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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
Feds: Fort Lee Man Conned Lender Out Of $780,000 Feds: Fort Lee Man Conned Lender Out Of $780,000
Feds: Fort Lee Man Conned Lender Out Of $780,000 A 78-year-old Fort Lee man could face time in federal prison after a grand jury charged him with conning a lender into giving him $780,000 to repay a debt that he instead put toward a 12th-floor apartment in a high-rise overlooking Washington Heights. Arthur Schwartz told the victim he had the funds to repay a short-term loan but that his bank had temporarily blocked access to his account. The lender “agreed to extend the loan to Schwartz due and payable in 30 days,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. “Schwartz used the money to purchase the apartment.” For a couple of months, Schwartz “m…

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Police & Fire
Authorities: Armored Truck Guard Shoots Would-Be Robber From Plainfield, 33, At Wayne Bank Authorities: Armored Truck Guard Shoots Would-Be Robber From Plainfield, 33, At Wayne Bank
Authorities: Armored Truck Guard Shoots Would-Be Robber From Plainfield, 33, At Wayne Bank An armored truck guard shot a would-be robber in the stomach outside a Wayne bank around noon Wednesday, authorities confirmed. The suspect approached one of the armed guards as he was leaving the Bank of America in Plaza Square (commonly known as the ShopRite shopping center) on Hamburg Turnpike and "tried to steal the cash bags he was carrying," Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Wayne Police Chief Jack McNiff said in a joint release. "A struggle ensued, during which the guard fired one round striking the suspect," the release said. A second guard "remained in the truck whil…

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Obituaries
Both 'Families' Mourn Death Of Prominent Wayne Physician Who Touched Lives Across North Jersey Both 'Families' Mourn Death Of Prominent Wayne Physician Who Touched Lives Across North Jersey
Both 'Families' Mourn Death Of Prominent Wayne Physician Who Touched Lives Across North Jersey Both his personal and professional families are mourning the death of well-known and respected physician David Vincent Rasa of Wayne, a founding partner of High Mountain Health Medical Group. Rasa, who gave much of his life to helping others, passed away at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood last Thursday surrounded by his wife, Diane, son Michael and daughter Nicole, as well as close relatives and personal friends. He was 68. Well known beyond the township of Wayne, where he’d lived, the Paterson native served his community. “He was a great doctor and most caring human being my family and I…

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Police & Fire
Feds: NYC Man, 35, Took Underage Jersey Girl Back To Queens For Sex Feds: NYC Man, 35, Took Underage Jersey Girl Back To Queens For Sex
Feds: NYC Man, 35, Took Underage Jersey Girl Back To Queens For Sex A 35-year-old Queens livery driver drove more than 150 miles to have sex with a 15-year-old girl in South Jersey, then took her back to his Sunnyside home for more -- and even recorded some of it on a cellphone, federal authorities charged. Richard Gabriel Piedra-Ordonez broke federal law by crossing state lines with the minor for sex, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said Wednesday. Piedra-Ordonez faces an additional count of “traveling for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct,” the U.S. attorney said. Piedra-Ordonez began communicating with the girl in May “using various socia…

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Police & Fire
Pedestrian, 94, Struck, Killed Crossing Cliffside Park Street Pedestrian, 94, Struck, Killed Crossing Cliffside Park Street
Pedestrian, 94, Struck, Killed Crossing Cliffside Park Street UPDATE: 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. T…

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Police & Fire
40 FEET UP: Hackensack Firefighters Rescue Workers Stuck In Boom Truck 40 FEET UP: Hackensack Firefighters Rescue Workers Stuck In Boom Truck
40 Feet UP: Hackensack Firefighters Rescue Workers Stuck In Boom Truck Hackensack firefighters on Wednesday rescued two workers who were stuck for hours in a crane above the Crow's Nest off Route 17. Members of City Ladder Company No. 1 got the workers down around noon. Their boom truck crane apparently got stuck about two hours earlier, responders said. Both refused further medical attention after city EMS workers evaluated them at the scene.

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Police & Fire
Quick-Acting Staffers Get Developmentally Disabled Children To Safety In Pre-Dawn Wyckoff Fire Quick-Acting Staffers Get Developmentally Disabled Children To Safety In Pre-Dawn Wyckoff Fire
Quick-Acting Staffers Get Developmentally Disabled Children To Safety In Pre-Dawn Wyckoff Fire Wyckoff firefighters quickly doused a damaging, pre-dawn blaze Wednesday at a retreat for children with developmental disabilities. A staff member with minor smoke inhalation was the only reported injury in the 4:46 a.m. two-alarm fire in the Oak Lodge at the Eastern Christian Children’s Retreat, Wyckoff Police Chief David Murphy said. Staffers quickly moved the occupants to another facility at the Mountain Avenue campus, he said. Fire companies from surrounding towns joined Wyckoff firefighters, police and EMS either at the scene or in borough coverage, Murphy said. The cause appeared el…

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Police & Fire
Hackensack Police Pursue Two Stolen Vehicles At Once, Nab Newark Kearny Boys, 15, 16 Hackensack Police Pursue Two Stolen Vehicles At Once, Nab Newark Kearny Boys, 15, 16
Hackensack Police Pursue Two Stolen Vehicles At Once, Nab Newark Kearny Boys, 15, 16 Two boys – one 15, the other 16 – and a third suspect led Hackensack police on a high-speed pursuit in two stolen vehicles, authorities said. It began when Detective Lt. Michael Antista saw a 2015 Mercedes Benz E350 and a 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee go through a red light on First Street near Hackensack High School last Friday, Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. A license plate check showed that the Mercedes had been reported stolen out of South Plainfield, he said. Antista tried stopping the vehicles, but both sped off on Polifly Road at speeds of up to 70 miles an hour, DeWitt said. The Mercedes go…

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Police & Fire
Ho-Ho-Kus Home Burglarized Ho-Ho-Kus Home Burglarized
Ho-Ho-Kus Home Burglarized A homeowner in Ho-Ho-Kus was tallying the value of what was taken while police investigated a burglary.  Whoever broke in came in through the front door of the West Saddle River home and ransacked the place sometime before 6 p.m. Monday, Police Chief Christopher Minchin said. A Bergen County K-9 was brought in and checked the home for intruders. No suspects were found in the area, Minchin said. Detectives were investigating. Minchin asked that anyone in the area who might have seen something or have home surveillance video of possible suspects or vehicles contact Ho-Ho-Kus PD: (201) …

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Police & Fire
Hawthorne PD: Unlicensed DWI Driver From Wyckoff Crashes, Refuses To Submit To Alcohol Tests Hawthorne PD: Unlicensed DWI Driver From Wyckoff Crashes, Refuses To Submit To Alcohol Tests
Hawthorne PD: Unlicensed DWI Driver From Wyckoff Crashes, Refuses To Submit To Alcohol Tests A drunk driver from Wyckoff crashed her car in Hawthorne, injuring an adult and two children, authorities said. Heather Lawson, 43, who has a prior record of petty offenses, crashed a 2016 Land Rover owned by someone else on Lafayette Avenue, Detective Sgt. Matthew Hoogmoed said. Responding officers noticed that she smelled of alcohol, he said. “I ain’t doing your [sobriety] test,” Lawson told the officers, who took her into custody, Hoogmoed said. She later “became irate and refused to cooperate with officers” at headquarters, the sergeant said. The victims -- a 41-year-old woman and t…

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