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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
Police: Ridgefield Park Officer Tackles Wood-Wielding Assailant After Taser Fails Police: Ridgefield Park Officer Tackles Wood-Wielding Assailant After Taser Fails
Police: Ridgefield Park Officer Tackles Wood-Wielding Assailant After Taser Fails A Ridgefield Park police officer tackled a borough man who attacked him and his colleagues with a block of wood after damaging a patrol car and several other parked vehicles on Thursday, authorities said. Robert Ebeid, 34, ran behind an 8th Street home after officers responding to a dispute just after 11 a.m. found him arguing with family members, Lt. Joseph Rella said. He then doubled back to the front and began yelling, screaming and swinging two large pieces of wood, one in each hand, said Rella, who was one of the responders. Ebeid “began smashing one of the nearby patrol cars with the…

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HERO: Police Officer Saves Bogota Home Under Construction From Serious Fire Damage HERO: Police Officer Saves Bogota Home Under Construction From Serious Fire Damage
Hero: Police Officer Saves Bogota Home Under Construction From Serious Fire Damage A quick-acting Bogota police officer saved a home undergoing construction work from severe damage after smelling smoke late Thursday, authorities said. Officer Lewis Dueñas summoned firefighters after spotting a fire on the second floor of the Queen Anne Road home shortly before 10:30 p.m., Sgt. Geoffrey Cole said. He and fellow officers forced their way in and determined that no one was inside, Cole said. Members of Bogota Engine Co. 3 arrived quickly and snuffed the flames in under 15 minutes, the sergeant said. No injuries were reported in the electrical fire, which broke out in the wa…

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WATCH: Video Captures Passaic DEA Raid, 85 Pounds Of Coke, Heroin Seized In Three Busts WATCH: Video Captures Passaic DEA Raid, 85 Pounds Of Coke, Heroin Seized In Three Busts
Watch: Video Captures Passaic DEA Raid, 85 Pounds Of Coke, Heroin Seized In Three Busts Cellphone video captured a DEA raid involving a Passaic man who federal authorities said had more than 13 pounds of cocaine -- part of a much larger drug haul seized in two other locations. Ramon “Rafael” Fabian-Pena, 59, and two accused accomplices from Trenton were taken into custody by DEA agents during the raids, authorities said. A U.S. District Court judge in Newark ordered Thursday that Fabian-Pena remain in custody. Released on bail were Robin Peralta, 37, and Luis Susana-Delossanto, 32. All were charged with possession with the intent to sell large quantities of heroin after agen…

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Police & Fire
NYC Pair Charged In High-Speed Route 80 Chase, Crash In Hackensack NYC Pair Charged In High-Speed Route 80 Chase, Crash In Hackensack
NYC Pair Charged In High-Speed Route 80 Chase, Crash In Hackensack UPDATE: Authorities Thursday night identified two men captured by Bergen County prosecutor's detectives after a pursuit that topped out at 100 miles an hour ended when their car crashed off Route 80 in Hackensack. Deiby Valdez-Santos, a 27-year-old landscaper from East Harlem, and Jose E. Rodriguez-Castillo, a 25-year-old mechanic from Forest Hills, were both charged with drug possession, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Valdez-Santos, the driver, was also charged with eluding, Musella said. A prosecutor’s investigator had pulled over the pair's Honda sedan around 1 p.m. We…

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Police & Fire
ICE Request Denied, Judge Frees Bronx Couple After Half-Pound Coke Bust In Fort Lee ICE Request Denied, Judge Frees Bronx Couple After Half-Pound Coke Bust In Fort Lee
ICE Request Denied, Judge Frees Bronx Couple After Half-Pound Coke Bust In Fort Lee A Dominican couple living together in the Bronx who were nabbed by Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives with what authorities said was a half-pound of cocaine in Fort Lee were ordered released by a judge in Hackensack despite the federal government’s request that one of them remain held. The cocaine being carried by Sandino Genao-Gonzalez, a 40-year-old cook, and Johanna Rosario-Arias, a 38-year-old home attendant, had a street value of $12,500, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Thursday. Both were charged with possession with the intent to sell the drug and sent to the Bergen Cou…

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Police & Fire
Fair Lawn Teen Honors Dad's Memory Fair Lawn Teen Honors Dad's Memory
Fair Lawn Teen Honors Dad's Memory As he rushed to a Fair Lawn house fire on Wednesday, a young volunteer carried with him a heavy heart. Junior Fair Lawn Firefighter Terrance Pridmore, 17, “dropped everything to help out with the fire even though his dad passed away last month,” his mother said after the Oak Street blaze. The wake for Terrance Pridmore Sr. was Thursday evening at the Browning-Forshay Funeral Home, 557 Lafayette Ave., Hawthorne, NJ 07506. From the time his son was born, the elder Pridmore courageously battled gastrointestinal stromal tumors, which produce the rarest of all cancers. “He put up a great fight…

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Police & Fire
North Jersey Mover Who Boosted Final Bills By Up To 400% Gets 5 Years In Fed Pen North Jersey Mover Who Boosted Final Bills By Up To 400% Gets 5 Years In Fed Pen
North Jersey Mover Who Boosted Final Bills By Up To 400% Gets 5 Years In Fed Pen The leader of a North Jersey multi-moving company scam was sentenced Thursday to five years in federal prison for jacking up the final bills on estimates he’d given customers by as much as 400%. Richard Bishara, 43, a former Paramus moving company operator now living in Woodland Park, will have to serve the entire term handed down Thursday by a U.S. District Court judge in Newark: There’s no parole in the federal prison system. Bishara owned and jointly operated several companies that low-balled estimates on moving household goods before raising the price dramatically once the items were on…

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Police & Fire
Police: Phony Female Prostitute, Pals Jump Little Ferry Customer, 28, At South Hackensack Motel Police: Phony Female Prostitute, Pals Jump Little Ferry Customer, 28, At South Hackensack Motel
Police: Phony Female Prostitute, Pals Jump Little Ferry Customer, 28, At South Hackensack Motel A Little Ferry man thought he was about to hook up with a female prostitute who turned out to be one of three Bronx men who mugged him at a South Hackensack motel, authorities said. Answering an online ad, the 28-year-old victim brought $100 in cash with him on Wednesday, Capt. Robert Kaiser said. He was invited into a room, where the trio jumped him, Kaiser said. The robbers took his iPhone and the cash and were trying to hail a cab when police pulled up. The would-be hooker, 24-year-old Joshua Caba and his accused accomplices, Travis Glaspie 27, and Brandon Rivera 25, all remained held…

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Feds: Belleville Real Estate Investor Nabbed In Million-Dollar Mortgage Scheme Feds: Belleville Real Estate Investor Nabbed In Million-Dollar Mortgage Scheme
Feds: Belleville Real Estate Investor Nabbed In Million-Dollar Mortgage Scheme A Belleville real estate investor doctored applications to obtain more than $1 million in mortgages that all defaulted, federal authorities said. Cabral Simpson, 43, and a group of co-conspirators left lenders and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development holding the bag by creating bogus bank statements and fake employee verification records for unqualified property buyers, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. They then transferred enough money into the buyers’ bank accounts to cover the property deposit, Carpenito said. The scheme "induced lenders to issue more than $1 million …

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Business
Former Elizabeth Restaurant Owner Admits Stiffing IRS Of Nearly $200,000 Former Elizabeth Restaurant Owner Admits Stiffing IRS Of Nearly $200,000
Former Elizabeth Restaurant Owner Admits Stiffing IRS Of Nearly $200,000 The former owner of an Elizabeth restaurant admitted ducking nearly $200,000 in federal income taxes from the business. Omar Rodriguez, 49, who owned Mojito’s Lounge on Bayview Avenue, told a federal judge in Trenton on Wednesday that he “skimmed a substantial portion of [gross cash receipts] for his personal use, which he did not report as income, and to pay Mojito’s employees and suppliers in cash,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Between 2015 and 2017, Rodriguez, of Parlin, received more than $844,000 in income from Mojito’s that he failed to report to the IRS, Carpenito said. Of th…

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