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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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Police & Fire
Lodi Police Rescue Resident, 80, Badly Burned In Garden Apartment Fire Lodi Police Rescue Resident, 80, Badly Burned In Garden Apartment Fire
Lodi Police Rescue Resident, 80, Badly Burned In Garden Apartment Fire An 80-year-old resident was taken to St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston with severe burns after two Lodi police officers rescued him from a garden apartment fire Monday afternoon, authorities said.  Officers John Calabrese and David Delia pulled the unconscious victim out on their hands and knees due to all the smoke at the Gardens condos on Terhune Avenue near Marion Pepe Drive across from the Avalon development, Police Chief Donald Scorzetti said. Outside, the officers gave him oxygen and he came to, Scorzetti said. Firefighters doused the blaze, which may have first ign…

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Authorities: Two Men Lured To Elmwood Park Spot By Women Robbed At Gunpoint Authorities: Two Men Lured To Elmwood Park Spot By Women Robbed At Gunpoint
Authorities: Two Men Lured To Elmwood Park Spot By Women Robbed At Gunpoint Two men told Elmwood Park police they were robbed of cash, iPhones and sneakers after two women they’d recently met lured them to the spot. The men, from Newark and Belleville, said they were waiting for the women when a silver sedan (no further description) pulled up next to them on Doremus Place around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. The pair, ages 25 and 29, told police that one of two men who got out of the sedan pointed a handgun at them. “At gunpoint the victims were robbed of a combined $1,300 in cash, 2 iPhones and Yeezy sneakers,” the chief said. The robbers …

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News
Supreme Court Chief Justice Joins Liberal Minority In Upholding Abortion Rights Supreme Court Chief Justice Joins Liberal Minority In Upholding Abortion Rights
Supreme Court Chief Justice Joins Liberal Minority In Upholding Abortion Rights For the first time since President Trump’s new appointees took their seats, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a pro-abortion decision on Monday. Chief Justice John Roberts, placing precedent over all else, joined the court's four minority liberals in striking down a Louisiana law that would have required doctors at abortion clinics to have hospital admitting privileges. The Louisiana Unsafe Abortion Protection Act, which never went into effect, required abortion doctors in the state to have admitting the privileges at hospitals within 30 miles of the clinics where they worked. The law was simi…

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Police & Fire
Sheriff: Paterson Man Nabbed After Stealing Same Vehicle Twice Sheriff: Paterson Man Nabbed After Stealing Same Vehicle Twice
Sheriff: Paterson Man Nabbed After Stealing Same Vehicle Twice Passaic County sheriff’s detectives busted an 18-year-old Paterson man who they said stole the same BMW 325 twice in a little over a week. The key, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said, was LoJack. Detectives were investigating the May 29 theft of the vehicle -- which was found unoccupied on May Street in Paterson -- when it was stolen again nine days later, the sheriff said. This time, the BMW was found in the 100 block of East 19th Street, he said. Combining information from LoJack with surveillance video from homes and businesses, Berdnik’s investigators identified Yulian Paulino-Rivera as…

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Police & Fire
Barking Up Right Trees: Paterson PD K-9 Finds 683 Heroin Folds, 97 Crack Vials, 3 Loaded Guns Barking Up Right Trees: Paterson PD K-9 Finds 683 Heroin Folds, 97 Crack Vials, 3 Loaded Guns
Barking Up Right Trees: Paterson PD K-9 Finds 683 Heroin Folds, 97 Crack Vials, 3 Loaded Guns In a span of only 10 days, a Paterson K9 led police to 683 heroin folds, nearly 100 vials of crack and three loaded guns. Simpson began his string on June 18, finding 119 heroin folds and a handgun in a black plastic bag hidden inside a backyard grill in the 100 block of Governor Street, city Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Simpson found more drugs on the same block that same day. This time, it was 313 heroin folds and 72 cracks vials in a small plastic bag behind a wheelchair that was leaned up against a backyard fence, Speziale said. This past Friday, Simpson led police to a…

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Police & Fire
Revolving Door: Accused Repeat Stalker Returns To Rutherford Woman's Home, Arrested Yet Again Revolving Door: Accused Repeat Stalker Returns To Rutherford Woman's Home, Arrested Yet Again
Revolving Door: Accused Repeat Stalker Returns To Rutherford Woman's Home, Arrested Yet Again An accused repeat stalker who was captured after police said he chased a Rutherford woman down her street in the middle of the night returned to her building yet again on Sunday – and was arrested once more. Rutherford police had taken Timothy Conti, 43, into custody a little over a week ago for stalking the same victim twice in the span of an hour. SEE: Released Stalker Chases Terrified Woman Down Street, Rutherford Police Say They sent him to the Bergen County Jail after the second incident -- only to have a judge order Conti released under New Jersey's 2017 bail reform law less tha…

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Police & Fire
Victim Stabbed In Head In Englewood Victim Stabbed In Head In Englewood
Victim Stabbed In Head In Englewood A man was stabbed in the back of the head before dawn Sunday at a home in Englewood, authorities confirmed. Detectives recovered a large kitchen knife and detained everyone at the home on Bennett Road, a few doors from Mackay Park, after responding to the call around 1:30 a.m., Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead told Daily Voice. The 50-something victim was taken to the trauma unit at Hackensack University Medical Center where he remained in serious but stable condition on Sunday. The Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification collected evidence. No one had been charged a…

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Police & Fire
Hudson River Boat Ride Turns Ugly: Woman Pepper-Sprays Men, Bottle Thrown Through Window Hudson River Boat Ride Turns Ugly: Woman Pepper-Sprays Men, Bottle Thrown Through Window
Hudson River Boat Ride Turns Ugly: Woman Pepper-Sprays Men, Bottle Thrown Through Window An argument on a Hudson River charter boat got ugly when a woman blasted two men with pepper spray and one of the victims threw a glass bottle through the rear window of a car after they returned to shore, authorities said. The dispute began on the river and escalated at the Alpine boat basin, Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Sgt. First Class Raymond Walter said. Police called to what was reported as a large fight at the foot of the Palisades found 10 or so “visibly upset” people remaining in the boat basin parking lot, Walter said. Two men had been doused with pepper spray by a woman w…

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Police & Fire
AG: Drug Suspect, 51, Dies Of Medical Episode Near NJ State Police Barracks AG: Drug Suspect, 51, Dies Of Medical Episode Near NJ State Police Barracks
AG: Drug Suspect, 51, Dies Of Medical Episode Near NJ State Police Barracks A 51-year-old man had a medical episode and died after being arrested for carrying drugs during a traffic stop Saturday outside the New Jersey State Police barracks in Totowa, authorities said. The man's death didn't involve use of force by the arresting trooper or any responding troopers, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal emphasized. "The man suffered an undetermined medical emergency shortly after being arrested at approximately 11:30 a.m. and being placed in the back of a police vehicle," Grewal said. "The trooper, as well as other responding troopers and paramedics, administ…

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SEEN HIM? Police Say Gunman Shot Girl, 4, In Elizabeth Drive-By SEEN HIM? Police Say Gunman Shot Girl, 4, In Elizabeth Drive-By
Seen HIM? Police Say Gunman Shot Girl, 4, In Elizabeth Drive-By A 4-year-old girl was struck in the leg by a bullet during a drive-by shooting Friday night at an Elizabeth public housing complex, responders said. Detectives, in turn, obtained a warrant for the arrest of Terry Edmonds of Elizabeth for aggravated assault and weapons offenses. The girl’s father told police that they were leaving the area when a gunman fired from a silver or grey Dodge Durango SUV at Mravlag Manor near the corner of Maple and Bayway avenues around 11:45 p.m. The girl was reportedly conscious and alert when she was taken to University Hospital in Newark. Her injury wasn’t…

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