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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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Lodi Attic Fire Doused Lodi Attic Fire Doused
Lodi Attic Fire Doused Lodi's bravest made quick work of an attic blaze. The MacArthur Avenue fire immediately went to two alarms after igniting around 5:20 p.m. Wednesday, April 6. Firefighters had it knocked in under a half hour. One firefighter was OK after being checked out by EMS. Mutual aid responders either at the scene or in coverage included firefighters from Hasbrouck Heights, Rochelle Park, Saddle Brook and Wallington. Firefighters had the Lodi blaze knocked within a half hour.Damien Danis for DAILY VOICE

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Pair In NJ Vehicle Wanted For Firing Shots, Forcing Lockdown At Mall On Long Island Pair In NJ Vehicle Wanted For Firing Shots, Forcing Lockdown At Mall On Long Island
Pair In NJ Vehicle Wanted For Firing Shots, Forcing Lockdown At Mall On Long Island Two men fled in a vehicle with New Jersey license plates after firing shots and frightening shoppers at a Long Island mall, authorities said. It was too soon to tell whether the vehicle was stolen or belonged to the pair involved in the shooting in the second-floor vestibule leading to the parking garage outside Nordstrom at Roosevelt Field in Garden City around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, they said. No one was injured in the shooting, which sent mall stores into lockdown. A couple was entering Nordstrom from the second-floor parking garage when they were shouted at by two other men for parking t…

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Yonkers Money Launderer Had Thousands Stashed In No-Longer-Secret Car Box Yonkers Money Launderer Had Thousands Stashed In No-Longer-Secret Car Box
Yonkers Money Launderer Had Thousands Stashed In No-Longer-Secret Car Box An accused money launderer from Westchester was busted in New Jersey with $11,691 in dirty cash stashed in a secret compartment of his car, authorities said. Yonkers resident Pascual Ciriaco, 49, who’s married and unemployed, was taken into custody following the stop in Teaneck, NJ by Narcotic Task Force detectives who’d been tipped off that he was “transporting bulk amounts of currency,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Ciriaco had stashed the cash in an “electronically operated aftermarket hidden compartment” in his vehicle, the prosecutor said. Detectives charged him with mon…

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More Students Come Forward In NJ Drama Teacher’s Child Sex Case, Total Reaches Six More Students Come Forward In NJ Drama Teacher’s Child Sex Case, Total Reaches Six
More Students Come Forward In NJ Drama Teacher’s Child Sex Case, Total Reaches Six UPDATE: Five more male students have come forward since a retired drama teacher and theater director at a New Jersey middle school was accused last year of sexually abusing another youngster, authorities announced. Ronald E. Wells, 70, of Summit originally was arrested in June 2021 for allegedly fondling a student after luring him to a private third-floor room at the Lawton C. Johnson Summit Middle School in 2016, authorities said at the time (SEE: Retired Union County Middle School Theater Director Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Student). A joint investigation by Summit police and detectiv…

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Bergen Prosecutor: Yonkers Money Launderer Had $11,691 Cash Stashed In No-Longer-Secret Car Box Bergen Prosecutor: Yonkers Money Launderer Had $11,691 Cash Stashed In No-Longer-Secret Car Box
Bergen Prosecutor: Yonkers Money Launderer Had $11,691 Cash Stashed In No-Longer-Secret Car Box An accused money launderer from Yonkers was busted in Teaneck with $11,691 in dirty cash stashed in a secret compartment of his car, authorities said. Pascual Ciriaco, 49, who’s married and unemployed, was taken into custody following the stop by Narcotic Task Force detectives who’d been tipped off that he was “transporting bulk amounts of currency,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.  Ciriaco had stashed the cash in an “electronically operated aftermarket hidden compartment” in his vehicle, the prosecutor said. Detectives charged him with money laundering and released pendin…

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Passaic: Reckless Haledon Driver Who Fled In Aborted Paterson Pursuit Surrenders Passaic: Reckless Haledon Driver Who Fled In Aborted Paterson Pursuit Surrenders
Passaic: Reckless Haledon Driver Who Fled In Aborted Paterson Pursuit Surrenders A reckless driver who sped from a Passaic County sheriff's officer who was prevented from chasing her surrendered several days later to face charges, authorities said. The officer witnessed Vanessa S. Englishman, 22, of Haledon blowing a red light at Belmont Avenue at West Broadway, nearly hitting a truck whose driver was trying to make a turn, Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik said. Englishman's 2013 Hyundai Elantra "continued through the intersection at a high rate of speed, posing an imminent threat to the safety of pedestrians and motorists," Berdnik said. The officer activated hi…

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Cliffside PD: Essex Man Caught Trying To Cash Bogus Check After Parking Illegally Outside Bank Cliffside PD: Essex Man Caught Trying To Cash Bogus Check After Parking Illegally Outside Bank
Cliffside PD: Essex Man Caught Trying To Cash Bogus Check After Parking Illegally Outside Bank GOTCHA! An Essex County man driving a sedan being sought by New Jersey State Police was caught trying to cash a bogus check for nearly $9,000 at a Cliffside Park bank after he parked illegally, authorities said. Police Officer Steve Mantilla had a feeling something wasn't right when he spotted the Mercedes C-Class in a frequently-violated no-parking zone in front of the Wells Fargo Bank on Anderson Avenue, Deputy Police Chief Vincent Capano said. Mantilla ran the license plate and discovered an alert for the sedan after its driver eluded State Police, Capano said. Charles C. Okeke, 19, of …

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Abuser Admits Killing Ex-GF, Abducting Son In High-Profile NJ Amber Alert Case Abuser Admits Killing Ex-GF, Abducting Son In High-Profile NJ Amber Alert Case
Abuser Admits Killing Ex-GF, Abducting Son In High-Profile NJ Amber Alert Case UPDATE: An East Orange man admitted killing his former girlfriend and kidnapping their young son last summer in exchange for what prosecutors said will be a 30-year state prison sentence. Originally charged with counts that included murder, Tyler Rios, 27, took a deal from prosecutors rather than risk trial in what had been a highly-publicized Amber Alert incident. He pleaded guilty on Monday, April 4, to first-degree aggravated manslaughter for killing 24 year-old Yasemin Uyar on July 8, 2021, Union County Prosecutor William A. Daniel announced Tuesday. Rios also pleaded guilty to desec…

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Sedan Plows Into Adidas Shop Off Route 4 Sedan Plows Into Adidas Shop Off Route 4
Sedan Plows Into Adidas Shop Off Route 4 No serious injuries were immediately reported after a sedan driven by a 90-year-old motorist rammed through the front of a sporting goods store off Route 4, responders at the scene said. EMS checked out and released the driver, who was taken home, they said. The Infiniti plowed into the Adidas outlet store on the Maywood side of Bergen Town Center in Paramus around 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 5. Local police, firefighters and EMS responded, along with a building inspector. No serious injuries were reported in the mishap.Jerry DeMarco A different view.CONTRIBUTED Waiting on a tow truck…

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NO LIE: Career Bergen Burglar Caught Breaking Into, Of All Places, An Alarm Business: Police NO LIE: Career Bergen Burglar Caught Breaking Into, Of All Places, An Alarm Business: Police
NO LIE: Career Bergen Burglar Caught Breaking Into, Of All Places, An Alarm Business: Police A career criminal from Bergenfield who’s been busted well over a dozen times the past two decades was caught breaking into an alarm business, Maywood police said. Myles Gerard Shanahan, 61, has a long history of arrests in several towns – Bergenfield, Closter and Tenafly, among them -- mostly for burglary, theft and shoplifting but also for assault and DWI, records show. He'd been released a few weeks earlier following an arrest for a burglary in Bergenfield when officers in Maywood responded to a late-night alarm at Chief Security Systems on Spring Valley Road on March 29, Police Chief Ter…

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