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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 Trying To ID Body Found Along Passaic River Bank Authorities Trying To ID Body Found Along Passaic River Bank
Authorities Trying To ID Body Found Along Passaic River Bank UPDATE: Authorities continued trying to identify a man whose body was found Wednesday on the bank of the Passaic River behind the North Arlington firehouse. His death wasn't considered suspicious, borough police Capt. Robert J. Reilly said Thursday. A passerby spotted the body around 2 p.m. Wednesday and called police, Reilly said. The Bergen County Prosecutor's Office was notified, the Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification collected evidence and the Bergen County Medical Examiner's Office took custody of the body, he said.

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Paterson PD: Detectives Enforcing Social Distancing Chase Down Teen With Stolen Handgun Paterson PD: Detectives Enforcing Social Distancing Chase Down Teen With Stolen Handgun
Paterson PD: Detectives Enforcing Social Distancing Chase Down Teen With Stolen Handgun Paterson police detectives enforcing social distancing orders ended up chasing down a 17-year-boy city who was carrying a stolen gun, authorities said. Ceasefire Detectives Luis Fernandez, Sal Marotta and Marvin Escobar, accompanied by Passaic County Prosecutor’s Detective Eugene Tolliver, approached a large group that had gathered in front of a home in the area of North 10 Street and Belmont Avenue, city Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale Jr. said. The teen suddenly broke off from the group and began running east on North 10th Street – while pulling the gun from his waistband and tossin…

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News
Health Commissioner Closes NJ Gym That Defied COVID-19 Emergency Lockdown Health Commissioner Closes NJ Gym That Defied COVID-19 Emergency Lockdown
Health Commissioner Closes NJ Gym That Defied Covid-19 Emergency Lockdown After several days of intense media attention, New Jersey health officials early Thursday closed a Camden County gym whose owners defied a state coronavirus emergency lockdown. Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli signed a four-page order posted on the front of Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, which drew national media attention when its owners allowed members to work out there beginning Monday in open defiance of a state shutdown order intended to protect public health and safety. Co-owner Frank Trumbetti told reporters the gym would remain closed while attorneys were consulted. He also brought i…

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Lyndhurst PD: Tailgating Thief Busted By Chief Lyndhurst PD: Tailgating Thief Busted By Chief
Lyndhurst PD: Tailgating Thief Busted By Chief Lyndhurst Police Chief Richard Jarvis played an educated guess and caught a fleeing thief who’d just slipped out of a local supermarket with nearly $850 of stolen energy drinks and candy, authorities said. Jarvis was driving on Page Avenue around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday when another car came speeding up behind him. Jarvis pulled over to let it go by, then stopped the driver. Matthew Hemphill, 36, of Kearny had a large duffel bag filled with the drinks and candy that he said he bought at Costco and another large store – but no receipt, Acting Police Lt. Vincent Auteri said. Playing a hunch, J…

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‘Patient Broker’ Admits Bribing NJ Addicts To Fly To Cali Rehab Clinics That Paid Him Kickbacks ‘Patient Broker’ Admits Bribing NJ Addicts To Fly To Cali Rehab Clinics That Paid Him Kickbacks
‘Patient Broker’ Admits Bribing NJ Addicts To Fly To Cali Rehab Clinics That Paid Him Kickbacks A Jersey Shore man admitted Wednesday that he bribed drug addicts to enroll in rehab centers -- some in as far away as California -- in order to collect kickbacks. Peter J. Costas, 26, of Red Bank, told a federal judge via teleconference that he paid some addicts several thousand dollars to use specific rehab centers in New Jersey and other states. He and owners of a marketing company that he conspired with arranged for cross-country travel to the drug treatment centers in California and other states, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. In exchange, Carpenito said, the conspirators “could …

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Authorities: On-The-Spot Paramus Police Officers Nab ID Thief Fleeing With Victim's $3,500 Authorities: On-The-Spot Paramus Police Officers Nab ID Thief Fleeing With Victim's $3,500
Authorities: On-The-Spot Paramus Police Officers Nab ID Thief Fleeing With Victim's $3,500 Paramus police nabbed an identity thief as she tried to flee a Route 17 bank with $3,500 that she'd just pulled from a victim’s account, authorities said. Responding to a call, Officers Michael Boccher, Gregg Hooper and Officer David Polanco seized Chelsea D. Colson, 29, outside the Citibank branch Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said Wednesday. She was carrying a small amount of cocaine, Ehrenberg said. The officers learned that Colson withdrew $3,500 from a Brooklyn resident’s account using stolen identification. Colson, who's had recent addresses in New York and Florida, is awaiting t…

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Authorities Trying To ID Body Found Along Passaic River Bank Authorities Trying To ID Body Found Along Passaic River Bank
Authorities Trying To ID Body Found Along Passaic River Bank UPDATE: Authorities continued trying to identify a man whose body was found Wednesday on the bank of the Passaic River behind the North Arlington firehouse. His death wasn't considered suspicious, borough police Capt. Robert J. Reilly said Thursday. A passerby spotted the body around 2 p.m. Wednesday and called police, Reilly said. The Bergen County Prosecutor's Office was notified, the Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification collected evidence and the Bergen County Medical Examiner's Office took custody of the body, he said.

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News
‘Apples To Apples’: Murphy Administration Reduces Number Of COVID-19 Deaths By 1,400 ‘Apples To Apples’: Murphy Administration Reduces Number Of COVID-19 Deaths By 1,400
‘Apples To Apples’: Murphy Administration Reduces Number Of Covid-19 Deaths By 1,400 The Murphy Administration has lowered the number of reported coronavirus-related deaths in New Jersey nursing homes by nearly 1,400, claiming the method previously being used was different from those to count the rest of the state’s COVID-19 deaths. For some, that raises alarming new concerns. “Bodies were piling up in nursing homes across the state,” state Sen. Joseph Pennachio said. “If these people didn’t die from the virus spreading like wildfire within the institutions, what did they die from? Administrative neglect?” The number of deaths at New Jersey long-term care facilities, which…

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US Government Sues Jersey Shore Town For Discriminating Against Orthodox Schools US Government Sues Jersey Shore Town For Discriminating Against Orthodox Schools
US Government Sues Jersey Shore Town For Discriminating Against Orthodox Schools Jackson Township is discriminating against Orthodox Jews through zoning ordinances that “intentionally restrict the operation of religious schools and housing associated with such schools,” including yeshivas, the U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday. The ordinances were enacted and used “against a backdrop of extreme [animosity] by Jackson residents and township decision makers toward the Orthodox Jewish community and a movement by residents to keep Orthodox Jewish community members from settling in Jackson,” the government contends in a lawsuit. Jackson’s planning board applied a pair o…

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SEEN HER? Concern Grows Over Missing Jersey Shore Woman, 66, With Bergen County Family SEEN HER? Concern Grows Over Missing Jersey Shore Woman, 66, With Bergen County Family
Seen HER? Concern Grows Over Missing Jersey Shore Woman, 66, With Bergen County Family A 66-year-old Lakewood woman with family in Bergen County and suffering from mental illness has now been missing more than a month, authorities said. Dale Murberg, 66, left the Lexington Rest Home on 7th Street in Lakewood on April 18 and hasn't been seen since, authorities confirmed Tuesday. She’s about 5-foot-6 and 190 pounds, with grey hair and hazel eyes, and cannot care for herself, the New Jersey State Police Missing Persons Unit and police in Hillsdale , where her sister lives, said in a joint announcement. Spreading the word across the state gives authorities a better chance of fin…

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