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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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UPDATE: Manhunt On For Traveling Nurse Following Attack On HUMC Patient Care Tech: Sources UPDATE: Manhunt On For Traveling Nurse Following Attack On HUMC Patient Care Tech: Sources
Update: Manhunt On For Traveling Nurse Following Attack On Humc Patient Care Tech: Sources UPDATE: A contract nurse who fled after authorities said he set a 54-year-old colleague at Hackensack University Medical Center on fire was found dead of suicide in South Jersey, authorities said. The body of Nicholas Pagano, 31, of West Deptford was found in a wooded area of Waterford Township, in Camden County, a two-hour drive of more than 100 miles from Hackensack, early Tuesday, Feb. 8, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. He'd shot himself once in the chest, apparently with a gun that had been stolen from his brother's home, law enforcement sources said. HUMC employees were n…

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Young PA Dad, NY EMT Both Killed In Wrong-Way Palisades Parkway Crash Young PA Dad, NY EMT Both Killed In Wrong-Way Palisades Parkway Crash
Young PA Dad, NY EMT Both Killed In Wrong-Way Palisades Parkway Crash Profound grief replaced shock as word spread that a Pennsylvania man had been killed in a head-on crash in New York State this past weekend. Brendan Seabrook, who'd just turned 27 and had a young daughter in grade school, was driving north on the Palisades Interstate Parkway about 10 miles north of New Jersey, authorities said, when an oncoming SUV slammed into his 2016 Toyota Avalon at 2:40 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 6. Seabrook, who was a member of Local 60 of the Laborers' International Union of North America and recently lived in Monroe, NY, was extricated by Nanuet firefighters and taken to Mo…

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UPDATE: HUMC Patient Care Tech Fighting For Life Following Attack UPDATE: HUMC Patient Care Tech Fighting For Life Following Attack
Update: Humc Patient Care Tech Fighting For Life Following Attack UPDATE: A contract nurse who fled after authorities said he set a 54-year-old colleague at Hackensack University Medical Center on fire was found dead of suicide in South Jersey, authorities said. The body of Nicholas Pagano, 31, of West Deptford was found in a wooded area of Waterford Township, in Camden County, a two-hour drive of more than 100 miles from Hackensack, early Tuesday, Feb. 8, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. He'd shot himself once in the chest, apparently with a gun that had been stolen from his brother's home, law enforcement sources said. HUMC employees we…

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Four NJ Smoke Shops Raided, Five Busted For Selling Pot, THC Edibles Four NJ Smoke Shops Raided, Five Busted For Selling Pot, THC Edibles
Four NJ Smoke Shops Raided, Five Busted For Selling Pot, THC Edibles A group of owners and operators sold pot and THC products out of smoke shops in Englewood, Butler, Randolph, and Scotch Plains, charged authorities who busted them during a series of raids. Detectives assisted by the DEA seized seizure of hundreds of pounds of marijuana, THC edibles and THC wax/oil, along with $305,000 in illicit proceeds, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. They arrested co-owners Michael Ligus, 24, and Damian Harry Wesler Sr., 44, along with Damian H. Wesler Jr., 22, all of Ringwood, and were arrested, along with Anthony Garcia, 45, of Secaucus and Ezekiel Pau…

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Chronic ID Thief Nabbed With Cocaine, Bogus Licenses, Phony Credit Cards: Lyndhurst Police Chronic ID Thief Nabbed With Cocaine, Bogus Licenses, Phony Credit Cards: Lyndhurst Police
Chronic ID Thief Nabbed With Cocaine, Bogus Licenses, Phony Credit Cards: Lyndhurst Police A repeat offender was busted by a Lyndhurst police officer who found him carrying cocaine, fake driver's licenses and phony credit cards during a traffic stop, authorities said. It's not the first -- or even second -- time that Miguel Arias, 36, has recently been busted in the area for those charges, records show. This time, Lyndhurst Police Officer Michael Clifford stopped Arias for driving an older-model Mercedes Benz through a commercial parking lot at Polito and Rutherford avenues without his headlights on shortly after 2 a.m. last week, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. Arias handed …

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UPDATE: Drivers Killed In Palisades Interstate Parkway Head-On Crash Identified UPDATE: Drivers Killed In Palisades Interstate Parkway Head-On Crash Identified
Update: Drivers Killed In Palisades Interstate Parkway Head-On Crash Identified Authorities identified both drivers who were killed in a head-on crash over the weekend on the Palisades Interstate Parkway just north of the New Jersey border, responders said. Aristan Garandeau, 22, of Croton-on-Hudson was pronounced dead at the scene after driving his 2017 Subaru Impreza south in the parkway's northbound lanes and hitting a 2016 Toyota Avalon head-on in the passing lane between exits 9 and 10 in Rockland at 2:40 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 6, New York State Police said. Brendan Seabrook, a 27-year-old resident of Wilkes Barre, PA, was pronounced dead at Montefiore Nyack Hospital …

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Flawed DNA Test Gets Bergen Man Doing Life For Beating, Burning Woman, 70, New Trial Flawed DNA Test Gets Bergen Man Doing Life For Beating, Burning Woman, 70, New Trial
Flawed DNA Test Gets Bergen Man Doing Life For Beating, Burning Woman, 70, New Trial DNA evidence found under the fingernails of a 70-year-old Bergen County woman bludgeoned and burned in her home wasn’t reliable enough to convict a man who’s now serving a life sentence for her murder, a state appeals court ruled. Daniel Rochat, 46, of Wood-Ridge, has already been moved from New Jersey State Prison in Trenton to the Bergen County Jail in Hackensack in anticipation of a new trial following the Appellate Division ruling. He remains charged with various counts of murder and felony murder, as well as aggravated arson, desecrating human remains, burglary, hindering arrest and f…

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WHO IS HE? Police Try To ID Man Found Shot Dead Behind Paterson Library WHO IS HE? Police Try To ID Man Found Shot Dead Behind Paterson Library
WHO IS HE? Police Try To ID Man Found Shot Dead Behind Paterson Library Authorities were trying to identify a man found shot dead in the street behind the Paterson public library. Responding officers found the body on Van Houten Avenue between the library and the Edward W. Kilpatrick School shortly before 11:30 p.m. Friday. EMS pronounced him dead at the scene, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said. Investigators were seeking witnesses who could help identify the man and whoever shot him. They asked that anyone who might have seen something or has helpful information contact the prosecutor’s tips line at 1-…

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Shoplifter Assaults Mahwah Liquor Store Worker, Flees In Sedan With Stolen Plates Shoplifter Assaults Mahwah Liquor Store Worker, Flees In Sedan With Stolen Plates
Shoplifter Assaults Mahwah Liquor Store Worker, Flees In Sedan With Stolen Plates What began as a shoplifting turned into a robbery at a Mahwah liquor store, authorities said. An employee tried to stop the thief and was assaulted just before 5 p.m. Friday in the parking lot at the MacArthur Ridge Plaza on Ridge Road -- making it a strong-arm robbery, they said. He then drove off in a silver Honda sedan bearing a PA license plate that police said didn't belong to the vehicle. The employee wasn't injured.  Police who reviewed store video said the incident bore similarities to a crime also committed on Friday in Teaneck. ANYONE who might have witnessed the incident …

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Car Crashes Into Cancer Center At HUMC, Uninsured Driver, 88, Says Foot Slipped: Police Car Crashes Into Cancer Center At HUMC, Uninsured Driver, 88, Says Foot Slipped: Police
Car Crashes Into Cancer Center At Humc, Uninsured Driver, 88, Says Foot Slipped: Police No one was injured when a vehicle driven by an 88-year-old man hit the front of the John Theurer Cancer Center in Hackensack, police said. The 88-year-old driver from the Rockland County town of West Haverstraw, NY, told police his foot slipped off the brake and hit the gas while he was in the drop-off lane around 6 p.m. Wednesday, city Police Lt. Anthony Natale said. "The vehicle went over the curb and lightly collided with one of the lobby glass windows," Natale said. "Two of the windows broke." After refusing medical attention, the driver got a summons for not having auto insurance, the…

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