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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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ICE, NYPD: 'Money-Sucking' Crew With Bergen, Hudson Members Scammed Elderly 2X ICE, NYPD: 'Money-Sucking' Crew With Bergen, Hudson Members Scammed Elderly 2X
ICE, Nypd: 'Money-Sucking' Crew With Bergen, Hudson Members Scammed Elderly 2X Ten people -- six of them from Bergen and Hudson counties -- were charged by federal authorities with convincing unwitting elderly victims to invest their money in various businesses, pushing them into debt, and then scamming them again with a bogus debt-relief program. Those charged include two Hillsdale residents, identified as Joseph Ciaccio and Joseph Depaola, both 30; two Elmwood Park residents, identified as Derrek Larkin, 36, and Mattie Cirilo, 28; and one from Washington Township, Joseph Minetto, 32. Also charged were Anthony Cheedie, 34, of Jersey City, two people from Arizona, ano…

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Driver, 19, Hospitalized After Car Rolls Into Englewood Brook Driver, 19, Hospitalized After Car Rolls Into Englewood Brook
Driver, 19, Hospitalized After Car Rolls Into Englewood Brook Englewood police were trying to determine how a 19-year-old driver's car ended up rolling into a brook at the end of a cul-de-sac. City firefighters extricated the driver from his late-model Toyota after it landed in Metzler Brook at the end of Murray Avenue around 7:30 p.m. Monday, Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said. The driver "didn't appear to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time," Halstead said. He was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with a cut on his face and injuries to his nose and jaw, the deputy chief said. An investigation was continuing, h…

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Police: Inattentive Pedestrian Struck Crossing Busy Elmwood Park Street Police: Inattentive Pedestrian Struck Crossing Busy Elmwood Park Street
Police: Inattentive Pedestrian Struck Crossing Busy Elmwood Park Street A 69-year-old Paterson woman was struck crossing Market Street in Elmwood Park Monday night, authorities said. The woman parked her car on one side of the street, then got out to retrieve mail from a box at a business where she used to work, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. She was struck by a Nissan Sentra in the eastbound lane as she hustled back toward her car, Foligno said. The woman was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson with some broken bones and road rash, the chief said. No summonses or charges will be filed against the Elmwood Park driver, he said. “The …

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Saddle Brook Resident: Massive Wild Man Broke Into Our Home, Threw Table Down Stairs Saddle Brook Resident: Massive Wild Man Broke Into Our Home, Threw Table Down Stairs
Saddle Brook Resident: Massive Wild Man Broke Into Our Home, Threw Table Down Stairs UPDATE: A Saddle Brook woman said a massive wild man broke into her and her husband's home overnight, frightened both of them, then threw a dining room table down the stairs and ran out. “This clearly was a home invasion, not a ‘strange occurrence’,” as police initially suggested early Monday, the 64-year-old resident said. Surveillance video shows a dark-colored sedan pulling up to the home near the corner of Congress and Albany streets around 3 a.m. Sunday, Police Chief Robert Kugler said. The wife said she was asleep on the living-room couch when the sound of someone trying to pry open …

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Edgewater PD: Hit-Run Driver Who Toppled New River Road Crosswalk Signs Caught Edgewater PD: Hit-Run Driver Who Toppled New River Road Crosswalk Signs Caught
Edgewater PD: Hit-Run Driver Who Toppled New River Road Crosswalk Signs Caught Edgewater detectives tracked down an SUV driver from Harrington Park who they said fled more than 10 miles on a flat tire after knocking down two poles with signs that were installed to make a dangerous intersection safer. Surveillance footage helped investigators find the black 2012 Mazda CX-9 that Carmela Stewart, 53, abandoned with a flat tire and heavy front-end damage on Route 9W in Alpine last Thursday night, Detective Sgt. Tim Farrell said Monday. Pieces of the SUV remained at the scene as the SUV fled north on River Road after knocking down the poles at the Garden Place intersectio…

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PA Police: Pickup Driver Turned Away From Holland Tunnel Tries Again, Busted With Loaded Gun PA Police: Pickup Driver Turned Away From Holland Tunnel Tries Again, Busted With Loaded Gun
PA Police: Pickup Driver Turned Away From Holland Tunnel Tries Again, Busted With Loaded Gun A pickup truck driver from Virginia who tried going back into the Holland Tunnel after being turned away for pulling an unauthorized trailer was arrested after he was found carrying a loaded gun, Port Authority police said. Port Authority Police Officer Nicholas Levitas stopped Ronnie C. Johnson, 43, at the tunnel’s downtown Manhattan entrance Sunday afternoon and made him turn around, authority spokeswoman Lenis Rodrigues said. Johnson returned and tried again, but Levitas notified officers on the New Jersey side, she said. They smelled burnt marijuana from inside the truck, searched the …

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Bergenfield PD: Rowdy Restaurant Patron Sucker-Punches Officer In Buffet Brawl Bergenfield PD: Rowdy Restaurant Patron Sucker-Punches Officer In Buffet Brawl
Bergenfield PD: Rowdy Restaurant Patron Sucker-Punches Officer In Buffet Brawl A patron from Lodi sucker-punched a Bergenfield police officer after causing a disturbance in a local Chinese buffet restaurant, authorities said. Officers Andres Enriquez and John Hwang “attempted to escort him out” of the International Buffet on South Washington Avenue when Kwaku Agyemang-Dua, 31, suddenly slugged Hwang, Lt. William Duran said. Hwang and Enriquez struggled with Agyemang-Dua before subduing and handcuffing him, the lieutenant said. Both officers required hand and wrist injuries that required hospital treatment, Duran said. Agyemang-Dua was treated, too, he said. All wer…

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Morris County Ex-Con Who Exploded Bomb, Illegally Collected Weapons Gets 2 Years In Federal Pen Morris County Ex-Con Who Exploded Bomb, Illegally Collected Weapons Gets 2 Years In Federal Pen
Morris County Ex-Con Who Exploded Bomb, Illegally Collected Weapons Gets 2 Years In Federal Pen UPDATE: An ex-con from Morris County must spend the next two years in federal prison for detonating a bomb at a lake, owning explosive devices and illegally collecting a cache of guns and ammo. Christopher Faschan, 31, of Landing, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in August to unlawful possession of destructive devices and being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition in exchange for leniency at sentencing. Faschan showed the bomb to an unidentified woman on Feb. 1 in Stanhope, then detonated it at Lake Lackawanna, authorities said. “That’s something that could easily be …

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Fair Lawn PD: Drunk Driver Plows Car Into Two Vehicles In Driveway Fair Lawn PD: Drunk Driver Plows Car Into Two Vehicles In Driveway
Fair Lawn PD: Drunk Driver Plows Car Into Two Vehicles In Driveway A Fair Lawn driver was drunk when his car plowed into two vehicles parked in a local resident’s driveway, police said. Richard Sicinski Jr, 45, failed a field test and was charged with DWI and careless driving, among other offenses, after his car barreled off the road and into the driveway at Plaza Road and Rosalie Street just after 11:30 p.m. last Monday, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Sincinski, who also didn’t have proof of insurance, was released to a responsible adult, Metzler said.

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Westwood PD: Officers Nab Thief Rolling Stolen Tire Down Street Westwood PD: Officers Nab Thief Rolling Stolen Tire Down Street
Westwood PD: Officers Nab Thief Rolling Stolen Tire Down Street A Westwood police sergeant on vehicle burglary patrol caught a local man rolling a tire down the street after it was taken from a car outside a yoga studio, authorities said. Shaadiek B. Butler, 20, of Palisades Avenue left the tire and bolted when Sgt. Scott McNiff spotted him on Broadway before dawn Saturday, Police Chief Michael R. Pontillo said. McNiff chased down Butler with assistance from Officer John Svenda, who tackled him, Pontillo said. He was sent to the Bergen County Jail on charges of receiving stolen property, eluding, resisting arrest, obstruction and possession of burglary…

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