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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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ICE Seeks Hold On Maywood Resident Charged With Sexually Assaulting PalPark Pre-Teens ICE Seeks Hold On Maywood Resident Charged With Sexually Assaulting PalPark Pre-Teens
ICE Seeks Hold On Maywood Resident Charged With Sexually Assaulting PalPark Pre-Teens A Guatemalan national living in Maywood was charged with sexually assaulting two Palisade Park pre-teens. Jaime Ottoniel Roca, 41, fondled one of the victims over the course of two years while committing more invasive acts on another, a complaint on file in Superior Court in Hackensack says. Both were under the age of 12 at the time and were sexually assaulted at least five times each, an investigation by borough detectives and investigators from the Bergen County Prosecutor's Special Victims Unit. Roca told one of them that he touched the first victim's inner thigh and private area "in a …

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Clifton Man, 23, Shot Dead In Broad Daylight On Busy Paterson Street Clifton Man, 23, Shot Dead In Broad Daylight On Busy Paterson Street
Clifton Man, 23, Shot Dead In Broad Daylight On Busy Paterson Street Police were looking for a black Dodge Charger with tinted windows and black rims after a 23-year-old Clifton man was shot and killed outside a Paterson nightclub in the late afternoon, authorities confirmed. Divan E. Tejeda had been shot once in the chest when police found him on Market Street across from the Bonfire Mofongo House and Lounge shortly before 4:30 p.m. Monday, responders said. CPR was in progress as Tejeda was rushed to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead soon after. It was Paterson’s fifth homicide this year. Confirming the killing, Passaic …

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'Absolutely Unimaginable': Leukemia Returns 11 Years After Saddle Brook Boy's Remission 'Absolutely Unimaginable': Leukemia Returns 11 Years After Saddle Brook Boy's Remission
'Absolutely Unimaginable': Leukemia Returns 11 Years After Saddle Brook Boy's Remission A grueling bout with leukemia was nearly a dozen years in a young Saddle Brook boy's past when it made a sudden and devastating return. At a time when Colin Stern and his loved ones should've been celebrating his 16th birthday, he was in the hospital. At a time when he should be learning how to drive and feeling comfortable in high school, they find themselves facing at least two years of spinal taps, radiation and more. The sudden blow "has changed the course" of the entire family's lives forever, wrote Peggy Dressel Pappas, who organized a fundraiser for them. Colin's mom "will have to …

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SEE ANYTHING? Brush Fire In Ridgewood Raises Suspicions SEE ANYTHING? Brush Fire In Ridgewood Raises Suspicions
SEE Anything? Brush Fire In Ridgewood Raises Suspicions Authorities turned to the public for help investigating a suspicious brush fire that broke out in Ridgewood over the weekend. The Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification collected valuable evidence from the area on Crest Road known as "The View" after village firefighters doused the blaze around 8 p.m. Sunday, Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke said. Luthcke's detectives are working with their counterparts from the Bergen County Prosecutor's Arson Squad, Luthcke said Monday. They asked that anyone who might have seen something, or has information that could help identify who…

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Woman Hit, Thrown By Car During Argument, Hackensack Police Seek Help Finding Fleeing Driver Woman Hit, Thrown By Car During Argument, Hackensack Police Seek Help Finding Fleeing Driver
Woman Hit, Thrown By Car During Argument, Hackensack Police Seek Help Finding Fleeing Driver SEE ANYTHING? Authorities sought the public’s help finding a driver who deliberately hit a woman with his car during an argument in Hackensack. A call of a person seen on the hood of a moving sedan brought police to the intersection of Anderson Street and Vanderbeck Place shortly after 11 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 20, Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. Officers found the 39-year-old victim, who told them a man whom she identified only as “Jazz” drove directly at her and hit her with his car during an argument, DeWitt said. She landed on the hood, she said, then rolled off and landed in the street near the …

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‘Inventing Anna’: Fake German Heiress In Netflix Show Spent Time 'On ICE' In Bergen County Jail ‘Inventing Anna’: Fake German Heiress In Netflix Show Spent Time 'On ICE' In Bergen County Jail
‘Inventing Anna’: Fake German Heiress In Netflix Show Spent Time 'On ICE' In Bergen County Jail A convicted con woman featured in the Netflix series “Inventing Anna” spent time in the Bergen County Jail before being transferred to a federal detention center just across the border in New York State, where she's awaiting a deportation hearing. Anna Sorokin, who came to the United States in 2013, scammed unwitting victims out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by posing as a German heiress named Anna Delvey. Using a fake name and claiming she was worth a fortune, Sorokin suckered banks, hotels and some of Manhattan's wealthy elite. She was trying to secure a $25 million loan to start a…

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Dog Struck, Killed, 80-Year-Old Owner Injured Crossing Ridgewood Street Dog Struck, Killed, 80-Year-Old Owner Injured Crossing Ridgewood Street
Dog Struck, Killed, 80-Year-Old Owner Injured Crossing Ridgewood Street A small dog was killed and an 80-year-old Ridgewood woman apparently suffered a broken bone when both were struck crossing a village street, authorities said. They were crossing Broad Street when a Jeep Liberty driven by a 39-year-old Mahwah woman turned from East Ridgewood Avenue and struck both of them around 10 a.m. Monday, Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke said. The village woman was taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson with what appeared to be a broken ankle or leg."Unfortunately, the victim's dog was killed in the accident," Lutchke said. The driver received a summ…

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BOOSTER BAGS: Police Say Bergen Shoplifting Crew Did Some Serious Thieving BOOSTER BAGS: Police Say Bergen Shoplifting Crew Did Some Serious Thieving
Booster Bags: Police Say Bergen Shoplifting Crew Did Some Serious Thieving GOTCHA! Three women and a teenager used motorized handicap shopping carts and "booster" bags to swipe hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise from Bergen County-area stores, Rochelle Park police said. Security at the ShopRite on West Passaic Street grabbed one of them -- Jada McIntosh, 22, of Paterson -- and turned her over to Lt. Jim DePreta and Officer Joe Buono around 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 19. The others left her behind and fled in a black BMW sedan with bogus license plates. Maywood police helped Officer Zim Zenock and Sgt. Doug Arendacs capture the trio, who'd parked on a cul-de-s…

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PHOTOS: Minivan Lands On Pickup Truck On Route 4 PHOTOS: Minivan Lands On Pickup Truck On Route 4
Photos: Minivan Lands On Pickup Truck On Route 4 Three victims were hospitalized after a minivan went airborne and landed on top of a pickup truck on Route 4 in Paramus, responders said. The most seriously injured, police at the scene said, was the driver of the Toyota Sienna, which crashed nose-first into the ground next to the driveway of Stickley Furniture & Mattress on the westbound highway near the Farview Avenue overpass shortly before 9:30 am. Monday. Paramus police, firefighters, heavy rescue members and ambulances (2) responded. All Points towing responded to remove the minivan and Ford pickup. Boyd A. Loving took a series…

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Fire Doused In Basement Of Downtown Wood-Ridge Shops Fire Doused In Basement Of Downtown Wood-Ridge Shops
Fire Doused In Basement Of Downtown Wood-Ridge Shops Working sprinklers prevented a potential disaster when a fire broke out in downtown Wood-Ridge. Local authorities didn't immediately disclose a possible cause of the two-alarm Valley Boulevard blaze, which broke out in a common basement area below Emilia Romagna Pizza & Ristorante around 8 a.m. Monday. They did, however, alert the Bergen County Prosecutor's Arson Investigations Unit after allegedly finding separate points of ignition. No injuries were reported. Carlstadt, Little Ferry, Lodi and Moonachie firefighters provided mutual aid.

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