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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
Man Who Sold Fentanyl, Heroin That Killed Ocean County User Gets 7 Years In Prison Man Who Sold Fentanyl, Heroin That Killed Ocean County User Gets 7 Years In Prison
Man Who Sold Fentanyl, Heroin That Killed Ocean County User Gets 7 Years In Prison A Lacey Township resident who sold a mix of heroin and fentanyl that killed a 25-year-old Berkeley man last spring must spend nearly six years in state prison before he’s eligible for parole. Charles Rice, 58, was sentenced Friday in Toms River to a plea-bargained seven years behind bars, 85 percent of which he must serve under New Jersey’s No Early Release Act, for manslaughter, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said. Superior Court Judge Rochelle Gizinski also sentenced Rice to a concurrent six-year sentence for distributing heroin and fentanyl. Rice pleaded guilty to both cha…

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Police & Fire
Firefighters Quickly Douse New Milford House Blaze Firefighters Quickly Douse New Milford House Blaze
Firefighters Quickly Douse New Milford House Blaze New Milford firefighters made quick work of a predawn house blaze Friday. The rear addition fire in the 100 block of Boulevard broke out around 4:20 a.m. and was doused within a half hour. Joining their colleagues at the scene or in coverage were firefighters from Bergenfield, Dumont and Oradell, as well as River Edge EMS. Mutual aid companies were released at 5 a.m. The official cause wasn't immediately determined. No injuries were reported. At the scene of the fire on Boulevard in New Milford.Aidan Flannery for DAILY VOICE

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Police & Fire
Conflict Arises In Child Sex Assault Trial Of Upper Saddle River Business Owner Conflict Arises In Child Sex Assault Trial Of Upper Saddle River Business Owner
Conflict Arises In Child Sex Assault Trial Of Upper Saddle River Business Owner Conflict erupted in only the second day of the trial of a former construction company owner from Upper Saddle River charged with sexually assaulting a young girl. A detective was testifying Thursday in Hackensack when defense attorney Joshua Cohn referred to previously dismissed indictments against his client, Louis Tantillo, witnesses said. Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Kristen DeMarco objected and Superior Court Judge Robert M. Vinci instructed the jurors to ignore the comment. After Vinci dismissed the jury for the day, Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Joseph W. Torre asked the …

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Police & Fire
Senior Trio Emerges Unscathed After SUV Flips In Palisades Park Crash Senior Trio Emerges Unscathed After SUV Flips In Palisades Park Crash
Senior Trio Emerges Unscathed After SUV Flips In Palisades Park Crash Three New Milford seniors all walked away without injury after their SUV was knocked through a fence and plunged several feet, landing on its roof atop a Palisades Park apartment's electrical box. The 70-year-old driver of the Honda CRV told police he’d stopped on West Palisades Boulevard and was headed across Grand Avenue when the driver of a Toyota Camry sped up, clipping the back of his vehicle. He said he lost control of the SUV, which hit a Chevy Impala stopped at a light and careened through the fence, landing upside down on the box at the Marlborough Apartments. He wasn’t injured, n…

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Police & Fire
BAIL REFORM: Fair Lawn PD Nabs Habitual Paterson Offender Wanted In Glen Rock BAIL REFORM: Fair Lawn PD Nabs Habitual Paterson Offender Wanted In Glen Rock
Bail Reform: Fair Lawn PD Nabs Habitual Paterson Offender Wanted In Glen Rock Two Fair Lawn police officers nabbed a repeat offender who they said was carrying a Gucci wallet, credit cards, identification and nearly $500 in cash stolen from a car parked in a Glen Rock resident’s driveway. Authorities suspect that Emmanuel Bernard, a 30-year-old Dominican national who lives in Paterson, also took a cell phone, sunglasses and gaming cartridges, as well as shoes and clothing, much of which Glen Rock police recovered. Fair Lawn Officers Juan Rodriguez and Javier Gutierrez found Bernard on a bicycle and arguing with someone in the area of Fair Lawn Avenue and Abbott Road,…

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Police & Fire
Teaneck PD: Sharp-Eyed Sergeant Quickly Nabs Adult, Hackensack Teens In Stolen Car Teaneck PD: Sharp-Eyed Sergeant Quickly Nabs Adult, Hackensack Teens In Stolen Car
Teaneck PD: Sharp-Eyed Sergeant Quickly Nabs Adult, Hackensack Teens In Stolen Car It didn’t take long for a Teaneck police sergeant to nab a township man and three Hackensack teens who authorities said stole a car from a resident’s driveway less than an hour earlier. The victim told police he’d left the 2009 Chrysler Sebring with the keys inside when he went into his Bogert Street home around 8 p.m. Wednesday. When he looked outside a little over a half-hour later, he said, it was gone. Teaneck Sgt. Kevin Brennan spotted the car and pulled it over at the intersection of Cedar Lane and River Road at 8:55 p.m., a little over 10 minutes after the call came in, Deputy Polic…

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Police & Fire
Wallington Crash Outside MVC Sends Driver To Hospital Wallington Crash Outside MVC Sends Driver To Hospital
Wallington Crash Outside MVC Sends Driver To Hospital A 31-year-old Wallington driver was hospitalized after a pre-dawn single-vehicle crash Thursday outside the local MVC office on Main Avenue. The victim was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center after crashing his 2004 Honda Accord around 4:15 a.m., Wallington Police Chief Carmello Imbruglia said. Responders said the victim initially was knocked out but regained consciousness. The cause wasn't immediately determined.

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Police & Fire
Pedestrian Hit In Unmarked Crosswalk: Who's At Fault? Pedestrian Hit In Unmarked Crosswalk: Who's At Fault?
Pedestrian Hit In Unmarked Crosswalk: Who's At Fault? A 28-year-old pedestrian was struck in an unmarked Hackensack crosswalk the other morning, raising what authorities said is an important point. The victim, a Jersey City woman, was heading west across Summit Avenue at Thompson Street in an unmarked crosswalk when she was struck around 7 a.m. by a southbound 2019 Ford Mustang driven by a 64-year-old city man, police said. She was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center after complaining of leg and hip pain, they said. Although no summonses were issued, the driver was assigned fault for failing to yield to a pedestrian. Why? "Most dr…

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Police & Fire
Pharmacy Worker From Fort Lee Admits Role In Multi-Million-Dollar Health Care Fraud Pharmacy Worker From Fort Lee Admits Role In Multi-Million-Dollar Health Care Fraud
Pharmacy Worker From Fort Lee Admits Role In Multi-Million-Dollar Health Care Fraud A massive federal health fraud case claimed another conspirator when a Fair Lawn pharmacy employee from Fort Lee admitted participating in a scheme that cost a federal workers' compensation program millions of dollars. Zachary Ohebshalom, 34, was the second of five defendants to take a plea deal from federal prosecutors, less than a month after Estela Arco-Blaustein, 55, of Mahwah pleaded out in U.S. District Court in Newark for her role in the scheme. Still facing charges is Dr. Mark Filippone, 71, of Wallington. Their scheme to fill bogus prescriptions for medically unnecessary pain crea…

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Schools
Teaneck Basketball Coach Says Old Tappan Players Used Racial Slurs, Pulls Team Off Court Teaneck Basketball Coach Says Old Tappan Players Used Racial Slurs, Pulls Team Off Court
Teaneck Basketball Coach Says Old Tappan Players Used Racial Slurs, Pulls Team Off Court While an investigation of a report that freshman basketball players at Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan used racial slurs against a visiting team from Teaneck continues, some parents on both sides are wondering how it will affect their youngsters. Coach Owen Barnes pulled his team off the court with three minutes left on Tuesday after the alleged behavior continued unchecked by referees, opposing coaches or anyone at the home school, one parent said. Officials with the NVRHS district said Wednesday that they’d gotten no reports from their side of any slurs being heard -- b…

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