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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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Sussex Man Who Spent $5.6M COVID Relief Money On Stock Market, Luxury Car, More Sentenced Sussex Man Who Spent $5.6M COVID Relief Money On Stock Market, Luxury Car, More Sentenced
Sussex Man Who Spent $5.6M COVID Relief Money On Stock Market, Luxury Car, More Sentenced A Sussex County man was sentenced Tuesday to more than five years in federal prison for spending $5.6 million in federal COVID-19 pandemic business loans for himself, authorities said. Azhar Sarwar Rana, 31, of Newton will have to serve out just about all of the 64-month sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. The federal Paycheck Protection Program was designed to keep struggling small businesses afloat during the pandemic. Rana used the money, instead, to invest millions in the stock market, make a payment to a luxury car dealership and send hundreds of thous…

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Portable Radios Stolen From Norwood EMS Building, Suspects From Another Squad Charged Portable Radios Stolen From Norwood EMS Building, Suspects From Another Squad Charged
Portable Radios Stolen From Norwood EMS Building, Suspects From Another Squad Charged Three emergency medical workers with another squad broke into the Norwood EMS building and stole three portable radios, authorities charged. Two of them, Antonio Guinta, 26, and Frank Ballante, 19, both of Norwood, have been with the Moonachie First Aid & Rescue Squad a little over a year, said Franklin Smith, the squad’s captain. The third defendant, Anthony Olsen, 47, of Laurence Harbor was an observer who’d recently been with a squad in South Jersey, Smith said. It turns out he also had a criminal record, authorities said they discovered. The Nov. 29th thefts from the Norwood EMS b…

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TSA: Pennsy Traveler Caught At Newark Airport With Taped, Bandaged Gun, Bullets In Soap Bar TSA: Pennsy Traveler Caught At Newark Airport With Taped, Bandaged Gun, Bullets In Soap Bar
TSA: Pennsy Traveler Caught At Newark Airport With Taped, Bandaged Gun, Bullets In Soap Bar TSA officers at Newark Airport nabbed a Pennsylvania man who they said tried to bring a gun "artfully" taped and wrapped in an Ace bandage -- along with bullets stashed in a hollowed-out bar of soap -- onto a plane. The Chester, PA traveler told them the gun was "given to him by a deceased relative and he was planning to take it to Lagos, Nigeria," TSA Spokesperson Lisa Farbstein said Tuesday. "The items were detected among the traveler’s other belongings inside his checked bag," Farbstein said. "When the TSA officer spotted the items, Port Authority police were contacted and the man was ca…

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Armed Rockland Ex-Con Ditches Crashed Car On Resident's Lawn, Calls Mom For Ride, Police Say Armed Rockland Ex-Con Ditches Crashed Car On Resident's Lawn, Calls Mom For Ride, Police Say
Armed Rockland Ex-Con Ditches Crashed Car On Resident's Lawn, Calls Mom For Ride, Police Say A convicted robber from Rockland who was armed with a loaded gun crashed his car on a Bergen County resident's lawn, left it there, and was waiting for his mother to pick him up when a local police officer captured him, authorities said. Hakeem Gentles, age 26, of Spring Valley was intoxicated when his car struck another in a Montvale driveway over the weekend, according to a police report. Responding Police Officer Russell DiLauri found the heavily damaged vehicle unoccupied on the Magnolia Avenue victim's lawn. The resident pointed him toward to a gas station on North Kinderkamack Road, …

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Police: Armed Rockland Ex-Con Ditches Crashed Car On Bergen Resident's Lawn, Calls Mom For Ride Police: Armed Rockland Ex-Con Ditches Crashed Car On Bergen Resident's Lawn, Calls Mom For Ride
Police: Armed Rockland Ex-Con Ditches Crashed Car On Bergen Resident's Lawn, Calls Mom For Ride A convicted robber from Rockland who was armed with a loaded gun crashed his car on a Bergen County resident's lawn, left it there and was waiting for his mother to pick him up when a local police officer captured him, authorities said. Hakeem Gentles, 26, of Spring Valley was intoxicated when his car struck another in a Montvale driveway over the weekend, according to a police report. Responding Police Officer Russell DiLauri found the heavily damaged vehicle unoccupied on the Magnolia Avenue victim's lawn. The resident pointed him toward to a gas station on North Kinderkamack Road, where…

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Driver Pulled From Crashed, Burning Car Off Route 46 Dies Driver Pulled From Crashed, Burning Car Off Route 46 Dies
Driver Pulled From Crashed, Burning Car Off Route 46 Dies A driver was pronounced dead at a local hospital after police pulled him from his crashed, burning car on an industrial road off Route 46 in Ridgefield. Witnesses said the victim first drove down Linden Avenue along Willis Park off Grand Avenue shortly before 5:30 p.m. Monday. He then backed up, revved the engine and hit the gas, crashing the sedan into a pile of metal debris near the CSX tracks, they told responders. Responding police officers pulled him from the vehicle before a small fire was doused. The officers and firefighters tried reviving the unresponsive driver with CPR. A …

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Local Detectives Secretly Follow Porch Pirate On His 'Rounds,' Bust Him Selling Stolen Sneakers Local Detectives Secretly Follow Porch Pirate On His 'Rounds,' Bust Him Selling Stolen Sneakers
Local Detectives Secretly Follow Porch Pirate On His 'Rounds,' Bust Him Selling Stolen Sneakers A porch pirate from Passaic snatched a pair of Nikes from a home, then headed to a local thrift shop to sell them -- and was promptly busted by Wallington police detectives who'd been watching him the entire time, authorities said. 'Tis the season for package thefts, as well as for undercover police operations aimed at stopping them. In Wallington, detectives investigating an "uptick" in porch piracy identified a narrow time frame and area, along with a description of a suspect and the vehicle he was driving, Capt. Shawn Kudlacik said Tuesday. Detectives Joseph Rock, Simon Popek and Brian …

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Pedo Who Got No Prison Time For Sexually Assaulting Boy, 5, In Grenada Faces Long Sentence Here Pedo Who Got No Prison Time For Sexually Assaulting Boy, 5, In Grenada Faces Long Sentence Here
Pedo Who Got No Prison Time For Sexually Assaulting Boy, 5, In Grenada Faces Long Sentence Here A New York City man who got no prison time in Grenada after admitting that he sexually assaulted a 5-year-old boy there is facing justice here in the United States. Seized by U.S. government agents, Treverson Roberts, 27, pleaded guilty to the crime in federal court in Brooklyn on Monday in a bid for leniency. Roberts certainly won't get the kind of leniency he got in Grenada. The maximum penalty here is 30 years. The dual U.S. and Grenadian citizen -- who lives in Brooklyn -- will also have to serve out just about all of his eventual sentence. There's no parole in the U.S. federal prison …

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East Coast Ring Stole High-End GPS Devices From Boatyards In NJ, Elsewhere, State Police Charge East Coast Ring Stole High-End GPS Devices From Boatyards In NJ, Elsewhere, State Police Charge
East Coast Ring Stole High-End GPS Devices From Boatyards In NJ, Elsewhere, State Police Charge An ex-con with a previous history of boat-related thefts was part of a Miami-based ring that stole GPS systems from boatyards along the East Coast, including more than $300,000 worth in New Jersey, authorities said. Mizael Alfonso, 47, and co-defendant Marie Frometa Rodriguez, 41, were captured at a motel in Plymouth, MA, New Jersey State Police said. A third defendant, Manuel Barbosa Mendiluza, 58, was arrested by Miami police, while a fourth, Ciro Perez Martinez, 29, was nabbed by the Miami-Dade Marine Theft Task Force. All were extradited to New Jersey, NJ State Police said. Troopers f…

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Jersey City Drug Dealer Gets 7 Years In Fed Pen Jersey City Drug Dealer Gets 7 Years In Fed Pen
Jersey City Drug Dealer Gets 7 Years In Fed Pen A drug-dealing ex-con from Jersey City must spend a plea-bargained seven years in federal prison. Hason Armfield, 43, must serve just about all of the sentence handed down via videoconference Monday in Newark because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Armfield was arrested following a raid on his York Avenue apartment by DEA agents and Jersey City police in June 2019, records show. An authorized search of the place turned up nearly a half-pound of cocaine, 3½ ounces of heroin and unspecified criminal proceeds, a complaint on file in federal court in Newark says. Authorities a…

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