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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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Fort Lee PD Nabs Late-Night Vehicle Burglars Thanks To Resident's Quick Call Fort Lee PD Nabs Late-Night Vehicle Burglars Thanks To Resident's Quick Call
Fort Lee PD Nabs Late-Night Vehicle Burglars Thanks To Resident's Quick Call Fort Lee police nabbed two out-of-towners who authorities said were burglarizing vehicles in a quiet local neighborhood. Officers responding to a 911 call on Briar Way call off Palisade Avenue stopped the suspects’ vehicle shortly after 11:30 p.m. Sunday, Capt. Edward Young said. They arrested Jahaad Bembry, a 22-year-old food server from Hillside, and Samad Foster, a 26-year-old sanitation worker from Newark, after a witness and home security video confirmed they'd been working the neighborhood, Young said. Bembry was charged with burglary, and both he and Foster were charged with conspir…

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Paterson Officer Who Said She Was Forced To Retire After Shooting Settles With City For $185K Paterson Officer Who Said She Was Forced To Retire After Shooting Settles With City For $185K
Paterson Officer Who Said She Was Forced To Retire After Shooting Settles With City For $185K A former Paterson police officer who claimed she was forced to retire after shooting a civilian in a confrontation has settled a discrimination lawsuit against the city. Haydee Santana, 53, claimed she was treated differently from male colleagues in similar circumstances after she shot an unarmed man who authorities said charged at her in front of his children. Santana, who said she was forced to retire on a disability pension in 2018 after 24 years with the Paterson Police Department, settled her suit for $185,000, city officials confirmed. The civilian she shot, Larry Bouie, settled a su…

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Employee Charged With Embezzling $122,000 From Bergen Company Employee Charged With Embezzling $122,000 From Bergen Company
Employee Charged With Embezzling $122,000 From Bergen Company An employee in a Ramsey company's accounts receiving department embezzled $122,000 from her employer, police charged. Kimberly Soto, 36, of Prospect Park used her access to company accounts at Ui Solutions to fraudulently divert [the money] from the company to her own personal account" over the course of a year, beginning in February 2020, Ramsey Police Chief Brian Lyman said. Soto was charged with theft and released pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack, the chief said.

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Elementary School Fire In Passaic County Quickly Doused Elementary School Fire In Passaic County Quickly Doused
Elementary School Fire In Passaic County Quickly Doused No injuries were reported in a pre-dawn classroom fire Tuesday at the Haskell Elementary School. No children were in the building when the blaze broke out in a classroom at the Ringwood Avenue school shortly before 7 a.m. and was quickly extinguished, responders said. It caused a significant amount of smoke damage in the building, they said. A cause wasn't immediately disclosed. Mutual aid responders included firefighters from Ringwood, Pompton Lakes, Bloomingdale and Oakland, as well as local police and EMS. Both the Haskell and Wanaque elementary schools were closed as a result. Before …

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Teaneck Man, 75, Jailed On Child Sex Assault Charges Teaneck Man, 75, Jailed On Child Sex Assault Charges
Teaneck Man, 75, Jailed On Child Sex Assault Charges A 75-year-old Teaneck man was jailed on charges of sexually assaulting two children multiple times. Neville Kennedy remained held Tuesday in the Bergen County Jail following his arrest Friday in Teaneck, records show. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said detectives of his Special Victims Unit investigated following a report from Teaneck police a month earlier. Investigators found that Kennedy “sexually assaulted two children, both of whom were under the age of 13, on more than one occasion,” the prosecutor said. Kenney is charged with aggravated sexual assault, aggravated crimina…

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Number Of Guns Seized At US Airports 'Shot' Up Last Year, TSA Says Number Of Guns Seized At US Airports 'Shot' Up Last Year, TSA Says
Number Of Guns Seized At US Airports 'Shot' Up Last Year, TSA Says The second year of "the new normal" in a world with COVID saw a significant increase not only in the volume of travelers but also in the number of those trying to bring guns aboard planes nationwide, the TSA said Tuesday. With more people traveling last year, Transportation Security Administration officers stopped 5,972 firearms at airport security checkpoints across the country -- up 3,257 from the year before, said Lisa Farbstein, an agency spokesperson for the TSA. Here's the kicker: Last year's amount was also considerably more than the 4,432 detected in 2019 -- even before the pandemi…

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Wayne PD: Convicted Felon Wanted For Robbery Presents Green Card Of Elderly Foreigner As ID Wayne PD: Convicted Felon Wanted For Robbery Presents Green Card Of Elderly Foreigner As ID
Wayne PD: Convicted Felon Wanted For Robbery Presents Green Card Of Elderly Foreigner As ID A 33-year-old Rutherford man wanted on burglary and robbery charges tried giving a Wayne police officer who stopped him a green card belonging to an elderly man from Haiti as identification, authorities said. Joshua Ellerbee then showed Officer Harrison Kirby a Social Security card with the other man’s name on it, Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. Kirby had stopped Ellerbee for having heavily tinted front windows, the captain said. “The driver claimed he previously had a New Jersey driver’s license,” Daly said. “However, nothing could be found in the system under the name he provided.” Kirby…

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Bergen Man Once Accused Of Flinging Feces At Neighbor's Home Arrested Again Bergen Man Once Accused Of Flinging Feces At Neighbor's Home Arrested Again
Bergen Man Once Accused Of Flinging Feces At Neighbor's Home Arrested Again A noisy steam pipe has again triggered a Ho-Ho-Kus man who once stored his own excrement and shot it at his neighbor's house, authorities said. William J. Krywos, 49, has had a history of run-ins with the law, including causing a mid-1990s blackout that affected more than 32,000 Bergen County customers. More recently, Krywos had a series of conflicts with no fewer than three different residents who've lived next door to his Duncan Road home over the years -- always in the winter, police said. The way defense attorney Frank Lucianna once explained it, "there is a pipe on his neighbor’s hous…

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Tipster Leads Mahwah PD To Meth, GHB Operation Tipster Leads Mahwah PD To Meth, GHB Operation
Tipster Leads Mahwah PD To Meth, GHB Operation An anonymous tip led to the arrest of a Mahwah man and the seizure of meth, the date-rape drug GHB and packaging materials from his condo, authorities said. Detectives confirmed the information, established probable cause and obtained a warrant executed with members of the department's Patrol Services Unit at the Indian Ridge condo off Hilltop Road early Friday afternoon following a months-long investigation, Capt. Guido Bussinelli said. Douglas Panessa, 46, who lives there alone, was arrested and charged with several drug possession counts, in addition to possession of drug parapherna…

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Downed Wires From Mini-Storm Close Stretch Of Route 9W For Hours Downed Wires From Mini-Storm Close Stretch Of Route 9W For Hours
Downed Wires From Mini-Storm Close Stretch Of Route 9W For Hours Sparking wires downed by the overnight storm Monday closed Sylvan Avenue in Englewood Cliffs in both directions and melted some of the roadway, authorities said. Route 9W remained closed past noon between Sage Road and Demarest Avenue while repairs were made, Detective Lt. Ronald F. Waldt said. Englewood Cliffs police and firefighters responded to the mishap shortly before 3 a.m., Waldt said. “Patrol officers found that the wires were live,” the lieutenant said. “Arcing of the wires was creating a condition wherein the asphalt was melting. “PSE&G was able to cut power and render the s…

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