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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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Bone Marrow Drive For Fort Lee Girl, 11, Draws Hundreds, Dinner Next Bone Marrow Drive For Fort Lee Girl, 11, Draws Hundreds, Dinner Next
Bone Marrow Drive For Fort Lee Girl, 11, Draws Hundreds, Dinner Next FORT LEE, N.J. -- Organizers of a bone marrow drive for 11-year-old Briana Lopez of Fort Lee got more than they expected. "It was a great turnout," Anthony Ventrella told Daily Voice after Saturday's drive at the Fort Lee Recreation Center. "We ran out of swabs halfway through the event, but luckily we got more. "We easily went through more then 300 swabs in just four hours." Briana, a 6th-grader at School No. 3, was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) in January. She has undergone two rounds of chemotherapy and will need a bone marrow transplant to help be…

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Police & Fire
Haworth Police: Hallucinating Vandal Trashes School Haworth Police: Hallucinating Vandal Trashes School
Haworth Police: Hallucinating Vandal Trashes School HAWORTH — Days after moving from Palisades Park, a 20-year-old Haworth man high on an LSD-like drug broke in and trashed the borough public school overnight before responding police officers grabbed him, authorities told Daily Voice. Officers Gianluca Ragone and James Morgan responded to a 3:39 a.m. fire alarm, along with firefighters, and spotted Sehyun K. Lee through a rear window, Sgt. Justin Fox said. "He was incoherent and hallucinating" when the officers took him into custody, Fox said. In just under 10 minutes, Lee had smashed glass trophy cases, rifled through lockers and…

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Police & Fire
Chemical Worker Burned At Saddle Brook Cosmetics Lab Chemical Worker Burned At Saddle Brook Cosmetics Lab
Chemical Worker Burned At Saddle Brook Cosmetics Lab SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- A flash fire burned the face and hands of a worker mixing fragrance chemicals at a Saddle Brook lab, authorities said. The worker was taken to St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston by Saddle Brook EMS after the chemical reaction Friday night at Chem Aid Laboratories on Mayhill Street, Police Chief Robert Kugler told Daily Voice. The flash fire was immediately extinguished, he said. "A Garfield Hazardous Materials Unit responded and determined no cause for hazmat concerns," the chief said. The building was occupied by a dozen or so people, he added. C…

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News
Construction Closes Westbound Route 4 Lane From Paramus To Fair Lawn Construction Closes Westbound Route 4 Lane From Paramus To Fair Lawn
Construction Closes Westbound Route 4 Lane From Paramus To Fair Lawn PARAMUS, N.J. -- The right lane of westbound Route 4 was closed from the Garden State Parkway to the Fair Lawn border Sunday until 3:30 p.m. There was no access from westbound Route 4 to Paramus Road.

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Police & Fire
Not A Second Time, Port Authority Police Tell GWB Motorcycle Toll Evader Not A Second Time, Port Authority Police Tell GWB Motorcycle Toll Evader
Not A Second Time, Port Authority Police Tell GWB Motorcycle Toll Evader FORT LEE, N.J. -- A Port Authority police officer prevented a motorcyclist who beat the E-ZPass tolls at the George Washington Bridge from doing it a second time. Officer Kathy Palvis spotted Amit Levitin, 51, of Manhattan atop the black 2012 Suzuki approaching the upper tolls around 8:35 a.m. Friday, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo said. Palvis stopped him and found the bike's license plate bent upward "in a manner normally used to evade the toll," he said. "The plate could not be read by the camera." Levtin had used the same method to duck the toll on Feb. 2. He w…

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Police & Fire
Arrest Made In Paterson Drug Neighborhood Shooting Death Arrest Made In Paterson Drug Neighborhood Shooting Death
Arrest Made In Paterson Drug Neighborhood Shooting Death PATERSON – U.S. Marshals helped Paterson police and the Passaic County Sheriff's Office arrest an ex-con who they said shot and killed a Sussex County driver on March 4. Justin "Muffy" Pease, 33, of Stanhope was behind the wheel of his Jeep when he was shot by 22-year-old Davine Campbell in the area of Hamilton and Madison avenues, authorities said at the time. Pease continued for several blocks before the vehicle crashed into a utility pole near the corner of Broadway and East 22nd Street, they said. Campell, who police said was carrying 900 packets of heroin when he was arreste…

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Events
Giants Player, Police Cheer Special Olympians In Rutherford Giants Player, Police Cheer Special Olympians In Rutherford
Giants Player, Police Cheer Special Olympians In Rutherford RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Offensive lineman Adam Gettis joined the supporters of Special Olympics New Jersey on Saturday by meeting with the swimmers at a Bergen County meet at Rutherford High School. Police officers from Bogota, Rutherfod and Jersey City presented medal to the young athletes.

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Police & Fire
Police Carry Woman, 79, To Safety In Hasbrouck Heights Apartment Fire Police Carry Woman, 79, To Safety In Hasbrouck Heights Apartment Fire
Police Carry Woman, 79, To Safety In Hasbrouck Heights Apartment Fire HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N.J. -- A 79-year-old downstairs neighbor who has difficulty getting around was evaluated for smoke inhalation but refused medical attention in a Hasbrouck Heights apartment fire Friday night, authorities told Daily Voice. "The police did a great job getting her out," a family member told Daily Voice. The third-floor Terrace Avenue fire broke out just before 6 p.m and was under control in less than a half-hour. The woman carried out by police lives a floor below the fire, Detective Lt. Michael Colaneri told Daily Voice.

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Police & Fire
Tedesco, Saudino: Emergency Responders Prepared For Transit Strike Tedesco, Saudino: Emergency Responders Prepared For Transit Strike
Tedesco, Saudino: Emergency Responders Prepared For Transit Strike HACKENSACK, N.J. -- With thousands of Bergen County residents and workers potentially affected by a possible interruption of NJ Transit service, authorities have urged commuters to make contingency plans sooner rather than later. Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco and Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino were among those authorities getting their own plans in place for emergency services and response. Physicians, nurses, and emergency medical personnel needing emergency travel assistance within Bergen County should contact the sheriff’s 24-Hour Operations Division at (201) 646-2200. &quo…

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Police & Fire
Rochelle Park Police Officer Finds Drugs, Customer Records In Hotel Stop Rochelle Park Police Officer Finds Drugs, Customer Records In Hotel Stop
Rochelle Park Police Officer Finds Drugs, Customer Records In Hotel Stop ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. -- A Rochelle Park patrol officer who considered it worth checking out a car parked in a remote area of a hotel lot found the driver carrying a host of drugs -- among them, marijuana, Molly, mushrooms and meth -- as well as two books documenting sales to local customers, authorities said. Seeing Officer Ryan Burke, Ramaen Kilfoil of Livingston got back into the car and tried to drive off around 1 a.m. Thursday, Detective Sgt. James DePreta told Daily Voice. Burke pulled him over and got "several conflicting accounts of his reasons for being at the hotel," DePre…

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