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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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Punitive Damages: J&J Must Pay $185M In Mesothelioma Case Involving Baby Powder Punitive Damages: J&J Must Pay $185M In Mesothelioma Case Involving Baby Powder
Punitive Damages: J&J Must Pay $185M In Mesothelioma Case Involving Baby Powder Jurors in New Brunswick on Thursday rendered a $750 million punitive damages verdict against Johnson & Johnson on behalf of four people who allegedly got mesothelioma from its baby powder – and a judge immediately cut the award to $185 million, NJ.LAW reported. Johnson & Johnson vowed to appeal. The jury deliberated for less than a day following a three-week trial, the site reported. The punitive damages will be added to $37 million compensatory damages verdict rendered last September by a separate jury. They go to plaintiffs Douglas Barden and his wife, Roslyn Barden; David Ethri…

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Police & Fire
Hudson Company Pays Penalty, Damages For Denying Tour Bus Access To Paraplegic Army Vet Hudson Company Pays Penalty, Damages For Denying Tour Bus Access To Paraplegic Army Vet
Hudson Company Pays Penalty, Damages For Denying Tour Bus Access To Paraplegic Army Vet A Hoboken-based charter bus company that failed to provide access to a 74-year-old paraplegic U.S. Army veteran for a tour of Arlington National Cemetery has agreed to not let that happen again, authorities said. Academy Express will also pay a $10,000 civil penalty to the United States and $10,000 in damages to the aggrieved veteran, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. The former 189th Assault Helicopter Company staff sergeant, who was gunned down in Vietnam, wanted to join dozens of fellow combat unit veterans on an Academy charter bus for a multi-day “Honor Flight” tour of Arlington Nati…

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Police & Fire
Masked Gunmen Rob Passaic Bank Masked Gunmen Rob Passaic Bank
Masked Gunmen Rob Passaic Bank Two masked gunmen robbed a Passaic bank Thursday afternoon, authorities confirmed. No one was injured in the robbery shortly after 1 p.m. at the PNC Bank branch at the corner of Broadway and Van Houten Avenue, they said. Students and staff at the nearby Thomas Jefferson School No. 1, Vincent Capuana School No. 15 and the School No. 15 annex were temporarily sheltered in place.  City police were working with the FBI, Mayor Hector Carlos Lora said. There was no idea yet how much was taken, police said. Investigators were trying to obtain descriptions to share publicly. Anyone who…

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Police & Fire
ICE Promises More Sweeps After Capturing Murder Suspects, 113 Other Immigrants In New Jersey ICE Promises More Sweeps After Capturing Murder Suspects, 113 Other Immigrants In New Jersey
ICE Promises More Sweeps After Capturing Murder Suspects, 113 Other Immigrants In New Jersey Two fugitive murder suspects – one from Brazil who fled to Newark and another from El Salvador who was living in Elizabeth – were among 115 foreign nationals captured by ICE agents in New Jersey last week, officials said. Also seized in last week’s sweep of nationals illegally living in New Jersey were a Salvadoran MS-13 gang member found in Paterson and a deported child abuser from Mexico who was living In Guttenberg, they said. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement roundup targeted at-large criminal aliens, illegal reentrants and other immigration violators who were “a threat to …

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Police & Fire
Duo Charged In Route 80 Killing Now Accused Of Another Just Days Earlier Duo Charged In Route 80 Killing Now Accused Of Another Just Days Earlier
Duo Charged In Route 80 Killing Now Accused Of Another Just Days Earlier Two men charged with stalking and shooting a driver dead on Route 80 last month killed another man four days earlier on Long Island, authorities there said. Douglas Coudrey, 22, of Eastport, and Kenneth Regan, 21, of Centerreach, are charged with murder in the Jan. 14 shooting death of Justin Gottlieb, 27, of Plainview, Nassau County police said Thursday. Authorities captured and charged Coudrey and Regan on Jan. 22 after Louis Perez, 27, of the Bronx, was shot in his car on Route 80 in Lodi several days earlier. The new charges stem from an apparent drive-by shooting in Plainview, Nassau…

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Police & Fire
Child Porn Trafficking: Former Youth Corrections Officer From Ocean Gets 7 Years In Fed Pen Child Porn Trafficking: Former Youth Corrections Officer From Ocean Gets 7 Years In Fed Pen
Child Porn Trafficking: Former Youth Corrections Officer From Ocean Gets 7 Years In Fed Pen A former state youth facility corrections officer from Ocean County was sentenced to seven years in federal prison for trafficking child porn. Michael A. Ruggiero, 38, of Lacey Township, was nabbed by federal Homeland Security agents after an online contact of his was arrested in Canada, authorities said. Members of the Saskatchewan Police Service contacted them after finding online exchanges between a man they took into custody for downloading and sharing images of child sexual abuse off a mobile app and a user in the U.S. IP addresses led the agents to Ruggiero, who was living in Berkel…

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Police & Fire
Three Injured In Separate Route 17 Crashes Three Injured In Separate Route 17 Crashes
Three Injured In Separate Route 17 Crashes Three people were injured in separate Thursday morning crashes on either side of Route 17 in Ho-Ho-Kus. The first occurred shortly after 7:30 a.m. and the next about a half-hour later, both near Hollywood Avenue. Two people were taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood. Their conditions couldn't immediately be determined. Traffic was jammed on either side of the highway. Responding were Ho-Ho-Kus, Ridgewood and Saddle River police, Ho-Ho-Kus firefighters and Ho-Ho-Kus and Ridgewood EMS. Boyd A. Loving took the photo and provided the information.

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Reputed JC Gang Member Shot Last Year Charged With Firing At Five Rivals Reputed JC Gang Member Shot Last Year Charged With Firing At Five Rivals
Reputed JC Gang Member Shot Last Year Charged With Firing At Five Rivals Two reputed Jersey City gang members shot five people in retaliation for the murder of an associate several years earlier, federal authorities in Newark charged. One of them, Jalil “Broadday” Holmes, 20, of East Orange, is already charged with shooting at a vehicle in Jersey City, wounding two men, before he was shot in the Newport Centre mall food court in January 2019. In the new case, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said that Holmes and Jidon Rogers, 37, of Jersey City went with two other men to Lexington Avenue looking to shoot rivals on June 30, 2018. The date was signifi…

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Business
Ridgewood Firefighters Quickly Douse House Blaze Ridgewood Firefighters Quickly Douse House Blaze
Ridgewood Firefighters Quickly Douse House Blaze Ridgewood firefighters quickly extinguished a house fire Wednesday afternoon. Residents got out safely and no injuries were reported at the split-level, single-family home in the 400 block of Race Track Road. The fire apparently began on the first floor and spread upstairs, bringing village firefighters, police and EMS. The home sustained moderate fire, smoke and water damage. Boyd A. Loving took the photo and supplied this report.

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Plainfield Ex-Con Headed To Federal Prison For Ditching Gun, Drugs Plainfield Ex-Con Headed To Federal Prison For Ditching Gun, Drugs
Plainfield Ex-Con Headed To Federal Prison For Ditching Gun, Drugs An ex-con from Plainfield admitted in federal court in Newark that he sold cocaine and oxycodone while armed with a handgun. Arthur Forman, 37, pleaded guilty to drug and weapons possession, including being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, in exchange for leniency at an upcoming sentencing. Forman choked a Plainfield detective while resisting an Oct. 13, 2017 arrest, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. He then handed a bag containing cocaine and a gun to his sister, who threw it out a window, authorities said at the time. A search of Forman’s bedroom turned up “numerous oxyco…

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