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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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Fed Jurors Convict Ex-Newark Police Officer Of Paying Kickbacks For No-Show Security Contract Fed Jurors Convict Ex-Newark Police Officer Of Paying Kickbacks For No-Show Security Contract
Fed Jurors Convict Ex-Newark Police Officer Of Paying Kickbacks For No-Show Security Contract Federal jurors in Newark convicted a former city police officer on Monday of paying kickbacks to a corrupt official for a no-show private security contract. Janell Robinson, 42, of Newark, was the ninth and final defendant convicted in a scheme to siphon money from the Newark Watershed Conservation and Development Corporation (NWCDC). Jurors deliberated for two hours before finding Robinson guilty of conspiring in a massive corruption scheme with Linda Watkins Brashear, the former executive director of the NWCDC, which provided water to half a million New Jersey residents before it was clos…

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Paterson Man Charged In Brutal Bronx Machete Attack That Left Ex-Girlfriend, 20, Critical Paterson Man Charged In Brutal Bronx Machete Attack That Left Ex-Girlfriend, 20, Critical
Paterson Man Charged In Brutal Bronx Machete Attack That Left Ex-Girlfriend, 20, Critical A 20-year-old domestic violence victim who moved from Paterson to the Bronx with her young daughter to start a new life was attacked with a machete by her abusive ex-boyfriend, authorities said. Lisbeth Acosta was ambushed Saturday night in the lobby an apartment building on Grand Concourse near East 196th Street by Hector Delacruz, 27, who’d lived with her in Paterson, the NYPD said. Acosta had moved to the Fordham Manor apartment with her daughter just two months ago after getting an order of protection from a judge in Paterson, Bronx activist Anthony Beckford said Monday. She remained i…

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Crash Splits Hawthorne Utility Pole Crash Splits Hawthorne Utility Pole
Crash Splits Hawthorne Utility Pole A 22-year-old driver refused hospitalization for a neck injury after a sedan split a utility pole Monday afternoon in Hawthorne. A PSE&G unit was summoned to assess the damage to the pole, although there was no loss of power in the area after the crash in the 100 block of Lafayette Avenue. A tow truck was called to remove the vehicle. Hawthorne police and EMS responded. Boyd A. Loving took the photo and contributed to this account.

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Coronavirus Slows Probe Of Impostor Who Scammed Glen Rock Medical Firm Out Of $100,000 Coronavirus Slows Probe Of Impostor Who Scammed Glen Rock Medical Firm Out Of $100,000
Coronavirus Slows Probe Of Impostor Who Scammed Glen Rock Medical Firm Out Of $100,000 The closing of banks in China because of the coronavirus has made it more difficult for authorities to investigate a wire fraud that cost a Glen Rock medical services company $100,000. An accountant with the Harristown Road company reported receiving what appeared to be several legitimate emails from its CEO directing a wire transfer to a bank in China for international business purposes, Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said Monday. After realizing it was a fraud, company representatives contacted police. Unfortunately, the money had already been wired, Ackermann said. “Overseas wir…

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Lyndhurst Pedestrian, 80, Struck By SUV Driven By Township Resident, 18 Lyndhurst Pedestrian, 80, Struck By SUV Driven By Township Resident, 18
Lyndhurst Pedestrian, 80, Struck By SUV Driven By Township Resident, 18 An 80-year-old Lyndhurst pedestrian was hospitalized with what was believed to be a broken left wrist after she was struck by an SUV Monday morning. The 18-year-old Toyota Sienna driver, also from town, was making a left turn from westbound Valley Brook Avenue onto Stuyvesant Avenue when her vehicle bumped the woman shortly before 9:30 a.m., Detective Sgt. Vincent Auteri said. She was injured in the fall and taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, he said. No summonses were immediately issued, Auteri said, adding that an investigation was continuing.

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Notorious 'El Chapo Of Opioids' Doc From Bergen Admits Randomly Prescribing Pain Killers, More Notorious 'El Chapo Of Opioids' Doc From Bergen Admits Randomly Prescribing Pain Killers, More
Notorious 'El Chapo Of Opioids' Doc From Bergen Admits Randomly Prescribing Pain Killers, More A Bergen County doctor who became notorious as the “El Chapo of Opioids” admitted in federal court Monday that he randomly wrote prescriptions for oxycodone, Percocet and more with no questions asked and then tried to cover his tracks. Robert Delagente, 45, of Oakland, “knowingly prescribed for his patients some of the most dangerous and addictive drugs available, sometimes with no more contact than a text message from the patient,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said after Delagente pleaded guilty in federal court in Newark to illegally selling the drugs, falsifying records and conspiracy. …

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'Relative In Trouble': 80-Something Glen Rock Victim Sends Scammers $12,000 Cash 'Relative In Trouble': 80-Something Glen Rock Victim Sends Scammers $12,000 Cash
'Relative In Trouble': 80-Something Glen Rock Victim Sends Scammers $12,000 Cash A Glen Rock woman in her 80s wrapped $12,000 in cash and sent it to phone scammers who convinced her that a relative in trouble needed it, authorities said. One of the scammers called the victim claiming to be the relative and then put an accomplice posing as an attorney on the phone, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said Monday. The “attorney” told the victim that the relative was in jail and needed the cash sent by UPS to an address in Memphis, TN, Ackermann said. Last Tuesday, the woman sent the package, which UPS tracking confirmed was delivered to the Memphis address shortly before 10 a.m.…

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Former North Jersey Neo-Nazi Leader, Holocaust Denier Gets 5 Years For Torching NY Gas Station Former North Jersey Neo-Nazi Leader, Holocaust Denier Gets 5 Years For Torching NY Gas Station
Former North Jersey Neo-Nazi Leader, Holocaust Denier Gets 5 Years For Torching NY Gas Station A former neo-Nazi leader and Holocaust denier who ignited virtual firestorms when he lived in Ridgewood was sentenced to a plea-bargained five years in prison for torching a service station in New York State. A Sullivan County court judge in Monticello required Friday that Jacques Pluss, 66, also remain under supervision for five years after his release from state prison on the arson conviction. Pluss, who lives in Kenoza Lake, NY, admitted in November that he cut a propane line and started a fire at an area service station in Jeffersonville while people -- including his wife -- were inside…

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Route 80 Truck, Commuter Bus Crash Jams Late-Morning Rush Route 80 Truck, Commuter Bus Crash Jams Late-Morning Rush
Route 80 Truck, Commuter Bus Crash Jams Late-Morning Rush A truck rear-ended a bus, injuring three people and jamming traffic on eastbound Route 80 Monday morning. The driver and two passengers on the No. 165 bus from Westwood to New York City were hospitalized with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening after the 7:30 a.m. crash in the express lanes near the Ridgefield Park/Bogota exit, NJ Transit's Nathan Rudy said. Express lane traffic was jammed. Local lanes were moving slowly. State and NJ Transit police responded, along with the state DOT Safety Services Patrol. Main Auto Body was summoned to remove the vehicles. Another bus co…

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Fire Ravages Haledon Apartment Building Fire Ravages Haledon Apartment Building
Fire Ravages Haledon Apartment Building Firefighters battled a Sunday blaze that severely damaged a Haledon apartment building. The second-floor fire across the cockloft of the Belmont Avenue building, partially collapsing the roof and dropping part of the flaming cornice and soffit into the street. No injuries were reported in the fire, which went to three alarms for coverage after igniting around 4:30 p.m. There was no immediate word on how many people were displaced. Assisting Haledon firefighters at the scene or in coverage were their colleagues from Franklin Lakes, Paterson, Prospect Park, Wayne and Wyckoff, among others…

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