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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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VIDEO: Shots Followed Fender-Bender Outside Teaneck Club During Rapper’s Birthday Bash VIDEO: Shots Followed Fender-Bender Outside Teaneck Club During Rapper’s Birthday Bash
Video: Shots Followed Fender-Bender Outside Teaneck Club During Rapper’s Birthday Bash UPDATE: Popular rapper A Boogie wit da Hoodie, his manager and a bodyguard were busted after Bergen County prosecutor's detectives investigating a shooting outside a Teaneck nightclub reported finding four guns at the artist's Demarest home. https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/cresskill/police-fire/rapper-a-boogie-wit-da-hoodie-busted-on-gun-charges-after-nightclub-shooting/799341/ ****** PREVIOUS STORY: A man shot during a brawl outside a Teaneck nightclub was reported to be among the entourage of the popular Bronx rapper known as A Boogie wit da Hoodie. The Atlantic Records artist, whose…

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Jersey Shore Ex-Con Chased Down By Police Admits Tossing Machine Gun Jersey Shore Ex-Con Chased Down By Police Admits Tossing Machine Gun
Jersey Shore Ex-Con Chased Down By Police Admits Tossing Machine Gun A Monmouth County ex-con admitted in federal court that he tossed a loaded machine gun while being chased by police. Davon Harley, 30, of Neptune City, was arguing with a group in the yard of a local apartment complex this past February when city police arrived, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Harley ran when he saw them, he said. Asbury Park and Neptune Township police joined a foot chase that ended when officers captured Harley and found a gun and magazine that he’d discarded, Carpenito said. The weapon “had been altered to fire exclusively in fully automatic mode,” the U.S. attorne…

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Howard Stern Extends SiriusXM Contract Five More Years Howard Stern Extends SiriusXM Contract Five More Years
Howard Stern Extends SiriusXM Contract Five More Years Coming to SiriusXM from traditional radio 15 years ago made Howard Stern feel like “Tina Turner freeing myself from Ike,” the self-proclaimed “king of all media” said Tuesday in announcing a five-year contract extension. The deal, which also covers another seven years of audio and video archives of “The Howard Stern Show,” will reportedly earn the 66-year-old Long Islander $120 million a year. It’s Stern’s fourth-straight five-year contract with SiriusXM Satellite Radio, coming just a few weeks before the last one was to expire. He spoke of it on his show Tuesday morning: “Fifteen years …

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Paterson PD: Ex-Con, 23, Who Served Time In Drive-By Caught With Gun Stolen Out Of Englewood Paterson PD: Ex-Con, 23, Who Served Time In Drive-By Caught With Gun Stolen Out Of Englewood
Paterson PD: Ex-Con, 23, Who Served Time In Drive-By Caught With Gun Stolen Out Of Englewood An ex-con running from Paterson police detectives tossed a loaded handgun that turned out to be stolen out of Englewood, authorities said. A gun conviction would automatically send Daryl Rodriguez, 23, back to state prison, where he served 20 months for a drive-by city shooting before being released in July 2019, records show. Detectives Mustafa Dombayci, Suquan Gary, Yamil Pimienta and Mohammad Bashir were "providing extra attention to the area of Oak and Beech Streets in the 5th Ward due to recent reports of shots fired in the area" when they spotted Rodriguez over the weekend, Public Saf…

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American Hero Aviator Chuck Yeager Dies At 97 American Hero Aviator Chuck Yeager Dies At 97
American Hero Aviator Chuck Yeager Dies At 97 He was born in an Appalachian hollow and went on to become a real-life American hero who was considered the country's greatest pilot. Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles “Chuck” Yeager, the World War II fighter ace who displayed “the right stuff” when he became the first aviator to break the sound barrier nearly three quarters of a century ago, died Monday night in a Los Angeles hospital. He was 97. “My life love General Chuck Yeager passed just before 9 pm ET,” his widow, Victoria, tweeted. “An incredible life well lived, America’s greatest pilot & a legacy of strength, adventure” N…

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Firefighters Douse Smoky Oven Blaze At Bergen-Based Italian Food Distributor Firefighters Douse Smoky Oven Blaze At Bergen-Based Italian Food Distributor
Firefighters Douse Smoky Oven Blaze At Bergen-Based Italian Food Distributor Firefighters doused a smoky commercial oven blaze at an Italian food distributor's plant in East Rutherford. Damage was contained to the one oven in a 30-by-30-foot room at MamaMancini's on Branca Road off Route 17 near the Meadowlands after the fire broke out shortly before 8 a.m. -- although the heat melted the strip-door curtains. No injuries were reported. "A swift response by our members helped with keeping the fire contained," the East Rutherford Fire Department said in a social media post. "The fire went to two alarms for manpower relief." MamaMancini's markets and distribute pre-p…

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Three Shot Near Notorious Paterson Drug Corner Three Shot Near Notorious Paterson Drug Corner
Three Shot Near Notorious Paterson Drug Corner Three victims were struck Monday afternoon by shots fired in one of the Paterson's most notorious neighborhoods. This year alone, more than a dozen people have been wounded in shootings along a stretch of a half-dozen or so blocks along 10th Avenue on the city's Eastside littered with open-air drug markets that authorities say is controlled by the Icy Boys gang, records show. Police on Monday found two wounded city men, one 39 and the other 63, after shots were fired around 2:50 p.m. near the corner of 10th and East 26th Street, authorities said. A 40-year-old Paterson woman who also was s…

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CEO Of Englewood Firm Accused Of Event With 200 Guests, Drugs, Booze, COVID Violations Resigns CEO Of Englewood Firm Accused Of Event With 200 Guests, Drugs, Booze, COVID Violations Resigns
CEO Of Englewood Firm Accused Of Event With 200 Guests, Drugs, Booze, COVID Violations Resigns UPDATE: The chief operating officer of a civically-involved Englewood entertainment company announced Monday that his CEO has resigned in the wake of a raid of an after-hours party where police said they discovered crimes and COVID violations. Rasheed Goins, the chief operating officer of Feenx Entertainment, said he will be "taking over day to day operations going forward" following the resignation of Selom Gbate. Police said they found 200 or so partiers – few wearing masks or social distancing – along with drugs, alcohol and disabled fire alarms during a Nov. 29 pre-dawn raid of a space …

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Fort Lee PD: Cliffside Park Man, 69, Stabs Motorist In Parking Garage Brawl Near GWB Fort Lee PD: Cliffside Park Man, 69, Stabs Motorist In Parking Garage Brawl Near GWB
Fort Lee PD: Cliffside Park Man, 69, Stabs Motorist In Parking Garage Brawl Near GWB A 69-year-old Cliffside Park retiree was arrested after he stabbed a motorist with a folding knife in a parking garage near the George Washington Bridge, Fort Lee police said. The 33-year-old victim told police that Patrick Morrissey first spit on his vehicle in the Hudson Lights garage shortly after 6 p.m. Sunday, Capt. Ricky Mirkovic said. The victim said he turned to speak with him when Morrissey pulled out a folding knife, threatened him, then lunged through the open window of his vehicle and stabbed him, the captain said. The victim got out of his car and bashed Morrissey, Mirkovic sa…

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Need A Christmas Tree? Dumont Volunteer Ambulance Corps Has Yours Need A Christmas Tree? Dumont Volunteer Ambulance Corps Has Yours
Need A Christmas Tree? Dumont Volunteer Ambulance Corps Has Yours With nationwide supplies down this season, Christmas trees of various shapes and sizes have been moving quickly off the lot at the Dumont Volunteer Ambulance Corps. As of Sunday, the corps was down to its last 100 trees and a limited number of decorated wreaths. "So we encourage you to make an appointment with us if you haven't picked out a tree yet," members said. Available are an assortment of balsam, Douglas and Fraser firs from four to feet and seven to eight feet, as well as wreathes and grave blankets. The parking lot next to DVAC headquarters at 108 Brook Street is open for walk-i…

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