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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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Fair Lawn Man, 21, Busted For Child Porn Fair Lawn Man, 21, Busted For Child Porn
Fair Lawn Man, 21, Busted For Child Porn A 21-year-old Fair Lawn man was caught trafficking child porn online, authorities charged. Isiah T. Knight  “used the Internet to view, download, and possess approximately 100 files depicting nude and/or sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Members of Musella’s Cyber Crimes Unit also found that Knight “distributed digital files of child pornography on the Internet,” the prosecutor said. Knight, who works as a cashier, was booked into the Bergen County Jail on Wednesday, Feb. 9, and then almost immediately ordered r…

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Sedan From NYC Driving School Not Ridgewood Car Thief's Wisest Choice Sedan From NYC Driving School Not Ridgewood Car Thief's Wisest Choice
Sedan From NYC Driving School Not Ridgewood Car Thief's Wisest Choice He could've just as well honked his horn. A would-be car thief behind the wheel of a sedan stolen from a driving school in Queens was casing neighborhoods in Ridgewood for targets when he was spotted early Wednesday, Feb. 9, authorities said. The suspect drove off after abandoning an attempt to steal a vehicle on Gilbert Street but was caught soon after. It's not like he could give anyone the slip: The Toyota Corolla was marked with large lettering from the Ferrari Driving School in Queens and had a battered front New York State license plate dangling vertically from a single screw. The…

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Maine Driver Busted Near GWB With 25 Pounds Of Pot, 'Ghost' Gun, $50,705 Cash, Prosecutor Says Maine Driver Busted Near GWB With 25 Pounds Of Pot, 'Ghost' Gun, $50,705 Cash, Prosecutor Says
Maine Driver Busted Near GWB With 25 Pounds Of Pot, 'Ghost' Gun, $50,705 Cash, Prosecutor Says A driver from Maine was stopped by detectives with more than 25 pounds of marijuana in bulk, a homemade “ghost gun” and $50,705 in suspicious cash in Fort Lee, authorities said. Carleton E. Dixon, 39, of New Vineyard was arrested after detectives Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella’s Narcotics Task Force stopped and searched his black 2012 Chevrolet Silverado on Tuesday, Feb. 8, the prosecutor said. The contraband, weapon and cash were all seized, he said (You can legally possess up to six ounces of pot under New Jersey law. Any weight over that subjects you to criminal charges). Dixon r…

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DUMB CRIMINAL FILE: Gunman Botches Robberies Of Mail Carriers In Bergen, Passaic, Feds Charge DUMB CRIMINAL FILE: Gunman Botches Robberies Of Mail Carriers In Bergen, Passaic, Feds Charge
Dumb Criminal File: Gunman Botches Robberies Of Mail Carriers In Bergen, Passaic, Feds Charge A 20-year-old Paterson man was arrested after he tried and failed to rob postal carriers in Bergen and Passaic counties at gunpoint on the same day, federal authorities said. Yeniser Cruz Perez was carrying a gun when he approached one of the U.S. Postal Service carriers in the area of Brownstone Court and Wyckoff Avenue in Wyckoff on Jan. 20, 2020 and demanded the master key used to open mail collection boxes and apartment panels, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. The only problem: The worker didn't have one, Sellinger said. That same day, he said, Cruz Perez approached another USPS…

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SEE ANYTHING? Police Probe Shooting Outside Bergen County Bowling Alley SEE ANYTHING? Police Probe Shooting Outside Bergen County Bowling Alley
SEE Anything? Police Probe Shooting Outside Bergen County Bowling Alley Gunfire erupted outside a Bergen County bowling alley, said police who were searching for the shooter. No one was reported wounding in the 10:30 p.m. shooting Tuesday, Feb. 8, in the parking lot of the Wallington Bowlero on Paterson Avenue, Police Capt. Shawn Kudlacik said. Witnesses told police a black man in a white hoodie quickly got into a white SUV with tinted windows -- possibly a Range Rover Velar -- and fled, Kudlacik said. Police recovered three shell casings, one projectile and a live round, the captain said. Anyone who might have witnessed the incident, saw the fleeing vehicle …

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Tractor-Trailer Topples Light Pole Outside Glen Rock Supermarket Tractor-Trailer Topples Light Pole Outside Glen Rock Supermarket
Tractor-Trailer Topples Light Pole Outside Glen Rock Supermarket No one was injured when a tractor-trailer took down a light pole and got stuck on a concrete stanchion in the parking lot of a Glen Rock supermarket. Glen Rock firefighters and members of the Fair Lawn Rescue Squad tended to a substantial oil spill from the mishap at the Super Fresh on Lincoln Avenue shortly before 11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 9. The driver of the rig from Allentown, PA waited for his company to send a heavy-duty wrecker to remove it. The tractor got lodged on the concrete stanchion at the Super Fresh in Glen Rock.Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE Glen Rock police also respond…

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Business Class Passenger Accused Of Raping Woman On Flight From Newark To London Business Class Passenger Accused Of Raping Woman On Flight From Newark To London
Business Class Passenger Accused Of Raping Woman On Flight From Newark To London An airline passenger was charged with raping a woman in business class while others around them slept on a flight from Newark to London. The as-yet-unidentified 40-year-old suspect is accused of the assault on a Jan. 31 United Airlines flight bound for Heathrow Airport, according to multiple reports. Both passengers are British, authorities said. They reportedly sat in separate rows, didn't know one another but had been chatting in a lounge area earlier in the flight. Officers "met the aircraft on arrival" at Heathrow and arrested the man "on suspicion of rape," London's Metropol…

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Pickup Driver, 77, Killed In West Milford Crash Pickup Driver, 77, Killed In West Milford Crash
Pickup Driver, 77, Killed In West Milford Crash A 77-year-old driver was killed when his pickup truck slammed into a utility pole and overturned in West Milford, authorities said. Gary Bartholomew of Hewitt was driving a 2005 Nissan Frontier that crashed on Lakeshore Drive in the area of Warwick Turnpike and Maple Shade Road at 8:15 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 8, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and West Milford Police Chief James DeVore said. He was pronounced dead at the scene, they said Wednesday, adding that no other vehicles were involved. The road was reopened at 2:30 p.m.

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Missing Carlstadt Man Found Missing Carlstadt Man Found
Missing Carlstadt Man Found A hearing-impaired Carlstadt man who’d gone missing nearly two weeks ago was found at University Hospital in Newark, authorities confirmed. Carlstadt detectives found James Dugan II on Tuesday, Feb. 8, while checking area hospitals, Deputy Police Chief Thomas Cox said Wednesday. "Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart, for all you have done for my brother and my family," his sister, Sarah, posted on Facebook. "So many people have reached out to offer love and support. We are so grateful and relieved. Thank you so so so so so much." Tattoos and facial recognition helped identify Dugan, …

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Blood Trail From Stabbing Over Parking Spot Leads To Clifton Ex-Con, Police Say Blood Trail From Stabbing Over Parking Spot Leads To Clifton Ex-Con, Police Say
Blood Trail From Stabbing Over Parking Spot Leads To Clifton Ex-Con, Police Say Police who followed a blood trail after a 21-year-old Clifton man was stabbed in the back during a fight over a parking spot identified his assailant as an ex-con who’s already spent several years in prison for a series of violent crimes. Officers followed a blood trail along Van Winkle Avenue toward Passaic after responding to the 9 p.m. stabbing near Lake Avenue, Clifton Police Lt. Robert Anderson said. They were quickly joined by a K9 team and crime scene detectives from the Passaic County Sheriff’s Office, he said. The officers began reviewing surveillance video along the trail and saw …

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