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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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Haledon Police Stop Turns Up Loaded Gun, Drugs, $2,393 In Cash Haledon Police Stop Turns Up Loaded Gun, Drugs, $2,393 In Cash
Haledon Police Stop Turns Up Loaded Gun, Drugs, $2,393 In Cash A passenger was found toting a loaded handgun during a traffic stop, Haledon police said. Officer Jeffrey Welsh stopped a Nissan Altima whose driver failed to signal a turn on Belmont Avenue shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday, Capt. George Guzman said. The driver also failed to produce proof of registration or insurance, he said. Passenger David Rodriguez, 25, of Paterson was asked to step out of the sedan after giving Welsh a fake name, the captain said. The officer also spotted a large bottle of the prescription cough suppressant promethazine and codeine, commonly known as "purple drank," wi…

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Unsupervised Boy, 4, Struck By Sedan In Elmwood Park, Child Welfare Authorities Notified Unsupervised Boy, 4, Struck By Sedan In Elmwood Park, Child Welfare Authorities Notified
Unsupervised Boy, 4, Struck By Sedan In Elmwood Park, Child Welfare Authorities Notified A 4-year-old boy was hospitalized with a broken leg -- and child welfare authorities were notified -- after he dashed into an Elmwood Park street and was struck by a sedan Monday night, authorities said. Police notified the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency following the 6:45 p.m. accident, Elmwood Park Police Chief Michael Foligno said. The Paterson youngster was unsupervised by an adult when he ran out from between two parked cars on Mola Boulevard near Elmwood Terrace and was struck by a 2006 Nissan Altima, Foligno explained. The boy was taken to St. Joseph's Region…

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Survivors Invited To Sign Special Breast Cancer Awareness Police Cruiser Survivors Invited To Sign Special Breast Cancer Awareness Police Cruiser
Survivors Invited To Sign Special Breast Cancer Awareness Police Cruiser Police in Fairview are encouraging breast cancer survivors to attend a special police car signing scheduled this coming weekend. "We're calling on all those who have been affected and are survivors of breast cancer," Fairview Police Chief Martin Kahn said. "We honor you and wound love for you to come and sign your name on our Breast Cancer Awareness unit." The vehicle isn't a clunker destined for the scrap heap -- it's fully operational and will be seen patrolling borough streets, the chief said. It was made possible by local business owner Michael Sourek of View Towing and Premier Auto B…

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NJ Teacher Accused Of Making 'Terrorists' Remark To Student Suspended, Police Notified NJ Teacher Accused Of Making 'Terrorists' Remark To Student Suspended, Police Notified
NJ Teacher Accused Of Making 'Terrorists' Remark To Student Suspended, Police Notified UPDATE: A high school teacher accused of telling an Arab-American student "we don't negotiate with terrorists" when he sought a homework extension has been suspended, officials with the Ridgefield School District in Bergen County confirmed. Another Ridgefield Memorial High School teacher and classmates witnessed the teacher's comment to Mohammed Zubi, a 17-year-old Muslim senior who's captain of the varsity soccer team, according to the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NJ). "I didn't mean it like that," the teacher reportedly told the boy afterward, the…

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Woman, 75, Found Dying Washington Township Daughter After Stabbing, Reports Show Woman, 75, Found Dying Washington Township Daughter After Stabbing, Reports Show
Woman, 75, Found Dying Washington Township Daughter After Stabbing, Reports Show UPDATE: A dying Washington Township woman was found by her 75-year-old mother after she'd been beaten and stabbed in her townhouse, investigators said. Flora Casale, who's listed in tax records as owning the Washington Commons condo off Pascack Road, called township police at 12:05 a.m. Sunday, saying that "she found her daughter, Mary Huber, injured inside of the residence," a complaint on file in Superior Court in Hackensack says. Arriving officers found the accused killer, Patrick Camilli, with a knife atop the unresponsive Huber, 51, "in a pool of blood," the complaint says. Camilli, w…

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Driver Hospitalized After Rear-End Crash On Route 17 Driver Hospitalized After Rear-End Crash On Route 17
Driver Hospitalized After Rear-End Crash On Route 17 A motorist was hospitalized after her SUV was rear-ended Monday afternoon on Route 17 in Hackensack. She and the female driver of the Ford Focus that hit her were guided to the shoulder of the southbound highway below South Summit Avenue by Walter Rogers, an EMT with the Rutherford First-Aid Ambulance Corps, and a passing tow truck driver shortly after 1 p.m. The Ford driver declined attention, but the SUV operator complained of neck and back pain and dizziness, Rogers said. He said he waited with her until a Bergen County sheriff's officer and Hackensack firefighters arrived. Below S…

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Two From Lodi Hospitalized In Chain-Reaction DWI Crash In Passaic Two From Lodi Hospitalized In Chain-Reaction DWI Crash In Passaic
Two From Lodi Hospitalized In Chain-Reaction DWI Crash In Passaic An SUV driver from Passaic was charged in a chain-reaction DWI crash that sent two occupants of another vehicle to the hospital, responders said. The 40-year-old Passaic man was headed west on Passaic Street when his 2005 Honda CRV struck a parked Nissan Frontier near Market Street around 8 p.m. Sunday, they said. The Frontier struck a parked Hyundai Accent and then crossed the center lane and hit an eastbound 2014 Volkswagen Passat occupied by a 30-year-old driver and 66-year-old passenger, both women, from Lodi. The women were taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center with injuries t…

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HELL ON WHEELS: GWB Tractor-Trailer Crash Jams Morning Rush Several Miles Into Bergen County HELL ON WHEELS: GWB Tractor-Trailer Crash Jams Morning Rush Several Miles Into Bergen County
Hell ON Wheels: GWB Tractor-Trailer Crash Jams Morning Rush Several Miles Into Bergen County UPDATE: It became worse than the usual hell heading into Manhattan on Monday after a tractor-trailer jack-knifed and slammed into the divider on the upper level of the George Washington Bridge before dawn. Wreckers were needed to remove the wreckage, the median required repairs and firefighters had to clean up a fuel spill following the 5 a.m. crash, which ruptured the rig's fuel tank. This kept three of four inbound lanes closed for several hours, jamming local streets and producing highway backups that lasted well past the morning rush -- at one point reaching all the way to Route 17, whi…

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Driver Claims Tractor-Trailer Driver Caused Road-Rage Crash That Closed Route 17 Driver Claims Tractor-Trailer Driver Caused Road-Rage Crash That Closed Route 17
Driver Claims Tractor-Trailer Driver Caused Road-Rage Crash That Closed Route 17 The driver of an SUV that slammed into a utility pole, downing wires across Route 17 in Ramsey before dawn Monday, claimed that he was cut off by a tractor-trailer driver who kept going, authorities said. The 20-year-old Staten Island motorist, who received a summons for driving on the revoked list, told police that he was headed south on the highway when he got into a road-rage incident with the rig's driver shortly after 1:30 a.m., Ramsey Police Chief Bryan Gurney said. His 2018 Ford Escape then ran off the road and split the pole outside BMW of Ramsey just south of Airmount Avenue. The …

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Firefighters Extinguish Clifton Restaurant Fire Firefighters Extinguish Clifton Restaurant Fire
Firefighters Extinguish Clifton Restaurant Fire Firefighters quickly doused an after-hours blaze at a Middle Eastern restaurant in Clifton. The fire broke out shortly before midnight Monday at Sultan Palace on Crooks Avenue shortly before midnight. Elmwood Park firefighters were among the mutual aid responders. No injuries were reported. Firefighters made quick work of the fire at the Sultan Palace on Crooks Avenue in Clifton.Jo Fehl for DAILY VOICE

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