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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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Garfield Woman Accused Of Threatening Man With Gun Garfield Woman Accused Of Threatening Man With Gun
Garfield Woman Accused Of Threatening Man With Gun A Garfield woman with a criminal history is accused of pulling a gun on a man during a domestic incident in Bloomingdale. Allison D. Caruso, 38, was jailed on charges of aggravated assault, making terroristic threats and weapons offenses, including having a large-capacity ammunition magazine, records show. Authorities didn’t immediately confirm the contention of a source with direct knowledge of the April 22 incident that Caruso – formerly Allison Curry – pulled an AK-47 on her father-in-law. Further details weren't immediately available.

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Authorities: Paterson PD Nabs Fleeing Dealer With 90 Bags Of Heroin, Coke, Loaded Glock Authorities: Paterson PD Nabs Fleeing Dealer With 90 Bags Of Heroin, Coke, Loaded Glock
Authorities: Paterson PD Nabs Fleeing Dealer With 90 Bags Of Heroin, Coke, Loaded Glock A 22-year-old Paterson dealer had been carrying a fully-loaded handgun and 90 combined bags of heroin and cocaine when he tried to run following a traffic stop, authorities said. The female driver was pulled over by Detectives John Traynor, Mustafa Dombayci and Kenneth Kerwin after she blew a stop sign at Rosa Parks Boulevard and Lafayette Street in a late-model Nissan, city Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Her passenger, Savion Balmer, suddenly bolted, Speziale said. The detectives chased Balmer up Lafayette Street and onto Mercer Street, then through a residential rear yard be…

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Wood-Ridge Firefighters Douse SUV Blaze Wood-Ridge Firefighters Douse SUV Blaze
Wood-Ridge Firefighters Douse SUV Blaze Firefighters doused an SUV blaze in a Wood-Ridge High School parking lot. School was out way before the 6:30 p.m. fire on Hackensack Street. There was no immediate determination of the cause of the fire, which broke out in the vehicle's engine compartment. No injuries were reported. Wood-Ridge firefighters extinguished the blaze.Jo Fehl for DAILY VOICE Photos by Jo Fehl The case wasn't immediately determined.Jo Fehl for DAILY VOICE

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AMERICAN DREAM SHOOTING: Brooklyn Resident, 20, Captured, Charged By NJ State Police AMERICAN DREAM SHOOTING: Brooklyn Resident, 20, Captured, Charged By NJ State Police
American Dream Shooting: Brooklyn Resident, 20, Captured, Charged By NJ State Police New Jersey State Police seized a 20-year-old Brooklyn resident who they said shot a man during a robbery attempt at the American Dream Mall in East Rutherford earlier this month. The NYPD and members of a U.S. Marshals fugitive task force helped detectives from the New Jersey State Police Troop “B” Criminal Investigation Office and the NJSP Fugitive Unit capture Anwar Stuart at his home on Monday, April 25, authorities said. Stuart is charged with attempted murder, attempted robbery, conspiracy, unlawful possession of a weapon, and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose in the April…

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Local Police Sergeant In Bergen County Charged With Pocketing PBA Funds Local Police Sergeant In Bergen County Charged With Pocketing PBA Funds
Local Police Sergeant In Bergen County Charged With Pocketing PBA Funds A Northvale police sergeant is accused of embezzling more than $75,000 from local PBA accounts. Sgt. Charles J. “CJ” Amorosso, 35, “made cash withdrawals and transferred money out of multiple PBA (Police Benevolent Association) bank accounts without authorization,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said on Tuesday, April 26. Detectives from Musella’s office charged Amorosso with theft on Monday following an investigation stemming from a Feb. 25 complaint, the prosecutor said. BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE PRESS RELEASE: Northvale Police Sergeant Charged With Theft Of PBA Funds Am…

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Youngsters Seen At Fire That Engulfed Row Of Buses In NJ TRANSIT Lot, Investigators Say Youngsters Seen At Fire That Engulfed Row Of Buses In NJ TRANSIT Lot, Investigators Say
Youngsters Seen At Fire That Engulfed Row Of Buses In NJ Transit Lot, Investigators Say Investigators are trying to identify a group of youngsters who they said were spotted near a fire that destroyed a row of buses last week at an NJ TRANSIT lot in Hudson County, Daily Voice has learned. Surveillance cameras captured images of the youths that were shared with area law enforcement following the April 20 fire at the open-air storage lot off Tonnelle Avenue (Routes 1&9) in North Bergen. The blaze broke out shortly after 4:30 p.m. that day, fully engulfing six out-of-service buses and severely damaging a seventh. Authorities haven't officially said how they believe it start…

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Popular Paterson Barbershop Fronted For After-Hours Club Run By Trinitarios, Authorities Charge Popular Paterson Barbershop Fronted For After-Hours Club Run By Trinitarios, Authorities Charge
Popular Paterson Barbershop Fronted For After-Hours Club Run By Trinitarios, Authorities Charge SEX, DRUGS AND JELLY ROLL: A popular Paterson clip joint was a front for an after-hours club run by Trinitario gang members that sold cocaine, sex and hookah, city authorities said following the arrests of eight people during a raid. Security guards allowed fellow armed Trinitarios into the illegal club at the JMT Barbershop on East 18th Street, which opened at 3 a.m. and closed at 10 a.m., Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. "Staff” at the club sold cocaine while the owners and managers directed prostitution on the premises and outside the club, sold alcohol without a license and p…

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Federal Judge Fines Mahwah Company $67,668 For Jacking Up Price Of N95 Masks By 400% Federal Judge Fines Mahwah Company $67,668 For Jacking Up Price Of N95 Masks By 400%
Federal Judge Fines Mahwah Company $67,668 For Jacking Up Price Of N95 Masks By 400% A Mahwah-based company that admitted selling N95 protective masks at a 400% markup to a grocery store chain at the beginning of the pandemic was fined $67,668 by a federal judge. TSC Agency LLC -- a logistics and freight forwarding company located off southbound Route 17 near the State Line Diner -- will also remain on probation for a year under the terms of a plea deal with the government, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said on Tuesday, April 26. TSC and two partners bought 250,000 of the filtering facepiece respirators at $1.09 apiece mask from a foreign manufacturer in mid-March 2020…

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Stolen Credit Cards, Oxy, $10,000 Seized, Two From NYC Busted By Rochelle Park PD Stolen Credit Cards, Oxy, $10,000 Seized, Two From NYC Busted By Rochelle Park PD
Stolen Credit Cards, Oxy, $10,000 Seized, Two From NYC Busted By Rochelle Park PD A Rochelle Park police officer trying to help the occupants of a disabled vehicle found them carrying credit cards in other people's names, oxycodone tablets and $10,000 in tainted cash, authorities said. Officer Jorge Orihuela went to help after spotting the vehicle in front of the Midland School on Rochelle Avenue around 10 p.m. Monday, April 25, Lt. James DePreta said. "Nervous behavior and conflicting accounts" from the driver and his passenger made Orihuela suspicious, DePreta said. After getting consent to search the vehicle, he found the credit cards, drugs and cash, as well as blan…

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NO BRAKES: 2 Bail As Garbage Truck Barrels Into Passaic County Park, Nearly Plunges Into Brook NO BRAKES: 2 Bail As Garbage Truck Barrels Into Passaic County Park, Nearly Plunges Into Brook
NO Brakes: 2 Bail As Garbage Truck Barrels Into Passaic County Park, Nearly Plunges Into Brook Two passengers jumped from a speeding garbage truck as it barreled down a steep hill into a Passaic County park and stopped just short of plunging into a brook after losing its brakes. The driver and both occupants were hospitalized with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening after the Gaeta garbage truck out of Paterson sped down Brockhuizen Lane into Goffle Brook Park around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 26. The truck was inches from going airborne into the brook when it hit some bushes at the top of a retaining wall before coming to a stop. Inches from complete disaster.Boyd …

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