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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: Fleeing Peeping Tom Clips Victim With Car Outside South Hackensack Motel Police: Fleeing Peeping Tom Clips Victim With Car Outside South Hackensack Motel
Police: Fleeing Peeping Tom Clips Victim With Car Outside South Hackensack Motel A peeping Tom caught looking into the windows of a South Hackensack motel room while a couple was having sex clipped one of the victims with his car as he fled, authorities said. Eduardo Moreno was "peering into motel room windows where the curtains were not shut all the way and watching the occupants" at the Congress Inn on Route 46 around 2:45 a.m. Feb. 22, Deputy Police Chief Robert Kaiser said. One of the occupants chased after him and was grazed as Moreno drove off, Kaiser said. Police tracked down an arrested Moreno, a Mexican national living in Passaic, on Sunday. He was charged wi…

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Police & Fire
Superintendent: Suspicious Call Locks Down Mahwah Schools Superintendent: Suspicious Call Locks Down Mahwah Schools
Superintendent: Suspicious Call Locks Down Mahwah Schools Mahwah schools went into "precautionary modified lockdown" on Monday after a suspicious call came in to the high school, officials said. The lockdowns began at 12:45 p.m. while police investigate the call to the high school's main office, Schools Supt. C. Lauren Schoen said in an email to parents. The call was deemed non-credible and the lockdowns were lifted at 1:38 p.m., Schoen said. "A police presence will remain on Ridge Road for the remainder of the school day," the superintendent said. "We thank the Mahwah Police Department for [its] continued support in maintaining a safe learn…

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Rochelle Park Vehicle Burglary Victim Beaten, Zapped With Stun Gun, Police Nab 3 Rochelle Park Vehicle Burglary Victim Beaten, Zapped With Stun Gun, Police Nab 3
Rochelle Park Vehicle Burglary Victim Beaten, Zapped With Stun Gun, Police Nab 3 A Rochelle Park car burglary victim was beaten and zapped with a stun gun when he followed one of three teen thieves, authorities said. Officers Brian Gallina and Jim Zenock arrested all three in connection with several vehicle burglaries early Sunday, they said. A victim in one of the break-ins followed a 16-year-old boy while calling police. The teen “violently attacked the victim, striking him several times and shocking him with a stun gun,” Detective Sgt. James M. DePreta said. Paramus and Maywood police helped their Rochelle Park colleagues catch the assailant, another 16-year-old bo…

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Closter Bicyclist, 63, Seriously Injured, Police Say Closter Bicyclist, 63, Seriously Injured, Police Say
Closter Bicyclist, 63, Seriously Injured, Police Say A 63-year-old bicyclist was flown to a local hospital by a medical chopper after he was struck Sunday afternoon in Closter, authorities said. The victim was found lying face down, bleeding and unconscious – but breathing – after he was struck by a Toyota Camry shortly after 1:30 p.m. at the corner of Knickerbocker Road and Harington Avenue, Sgt. Daniel Hargrave said. The bicyclist was traveling northbound on Knickerbocker Road when the southbound vehicle hit him while making left onto Harrington Avenue, police said.A medical chopper landed at Tenakill Field and took the victim to Hackensack…

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News
Congregants Self-Quarantine After Rabbi In NY Coronavirus Outbreak Visits Passaic Synagogue Congregants Self-Quarantine After Rabbi In NY Coronavirus Outbreak Visits Passaic Synagogue
Congregants Self-Quarantine After Rabbi In NY Coronavirus Outbreak Visits Passaic Synagogue A Westchester rabbi at the center the New York metropolitan area's coronavirus outbreak visited a synagogue in Passaic last week, city health officials confirmed. An undisclosed number of congregants of Agudas Yisroel Bircas Yaakov in the Passaic Park section of town are self-quarantining for two weeks since Tuesday's visit, Daily Voice has learned. This came after Passaic city health officials asked that anyone who had close contact with the rabbi self-quarantine until March 16 -- defining close contact as being within six feet of the rabbi for 10 minutes or more. They emphasized that th…

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Police & Fire
Freak Accident: Englewood Crash Brings Utility Pole Down On Second Vehicle, Two Extricated Freak Accident: Englewood Crash Brings Utility Pole Down On Second Vehicle, Two Extricated
Freak Accident: Englewood Crash Brings Utility Pole Down On Second Vehicle, Two Extricated An overnight crash in Englewood on Sunday pulled down three utility poles, one of which struck another vehicle behind the first one, authorities said. A Lexus wagon driven north by a 57-year-old Elmwood Park woman struck a pole on northbound Grand Avenue at the Linden Avenue intersection around 3:15 a.m., Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said.The pole pulled down two others with it as it toppled, he said.  One of the poles hit a Toyota Rav 4, also heading north, occupied by a 42-year-old Connecticut man and a 21-year-old Englewood man, Halstead said. City firefighters freed two of the…

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Congregants Self-Quarantine After NY Rabbi In Coronavirus Outbreak Visits Passaic Synagogue Congregants Self-Quarantine After NY Rabbi In Coronavirus Outbreak Visits Passaic Synagogue
Congregants Self-Quarantine After NY Rabbi In Coronavirus Outbreak Visits Passaic Synagogue A Westchester rabbi at the center the New York metropolitan area's coronavirus outbreak visited a synagogue in Passaic last week, city health officials confirmed. An undisclosed number of congregants of Agudas Yisroel Bircas Yaakov in the Passaic Park section of town are self-quarantining for two weeks since Tuesday's visit, Daily Voice has learned. This came after Passaic city health officials asked that anyone who had close contact with the rabbi self-quarantine until March 16 -- defining close contact as being within six feet of the rabbi for 10 minutes or more. They emphasized that th…

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Prosecutor: Cliffside Park Man Hijacked Biz Account, Ordered Phones, iPads To His Home Prosecutor: Cliffside Park Man Hijacked Biz Account, Ordered Phones, iPads To His Home
Prosecutor: Cliffside Park Man Hijacked Biz Account, Ordered Phones, iPads To His Home An unemployed Cliffside Park man hijacked a business account to order a pile of cellphones and iPads that he then had delivered to his apartment, said authorities who busted him and his roommate. Stephen K. Frazier, 29, caught the attention of Sprint, which “reported a possible take-over of a business account,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Frazier submitted several orders that he requested be sent not to the business’ address but to his sixth-floor “Cliffside Views” apartment at the corner of Palisade Avenue and Walker Street, the prosecutor said. Musella’s detectives and Cl…

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Mother, Infant Freed From Overturned SUV Steps From Hoboken Firehouse Mother, Infant Freed From Overturned SUV Steps From Hoboken Firehouse
Mother, Infant Freed From Overturned SUV Steps From Hoboken Firehouse Hoboken firefighters freed a mother and her infant child after their SUV rolled and hit two parked vehicles up the street from a firehouse Saturday afternoon. Police, firefighters and EMS responded to the 8th Street crash outside Hoboken High School just off Clinton Street shortly after 12:30 p.m. Firefighters ran the 100 or so feet from their corner firehouse. The mother and child were taken to Jersey City Medical Center with injuries that weren't considered serious.A flatbed truck removed the vehicle. Boyd A. Loving took the photos and contributed to this account. Hoboken's bravest…

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AMMO, GUNS & MONEY: Passaic Sheriff's Detectives Seize Raw Heroin, 300 Folds, $8,123 Drug Cash AMMO, GUNS & MONEY: Passaic Sheriff's Detectives Seize Raw Heroin, 300 Folds, $8,123 Drug Cash
Ammo, Guns & Money: Passaic Sheriff's Detectives Seize Raw Heroin, 300 Folds, $8,123 Drug Cash Two observant Passaic County sheriff’s detectives seized more than 300 heroin folds, over a half pound of raw heroin and $8,123 in proceeds while arresting two men in Paterson, authorities said. The investigators saw two men involved in a drug deal near the corner of Main Street and Bloomfield Avenue and followed one of them to an Acura parked in the lot of the Main Suds Laudromat, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Bernik said. They stopped the car and saw several heroin folds in plain view on the center console between the driver and front-seat passenger, the sheriff said. A search turned…

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