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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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Police & Fire

NJ Scammer Admits Selling Bogus Tom Brady Super Bowl Rings A 24-year-old New Jersey man pleaded guilty to fraud for pretending to be a New England Patriots player to buy and sell Super Bowl rings engraved with Tom Brady's last name, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday, Feb. 2. Scott V. Spina Jr., of Roseland, could face decades in prison when he's sentenced May 23, for charges of mail fraud, three counts of wire fraud, and one count of aggravated identity theft, authorities said. Spina's guilty plea comes one day after the quarterback announced his retirement after 22 seasons and seven Super Bowl titles. Spina ordered three replica Super Bo…

by Cecilia Levine & Jerry DeMarco

02/02/2022

News

Resident Hospitalized, Englewood Bedroom Fire Doused A resident was hospitalized for smoke inhalation during a fire at an Englewood home. The two-alarm Jones Road blaze broke out in a second-floor bedroom shortly after 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 2, and was quickly doused. An ambulance took the resident to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center. Among the mutual aid responders were firefighters from Hackensack, Teaneck, Tenafly and Fort Lee. 115 Jones Road, EnglewoodENGLEWOOD FD

by Jerry DeMarco

02/02/2022

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Feds: NJ Ex-Con Caught With 1,000 Fentanyl Pills, 7 Pounds Of Meth, Guns, Ammo A South Jersey ex-con with a lengthy history of drug-dealing arrests was busted in East Brunswick this week with 1,000 fentanyl pills, seven pounds of crystal meth and two handguns, federal authorities said. Manuel A. Quinones, 47, of Pennsauken, was nabbed by a team of federal and state law enforcement officers who said they found the potentially-fatal fentanyl and the coke during a search of his car on Monday, Jan. 31. They then obtained written consent to search his home, which U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Phillip R. Sellinger said turned up not only more drugs but also two firearms, amm…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/02/2022

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Paterson DWI Driver With Juvenile Passenger Jailed After Bergen Crash A drunk Paterson driver had a child in the car with her when she was involved in an accident on Skyline Drive in Oakland, authorities said. Karina Merchan, 39, was driving a Honda CRV that struck a Ram pickup truck as its driver was making a U-turn on Saturday, Jan. 29, Capt. Timothy Keenan said. A second passenger with Merchan and the juvenile sustained a minor neck injury but declined medical attention, the captain said. Merchan was taken into custody after failing field sobriety tests and giving the responding officers false identifying information, Keenan said. She was charged with as…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/02/2022

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Feds: NJ Men Busted Following Three Fentanyl-Laced NYC Drug-Delivery Deaths Two North Jersey men worked for a drug-courier service that peddled fentanyl-laced cocaine responsible for killing three customers in a single day, federal authorities in Manhattan charged. Billy "Jason" Ortega, 35, of West Milford was the dispatcher who sent Kaylen Rainey, 30, of Manhattan to three different city addresses on March 17, 2021 after promoting "new batches" of drugs, an FBI complaint on file in the Southern District Court of Manhattan alleges. Three customers -- Amanda Scher, Julia Ghahramani and Ross Mtangi -- all died after ingesting the coke, authorities said. Scher texted…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/02/2022

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Paterson Man Shot Dead On City Street A Paterson man was shot dead outside an apartment building in one of the city’s deadliest neighborhoods. The killing of 43-year-old Juan Soto was the third this year in the Silk City’s 4th Ward. Responding officers found Soto’s lifeless body in the street outside the Madison Apartments on East 19th Street between 10th and 11th avenues around 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 1, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said. Medical personnel took Soto to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, where he was officially pronounced dead. Paterson endured recent…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/02/2022

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Ex-Dolphins Coach Brian Flores Sues Giants, NFL For Racial Discrimination, Cites Belichick Text BOMBSHELL: Former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores is suing the NFL, the New York Giants, his former team and the Denver Broncos for what he contends is a "painful history of racism that continues through the present day." Flores was three days away from a final interview for the Giants' head coaching job when New England Patriots Head Coach Bill Belichick mistakenly sent a text congratulating him, according to a class-action lawsuit he filed in the Southern District of New York in Manhattan on Tuesday, Feb. 1. Belichick apparently thought he was texting Brian Daboll, the man whom th…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/01/2022

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West New York Killer Brutally Beat Inmate For Latin Kings 'Hit Squad,' Indictment Charges A convicted killer from West New York sent a fellow inmate to the hospital with a severe head injury as part of a deal with a prison "hit squad" run by a Latin Kings leader, authorities said. Daniel Balbuena, 29, carried out the beating in exchange for an assault on a rival of the Gran Familiar Mexicana gang by hit squad members, an indictment returned by a grand jury in Trenton alleges. Authorities last year charged Frank “Lafay” Blake of Hillside and several other current and former shank-armed inmates with an assault at New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, as well as with plans to carry …

by Jerry DeMarco

02/01/2022

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Crash Sends Bergenfield Police Officer, Motorist To Hospital A Bergenfield police officer headed to a reported fire and a motorist were both hospitalized following a crash outside the borough public library, authorities confirmed. "We don't know the extent of the injuries yet," Police Chief Mustafa Rabboh said following the crash shortly before 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 1, at the corner of Clinton and Front streets. A detective went to the hospital to check on both, he said. The female officer was headed to an activated fire alarm at a nursery school on Woodbine Street. Clinton and Front streets outside the Bergenfield Public Library.Yaniv Besterma…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/01/2022

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Snapple Truck Rams Glen Rock Shopping Strip, Driver Cited After Fleeing, Police Say Snapple helped police find a driver who they said took off after his truck struck a small shopping strip in Glen Rock. Sgt. Robert Wojtecki determined that the truck that hit the Maple Avenue building at Harristown Road off northbound Route 208 in the middle of the afternoon belonged to Snapple Distributors out of Avondale, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. "With the assistance of the company the driver was located and directed to return to the scene," Ackermann said. Edwin H. Hernandez, 40, of Union received summonses for leaving the scene of an accident and failing to report an accident,…

by Jerry DeMarco

02/01/2022

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