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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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Bergen Woman Struck By Hit-Run Driver On Route 46 Dies After Years-Long Battle Bergen Woman Struck By Hit-Run Driver On Route 46 Dies After Years-Long Battle
Bergen Woman Struck By Hit-Run Driver On Route 46 Dies After Years-Long Battle Anna Semioli fought for 4½ years while loved ones prayed for a miracle after she was struck by a pickup truck on Route 46 in Clifton. Annie's fight ended this weekend. Semioli, 26, of Moonachie was two months from being graduated with an accounting degree from Montclair State University when she was hit by the pickup just after midnight on Oct. 9, 2015. She suffered a traumatic brain injury, lost a great deal of blood and went into cardiac arrest. The driver fled the scene, leaving her on the side of the highway. He surrendered a week later amid intense media coverage. He didn’t have insu…

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Police & Fire
Missing Saddle Brook Golden Retriever Found Missing Saddle Brook Golden Retriever Found
Missing Saddle Brook Golden Retriever Found FOUND! A pregnant Golden Retriever who went missing from a Saddle Brook backyard was found stuck under a car nearby. "With the help of neighbors and many other concerned citizens, Miss Molly was found underneath a car just homes away from hers," Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler said Sunday. "Apparently she hid under the car and was stuck.  "Her owner had to wiggle her out of the tight spot she was in and is now home safe," the chief said. "Thanks to everyone who helped in the matter -- and especially those who shared our story and were so concerned about Miss Molly." Good Golly…

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Police & Fire
Fugitive Pennsylvania Killer Caught Chillin' At Reopened Jacksonville Beach, Authorities Say Fugitive Pennsylvania Killer Caught Chillin' At Reopened Jacksonville Beach, Authorities Say
Fugitive Pennsylvania Killer Caught Chillin' At Reopened Jacksonville Beach, Authorities Say A fugitive who apparently didn’t know that the reopening of beaches in Jacksonville, Florida amid the coronavirus pandemic doesn’t include sitting around turned out to be wanted on homicide charges out of Pennsylvania, authorities said. A three-month manhunt ended Sunday with the arrest of Mario Matthew Gatti, 30. Gatti went on the lam in January after detectives charged him with criminal homicide for shooting 33-year-old Michael Coover, Jr. several times, killing him, as the victim cooked dinner at a Westmoreland County home, authorities said. The Jacksonville beach reopenings on Sat…

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Jersey City Woman Plunges To Death From Apartment Building Jersey City Woman Plunges To Death From Apartment Building
Jersey City Woman Plunges To Death From Apartment Building A Jersey City woman plunged to her death from an 11-story apartment building, authorities confirmed Sunday. Responders pronounced her dead outside the mixed-use Villa Borinquen Apartments on Manila Avenue near the corner of Second Street around 2:15 p.m. Friday, responders said. Authorities believe the woman jumped, city spokeswoman Kimberly Wallace-Scalcione told Hudson County View, confirming responders' initial report from Friday. ****** ALSO SEE: A 25-year-old worker died Sunday when he fell 35 feet into a shop docked at the Bayonne waterfront, responders said. https://dailyvoic…

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Worker Killed In Fall At Bayonne Terminal Worker Killed In Fall At Bayonne Terminal
Worker Killed In Fall At Bayonne Terminal A 25-year-old worker died Sunday when he fell 35 feet into a fuel tank on a ship docked at the Bayonne waterfront, responders said. What began as a rescue operation shortly before 9:30 a.m. soon turned into a recovery at the Bayonne Dry Dock on Port Terminal Boulevard, they said. “Arriving firefighters found a worker employed by a painting contractor [who] fell approximately 35 feet down into a confined space in the forward bow section of the USNS Red Cloud," Bayonne Fire Chief Keith Weaver. "The ship is in the dry dock for repair. “Firefighters set up for a technical rescue and desce…

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Free Drive-Thru COVID-19 Swab Tests Now Offered At Bergen, Rockland Rite-Aids, More Coming Free Drive-Thru COVID-19 Swab Tests Now Offered At Bergen, Rockland Rite-Aids, More Coming
Free Drive-Thru Covid-19 Swab Tests Now Offered At Bergen, Rockland Rite-Aids, More Coming Rite-Aid stores in Bergen and Rockland counties opened coronavirus self-swab testing sites in their parking lots this weekend, with more coming this week in New York and New Jersey. One testing site is at the Rite-Aid store on Franklin Turnpike in Waldwick (Bergen) and the other on Route 303 in Valley Cottage (Rockland). More are being added at stores in both states, including one due to open Monday at the Rite Aid in the Camden County town of Barrington and another at a Jersey Shore Rite Aid in Toms River on Wednesday, the company said. Another Rite-Aid COVID-19 testing site is scheduled …

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Police & Fire
Police: Middlesex County Woman Beats Rival In Street, Charge With Violating NJ COVID-19 Order Police: Middlesex County Woman Beats Rival In Street, Charge With Violating NJ COVID-19 Order
Police: Middlesex County Woman Beats Rival In Street, Charge With Violating NJ Covid-19 Order A Middlesex County resident dragged another woman dating the same man out of her house and began beating her in the street before police came to the victim's rescue, authorities said. Hazlet police arrested Katie Orszulski, 29, of the Parlin section of Old Bridge, after she broke into the victim's home and assaulted her, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Orszulski was charged with burglary, assault, criminal mischief and violating Gov. Phil Murphy's coronavirus orders.

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Sparta PD: Customer, 73, Tangles With Police After Refusing To Wear Mask In Supermarket Sparta PD: Customer, 73, Tangles With Police After Refusing To Wear Mask In Supermarket
Sparta PD: Customer, 73, Tangles With Police After Refusing To Wear Mask In Supermarket A 73-year-old Sparta man who had a previous history of disorderly conduct coughed on a supermarket employee, saying he had the coronavirus, and then spit on and tried to bite police after he was caught shopping without a face mask, authorities said. An employee asked Vadim Sakiewicz to leave a local Stop & Shop after he walked in not wearing a mask, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. The Polish immigrant “became combative,” then coughed on a second employee who came to help, saying he had COVID-19, Grewal said. He then resisted arrest, the attorney general said. Police char…

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Police & Fire
Kayaker Rescued From Water Off Bayonne Kayaker Rescued From Water Off Bayonne
Kayaker Rescued From Water Off Bayonne Rescuers pulled a kayaker from the water in Bayonne late Saturday afternoon. The victim, who responders said was alert and suffering from hypothermia, was taken to Bayonne Medical Center after being rescued off Lefante Way while holding on to the kayak around 5 p.m. “At 4:35 p.m. [Saturday], the Bayonne Fire Department was dispatched to a report of a kayaker in distress on the east side waterways," Bayonne Fire Chief Keith Weaver said.  "Responding firefighters found a kayaker clinging to his vessel in the middle of the inlet that separates the Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor (former MOT)…

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Stranded Jersey Shore Kite Surfer Rescued, Charged With Violating Coronavirus Beach Closure Stranded Jersey Shore Kite Surfer Rescued, Charged With Violating Coronavirus Beach Closure
Stranded Jersey Shore Kite Surfer Rescued, Charged With Violating Coronavirus Beach Closure A kite surfer was rescued in the water off Toms River -- and then charged with violating state coronavirus emergency orders, authorities said. Geoffrey T. Vonderlinden, 51, of Basking Ridge, got stuck about 50 yards from the Normandy Beach Shore on Friday after strong winds and the current kept him from getting back, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Fire department rescue crews and another surfer reached Vonderlinden and all returned to shore safely, he said. Police issued a summons to Vonderlinden for violating an emergency directive from Gov. Phil Murphy that included a prov…

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