to Boulevard and shot across the entrance ramp before tumbling down the embankment shortly after 11:30 p.m. Thursday, April 14, Police Capt. Joseph Rinke said. Hasbrouck Heights firefighters stabilized the victim, 31, who was unconscious but breathing when taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, Rinke said. Borough Officers Cosimo Marino and Joseph Olivo were joi…

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Driver, 22, Hospitalized After Sedan Slams Into NJ Transit Bus In Hackensack Driver, 22, Hospitalized After Sedan Slams Into NJ Transit Bus In Hackensack
Driver, 22, Hospitalized After Sedan Slams Into NJ Transit Bus In Hackensack Hackensack firefighters extricated a driver whose sedan slammed into an NJ Transit bus at dawn on Good Friday. The 22-year-old driver was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with upper body pain after his 2006 Infiniti G35 hit a No. 165 bus on Main Street crash between Coles Avenue and Jefferson street at 6:10 a.m., April 15, Police Detective Capt. Michael Antista said. No injuries were reported to the driver or single customer aboard the bus, which runs between Oradell and the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan. ALL PHOTOS by Hackensack Fire Department Aftermath of se…

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