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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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Fauci: COVID Could Block Pro Football’s Season If It Doesn't Copy NBA's 'Bubble' Fauci: COVID Could Block Pro Football’s Season If It Doesn't Copy NBA's 'Bubble'
Fauci: COVID Could Block Pro Football’s Season If It Doesn't Copy NBA's 'Bubble' The coronavirus pandemic could cancel the 2020 NFL season unless the league follows the NBA’s “bubble” approach, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday. “Unless players are essentially in a bubble -- insulated from the community and they are tested nearly every day -- it would be very hard to see how football is able to be played this fall,” Fauci told CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta. “f there is a second wave, which is certainly a possibility and which would be complicated by the predictable flu season, football may not happen this year,” said Fauci, who’s been the face of the United States' fight agains…

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Police & Fire
Fugitive Wanted For Stabbing Ex-Girlfriend In Newark Captured In Maryland Fugitive Wanted For Stabbing Ex-Girlfriend In Newark Captured In Maryland
Fugitive Wanted For Stabbing Ex-Girlfriend In Newark Captured In Maryland A Newark man stabbed his ex-girlfriend when she wouldn't take him back, then fled to Maryland, where he was captured the same day, authorities said. Carlos Hernandez Bonilla-Pabon, 47, stabbed the victim several times after she refused to resume their relationship when he stopped her on Nichols Street as she headed to work on June 9, authorities said. An Essex County sheriff’s officer forwarded an arrest warrant and a possible location in the town of Fort Washington, MD -- roughly 230 miles from the scene of the assault -- to their colleagues in Prince Georges County that same day. Deputie…

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Police & Fire
ON THE LOOKOUT: Porch Pirates Swipe Packages In Several Bergen County Towns ON THE LOOKOUT: Porch Pirates Swipe Packages In Several Bergen County Towns
ON THE Lookout: Porch Pirates Swipe Packages In Several Bergen County Towns Police in several Bergen County towns were looking for a white pickup truck that victims in at least six towns say was involved in pirating packages from their porches. A Hasbrouck Heights resident said a thief stole a large box containing a chair that she and her husband bought for their children (see photos below). “It’s not even about the chair but more of a violation,” she said. Residents say the same new, white Ford F-150 was at the scene of similar thefts in Hackensack, Lyndhurst, Maywood and Rochelle Park, as well as in Nutley (the truck can be seen in the video above). The packag…

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Police & Fire
Three Victims Hit In Hail Of Gunfire Outside Newark Playground Three Victims Hit In Hail Of Gunfire Outside Newark Playground
Three Victims Hit In Hail Of Gunfire Outside Newark Playground Three people were wounded in a burst of gunfire outside a children’s playground Wednesday night in Newark, responders said. At least five vehicles were also struck and more than 40 shell casings reportedly recovered in the Elwood Avenue shooting near Phillips Park in the North Ward shortly after 9:30 p.m. Two people were brought to the hospital and another was taken by private vehicle to Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville. Their conditions weren’t immediately known. No suspects were immediately in custody. The Newark Police Department’s Major Crimes Shooting Response Team was among…

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Police & Fire
SEEN HIM? Bare-Knuckle Boxing Champ From Hackensack Wanted For Killing Woman In DWI Crash SEEN HIM? Bare-Knuckle Boxing Champ From Hackensack Wanted For Killing Woman In DWI Crash
Seen HIM? Bare-Knuckle Boxing Champ From Hackensack Wanted For Killing Woman In DWI Crash 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. https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/hackensack/police-fire/gotcha-hackensack-bare-knuckle-boxing-champ-wanted-for-killing-woman-in-dwi-crash-surrenders/789788/ ****** ORIGINAL STORY: Shades of "Fight Club": A bare-knuckle boxing champion from Hackensack 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, remained a fugiti…

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Police & Fire
FBI Agents Arrest Accused Arsonist Who Torched Trenton Police Car On Social Media FBI Agents Arrest Accused Arsonist Who Torched Trenton Police Car On Social Media
FBI Agents Arrest Accused Arsonist Who Torched Trenton Police Car On Social Media FBI agents on Wednesday arrested a Trenton man who they said was caught on video torching a police car during a riot in the city last month. Bystander video shows Earlja J. Dudley, 27, and another man opening the vehicle’s engine and igniting a fire during unrest that followed what had been a peaceful day of protest against the death of George Floyd on May 31, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said Wednesday. In the video, Dudley is wearing a tank top and baseball cap with the Roman numerals “XIV” in red lettering, along with distinctive green, black and white sneakers, Carpenito said. Invest…

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Police & Fire
Newark Parking Authority Employee Admits Selling Drugs, Having Guns On Duty Newark Parking Authority Employee Admits Selling Drugs, Having Guns On Duty
Newark Parking Authority Employee Admits Selling Drugs, Having Guns On Duty A Newark Parking Authority employee who already had a criminal record admitted Wednesday in federal court that he supplemented his income selling heroin and crack and dealing in guns, authorities said. FBI agents arrested Aughkay “Kay Boogie” Green, 49, after he sold nearly three ounces combined of heroin and crack in separate deals, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Green also got a cut of $1,360 that an associate made selling two Smith and Wesson handguns – one a .44-caliber Model 21, the other a .38-caliber Model 15, along with 50 rounds of hollow-point .44-caliber ammo -- in exchange …

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Police & Fire
Police: Nodding Lyndhurst Driver Crosses Bridge From Nutley With Heroin, Xanax, Urine Police: Nodding Lyndhurst Driver Crosses Bridge From Nutley With Heroin, Xanax, Urine
Police: Nodding Lyndhurst Driver Crosses Bridge From Nutley With Heroin, Xanax, Urine A Lyndhurst driver had several heroin folds, Xanax – and two small bottles of urine apparently intended to beat a  drug test -- when he was stopped after crossing the bridge back into town from Nutley, authorities said. David Moran, 52, drew the attention of witnesses who told police he was passed out behind the wheel of a car on Park Avenue by the Burger King, Lt. Vincent Auteri said. Moran pulled away and headed north on Park Avenue before Officer Nick Abruscato spotted him pulling onto Route 3 in Rutherford and issued an alert. Soon after, Nutley police stopped Moran after he drove…

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Police & Fire
Culprits Could Make It Easier Admitting To COVID, ‘Go Home To China’ Graffiti At Wyckoff Eatery Culprits Could Make It Easier Admitting To COVID, ‘Go Home To China’ Graffiti At Wyckoff Eatery
Culprits Could Make It Easier Admitting To COVID, ‘Go Home To China’ Graffiti At Wyckoff Eatery Whoever spray-painted “Go home to China,” “Coronavirus” and “COVID-19” on the windows and front sidewalk of a Wyckoff Chinese restaurant – whether adult or juvenile – faces severe penalties if caught by investigators, authorities said Wednesday. Detectives were reviewing area surveillance video and evidence collected by the Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification following the overnight attack on Gourmet Garden Restaurant on Crescent Avenue. The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office is involved, as well, and are pursuing the incident as a bias crime. Other charges, including …

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Police & Fire
Body Dumped Off Route 17? Nope Body Dumped Off Route 17? Nope
Body Dumped Off Route 17? Nope A report of a body possibly dumped off Route 17 drew responders' attention around noontime Wednesday, but it turned out bogus, authorities said. A woman approached a Hasbrouck Heights police lieutenant on a traffic detail and said she'd seen what she thought was a suspicious incident near North Williams Avenue. Someone apparently had tossed a shopping bag near the train tracks off the highway. Social media being what it is, rumors grew of a possible body, so borough police summoned a Bergen County sheriff's K9. New Jersey Transit police also responded. It turned out to be "one of those pl…

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