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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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SNAP Payments Increased In NJ, 'Bonus Payment' Coming This Weekend SNAP Payments Increased In NJ, 'Bonus Payment' Coming This Weekend
SNAP Payments Increased In NJ, 'Bonus Payment' Coming This Weekend Many New Jerseyans who get state food assistance will receive an extra benefit payment this weekend to help buy groceries -- but that's not all, officials said Friday. Their benefits also will be higher in April to help address critical food needs related to the COVID-19 pandemic, they said. NJ SNAP re-certification periods that are expiring in March, April and May will also be extended to six months. Families receiving SNAP won't have benefit interruptions during that time. The NJ Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (NJ SNAP) is distributing $70 million in extra SNAP benefits over …

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COVID-19: Campgaw, Darlington, Ramapo Reservation Closed COVID-19: Campgaw, Darlington, Ramapo Reservation Closed
Covid-19: Campgaw, Darlington, Ramapo Reservation Closed Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco on Thursday closed Ramapo Valley County Reservation, Campgaw Mountain Reservation and Darlington County Park in Mahwah to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic as of 8 a.m. Friday.  Other county parks remain open but don't allow any vehicular traffic.  Tedesco said he was forced into the executive order "in a further effort to slow the spread of the pandemic." County of Bergen Executive Order No. 2020-01D / Continuing Suspension and Modification of County Ordinances, Rules or Regulations Relating to the COVID-19 Pandemic Pursuant t…

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Police & Fire
FBI: Tattoos ID Jersey Shore Man Who Recorded Himself Sexually Assaulting Child FBI: Tattoos ID Jersey Shore Man Who Recorded Himself Sexually Assaulting Child
FBI: Tattoos ID Jersey Shore Man Who Recorded Himself Sexually Assaulting Child It wasn't difficult for FBI agents to identify a Monmouth County man who recorded himself sexually assaulting a child, authorities said. Agents arrested Christian Importuna, 24, Thursday morning at his Englishtown home after he tried to trade the videos with an online undercover agent, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Craig Carpenito said. Importuna “produced at least two videos that showed him sexually assaulting a child,” then tried to trade them with the agent on Tuesday, Carpenito said. One of the videos shows a girl who appears less than 8 years old giving him oral sex, a complaint on fil…

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Police & Fire
WHAT HAPPENED: Mom Killed, Ejected Infant OK In Family-Of-Five Route 17 Crash WHAT HAPPENED: Mom Killed, Ejected Infant OK In Family-Of-Five Route 17 Crash
What Happened: Mom Killed, Ejected Infant OK In Family-Of-Five Route 17 Crash UPDATE: A Newark infant barely a few months old survived being ejected in a horrific Route 17 crash in Ramsey early Thursday that killed her mother. The 34-year-old woman and her husband had taken their three children with them to an overnight cleaning assignment at Ramsey Infiniti, responders told Daily Voice. The father apparently pulled the family's Honda Accord out of the Infiniti lot into the right lane of southbound Route 17 -- a treacherous stretch of road -- as a Dodge Durango was clearing the crest of the hill around 6:45 a.m., they said. One of the couple's pre-teens was in the …

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Police & Fire
UPDATE: Mom Killed, Infant Ejected In Route 17 Crash UPDATE: Mom Killed, Infant Ejected In Route 17 Crash
Update: Mom Killed, Infant Ejected In Route 17 Crash UPDATE: A Newark infant barely a few months old survived being ejected in a horrific Route 17 crash in Ramsey early Thursday that killed her mother. The 34-year-old woman and her husband had taken their three children with them to an overnight cleaning assignment at Ramsey Infiniti, responders told Daily Voice. The father apparently pulled the family's Honda Accord out of the Infiniti lot into the right lane of southbound Route 17 -- a treacherous stretch of road -- as a Dodge Durango was clearing the crest of the hill around 6:45 a.m., they said. One of the couple's pre-teens was in the …

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Police & Fire
Yonkers Driver, 60, Killed In Clifton Crash Yonkers Driver, 60, Killed In Clifton Crash
Yonkers Driver, 60, Killed In Clifton Crash A 60-year-old Yonkers driver was killed in a single-car crash Wednesday morning in Clifton, authorities said. Denis Murphy was driving a 2010 Toyota Corolla when he “failed to negotiate the exit ramp” at the intersection of Route 21 North and Route 3, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Clifton Police Chief Thomas Rinaldi said in a joint release. An ambulance took Murphy to St. Mary’s Hospital in Passaic following the 9:42 a.m. call, Valdes and Rinaldi said. He was pronounced dead exactly an hour later, they said. An investigation was continuing. Authorities asked that anyone…

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Police & Fire
New Jersey AG: Parties Crashed By Police Show What Violators Of Governor's Order Can Expect New Jersey AG: Parties Crashed By Police Show What Violators Of Governor's Order Can Expect
New Jersey AG: Parties Crashed By Police Show What Violators Of Governor's Order Can Expect Summonses issued at two large gatherings in Lakewood this week underscore the lengths to which law enforcement will go to protect New Jerseyans from the spread of the coronavirus, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Wednesday. A Lakewood homeowner on Tuesday continued an outdoor wedding attended by a large group of people in a tent despite police efforts to break things up, Grewal said. It wasn't until they issued a summons to Meir T. Gruskin, 37, for violating Gov. Phil Murphy's executive order banning gatherings that the crowd finally dispersed, the attorney general said. A little ove…

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Police & Fire
UPDATE: Shots Fired Through Walls Of Occupied Englewood Home UPDATE: Shots Fired Through Walls Of Occupied Englewood Home
Update: Shots Fired Through Walls Of Occupied Englewood Home No one was struck when someone fired several shots from outside into an occupied Englewood multi-family home Tuesday night, authorities said. Police were "exploring the possibility" that the shooting on West Palisade Avenue off the corner of Palisade Place shortly before 9 p.m. "stems from a stabbing at that very same location several weeks ago," Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said. Several rounds passed through the walls into the home, Halstead said. The March 1 brawl sent three people to area hospitals with stab or slash wounds. SEE: Three Stabbed, Slashed in Englewood Brawl …

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Trucker Escapes Burning Wreck, Downed Wires Close Route 17 Both Ways In Paramus Trucker Escapes Burning Wreck, Downed Wires Close Route 17 Both Ways In Paramus
Trucker Escapes Burning Wreck, Downed Wires Close Route 17 Both Ways In Paramus ALERT: Route 17 was expected to remain closed in both directions past 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. A tractor-trailer driver escaped serious injury Wednesday after his rig hit a fire hydrant and utility pole, then burst into flames at an exit ramp off southbound Route 17 in Paramus. One of several civilians who stopped gave the driver his coat after the crash at the Ridgewood Avenue exit downed utility lines across the highway -- knocking out power and cable to several area customers -- shortly after 2:30 p.m. "He's shaken up," the good Samaritan's boyfriend told Daily Voice from the scene. "He d…

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COVID-19: All 94 Residents Of NJ Nursing Home Presumed Positive, Moved To Other Facility COVID-19: All 94 Residents Of NJ Nursing Home Presumed Positive, Moved To Other Facility
Covid-19: All 94 Residents Of NJ Nursing Home Presumed Positive, Moved To Other Facility UPDATE: All 94 residents of a coronavirus-stricken nursing home in Middlesex County were being moved to a facility in Morris County for treatment after all were presumed to have the bug, officials said Wednesday. Two dozen residents of the St. Joseph's Senior Home in Woodbridge tested positive and the rest were presumed positive, they said. Several staffers took sick, as well, leaving three nuns to care for all those patients, said state officials who requested the transfer. A caravan of buses were taking the residents 30 miles north to a CareOne facility in Whippany. Although CareOne and…

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