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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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NJ State Trooper Charged With Pulling Woman Over, Following Her Home To Hit On Her NJ State Trooper Charged With Pulling Woman Over, Following Her Home To Hit On Her
NJ State Trooper Charged With Pulling Woman Over, Following Her Home To Hit On Her A New Jersey state trooper stalked a woman while on duty, authorities said Friday. Michael Patterson, 28, of Bayonne first stopped the female motorist for an unspecified offense on the New Jersey Turnpike on Jan. 28, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. After letting her go with a warning, Paterson “conducted a second, unwarranted stop of her vehicle a few minutes later when she exited the Turnpike at Exit 11….in order to make unwanted advances on the woman,” Grewal said. Patterson “put the victim in fear by following her to her home in his patrol vehicle,” the attorney …

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Fatal Paterson Fire Victim Identified As Longtime City Resident, 83 Fatal Paterson Fire Victim Identified As Longtime City Resident, 83
Fatal Paterson Fire Victim Identified As Longtime City Resident, 83 A man killed in a Paterson house fire Tuesday afternoon was identified Friday as longtime city resident Charles Bennett, 83. Responders found Bennett unresponsive in the basement, where the fire in the two-family home on 17th Avenue broke out. He was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said. Authorities were still investigating the cause of the two-alarm blaze, which broke out around 2:30 p.m. and severely damaged the three-story, wood-frame house. Firefighters had it knocked down within an hour. Five people were displaced. Funeral arrangements for Bennett hadn't yet been made…

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Police & Fire
Englewood PD: Shots Fired Nearby Not Connected To People Throwing Rocks At Police Englewood PD: Shots Fired Nearby Not Connected To People Throwing Rocks At Police
Englewood PD: Shots Fired Nearby Not Connected To People Throwing Rocks At Police Dozens of people were throwing rocks and other objects at police responding to a call in Englewood late Thursday when shots were fired on a nearby block, authorities said. Nearly 80 police from several other towns converged on the city – among them, officers from Hackensack, Cliffside Park, Fort Lee and the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office -- but things eventually calmed down. City police responding to an 11:30 p.m. disturbance call found about 60 people standing in the middle of the street on Palisade Place, Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said. There was “no indication at this time …

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Water Search Continues For Missing Jersey Shore Kayaker Water Search Continues For Missing Jersey Shore Kayaker
Water Search Continues For Missing Jersey Shore Kayaker Authorities continued a search Friday for a Burlington County kayaker who apparently couldn’t get back to land before a storm hit the Jersey Shore. Nadem Aksoy, 50, of Bordentown and a friend were fishing in their kayaks on the Navesink River in Monmouth County when the storm blew in around midnight, his brother, Mujdad, told News 12. He "looked at his phone, the storm was coming, and then he called his friend [who] was on [a] kayak too,” his brother said. The friend saw Aksoy’s kayak flip over and Aksoy trying to hold onto it, Mujdad said. “After that he didn’t see him,” he said. The se…

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Residents Flee Fire In Lyndhurst Two-Family Residents Flee Fire In Lyndhurst Two-Family
Residents Flee Fire In Lyndhurst Two-Family Four residents safely fled a two-family house fire Friday morning in Lyndhurst. The blaze began in a rear basement room of the Forest Avenue home shortly after 9:30 a.m. Firefighters initially thought they have to rescue a second-floor tenant by ladder, but Police Lt. Andrew Marmorato -- who's also a firefighter, lives across the street and was home following an overnight shift -- assisted her out. A woman and two children on the first floor got out under their own steam. North Arlington and Rutherford firefighters assisted their Lyndhurst colleagues. The basement sustained heavy damage…

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AG: Passaic County Dentist, Morris County Health Club Make False Claims About Antibody Tests AG: Passaic County Dentist, Morris County Health Club Make False Claims About Antibody Tests
AG: Passaic County Dentist, Morris County Health Club Make False Claims About Antibody Tests State authorities have told a Passaic County dentist and Morris County health club to stop making false or misleading claims about coronavirus tests. Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said his office and the state Division of Consumer Affairs sent cease-and-desist letters telling each to stop claiming that they have antibody (“serological”) COVID-19 tests that can tell whether someone is immune from COVID-19. “Misinformation of this nature has the potential to provide false security to individuals and contribute, in the aggregate, to widespread public harm, and also violates New Jersey’s Co…

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Police & Fire
Back-To-Back Route 95 Crashes: Teaneck Native Killed By Tractor-Trailer, Police Car Hit Back-To-Back Route 95 Crashes: Teaneck Native Killed By Tractor-Trailer, Police Car Hit
Back-To-Back Route 95 Crashes: Teaneck Native Killed By Tractor-Trailer, Police Car Hit A 21-year-old Teaneck native was killed when she got out of her car following a crash on Route 95 in Fort Lee late Wednesday and was struck by a tractor-trailer. Jada Smith was pronounced dead at the scene after CPR efforts failed, responders said. Smith, of Brooklyn, was headed back to Teaneck with fellow family members in two vehicles when she was involved in a crash in the southbound express lanes, responders said. Smith's mom and dad were in a car behind hers coming off the George Washington at the time. Smith got out of her SUV to call her mother and was standing in the road on the p…

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'Burn This (Expletive) Down!': Atlantic City Man's Posts Urged Violence Against Police 'Burn This (Expletive) Down!': Atlantic City Man's Posts Urged Violence Against Police
'Burn This (Expletive) Down!': Atlantic City Man's Posts Urged Violence Against Police Carlos A. Matchett of Atlantic City kept furiously posting messages on Facebook for days urging violence against police – right up until FBI agents arrested him on rioting charges Wednesday. “LET’S START A RIOT” Matchett, 30, wrote in one. “Burn This M*****f****r Downnn!!!” read another. Matchett also shared a post that said, in part: “The point of a riot isn’t to solve anything. The point is to f**k sh*t up since nothing could be solved to begin with.” Then came the so-called smoking gun: A cellphone video that federal authorities said showed him helping people loot goods from smashed …

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Tree Worker From Bergenfield Falls To Death In Ridgewood Tree Worker From Bergenfield Falls To Death In Ridgewood
Tree Worker From Bergenfield Falls To Death In Ridgewood A tree worker fell to his death Thursday in Ridgewood. The 35-year-old Bergenfield worker for Arrow Tree Service in Old Tappan was nearly 30 feet up when he fell and tree limb landed on top of him at a Waiku Road home off Carlton Terrace at 8:40 a.m., Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke said. He was killed instantly, responders said. Village police, firefighters and ALS and BLS units responded. Our condolences go out to his family, friends and co-workers.

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News
UPDATE: Tree Downs Wires, Burns Route 17 Pavement UPDATE: Tree Downs Wires, Burns Route 17 Pavement
Update: Tree Downs Wires, Burns Route 17 Pavement UPDATE: Southbound Route 17 remained closed temporarily after a transformer fire downed wires and burned a portion of the roadway Wednesday night in Waldwick. Police initially closed the highway north at Allendale Road and south at Cameron Road around 9:15 p.m. Several area power outages were reported. Police, firefighters and the state Department of Transportation responded. The northbound side was reopened shortly before 10:30 p.m., but the southbound side remained closed while things cooled off and a hole could be patched. Grove Street in Waldwick.DAILY VOICE

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