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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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Police & Fire
Wind-Swept Blaze Engulfs Paterson Home Wind-Swept Blaze Engulfs Paterson Home
Wind-Swept Blaze Engulfs Paterson Home PATERSON, N.J. -- Paterson firefighters battled wind-swept flames that blew through 2½-story home on Wednesday. Flames were shooting out upper windows of the wood-frame Pacific Street building before engulfing the back of the multi-story home on its way through, Mayor Jose "Joey" Torres said. The condition of a firefighter who fell through a floor during the two-alarm blaze couldn't be determined.

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Police & Fire
Lodi Used Car Dealer Conned Customers, NJ Authorities Charge Lodi Used Car Dealer Conned Customers, NJ Authorities Charge
Lodi Used Car Dealer Conned Customers, NJ Authorities Charge LODI, N.J. -- State authorities this week sued a Lodi-based used car dealership that they said failed to honor advertised prices, left out disclaimers and "obscured pricing details with misleading fine print." An eight-count complaint filed in Hackensack by the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs accuses European Auto Expo of violating the state's Consumer Fraud Act and lemon law, as well as advertising and sale regulations, among other charges. The complaint seeks consumer restitution, reimbursement of attorneys’ fees and costs and civil penalties for each violation of the st…

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Business
Weeds, Lawns, Liquor -- Bergen Entrepreneur Does It All Weeds, Lawns, Liquor -- Bergen Entrepreneur Does It All
Weeds, Lawns, Liquor -- Bergen Entrepreneur Does It All NEW MILFORD, N.J. -- The most difficult part of the workday for local entrepreneur Joe Dillon isn’t deciding which of his four businesses to tend to first “It’s going home and ending your day," he said. "Your mind is always moving.” There's Joseph M. Dillon Landscape Contractors in Dumont, Joe’s Beer, Wine, & Spirits and Joe's Vapes in New Milford -- along with his Weed Man Lawn Care company, which services all of Bergen County. Then there's his newest partnership: Dillon got engaged this past weekend to Jackie Smith of Rockland County. It all began for the Oradell native mo…

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Police & Fire
Tenafly Police: Alert Officer Nabs Lottery Ticket Thief Tenafly Police: Alert Officer Nabs Lottery Ticket Thief
Tenafly Police: Alert Officer Nabs Lottery Ticket Thief TENAFLY, N.J. -- A Tenafly police officer with a good memory nabbed a Westchester man moments after surveillance vieo showed him reaching over the counter at the local 7-Eleven and snatching a batch of lottery tickets. Responding to an 11:15 p.m. call to the County Road convenience store on Saturday, Officer Matthew Savitsky recognized Toni Ljulidurovic, 25, of Pelham, from a traffic stop a few weeks ago, Capt. Michael deMoncada said Tuesday. Ljulidurovic was driving a Mercedes Benz during that stop that Savitsky coincidentally wrote a ticket for outside the 7-Eleven a short time before Sat…

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Schools
Berkeley Leadership Panel Celebrates Women's History Month Berkeley Leadership Panel Celebrates Women's History Month
Berkeley Leadership Panel Celebrates Women's History Month WOODLAND PARK, N.J. -- More than 150 students, faculty, legislators and community members attended the Seventh Annual Berkeley College Women’s Leadership Panel, held in recognition of Women’s History Month at Berkeley College in Woodland Park. “It’s so important to have leaders on campus and have our students hear from successful women,” Berkeley President Michael J. Smith told the gathering Monday. Panelists included Melissa Orsen, CEO of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority; state Assemblywomen Holly Schepisi and Shavonda E. Sumter; Clifton Councilwoman Lauren Murphy, who is also…

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Police & Fire
Haledon Police Charge Driver With Stealing $75,000 Of Chanel Merchandise Haledon Police Charge Driver With Stealing $75,000 Of Chanel Merchandise
Haledon Police Charge Driver With Stealing $75,000 Of Chanel Merchandise HALEDON, N.J. -- Haledon police charged a local Chanel of New York City Driver with stealing more than $75,000 worth of merchandise from sealed boxes that he intended to sell. Detectives who investigated after receiving a complaint from the company arrested Edwin Duran, 30, of Haledon, Lt. George Guzman said Tuesday. Duran was supposed to be delivering the merchandise to warehouses but took 50 assorted pieces, Guzman said. Detective Sgt. George Kelly and Detective Tim Lindberg recovered the items and returned them to Chanel after arresting Duran. Duran was released pending a court hearing…

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Police & Fire
Hackensack Cook Charged With Sexually Assaulting Dumont Girl, 8 Hackensack Cook Charged With Sexually Assaulting Dumont Girl, 8
Hackensack Cook Charged With Sexually Assaulting Dumont Girl, 8 DUMONT, N.J. -- A married cook from Hackensack was being held on $250,000 bail after authorities charged him with sexually assaulting an 8-year-old Dumot girl. Carlos Enrique Lliguisupa-Medina, 32, was arrested on sexual assault and child endangerment counts on Monday, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Tuesday afternoon. The night before, the girl told detectives from Grewal's Special Victims Unit that Lliguisupa-Medina "inappropriately touched her more than one time...on intimate parts of her body...between August 2013 and August 2014," he said. He's due f…

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Police & Fire
Maywood Officer Finds 50 Bags of Heroin, Crack, Arrests Wayne Driver Maywood Officer Finds 50 Bags of Heroin, Crack, Arrests Wayne Driver
Maywood Officer Finds 50 Bags of Heroin, Crack, Arrests Wayne Driver MAYWOOD, N.J. -- A Maywood police officer making a routine traffic stop arrested a 52-year-old Wayne man Tuesday afternoon after finding 50 bags of heroin, crack, a hypodermic syringe and drug paraphernalia. Officer Greg Mulawka pulled the two-door 2000 Mercury Cougar on Essex Street around 1 p.m. because it had no front license plate, Detective Jason Liaban told Daily Voice. After spotting paraphernalia in plain view, he arrested Todd Malsch and searched the car, Liaban said. Among the drugs found were heroin bags stamped "8888," he said. Malsch was released pending a court hea…

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Police & Fire
Sanzari 'Heartbroken' Over Teaneck Complex Manager Who Fell From Roof Sanzari 'Heartbroken' Over Teaneck Complex Manager Who Fell From Roof
Sanzari 'Heartbroken' Over Teaneck Complex Manager Who Fell From Roof TEANECK, N.J. -- The building manager who fell from the roof of Glenpointe office complex Tuesday morning was "appreciated and loved by both our employees and tenants who knew him," said David Sanzari, president and CEO at Alfred Sanzari Enterprises. Sanzari said he was "shocked and saddened" to confirm the death of 57-year-old Cliff Michael LeMay, who he said had gone to the roof of the seven-story building "to investigate any possible damage caused by last night’s excessive wind and weather. "His body was found soon after on the grass in the courtyard," …

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Police & Fire
Feds Charge Ringwood Man With 17 Machine Guns Feds Charge Ringwood Man With 17 Machine Guns
Feds Charge Ringwood Man With 17 Machine Guns RINGWOOD, N.J. -- A Ringwood man was to be brought before a federal judge in Newark on Tuesday after ATF agents charged him with having 17 machine guns. Local authorities said they discovered the weapons while serving a restraining order on Mariusz Cebula, 36, at his home last July. They also reported finding 262 high-capacity magazines for firearms, as well as dozens of other firearms components, ammunition, accessories and manufacturing tools. Federal agents arrested him Monday following an investigation, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said. Some of the weapons were found to be operati…

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