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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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Wallington Detectives Arrest Local Man In Theft Of Donation Jar For Sick Kids Wallington Detectives Arrest Local Man In Theft Of Donation Jar For Sick Kids
Wallington Detectives Arrest Local Man In Theft Of Donation Jar For Sick Kids A drug user snatched a jar filled with donations for sick children from the counter of a Wallington deli before he was identified and arrested by detectives, authorities said. Adrian Siwek, 30, was wearing a gray hooded NASA sweatshirt and knit cap when he entered the Super Deli on Wallington Avenue on Monday and diverted the casher’s attention away from the plastic container, Police Capt. Shawn Kudlacik said. Detective Lt. Joseph Rock identified the borough resident by reviewing the store surveillance video after the owner reported the theft on Thursday, Kudlacik said. Detective Brian Ros…

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Bergen Businessman In Previous Coach-Stalking Case Charged With Tax Evasion Bergen Businessman In Previous Coach-Stalking Case Charged With Tax Evasion
Bergen Businessman In Previous Coach-Stalking Case Charged With Tax Evasion A once-renowned Bergen County businessman who has had more than his share of publicized predicaments is now in hot water with the IRS. David Kushner, a 55-year-old real-estate investor and property manager from of Cresskill, ducked hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal income taxes without even getting creative, the government alleges. He simply “deposited payments and income from the businesses and elsewhere into the accounts and then used most of the funds for personal expenses,” Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. Kushner also “failed to file any income tax returns, faile…

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Mahwah Financial Advisor Siphoned $1 Million From 98-Year-Old Widow's Account, State Says Mahwah Financial Advisor Siphoned $1 Million From 98-Year-Old Widow's Account, State Says
Mahwah Financial Advisor Siphoned $1 Million From 98-Year-Old Widow's Account, State Says A financial adviser from Mahwah pocketed nearly $700,000 and diverted another $300,000 or so of a 98-year-old widow’s money, said state authorities who stripped him of his ability to operate any longer in New Jersey. John Joseph Cahill, 71, used the woman’s bank account to write and cash $693,990 worth of checks, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Friday. Cahill also used the account to pay his daughter, his wife, and various others more than $300,000 to provide unexplained services to the woman, the attorney general said. Cahill had been granted power of attorney for the victim,…

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Route 17 Bank In Paramus Robbed Route 17 Bank In Paramus Robbed
Route 17 Bank In Paramus Robbed Paramus police released surveillance photos Monday of a man who robbed a Route 17 bank on Friday wearing a hooded “Planned Parenthood” sweatshirt. The robber handed a teller at the Citibank on the northbound highway a note shortly before 2 p.m. that said to “hand over the money or [he] would begin shooting,” Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. The teller gave the robber nearly $5,000 in cash, Ehrenberg said. The bandit then ran toward the Fashion Center parking lot, he said. No weapon was shown. Ehrenberg described the robber as black, between 40 and 50 years old and roughly 200 pounds…

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Police: Drugged Bergen Dad's Car Stalls On RR Tracks With Boy, $110,000 Cash Inside Police: Drugged Bergen Dad's Car Stalls On RR Tracks With Boy, $110,000 Cash Inside
Police: Drugged Bergen Dad's Car Stalls On RR Tracks With Boy, $110,000 Cash Inside Elmwood Park police who rescued a local driver and his young son after their car got stuck on railroad tracks found the man under the influence of drugs and $110,000 in cash in a bag, authorities said. Officers responding to the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway freight line found Asad Ali with his 11-year-old son in a Toyota Corolla with no license plates shortly before 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. Ali, who was disoriented and appeared impaired by drugs, said his credentials were in a backpack in the trunk, so the officers let him retrieve it, Foligno said…

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COVER-UP: Essex Correctional Officers Beat Detainee As Sergeant Stood By, Feds Charge COVER-UP: Essex Correctional Officers Beat Detainee As Sergeant Stood By, Feds Charge
Cover-up: Essex Correctional Officers Beat Detainee As Sergeant Stood By, Feds Charge Three Essex County correctional officers beat a federal detainee as a sergeant stood by, said authorities who charged all four with civil rights violations. The detainee – who was being held pending a federal trial -- squirted a mixture of urine, yogurt, and milk onto a correctional officer at the Essex County Correctional Facility (ECCF) the evening of Aug. 17, 2020, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said Friday. The detainee was brought to a disciplinary cell and beaten by Officers Angel Chaparro, 38, Damion James, 40, and Luis Ortiz, 29, in front of Sgt. Herman Pride, 51, Honig said.…

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SEE ANYTHING? Hackensack Pedestrian, 81, Struck, Killed, Hit-Run SUV Sought SEE ANYTHING? Hackensack Pedestrian, 81, Struck, Killed, Hit-Run SUV Sought
SEE Anything? Hackensack Pedestrian, 81, Struck, Killed, Hit-Run SUV Sought UPDATE: An 81-year-old pedestrian was struck and killed crossing a Hackensack street three blocks from home Thursday night, said authorities who were searching for an SUV that fled the scene. The resident was crossing Polifly Road near Standish Avenue when a dark SUV with tinted windows struck her and kept going shortly after 7 p.m. A second vehicle struck the woman, who was pronounced dead at the scene soon after. "Surveillance video recovered from the area, along with evidence recovered at the scene, indicates that the victim was struck by a 2014 to 2018 black BMW X5," Bergen County Pros…

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SWAT STANDOFF: Hackensack Man, 80, Armed With Rifle Subdued SWAT STANDOFF: Hackensack Man, 80, Armed With Rifle Subdued
SWAT Standoff: Hackensack Man, 80, Armed With Rifle Subdued UPDATE: An hours-long standoff with an 80-year-old Hackensack man armed with a rifle ended just after midnight Friday when a SWAT team burst into his apartment and took him into custody. In a tragic twist, a fellow building resident who had terminal cancer died during the incident, forcing the Bergen County Medical Examiner to wait to remove the body until the situation was resolved. It began after an out-of-state family member called and said an elderly tenant  at Harry Berkie Gardens had "threatened to shoot anyone who came to his apartment," Capt. Darren DeWitt said. Three city off…

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Wayne Detectives Nab PSE&G Scammer, Believe More Victims Are Out There Wayne Detectives Nab PSE&G Scammer, Believe More Victims Are Out There
Wayne Detectives Nab PSE&G Scammer, Believe More Victims Are Out There Wayne police detectives tracked down and charged a Queens man for conning a resident out of $2,570 through a utility scam. Now they’re trying to find out whether he had any other local victims. Welinton Cedano, 29, sent the township resident a bogus text that purported to be from PSE&G, Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. Following prompts, the woman was connected with someone claiming to be a manager who convinced her that she owed the utility money, Daly said. Before it was over, she’d made four separate payments to a Zelle account, he said. Suspecting it was bogus, the woman later …

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NJ Human Trafficker Gets 50 Years For Forcing Girl, 17, Into Prostitution NJ Human Trafficker Gets 50 Years For Forcing Girl, 17, Into Prostitution
NJ Human Trafficker Gets 50 Years For Forcing Girl, 17, Into Prostitution A Trenton woman who cruelly forced an underage girl into prostitution must spend at least 20 years in state prison before she’ll be eligible for parole. Superior Court Judge Darlene J. Pereksta on Thursday sentenced Ashley Gardener, 32, for a series of jury convictions for human trafficking, promoting prostitution and child endangerment, among other crimes. Pereksta sentenced Gardener to 50 years altogether, 40% of which she must serve before she can seek a parole hearing.  It marked the final chapter in what authorities said was a prime example of a crime that occurs “in the shadows,…

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