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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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Teaneck Grandfather, 75, Struck Outside Synagogue Dies Teaneck Grandfather, 75, Struck Outside Synagogue Dies
Teaneck Grandfather, 75, Struck Outside Synagogue Dies One of two men critically injured when they were struck crossing the street outside a Teaneck synagogue Thursday night died Saturday. Sheldon Mermelstein, 75, passed away around 2 p.m. Saturday, Deputy Mayor Elie Katz said. “Our hearts are broken,” his daughter-in-law, Ayelet Schwartz Mermelstein, wrote in tribute. “May his memory be a blessing.” Mermelstein and Micah Kaufman, 41, both members of congregation Beth Aron on Queen Anne Road, were coming from Congregation Bnai Yeshurun when they were struck by a sedan while crossing West Englewood Avenue around 6:20 p.m. Thursday, authorities …

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South Jersey Man Who Threatened To Kill NJ Congressman, Staff Gets 7+ Years In Federal Prison South Jersey Man Who Threatened To Kill NJ Congressman, Staff Gets 7+ Years In Federal Prison
South Jersey Man Who Threatened To Kill NJ Congressman, Staff Gets 7+ Years In Federal Prison A South Jersey combat veteran who the government said threatened a “bloodbath” against former U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo and members of his staff must spend more than seven years in federal prison. Federal jurors in Camden convicted Joseph Brodie, 40, of Millville, last year of making threats to U.S. government officials, officers and employees through a phone call and emails. Brodie, a veteran of both the U.S. Army and U.S. Maine Corps, will have to serve just about all of his sentence because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. Federal prosecutors said Brodie intended to carry …

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UPDATE: Boy, 14, Shot Man Dead, Wounded Other Outside Paterson Restaurant, Authorities Say UPDATE: Boy, 14, Shot Man Dead, Wounded Other Outside Paterson Restaurant, Authorities Say
Update: Boy, 14, Shot Man Dead, Wounded Other Outside Paterson Restaurant, Authorities Say UPDATE: A 14-year-old Paterson boy shot and killed a man and wounded another during a brawl late last week, authorities said. The teen was detained on a delinquency complaint accusing him of murder and weapons possession in the Friday shooting outside a Rosa Parks Boulevard restaurant, up the street from Paterson Eastside High School. A woman had dropped off the teen and 24-year-old Quadir McRae at the La Romano Deli Restaurant just off 16th Avenue, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Troy Oswald said. A short time later, McRae got into a brawl with Sadott…

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Bergen Pair Charged With Laundering $5.7 Million Bergen Pair Charged With Laundering $5.7 Million
Bergen Pair Charged With Laundering $5.7 Million The owners of several businesses in Leonia and Palisades Park laundered $5.7 million to avoid paying taxes on it, said authorities who busted them. Guatemalan nationals Juan Quevedo-Garcia, 40, and Magda Quevedo-Garcia, 35, were booked into the Bergen County Jail on Thursday and ordered released by a judge hours later, records show. Both are scheduled for first appearances Monday in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. Juan Quevedo-Garcia, of Fairview, owns commercial framing and excavation businesses in Palisades Park, while Magda Quevedo-Garcia, of Palisades Park, owns and op…

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Hackensack Couple Charged After 2-Month-Old Is Hospitalized With Broken Arm, 13 Ribs, More Hackensack Couple Charged After 2-Month-Old Is Hospitalized With Broken Arm, 13 Ribs, More
Hackensack Couple Charged After 2-Month-Old Is Hospitalized With Broken Arm, 13 Ribs, More Bergen County sheriff’s officers arrested a Hackensack couple after they brought their 2-month-old baby to the hospital with 13 broken ribs, two clavicle fractures and a broken arm, among other injuries, authorities said. William Galan, 35, and Heather Chambers, 37, were being held Friday in the Bergen County Jail, charged with child endangerment pending detention hearings the next morning, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The infant’s injuries “were inflicted by William Galan and Heather Chambers” and “no medical treatment was ever sought,” Musella said. It all came to light af…

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Prosecutor: Paramus Car Dealership Manager Abducted, Raped Incapacitated Woman In NJ, Rockland Prosecutor: Paramus Car Dealership Manager Abducted, Raped Incapacitated Woman In NJ, Rockland
Prosecutor: Paramus Car Dealership Manager Abducted, Raped Incapacitated Woman In NJ, Rockland The manager of a Paramus auto dealership abducted a drunken woman from a local restaurant and raped her in Bergen and Rockland counties, authorities charged. Carlos Belaunde Jr., 25, who works at Chrysler Jeep Dodge of Paramus on Route 4, remained held Friday in the Bergen County Jail, charged with aggravated assault and kidnapping, records show. Paramus police alerted Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella’s Special Victims Unit on Dec. 6 of an allegation that “an incapacitated female was taken by an unknown male from a restaurant” in town, Musella said. “The unknown male placed the victi…

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Car Dealership Manager Abducted, Raped Incapacitated Woman In Ramapo, Prosecutor Says Car Dealership Manager Abducted, Raped Incapacitated Woman In Ramapo, Prosecutor Says
Car Dealership Manager Abducted, Raped Incapacitated Woman In Ramapo, Prosecutor Says The manager of a Paramus auto dealership abducted a drunken woman from a local restaurant and raped her in Bergen County and Ramapo, authorities charged Friday. Carlos Belaunde Jr., 25, who works at Chrysler Jeep Dodge of Paramus on Route 4, remained held in the Bergen County Jail, charged with aggravated assault and kidnapping, records show. Paramus police alerted Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella’s Special Victims Unit on Dec. 6 of an allegation that “an incapacitated female was taken by an unknown male from a restaurant” in town, Musella said. “The unknown male placed the victim in…

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Two Englewood Pedestrians Struck In Back-To-Back Crashes Two Englewood Pedestrians Struck In Back-To-Back Crashes
Two Englewood Pedestrians Struck In Back-To-Back Crashes Two Englewood pedestrians were struck Friday by vehicles only three blocks and barely 45 minutes apart, authorities said. A 45-year-old woman was struck at 9:45 a.m. at the intersection of East Palisade Avenue and South Dean Street by a 1999 Buick Century driven by a 77-year-old man, Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said. The sedan driver was turning right onto South Dean from East Palisade when he hit her in the crosswalk on Dean Street, he said. The woman wasn’t seriously injured, the deputy chief said. Nor was a 24-year-old pedestrian who was struck around 10:30 a.m. by a 2007 GMC …

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Bergen Man Seized By Homeland Security Agents Following Twitter Threats Bergen Man Seized By Homeland Security Agents Following Twitter Threats
Bergen Man Seized By Homeland Security Agents Following Twitter Threats Federal authorities early Friday seized a 22-year-old Edgewater man who they said threatened to kill ICE agents. Carlos Alejandro Tariche was taken into custody by U.S. Homeland Security agents, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Craig Carpenito said. The U.S. attorney said Tariche tweeted threats that included: “We need to kill all ICE agents”  “Why can’t mass shootings occur at @ICEgov buildings them mfs need to get smoked[?]” Tariche also used his Twitter account “to compare his feelings to that of Elliot Rodger, [who] carried out a mass shooting at Isla Vista, California, murdering six…

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Teaneck Man Critically Injured In Double-Pedestrian Crash Had Donated Kidney To Grandmother Teaneck Man Critically Injured In Double-Pedestrian Crash Had Donated Kidney To Grandmother
Teaneck Man Critically Injured In Double-Pedestrian Crash Had Donated Kidney To Grandmother One of two men critically injured when they were struck crossing the street outside a Teaneck synagogue Thursday night was to receive an award this weekend for donating a kidney that saved the life of a grandmother. Micah Kaufman, 41, and Sheldon Mermelstein, 75, both members of congregation Beth Aron on Queen Anne Road, were coming from Congregation Bnai Yeshurun when they were struck by a sedan while crossing West Englewood Avenue around 6:20 p.m. Thursday, authorities said. Mermelstein succumbed to his injuries on Saturday: https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/teaneck/police-fire/…

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