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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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Female Students Struck By Paterson Driver Crossing Outside Clifton High School Female Students Struck By Paterson Driver Crossing Outside Clifton High School
Female Students Struck By Paterson Driver Crossing Outside Clifton High School Two students were struck crossing the street outside Clifton High School early Friday, authorities said. The girls -- one 15, the other 17 -- were in the crosswalk on Colfax Avenue at Lindenwold Avenue when they were struck by a vehicle driven by a 50-year-old Paterson man shortly before 7 a.m., Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. Both were alert and conscious when they were taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson with what responders said weren't life-threatening injuries, Bracken said. The driver remained at the scene and received a summons for failing to yield…

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Didn't Even Stop For Santa: Undercover Ridgefield Police Nail Dozens Of Non-Yielding Drivers Didn't Even Stop For Santa: Undercover Ridgefield Police Nail Dozens Of Non-Yielding Drivers
Didn't Even Stop For Santa: Undercover Ridgefield Police Nail Dozens Of Non-Yielding Drivers With more and more pedestrians being killed and injured on North Jersey roads, Ridgefield police staged a holiday season undercover operation that had eye-popping results. Drivers didn't even stop for Santa -- and he was in the crosswalk. Some motorists openly questioned the officers' holiday spirit, but police said it's not a matter of being naughty or nice. Lives are too important for that. "We had several pedestrians struck recently," Ridgefield Police Chief Thomas Gallagher said. "We're just trying to keep people safe." Thursday's undercover detail outside the busy Ridgefield post of…

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UPDATE: Maywood Man Freed With Conditions In Sex Choking Death Of Bloomingdale Woman, 19 UPDATE: Maywood Man Freed With Conditions In Sex Choking Death Of Bloomingdale Woman, 19
Update: Maywood Man Freed With Conditions In Sex Choking Death Of Bloomingdale Woman, 19 New evidence convinced a judge to order the release Thursday pending trial of a Maywood man in the death of a 19-year-old Bloomingdale woman during rough sex in her car. Superior Court Judge Margaret M. Foti ordered that Michael Gaffney, 21, remain under home confinement, except for medical treatment and visits with his attorney. He also must wear an electronic monitoring bracelet, she said. Foti said the “weight of the evidence” against Gaffney in the death of Francis Victoria Garcia wasn’t as “overwhelming” as she initially believed. Authorities accused Gaffney of causing Garcia’s death…

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Two Pedestrians Struck, One Critical, Outside Teaneck Synagogue Two Pedestrians Struck, One Critical, Outside Teaneck Synagogue
Two Pedestrians Struck, One Critical, Outside Teaneck Synagogue Two men were struck crossing the street in front of a Teaneck synagogue Thursday night -- one of whom was critically injured, responders said. The more seriously injured of the two suffered a skull fracture and was bleeding severely, they said, adding that the other sustained a serious head injury, as well. Both were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with advanced life support by the Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps, police Sgt. Daniel Antinori said. Police believe both were coming from Congregation Bnai Yeshurun when they were struck as they crossed West Englewood Avenue head…

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Feds Charge Globe-Trotting Stem Cell Surgeon From Hackensack With Pocketing Payroll Taxes Feds Charge Globe-Trotting Stem Cell Surgeon From Hackensack With Pocketing Payroll Taxes
Feds Charge Globe-Trotting Stem Cell Surgeon From Hackensack With Pocketing Payroll Taxes A world-traveling orthopedic surgeon from Hackensack who boasts of spearheading stem cell research worldwide failed to pay employees’ payroll taxes to the IRS over five separate years and used it for other purposes, a federal grand jury charged. An 11-count indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Newark alleges that Brian Mehling, 54, failed to collect, account for or deliver payroll taxes for: one quarter in 2014; three quarters in 2015; three quarters in 2016: two quarters in 2017; one quarter in 2018. The indictment also charges him with failing to report a foreign bank account ho…

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Maywood PD: Paramus Motorist Jailed After Handgun Turns Up In Route 17 Stop Maywood PD: Paramus Motorist Jailed After Handgun Turns Up In Route 17 Stop
Maywood PD: Paramus Motorist Jailed After Handgun Turns Up In Route 17 Stop The smell of pot in a Paramus man’s car on Thursday led a Maywood police K-9 team to a gun, authorities said. Detective Christopher Nichols stopped a red Jetta on northbound Route 17 for an unsafe lane change just before noon, Detective Sgt. Jason Liaban said. After smelling the pot, Nichols deployed K-9 Ryker, who indicated drugs were inside the vehicle, Liaban said. A search turned up marijuana and a .380-caliber Taurus TCP handgun, the sergeant said. Brian Guerrero, 27, of Paramus, remained held Thursday night in the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing on drug and weapons ch…

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Palisades Park Boy, 11, Struck By SUV At Congested Stretch Of Road Palisades Park Boy, 11, Struck By SUV At Congested Stretch Of Road
Palisades Park Boy, 11, Struck By SUV At Congested Stretch Of Road An 11-year-old Palisades Park boy was struck by an SUV while walking home from school with a friend Thursday afternoon, authorities confirmed. The boy, who was bleeding from the nose, was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center after being struck around 3:30 p.m. by a Honda CH-R near the busy corner of East Columbia and Roff avenues, Capt. Anthony Muccio said. The driver, a 63-year-old Bayonne man, remained at the scene, said Muccio, the officer in charge of the department. No summonses were issued, the captain said.

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HEROES: Paterson Officers Subdue Violent Gang Member Who Pulled Loaded Gun On Them, Police Say HEROES: Paterson Officers Subdue Violent Gang Member Who Pulled Loaded Gun On Them, Police Say
Heroes: Paterson Officers Subdue Violent Gang Member Who Pulled Loaded Gun On Them, Police Say A Bloods gang member with a history of violence pulled a loaded gun on two pursuing Paterson police officers during what became an intense struggle, authorities said. Danny Urena, a 27-year-old ex-con living in Passaic, ran when he saw partners Erick Marino and Joshua Serrano, who’d been told that a man in a sheepskin coat and ski mask was carrying a gun, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. The officers began chasing Urena on 16th Avenue and were quickly joined by Officer Isiah Mills. Urena – also known as “Young Yb” – is known to police. Last year, he barricaded himself in his girlfriend…

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Pedestrian, 94, Struck Crossing Cliffside Park Street Dies Pedestrian, 94, Struck Crossing Cliffside Park Street Dies
Pedestrian, 94, Struck Crossing Cliffside Park Street Dies A 94-year-old great-grandmother died of injuries she suffered Wednesday when she was struck by a pickup truck while crossing a busy Cliffside Park street, authorities confirmed. Rosemary DellaRosa was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center in critical condition after she was struck by a Ford F-250 crossing Anderson Avenue at Lafayette Avenue around 10 a.m., Detective Capt. Vincent Capano said. DellaRosa died early Wednesday afternoon, Capano said. The Bergen County Prosecutor's Fatal Accident Investigations Unit joined Cliffside Park police in investigating the crash. The Berge…

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Bergen Community College Lyndhurst Campus Briefly Locked Down Bergen Community College Lyndhurst Campus Briefly Locked Down
Bergen Community College Lyndhurst Campus Briefly Locked Down Bergen Community College at the Meadowlands was on lockdown Thursday morning after a shell casing was found in an elevator. Responding to the school's Lyndhurst campus around 9:30 a.m. were local police and the Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification, which was collecting the casing for examination. They completed their investigation about an hour later. "The Bergen County Sheriff's Office has lifted the lockdown at Bergen Community College at the Meadowlands in Lyndhurst," the school said in a statement. "Acting in an abundance of caution, law enforcement responded, secu…

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