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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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Englewood PD: City Driver Arrested After Fighting With Police Englewood PD: City Driver Arrested After Fighting With Police
Englewood PD: City Driver Arrested After Fighting With Police An Englewood driver who was found with his car stopped and idling in the middle of the street fought with city police while being arrested, authorities said. Officers responding to a call for service on Waldo Place found Antoine Washington, 21, uncooperative, Lt. Fred Pulice said. “It was subsequently learned that he was operating the vehicle with a suspended driver’s license,” Pulice said. Officers were writing summonses when he began interfering with them, the lieutenant said. At that point, they told Washington that he was being placed under arrest, he said. Washington “resisted and a…

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SEE ANYTHING? Mugger Strikes Twice In Englewood SEE ANYTHING? Mugger Strikes Twice In Englewood
SEE Anything? Mugger Strikes Twice In Englewood A mugger who targeted two victims within a half-hour in Englewood beat one of them, taking his cellphone, authorities said. The thug failed on his first try when a 34-year-old man he stopped on James Street got away without giving up any property shortly after 11:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 30, Lt. Fred Pulice said. He struck for real shortly before midnight, approaching a 29-year-old man in Depot Square Park and demanding what was in his pockets, Pulice said. The man refused and was punched in the face several times, thrown to the ground and kicked, the lieutenant said. The victim, who had his …

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144 Pounds Of Pot Found, Driver Busted In Teaneck Pickup Stop 144 Pounds Of Pot Found, Driver Busted In Teaneck Pickup Stop
144 Pounds Of Pot Found, Driver Busted In Teaneck Pickup Stop Detectives found 144 pounds of pot in a pickup truck in Teaneck and took the driver into custody, authorities said. Adrian Diaz Resendiz, a 30-year-old food prep worker from Jamaica, Queens, was “transporting bulk shipments of marijuana through Bergen County,” Prosecutor Mark Musella said. He was charged with first-degree possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute it and sent to the Bergen County Jail, Musella said. A judge released him the next day, with conditions, following a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack, records show.  You can leg…

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Disturbance At Englewood Apartment Complex Leads To Arrests Disturbance At Englewood Apartment Complex Leads To Arrests
Disturbance At Englewood Apartment Complex Leads To Arrests A disturbance brought Englewood police to an apartment complex where they said they found one man with a BB pistol and another wanted on a warrant. A 911 caller reported seeing several male suspects, one of them wearing a mask and pointing a gun at another, get out of a Jeep in the parking lot of the Sigma Apartments on Engle Street and then go into the building shortly before 6 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 30, Lt. Fred Pulice said. Responding officers found the Jeep as well as several people. One of them, Michael Mays, 25, of Englewood was arrested on weapons charges after they found him carrying a …

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CRIME WAVE: Unprecedented Epidemic Of Vehicle Thefts, Burglaries Grows Alarming In North Jersey CRIME WAVE: Unprecedented Epidemic Of Vehicle Thefts, Burglaries Grows Alarming In North Jersey
Crime Wave: Unprecedented Epidemic Of Vehicle Thefts, Burglaries Grows Alarming In North Jersey Thieves are prowling North Jersey streets in unprecedented numbers, stealing unlocked vehicles or items left inside of them, authorities say. And police alone can't stem the tide. Local and county law enforcement are devoting more resources to stopping the bandits, who are often from out of the area. But they can’t be everywhere at once.  More owners need to lock their vehicles and take their key fobs, they say, or things will only get worse. Think of it this way: Imagine your unlocked vehicle is stolen, is involved in a pursuit and slams into another car. Imagine someone is killed in the …

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Jersey Shore Man Threatens To 'F**k Up' Funeral For Hero NYPD Officer Jersey Shore Man Threatens To 'F**k Up' Funeral For Hero NYPD Officer
Jersey Shore Man Threatens To 'F**k Up' Funeral For Hero Nypd Officer A Monmouth County man who was once recorded shouting racist slurs at an Asian NYPD detective threatened to "f**k up" the next city police funeral. "If I had known about that mother-f**king funeral, I would have f***ed that sh*t up, bro -- all the way, 100 percent," Terrell Harper, 39, said in an Instagram stories video. "That a' been a wet dream. "I can't wait. I'm lookin' for the next cop funeral," Harper added in the video, which went viral on Twitter. "I'm tellin' ya: I'm gonna f**k that sh*t up, bro. I'll make news ASAP." Harper, whose last known address was on 10th Avenue in Neptune T…

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SEE ANYTHING? Armed Bandits In Black Rob 7-Eleven Off Route 80 SEE ANYTHING? Armed Bandits In Black Rob 7-Eleven Off Route 80
SEE Anything? Armed Bandits In Black Rob 7-Eleven Off Route 80 Two masked men dressed all in black robbed a 7-Eleven in Rochelle Park at gunpoint, authorities said. No customers were in the store when the pair burst into the Essex Street convenience store minutes before midnight Sunday, Lt. James DePreta said. One "brandished a black handgun, while the second demanded cash from the registers," DePreta said. Both fled in a small, dark-colored SUV toward westbound Route 80, the lieutenant said. No injuries were reported and the amount taken was still being determined, he said.ANYONE who might have seen something or has information that could help id…

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Overnight Fire Severely Damages Norwood Home Overnight Fire Severely Damages Norwood Home
Overnight Fire Severely Damages Norwood Home Flames blew through the roof of a Norwood home near the Rockland County border. Firefighters battled extreme cold and slippery conditions to douse the upper-floor bedroom blaze, which broke out on Broadway just off Piermont Road around 2 a.m. Sunday. No serious injuries were immediately reported. Mutual aid responders either at the scene or in coverage included firefighters from Harrington Park, Closter, Demarest, Northvale and Old Tappan. Firefighters battled extreme cold and icy conditions in the overnight Norwood blaze.Closter FD

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Haledon PD: Clifton Driver Busted With Oxy, Xanax, More Haledon PD: Clifton Driver Busted With Oxy, Xanax, More
Haledon PD: Clifton Driver Busted With Oxy, Xanax, More Haledon police caught a Clifton driver with a mobile drug store of sorts when they stopped him for delaying traffic, authorities said. Ala Mustafa, 38, "abruptly exited" his 2018 Dodge Durango when Officers Nasir Mora and Jonathan Velez conducted a stop in a marked unit on Legion Place, Capt. George Guzman Jr. said. Patting him down, they found 104 Oxycodone pills in the left pocket of his cargo pants, Guzman said. They arrested Mustafa, then searched the vehicle and found 174 amphetamine pills, 66 Xanax pills and some Ecstasy, the captain said. An envelope containing cocaine was found on…

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Bergen Drugstore Burglar Had Specific Target, Police Say Bergen Drugstore Burglar Had Specific Target, Police Say
Bergen Drugstore Burglar Had Specific Target, Police Say Someone broke into a Wyckoff drug store -- all for two bottles of liquid codeine, authorities said. Officers responding to a 4:45 a.m. burglar alarm earlier this week found the front door glass shattered at Sicomac Pharmacy, in a small shopping strip off the corner of Cedar Hill Avenue, Lt. Joseph Soto said. They secured the business and learned that all that was taken were two bottles of the addictive morphine derivative, valued at $86 combined, he said. The Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification collected evidence. Wyckoff detectives were investigating.

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