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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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Expectant Grandpa From Hackensack Passes Suddenly, Pascack Valley Rallies For Family Expectant Grandpa From Hackensack Passes Suddenly, Pascack Valley Rallies For Family
Expectant Grandpa From Hackensack Passes Suddenly, Pascack Valley Rallies For Family Clouds had finally parted for Mike Mancinelli after what had been a particularly dark series of losses. Then, in an instant, he too was gone. The Park Ridge native had just recently learned that he was at last becoming a grandfather. He'd been out for an early breakfast Wednesday with his daughter, Paula, who’s expecting a boy. Later that day, a massive heart attack took his life. “He was so excited to be a grandpa,” wrote his niece, Jennifer Mancinelli. “Finally something happy in Mike’s life - he would soon be getting baby hugs.” Mancinelli, 62, had worked in the printing industry for …

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Ex-Con Caught With Gun Near Lawmaker's News Conf Charged In Shooting Of Paterson Boy, 15 Ex-Con Caught With Gun Near Lawmaker's News Conf Charged In Shooting Of Paterson Boy, 15
Ex-Con Caught With Gun Near Lawmaker's News Conf Charged In Shooting Of Paterson Boy, 15 UPDATE: A little more than 20 months after a 15-year-old boy was shot on Paterson’s Eastside, authorities have charged a second city man with trying to kill him. Nyedair Parker, a 28-year-old ex-con with an adult criminal history that began soon after he turned 18, remained held in the Passaic County Jail on attempted murder and various weapons charges, including being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Authorities accused him and Isaiah Snead, then 18, in the shooting of the 15-year-old victim near the corner of 11th Avenue and East 28th Street — about a block from Rosa Parks Ar…

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Profitable (Uh, Teachable) Moment For Boy Who Found 10 Bucks On Ground, What Would YOU Do? Profitable (Uh, Teachable) Moment For Boy Who Found 10 Bucks On Ground, What Would YOU Do?
Profitable (Uh, Teachable) Moment For Boy Who Found 10 Bucks On Ground, What Would YOU Do? Young Michael Lindenberg just wanted to do the right thing when he showed up with his dad at Ridgewood police headquarters holding a $10 bill. Michael told Sgt. Kyle Finch that he’d found it on the ground, Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke said. He and his father thought the right thing to do was to bring it to police to see whether anyone had reported losing it, the chief said. Finch told Michael that late July day that he would log it in as found property in the hopes that the owner came forward. If no one did after six months, the sergeant said, Michael could have it. Time passed an…

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New Milford PD: How Are We Doing? New Milford PD: How Are We Doing?
New Milford PD: How Are We Doing? New Milford residents and merchants are invited to give their opinion of the borough police department as part of a process known as accreditation. Members of the department and borough employees are encouraged to call, as well, during the scheduled phone-in period between 10-11 a.m. Monday, Feb. 15. THE NUMBER: (201) 739-4232 Or email comments to kvansaders@newmilfordnjpd.org. Telephone comments are limited to 5 minutes and “must address the agency’s ability to comply with the accreditation standards,” Police Chief Brian T. Clancy said. (You can also write to the at New Jersey State As…

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SEEN HIM? FBI Offers $5,000 For Help Catching Accused Kidnapper Of Paterson Businessman, 70 SEEN HIM? FBI Offers $5,000 For Help Catching Accused Kidnapper Of Paterson Businessman, 70
Seen HIM? FBI Offers $5,000 For Help Catching Accused Kidnapper Of Paterson Businessman, 70 The FBI turned to the public for help finding a New York City man wanted for the brutal beating and armed kidnapping of a 70-year-old Paterson bodega owner. Reginald J. Law, 35, has a tattoo on one arm of the familiar “laugh now/cry later” mask and a tattoo on his torso of a woman, the bureau said. Surveillance footage shows Law and an accomplice bursting into the Easter Grocery and Food Market at 10th Avenue and East 28th Street last Oct. 8. While one grabbed owner Miguel Espejo in a chokehold, the other pointed a gun at him. The trio wrestled in front of the counter, knocking over items…

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UPDATE: Who Gunned Down Hawthorne Woman, 41, Outside Paterson School? UPDATE: Who Gunned Down Hawthorne Woman, 41, Outside Paterson School?
Update: Who Gunned Down Hawthorne Woman, 41, Outside Paterson School? Whoever shot a 41-year-old Hawthorne woman found critically wounded behind a Paterson public school now faces murder charges following her death. Although the original report of shots fired at 1:51 a.m. Wednesday directed police to Dover and Oak streets, officers reported finding Nasreen Yashi behind No. 15 school up the street. She’d been shot several times, they said. Yashi died of her injuries the next day at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said. They didn’t disclose a possible motive nor whethe…

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School Custodian From Clifton Charged With Emailing Himself Child Porn School Custodian From Clifton Charged With Emailing Himself Child Porn
School Custodian From Clifton Charged With Emailing Himself Child Porn An Essex County school janitor from Clifton emailed himself more than 100 child porn images, said authorities who arrested him. Christopher Lucas, 30, was identified by the Passaic County Sheriff’s Department Internet Crimes Against Children Unit. Lucas, who was hired by the North Caldwell public school system this past September, sent himself 133 still image and video files of child sexual abuse via email, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik and Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said in a joint statement. Sheriff’s detectives arrested Lucas on Thursday and charged him with distributing, …

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NJ Contractor Admits Using Check Casher To Duck $1.7M In Federal Taxes NJ Contractor Admits Using Check Casher To Duck $1.7M In Federal Taxes
NJ Contractor Admits Using Check Casher To Duck $1.7M In Federal Taxes A Union County contractor admitted cheating the federal government out of $1.7 million in personal and corporate income taxes. Olger Fallas, 49, of Union, told a U.S. District Court judge in Newark via videoconference this week that he used a check-cashing business to pocket payments form customers to his Essex County companies, Olger Fallas Painting and Olger Fallas Properties. He also admitted depositing hundreds of thousands of dollars in customer payments into bank accounts that weren’t associated with either business. Rather than go to trial, Fallas accepted a deal from the governmen…

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Fire Ravages Passaic Multi-Family Home, Displaces 18 Fire Ravages Passaic Multi-Family Home, Displaces 18
Fire Ravages Passaic Multi-Family Home, Displaces 18 VIDEO: Eight families were displaced by an intense fire that destroyed a Passaic multi-family home Friday night. No injuries were reported. Flames blew through the roof, part of which collapsed less than a half-hour after the four-alarm blaze broke out on the second floor of the wood-frame building at Hope and Highland avenues around 8 p.m. "Thank God everyone is out, safe and accounted for," Mayor Hector Carlos Lora said. Eighteen people in all received temporary food, lodging and clothing thanks to the Red Cross and the city. Most were able to find shelter with family, Lora said. Fir…

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Armed Robbers Nabbed After Stolen Car Chase From Paterson To Newark Ends In Crash, Police Say Armed Robbers Nabbed After Stolen Car Chase From Paterson To Newark Ends In Crash, Police Say
Armed Robbers Nabbed After Stolen Car Chase From Paterson To Newark Ends In Crash, Police Say A police chase from Paterson to Newark ended with the arrests of three armed robbers after they crashed a stolen SUV on Route 21, authorities said. Detectives Yamil Pimienta and Mohammad Bashir stopped the Mazda CX5 – reported stolen out of Jersey City – near the corner of 10th Avenue and East 24th Street shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday. They’d gotten out and were approaching the vehicle when the driver first backed up a bit and then hit the gas and sped away, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. The detectives chased the SUV through Clifton and Passaic on southbound Route 20, then …

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