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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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Authorities: Black Friday Mall Shooter Nabbed Taking Stabbed Friend To Hospital Authorities: Black Friday Mall Shooter Nabbed Taking Stabbed Friend To Hospital
Authorities: Black Friday Mall Shooter Nabbed Taking Stabbed Friend To Hospital UPDATE: A 21-year-old upstate New York man who police said shot another man during a Black Friday food court mall brawl in Syracuse was captured when he showed up at a local hospital after crashing his mother's car into a bus near a city tree-lighting ceremony, authorities said. Kyree J. Truax was driving a friend who was stabbed during the melee in the food court at the Destiny USA mall to an area hospital when the crash occurred, they said. While Truax exchanged information with the bus driver, an ambulance took his friend to the hospital, Syracuse Police Chief Kenton Buckner told reporte…

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Joyriding Fire Truck Thief In Canada Tasered After Crashing, Trying To Hit Pedestrians Joyriding Fire Truck Thief In Canada Tasered After Crashing, Trying To Hit Pedestrians
Joyriding Fire Truck Thief In Canada Tasered After Crashing, Trying To Hit Pedestrians A man stole a fire truck and went on a joyride in Canada on Friday, hitting a vehicle and nearly taking out several pedestrians while being chased by police. Winnipeg police officers deployed two sets of road spikes to deflate the tires on the stolen truck, which eventually forced it to a stop beneath a highway overpass. They then used a Taser to subdue the combative driver. The running truck was stolen during a medical call, authorities said. It hit a vehicle into a utility pole that came crashing down, then barreled into Winnipeg's Central Park, nearly hitting several people. Winnipeg …

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Cliffside Park PD: Pot Dealer Who Sold Ounce On Street In Front Of Them Had Pound At Home Cliffside Park PD: Pot Dealer Who Sold Ounce On Street In Front Of Them Had Pound At Home
Cliffside Park PD: Pot Dealer Who Sold Ounce On Street In Front Of Them Had Pound At Home Citizen complaints about open-air drug sales led to the arrest Friday of a Cliffside Park pot dealer who had a pound in his home, authorities said. Several officers, including Detective Daniel Murtagh and Capt. Vincent Capano, moved in after seeing Ronald Moses, 23, sell an ounce of marijuana to another man near his home in the area of Commercial Avenue and Fulton Terrace, Capano said. Moses was taken into custody and detectives conducted a warranted search of his home, where Capano said they found the larger quantity of pot, along with baggies, scales and a grinder. Moses was charged with…

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UPDATE: Black Friday Shooting Clears Mall In Syracuse, Accused Shooter Caught After Crash UPDATE: Black Friday Shooting Clears Mall In Syracuse, Accused Shooter Caught After Crash
Update: Black Friday Shooting Clears Mall In Syracuse, Accused Shooter Caught After Crash UPDATE: A 21-year-old upstate New York man who police said shot another man during a Black Friday food court mall brawl in Syracuse was captured when he showed up at a local hospital after crashing his mother's car into a bus near a city tree-lighting ceremony, authorities said. Kyree J. Truax was driving a friend who was stabbed during the melee in the food court at the Destiny USA mall to an area hospital when the crash occurred, they said. While Truax exchanged information with the bus driver, an ambulance took his friend to the hospital, Syracuse Police Chief Kenton Buckner told reporte…

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Fed Pen Awaits: Paterson Man Admits Plan To Sell Nearly 1M Potentially Lethal Fentanyl Doses Fed Pen Awaits: Paterson Man Admits Plan To Sell Nearly 1M Potentially Lethal Fentanyl Doses
Fed Pen Awaits: Paterson Man Admits Plan To Sell Nearly 1M Potentially Lethal Fentanyl Doses A Paterson man is facing a lengthy federal prison term after admitting that he collected a package in Clifton that he thought contained more than two pounds of fentanyl for sale. What Felix Acevedo, 28, didn’t know was that law enforcement officers had intercepted the package and removed the deadly synthetic opioid -- which authorities say is 50 times more potent than heroin and up to 100 times more powerful than morphine. Acevedo could be sent to federal prison for life under federal sentencing guidelines. It won’t be that long but will still be lengthy under the terms of a plea deal …

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Bogota PD: Wrong-Way Driver Had Phony Credit Cards, Licenses, Benjamins, Plus Cocaine Bogota PD: Wrong-Way Driver Had Phony Credit Cards, Licenses, Benjamins, Plus Cocaine
Bogota PD: Wrong-Way Driver Had Phony Credit Cards, Licenses, Benjamins, Plus Cocaine A Bronx driver going the wrong way on a one-way street was carrying bogus credit cards in nine different people’s name, four counterfeit $100 bills and a gram of cocaine, Bogota police said. Sgt. Geoffrey Cole and Officers Kevin Geraghty, Lewis Duenãs and Michael LaFerrera converged after Jose Rafael Perez, 27, made an illegal U-turn and headed the wrong up Palisade Avenue, they said. A search turned up the cocaine, credit cards and bogus bills, along with several fictitious driver’s licenses from several states, Cole said. Perez was processed and released pending a court hearing on charge…

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Authorities: Passaic Driver Shoots At Officer, Injures Two Hudson Women In Crash Authorities: Passaic Driver Shoots At Officer, Injures Two Hudson Women In Crash
Authorities: Passaic Driver Shoots At Officer, Injures Two Hudson Women In Crash Authorities filed attempted murder charges against a Passaic man who they said shot at an off-duty police officer from a moving car, then crashed into another vehicle – injuring two Hudson County women – before trying to flee. Joe Vega, 24, also was hit with a host of illegal weapons and ammunition charges, as well as with leaving the scene of a crash involving serious injury following Monday’s incident. The off-duty officer wasn’t injured, but the women – one 35 from Union City, the other 36 from North Bergen – had to be hospitalized, authorities said. Vega fired at the officer’s car on M…

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Accused Boonton Bank Robber Caught Accused Boonton Bank Robber Caught
Accused Boonton Bank Robber Caught UPDATE: A Boonton man was captured and charged with robbing a local Wells Fargo bank eight days ago. Andrew T. Merceruio, 37, was being held in the Morris County Correctional Facility in Morristown, charged with bank robbery and theft, authorities said. Merceruio, a native of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was captured on surveillance video on Nov. 27, when he robbed the Wells Fargo branch on Wootton Street, they said. No weapon was displayed, nor threats made, when the robber demanded money and made off with $2,000, responders said. Morris County Prosecutor Fredric M. Knapp, Acting Chief of…

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Pre-Dawn Thanksgiving Blaze Damages Hillsdale Home Pre-Dawn Thanksgiving Blaze Damages Hillsdale Home
Pre-Dawn Thanksgiving Blaze Damages Hillsdale Home Firefighters doused a pre-dawn Thanksgiving Day blaze in a Hillsdale home. The fire broke out just after 2 a.m. in the second-floor bedroom of the Lincoln Avenue home and quickly went to two alarms, borough fire officials said. All of the occupants got out OK, they said. The fire was contained to the bedroom and declared under control around 3 a.m., less than an hour after the call came in, fire officials said. Mutual aid was provided by firefighters from Park Ridge, River Vale, Westwood and Woodcliff Lake.

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Accused Passaic Shooter Captured In Newark Accused Passaic Shooter Captured In Newark
Accused Passaic Shooter Captured In Newark An ex-con from Passaic accused of shooting another city man at a local business early this month was captured in Newark, authorities said. Almalik D. Barnes, 41, was charged with attempted murder, among other counts, in the Nov. 2 Main Street shooting, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Passaic Police Chief Luis A. Guzman said in a joint announcement. The 40-year-old victim made it up the block before police found him on Elliot following the overnight shooting at the unidentified business. He was treated at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson. A would-be victim se…

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