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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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Fort Lee Police: How Are We Doing? Fort Lee Police: How Are We Doing?
Fort Lee Police: How Are We Doing? Fort Lee 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. Tuesday, Feb. 16. THE NUMBER: (201) 592-3521 / Or email: dsiracuse@fortleepolice.org. Telephone comments are limited to 5 minutes and “must address the agency’s ability to comply with the accreditation standards,” according to Police Chief Matthew Hintze. (You can also write to the at New Jersey State Associatio…

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Police & Fire
South Jersey Suspect Running From Police Struck, Killed By Several Cars South Jersey Suspect Running From Police Struck, Killed By Several Cars
South Jersey Suspect Running From Police Struck, Killed By Several Cars A 26-year-old driver was killed after he crashed his car during a police chase, ran up an embankment and was struck and killed by other vehicles on a South Jersey highway, authorities said. State Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said his office was investigating under a law that requires he do so when a suspect dies either in police custody or during an encounter with law enforcement. Camden County police were pursuing the as-yet-unidentified driver when he crashed his car in an underpass, got out and ran up an embankment onto Route 676, where non-police vehicles struck and killed him near…

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FOUND! Missing Paramus Man With Special Needs Found Lying Shoeless In Snow FOUND! Missing Paramus Man With Special Needs Found Lying Shoeless In Snow
Found! Missing Paramus Man With Special Needs Found Lying Shoeless In Snow HERO: A Paramus police lieutenant saved the life of a missing 42-year-old borough man with special needs when he found him lying shoeless and gloveless in the snow in a nearby park. Temperatures were in the teens when what became an intensive search for the Spring Valley Road man began around 6 a.m. They'd only reached the low 20s when Detective Lt. John Devine, who was among those searching for him, found the man in nearby Van Saun Park several hours later, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. He was taken to New Bridge Medical Center for observation, the chief said.

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Pole Toppled By Plow Crashes Into Route 46 Garden Apartment Pole Toppled By Plow Crashes Into Route 46 Garden Apartment
Pole Toppled By Plow Crashes Into Route 46 Garden Apartment A snow plow sent a utility pole crashing into the balcony of a Route 46 garden apartment complex Monday afternoon. A small fire was quickly doused during the mishap, which occurred around 12:30 p.m. as the truck was clearing the parking lot at the Lodi Court Apartments, witnesses said. No injuries were reported. A PSE&G crew was summoned. Lodi police and firefighters also responded.

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Police & Fire
Hackensack PD: Drug-Dealing Lyft Driver With Stolen Gun Charged With Endangering Daughter, 3 Hackensack PD: Drug-Dealing Lyft Driver With Stolen Gun Charged With Endangering Daughter, 3
Hackensack PD: Drug-Dealing Lyft Driver With Stolen Gun Charged With Endangering Daughter, 3 A Lyft driver from Hackensack with a 3-year-old daughter was arrested with a stolen handgun, three pounds of pot and more than $35,000 in proceeds after police learned that he’d been selling drugs near a local school, authorities said. It began after Narcotics Bureau Detective Sgt. John Dalton stopped Robinson Jeanbaptiste, 36, and found a passenger from New York City in the vehicle carrying five pounds of pot, Detective Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. Armed with a search warrant, detectives summoned a Bergen County SWAT team and raided Jeanbaptiste’s luxury apartment on Friday, DeWitt said. Th…

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Girl Beaten, Held Captive At Gunpoint In Franklin Lakes Home By Passaic County Trio, Police Say Girl Beaten, Held Captive At Gunpoint In Franklin Lakes Home By Passaic County Trio, Police Say
Girl Beaten, Held Captive At Gunpoint In Franklin Lakes Home By Passaic County Trio, Police Say One suspect jumped from a second-floor window and two others were also arrested following a reported gunpoint assault on a teenage girl Sunday night in Franklin Lakes, authorities said. Detectives were still trying to sort out stories after an initial investigation found that two Passaic County men struck and threatened an underage girl taken to a McCoy Road home against her will, they said. Donte Aste, 21, of Paterson, and Ezequiel Diaz, 19, of Passaic were both charged with aggravated assault, criminal restraint and illegal possession of a .40-caliber Taurus handgun, Capt. John Bakelaar s…

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Snow Outside And In: Two Busted After Route 17 Stop Of Covered Car Turns Up Cocaine Snow Outside And In: Two Busted After Route 17 Stop Of Covered Car Turns Up Cocaine
Snow Outside And In: Two Busted After Route 17 Stop Of Covered Car Turns Up Cocaine Nearly five ounces of cocaine were seized and two Hackensack residents busted after a Rochelle Park police officer stopped a car on Route 17 that was almost entirely covered in snow, authorities said. Michelle McCracken, 28, didn’t immediately pull over “due to her inability to see through the rear of her vehicle” when Officer Chris Kiszka tried to stop the white Honda Accord on the northbound highway around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, Lt. James DePreta said. “The vehicle was covered in snow, including the rear window, which provided zero visibility to the occupants,” DePreta said. Smelling marijuan…

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SEEN HIM? Drug Store Masturbator Subject Of Glen Rock Police Search SEEN HIM? Drug Store Masturbator Subject Of Glen Rock Police Search
Seen HIM? Drug Store Masturbator Subject Of Glen Rock Police Search Police turned to the public for help Monday while investigating a female shopper’s report that she’d seen a man masturbating in the aisle of a Glen Rock pharmacy. The shopper left, called police at 11:10 a.m. Sunday and told them the incident occurred at the CVS on Rock Road about 20 minutes earlier, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. “The man was no longer at the store when officers arrived and store employees were unaware of the incident,” he said. Detectives were reviewing surveillance video in an attempt to identify the masturbator, whom the woman described as wearing a puffer jack…

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NJ Transit Bus Crashes In Teaneck NJ Transit Bus Crashes In Teaneck
NJ Transit Bus Crashes In Teaneck Teaneck firefighters extricated six passengers following a New Jersey Transit bus crash Monday morning. The Manhattan-bound bus collided with a Jeep, which then struck a utility pole, on Teaneck Road and Ward Place near the National Guard Armory shortly before 8:30 a.m., Police Chief Glenn O'Reilly said. A Jeep occupant and four passengers aboard the #186 bus from Dumont to the George Washington Bridge bus station were hospitalized with injuries that the chief said weren't considered serious. Teaneck Road was temporarily closed near the Armory. Township police and the Teaneck Volunteer Am…

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Passaic Sheriff: Clifton Man Trafficked Child Porn Passaic Sheriff: Clifton Man Trafficked Child Porn
Passaic Sheriff: Clifton Man Trafficked Child Porn A Clifton man was caught trafficking child porn, Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik said Sunday. Detectives from the sheriff's Internet Crime Against Children Task Force arrested James K. Delillo Jr., 30, after finding images of child sexual abuse sent via an alias email account, Berdnik said. They also seized electronic devices at his Greglawn Drive home that were being analyzed for additional evidence, the sheriff said. Delillo was sent to the Passaic County Jail to await a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Paterson on charges of possession, maintaining and dis…

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