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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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Body Pulled From Hackensack River ID'd As Missing Palisades Park Man Body Pulled From Hackensack River ID'd As Missing Palisades Park Man
Body Pulled From Hackensack River ID'd As Missing Palisades Park Man UPDATE: For days, a Palisades Park detective searched in vain for a troubled borough man whose worried wife had reported him missing. Detective Alex Monteleone sent alerts to local law enforcement agencies, asked Port Authority and Palisades Interstate Parkway police to keep a lookout and called area hospitals. A GPS search for the missing man's Lexus at the bridges and tunnels and throughout the state returned nothing. There was no trace of the 51-year-old resident for days after he left his house without a word last Monday, depressed over health issues. Until this weekend. The Hac…

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Police Seize Glen Rock High School Senior For Racial, Gender Bias On Instagram, Zoom Police Seize Glen Rock High School Senior For Racial, Gender Bias On Instagram, Zoom
Police Seize Glen Rock High School Senior For Racial, Gender Bias On Instagram, Zoom Detectives were investigating racially biased Instagram posts by a Glen Rock High School student when the teenage bigot struck again, this time targeting another classmate over gender identity on Zoom, authorities said. Detectives were a month into their investigation of racial bias when administrators at the high school showed them “questionable comments” entered during a school Zoom session, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. The comment “appeared to target another student over their gender identity,” the chief said Monday. Using information provided by the teenage victims and the school’…

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Boy, 5, Struck By Rockland Driver's Vehicle In Montvale Boy, 5, Struck By Rockland Driver's Vehicle In Montvale
Boy, 5, Struck By Rockland Driver's Vehicle In Montvale A 5-year-old Montvale boy ran out from between parked cars and was struck by a sedan driven by an 18-year-old Rockland man, authorities said. The 2020 Hyundai Elantra driven by a Spring Valley motorist hit the boy on Nottingham Court at the Nottingham Manor Apartments shortly after 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Montvale Police Chief Joseph Sanfilippo said. The boy, who had a bump on his head, was taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood as a precaution, he said. No summonses were issued.

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Woman, 23, Wounded In Paterson Drive-By Woman, 23, Wounded In Paterson Drive-By
Woman, 23, Wounded In Paterson Drive-By A Paterson woman was wounded in a broad-daylight drive-by shooting, authorities said. The woman arrived at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center via private vehicles shortly before 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint announcement. She’d been walking in the area of 20th Avenue and State Street when someone in a passing car fired several shots, hitting her an unspecified number of times, they said. Her injuries weren’t considered life-threatening, Valdes and Baycora said. They didn’t say whether any suspects …

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Woodcliff Lake Victim, 17, OK After Pickup Rolls Into Trees Off Route 17 Woodcliff Lake Victim, 17, OK After Pickup Rolls Into Trees Off Route 17
Woodcliff Lake Victim, 17, OK After Pickup Rolls Into Trees Off Route 17 UPDATE: A 17-year-old Woodcliff Lake resident was hospitalized after her pickup truck rolled off Route 17 into the woods in Saddle River, authorities said Monday. She was taken to The Valley Hospital for evaluation as a precaution after her Toyota slid off the rainy southbound highway and into a wooded area near East Allendale Avenue on Sunday. Two tow trucks were needed to remove it and borough firefighters cleaned up a significant fuel spill. Two tow trucks eventually were needed to remove the vehicle.Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE Also assisting their Saddle River colleagues were Al…

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Bayonne Man, 19, Dies In Bridge Plunge Bayonne Man, 19, Dies In Bridge Plunge
Bayonne Man, 19, Dies In Bridge Plunge UPDATE: A body pulled from the water beneath the Bayonne Bridge over the weekend was that of a 19-year-old city man, friends and loved ones confirmed. Rescuers who responded to a report of a jumper shortly before 2 p.m. Saturday got help from a tug boat operator after the body was spotted in the Kill Van Kull just east of the bridge, Deputy Fire Chief Bill Bartos said. Bayonne Fire Boat Marine 1 pulled alongside the vessel, collected the body and brought it to the boat launch at 16th Street Park. The victim had been mugged earlier in the week and wasn't carrying a wallet or cellp…

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Passaic Firefighters Douse Suspicious Storage Room Blaze Passaic Firefighters Douse Suspicious Storage Room Blaze
Passaic Firefighters Douse Suspicious Storage Room Blaze Arson investigators were summoned after a trash fire in the basement of a mixed-use building in Passaic was quickly doused Sunday. Sprinklers helped contain the two-alarm blaze to the storage room on the Exchange Place side of the six-story building on Main Avenue after it broke out shortly before 2 p.m., responders said. No injuries were reported.

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Driver, 34, Ejected In Fatal Ridgefield Park NJ Turnpike Crash Driver, 34, Ejected In Fatal Ridgefield Park NJ Turnpike Crash
Driver, 34, Ejected In Fatal Ridgefield Park NJ Turnpike Crash A driver was ejected from his Jeep in a fatal Sunday morning crash on the southbound New Jersey Turnpike in Ridgefield Park, State Police said. Jose Minaya, 34, Newark, was driving a Grand Cherokee that struck the center concrete barrier, then re-entered the roadway and hit the right-side guardrail, rolling over and ejecting him around 7 a.m., State Police Trooper II Alejandro Goez said. He was pronounced dead at the scene, Goez said, adding that no other vehicles or passengers were involved. The left lane approaching Route 46 initially was closed during the cleanup and investigation, cond…

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Body Pulled From Hackensack River Body Pulled From Hackensack River
Body Pulled From Hackensack River UPDATE: For days, a Palisades Park detective searched in vain for a troubled borough man whose wife had reported him missing. https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/hackensack/news/body-pulled-from-hackensack-river-idd-as-missing-palisades-park-man/805957/ ****** Authorities were trying to identify a man whose body was pulled from the Hackensack River in Little Ferry. Borough police Sgt. John Schwedhelm was on patrol when a trucker flagged him down around 3 p.m. Saturday, Police Chief James Walters said. He pointed the sergeant toward what appeared to be two legs sticking out of the water dur…

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SUV Crashes On Rainy Route 17 SUV Crashes On Rainy Route 17
SUV Crashes On Rainy Route 17 A mother and child were involved in a Sunday morning crash on rainy Route 17. Their SUV veered off the southbound highway and struck a tree near Hollywood Avenue in Ho-Ho-Kus shortly after 10:30 a.m.Ho-Ho-Kus Volunteer Ambulance Corps responded along with borough police, but the pair refused medical attention for minor bumps and bruises. Saddle River police assisted their Ho-Ho-Kus colleagues.The vehicle had to be towed.

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