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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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Girl Seized In COVID-19 Bias Attack On Asian Middlesex County Woman Girl Seized In COVID-19 Bias Attack On Asian Middlesex County Woman
Girl Seized In Covid-19 Bias Attack On Asian Middlesex County Woman An underage teen punched an Asian woman in the head after she and others surrounded the victim in Edison shouting coronavirus-related racial slurs, authorities said. The girl was detained on Tuesday in connection with the incident from 10 days earlier, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Thursday. Police issued delinquency complaints charging her with bias intimidation, rioting, simple assault and disorderly conduct, as well as with violating state coronavirus emergency orders, the attorney general said. The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office and Edison police were continuing an…

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Contractor Charged With Stealing 1,600 Masks Intended For NJ Hospitals Contractor Charged With Stealing 1,600 Masks Intended For NJ Hospitals
Contractor Charged With Stealing 1,600 Masks Intended For NJ Hospitals An electrical contractor stole 1,600 respirator masks intended for a local hospital from a Prudential Financial building in Middlesex County, state authorities said Thursday. Kevin R. Brady, 49, of Point Pleasant Beach had access to storage areas in the Iselin building, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Brady swiped seven to eight cases of N95 coronavirus respirator masks, each case containing 200 masks, between March 27 and April 1, Grewal said. He was tripped up, however, during an ongoing investigation by the New Jersey State Police, Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office, Woo…

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News
MTA Agrees To $500,000 Coronavirus Death Benefit MTA Agrees To $500,000 Coronavirus Death Benefit
MTA Agrees To $500,000 Coronavirus Death Benefit The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Transport Workers Union Local 100 and the Transport Workers Union of America announced an agreement Tuesday establishing a COVID-19 death benefit for TWU members who died after being infected.  Under the agreement, the MTA will pay $500,000 in a lump sum to the spouse, beneficiary or estate of each deceased member in active service on or after Feb. 1, 2020, Local 100 in Brooklyn reported.  "Transportation workers are the heroes moving heroes of this public health crisis, continuing to get healthcare workers, first responders and other ess…

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Police & Fire
Teaneck PD: Hackensack Ex-Con Captured, Charged In Machete Robbery Teaneck PD: Hackensack Ex-Con Captured, Charged In Machete Robbery
Teaneck PD: Hackensack Ex-Con Captured, Charged In Machete Robbery Teaneck police captured an ex-con from Hackensack who they said robbed a man selling an Xbox at knifepoint, taking the gaming system, a cellphone, $580 in cash and assorted electronic from the victim’s car. Aaron McMorris, a 29-year-old convicted sex offender with a decade-long rap sheet, was only just released from state prison last September after serving more than 2½ years for a drug-related conviction, records show. The victim told Teaneck police he’d gone to Sterling Place Sunday night to see a man named Aaron, who he said agreed to buy the Xbox after they met in an Instagram group cha…

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Police & Fire
Pedestrian Struck On Route 21 In Passaic Listed In Serious Condition Pedestrian Struck On Route 21 In Passaic Listed In Serious Condition
Pedestrian Struck On Route 21 In Passaic Listed In Serious Condition A 27-year-old Paterson man was seriously injured when he was struck by a car while walking along Route 21 at night, authorities said Thursday. Emmanuel Perdomo, 27, was walking along the north side of the highway near River Drive when a 2005 Honda Civic struck him around 8 p.m. Tuesday, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Passaic Police Chief Luis A. Guzman said in a joint announcement. Both Perdomo and the driver, 57-year-old Luis J. Munoz of Passaic, were taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, they said. Munoz was treated for minor injuries and released, Valdes a…

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Police & Fire
HEROES: Port Authority Police Rescue Man Who Fell Onto World Trade Center Subway Tracks HEROES: Port Authority Police Rescue Man Who Fell Onto World Trade Center Subway Tracks
Heroes: Port Authority Police Rescue Man Who Fell Onto World Trade Center Subway Tracks Port Authority Police Sgt. Christopher Mathus was on patrol at the World Trade Center Oculus Thursday morning when someone told him a man had fallen onto nearby subway tracks. Mathus rushed to the tracks of the downtown R and W trains at the Cortlandt Street Station, where he was joined by Officers Evan Butt and Eric Seborowski, Port Authority spokeswoman Lenis Rodrigues said. Within two minutes, they'd lifted the face-down, incoherent victim off the tracks to safety, she said. Port Authority and New York City Fire Department EMS rendered medical aid on the platform, Rodrigues said. T…

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Garfield PD: Ex-Con Who Ran After Car Burglary Claims He Was Just Exercising Garfield PD: Ex-Con Who Ran After Car Burglary Claims He Was Just Exercising
Garfield PD: Ex-Con Who Ran After Car Burglary Claims He Was Just Exercising A Morris County ex-con chased down by Garfield police after a vehicle burglary told them he was running to get some exercise, authorities said. Officer Nicholas Kopacz spotted Scott P. Cuskaden, 48, in a River Drive parking lot Wednesday night minutes after a man who fit his description broke into a vehicle on nearby Hobart Place, Capt. Richard Uram said. Cuskaden took off as Officer Jonathan Librizzi pulled into the parking lot in his marked police vehicle, the captain said. Librizzi chased down Cuskaden, who told the officer that he’d begun running for exercise, Uram said. Cuskaden, of …

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Police & Fire
Firefighters Douse Destructive Passaic Blaze While Battling Water Issues Firefighters Douse Destructive Passaic Blaze While Battling Water Issues
Firefighters Douse Destructive Passaic Blaze While Battling Water Issues UPDATE: Water supply issues and downed power lines made things even more difficult Thursday morning for firefighters who doused a blaze that destroyed a Passaic home. Nine people were displaced in the Pennington Avenue fire, city officials said. No serious injuries were immediately reported. City firefighters found the porch of the 2½-story, wood-frame home fully involved when they arrived shortly after 8:30 a.m. Mutual aid companies found several dry hydrants as the fast-moving fire, which began at two alarms, quickly went to three bells and then four. The blaze forced firefighters to m…

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'Please Don't Let Me Die': Man Shot At Hackensack Convenience Store, Arrest Made 'Please Don't Let Me Die': Man Shot At Hackensack Convenience Store, Arrest Made
'Please Don't Let Me Die': Man Shot At Hackensack Convenience Store, Arrest Made “Please don’t let me die,” a shooting victim told police as he lay bleeding on the floor of a Hackensack convenience store. The victim survived, thanks to city firefighters and paramedics, and the gunman was arrested a block away, thanks to a Bergen County sheriff's K-9 unit. Officers Aaron Rios and Jeffrey Rodriguez found the victim on the floor inside the Central Mini Market at the corner of 1st Street and Central Avenue around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Detective Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. He was holding crumpled paper towels over a gunshot wound in his abdomen, he said. “I don’t want to die…

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17 Bodies Reportedly Found Packed Into North Jersey Nursing Home Morgue 17 Bodies Reportedly Found Packed Into North Jersey Nursing Home Morgue
17 Bodies Reportedly Found Packed Into North Jersey Nursing Home Morgue Authorities were investigating the discovery of 17 corpses stuffed into a small morgue at one of New Jersey’s largest nursing homes. "We will follow the facts wherever they go," state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Thursday, without elaborating. Andover police responding to a tip reported the discovery in a morgue built for four at the Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center in Sussex County on Easter Sunday and into Monday. “They were just overwhelmed by the number of people who were expiring,” Andover Police Chief Eric Danielson told The New York Times. How many of the victim…

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