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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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New Trump Order Carries 'Long Prison Terms' For Defacing Monuments, NJ Top Fed Leads Task Force New Trump Order Carries 'Long Prison Terms' For Defacing Monuments, NJ Top Fed Leads Task Force
New Trump Order Carries 'Long Prison Terms' For Defacing Monuments, NJ Top Fed Leads Task Force In advance of the Fourth of July, President Trump on Friday signed an executive order that he said promises “long prison terms” for those who vandalize American monuments, memorials and statues. “I just had the privilege of signing a very strong Executive Order protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues - and combating recent Criminal Violence,” Trump tweeted. “Long prison terms for these lawless acts against our Great Country!” In another move, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Craig Carpenito was appointed to co-lead a task force to counter anti-government extremists – specifically,…

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US Marshals Capture Third Ex-Con Wanted For Shooting Four People In Paterson US Marshals Capture Third Ex-Con Wanted For Shooting Four People In Paterson
US Marshals Capture Third Ex-Con Wanted For Shooting Four People In Paterson U.S. Marshals captured the last of three ex-cons accused of shooting four people in Paterson last month. Two co-defendants already were in custody when Paterson police and members of the U.S. Marshals Service's NY/NJ Regional Fugitive Task Force nabbed city resident Elijah McQueen, 32, in Piscataway on Thursday, they said. Struck by gunfire on 10th Avenue near East 23rd Street shortly before 1:30 a.m. May 30 were three city residents – 32, 28 and 22 years old – and a 32-year-old man from Newark, authorities said. Three of victims were taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center by ambula…

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Prosecutor: Assistant Poses As Business Owner, Steals $1.4M From Bergen Company Prosecutor: Assistant Poses As Business Owner, Steals $1.4M From Bergen Company
Prosecutor: Assistant Poses As Business Owner, Steals $1.4M From Bergen Company State troopers in New York captured a personal assistant wanted for stealing $1.4 million in tax reimbursement checks intended for a Bergen County company and cashing them by assuming the identity of a prominent business owner, authorities said. Detectives had obtained an arrest warrant after learning that Dong Chol Kim, 59, of Queens had intercepted the two checks from the mail and deposited them into a shell account, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Kim “assumed the identity of a prominent business owner, opened the accounts and conducted multiple bank transactions for his own …

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50 Years Later: Saddle Brook Fire Chief Who Made Ultimate Sacrifice Remembered 50 Years Later: Saddle Brook Fire Chief Who Made Ultimate Sacrifice Remembered
50 Years Later: Saddle Brook Fire Chief Who Made Ultimate Sacrifice Remembered TRIBUTE: Thoughts and prayers Friday were with the family of a Saddle Brook fire chief who died in the line of duty 50 years ago. It was shortly after midnight June 26, 1970 that a West Caldwell driver’s car veered off the Garden State Parkway and plunged 30 feet onto Saddle River Road, bursting into flames. Fire Chief William “Don” Wilson was two blocks from the scene of the crash when he lost control of his own vehicle and it struck a tree on a notoriously treacherous curve on Saddle River Road. He was pronounced dead at what was then Hackensack Hospital about an hour later. Don Wilson …

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Three Wounded In Overnight Paterson Shooting Three Wounded In Overnight Paterson Shooting
Three Wounded In Overnight Paterson Shooting Three people were wounded in an overnight shooting Friday in Paterson, authorities said. Police found a 19-year-old city man at the scene of the 1 a.m. shooting at the corner of Market Street and Madison Avenue, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint release. He was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson. Two other men – one 24, the other 20 – got to the hospital in a private vehicle, they said. All were expected to survive. Authorities were investigating.

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Paterson Pot Dealers Busted, Nine Pounds, $28,000 Seized, Police Say Paterson Pot Dealers Busted, Nine Pounds, $28,000 Seized, Police Say
Paterson Pot Dealers Busted, Nine Pounds, $28,000 Seized, Police Say Paterson detectives seized nearly nine pounds of pot in various forms and almost $28,000 in alleged proceeds while arresting three people on drug charges, authorities said. The defendants were dealing out of a home on Wayne Avenue near the corner of Maple Street, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Speziale said Paterson Narcotics Division detectives found: 33 bags of marijuana; 204 tins of marijuana; 173 THC vape cartridges; 10 glass jars of marijuana; 13 pre-rolled marijuana cigars. They arrested and charged three people with drug offenses: Shakir Khan and Marzan Choudhury, bot…

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HERO: Park Ranger Carries Dehydrated Dog To Safety Down Treacherous Water Gap Mountain HERO: Park Ranger Carries Dehydrated Dog To Safety Down Treacherous Water Gap Mountain
Hero: Park Ranger Carries Dehydrated Dog To Safety Down Treacherous Water Gap Mountain Supervisory Park Ranger Kris Salapek wasn’t about to leave a worried owner and his dehydrated dog alone on a mountain at the Delaware Water Gap National Recreational Area. Lexie Daniel of Randolph said she and fellow hikers on Mount Tammany in Warren County gave their water to the owner, “but we were afraid that would be little help with how much the dog was already struggling [in the intense heat].” Salapek then lifted the huge dog onto his shoulders and carried him down “an incredibly rocky hill all the way down to the stream – it was a LONG distance -- and laid him in the water as he kn…

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Bergen Sheriff Leads 'Rededication' To 'Good, Just Policing' Bergen Sheriff Leads 'Rededication' To 'Good, Just Policing'
Bergen Sheriff Leads 'Rededication' To 'Good, Just Policing' A group of sheriff's and corrections officers accepted Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton's offer to join him in rededicating themselves to their oaths of office. “Today we come together unified, as law enforcement officers to rededicate ourselves to the principles of our oath," Cureton said during a ceremony Wednesday on the Bergen County Courthouse steps in Hackensack. "We recognize at this time, due to social injustices, society is taking a hard look at our proud profession," the sheriff said. "We are here to show the community that the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office is committed to s…

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Paterson Councilman, Councilman-Elect, Two Others Charged With Election Fraud Paterson Councilman, Councilman-Elect, Two Others Charged With Election Fraud
Paterson Councilman, Councilman-Elect, Two Others Charged With Election Fraud State authorities on Thursday charged a sitting Paterson councilman, a councilman-elect and two other men with rigging a May 12 special election. Paterson City Councilman Michael Jackson and Councilman-Elect Alex Mendez conspired with Shelim Khalique of Wayne, and Abu Razyen of Prospect Park to play fast and loose with mail-in ballots made necessary for all voting in the special election due to the coronavirus pandemic, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. It began, he said, when the U.S. Postal Inspection Service alerted the Attorney General’s Office that hundreds of mail-in ballots wer…

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HEROES: Watch As Secaucus Police Catch Boy, 4, Thrown From Window In Fire HEROES: Watch As Secaucus Police Catch Boy, 4, Thrown From Window In Fire
Heroes: Watch As Secaucus Police Catch Boy, 4, Thrown From Window In Fire Video shows Secaucus police officers catching a 4-year-old boy tossed to them from the window of a burning building. They also carried an unconscious, badly burned woman out the front door. Officer Nicholas Spangenberg forced his way into a first-floor apartment in the the smoky Radio Avenue building and found the 56-year-old woman unconscious on the floor. He, Officer Jason Mitchell, and Detective Aniello Schaffer carried out the woman, who police said suffered 2nd- and 3rd-degree burns. Another mother, seeing other officers below, tossed her son to them out the second-floor window of a …

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