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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: Leader, Members Of Notorious Trenton Gang Charged In Killing, Police Shooting Authorities: Leader, Members Of Notorious Trenton Gang Charged In Killing, Police Shooting
Authorities: Leader, Members Of Notorious Trenton Gang Charged In Killing, Police Shooting Members of a notorious Trenton gang who controlled a neighborhood drug trade executed a city man, tried to kill a police officer and shot at several other people over a period of several months, state authorities charged. Reputed gangleader Charles Willis, 27, and nine members of his “Get Money Boys” gang are charged with various counts that include murder, attempted murder and conspiracy, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. They were among 16 reputed members and associates of “Get Money Boys,” or “GMB,” who Grewal said sold heroin and cocaine in and around the Oakland Street Apar…

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Police: Thief Goes To, From Paterson In Vehicles Bergenfield Owners Left Running Police: Thief Goes To, From Paterson In Vehicles Bergenfield Owners Left Running
Police: Thief Goes To, From Paterson In Vehicles Bergenfield Owners Left Running A Bergenfield man stole three different vehicles from the same neighborhood – all of which had been left running with the keys inside – to get him to and from Paterson, said police who arrested him. Douglas Pereira was carrying heroin and drug paraphernalia when Sgt. Adam Fingeroth stopped one of the stolen cars and arrested him early Saturday night, Detective Lt. William Duran said. The 24-hour spree began last Friday afternoon when a 2017 Chevy Silverado that a deliveryman left running was snatched from outside the Ivy Apartments on Howard Drive. Police found the Silverado early Saturday…

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Dreadlocked Gunman Who Fled Identified, Caught, Paterson PD Says Dreadlocked Gunman Who Fled Identified, Caught, Paterson PD Says
Dreadlocked Gunman Who Fled Identified, Caught, Paterson PD Says Paterson detectives captured a gunman who fled from them last week, authorities said. Memphis Morales, 18, was relatively easy to identify because of his blond-tipped, shoulder-length dreads and a multi-colored tie-dyed shirt wrapped around his waist, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Morales ran from detectives who’d approached him and nearly two dozen men who were blocking a sidewalk at the corner of Keen and Mercer streets last Tuesday, Speziale said. Morales ran down Rosa Parks Boulevard toward Warren Street, tossing a gun as he went, the director said. It turned out to be a…

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Authorities: Teaneck Man Attacks, Injures 3 Bergenfield Officers After Fleeing Hospital Authorities: Teaneck Man Attacks, Injures 3 Bergenfield Officers After Fleeing Hospital
Authorities: Teaneck Man Attacks, Injures 3 Bergenfield Officers After Fleeing Hospital Three Bergenfield police officers had to be treated for various injuries following an unprovoked attack by a Teaneck man who’d become the subject of a search after he walked out of Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, authorities said. Officer Shane Churaman, hearing an alert shortly after midnight, stopped a sedan with Pennsylvania license plates being driven by 26-year-old Patrick S. Chakauya Jr. in the area of South Washington Avenue and Carnation Street. A search for Chakauya involved several area towns and a New Jersey State Police helicopter. The Bergenfield Volunteer Ambulance Cor…

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AUTHORITIES: Dumont Girlfriend Murderer Captured Without Pants, Shoes, Carrying 2 Young Kids AUTHORITIES: Dumont Girlfriend Murderer Captured Without Pants, Shoes, Carrying 2 Young Kids
Authorities: Dumont Girlfriend Murderer Captured Without Pants, Shoes, Carrying 2 Young Kids UPDATE: A man who authorities said brutally stabbed his girlfriend dead in her Dumont apartment before dawn Tuesday was captured by Closter police after he knocked on a local resident's door in the middle of the night not wearing pants or shoes and carrying their two young children in his arms. Jeffrey Daniels, 36, was charged with murder, child endangerment and illegal weapons possession in the slaying of Michelle Boccellari Burns hours earlier in the garden apartment they shared on Knickerbocker Road. Burns, a 36-year-old mother of three girls, had been stabbed several times in the head …

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Fed Pen Awaits Newark Ex-Con With Weapons History Who Had Different Guns In Separate Incidents Fed Pen Awaits Newark Ex-Con With Weapons History Who Had Different Guns In Separate Incidents
Fed Pen Awaits Newark Ex-Con With Weapons History Who Had Different Guns In Separate Incidents An ex-con from Newark who was carrying three different guns on three separate days – one of which he was seen firing at another man -- is headed to federal prison for an extended stretch. Samaad “Spud” Kelly, 33, already was a convicted felon when Essex County sheriff’s officers stopped his 2002 BMW wagon for having tinted windows on April 24, 2019 and found a Taurus semi-automatic 9 millimeter handgun in the glove box, authorities said. Kelly remained jailed all of eight days before a judge ordered him released on May 2 under New Jersey’s 2017 bail reform law, records show. Three days lat…

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UPDATE: Lodi Man Charged With Murdering Cresskill Mom, Daughter Charged With Helping Dump Body UPDATE: Lodi Man Charged With Murdering Cresskill Mom, Daughter Charged With Helping Dump Body
Update: Lodi Man Charged With Murdering Cresskill Mom, Daughter Charged With Helping Dump Body A 19-year-old Lodi man was charged Monday with killing a Cresskill woman whose 14-year-old daughter assisted in a bungled attempt to dispose of the body, authorities said. Nicolas Coirazza killed Divna Rosasco, 51, at her home in Cresskill and then got the girl to help him try to dump the body in Overpeck Creek in Teaneck, authorities said. The girl's father had reported the woman missing around 12:20 p.m. Monday, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. A Bergen County sheriff's officer on patrol in Overpeck Park off Fort Lee Road later found Rosasco's SUV (see photo below) parked nea…

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UPDATE: Boyfriend Of Slain Dumont Woman Captured Without Pants, Shoes, Carrying Two Young Kids UPDATE: Boyfriend Of Slain Dumont Woman Captured Without Pants, Shoes, Carrying Two Young Kids
Update: Boyfriend Of Slain Dumont Woman Captured Without Pants, Shoes, Carrying Two Young Kids UPDATE: A man who authorities said brutally stabbed his girlfriend dead in her Dumont apartment before dawn Tuesday was captured by Closter police after he knocked on a local resident's door in the middle of the night not wearing pants or shoes and carrying their two young children in his arms. Jeffrey Daniels, 36, was charged with murder, child endangerment and illegal weapons possession in the slaying of Michelle Boccellari Burns hours earlier in the garden apartment they shared on Knickerbocker Road. Burns, a 36-year-old mother of three girls, had been stabbed several times in the head …

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Ambulance Driver Ejected In Norwood Garbage Truck Crash Ambulance Driver Ejected In Norwood Garbage Truck Crash
Ambulance Driver Ejected In Norwood Garbage Truck Crash A private ambulance driver was ejected when a garbage truck ran a stop sign and slammed into his rig early Monday afternoon in Norwood, authorities said. The driver for Paramus-based MP Care was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with what Police Chief Jeffrey Krapels said was a possible broken hip after the crash at Broadway and Summit Street around 12:45 p.m. He was alone in the rig, not wearing a seat belt, when the driver of the Teaneck-based Interstate Waste Services garbage truck ignored the stop sign, Krapels said. The truck driver and a passenger weren't injured, the chi…

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Authorities: Garfield PD Nabs Man Who Scammed Upstate NY Grandma Out Of Nearly $12,800 Authorities: Garfield PD Nabs Man Who Scammed Upstate NY Grandma Out Of Nearly $12,800
Authorities: Garfield PD Nabs Man Who Scammed Upstate NY Grandma Out Of Nearly $12,800 An elderly New York State woman was conned out of $7,000 in a grandparent scam -- and nearly lost $5,800 more before Garfield police grabbed a Paterson man as he collected the second payment, authorities said. Jose A. Torres-Dejesus, 27, called the victim on Friday claiming to be her grandson, Detective Capt. Richard Uram said. Torres-Dejesus told the woman he’d been involved in a DUI crash and needed money, Uram said. He then gave her a phone number, saying it was his attorney, the captain said. The woman called the number and a man who answered said she had overnight $7,000 in cash to a…

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