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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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Hospital: First Critical NJ Patients To Receive COVID-19 Plasma Make 'Remarkable' Recoveries Hospital: First Critical NJ Patients To Receive COVID-19 Plasma Make 'Remarkable' Recoveries
Hospital: First Critical NJ Patients To Receive Covid-19 Plasma Make 'Remarkable' Recoveries The first two New Jersey residents to receive plasma transfusions for critical cases of COVID-19 -- a 63-year-old teacher and a 61-year-old old opera singer – were released from the hospital after making "remarkable" recoveries, Virtua Voorhees Health System announced. Their recoveries came as studies at several New Jersey hospitals explore whether the transfusions can help save coronavirus patients who are moderately or critically ill. Both Renee Bannister of Blackwood (Gloucester County) and Andy Fei of Mount Laurel (Burlington County) had been on ventilators in the intensive care unit at…

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Police & Fire
Massive Route 1&9 Tanker Fire Severely Burns Trucker, Guts Home Massive Route 1&9 Tanker Fire Severely Burns Trucker, Guts Home
Massive Route 1&9 Tanker Fire Severely Burns Trucker, Guts Home A trucker was badly burned when his tanker burst into flames after it was struck by another vehicle Friday night at a gas station off Route 1&9 in Elizabeth, responders said. Massive flames from the fully-involved truck fire at the BP station near Bayway Circle spread to and gutted a nearby two-family home on South Elmora Avenue around 8:30 p.m.  Nine people -- three of them children -- reportedly were displaced. The trucker was taken to Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston. Two other vehicles, as well as traffic lights and wires, were destroyed or damaged in the three-alarm b…

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Police & Fire
Authorities: Homeless Woman Who Made Repeated 911 Calls Breaks Into Ridgewood Library Authorities: Homeless Woman Who Made Repeated 911 Calls Breaks Into Ridgewood Library
Authorities: Homeless Woman Who Made Repeated 911 Calls Breaks Into Ridgewood Library A homeless woman who’s made repeated bogus 911 calls was arrested this week after she broke into the public library, authorities said. Police responding to a burglar alarm said they found the 56-year-old woman in the library shortly after 2 a.m. Thursday. They gave her summonses for trespassing and having an open container of alcohol and released her pending a court hearing. It was another in a series of reported encounters with police. Officers arrested and subsequently released the woman a few weeks ago after Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke said she called the 911 dispatch center ten ti…

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Police & Fire
PHOTOS: Car Carrier Splits, Topples Across Route 287, Dump Truck Rolls On Opposite Side PHOTOS: Car Carrier Splits, Topples Across Route 287, Dump Truck Rolls On Opposite Side
Photos: Car Carrier Splits, Topples Across Route 287, Dump Truck Rolls On Opposite Side A car carrier and a dump truck both toppled over on Route 287 in Oakland around noontime Friday, closing several lanes and causing major delays well into the afternoon. Five heavy-duty wreckers were called to clear the roadway after the northbound rig hauling SUVs tipped over the divider. The carrier split in two, with one section landing on its side against the divider, dumping one of the SUVs on the other side of the median.  The other half ended up on its side, as well, in the right lane. A dump truck that tried to avoid the wreck tipped onto a railing in the right lane. A dump tr…

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Police & Fire
Bergen Prosecutor: Mahwah PD Nabs Queens Man Accused Of Having Sex In Car With Missing Girl Bergen Prosecutor: Mahwah PD Nabs Queens Man Accused Of Having Sex In Car With Missing Girl
Bergen Prosecutor: Mahwah PD Nabs Queens Man Accused Of Having Sex In Car With Missing Girl Mahwah police found a 14-year-old girl who'd been reported missing in a car with a Queens man who'd had sex with her, authorities said. Township police searching for the out-of-town girl on Wednesday found her in a car with Ralph Renard, a 21-year-old airline safety worker, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Police contacted members of Musella’s Special Victims Unit, who discovered that Renard “engaged in sexual activity with the juvenile while in his vehicle,” the prosecutor said. They charged him with sexual assault and child endangerment, as well as with having a small amount o…

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Police & Fire
NEW VIDEO: Agitated Gunman Repeatedly Points Weapon At Paterson Police Before He's Shot NEW VIDEO: Agitated Gunman Repeatedly Points Weapon At Paterson Police Before He's Shot
NEW Video: Agitated Gunman Repeatedly Points Weapon At Paterson Police Before He's Shot WATCH: A gunman who refused to drop his weapon in a confrontation with Paterson police raised the firearm a final time and was shot Thursday afternoon, video taken from above shows. Luan Agolli, 42, of Pequannock lifts the gun several times, refusing to drop it, as he paces the intersection of Carroll and Harrison streets surrounded by officers just after 4:15 p.m., the video obtained by Daily Voice shows (see above). At times he holds the weapon with both hands and points it at the converging officers. "I'm giving him all these opportunities," says an officer in another video taken from t…

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Rockaway Firefighters Contain Commercial Blaze Rockaway Firefighters Contain Commercial Blaze
Rockaway Firefighters Contain Commercial Blaze Firefighters prevented a late-night blaze from damaging expensive machinery at a Rockaway metal manufacturing company. Borough police were the first responders at the scene after the fire broke out near the rear of Able Gear and Machine on Stickle Avenue and collapsed a portion of the roof shortly before 11:30 p.m., authorities said. Firefighters knocked down visible flames within a half-hour of arriving, confining the blaze to the rear part of the business, away from expensive machinery up front, they said. They continued hitting hot spots for the next hour or so. The scene was cleared a…

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UPDATE (NEW VIDEO): Gunman Refusing To Drop Weapon Shot, Killed By Police In Paterson UPDATE (NEW VIDEO): Gunman Refusing To Drop Weapon Shot, Killed By Police In Paterson
Update (NEW Video): Gunman Refusing To Drop Weapon Shot, Killed By Police In Paterson WATCH: A gunman who refused to drop his weapon in a confrontation with Paterson police raised the firearm a final time and was shot Thursday afternoon, video taken from above shows. Luan Agolli, 42, of Pequannock lifts the gun several times, refusing to drop it, as he paces the intersection of Carroll and Harrison streets surrounded by officers just after 4:15 p.m., the video obtained by Daily Voice shows (see above). At times he holds the weapon with both hands and points it at the converging officers. "I'm giving him all these opportunities," says an officer in another video taken from t…

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Authorities: Domestic Violence Defendant Coughs At Officers Going To, At Guttenberg Police HQ Authorities: Domestic Violence Defendant Coughs At Officers Going To, At Guttenberg Police HQ
Authorities: Domestic Violence Defendant Coughs At Officers Going To, At Guttenberg Police HQ A Union City man arrested on domestic violence charges coughed in the back of a Guttenberg police car all the way to headquarters, saying he was trying to infect officers with the coronavirus, authorities said Thursday. Elvis Perez-Astacio, 25, at first resisted arrest and threatened to harm an officer when they found him, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Once they put him in the police cruiser, he “said he would cough on the officers and infect them with COVID-19, [then] coughed throughout the trip to headquarters and while being processed,” Grewal said. Police charged Perez-…

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Fire Destroys Familiar Paterson Water Tower, Ravages Abandoned Mill Fire Destroys Familiar Paterson Water Tower, Ravages Abandoned Mill
Fire Destroys Familiar Paterson Water Tower, Ravages Abandoned Mill The second fire in a little over two years at a vacant mill near the Great Falls in Paterson destroyed a 125-year-old water tower on Thursday. Three squatters emerged safely from the McBride Avenue building shortly after the three-alarm blaze broke out around 10 a.m. EMS brought one to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center for treatment of smoke inhalation. Arson investigators were eyeing the squatters as they probed the blaze to determine its origin, authorities said. Firefighters were forced into an exterior operation and had the blaze under control in just over an hour. None were injur…

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