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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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Local Resident Charged After Shotgun Blast Hits Passing Car On Old Tappan Street Local Resident Charged After Shotgun Blast Hits Passing Car On Old Tappan Street
Local Resident Charged After Shotgun Blast Hits Passing Car On Old Tappan Street UPDATE: Authorities charged an Old Tappan resident whose shotgun sprayed a passing car with pellets when it accidentally went off in his driveway. Darden Bilali, 46, was outside his Old Tappan Road home when the gun discharged shortly before 1:30 p.m.Thursday, hitting a car driven by a 71-year-old borough man with several pellets, authorities said. The driver wasn’t injured in the accidental misfire between Rivervale Road and Washington Avenue, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Friday. Musella’s Special Investigations Squad responded along with Old Tappan and River Vale police, a…

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HEROES: Boy, 3, Who Stopped Breathing At Wyckoff YMCA Revived By Police HEROES: Boy, 3, Who Stopped Breathing At Wyckoff YMCA Revived By Police
Heroes: Boy, 3, Who Stopped Breathing At Wyckoff YMCA Revived By Police A 3-year-old boy who'd stopped breathing and was turning blue at the Wyckoff YMCA was revived Friday by a pair of police officers, authorities said. YMCA staff were tending to the boy, who "was unresponsive and cyanotic" when Officers Robert Schlossberg and Michael Scalise around 12:30 p.m., Lt. Joseph Soto said. The officer conducted CPR while clearing the boy's airway of obstructions, Soto said. "The boy began to breathe on his own and was transported to the hospital by the Wyckoff Ambulance Corps and paramedics from Valley Hospital," the lieutenant said. Wyckoff police extended "best w…

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Law Enforcement Partnership Puts Jersey City Ex-Con Caught With Loaded Gun In Feds' Hands Law Enforcement Partnership Puts Jersey City Ex-Con Caught With Loaded Gun In Feds' Hands
Law Enforcement Partnership Puts Jersey City Ex-Con Caught With Loaded Gun In Feds' Hands A Jersey City ex-con caught with a gun remained in federal custody thanks to a unique partnership of law enforcement agencies, authorities said. Malik Holloway, 28, was brought before a federal magistrate judge via teleconference Friday. City police had seen him take the gun from another person the night of July 13, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. A short time later, Holloway tipped away from a group of people with the weapon in his waistband as police approached on Neptune Avenue, he said. An officer stopped Holloway, who smelled of marijuana, patted him down and found a .9mm Glock M…

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Jersey Shore Restaurant Owner Admits Ducking $185,000 In Federal Taxes Jersey Shore Restaurant Owner Admits Ducking $185,000 In Federal Taxes
Jersey Shore Restaurant Owner Admits Ducking $185,000 In Federal Taxes The owner of a Jersey Shore Italian restaurant admitted stiffing the IRS out of $185,000 in personal and corporate taxes. Raimondo Schiano, 55, admitted diverting unreported income from Biagio’s Trattoria in Lacey Township to his personal account for four straight years, beginning in 2014, during a video conference with a federal judge in Trenton on Wednesday, Special IRS Agent Robert Glantz said. None of the diverted funds was reported as income on either the corporate tax returns for the Lanoka Harbor restaurant or on Schiano’s personal tax returns, Glantz said. As a result, Schiano, of…

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Not So Fast: NJ Police Chief Corrects School Board Member’s Claims About COVID Response Not So Fast: NJ Police Chief Corrects School Board Member’s Claims About COVID Response
Not So Fast: NJ Police Chief Corrects School Board Member’s Claims About COVID Response A local Board of Education trustee got more than she bargained for when she blasted her township police department's response to the coronavirus pandemic. Dawn Kumar, saying that she was speaking as a private citizen, said during an online Wayne Township Council meeting earlier this month that she’d seen a police officer not wearing a face mask in Costco, as well as high school students ignoring social distancing by gathering on a local field. Kumar, 33, a self-described “teacher turned homemaker" who became a BOE member six months ago, said these were examples of Mayor Chris Vergano and t…

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ALERT: Crash Closes Route 4 ALERT: Crash Closes Route 4
ALERT: Crash Closes Route 4 A multi-vehicle crash Friday morning closed eastbound Route 4 in Englewood. Traffic was jammed for miles after two trucks and an SUV collided around 10 a.m. in front of the Vivian. There was no immediate word on injuries. Englewood firefighters responded along with city police, Bergen County sheriff's officers and EMS that included an ambulance from Englewood Hospital and Medical Center.

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VIDEO: Hoarding Conditions Accelerate New Milford House Fire, Responders Say VIDEO: Hoarding Conditions Accelerate New Milford House Fire, Responders Say
Video: Hoarding Conditions Accelerate New Milford House Fire, Responders Say UPDATE: Flames ravaged what responders said was a cluttered New Milford home Thursday night. A firefighter sustained a relatively minor injury in the three alarm fire, which began in the basement of the 2½-story Henley Avenue home at the corner of Asbury Street around 9:30 p.m., responders said. No other injuries were reported. Firefighters initially had trouble pinpointing the seat of the blaze because of hoarding conditions -- commonly called "Collyers mansion syndrome" after two wealthy Harlem brothers who died in a 1947 fire amid stacks of newspapers, books, tin cans and rotting trash.…

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Truck Crash Jams Route 17 Truck Crash Jams Route 17
Truck Crash Jams Route 17 A driver escaped serious injury when a box truck crashed early Friday on Route 17 in Paramus. The driver got out under his own steam after the truck hit a pole and a tree, landing on its side on the northbound highway outside the Trader Joe's near the Midland Avenue exit shortly before 6:30 a.m. The right and center lanes were temporarily closed as a heavy duty wrecker righted and removed the truck. Traffic stretched for miles. All lanes were reported reopened at 8:44 a.m. Paramus police, firefighters and EMS responded.

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Convicted Murderer From Trenton Admits Selling Gun, Extended Mag To Informant Convicted Murderer From Trenton Admits Selling Gun, Extended Mag To Informant
Convicted Murderer From Trenton Admits Selling Gun, Extended Mag To Informant A convicted murderer from Trenton admitted in federal court in Newark on Thursday that he sold an illegal semi-automatic rifle and an extended magazine to a buyer who turned out to be a law enforcement cooperator. Edwin Gaines, 59, was among dozens of suspects busted in a state takedown of gun- and drug-running gang members last year. The former Jersey City ex-con sold a .22-caliber Ruger rifle and the magazine to a buyer using money provided by law enforcement "in a video- and audio-recorded transaction in the basement of a Trenton residence," U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Gain…

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Cargo Van Barrels Off Route 208, Slams Into Backyard Storage Shed Cargo Van Barrels Off Route 208, Slams Into Backyard Storage Shed
Cargo Van Barrels Off Route 208, Slams Into Backyard Storage Shed An out-of-control cargo van careened off Route 208 and slammed into a backyard storage shed in Wyckoff on Thursday after the driver said she was cut off. The 49-year-old driver from Elizabeth said she was headed south in her 2016 Nissan around noon when another vehicle cut her off, forcing her to “take evasive action to avoid a collision,” Lt. Joseph Soto said. The van barreled 50 feet into the William Way backyard before ramming the storage shed, Soto said. The driver got out, unharmed, he said. Firefighters had to remove parts so a tower could get the van out. The Wyckoff Traffic Burea…

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