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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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Authorities: No Proof Lodi Man Charged With Cresskill Mom Murder Tried Recruiting Girl For Sex Authorities: No Proof Lodi Man Charged With Cresskill Mom Murder Tried Recruiting Girl For Sex
Authorities: No Proof Lodi Man Charged With Cresskill Mom Murder Tried Recruiting Girl For Sex Authorities said Tuesday that they’ve found no proof that a 19-year-old Lodi man accused of killing a Cresskill woman in her home was a predator who recruited the victim's 14-year-old daughter for the sex trade. Questions were raised after Victor Rosasco established a GoFundMe page in remembrance of his wife, Divna, who was stabbed to death in her home before her body was dumped in a shallow creek in Overpeck Park in Teaneck last week. Nicolas Coirazza stabbed and slashed 51-year-old Divna Rosasco several times, then got the victim’s daughter to help in what became a bungled attempt to dis…

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Authorities: NJ State Trooper Seizes 2 Handguns, Drugs From Philly Pair On AC Expressway Authorities: NJ State Trooper Seizes 2 Handguns, Drugs From Philly Pair On AC Expressway
Authorities: NJ State Trooper Seizes 2 Handguns, Drugs From Philly Pair On AC Expressway State Police seized two guns along with some heroin and pot from two Philadelphia men and a Pennsylvania companion after a stop on the Atlantic City Expressway, authorities said Tuesday. Trooper John Fallon stopped their car for a traffic violation on the westbound expressway in Winslow Township on Saturday, State Police said in a release. Dante Johnson-Simmons, 25, was carrying a .380-caliber gun and marijuana, and Latal Turner, 19, had a .40-caliber handgun and heroin, they said. Johnson-Simmons and Turner, both of Philadelphia, were arrested on drug and weapons charges. A third man, Ca…

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GOTCHA! Hackensack Bare-Knuckle Boxing Champ Wanted For Killing Woman In DWI Crash Surrenders GOTCHA! Hackensack Bare-Knuckle Boxing Champ Wanted For Killing Woman In DWI Crash Surrenders
Gotcha! Hackensack Bare-Knuckle Boxing Champ Wanted For Killing Woman In DWI Crash Surrenders UPDATE: A bare-knuckle boxing champion from Hackensack surrendered to New Jersey State Police on vehicular homicide charges in the death of a woman in a drunk-driving crash. was being sought for the drunk-driving death of a woman in a crash that seriously injured her husband. “Bobby Gunn,” as he’s known in the sports world, had been a fugitive until Monday, when State Police said he turned himself in at the Woodstown Station in Pilesgrove, Salem County. Robert Gunn Jr. was driving a northbound Dodge Ram 3500 that crossed into oncoming traffic on Route 635 in Salem County’s Upper Pittsgrov…

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Authorities Smash California-To-NJ Pot Smuggling Ring Following Hackensack Traffic Stop Authorities Smash California-To-NJ Pot Smuggling Ring Following Hackensack Traffic Stop
Authorities Smash California-To-NJ Pot Smuggling Ring Following Hackensack Traffic Stop It began with a driver who Hackensack police said they caught with three large bags of pot and some THC during a traffic stop. It ended in the takedown of a Somerset County-based operation that authorities said shipped marijuana by the pound from California to New Jersey. Hackensack police said they found a five-gallon bucket containing bags of pot, along with the THC cartridges, when they stopped Victor I. Chihimie, 22, of Madison last month for a traffic violation. City police detectives quickly found that Chihimie “was receiving multiple suspicious packages [at] a residence on Edgew…

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Police: PalPark Plumber Secretly Recorded Video In Tenafly Woman's Bathroom Police: PalPark Plumber Secretly Recorded Video In Tenafly Woman's Bathroom
Police: PalPark Plumber Secretly Recorded Video In Tenafly Woman's Bathroom A Palisades Park plumber secretly recorded video of a Tenafly customer by hiding his cellphone in her bathroom, said authorities who wonder whether there may be other victims. Tenafly police nabbed Eric Maldonado, 46, at the woman’s home after she discovered his cellphone “positioned in an unusual location actively recording” video in a specific bathroom he suspiciously insisted on using, Captain Michael deMoncada said Tuesday. Police charged Maldonado with two counts of invasion of privacy and released him on a summonses pending a court hearing. Now they’re trying to determine whether th…

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Judge: 7-Eleven Not Liable For South Jersey Robbery Shooting That Partially Paralyzed Clerk Judge: 7-Eleven Not Liable For South Jersey Robbery Shooting That Partially Paralyzed Clerk
Judge: 7-Eleven Not Liable For South Jersey Robbery Shooting That Partially Paralyzed Clerk A federal judge rejected a claim that 7-Eleven is responsible for injuries suffered by a South Jersey clerk who was left partially paralyzed after he was shot and beaten during a robbery. Individual franchisees – and not the 7-Eleven Corp -- are responsible for day-to-day control of their stores, U.S. District Judge Joseph Rodriguez said in tossing out the lawsuit filed by Adil Boutahli. Boutahli – who went on to become a world-class wheelchair tennis player – was working the overnight shift sol at a 7-Eleven in Pennsauken in January 2014 when three robbers pistol-whipped and shot him four …

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North Jersey Union Officer Admits Embezzling From Local North Jersey Union Officer Admits Embezzling From Local
North Jersey Union Officer Admits Embezzling From Local A bus driver who served as finance officer for a North Jersey transportation workers union admitted in federal court Tuesday that he swiped $117,000 of the local’s money. Angel L. Garcia, 57, of Tampa, FL, pleaded guilty by videoconference to embezzling from the operating account of the Amalgamated Transit Workers Union Local 1614 in Sussex County. Garcia was a bus driver who held a part-time position as a financial secretary for five years at Local # 1614, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. “He alone was responsible for maintaining the check book and other financial documents of the unio…

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Authorities: Woman Shoots, Kills Boyfriend At South Jersey Hotel Authorities: Woman Shoots, Kills Boyfriend At South Jersey Hotel
Authorities: Woman Shoots, Kills Boyfriend At South Jersey Hotel A 33-year-old woman shot and killed her boyfriend at a Camden County hotel, authorities said. Brandy Lee shot 26-year-old Kevin D. Owens III during an argument at the East 9th Avenue hotel in Runnemede around 3:30 a.m. Monday, according to a release issued by the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office. “Surveillance footage showed Lee was the only person to enter and exit the hotel room during the time of the shooting,” Acting Camden County Prosecutor Jill S. Mayer and Runnemede Police Chief Paul Dailey said in the joint statement. The mortally wounded Owens was taken to a nearby hospital, wher…

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Rutherford PD: Released Stalker Chases Terrified Woman Down Street Rutherford PD: Released Stalker Chases Terrified Woman Down Street
Rutherford PD: Released Stalker Chases Terrified Woman Down Street A Rutherford woman fearing for her life fled her home and drove away as a man who’d been stalking her chased her down the street in the middle of the night, authorities said. The woman was hanging out with friends when Timothy Conti, 43, drove past her home around 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Detective Capt. Patrick Feliciano said.  Conti had repeatedly bothered the woman despite her insistence that he stay away from her, Feliciano said. So she dialed 911. Police were having trouble finding him when Conti called the woman at 1:30 a.m., the captain said. She again alerted police, who reached Con…

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Paterson Party-Goer Stabbed Dead, Fellow City Man Surrenders, Charged With Murder Paterson Party-Goer Stabbed Dead, Fellow City Man Surrenders, Charged With Murder
Paterson Party-Goer Stabbed Dead, Fellow City Man Surrenders, Charged With Murder A Paterson man surrendered Monday morning to face murder charges after stabbing and killing another city man during a late-night party, authorities said. Henry Rivera, 31, stabbed Arthur Clauser, 52, in the chest after they got into an argument at a gathering on Ward Street just after midnight Monday, authorities said. Rivera fled before turning himself in at Paterson Police Headquarters later Monday morning, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint release. Clauser, meanwhile, was taken to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center …

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