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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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Haworth PD: Officers Catch Daytime Car Burglar From NYC With Machete, Drugs Haworth PD: Officers Catch Daytime Car Burglar From NYC With Machete, Drugs
Haworth PD: Officers Catch Daytime Car Burglar From NYC With Machete, Drugs A noontime car burglar was carrying a machete and drugs when Haworth police grabbed him, authorities said. Alerted by a caller to a man entering a vehicle in a resident’s driveway on the west side of town, Officer Thomas Reinecke found Osiris Alcequiez German, 38, of New York City around 12:20 p.m. , Detective Sgt. Justin Fox said. As the officer approached, Fox said, German ignored his commands to stop and tossed a 2-foot-long machete on the ground. Reinecke and backup Officer Kevin McKeary took German into custody. They found him carrying pot and cocaine, Fox said. German was charged w…

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FOUND! Missing Paterson Man, 27, Formerly Of Warren County, Safe, Sound FOUND! Missing Paterson Man, 27, Formerly Of Warren County, Safe, Sound
Found! Missing Paterson Man, 27, Formerly Of Warren County, Safe, Sound UPDATE: "I just wanted to reach out to if not a hundred people possibly a thousand who have done everything that they can to help me locate my son, Anthony," John Galione of Blairstown posted Wednesday night after the missing Paterson resident was found safe and sound. Anthony Galione, 27, "wanted me to thank everyone who reached out and with concern about his well-being," his father added. "I personally can't thank you all enough for the enormous support through another trying time in my life," he wrote in a Facebook post. "I'm forever indebted to all of you. God bless you all." ****** O…

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Questions Follow Pair Of Murder Arrests In Paterson Drive-By Questions Follow Pair Of Murder Arrests In Paterson Drive-By
Questions Follow Pair Of Murder Arrests In Paterson Drive-By Authorities announced Wednesday that they’d charged both the accused gunman and his alleged wheelman in a drive-by Paterson shooting that left one man dead and two injured this past summer. Jordany Santana, 19, opened fire on a crowd outside the Riverview Terrace high-rise complex on Presidential Boulevard the night of Aug. 22, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Troy Oswald said in a brief release. Driving, they said, was Nasiera Jones, for whom they didn’t disclose an age or town. The pair ditched the car they were using and fled in another vehicle, the …

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Paterson Family Physician Charged With Illegally Prescribing Percocet Paterson Family Physician Charged With Illegally Prescribing Percocet
Paterson Family Physician Charged With Illegally Prescribing Percocet A Paterson family physician sold Percocet prescriptions without a legitimate medical purpose, authorities charged. Mahesh Mehta, 65, was named in an indictment returned by a state grand jury in Trenton charging him with illegally selling controlled dangerous substances. Deputy Attorney General Fernando D. Maldonado presented the case to the grand jury, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Wednesday. Detective Celeste Dowd coordinated the investigation, he said. Anyone with information about health insurance cheating or medical fraud can report it anonymously by calling a toll-free hotlin…

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Scrap Metal Company Owner From Allendale Gets Time In Fed Pen For Multi-Million Fraud Scheme Scrap Metal Company Owner From Allendale Gets Time In Fed Pen For Multi-Million Fraud Scheme
Scrap Metal Company Owner From Allendale Gets Time In Fed Pen For Multi-Million Fraud Scheme A scrap metal company owner from Allendale was sentenced Wednesday to 33 months in federal prison for conning customers out of several million dollars over nearly two decades. Craig Cinelli, 49, a Cinelli Iron & Metal Co. (CIMCO) minority owner who hails from Wood-Ridge, must serve nearly all of the sentence. There's no parole in the federal prison system. Two years ago, Cinelli pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Newark to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Several developments followed. The government dismissed charges against his brother, 62-year-old CIMCO majority owner Joseph …

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Hackensack Ex-Con Busted Selling Drugs Again, Authorities Say Hackensack Ex-Con Busted Selling Drugs Again, Authorities Say
Hackensack Ex-Con Busted Selling Drugs Again, Authorities Say Hackensack police said they found four ounces of crack and a quarter-pound of pot on a career criminal who was again dealing drugs in the city. Tipped off to his activities, members of the department’s Narcotics Bureau busted 33-year-old Gregory Lee Bruce of First Street on Tuesday, Capt. Peter Busciglio said. They also seized two vehicles of his for forfeiture, Busciglio said. "G Money" Bruce’s criminal history began shortly after he became an adult and include several short county jail stints, records show. A string of arrests the past 15 years were mostly drug-related – including a Rid…

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Sedan Topples Pole Outside Ridgewood School Sedan Topples Pole Outside Ridgewood School
Sedan Topples Pole Outside Ridgewood School A driver escaped injury Wednesday when his car slammed into a utility pole outside a Ridgewood elementary school. The four-door Honda slammed into the pole on East Glen Avenue at North Vien Street next to the Benjamin Franklin Middle School around 12:50 p.m. It toppled a street sign and left the pole leaning over the vehicle. Casualties included a street sign.Boyd A. Loving Boyd A. Loving took the photos and contributed to this account. The driver escaped injury.Boyd A. Loving

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'It's A Tragedy': Former Mahwah Councilman, 52, Dies Of Injuries In Ladder Fall 'It's A Tragedy': Former Mahwah Councilman, 52, Dies Of Injuries In Ladder Fall
'It's A Tragedy': Former Mahwah Councilman, 52, Dies Of Injuries In Ladder Fall UPDATE: A Mahwah attorney who fell 15 or so feet from a ladder while painting and repairing his grandmother's home two weeks earlier died of his injuries Tuesday, friends said. Alan Kidd, a 52-year-old former township councilman, "cared deeply about Mahwah and its residents," Mayor John Roth said Wednesday. "It's a tragedy." Kidd was working on the house when the mishap occurred on a busy stretch of Franklin Turnpike near Stephens Lane on Oct. 8. A companion at the scene told police they both were "doing painting and repairs to the second level of the two-story home from ladders," Police C…

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UPDATE: Pedestrian, 78, From Fairview Struck, Killed In Hackensack UPDATE: Pedestrian, 78, From Fairview Struck, Killed In Hackensack
Update: Pedestrian, 78, From Fairview Struck, Killed In Hackensack A 78-year-old pedestrian who was struck and killed by an SUV in Hackensack early Wednesday apparently wasn't in the crosswalk of a dangerous intersection, authorities said. Vilma Tasciyan of Fairview was struck in front of Hallak Cleaners on busy Johnson Avenue near Zabriskie Street around 6:45 a.m., police confirmed. An off-duty EMT rushed to give her CPR, which was taken over by responding police officers, Capt. Nicole Foley said. Tasciyan, formerly of North Bergen, was pronounced dead at Hackensack University Medical Center at 7:18 a.m., a little over a half-hour after she was struck. …

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Pedestrian Struck Outside Fort Lee Shopping Plaza Pedestrian Struck Outside Fort Lee Shopping Plaza
Pedestrian Struck Outside Fort Lee Shopping Plaza A pedestrian was struck by a car outside a Fort Lee shopping plaza Tuesday night, authorities said. The Palisades Park driver of a 2009 Lexus ES was making a turn out of the Linwood Plaza on Fletcher Avenue when his car hit the 39-year-old Hicksville, Long Island man in the crosswalk, Capt. Ricky Mirkovic said. The victim was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center after complaining of neck and other pain, he said. The driver received a summons for failing to yield to a pedestrian, the captain said. ****** ALSO SEE: A 78-year-old pedestrian who was struck and killed by an SUV…

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