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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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Dogged Detectives Peg NYC Man For Brutal Glen Rock Robbery Of Warehouse Worker From Bergenfield Dogged Detectives Peg NYC Man For Brutal Glen Rock Robbery Of Warehouse Worker From Bergenfield
Dogged Detectives Peg NYC Man For Brutal Glen Rock Robbery Of Warehouse Worker From Bergenfield Two determined Glen Rock detectives identified, located and charged a Queens man with the vicious robbery of a 66-year-old Bergenfield man last spring in the parking lot of the warehouse where he works. The victim was carrying what police described as a “substantial” amount of cash when two robbers accosted him in broad daylight at the De Boer Drive warehouse last June 16. Co-workers dialed 911 after hearing the victim’s cries for help, Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. The victim had bought lottery tickets at a nearby Maple Avenue convenience store a short time earlier, the chie…

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Jersey Shore Cyberthief Swipes $300,000 From Bergen Retiree's Account: It Happens A Lot Jersey Shore Cyberthief Swipes $300,000 From Bergen Retiree's Account: It Happens A Lot
Jersey Shore Cyberthief Swipes $300,000 From Bergen Retiree's Account: It Happens A Lot An unemployed cyberthief from the Jersey Shore swiped more than $300,000 from an elderly Lodi resident’s retirement account after stealing the victim’s identity, authorities charged. Joseph Bilotta, 65, hijacked the online account, along with others in New Jersey and Maryland, “to fund his lifestyle,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Lodi police notified members of the prosecutor’s Financial Crimes Unit of the account takeover scheme in 2021, Musella said. They arrested Bilotta on theft charges following an investigation and sent him to the Bergen County Jail only to have a judg…

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SUV Mounts Route 17 Guardrail SUV Mounts Route 17 Guardrail
SUV Mounts Route 17 Guardrail Ho-Ho-Kus firefighters wedged wooden blocks behind a back tire of an SUV that had mounted a Route 17 guardrail Friday afternoon. A young female driver got out OK and didn't appear injured -- leaving the car tipped in a precarious position -- following the single-vehicle crash on the southbound highway near Hollywood Avenue on Friday afternoon, Feb. 24. The right lane was temporarily closed while the Honda CR-V was righted and removed. Ho-Ho-Kus police were investigating.

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Driver OK, But Not Car That Slammed Into Utility Pole In Fair Lawn Driver OK, But Not Car That Slammed Into Utility Pole In Fair Lawn
Driver OK, But Not Car That Slammed Into Utility Pole In Fair Lawn A young driver sustained only minor injuries thanks to airbags when his hatchback slammed into a utility pole Friday afternoon in Fair Lawn. The road was temporarily closed as a tow truck removed the Toyota Corolla and the remainder of the wreckage was cleared following the Feb. 24 crash on River Road just north of Chittenden Road. Utility service to the area wasn't disrupted. The hatchback slammed into a utility pole on River Road just north of Chittenden Road in Fair Lawn on Friday, Feb. 24.Boyd A. Loving Fair Lawn police, firefighters and Volunteer Ambulance Corps members were joine…

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Stranger In Hazmat Suit Who Sprayed Plants At Glen Rock Florist ID'd As NY State Resident Stranger In Hazmat Suit Who Sprayed Plants At Glen Rock Florist ID'd As NY State Resident
Stranger In Hazmat Suit Who Sprayed Plants At Glen Rock Florist ID'd As NY State Resident UPDATE: One person's prank is another's vandalism, as a New York State man learned when police in Glen Rock identified him as the stranger in a hazmat suit who sprayed plants and flowers at a local shop with an unknown substance. Robert X. Houston, 22, of Middletown, claimed that he pulled the stunt at Perry’s Florist & Gardens on Harristown Road in January as part of an effort to establish himself as a YouTube personality, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Houston told police there were no chemicals or other substances in the hand-held sprayer, but Ackermann said more than $750 wo…

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Knife-Wielding Man Charged After Hours-Long SWAT Standoff At River Edge Garden Apartment Knife-Wielding Man Charged After Hours-Long SWAT Standoff At River Edge Garden Apartment
Knife-Wielding Man Charged After Hours-Long SWAT Standoff At River Edge Garden Apartment UPDATE: A man who was seized when a SWAT team stormed his mother's garden apartment in River Edge is facing a host of charges. A construction worker by trade, Christopher C. Gomez, 38, had been living in shelters in New York City before recently moving in with his mother at the Oxford Terrace Apartments, authorities said. He'd become violent, however, so she fled and called police at 7:43 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21, River Edge Police Chief Michael Walker said. Responding officers “tried to contend with him,” but Gomez retreated into the kitchen of the garden apartment and began picking up knive…

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Elmwood Park PD: Where Did Stolen Mail, Purse, Other Belongings In Hudson Trio's Car Come From? Elmwood Park PD: Where Did Stolen Mail, Purse, Other Belongings In Hudson Trio's Car Come From?
Elmwood Park PD: Where Did Stolen Mail, Purse, Other Belongings In Hudson Trio's Car Come From? A trio from Jersey City couldn’t explain what a stack of mail and other people’s belongings were doing in their car when they were stopped by Elmwood Park police before dawn Friday, authorities said. They also couldn’t name the friend whom they’d supposedly come to the area to visit, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. Two of them ended up in custody. A resident alerted police to the outsiders apparently burglarizing vehicles on Falmouth Avenue near Mola Boulevard around 1 a.m. Feb. 24, Foligno said. Moments later, Officer Kenneth McKinney stopped a 2006 Honda Pilot that fit the descriptio…

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SEE ANYTHING? 10-Year-Old Boy On Bicycle Hospitalized In Teaneck Hit-And-Run SEE ANYTHING? 10-Year-Old Boy On Bicycle Hospitalized In Teaneck Hit-And-Run
SEE Anything? 10-Year-Old Boy On Bicycle Hospitalized In Teaneck Hit-And-Run A 10-year-old boy on a bicycle was struck by a hit-and-run driver in Teaneck in the middle of the afternoon, authorities said. Witnesses described a white sedan hitting the child around 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, at the intersection of Sagamore Avenue and Garrison Avenue, Police Capt. Seth Kriegel said. It was driven by a Hispanic woman, 30 to 40 years old, and continued north on Garrison Avenue, they told police. The boy was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center for treatment of what appeared to be minor injuries, the captain said. "A witness relayed the vehicle's registration …

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Two-Time North Jersey Megan's Law Offender Busted Again: This Time It's Infant Porn Two-Time North Jersey Megan's Law Offender Busted Again: This Time It's Infant Porn
Two-Time North Jersey Megan's Law Offender Busted Again: This Time It's Infant Porn A 66-year-old two-time convicted sex offender who’d moved to Wayne without notifying local police was arrested this week on charges of harvesting pornographic images of children less than a year old, authorities said. George R. Moraino was living in Pompton Lakes when he was convicted of sexually assaultiing multiple boys between the ages of 9 and 15 in 2004, records show. He was still on probation when he was caught with child pornography two years later. State authorities designated Moraino a Tier 2 repetitive, compulsive sex offender, subject to all the requirements of Megan’s Law, acco…

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HEROES: Mahwah Firefighters Free Box Truck Driver Pinned In Crash HEROES: Mahwah Firefighters Free Box Truck Driver Pinned In Crash
Heroes: Mahwah Firefighters Free Box Truck Driver Pinned In Crash Mahwah firefighters extricated a box truck driver following a collision with a garbage truck. The victim's legs were pinned by the crash at the intersection of Edison Road and Leighton Place around 7:45 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 23. The members of Mahwah Res1cue, assisted by Companies 2 and 4, got him out in under 15 minutes and into the hands of township EMS, which took him to a local hospital. Mahwah and Wyckoff police also responded. MORE INFO: Edison Road (Mahwah) Entrapment The box truck driver's legs were pinned in the crash at the intersection of Edison Road and Leighton Place in Ma…

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