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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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Gunshot Fired Into Haworth Home Narrowly Misses Sleeping Couple Gunshot Fired Into Haworth Home Narrowly Misses Sleeping Couple
Gunshot Fired Into Haworth Home Narrowly Misses Sleeping Couple UPDATE: Police investigating a bullet fired into a Haworth home are reviewing a video that shows two gunshots coming from a passing vehicle. Two vehicles that appear to be sedans had emerged from a side street onto Sunset Avenue near the White Beeches Golf and Country Club at 4:50 a.m. Sunday, Lt. Justin Fox said on Monday, Dec. 19. Someone in the second vehicle fired two shots about five to 10 seconds apart, the second one at the house, the lieutenant told Daily Voice. The bullet landed near the bed of a sleeping 60-something couple, he said. Woken by the sound of breaking glass, they as…

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Child Admits Drawing Swastika On Glen Rock Middle School Desk, Police Chief Says Child Admits Drawing Swastika On Glen Rock Middle School Desk, Police Chief Says
Child Admits Drawing Swastika On Glen Rock Middle School Desk, Police Chief Says UPDATE: A Glen Rock middle school student admitted drawing a swastika on a classroom desk, authorities said. The drawing is apparently an isolated incident, Police Chief Dean Ackermann announced on Saturday afternoon, Dec. 17.  The symbol drawn on a desk in a room shared by students from 6th to 8th grade was brought to school officials’ attention by two middle school youngsters on Wednesday, Ackermann said. “Late in the day on Friday it was learned that school officials had identified [a] student who had taken responsibility for the incident, which appears to be isolated,” the chief s…

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Andrew Bucklandon Is NOT Missing: Here's How Social Scammers Get You Andrew Bucklandon Is NOT Missing: Here's How Social Scammers Get You
Andrew Bucklandon Is NOT Missing: Here's How Social Scammers Get You A boy named Andrew Bucklandon hasn't gone missing. He didn't leave for school and not return. He doesn't even exist. For those who've seen -- or, worse, shared -- the Facebook post about a purportedly missing boy the past couple of days, here are a few questions: Does the post include a town? A link? Contact details? It doesn't. Because it's bogus. Like any good phishing scam, the missing boy ploy tugs at the heartstrings and plays on the fears of those who want to help. They're actually helping the scammers find more victims. Phishers threw their latest line into social media waters on…

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Holiday Season House Fire Doused In Cresskill Holiday Season House Fire Doused In Cresskill
Holiday Season House Fire Doused In Cresskill Firefighters quickly doused a house blaze in Cresskill. No injuries were reported in the mid-evening fire Friday, Dec. 16, in the 2½-story home on Magnolia Avenue off the corner of 4th Street near the ballfields. Mutual aid, either at the scene or in coverage, was provided by firefighters from Bergenfield, Demarest, Dumont, Haworth and Tenafly. Borough fire officials were investigating the cause.

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SEE ANYTHING? Armed Trio Commits Back-To-Back Route 3 Gas Station Robberies SEE ANYTHING? Armed Trio Commits Back-To-Back Route 3 Gas Station Robberies
SEE Anything? Armed Trio Commits Back-To-Back Route 3 Gas Station Robberies Three robbers, at least one of them armed, robbed two Route 3 gas stations barely a half-mile apart, authorities said. It was around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14, when the bandits pulled into the BP station on the westbound highway just past the River Road bridge in Clifton. They were in a BMW that had been reported stolen out of Lyndhurst, police said. One of the robbers threatened the attendant with a gun before they fled. The trio did the same thing moments later at the Exxon station just up the road, Clifton Police Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. "They got about $200 combined, alo…

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HERO: 'It's Time To Go,' Would-Be GWB Jumper Tells Veteran Port Authority Police Officer HERO: 'It's Time To Go,' Would-Be GWB Jumper Tells Veteran Port Authority Police Officer
Hero: 'It's Time To Go,' Would-Be GWB Jumper Tells Veteran Port Authority Police Officer "It's time to go," a suicidal man perched on the outer railing of the George Washington Bridge told Port Authority Police Officer Stephen Gryboski. Gryboski isn't just any law enforcer, however. The senior officer at the PAPD's George Washington Bridge Command Center, Gryboski is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of Operation Desert Storm. He also proudly wears the badge of his father, retired Port Authority Police Officer Frank Gryboski, who served the department from 1959 through 1980. He also has a slow heartbeat. A few years ago, a member of the public sent the department an unsolicited mes…

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GOTCHA! NJ Man Wanted For Fort Lee Gas Station Holdup Chased Down By NY State Troopers GOTCHA! NJ Man Wanted For Fort Lee Gas Station Holdup Chased Down By NY State Troopers
Gotcha! NJ Man Wanted For Fort Lee Gas Station Holdup Chased Down By NY State Troopers A New Jersey man wanted for robbing a gas station convenience store in Fort Lee was captured in New York State following a pursuit that began on the Tappan Zee Bridge. Shahzad A. Khan, 41, of Carteret had just held up a Rockland County mini-mart when New York State Police tried to stop his southbound 2014 Chevy Equinox on the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge over the Hudson River shortly after 9:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 12, authorities said. Khan exited onto the Sprain Brook Parkway -- and directly into a moving roadblock, State Police said. What wasn’t known at the time, authorities said, was that…

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Rookie Port Authority K9s Honor Five Police Officers Who Died On 9/11 Rookie Port Authority K9s Honor Five Police Officers Who Died On 9/11
Rookie Port Authority K9s Honor Five Police Officers Who Died On 9/11 The names of five Port Authority police officers who died on 9/11 live on in a quintet of K9s who were welcomed to the department, along with their partners, in a special graduation ceremony Friday at Newark Airport. The five teams completed a 14-week training course for certification in explosives and drug detection, Port Authority Spokeswoman Lenis Valens said following the Dec. 16 ceremony. Two Morris County sheriff’s officers also studied to become a K9 trainer and handler, respectively, she said. The four German Shepherds and one Belgium Malinois – ranging from 1 to 2 years old – wil…

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SMELL ANYTHING? Snatch-And-Grab Thieves Flee Mall Store With $800 Worth Of Fragrances SMELL ANYTHING? Snatch-And-Grab Thieves Flee Mall Store With $800 Worth Of Fragrances
Smell Anything? Snatch-And-Grab Thieves Flee Mall Store With $800 Worth Of Fragrances Three men snatched $800 worth of fragrances from the Ulta Beauty store in the Bergen Town Center shortly after 7:30 p.m. Thursday, authorities said. Authorities were seeking witnesses to the Dec. 15 shoplifting from the store on the Maywood side of the mall off West Spring Valley Avenue. Detectives, meanwhile, were interviewing employees and others, trying to get descriptions and surveillance footage of the thieves -- described only as three black men -- and their getaway vehicle. ANYONE who saw something or has information that could help authorities find the thieves is asked to call Mayw…

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'Gyro King' Of North Jersey Seized By Federal Marshals In Labor Department Dispute 'Gyro King' Of North Jersey Seized By Federal Marshals In Labor Department Dispute
'Gyro King' Of North Jersey Seized By Federal Marshals In Labor Department Dispute The operator of four North Jersey restaurants was seized by federal Marshals on Thursday for defying several court orders that he provide information that the U.S. Department of Labor has repeatedly failed to get from him, authorities said. Samad Uddin -- also known as Saman Khan -- owns Wyckoff-based Manhattan Halal Gyro King, which was incorporated four years ago and offers dine-in, delivery and catering services at "Gyro King" restaurants in Elmwood Park, Teaneck and two in Paterson. The Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division had requested information from Uddin as part of a complianc…

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