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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
Driver Extricated In Tenafly Rollover Driver Extricated In Tenafly Rollover
Driver Extricated In Tenafly Rollover A driver had to be extricated from her SUV after it rolled Saturday afternoon in Tenafly. Tenafly firefighters got the woman out of the Subaru Forester after it landed on the driver's side on Chestnut Street near the Stop & Shop shopping center around 3:45 p.m. She was taken by ambulance to a local hospital with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening, responders said. The vehicle bore a handicapped placard.

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Police & Fire
Garfield Carjacker Fires Shot At Man, Hits Wife With Gun, Steals Their Mercedes Garfield Carjacker Fires Shot At Man, Hits Wife With Gun, Steals Their Mercedes
Garfield Carjacker Fires Shot At Man, Hits Wife With Gun, Steals Their Mercedes A carjacker hit a Garfield woman in the head with his gun, then fired a shot at her husband during a struggle Friday night, police said. The woman told police she'd just parked her white 2016 Mercedes CLS 550 in front of their Herman Street home shortly before 8:30 p.m. Friday when the carjacker -- wearing a dark-colored mask or hoodie over his face -- rushed her and demanded her car keys, Capt. Richard Uram said. A struggle ensued when she refused, Uram said. The woman screamed for help, and the robber whacked her in the head with a handgun, then took her keys when she fell to the gr…

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Hawthorne Man, 19, Accused Of Assaulting Victim With Car In Ridgewood Hawthorne Man, 19, Accused Of Assaulting Victim With Car In Ridgewood
Hawthorne Man, 19, Accused Of Assaulting Victim With Car In Ridgewood A Hawthorne man deliberately struck a domestic violence victim with his car in Ridgewood and then fled the scene late Friday, said authorities who took him into custody. Aaron Hoyt, 19, remained held Saturday in the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing. The male victim was taken by ambulance to Hackensack University Medical Center following the assault just after 10 p.m. on Hammond Road, a cul-de-sac off Van Emburgh Avenue near northbound Route 17, responders said. "It was very fortunate that it wasn't worse. It could have very easily been life-threatening," one said. A damaged …

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Police & Fire
UPDATE: Totowa Man, 62, Dies In House Fire UPDATE: Totowa Man, 62, Dies In House Fire
Update: Totowa Man, 62, Dies In House Fire A resident was killed and his mother rescued Saturday in an early-morning fire that ripped through a two-family Totowa home, responders said. Gregory Massaro, 62, was trapped on the second floor after the fire broke out shortly after 5:30 a.m. at the corner of Gordon and Chamberlain avenues, authorities said. His 89-year-old mother, who lives on the first floor, was rescued by firefighters who found her on a couch, responders said. She was taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center as a precaution, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Totowa Police Chief Robert Coyle said in …

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Police & Fire
Pedestrian, 55, Struck, Killed Near Meadowlands Pedestrian, 55, Struck, Killed Near Meadowlands
Pedestrian, 55, Struck, Killed Near Meadowlands UPDATE: Carlstadt police on Monday identified a pedestrian struck and killed just north of the Meadowlands over the weekend as a 55-year-old Paterson man who was heading home from work at a local service station. Abdul Ahad, who emigrated to the U.S. from Bangladesh, was struck around 6:45 a.m. Saturday as he crossed Washington Avenue just north of Route 120 -- on what for decades has been a notorious stretch of road, authorities said. The Dodge Charger that hit him was headed north and was passing a stopped NJ Transit bus when Ahad stepped into his path, Detective Sgt. John Cleary sai…

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Police & Fire
Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Make $40,000 Heroin Bust Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Make $40,000 Heroin Bust
Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Make $40,000 Heroin Bust Palisades Interstate Parkway police seized $40,000 worth of heroin and arrested two people – one of them from Orange County -- after stopping a minivan on the parkway, authorities said. PIP Police Officer Matthew Levine stopped the Honda Odyssey for a traffic violation in Alpine on Dec. 15, Lt. Jock H. Watkins, Jr. said Friday. A probable-cause search turned up 4,000 wax folds of heroin, Watkins said. Arrested, he said, were two passengers: Holly Anne Mead, 32, of Newburgh, who was charged with marijuana possession, and Gabriel Zurita-Bayron, 36, of Philadelphia, who was charged with havi…

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News
Community Grieves At Sudden Passing Of Mahwah High School Junior, 16 Community Grieves At Sudden Passing Of Mahwah High School Junior, 16
Community Grieves At Sudden Passing Of Mahwah High School Junior, 16 A community united in grief as word spread of the death from heart failure of a 16-year-old Mahwah High School junior. A funeral service was scheduled this coming Tuesday for Marcus Kayal, a dedicated Class of ‘21 student and soccer player at Mahwah High School who responders said suddenly went into cardiac arrest and died early Friday. "This sudden passing leaves our school community truly saddened. Our thoughts and prayers are with our dear friends, our colleagues and our students," Mahwah Schools Supt. C. Lauren Schoen wrote in a notice to parents. Marcus’s parents, George and Deborah, …

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Police & Fire
Bodycam Shows State Trooper Was Justified Shooting Man Who Charged At Police With Hunting Knife Bodycam Shows State Trooper Was Justified Shooting Man Who Charged At Police With Hunting Knife
Bodycam Shows State Trooper Was Justified Shooting Man Who Charged At Police With Hunting Knife Thanks to a body camera, a New Jersey State Police trooper was found completely justified in shooting a man who charged at him and fellow troopers with a hunting knife, authorities announced Friday. The results were among the first under a new directive for police use-of-force investigations in New Jersey issued earlier this month by state Attorney General Gurbir Grewal. The troopers had gone to a Hardwick home in Warren County on June 12, 2018 to investigate a domestic dispute, the attorney general said. Witnesses told them Stephen Cogelia, 32, had threatened to kill his father, saying, “…

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Rochelle Park PD: Out-Of-Gas Franklin Lakes Pickup Driver Caught With Loaded Revolver Rochelle Park PD: Out-Of-Gas Franklin Lakes Pickup Driver Caught With Loaded Revolver
Rochelle Park PD: Out-Of-Gas Franklin Lakes Pickup Driver Caught With Loaded Revolver A Rochelle Park police officer found a pickup truck driver from Franklin Lakes stopped in the middle of a dark street -- with an empty tank of gas and no headlights on -- illegally carrying a loaded handgun, authorities said. Robert Vergara, 50, had the .357-caliber revolver in his front pocket when Officer Jim Zenock found him in the truck on Rochelle Avenue "not making any attempts to summon help or get fuel" around 5 p.m. Thursday, Detective Sgt. James M. DePreta said. Given his "inability to account" for the circumstances, Vergara was sent to New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus fo…

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Police & Fire
Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Make $40,000 Heroin Bust Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Make $40,000 Heroin Bust
Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Make $40,000 Heroin Bust Palisades Interstate Parkway police seized $40,000 worth of heroin and arrested two people – one of them from Orange County, NY -- after stopping a minivan on the parkway, authorities said. PIP Police Officer Matthew Levine stopped the Honda Odyssey for a traffic violation in Alpine on Dec. 15, Lt. Jock H. Watkins, Jr. said Friday. A probable-cause search turned up 4,000 wax folds of heroin, Watkins said. Arrested, he said, were two passengers: Holly Anne Mead, 32, of Newburgh, who was charged with marijuana possession, and Gabriel Zurita-Bayron, 36, of Philadelphia, who was charged with h…

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