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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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Weather
Nor'easter? Nah, Says Area Weather Expert Nor'easter? Nah, Says Area Weather Expert
Nor'easter? Nah, Says Area Weather Expert Stash the salt and snow shovels for now: Warnings of impending Nor'easter conditions were off, tri-state area meteorologist Joe Cioffi said. With winter weather advisories already cancelled in New Jersey and the lower Hudson Valley, the closest snow or ice will come to the area is in eastern Pennsylvania and southern New England, said Cioffi, who predicted earlier that what looked like a Nor'easter heading up from the south wasn't going to make it very far. "Frankly, I continue to be underwhelmed by all this," he added Monday morning.  "There really isn’t too much happening today in o…

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Police & Fire
Dogs, Cats Flee, Rabbit Dies In Pre-Dawn Haskell House Fire Dogs, Cats Flee, Rabbit Dies In Pre-Dawn Haskell House Fire
Dogs, Cats Flee, Rabbit Dies In Pre-Dawn Haskell House Fire Two dogs and two cats made it out safely, although a rabbit died in a destructive pre-dawn home fire Monday just off Rainbow Lake in Wanaque. Firefighters by 5 a.m. had contained the blaze to a second-floor bedroom and part of the attic in the 77-year-old, 1,740-square-foot Lakeside Avenue home. Companies from Bloomingdale and Pompton Lakes provided mutual aid at the scene, while Ringwood and West Milford provided borough coverage.

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Police & Fire
SEE ANYTHING? Hit-Run Driver Knocks Down Kearny Pedestrian, 60, In North Arlington SEE ANYTHING? Hit-Run Driver Knocks Down Kearny Pedestrian, 60, In North Arlington
SEE Anything? Hit-Run Driver Knocks Down Kearny Pedestrian, 60, In North Arlington North Arlington police were looking for a hit-and-run driver whose SUV struck a 60-year-old pedestrian as she crossed Belleville Turnpike over the weekend. The driver stopped momentarily but kept going, turning onto Chestnut Street in Kearny around 11 p.m. Saturday, Police Chief Scott M. Hedenberg said. The Kearny victim, who was knocked down near Beech Street, was taken to University Hospital with a cut on her head and complaining of leg pain, he said. Initial reports were that the vehicle was a green, older model Nissan Pathfinder. The chief asked that anyone who might have seen somethi…

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Police & Fire
Quick Response Protects More Than 30 Families Fleeing Passaic Apartment Building Fire Quick Response Protects More Than 30 Families Fleeing Passaic Apartment Building Fire
Quick Response Protects More Than 30 Families Fleeing Passaic Apartment Building Fire Thanks to Passaic police, firefighters and tenants themselves, no one was injured in a suspicious Sunday morning apartment building fire that sent flames through the roof, authorities said. Police who got there quickly knocked on doors and got the more than 80 residents out of nearly three dozen apartments in the four-story building at the corner of 4th and Bergen streets, Fire Chief Patrick Trentacost said. "We pulled up and got the lines in place fast," Trentacost said, noting that the blaze began in an upper floor stairwell and spread to the roof. "This type of fire gets away very quick…

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Police & Fire
Four Linden Police Officers Hospitalized: Three In Arson Assault, Another In Crash Four Linden Police Officers Hospitalized: Three In Arson Assault, Another In Crash
Four Linden Police Officers Hospitalized: Three In Arson Assault, Another In Crash Hours after a Linden police officer was hospitalized in a crash, another officer was seriously injured and two others briefly hospitalized Sunday morning following an assault by an arson suspect. A 23-year-old man set fire to a mattress at a Chandler Avenue residence, then assaulted a responding officer who confronted the suspect as he emerged from the building around 10:45 a.m., Lt. Christopher Guenther said. The suspect ran but was quickly captured near the corner of East Blancke Street and Baltimore Avenue, Guenther said. The first officer was taken to Newark University Hospital wi…

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Police & Fire
Firefighters Douse Rochelle Park Basement Fire Firefighters Douse Rochelle Park Basement Fire
Firefighters Douse Rochelle Park Basement Fire A firefighter was treated at the scene during a Sunday morning blaze in the basement of a Rochelle Park home. Borough firefighters who doused the Rochelle Avenue blaze were assisted by their colleagues from Hackensack, Lodi, Maywood and Saddle Brook. The fire broke out around 8 a.m.

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Police & Fire
Prosecutor: Midland Park HS Neighbor Had 263 Child Porn Files Prosecutor: Midland Park HS Neighbor Had 263 Child Porn Files
Prosecutor: Midland Park HS Neighbor Had 263 Child Porn Files An unemployed man who lives across the street from Midland Park Junior Senior High School was caught with more than 250 images of child pornography, authorities said. A judge on Friday ordered 31-year-old Jeff Vaz released pending a hearing on charges of endangerment by possessing child pornography. Vaz was arrested a day earlier by members of Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella’s Cyber Crimes Unit after a warranted search of his home, the prosecutor said. The investigators learned that Vaz “used the Internet to view, download, or possess approximately 263 digital files depicting nude or…

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Police & Fire
Hawthorne PD: NY Men Coming From Paterson In Unregistered, Unlicensed Car Had Heroin, Pot Hawthorne PD: NY Men Coming From Paterson In Unregistered, Unlicensed Car Had Heroin, Pot
Hawthorne PD: NY Men Coming From Paterson In Unregistered, Unlicensed Car Had Heroin, Pot “Fine,” a stopped New York State driver told a Hawthorne police officer who asked whether he was carrying any drugs before pulling out several bundles of heroin stuffed down his pants, authorities said. Corey Kessler, 28, of Wurtsboro, was driving a 2014 Nissan Sentra when he and his passenger, 22-year-old Jayquan Lightfoot of Middletown, NY were stopped on Goffle Road near Watchung Drive in the middle of the afternoon on Nov. 8, they said. Kessler told the officer he’d gone to Paterson to pick up his cousin, but Lightfoot told a different story, Detective Sgt. Matthew Hoogmoed said. Asked…

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Police & Fire
Assailant Hits Woman In Head With Can At MetLife College Football Game Assailant Hits Woman In Head With Can At MetLife College Football Game
Assailant Hits Woman In Head With Can At MetLife College Football Game A woman was hospitalized after being hit in the head with an aluminum can thrown by someone Saturday in the parking lot outside MetLife Stadium. State police were searching for the person responsible while an EMS unit treated the 23-year-old victim before taking her to Hudson Regional Hospital in Secaucus around 1 p.m., NJSP Trooper Alejandro Goez said. Her injuries weren't considered serious, he said. The assault occurred outside the 61st annual Division III rivalry match known as the Cortaca Jug between the SUNY Cortland Red Dragons (8-1) and the Ithaca College Bombers (7-2). Once dubbe…

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Police & Fire
Work-Bound Lyndhurst Woman Killed When Truck Hits Tree Work-Bound Lyndhurst Woman Killed When Truck Hits Tree
Work-Bound Lyndhurst Woman Killed When Truck Hits Tree A Lyndhurst woman on her way to work was killed when her truck slammed into a tree early Saturday, authorities said. The 40-year-old victim was pronounced dead at the scene after her Chevy Tahoe struck the tree off the northbound lane across from an industrial park on Chubb Avenue near Route 3 around 7:15 a.m., Detective Sgt. Vincent Auteri said. Although the investigation was in its early stages, speed appeared to be a factor, Auteri said. The limit on that stretch is 25 miles an hour. Auteri thanked township firefighters and the Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification,…

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