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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: Fleeing NYS Buyer Leads Pursuing Paterson PD To 6,600 Heroin Bags, Gun, $32,800 Authorities: Fleeing NYS Buyer Leads Pursuing Paterson PD To 6,600 Heroin Bags, Gun, $32,800
Authorities: Fleeing NYS Buyer Leads Pursuing Paterson PD To 6,600 Heroin Bags, Gun, $32,800 What began as a Paterson police pursuit of a fleeing New York State drug buyer led to the seizure of 6,660 heroin folds, a loaded gun and $32,800 in proceeds, authorities said. Paramus and New Jersey State Police joined in chasing down John A. Garulli, 34, of New Windsor on the northbound Garden State Parkway, Paterson Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Moments earlier, members of the city police Narcotics Division detectives saw Garulli buy drugs from ex-con Thomas N. Williams, 26, of Paterson at the corner of McLean Boulevard and East 38th Street, Speziale said. They tried to st…

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Accused Paterson Shooter, Domestic Violence Offender Charged With Threatening Victim With Gun Accused Paterson Shooter, Domestic Violence Offender Charged With Threatening Victim With Gun
Accused Paterson Shooter, Domestic Violence Offender Charged With Threatening Victim With Gun UPDATE: A 21-year-old Paterson man already jailed for both a shooting and a domestic violence incident is also facing charges of pointing a gun at another victim, authorities announced Thursday. Police arrested Roshane James, 21, for domestic violence last week before detectives connected him to a Jan. 29 shooting at the corner of 9th and Madison avenues. Detectives subsequently accused James of also pointing a gun at a city man Godwin Avenue and Rosa Parks Boulevard on Jan. 31, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said. James has a detentio…

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Authorities: Fast-Moving Brazen Bandit Robbed Bergen Bank Of $1,633 Authorities: Fast-Moving Brazen Bandit Robbed Bergen Bank Of $1,633
Authorities: Fast-Moving Brazen Bandit Robbed Bergen Bank Of $1,633 He's about 5-foot-7, somewhere between 230 and 250 pounds, and was last seen fleeing a Ho-Ho-Kus bank after robbing it. Police on Thursday released a surveillance image of a bandit who they said passed a note to the teller at the Valley National branch on Sheridan Avenue off Franklin Turnpike around 2 p.m. the day before, collected $1,633 in small bills and bolted out the back door. Had he gone out the front, he might've instantly been spotted by someone from the borough police station across the street. As seen in the surveillance image, the robber wore a black and gray North Face ja…

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‘You Want To Die?’ Knife-Wielding Robbers Flee Gas Station Near GWB With $2,700 ‘You Want To Die?’ Knife-Wielding Robbers Flee Gas Station Near GWB With $2,700
‘You Want To Die?’ Knife-Wielding Robbers Flee Gas Station Near GWB With $2,700 Three robbers fled a Fort Lee gas station with $2,700, cigars and cigarettes after one pulled a knife and another acted like he had a gun, authorities said. The trio entered the Patwalia Food Mart in the Shell station on eastbound Route 46 at Bergen Boulevard shortly before 4 a.m. Wednesday, Capt. Ricky Mirkovic said. Two kept a lookout while the third went behind the counter and began removing drawers from the cash register, Mirkovic said. One of the store clerks began to get up when one of the lookouts gestured with his hand from inside his jacket pocket. “Sit down," he told the clerk. …

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Flatbed Mounts Divider, Concrete Goes Flying In Collision With Garbage Truck In Fair Lawn Flatbed Mounts Divider, Concrete Goes Flying In Collision With Garbage Truck In Fair Lawn
Flatbed Mounts Divider, Concrete Goes Flying In Collision With Garbage Truck In Fair Lawn The cab of a flatbed tower mounted a concrete divider after colliding with a garbage truck Thursday morning in Fair Lawn. The driver for City-Wide Towing of Hawthorne said he was headed west on Broadway just past the Route 4/208 split when a car cut him off, pushing his rig into the back of garbage truck owned by Interstate Waste Services of Teaneck shortly after 10:15 a.m. The tow truck got hooked onto the garbage truck’s rear push bar and was turned sideways before it slammed into the median, sending concrete flying, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. A chuck of it struck a 2006 Nissan headed eas…

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Bergen Nurse In Multi-Million-Dollar Health Scheme: I Pushed, Prescribed Meds Without License Bergen Nurse In Multi-Million-Dollar Health Scheme: I Pushed, Prescribed Meds Without License
Bergen Nurse In Multi-Million-Dollar Health Scheme: I Pushed, Prescribed Meds Without License A Bergen County nurse admitted cashing in on a multi-million-dollar health insurance scam by pushing and writing prescriptions for customized drugs that patients didn’t need -- and doing it without a license. The co-owners of a pharmaceutical marketing company paid Jennifer Nash, 51, of River Vale, to pitch and prescribe the particular drugs, known as “compounded medications," Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. “Not only did Nash write these prescriptions regardless of whether a health insurance plan beneficiary needed such a medication,” Honig said.  She also wrote them eve…

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Feds: Ex-Con At Morris County Pharmacy Bribed Doc For Prescription Referrals Feds: Ex-Con At Morris County Pharmacy Bribed Doc For Prescription Referrals
Feds: Ex-Con At Morris County Pharmacy Bribed Doc For Prescription Referrals A convicted former Morris County pharmacy employee who lives in Passaic County got prescription referrals by having co-workers deliver bribes in cash, checks and gift cards to a Jersey City doctor, authorities said in bringing a new case against him. Federal agents arrested Srinivasa Raju, 49, of Haskell following an investigation that involved a secret recording -- the same as in a previous case. Raju, formerly of Clifton, had finished serving three years probation following a 2016 conviction for distributing oxycodone without prescriptions. Raju was caught running what state prosecutors …

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Authorities: Paterson Man Punched Girlfriend's Baby In Gut, Bribed Daughter, Son To Lie Authorities: Paterson Man Punched Girlfriend's Baby In Gut, Bribed Daughter, Son To Lie
Authorities: Paterson Man Punched Girlfriend's Baby In Gut, Bribed Daughter, Son To Lie A 37-year-old Paterson man punched his girlfriend's 1-year-old baby in the stomach, then bribed his other two children with a toy and money to lie about it after the severely injured infant was hospitalized, authorities said. Jeanandre Desir gave his 5-year-old daughter a Barbie doll and his 8-year-old son $10 to cover for him, according to documents on file in Superior Court in Paterson. He also frightened them by saying he'd go to prison if anyone found out what he'd really done, the documents show.  Doctors at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center contacted detectives with the Passa…

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UPDATE: Drivers, Passenger Seriously Injured In Passaic County Wrong-Way Head-On Crash UPDATE: Drivers, Passenger Seriously Injured In Passaic County Wrong-Way Head-On Crash
Update: Drivers, Passenger Seriously Injured In Passaic County Wrong-Way Head-On Crash UPDATE: A vehicle driven in the opposite direction by a 20-year-old motorist slammed head-on into another on Route 20 in Paterson before dawn Wednesday, seriously injuring himself, a passenger and the other driver, authorities said. Another vehicle also was involved, causing a minor injury to that driver, in what some called the worst crash they’d ever seen. The 2019 Kia Forte driven by the young city man was heading north in the southbound lanes of the highway when it collided at 17th Avenue with a 2016 Honda Accord driven by a 63-year-old Fair Lawn man shortly before 5 a.m., authorities s…

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Just Passing By: Hackensack Firefighters Help Douse Ridgefield Park Candle Factory Blaze Just Passing By: Hackensack Firefighters Help Douse Ridgefield Park Candle Factory Blaze
Just Passing By: Hackensack Firefighters Help Douse Ridgefield Park Candle Factory Blaze UPDATE: Firefighters doused a Wednesday afternoon blaze that damaged solar panels and a portion of the roof of a Ridgefield Park candle factory. Flames and smoke brought not only village firefighters but also their colleagues from Hackensack, who were passing by following a call on Route 80 and could see the roof of Star Candle Company on Industrial Avenue from the highway shortly after 12:30 p.m. The building was evacuated and no injuries were reported. Hackensack firefighters used dry-chemical extinguishers to hold the flames in check until their village colleagues arrived. The fire we…

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