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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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Judge Frees Florida Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting PalPark Minor Judge Frees Florida Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting PalPark Minor
Judge Frees Florida Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting PalPark Minor A Miami, FL man who was brought to New Jersey to face charges of sexually assaulting a Palisades Park juvenile last year was freed by a judge. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Palisades Park police alerted members of his Special Victims Unit this past February to “the alleged sexual assault of a child” between 13 and 16 years old by Joey Perez, in November 2021. Perez, who turned 42 on Monday, Sept. 26, was arrested in Sunrise, FL, last month, the prosecutor said. He was extradited to New Jersey and brought to the Bergen County Jail on Sept. 14, records show. A Superior Court ju…

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Ex-Con With Violent History Jailed After Fighting Little Ferry Police At HQ Ex-Con With Violent History Jailed After Fighting Little Ferry Police At HQ
Ex-Con With Violent History Jailed After Fighting Little Ferry Police At HQ A violent ex-con from Carlstadt who spent several years in state prison for robbing a group of tourists at knifepoint assaulted Little Ferry police at their headquarters over the weekend, authorities said. Scott Recanati, 50, had gone there Saturday afternoon, Sept. 24, to complain about a victim whom he was under a court order not to contact, Police Chief James Walters said. What he may or may not have known was that the victim had just shown police text messages that he’d sent that same day, the chief said. When Officers Joseph Montemurro and Officer Max Katzner told Recanati they'd hav…

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UPDATE: Investigation Into Bergen County Man Recorded Urinating On Ex-Wife's Grave Announced UPDATE: Investigation Into Bergen County Man Recorded Urinating On Ex-Wife's Grave Announced
Update: Investigation Into Bergen County Man Recorded Urinating On Ex-Wife's Grave Announced HERE'S THE LATEST: A Bergen County man who was recorded urinating on his ex-wife's grave received a summons and is being investigated further, police in Rockland County confirmed on Monday, Sept. 26. Daily Voice broke the story Friday about the secret recording made of Dean Eichler, 68, desecrating the grave of Bergen County native Linda Torello. Torello's son, Michael Andrew Murphy of Dumont, watched from a hiding place as his cellphone recorded the incident. Murphy and his sister, Renee Eichler Barragan, said it's been going on for months. And not just that, either -- he's also left bag…

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Bicyclist, 14, From Ridgewood Struck By SUV In Glen Rock Bicyclist, 14, From Ridgewood Struck By SUV In Glen Rock
Bicyclist, 14, From Ridgewood Struck By SUV In Glen Rock A 14-year-old boy from Ridgewood who was struck on his bicycle at a Glen Rock intersection was expected to survive serious injuries, authorities said. Witnesses told police that a 2016 Chevy Equinox driven by a 40-year-old Oakland man had the green light on Prospect Street when the bicyclist suddenly rode in front of him and was struck at Grove Street at 12:50 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 24, Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. The driver told them that he "did not see the bicyclist prior to the collision and was not even sure what side of the street [he] entered the intersection from,"…

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UPDATE: Englewood Resident Re-Arrested After Stabbing Partially Blinds Edgewater Woman, 32 UPDATE: Englewood Resident Re-Arrested After Stabbing Partially Blinds Edgewater Woman, 32
Update: Englewood Resident Re-Arrested After Stabbing Partially Blinds Edgewater Woman, 32 UPDATE: Police re-arrested an Englewood resident after learning that an Edgewater woman was permanently blinded in one eye when she was stabbed with a comb knife on a city street. Kristen Bell, 36, remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Monday, Sept. 26, after authorities upgraded charges against her to second-degree aggravated assault, Englewood Police Lt. Fred Pulice said. The 32-year-old victim, whose identity is being protected by Daily Voice, lives in Edgewater but sometimes stays with her sister in Englewood, the lieutenant said. The woman told Daily Voice that she was attacked b…

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Inferno Levels Home Of Franklin Lakes School Board Member Inferno Levels Home Of Franklin Lakes School Board Member
Inferno Levels Home Of Franklin Lakes School Board Member A ferocious fire leveled the home of a Franklin Lakes Board of Education member. The 2½-story, wood-frame house that Ari Donio and his wife, Eveyln, bought at the corner of Kings Point Trail and Phelps Road less than two years ago was fully engulfed when firefighters arrived shortly before 2 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 25. A partial collapse required a defensive response, with all firefighters being kept outside. A partial collapse of the Kings Point Trail home in Franklin Lakes required a defensive response, with all firefighters being kept outside.FRANKLIN LAKES FD They had the bulk of the bl…

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Trapped Driver Freed By Firefighters After SUV Rolls Onto Route 17 Trapped Driver Freed By Firefighters After SUV Rolls Onto Route 17
Trapped Driver Freed By Firefighters After SUV Rolls Onto Route 17 Firefighters extricated a trapped driver whose SUV rolled onto Route 17. The victim was walked to a waiting ambulance after her Honda CR-V landed on its passenger side entering the southbound highway from Paramus Road shortly after 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25. Ridgewood police and Emergency Services also responded with village firefighters, who cut out the front windshield to free the driver. The victim was walked to a waiting ambulance after her Honda CR-V landed on its passenger side entering southbound Route 17 in Ridgewood.Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE All Points Towing removed the…

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Fire Levels Saddle Brook Shed, Spreads To Neighbor's Property Fire Levels Saddle Brook Shed, Spreads To Neighbor's Property
Fire Levels Saddle Brook Shed, Spreads To Neighbor's Property A propane-fueled fire burned a shed to the ground in Saddle Brook while spreading to another shed and a house. A huge column of smoke loomed over the nearby Garden State Parkway after the fire broke out on dead-ended Birk Street around noontime Saturday, Sept. 24. A propane tank in the shed vented as flames extended to the rear of a neighboring home. VIDEO by Tony Greco: The fire was officially declared under control shortly after 12:30 p.m., about 40 minutes after it began. The flames extended to the rear of a neighboring home on Birk Street in Saddle Brook.Damien Danis for DAILY VOI…

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UPDATE: Englewood Woman Re-Arrested After Stabbing Partially Blinds Edgewater Woman UPDATE: Englewood Woman Re-Arrested After Stabbing Partially Blinds Edgewater Woman
Update: Englewood Woman Re-Arrested After Stabbing Partially Blinds Edgewater Woman UPDATE: Police re-arrested an Englewood resident after learning that an Edgewater woman was permanently blinded in one eye when she was stabbed with a comb knife on a city street. Kristen Bell, 36, remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Monday, Sept. 26, after authorities upgraded charges against her to second-degree aggravated assault, Englewood Police Lt. Fred Pulice said. The 32-year-old victim, whose identity is being protected by Daily Voice, lives in Edgewater but sometimes stays with her sister in Englewood, the lieutenant said. The woman told Daily Voice that she was attacked b…

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Major Trafficker Gets 14 Years, No Parole, For Shipping 40 Pounds Of Heroin From Cali To NJ Major Trafficker Gets 14 Years, No Parole, For Shipping 40 Pounds Of Heroin From Cali To NJ
Major Trafficker Gets 14 Years, No Parole, For Shipping 40 Pounds Of Heroin From Cali To NJ UPDATE: A major drug trafficker from Somerset County who flooded the New Jersey streets with major quantities of heroin -- some of it laced with deadly fentanyl -- must spend a plea-bargained 14 years in federal prison. William T. Bouza, 45, of Watchung, must serve out the entire term handed down by U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton in Newark because there's no parole in the federal prison system. The judge also sentenced him to five years of supervised release and ordered him to pay a $25,000 fine. Authorities targeted Bouza in early 2019 after intercepting 33 pounds of heroin stashed…

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