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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
SEE ANYTHING? Closter, Tenafly Police Pursue Fleeing Car Burglars SEE ANYTHING? Closter, Tenafly Police Pursue Fleeing Car Burglars
SEE Anything? Closter, Tenafly Police Pursue Fleeing Car Burglars Closter police sought the public’s help finding an SUV connected to overnight vehicle burglaries at a local shopping center. Police tried stopping the black Chevy Tahoe with Florida license plate CTK-W25 around 6 a.m. in connection with two vehicle burglaries roughly 15 minutes earlier at Closter Plaza, Sgt. Vincent Aiello said. The driver sped off south on Piermont Road and a pursuit ensued, with Tenafly police chasing the SUV to westbound Route 80 before breaking off the chase, Aiello said. Anyone who saw anything, sees the Tahoe or knows where to find any of the occupants is asked to co…

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Police & Fire
UPDATE: Body Of Missing Employee, 18, From Popular Bergen Pizzeria Found In Rockland Lake UPDATE: Body Of Missing Employee, 18, From Popular Bergen Pizzeria Found In Rockland Lake
Update: Body Of Missing Employee, 18, From Popular Bergen Pizzeria Found In Rockland Lake UPDATE: A massive search on Sunday turned up the body of a Bergen County pizzeria employee in Rockland County, more than a month after he'd gone missing.  The body of Wilson Atz-Roldan was found in the water at the foot of Lake Antrim off Route 202 (Wayne Avenue), Suffern police said. More than 80 volunteers from search and rescue organizations from across New York and New Jersey joined police and crews from Community Search and Rescue (COMMSAR) in searching for At-Roldan, an employee of Kinchley's Tavern in Ramsey who went missing on Dec. 21. The owners of Kinchley’s issued a pl…

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Police & Fire
Fire Ravages Vacant Fair Lawn House Fire Ravages Vacant Fair Lawn House
Fire Ravages Vacant Fair Lawn House Fire raced through a vacant Fair Lawn home late Wednesday afternoon. The blaze broke out in the rear of the 1½-story Oak Street house around 4:45 p.m. and quickly spread, responders said. Within minutes of firefighters' arrival, it went to three alarms. Oak Street, Fair LawnDamien Danis for DAILY VOICE All interior firefighters were removed and a defensive operation was ramped up, under cold, windy conditions that didn't make things any easier. They still knocked the fire down in under an hour and declared it under control minutes later. Oak Street, Fair LawnBoyd A. Loving for DAI…

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Police & Fire
High-Speed Route 80 Chase Ends In Hackensack Crash, Pair Nabbed By Prosecutor's Detectives High-Speed Route 80 Chase Ends In Hackensack Crash, Pair Nabbed By Prosecutor's Detectives
High-Speed Route 80 Chase Ends In Hackensack Crash, Pair Nabbed By Prosecutor's Detectives UPDATE: uthorities 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. Wed…

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Police & Fire
Fired Teaneck Teacher Accuses Principal Of Hitting On Her, Retaliating When She Refused Fired Teaneck Teacher Accuses Principal Of Hitting On Her, Retaliating When She Refused
Fired Teaneck Teacher Accuses Principal Of Hitting On Her, Retaliating When She Refused A former special education teacher at a Teaneck elementary school claims she was fired after she refused the principal’s sexual advances. The “overly flirtatious” behavior by Whittier Elementary School Principal Pedro H. Valdes III was “disturbing and intimidating at best," Grace Kenny, 38, charges in a sexual discrimination lawsuit filed in Superior Court in Hackensack. Kenny taught Whittier pupils with emotional and learning disabilities for a year and a half before she was let go in May 2018, the suit says. At first, Valdes "lavished praise" on her work and "consistently gave her very h…

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Police & Fire
NJ Scammers Who Paid Bills, Bought Fancy Cars With Homemade Money Orders Headed To Fed Pen NJ Scammers Who Paid Bills, Bought Fancy Cars With Homemade Money Orders Headed To Fed Pen
NJ Scammers Who Paid Bills, Bought Fancy Cars With Homemade Money Orders Headed To Fed Pen Two New Jersey men are bound for federal prison for producing bogus money orders and cashier’s checks that they used to buy themselves luxury cars, pay off credit card bills and clear a mortgage. Germaine Howard King, 47, of Elizabeth was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Newark to 70 months. Daniel D. Dxrams (currently known as “Daniel Kusi”), 41, of Maplewood was sentenced to 57 months. Both must serve their entire terms because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. “King was convicted for his role in a scheme to defraud banks and other lenders using phony money order…

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Police & Fire
Treasurer Stole $18,620 From Ridgefield Fire Company, Authorities Charge Treasurer Stole $18,620 From Ridgefield Fire Company, Authorities Charge
Treasurer Stole $18,620 From Ridgefield Fire Company, Authorities Charge A Ridgefield firefighter stole $18,620 from his department last year, authorities charged. Dennis P. Salvaty, 56, of Union City made a total of 92 unauthorized transactions – 88 at an ATM and four at a teller window – from a Ridgefield Fire Co. #1 account between April 8 and Dec. 18 last year, Police Chief Thomas J. Gallagher said. Additional cash from a fundraiser was suspected taken, but authorities didn't have the necessary documentation. Salvaty, a separated father of two young children -- and a former Fairview fire chief -- who was the Ridgefield fire company's treasurer, He's charge…

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Police & Fire
ATM Skimming Mastermind Who Victimized 4,350 NJ, NY Bank Customers Gets 5 Years In Fed Pen ATM Skimming Mastermind Who Victimized 4,350 NJ, NY Bank Customers Gets 5 Years In Fed Pen
ATM Skimming Mastermind Who Victimized 4,350 NJ, NY Bank Customers Gets 5 Years In Fed Pen The mastermind of an ATM skimming ring that targeted customers at banks in New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts was sentenced Tuesday to five years in federal prison. Bogdan Rusu, 39, a Romanian national living in Howard Beach, Queens will serve the sentence handed down in U.S. District Court in Newark concurrently with a 65-month sentence given to him last June by a federal judge in Massachusetts. Rusu struck plea deals with the government in exchange for leniency in both cases. He'll have to serve the entire terms because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Rusu admitted in…

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News
Drug Ring Sold THC-Laced Sour Patch Candy, Other Sweets In Rockland, Bergen, Prosecutor Says Drug Ring Sold THC-Laced Sour Patch Candy, Other Sweets In Rockland, Bergen, Prosecutor Says
Drug Ring Sold Thc-laced Sour Patch Candy, Other Sweets In Rockland, Bergen, Prosecutor Says Authorities smashed a drug ring that they said sold THC-laced Sour Patch candies and other sweets loved by kids on the black market in Rockland and Bergen counties, on Staten Island and at the Jersey Shore. Various federal, state, county and local law enforcement agencies combined to bring charges against two dozen people while seizing one of the largest amounts ever of illegally-produced THC-infused products in the New York-New Jersey area, authorities announced Tuesday. Seized during the year-long “Operation On the Ropes” investigation were: 1,200 THC-infused “Sour Patch Watermelon” can…

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Prosecutor: Drug Ring Sold THC-Laced Sour Patch Candy, Other Sweets At Jersey Shore, In Bergen Prosecutor: Drug Ring Sold THC-Laced Sour Patch Candy, Other Sweets At Jersey Shore, In Bergen
Prosecutor: Drug Ring Sold Thc-laced Sour Patch Candy, Other Sweets At Jersey Shore, In Bergen Authorities smashed a drug ring that they said flooded the black market in North Jersey, the Shore and Rockland County with THC-laced Sour Patch candies and other sweets loved by kids. Various federal, state, county and local law enforcement agencies combined to bring charges against two dozen people while seizing one of the largest amounts ever of illegally-produced THC-infused products in the New York-New Jersey area, authorities announced Tuesday. Seized during the year-long “Operation On the Ropes” investigation were: 1,200 THC-infused “Sour Patch Watermelon” candy packages; 6,250 “Ba…

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