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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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Ex-Con Runs Out Of Gas, Gets 'Ride' From Lyndhurst Police Ex-Con Runs Out Of Gas, Gets 'Ride' From Lyndhurst Police
Ex-Con Runs Out Of Gas, Gets 'Ride' From Lyndhurst Police An ex-con with a lengthy rap sheet was walking with a gas can in the middle of the afternoon when a Lyndhurst police officer pulled up and asked where he was headed. Antwon Cooper, 43, of Hillside, NJ told Officer Matthew Giunta that his Hyundai Sonata had run out of gas just up the road. Cooper ended up getting a ride -- to police headquarters. What he didn't know was that Giunta had already found the abandoned vehicle on Polito Avenue and began investigating, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. The Hyundai had a temporary California license plate that didn't match the VIN number on the d…

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River Vale Resident Drowns In Backyard Pool River Vale Resident Drowns In Backyard Pool
River Vale Resident Drowns In Backyard Pool A 55-year-old River Vale man drowned in his backyard pool on Friday, authorities confirmed. Borough police responding to a 911 call at 624 Brian Court shortly after 11 a.m. found Daniel Balestra still in the pool, responders said. Offices pulled the victim from the pool and began CPR, Police Lt. John Wisse said. “Hackensack University Medical Center Advanced Life Support arrived on the scene and it was determined he was deceased,” Wisse said. The Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification collected evidence and the Bergen County Medical Examiner’s Office took custody of the…

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OOPS! Driver Who Tried To Pass Holland Tunnel Jam With Illegal Lights, Siren On Gets Surprised OOPS! Driver Who Tried To Pass Holland Tunnel Jam With Illegal Lights, Siren On Gets Surprised
Oops! Driver Who Tried To Pass Holland Tunnel Jam With Illegal Lights, Siren On Gets Surprised A motorist who tried bypassing a huge Holland Tunnel traffic jam by driving on the shoulder with illegal lights and sirens on his car hadn't counted on who might be in front of him. Port Authority Police Chief of Operations Emilio Gonzalez was on his way to work Thursday morning when the vehicle came up behind him on the Route 78 approach to the tunnel, the department's Lenis Valens said. Gonzalez began talking with the driver, identified as Jose Ramos Navarro, 30, of Jersey City, she said. Navarro at first claimed to be an officer with the Metropolitan Transit Authority, then changed his …

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$100 Bills Fall From Pockets Of Fleeing Career Criminal In Car Burglary Spree: Maywood PD $100 Bills Fall From Pockets Of Fleeing Career Criminal In Car Burglary Spree: Maywood PD
$100 Bills Fall From Pockets Of Fleeing Career Criminal In Car Burglary Spree: Maywood PD Benjamins fell from his pockets as a career criminal from Hackensack tried to flee Maywood police following a car burglary spree, authorities said. Police grabbed Robert L. Oliver, 44, after a brief struggle, Chief Terence Kenny said. They recovered $1,400 in hundred-dollar bills taken from a vehicle parked outside an East Passaic Street home, he said. It wasn’t immediately clear why the owner had so much cash in the car – or why he’d left it unlocked. Lt. Darryl Wuhrl and Officers Matthew Della Bella and Stephanie Laurent found the victim following Oliver when they arrived, Kenny said. …

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Van Towed After Ho-Ho-Kus Crash Van Towed After Ho-Ho-Kus Crash
Van Towed After Ho-Ho-Kus Crash A driver escaped injury Friday morning when his van barreled off the road and into a wooded area in Ho-Ho-Kus. The Hawthorne drywall contractor's vehicle crashed on Werimus Road off Deerhill Road near a southbound exit from the Garden State Parkway. Citywide Towing removed the van with a flatbed. Ho-Ho-Kus police were investigating. The borough DPW also responded. Boyd A. Loving took the photos and provided the information for this story. The driver was OK after his van barreled off the road in Ho-Ho-Kus.Boyd A. Loving

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Pedestrian Struck In Fair Lawn Hospitalized With Severe Injuries, Teen Driver Charged Pedestrian Struck In Fair Lawn Hospitalized With Severe Injuries, Teen Driver Charged
Pedestrian Struck In Fair Lawn Hospitalized With Severe Injuries, Teen Driver Charged A Fair Lawn man was severely injured when he was struck by a car driven by a 17-year-old borough boy, authorities confirmed. The driver of the 2014 Nissan Altima apparently had turned to avoid one pedestrian when he hit the 33-year-old victim in the parking lot at Memorial Park along the Passaic River shortly after 10 p.m. Wednesday, Police Sgt. Brian Metzler said. The victim was thrown in the air and suffered severe head trauma, witnesses said. Fair Lawn Volunteer Ambulance took him to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in Paterson. Police charged the driver with reckless and careles…

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Fire Consumes Paramus Home Fire Consumes Paramus Home
Fire Consumes Paramus Home A furious fire consumed a Paramus home early Friday. The blaze apparently ignited on a rear deck and quickly spread through the 2½-story, wood-frame Village Circle West  home around 5 a.m. A couple and their two daughters -- ages 4 and 8 -- all got out OK, neighbors said.  Aftermath of the Village Circle West fire in Paramus.Jo Fehl for DAILY VOICE The family, who'd moved in about a year ago, watched in their pajamas as the flames destroyed their home, they said. Firefighters had the bulk of the blaze knocked down within an hour and a half. Little was left once it was declared under c…

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SEE ANYTHING? Hackensack Driver Carjacked At Gunpoint In Rochelle Park SEE ANYTHING? Hackensack Driver Carjacked At Gunpoint In Rochelle Park
SEE Anything? Hackensack Driver Carjacked At Gunpoint In Rochelle Park A Hackensack driver escaped serious injury when he was carjacked at gunpoint Thursday night in Rochelle Park, authorities said. Two robbers wearing masks -- one of them carrying a gun -- accosted the driver and took his Audi at the D-Mart Indian-Asian Farmers Market on Rochelle Avenue around 8 p.m., Police Lt. James D. DePreta said. One was wearing a white hoodie with dark-colored pants and the other all black, witnesses said. They described both men as black. The robbers abandoned the vehicle a couple of blocks away and fled in a red Toyota Rav 4 that had been reported stolen out of Pater…

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RECOGNIZE THEM? Thugs Beat, Rob Bergenfield Man, 66, In Glen Rock RECOGNIZE THEM? Thugs Beat, Rob Bergenfield Man, 66, In Glen Rock
Recognize Them? Thugs Beat, Rob Bergenfield Man, 66, In Glen Rock A 66-year-old Bergenfield man who was carrying a substantial amount of cash was beaten and robbed by a pair of ruthless thugs who left him in the parking lot of the Glen Rock warehouse where he works, authorities said. Glen Rock police released surveillance image photos Thursday night in the hopes of identifying the assailants. Co-workers at the De Boer Drive warehouse called 911 after hearing the victim’s cries for help shortly before 3 p.m., Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. The victim “was in possession of a large amount of cash” when he bought lottery tickets at a nearby Maple Avenue …

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Bergen County Authorities Seek Family Of Man Killed More Than 40 Years Ago Bergen County Authorities Seek Family Of Man Killed More Than 40 Years Ago
Bergen County Authorities Seek Family Of Man Killed More Than 40 Years Ago Authorities in Bergen County are hoping the public can help them locate the family of a man who was struck and killed on Route 17 in Hackensack more than 40 years ago but was only recently identified. Eugene Mack Jr. was pronounced dead at Hackensack University Medical Center on February 22, 1978. The Bergen County Medical Examiner was unable to identify the body and the case was registered in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. Advances in fingerprint forensics helped the FBI identify Mack, who authorities said was born in New York City, served in the U.S. Air Force and…

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