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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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IT'S OVER: Fugitive Sought For Shooting Woman In Elmwood Park Killed In Gunfight With Police IT'S OVER: Fugitive Sought For Shooting Woman In Elmwood Park Killed In Gunfight With Police
IT'S Over: Fugitive Sought For Shooting Woman In Elmwood Park Killed In Gunfight With Police UPDATE: An ex-con wanted for shooting a New Milford woman in Elmwood Park was killed in an exchange of gunfire with law enforcement officers at a Route 46 motel, state authorities confirmed. James Allandale, 61, opened fire on officers who found him at the Knights Inn Pinebook before midnight on New Year's, multiple law enforcement sources with knowledge of the incident told Daily Voice. He was in turn shot and killed, they said. The officers were members of the Morris County Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team, according to New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin's office. SERT is …

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NEWSBREAK: Fugitive Sought For Shooting Woman In Elmwood Park Killed In Gunfight With Police NEWSBREAK: Fugitive Sought For Shooting Woman In Elmwood Park Killed In Gunfight With Police
Newsbreak: Fugitive Sought For Shooting Woman In Elmwood Park Killed In Gunfight With Police UPDATE: An ex-con wanted for shooting a New Milford woman in Elmwood Park was killed in an exchange of gunfire with law enforcement officers at a Route 46 motel, state authorities confirmed. James Allandale, 61, opened fire on officers who found him at the Knights Inn Pinebook before midnight on New Year's, multiple law enforcement sources with knowledge of the incident told Daily Voice. He was in turn shot and killed, they said. The officers were members of the Morris County Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team, according to New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin's office. SERT is …

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‘Polícia!’ Getaway Driver Shouts Before Colombian Burglary Crew Is Captured By Paramus PD ‘Polícia!’ Getaway Driver Shouts Before Colombian Burglary Crew Is Captured By Paramus PD
‘Polícia!’ Getaway Driver Shouts Before Colombian Burglary Crew Is Captured By Paramus PD A watchful neighbor gave Paramus police the drop on a Colombian burglary crew that had just broken into a local home, leading to four quick arrests, authorities said. “Polícia!” the getaway driver shouted into his cell phone as Officers Kevin Osback and Dan DiRienzo arrived at the Haywood Drive home shortly after 11:30 a.m. last Friday, Dec. 23, Deputy Police Chief Robert Guidetti said. The officers and several other colleagues converged on the block after a resident called to report two hooded bandits dressed all in black entering the rear of a neighbor’s home, the deputy chief said on Tue…

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MANHUNT ENDS: Fugitive Sought For Shooting Woman In Elmwood Park Killed In Gunfight With Police MANHUNT ENDS: Fugitive Sought For Shooting Woman In Elmwood Park Killed In Gunfight With Police
Manhunt Ends: Fugitive Sought For Shooting Woman In Elmwood Park Killed In Gunfight With Police UPDATE: An ex-con wanted for shooting a New Milford woman in Elmwood Park was killed in an exchange of gunfire with law enforcement officers at a Route 46 motel, state authorities confirmed. James Allandale, 61, opened fire on officers who found him at the Knights Inn Pinebook before midnight on New Year's, multiple law enforcement sources with knowledge of the incident told Daily Voice. He was in turn shot and killed, they said. The officers were members of the Morris County Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team, according to New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin's office. SERT is …

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BARROOM BRAWL: Dumont Man Charged With Assaulting Fellow Patron, Police On Christmas Eve BARROOM BRAWL: Dumont Man Charged With Assaulting Fellow Patron, Police On Christmas Eve
Barroom Brawl: Dumont Man Charged With Assaulting Fellow Patron, Police On Christmas Eve A patron at a Dumont tavern was taken to the hospital after another customer hit him in the face with a bar stool on Christmas Eve, authorities said. Michael Robertson, 32, meanwhile, ended up spending the holiday in jail after fighting with officers who responded to the call of a patron throwing things in the East Madison Avenue establishment, Dumont Police Chief Brian Joyce said. The officers also tended to the victim, who'd been cut when Robertson swung a bar stool at him, the chief said. Members of the Dumont Volunteer Ambulance Corps took the man to Englewood Hospital and Medical Cent…

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Southern Fugitives Charged With Posing As Feds In Violent Bergen Home Invasion Brought To NJ Southern Fugitives Charged With Posing As Feds In Violent Bergen Home Invasion Brought To NJ
Southern Fugitives Charged With Posing As Feds In Violent Bergen Home Invasion Brought To NJ UPDATE: Three Georgia men charged earlier this month with shooting a Bergen County resident while posing as FBI agents during a summer home invasion have been brought to New Jersey to face charges. Two others remained held down South pending the outcome of extradition proceedings. Aaron Thomas Perry, 53, of Dunwoody, Ali Sadeeq Muhammad, 33, of Atlanta, and Roderick Moracle Carmichael, 50, of Stockbridge will remain held in the Bergen County Jail in Hackensack while the case against them and two other co-defendants proceeds. They were brought up separately over the past several days -- Car…

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Bogota Woman Jailed Twice For Assaulting BF, Once With Her Car Bogota Woman Jailed Twice For Assaulting BF, Once With Her Car
Bogota Woman Jailed Twice For Assaulting BF, Once With Her Car A Bogota woman was jailed after police said she knocked her boyfriend down with her car, making it the second time in several weeks that she was charged with assaulting him. Stephany C. Perez-Galarraga, 32, grabbed the victim's cell phone and ran to her Mercedes Benz C30 during an argument between the two at his home before dawn Monday, Dec. 26, Bogota Police Sgt. Geoffrey Cole said. Her boyfriend chased after Perez-Galarraga but was knocked down by her vehicle as she sped off, leaving him with scrapes and bruises, the sergeant said. He was treated at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck be…

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Gun-Toting Ex-Con Wanted By US Marshals Nabbed By Glen Rock Police: Authorities Gun-Toting Ex-Con Wanted By US Marshals Nabbed By Glen Rock Police: Authorities
Gun-Toting Ex-Con Wanted By US Marshals Nabbed By Glen Rock Police: Authorities A recently-imprisoned ex-con wanted by U.S. Marshals was carrying a loaded gun, a high-capacity magazine and hollow-point bullets when Glen Rock police arrested him following a predawn incident, authorities said. Aaron Williams, 30, of Paterson had only just been released this past March 13 after serving a little more than six years in state prison in two separate stretches, records show. A conviction this time will cost him much more time behind bars. Glen Rock officers responding to a call at Bradford Street found Williams involved in an unspecified dispute in a vehicle shortly after 5 a…

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Frequent Offender Nabbed Fleeing Fair Lawn Restaurant Break-In: Authorities Frequent Offender Nabbed Fleeing Fair Lawn Restaurant Break-In: Authorities
Frequent Offender Nabbed Fleeing Fair Lawn Restaurant Break-In: Authorities A repeat offender with a proverbial arm's-length rap sheet was captured by Fair Lawn police after he broke into a local restaurant, authorities said. Then they had to let him go. Manuel Cravero, 34, of Prospect Park was seen on surveillance cameras inside the Crafstman, a gastropub on Maple Avenue, after hours, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. He fled out a side door of the closed business but was nabbed by borough police a short distance away, the sergeant said. Cravero is someone who’s commonly referred to as “known to police.” He has a criminal record stretching back more than a decade, wi…

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$31,680 In Suspected Drug Money Seized In Targeted Fort Lee Traffic Stop $31,680 In Suspected Drug Money Seized In Targeted Fort Lee Traffic Stop
$31,680 In Suspected Drug Money Seized In Targeted Fort Lee Traffic Stop Detectives seized $31,680 in suspected drug money during a targeted traffic stop of an unemployed Fort Lee man, authorities said. Members of Musella’s Narcotic Task Force and Fort Lee police stopped Alexander Mercado, 40, of First Street off Irving Avenue on Dec. 19 as part of an ongoing investigation, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Mercado was charged with money laundering and released pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. Musella’s people held onto the cash pending a forfeiture hearing, also in Superior Court in Hackensack.

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