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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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Coronavirus Kills 4th Member Of Same Family Tied To New Jersey's First Fatal COVID-19 Victim Coronavirus Kills 4th Member Of Same Family Tied To New Jersey's First Fatal COVID-19 Victim
Coronavirus Kills 4th Member Of Same Family Tied To New Jersey's First Fatal Covid-19 Victim A fourth member of a New Jersey family connected to the state's first coronavirus fatality died Thursday. Vincent Fusco passed away at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, the same hospital where his mother, 73-year-old family matriarch Grace Fusco, died of the virus a day earlier. His brother, Carmine Fusco, died hours before their mother at St. Luke’s University Hospital in Pennsylvania near his home in Bath -- becoming that state's first COVID-19 fatality. Their sister, Rita Fusco-Jackson, died last Friday and later tested positive for the virus. Rita Fusco-Jackson became …

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Police & Fire
Fair Lawn PD: Impaired Morris County Driver Charged In Crash Involving Paterson Couple Fair Lawn PD: Impaired Morris County Driver Charged In Crash Involving Paterson Couple
Fair Lawn PD: Impaired Morris County Driver Charged In Crash Involving Paterson Couple A Butler driver was under the influence of alcohol and drugs when his car rear-ended another in Fair Lawn, authorities charged. William Bateson, 37, was headed south on River Road approaching Fair Lawn Avenue when his 1999 Acura struck a 2014 Mercedes from behind shortly after 11:30 a.m. last Friday, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Officers Anthony Burgos and Luis Vasquez arrested Bateson after it appeared that he was under the influence of drugs, Metzler said. The 46-year-old Mercedes driver and his passenger, a 48-year-old woman, both from Paterson, refused medical treatment after complaining o…

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Police & Fire
Bergen County Jail Corrections Officer Tests Positive For Coronavirus, 7 Others Self-Quarantine Bergen County Jail Corrections Officer Tests Positive For Coronavirus, 7 Others Self-Quarantine
Bergen County Jail Corrections Officer Tests Positive For Coronavirus, 7 Others Self-Quarantine A corrections officer at the Bergen County Jail tested presumptive positive for the coronavirus, leading seven co-workers to self-quarantine as well, Sheriff Anthony Cureton said Thursday. Fifteen inmates at the jail were placed on quarantine, as well, the sheriff said. "The test was declared presumptive positive on Wednesday by the New Jersey State Department of Health and has been sent to the Center for Disease Control for confirmation," Cureton said. "Upon medical evaluation, the officer was asked to self-quarantine for 14 days," the sheriff said. "Seven additional corrections officers …

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Bergenfield Continues To Pay Part-Time Borough Workers Furloughed By Coronavirus Bergenfield Continues To Pay Part-Time Borough Workers Furloughed By Coronavirus
Bergenfield Continues To Pay Part-Time Borough Workers Furloughed By Coronavirus The borough of Bergenfield will continue to pay its crossing guards, library staff and other part-timers furloughed because of the coronavirus pandemic, officials said. This way, those workers – most of whom are borough residents -- “will still be able to put food on the table and take care of their families,” Mayor Arvin Amatorio said. The order remains in effect through April 3, the mayor said, adding that the borough may enact additional measures after that. “While the public health danger of the COVID-19 outbreak continues to be our top concern, the devastating economic effects on wor…

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Police & Fire
Shooter At Large After Irvington Man Is Slain In Newark Shooter At Large After Irvington Man Is Slain In Newark
Shooter At Large After Irvington Man Is Slain In Newark Authorities were searching for a gunman who killed a 32-year-old Irvington man overnight Thursday in Newark. Anthony M. Johnson, 32, was shot shortly before 1 a.m. in the area of Madison and Ridgewood avenues, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II said in a release. Johnson was taken to University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:21 a.m., Stephens said. No arrests had been made as of 10:30 a.m. Thursday. Stephens asked that anyone with information that can help find or identify the killer contact the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes T…

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Social Distancing: What About The Kids? Social Distancing: What About The Kids?
Social Distancing: What About The Kids? Two things were inevitable after Americans were asked to stay home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus: Youngsters would spend more time outside with their friends and parents would spend more time on Facebook. Sure enough, exchanges among parents in large social media groups are increasing over the wisdom of large teen gatherings. It flared Wednesday in one of the dwindling number of North Jersey municipalities where public parks have remained open amid the pandemic. It was two days earlier that President Trump, speaking with alarming concern, asked the nation to avoid gathering in …

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Police & Fire
Bergenfield Driver Plows Older-Model Sedan Through Garage Wall Bergenfield Driver Plows Older-Model Sedan Through Garage Wall
Bergenfield Driver Plows Older-Model Sedan Through Garage Wall A Bergenfield driver refused medical attention after she inadvertently hit the gas, sending her car through the back of her garage on Wednesday. The 82-year-old Pleasant Avenue driver was none the worse for wear, police said, although they couldn’t say as much for the attached garage. Her 2004 Ford Taurus had to be towed. Aftermath.Aidan Flannery for DAILY VOICE

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Police & Fire
UPDATE: North Bergen Passenger, 40, Killed, WNY Driver Charged In DWI Crash At Fairview Border UPDATE: North Bergen Passenger, 40, Killed, WNY Driver Charged In DWI Crash At Fairview Border
Update: North Bergen Passenger, 40, Killed, WNY Driver Charged In DWI Crash At Fairview Border A passenger from North Bergen was killed and a West New York driver charged with death by auto in a suspected drunk-driving crash overnight Wednesday at the Fairview/North Bergen border, authorities said. Jose Francisco-Garcia, a 26-year-old surveillance system installer, was charged with vehicular homicide int he death of 40-year-old front-seat passenger Jose Santos of North Bergen, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella announced Wednesday afternoon. A 2017 Honda Civic Type R driven by Francisco-Garcia struck a utility pole on southbound Broad Avenue (Route 9) across from the entrance…

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Lodi Pedestrian, 63, Struck Crossing Carlstadt Road, Leg Broken, Police Say Lodi Pedestrian, 63, Struck Crossing Carlstadt Road, Leg Broken, Police Say
Lodi Pedestrian, 63, Struck Crossing Carlstadt Road, Leg Broken, Police Say A Lodi man was hospitalized with a compound leg fracture after a vehicle struck him Wednesday morning in a Carlstadt crosswalk, authorities said. The driver, 52, from Rockaway, had a green light while making a left turn onto Washington Avenue (Route 502) near Route 120 but didn't yield to the 63-year-old pedestrian around 8 a.m., Detective Sgt. John Cleary said. No recklessness was suspected but complaints could still be filed pending the results of an investigation, he said. The victim was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center.

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NJ Child Services Worker Charged With Groping Client, Texting Her Masturbation Pics NJ Child Services Worker Charged With Groping Client, Texting Her Masturbation Pics
NJ Child Services Worker Charged With Groping Client, Texting Her Masturbation Pics A former caseworker for the New Jersey Department of Children and Families groped a mother he was assigned to investigate and texted her videos of himself masturbating, authorities charged. Gilberto Ortiz Jr., 50, “made sexual advances on the woman while warning her she was involved in a serious case of negligence” during home visits to the woman and her child last month, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Ortiz, a bilingual family services specialist from the Gloucester County town of Woodbury, said he’d “help her” if she had a relationship with him, Grewal added. He also touch…

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