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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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Dumont Firefighters Douse Overnight Blaze Dumont Firefighters Douse Overnight Blaze
Dumont Firefighters Douse Overnight Blaze Firefighters overcame cluttered conditions to douse an overnight house blaze in Dumont, responders said. The Richard Drive family and their pets weren't home when the fire broke out in a second-floor rear bedroom before dawn Friday, March 11, they said. Firefighters knocked it down within 20 minutes. No injuries were reported. Fire officials were investigating. Responders commonly refer to hoarding-hampered fires as "Collyers mansion syndrome" after two wealthy Harlem brothers who died in a 1947 fire amid stacks of newspapers, books, tin cans and rotting trash.

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Sedan Smashes Into Glen Rock Storefront Sedan Smashes Into Glen Rock Storefront
Sedan Smashes Into Glen Rock Storefront A driver was OK after her sedan barreled into a Glen Rock storefront. The 2010 Subaru Legacy plowed into the downtown Heidt Agency insurance office on Rock Road just off Glen Avenue shortly after 11 a.m. Friday, March 11. The 61-year-old Glen Rock driver "mistook the accelerator for the brake," Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Borough police were first on the scene, followed by firefighters from Glen Rock and Hawthorne. A Glen Rock building inspector also responded. No injuries were reported in the downtown Glen Rock mishap.Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE All Points Towing removed the…

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$1.5M Cosmetics Company Scam Sends Englewood Swindler To Federal Prison For 2½ Years $1.5M Cosmetics Company Scam Sends Englewood Swindler To Federal Prison For 2½ Years
$1.5M Cosmetics Company Scam Sends Englewood Swindler To Federal Prison For 2½ Years A former Englewood resident must serve nearly 2½ years in federal prison for scamming three investors out of $1.5 million. Matthew Benjamin, 54, used the victims' money for car and house rental payments, food, international travel, legal fees, technology equipment and summer camp tuition for family members, among other purposes, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said. Benjamin, currently of New York, told the victims that his purported company, Clear Solutions Group, had lucrative contracts to purchase closeout or excess cosmetic inventory from one company that he planned to …

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Feds: 'Community Guns' Smuggled Into NJ Seized, Local Man, Georgia Woman Charged Feds: 'Community Guns' Smuggled Into NJ Seized, Local Man, Georgia Woman Charged
Feds: 'Community Guns' Smuggled Into NJ Seized, Local Man, Georgia Woman Charged A trio of “community guns” were brought into New Jersey by a Garden State man and a Georgia woman, a grand jury has charged. Most used in crimes in New Jersey are smuggled in from out of state, most often from the South, after being bought or stolen, authorities say. These include “community guns,” which two or more criminals stash somewhere – in a mailbox or a garbage can, under a rock or on the tire of a car, for instance -- for instant access and quick disposal by them and others. A grand jury indictment returned in Trenton charges Marquise Peterson, 28, of Trenton, and Quaneisha Frost-…

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Feds: NJ High School Food Service Worker Had 1,673 Child Porn Files Feds: NJ High School Food Service Worker Had 1,673 Child Porn Files
Feds: NJ High School Food Service Worker Had 1,673 Child Porn Files A New Jersey high school food service worker was caught trafficking child porn, federal authorities said. Ezra W. Saphire, 29, of West Orange, was working at a high school in East Hanover (Morris County) when investigators found 1,014 video files and 659 still images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. "These files included multiple visual depictions of prepubescent children being sexually abused by adults," the U.S. attorney said. Special agents of the Department of Homeland Security's Homeland Security Investigations arrested Saphire on Thursday, March 10, and …

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Offender Gets 8½ Year Without Parole For Sexually Assaulting Child In Passaic, Teaneck Offender Gets 8½ Year Without Parole For Sexually Assaulting Child In Passaic, Teaneck
Offender Gets 8½ Year Without Parole For Sexually Assaulting Child In Passaic, Teaneck A Passaic man must spend the next 8½ years in state prison before he’ll be eligible for parole for sexually assaulting a child at locations in the city and in Teaneck. Ubaldo Flores-Mora, 42, sexually assaulted the victim at a home in Passaic and a business in Teaneck, authorities said following his September 2020 arrest. Flores-Mora took a deal from prosecutors rather than go to trial, pleading guilty last November to two counts of first-degree aggravated sexual assault, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said in a joint statement. This p…

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$2 Million Fine For NJ's 'Most Flagrant' OSHA Violator Upheld By Judge $2 Million Fine For NJ's 'Most Flagrant' OSHA Violator Upheld By Judge
$2 Million Fine For NJ's 'Most Flagrant' Osha Violator Upheld By Judge A Bergen County framing contractor dubbed New Jersey’s "most flagrant violator" of federal workplace safety laws the past decade must pay $2 million in back fines to the government, an administrative law judge has ruled. Juan Quevedo-Garcia, 42, of Palisades Park "deliberately failed to pay the fines and displayed a total disregard for the safety of his workers and for the law," Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Doug Parker said. In doing so, he "continually put workers at risk of serious injuries or worse" at four different job sites in Bergen County, a federa…

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Feds: Armed NJ Ex-Con Gets 9 Years, No Parole, For Threatening To Kill Woman Feds: Armed NJ Ex-Con Gets 9 Years, No Parole, For Threatening To Kill Woman
Feds: Armed NJ Ex-Con Gets 9 Years, No Parole, For Threatening To Kill Woman A Trenton ex-con who'd been free all of a month when he threatened a woman with a gun -- after serving time in connection with a killing -- is headed to federal prison for nine years. Omar Kennedy, 40, must serve out just about all of the sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Kennedy had originally been charged with murder in the September 2016 killing of a 19-year-old city man who was gunned down in an alley. He fled to Virginia, where members of the U.S. Marshals NY/NJ Regional Fugitive Task Force captured him. Essex County prosecutors cut a deal with Kenn…

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Twin Tractor-Trailers Taken Out At Treacherous Tanker Turn Twin Tractor-Trailers Taken Out At Treacherous Tanker Turn
Twin Tractor-Trailers Taken Out At Treacherous Tanker Turn A notorious stretch of Bergen County blacktop claimed not one but two more casualties when a pair of tractor-trailers jackknifed as the morning rush began. There were no reported injuries in the "tanker turn" mishap on the bending Route 95 approach to westbound Route 80 in Teaneck shortly before 6 a.m. Thursday, March 10. Heavy-duty wreckers responded to remove the rigs. New Jersey State Police and Department of Transportation workers also responded.

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Passaic Sheriff: Ex-Con From PA Caught Carrying Loaded Gun In Crack Bust Passaic Sheriff: Ex-Con From PA Caught Carrying Loaded Gun In Crack Bust
Passaic Sheriff: Ex-Con From PA Caught Carrying Loaded Gun In Crack Bust An ex-con from Pennsylvania was carrying a loaded gun when Passaic County sheriff's detectives arrested him and a Paterson crack dealer, authorities said. Suprena Whitaker, 54, had an ounce of the drug with her when she was busted along with Dante Day, 39, of Steelton, PA, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. Investigators also seized $382 in drug money, the sheriff said. Whitaker was charged with various drug offenses and Day with weapons counts, including having hollow-point ammo and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, he said. Both were sent to the Passaic County Jail…

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