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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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Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer Jackson Browne Tests Positive For Coronavirus Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer Jackson Browne Tests Positive For Coronavirus
Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer Jackson Browne Tests Positive For Coronavirus California rock and roll veteran Jackson Browne thinks he caught the coronavirus in New York City two weeks ago. It started with a small cough and a temperature after the 71-year-old singer played a benefit at Manhattan’s Beacon Theater with, among others, Cyndi Lauper, Dave Matthews, Warren Haynes and Susan Tedeschi, Browne told Rolling Stone. He later tested positive – as did several others at the benefit, he said. Browne said he’s been recuperating since then, with mild symptoms, at his Los Angeles home. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee doesn’t need medication or hospitalization…

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PD: Driver With Baby Flees After JC Crash Involving Off-Duty Officer From Hasbrouck Heights PD: Driver With Baby Flees After JC Crash Involving Off-Duty Officer From Hasbrouck Heights
PD: Driver With Baby Flees After JC Crash Involving Off-Duty Officer From Hasbrouck Heights An unlicensed 20-year-old driver with an infant passenger sped off but was caught after her car rear-ended a sedan in Jersey City that was driven by an off-duty police lieutenant from Hasbrouck Heights, authorities said. The 55-year-old city officer was headed north on Bergen Avenue approaching Gifford Avenue when his 2010 Toyota Corolla was hit from behind by a 2009 Nissan Altima, causing moderate damage, around 2:40 a.m. Tuesday, a responding officer reported. Zion Ashanti Raquel Moore Charlemagne then backed up before making a right onto eastbound Emory Street, where her car hit a parked…

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Report: Driver In North Bergen Parked School Bus Crash Was Drunk, Police Say Report: Driver In North Bergen Parked School Bus Crash Was Drunk, Police Say
Report: Driver In North Bergen Parked School Bus Crash Was Drunk, Police Say A 42-year-old Jersey City driver was drunk when his sedan rear-ended a parked bus at a vocational school in North Bergen, township police told a local news channel. Christopher Pascale of Jersey City was headed north on Tonnelle Avenue on Tuesday when his vehicle veered across the southbound lanes, through a fence and into the empty bus in the Hudson County High Tech High School lot at 84th Street, Hudson TV said police reported. Pascale fled but was found a short time later and hospitalized, police said, adding that he wasn’t injured, according to the Hudson TV report.

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SEE ANYTHING? Shots Fired Through Walls Of Occupied Englewood Home SEE ANYTHING? Shots Fired Through Walls Of Occupied Englewood Home
SEE Anything? 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. Halstead asked that anyone who might have seen something or has either surveillance video or information that could help catch whomeve…

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COVID-19: White House, Senate Seal Proposed $2 Trillion Stimulus Deal Paying Citizens, Business COVID-19: White House, Senate Seal Proposed $2 Trillion Stimulus Deal Paying Citizens, Business
Covid-19: White House, Senate Seal Proposed $2 Trillion Stimulus Deal Paying Citizens, Business The White House struck an historic $2 trillion, bipartisan stimulus package that, if approved by Congress, will send money to certain families and businesses, among others, who are struggling financially during the coronavirus pandemic. “At last we have a deal,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced on the Senate floor after marathon talks producing what would be one of Congress’ costliest and farthest-reaching measures in history. McConnell described it as “wartime level of investment for our nation," while adding that the Senate would vote in favor of the package sometime afte…

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Freehold Man Charged With Coughing On Worried Wegmans Worker, Saying He Has Coronavirus Freehold Man Charged With Coughing On Worried Wegmans Worker, Saying He Has Coronavirus
Freehold Man Charged With Coughing On Worried Wegmans Worker, Saying He Has Coronavirus A Freehold man who got too close to a Wegmans employee coughed on her when she expressed concern and told her he had the coronavirus, leading to criminal charges, authorities said. The worker expressed a genuine concern that George Falcone, 50, was standing too close to her and an open display of prepared foods at the Wegmans on Route 9 in Manalapan, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Tuesday. She asked him to step back as she covered the food, but Falcone got closer, leaned over and purposely coughed, Grewal said. Then he “laughed and said he was infected with the coronavirus,” …

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Exposure To Coronavirus-Positive Holy Name Hospital CEO Forces Tedesco To Self-Quarantine Exposure To Coronavirus-Positive Holy Name Hospital CEO Forces Tedesco To Self-Quarantine
Exposure To Coronavirus-Positive Holy Name Hospital CEO Forces Tedesco To Self-Quarantine Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco self-quarantined on Tuesday, nine days after hosting a news conference in Teaneck with, among others, Holy Name Medical Center CEO Michael Maron, who tested positive for COVID-19.  That means a number of people who also attended the March 15 event -- among them, elected and appointed officials, their staff members and reporters -- may need to do so, too. A spokesman for Tedesco said the county health officer recommended that he self-quarantine after attending an undisclosed press conference with someone "identified as COVID-19 positive." Sources con…

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COMING: First Responders, Health Care Workers Get Priority At New Bergen COVID-19 Test Site COMING: First Responders, Health Care Workers Get Priority At New Bergen COVID-19 Test Site
Coming: First Responders, Health Care Workers Get Priority At New Bergen Covid-19 Test Site Bergen officials will open a new coronavirus test site for Bergen County residents only with priority given to first responders and health care workers, County Executive Jim Tedesco announced Tuesday. The site will begin operating this weekend and will be controlled by the county, in an effort to satisfy the huge demand for tests, he said. A location hasn't been specified yet. “The FEMA test site at Bergen Community College has had great success in testing over 1,000 individuals since opening last Friday," said Tedesco said, who also announced Tuesday that he was self-quarantining. “Provi…

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Police & Fire
Police: ‘Corona Virus’ Heroin Bags Found On Fleeing Paterson Suspect Police: ‘Corona Virus’ Heroin Bags Found On Fleeing Paterson Suspect
Police: ‘Corona Virus’ Heroin Bags Found On Fleeing Paterson Suspect It was bound to happen: A man chased down by Paterson police following a drug deal was carrying bags of heroin stamped “Corona Virus,” authorities said. Heroin marketed to current events is commonplace in the inner cities – from “WMD” and “Bin Laden” to “Hurricane Sandy,” “ObamaCare” and even “KURTCOBAIN.” Paterson Officer Jimmy Maldonado was on uniform patrol in the area of Godwin Avenue and Auburn Street on Sunday when he saw the deal go down, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. The two men involved started to tip away as Maldonado approached, he said. One of them – identified as Tyron…

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COVID-19: County Jails Must Begin Releasing Inmates Before Dawn Tuesday, NJ Supreme Court Rules COVID-19: County Jails Must Begin Releasing Inmates Before Dawn Tuesday, NJ Supreme Court Rules
Covid-19: County Jails Must Begin Releasing Inmates Before Dawn Tuesday, NJ Supreme Court Rules Low-risk inmates serving sentences of less than a year will be released from New Jersey’s county jails before 6 a.m. Tuesday in response to concerns over the spread of the coronavirus. Their sentences will be suspended or converted to some type of restitution, under an order from the New Jersey Supreme Court. The state’s highest court issued the order, announced Monday by Chief Justice Stuart Rabner, following a Sunday night mediation among representatives from state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal’s Office, the County Prosecutors Association of New Jersey and the state public defender’s …

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