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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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Passaic County Man Charged With Kidnapping, Raping Girl Passaic County Man Charged With Kidnapping, Raping Girl
Passaic County Man Charged With Kidnapping, Raping Girl A Paterson man is accused of repeatedly raping an underage girl whom he lured and held captive in his car. Lenny Feal, 23, was arrested after detectives interviewed multiple witnesses, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said Tuesday. These include the alleged victim, who told investigators that Feal “sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions” in his vehicle, which he parked on various streets in Paterson, between October 2021 and May 2022, they said. City police and members of Valdes’s Special Victims Unit conducted a three-month invest…

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Crowd Surrounds Paterson Detectives Making Gun Arrest Crowd Surrounds Paterson Detectives Making Gun Arrest
Crowd Surrounds Paterson Detectives Making Gun Arrest A crowd of partiers moved in as Paterson detectives grabbed one of them who’d been carrying a gun, requiring backups to help restore order, authorities said. Detectives Yamil Pimienta, Levis Qirjako, Mustafa Dombayci and John Rickowich had approached the group of 100 or so who were drinking, playing loud music and blocking traffic on 10th Avenue at East 26th Street late this past Saturday night. They zeroed in on Ewan Gordon, 27, who they’d seen carrying a gun, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Seeing them, Gordon bolted toward the rear parking lot of a local business, where he t…

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Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Tycoon Says Edgewater Restaurant Gunman Robbed Him Of $350,000 Watch Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Tycoon Says Edgewater Restaurant Gunman Robbed Him Of $350,000 Watch
Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Tycoon Says Edgewater Restaurant Gunman Robbed Him Of $350,000 Watch A man who claims to have made a fortune in bitcoin said he and his girlfriend were robbed at a Hudson River restaurant by a gunman who took their watches – one of them worth $350,000 and the other $47,000. The robber approached him and the 36-year-old woman from Long Island as they sat outside Fleming’s Steakhouse just south of the George Washington Bridge in Edgewater late last Friday, June 17, said Jeff Duprex, 52. “We were sitting at the first table on the patio to the right. I was sitting with my back to the entrance of the patio,” Duprex told Daily Voice. “This [black] kid in his 20’s,…

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Tipped Load Of Frozen Food Closes Flyover At NJ/NY Border For Hours, Second Crash Of Morning Tipped Load Of Frozen Food Closes Flyover At NJ/NY Border For Hours, Second Crash Of Morning
Tipped Load Of Frozen Food Closes Flyover At NJ/NY Border For Hours, Second Crash Of Morning UPDATE: An early-morning tractor-trailer crash kept a notorious stretch of highway at the New Jersey/New York border closed well into the afternoon on Tuesday. The driver told police that his load of frozen food shifted and the rig tipped on the flyover where Routes 17 and 287 meet in Mahwah around 7:30 a.m. He was uninjured. The flyover connection has been a constant nightmare and headache for motorists as well as emergency responders for years. This time, the road remained closed at that point into the late afternoon as boxes of tater tots, mozzarella sticks and stuffed jalapenos were o…

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47 Guests Seized As Wayne Police Pull Plug On Illegal Pop-Up Party 47 Guests Seized As Wayne Police Pull Plug On Illegal Pop-Up Party
47 Guests Seized As Wayne Police Pull Plug On Illegal Pop-Up Party An illegal pop-up party in Wayne was beginning to heat up when an army of police suddenly burst in. A total of 47 party-goers were temporarily taken into custody after New Jersey State Police spotted advertisements posted by the organizers on social media and tipped off Wayne Police Chief Jack McNiff. Nearly 500 guests were expected at the Saturday night bash in a vacant commercial building near the Willowbrook Mall, but police pulled the plug before that could happen, Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. Detectives who had eyes on the building before the scheduled start time watched several p…

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Mother, Daughter Found Dead In Home Off Route 17 Identified Mother, Daughter Found Dead In Home Off Route 17 Identified
Mother, Daughter Found Dead In Home Off Route 17 Identified A 56-year-old woman and her 31-year-old daughter were found dead Monday, June 20, in the elder woman's East Rutherford home down the block from the borough police station. A man said to have been the former spouse of the property owner apparently found the bodies of Nancy Marie Jocks and her daughter, Alexis O'Boyle of Woodland Park, in the rented unit off southbound Route 17 just past Route 120, barely two miles from MetLife Stadium. There were no signs of foul play, Deputy Police Chief Phillip Taormina said later that day. Authorities initially suspected carbon monoxide might be to blam…

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Paterson Man Charged With Murder In Shooting Death Of City Resident Paterson Man Charged With Murder In Shooting Death Of City Resident
Paterson Man Charged With Murder In Shooting Death Of City Resident A Paterson shooting victim who was rushed to the hospital in a private vehicle died several hours later, said authorities who charged another city man with killing him. Tiheen "Coop" Smith, 34, arrived at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center shortly after 5 a.m. Saturday. He’d been shot in the stomach in one of the city’s deadliest drug-ridden areas – on Pearl Street between Carroll Street and Rosa Parks Boulevard, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said Monday. Smith died just before 12:30 p.m. that same day, they said. Trayshaun Harr…

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NEW DETAILS: Jersey City Man Killed By Officer Had Gun Pointed At Woman, AG Says NEW DETAILS: Jersey City Man Killed By Officer Had Gun Pointed At Woman, AG Says
NEW Details: Jersey City Man Killed By Officer Had Gun Pointed At Woman, AG Says A man had just grabbed a woman he was with and pointed a gun at her in a Jersey City crosswalk when a police officer shot and killed him, New Jersey's top cop said Monday. Acting New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin provided new details while releasing video and audio recordings from the incident. City officers responding to a 911 domestic violence call just before midnight May 24 found Joseph Robertson, 59, of Jersey City crossing Communipaw Avenue at the corner of West Side Avenue outside the BP gas station, Acting New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said. Video rel…

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Haledon PD: Paterson Fugitive, Companion Nabbed With Stolen Gun Haledon PD: Paterson Fugitive, Companion Nabbed With Stolen Gun
Haledon PD: Paterson Fugitive, Companion Nabbed With Stolen Gun Haledon police captured a fugitive carrying a stolen gun, authorities said. Officers Jeffrey Welsh and Kris Duci were on a quality-of-life detail when they stopped a 2020 Honda Accord with heavily tinted windows whose driver failed to signal a turn onto West Broadway, Capt. George Guzman Jr. said. A computer check showed that the passenger, Yahzier Hudson, 18, of Paterson was wanted for gun possession out of Passaic County, the captain said. The officers were joined by Detective Sgt. Timothy Lindberg, Officer John Bonilla and Class II Special Officer Antonio Parisi. Hudson, who wasn't wea…

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Philly Ride-Share Driver Busted In Bergen County, 4,650 Heroin Folds Seized Philly Ride-Share Driver Busted In Bergen County, 4,650 Heroin Folds Seized
Philly Ride-Share Driver Busted In Bergen County, 4,650 Heroin Folds Seized A rideshare driver from Philadelphia was nabbed with 4,650 heroin folds during a Bergen County traffic stop, authorities said. Marvin Taveras-Taveras, 30, was arrested in Ridgefield Park by Narcotic Task Force detectives who suspected he was transporting bulk amounts of drugs through the area, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Taveras-Taveras had 93 bricks of heroin in the vehicle, Musella said. The Dominican national was charged with having heroin for sale and sent to the Bergen County Jail following his arrest last Thursday, June 16, the prosecutor said Monday. A judge ordered…

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