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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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Police & Fire
Western Union Paying $153M In Compensation To Seniors Who Lost Money In Phone Scams Western Union Paying $153M In Compensation To Seniors Who Lost Money In Phone Scams
Western Union Paying $153M In Compensation To Seniors Who Lost Money In Phone Scams Western Union “turned a blind eye” to money transfers made by elderly phone scam victims and is now paying for it to the tune of $153 million to more than 109,000 people in the U.S. and abroad, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. The payment “brings some measure of justice for the elderly and other victims,” Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division said. It’s only just a start, though. Before it’s done, Western Union must pony up $586 million, which the government is making available to compensate victims of international consumer …

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Police & Fire
Paterson Man, 45, Slain At One Of City's Deadliest Corners Paterson Man, 45, Slain At One Of City's Deadliest Corners
Paterson Man, 45, Slain At One Of City's Deadliest Corners A 45-year-old Paterson man was gunned down at one of North Jersey’s deadliest street corners Monday night, authorities confirmed. Robert Covington was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center after the shooting at the intersection of Governor and Carroll streets shortly after 9 p.m. He was pronounced dead a little over a half-hour later, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint release. They didn’t say whether they had anyone in custody or a suspect or suspects identified. They did ask that anyone who might have witnessed t…

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Police & Fire
VIDEO: Four Charged With Assaulting Police In Passaic Apartment Building Brawl VIDEO: Four Charged With Assaulting Police In Passaic Apartment Building Brawl
Video: Four Charged With Assaulting Police In Passaic Apartment Building Brawl Three women and a man were all charged with assaulting police while resisting arrest during a video-recorded brawl outside a Passaic apartment. Family members said they'd been having a party in their Vreeland Avenue apartment on March 1 when police arrived. Responding officers responding to a noise complaint said they heard a loud bang, then got into a scuffle with the group while trying to investigate it, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Passaic Police Chief Luis A. Guzman said Tuesday. All four also were charged with obstruction, they said in a brief joint statement. The …

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News
NJ's 1st Coronavirus Death: Little Ferry Man, 69, At Hackensack University Medical Center NJ's 1st Coronavirus Death: Little Ferry Man, 69, At Hackensack University Medical Center
NJ's 1st Coronavirus Death: Little Ferry Man, 69, At Hackensack University Medical Center UPDATE: New Jersey’s first coronavirus fatality was a 69-year-old Little Ferry man who worked at Yonkers Raceway, which cancelled racing Tuesday night from concerns that others may have contracted the virus, officials said. John Brennon was a horseman’s field representative for the Standardbred Owners Association (SOA) of New York, its president, Joseph Faraldo, said Tuesday. Faraldo said COVID-19 exacerbated existing health conditions, which authorities in New Jersey said included diabetes. Faraldo, in a Facebook post, said he remained confined himself over his doctor’s concerns that he …

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Police & Fire
Newark Ex-Con Must Serve 20 Years In Fed Pen For Union County Carjacking Newark Ex-Con Must Serve 20 Years In Fed Pen For Union County Carjacking
Newark Ex-Con Must Serve 20 Years In Fed Pen For Union County Carjacking A Newark ex-con was sentenced to a plea-bargained 20 years in federal prison for a Union County carjacking that turned into a police chase. Hasson Thomas, 30, will have to serve the entire term because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. Thomas previously admitted taking a vehicle at gunpoint from two people on Chestnut Street in Roselle Park on Aug. 18, 2018 and then leading borough police on a chase that ended in a crash. As a convicted felon, Thomas was prohibited from having a gun, adding on to his sentence. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Court Judge John Mi…

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Police & Fire
Store Owner Charged With Endangerment For Selling Homemade Sanitizer That Burned Bergen Boys Store Owner Charged With Endangerment For Selling Homemade Sanitizer That Burned Bergen Boys
Store Owner Charged With Endangerment For Selling Homemade Sanitizer That Burned Bergen Boys UPDATE: Authorities on Tuesday charged the owner of a Bergen County 7-Eleven with child endangerment for selling a sanitizer she mixed herself using a commercial cleanser that ended up burning four local boys. Manisha Bharade, 47, Wood-Ridge also was charged with deceptive business practices before being released on a summons pending court action. Bharade mixed "commercially available foaming sanitizer, which was not meant for resale," with water in pump bottles -- unwittingly causing a harmful chemical reaction -- then sold them for $2.50 each at her store in River Vale, authorities said.…

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Police & Fire
SEE ANYTHING? Englewood Police Probe Back-To-Back Home Burglaries SEE ANYTHING? Englewood Police Probe Back-To-Back Home Burglaries
SEE Anything? Englewood Police Probe Back-To-Back Home Burglaries Burglars ransacked two Englewood homes within earshot of one another last week, said police who were investigating the back-to-back break-ins. A resident on Brayton Street said he returned home shortly after 6:30 p.m. Thursday to find his home tossed, with drawers and clothing strewn around the place, Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said. As police were taking information there, a call came from an area of Booth Avenue behind the Brayton Street residence, Halstead said. The second homeowner told police that she found her back door open, the glass broken out of it and her house ransack…

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Police & Fire
Fairview FD: Man Thrown Off 10-Foot Porch Critically Injured, Cliffside Park Assailant Charged Fairview FD: Man Thrown Off 10-Foot Porch Critically Injured, Cliffside Park Assailant Charged
Fairview FD: Man Thrown Off 10-Foot Porch Critically Injured, Cliffside Park Assailant Charged A Guatemalan national living in Cliffside Park tossed a Fairview resident over the front railing of a 10-foot-high porch during an argument, sending him to the hospital with critical injuries, authorities said. Tomas Bernardinho Ixcaco, 25, remained held Monday in the Bergen County Jail after a Central Judicial Processing Court judge in Hackensack denied his release during a weekend detention hearing. Ixcaco was eating and drinking with his girlfriend and two others at the victim’s house on Friday when he got into an argument with the 48-year-old victim, Capt. Vincent Bellucci said. Ixcaco…

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Obituaries
Firstborn Due In June For Popular Wayne Stock Car Crew Chief Killed In Tragic Trench Collapse Firstborn Due In June For Popular Wayne Stock Car Crew Chief Killed In Tragic Trench Collapse
Firstborn Due In June For Popular Wayne Stock Car Crew Chief Killed In Tragic Trench Collapse TRIBUTE: An unborn Wayne boy who's expected to arrive the end of June will never know his father, a popular racing crew chief and construction worker who was tragically killed in a trench collapse last month in Jersey City. Newlweds Jared Petruska, 35, and his wife, Maria, were joyously awaiting the birth of their first child. Now friends, loved ones and members of the racing community are amassing donations for the soon-to-be-newborn. Jared’s father and brother were at the site of a water line being installed for the Society Hill Development off Route 440 when the trench collapsed on him …

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Police & Fire
Toms River Mob Associate Admits Having Nearly Pound Of Coke, Loaded Gun Toms River Mob Associate Admits Having Nearly Pound Of Coke, Loaded Gun
Toms River Mob Associate Admits Having Nearly Pound Of Coke, Loaded Gun A Jersey Shore associate of the DeCavalcante crime family who was caught with cocaine and a loaded handgun is headed to federal prison for at least five years -- and likely much more, authorities said. Mario Galli III, 28, of Toms River, took a guilty plea Monday, admitting in U.S. District Court in Trenton that he had the gun and drugs when detectives from the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office searched his and another home last September. Detectives seized nearly a pound of the drug and a 9mm FEG Model PGK-9HP gun loaded with 12 rounds of ammunition during last fall’s raids, U.S. Attorney C…

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