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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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Authorities: Detectives Bust Driver, Accomplice In Months-Old Passaic Pedestrian Hit-Run Authorities: Detectives Bust Driver, Accomplice In Months-Old Passaic Pedestrian Hit-Run
Authorities: Detectives Bust Driver, Accomplice In Months-Old Passaic Pedestrian Hit-Run A 27-year-old Passaic driver sped off after his car struck and severely injured another city resident last fall, said authorities who also charged a Prospect Park woman with trying to cover up his involvement. Matthew Cancel was behind the wheel of a 2015 Mercedes-Benz that struck the 64-year-old victim at Market and Hudson streets on Oct. 25, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Passaic Police Chief Luis Guzman said in a joint announcement. The victim was treated at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson for serious bodily injuries, they said. Detectives tied Cancel …

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RECOGNIZE THEM? FBI Says Long-Haul Truckers Who Kidnapped Women May Have More Victims RECOGNIZE THEM? FBI Says Long-Haul Truckers Who Kidnapped Women May Have More Victims
Recognize Them? FBI Says Long-Haul Truckers Who Kidnapped Women May Have More Victims Two long-haul truckers recently arrested for kidnapping women and demanding ransoms for their release may have also had victims in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, among other areas, federal authorities said Wednesday. Brian T. Summerson, 25, of Dillon, South Carolina, was arrested in Daytona Beach, Florida, assaulting, imprisoning and tampering with a victim, the FBI announced. Pierre L. Washington, a 35-year-old trucking company owner (God Got Me LLC), was busted in Chicago, Illinois, where he lives, the bureau said. Although the FBI couldn’t specify Washington’s routes, they noted…

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RECOGNIZE HER? Hawthorne Detectives Look To Question Woman In ID Theft RECOGNIZE HER? Hawthorne Detectives Look To Question Woman In ID Theft
Recognize HER? Hawthorne Detectives Look To Question Woman In ID Theft Hawthorne police hope the public can help identify a person of interest in an active investigation. Detectives investigating identity theft released a surveillance image of the woman in distinctive clothing that they hope someone recognizes. She's wanted for questioning, they said. They asked that anyone who sees, knows or knows where to find her contact Hawthorne Police Detective Joseph DiGeronimo at (973) 427-8300 or 6255@hawthornepdnj.org.

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REVOLVING DOOR: Bergen-Hudson Career Criminal, 64, Busted, Released Again REVOLVING DOOR: Bergen-Hudson Career Criminal, 64, Busted, Released Again
Revolving Door: Bergen-Hudson Career Criminal, 64, Busted, Released Again A 64-year-old ex-con with decades of small-time arrests and convictions on his record was charged with stealing tires from a Maywood business. As in many of his arrests over the years, North Bergen native Fred Worthington was released after borough Detective Christopher Nichols quickly tied him to the West Central Avenue crime. He charged Worthington with theft, conspiracy and possession of heroin, drug paraphernalia and burglary tools, Detective Sgt. William Phayre said. Worthington, who also recently had addresses in Cliffside Park and Fairview, has been charged and convicted in several …

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Haledon Police Rescue Resident As Fire Consumes Haledon Home Haledon Police Rescue Resident As Fire Consumes Haledon Home
Haledon Police Rescue Resident As Fire Consumes Haledon Home Police rescued a resident from a second-floor window after a Haledon home was destroyed by what began as a pre-dawn car fire. Other occupants also got out safely in the two-alarm blaze, which broke out on John Ryle Avenue around 4 a.m., borough firefighters said. One was taken to a nearby hospital with injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening, they said. “Crews made an interior push to the 2nd floor to extinguish the bulk of the fire,” the department said in a post. “Crews then spent about an hour opening up and extinguishing hidden pockets of fire.” Fire Chief Tom Bakker declar…

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Feds: Union County Man Admits Collecting Child Porn Videos Feds: Union County Man Admits Collecting Child Porn Videos
Feds: Union County Man Admits Collecting Child Porn Videos A Union County man caught by federal agents with child porn took a guilty plea Tuesday. Andrew Chu, 30, of Garwood, admitted during a videoconference with a judge in Newark that he downloaded what Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said were 90 videos “depicting the sexual abuse of children” from a dark web site. Chu took a deal from the government rather than go to trial. U.S. District Judge William J. Martini scheduled sentencing on Chu’s plea to possession child pornography for Aug. 26. Honig credited special agents of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Inv…

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SEEN HIM? FBI in NJ Offers Reward For Help Capturing Accused Fugitive Child Rapist SEEN HIM? FBI in NJ Offers Reward For Help Capturing Accused Fugitive Child Rapist
Seen HIM? FBI in NJ Offers Reward For Help Capturing Accused Fugitive Child Rapist The FBI is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a fugitive wanted for raping children decades ago. A federal arrest warrant for Angel Gonzalez was issued in U.S. District Court in Newark in 2010 for sexually assaulting several young girls in New Jersey between 1999 and 2006, the bureau said Tuesday. A grand jury indicted him in 2007 on charges of raping two children between 6 and 10 years old, but Gonzalez never showed up for court, authorities said. He was charged with raping an 8-year-old girl on Christmas Day 2009. The Puerto Rican-b…

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Paterson PD: Four Dealers, 11 Buyers Busted, Heroin, Crack, Loaded Gun Seized Paterson PD: Four Dealers, 11 Buyers Busted, Heroin, Crack, Loaded Gun Seized
Paterson PD: Four Dealers, 11 Buyers Busted, Heroin, Crack, Loaded Gun Seized Paterson police arrested a quartet of dealers and nearly a dozen buyers, most from out of town, while seizing hundreds of heroin folds, crack and an illegal handgun, authorities said. A street operation by the Narcotics Division on Summer Street between Broadway and Hamilton Avenue ended with Tuesday’s raid on a local home, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Sent to the Passaic County Jail to await first appearances in Central Judicial Processing Court in Paterson were: Ronmire Jones, 22, who lives in the first-floor Summer Street apartment and was charged with various drug and w…

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AG: Man Who Stole Police Car After Accident Shot, Killed By Officer In South Jersey AG: Man Who Stole Police Car After Accident Shot, Killed By Officer In South Jersey
AG: Man Who Stole Police Car After Accident Shot, Killed By Officer In South Jersey A man was shot and killed by an officer in South Jersey after he stole a police car following an accident, authorities said. It began after a police officer from Franklin Township in Gloucester County responded as mutual aid to the 3 p.m. crash in Buena Vista (Atlantic County) on Monday, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. The officer got out of his cruiser, and one of the drivers involved in the crash got in and drove away, Grewal said. Roy K. Jackel Jr., 41, of Cape May Court House, led a brief pursuit that ended with him stopping less than a half-mile away, where he was shot a…

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Northvale Firefighters Free Two 22-Year-Olds Trapped By Live Wires In Utility Pole Crash Northvale Firefighters Free Two 22-Year-Olds Trapped By Live Wires In Utility Pole Crash
Northvale Firefighters Free Two 22-Year-Olds Trapped By Live Wires In Utility Pole Crash Northvale firefighters extricated two 22-year-old men from the area who avoided serious injury when their sedan slammed into a utility pole, shattering it and strewing live wires across the vehicle. The 2019 Acura was headed east on Paris Avenue near the Rockleigh border when it left the roadway and slammed into the pole around 10 p.m. Sunday, Police Chief Howard J. Ostrow said. Firefighters got the Westwood driver and his male Old Tappan passenger out safely, Ostrow said. An Orange & Rockland Utilities crew cleared the lines and pole, pieces of which had fallen in a driveway, the chie…

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