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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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Police & Fire
Baby Can't Wait: Port Authority Police Officers Assure Special Delivery Baby Can't Wait: Port Authority Police Officers Assure Special Delivery
Baby Can't Wait: Port Authority Police Officers Assure Special Delivery A Union County couple have a new baby, with help from a pair of Port Authority police officers who got there in the "Nick" of time. The expectant parents called for help on the eastbound Goethals Bridge while headed to Richmond University Medical Center on Staten Island, Port Authority spokeswoman Lenis Rodrigues said. They were still nearly five miles from the hospital when the newborn boy emerged, Rodrigues said. Finding him cuddled in his mother’s lap, Officers Nicolas Pimenta and Nicholas Sorace clamped the umbilical cord and cleared the baby’s airway while checking on the mom. C…

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Police & Fire
Englewood Auto Parts Store Employee, 22, Charged In Fair Lawn Arson Englewood Auto Parts Store Employee, 22, Charged In Fair Lawn Arson
Englewood Auto Parts Store Employee, 22, Charged In Fair Lawn Arson An auto parts store employee who lives in Englewood set a fire at a Fair Lawn home, said authorities who charged him with arson. Detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Arson Unit on Monday arrested Fair Lawn native Jonathan Rossi, 22, who lives in the Tryon Garden complex in Englewood, following an investigation with Fair Lawn police, Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The April 9 fire didn’t do much damage, authorities said. The Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification collected evidence. Along with arson, Rossi is charged with trespassing and criminal mischief…

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News
Pier 1 Closing All Stores For Good, Cites 'New Reality, Uncertainty Of Post-COVID World' Pier 1 Closing All Stores For Good, Cites 'New Reality, Uncertainty Of Post-COVID World'
Pier 1 Closing All Stores For Good, Cites 'New Reality, Uncertainty Of Post-covid World' Pier 1 Imports has become the latest retailer knocked against the ropes by the "new reality" of online shopping and finished off by COVID-19. Nearly 60 years after its first store opened -- and three months after filing for bankruptcy -- the company announced Tuesday that it wants to close all retail operations "as soon as reasonably possible." The explosion in online shopping, intense competition from larger chains and the coronavirus pandemic "are requiring us to wind down," Robert Riesbeck, Pier 1’s chief executive and chief financial officer, said in a statement. "This decisi…

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Police & Fire
Wayne PD: Officer Nabs Mail Thieves With Hundreds Of Stolen Checks, Credit Cards, More Wayne PD: Officer Nabs Mail Thieves With Hundreds Of Stolen Checks, Credit Cards, More
Wayne PD: Officer Nabs Mail Thieves With Hundreds Of Stolen Checks, Credit Cards, More A Wayne police officer nabbed three Paterson men before dawn Tuesday with several hundred pieces of stolen mail – including checks, credit cards and more, authorities said. All belonged to residents of Wayne, Pompton Plains, Fairfield, and Haskell, Detective Capt. Daniel Daly said. Responding to a resident's 5 a.m. call, Officer David Fox spotted the suspects in a vehicle on Webster Drive, Daly said. Arrested were Jose Veras, 18, Edward Lopez, 19 and Osvaldo Rios, 22, all of whom were processed and released pending court hearings on charges of theft, conspiracy and credit card fraud. “The…

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Police & Fire
NYPD Nabs Accused Paterson Shooter In Bronx NYPD Nabs Accused Paterson Shooter In Bronx
Nypd Nabs Accused Paterson Shooter In Bronx New York City police captured a Paterson man who authorities said shot a Bronx man the night before. The 24-year-old victim went to Bronx Lebanon Hospital in New York City after he was shot shortly before 3 a.m. Monday near the corner of Park Avenue and Carroll Street in Paterson, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and city Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint announcement. Investigators identified the shooter as David Polanco, 33, whom the NYPD took into custody at the 52nd Precinct station house on Webster Avenue early Tuesday, they said. Paterson detectives charged Pola…

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Police & Fire
Morning Blaze Guts Orange Multi-Family Home Morning Blaze Guts Orange Multi-Family Home
Morning Blaze Guts Orange Multi-Family Home A morning fire ravaged an Orange multi-family home Tuesday. Firefighters found heavy flames on all floors of the three-story Park Street home shortly after 6:30 a.m. The blaze went to three alarms less than an hour later and was knocked down about a half-hour after that. No serious injuries were immediately reported. ALL PHOTOS: Rob Munson The Park Street blaze in Orange went to three alarms less than an hour after it broke out.ALL PHOTOS: Rob Munson Among those assisting their Orange colleagues at the scene or in coverage were firefighters from Newark, Bloomfield, Montclair, West Or…

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Police & Fire
River Edge Driver Killed When Car Hits Maywood House River Edge Driver Killed When Car Hits Maywood House
River Edge Driver Killed When Car Hits Maywood House A 54-year-old River Edge driver was killed when his sedan slammed into a house overnight Tuesday in Maywood, authorities confirmed. The Honda Accord took down some streets signs after William Loeb lost control of the vehicle, which barreled across the lawn and into the home at Maywood and Fairmount avenues shortly after 3 a.m., Detective Sgt. William Phayre said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Maywood police were investigating the crash along with the Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification, which collected evidence.

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Police & Fire
Paterson PD: Detectives Smash Drug Operation, Seize 5,182 Heroin Folds, Handgun, Six Suspects Paterson PD: Detectives Smash Drug Operation, Seize 5,182 Heroin Folds, Handgun, Six Suspects
Paterson PD: Detectives Smash Drug Operation, Seize 5,182 Heroin Folds, Handgun, Six Suspects Paterson detectives smashed an Eastside drug operation, arresting several people and seizing 5,182 heroin folds, a handgun and hollow-point ammunition, authorities said. Investigators watched Monday as two men – one from Paterson, the other from Rockland – separately bought a combined 182 heroin folds at a house on East 27th Street, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. After arresting both, they obtained the necessary warrants and raided the house, Speziale said. Seized in addition to the heroin were 29 Percocet pills, two bags of pot, a .380-caliber Hi-Point Model CF380 handgun, ei…

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Police & Fire
Fire Blows Through Roof Of Moonachie Home Fire Blows Through Roof Of Moonachie Home
Fire Blows Through Roof Of Moonachie Home Flames blew through the roof of a Moonachie home early Monday evening. The call for what began as a two-alarm blaze on Joseph Street was called in at 4:50 p.m. No injuries were immediately reported. Assisting their Moonachie colleagues at the scene or in coverage were firefighters from Carlstadt, Hasbrouck Heights, Little Ferry, South Hackensack and Wood-Ridge.

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Police & Fire
Dump Truck With Trailer Barrels Down Embankment Into Hawthorne Home Dump Truck With Trailer Barrels Down Embankment Into Hawthorne Home
Dump Truck With Trailer Barrels Down Embankment Into Hawthorne Home A dump truck and equipment trailer owned by a Wayne landscaping company barreled down an embankment and crashed into a home in Hawthorne on Monday. The single-axle crew cab truck, owned by Canete Landscaping, was headed down Hillcrest Avenue around 5 p.m. when the driver said the brakes failed, responders said. After hitting a parked SUV, the truck careened down the embankment and into the rear closed-in porch of an Emeline Drive home. No injuries were reported. A heavy-duty tow truck was summoned to remove the wreckage. A building inspector responded to assess whether the home could c…

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