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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
Driver Climbs Out After Two-Vehicle Crash At GSP Tolls In Saddle Brook Driver Climbs Out After Two-Vehicle Crash At GSP Tolls In Saddle Brook
Driver Climbs Out After Two-Vehicle Crash At GSP Tolls In Saddle Brook SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- A wagon and an SUV crashed Wednesday afternon at the Garden State Parkway toll plaza in Saddle Brook. The driver of the Subaru climbed out after it overturned. There was no immediate word on the extent of injuries.

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Police & Fire
NJ BlueNOW Stages 'Evening With Sheriff Clarke,' Valor Awards In Wood-Ridge NJ BlueNOW Stages 'Evening With Sheriff Clarke,' Valor Awards In Wood-Ridge
NJ BlueNOW Stages 'Evening With Sheriff Clarke,' Valor Awards In Wood-Ridge WOOD-RIDGE, N.J. -- Area law enforcement officers will gather at the Fiesta in Wood-Ridge on Monday for a sold-out evening with Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr., the cowboy hat-wearing Fox News contributor who has blasted members of the Black Lives Matter movement for their claims about police brutality. Honors will be given during the NJ BlueNOW event to a trio of Mahwah police officers who caught a 9-year-old girl who jumped three stories in a raging condo fire last month and a Lyndhurst officer who saved several passengers after a train derailed last spring. Receiving an Award of Honor will b…

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Police & Fire
Teterboro Used Car Dealer From Cliffside Park Charged In $1.4M Scam Teterboro Used Car Dealer From Cliffside Park Charged In $1.4M Scam
Teterboro Used Car Dealer From Cliffside Park Charged In $1.4M Scam TETERBORO, N.J. -- The owner of a defunct Teterboro used car dealership from Cliffside Park was indicted Tuesday along with three employees and a bookkeeper in a $1.4 million luxury car scam. Patsy Galasso, 75, the owner of D.I.B. Leasing, orchestrated a scheme in which he and the others "created fake employment records, inflated incomes, and supplied false pay stubs and fictitious employee verifications to dupe banks into approving auto financing for customers whose income levels did not qualify them for loans on the pricey vehicles," acting New Jersey Attorney General John J. Hof…

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Police & Fire
Passaic Ex-Con Admits Shooting Undercover Paramus Officer In Garfield Passaic Ex-Con Admits Shooting Undercover Paramus Officer In Garfield
Passaic Ex-Con Admits Shooting Undercover Paramus Officer In Garfield GARFIELD, N.J. -- An ex-con from Passaic faces 15 years in prison -- 13 of which he must serve before he's eligible for parole -- after admitting Tuesday that he shot an undercover police officer during an armed robbery attempt outside a Marshall's store in Garfield two years ago. Rafael Vasquez, 27, already had had a lengthy record before he shot the officer -- who was on loan to the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Narcotic Task Force -- in the right hip and lower left leg on April 22, 2014. The officer was released a few days later from Hackensack University Medical Center. Vasquez — also kno…

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News
Dwight Morrow High School Gets Bomb Threat Dwight Morrow High School Gets Bomb Threat
Dwight Morrow High School Gets Bomb Threat ENGLEWOOD, N.J. -- "This one is probably kids, based on the time and the fact that no others have come in," a law enforcement official told Daily Voice after Dwight Morrow High School received a bomb threat just after 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. Computer-generated "robocall" threats target several schools and ordinarily come in either overnight or first thing in the morning, the official said. Police and the Bergen County Sheriff's Bomb Squad responded.

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Schools
Voters OK $11.7M In Northern Valley Regional Improvements Voters OK $11.7M In Northern Valley Regional Improvements
Voters OK $11.7M In Northern Valley Regional Improvements NORTHERN VALLEY, N.J. -- Voters Tuesday night approved a $11.7 million referendum for improvements at Northern Valley Regional High Schools at Demarest and Old Tappan by a vote of 2,574 to 1,882. "It was a win-win for the taxpayers and the students," Schools Supt. Dr. Geoff Gordon told Daily Voice. "We are very pleased and very grateful to the community for supporting us." Six of the seven towns that voted approved the referendum. Northvale voters rejected it, 229 to 183. The breakdown: Closter: 526 YES / 349 NO Demarest: 377 YES / 353 NO Harrington Park: 387 YES / …

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Police & Fire
New Captains Change Course Of Hackensack Police Department New Captains Change Course Of Hackensack Police Department
New Captains Change Course Of Hackensack Police Department HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A trio of new police captains in Hackensack will pave the way for the department's future. Promoted were new Capts. James Prise, Francesco Aquila and Patrick Coffey. Prise, who has 22 years with the department and is now its officer in charge, and Acquila, an 18-year veteran, were formally presented to the public at Tuesday night's Mayor and Council meeting. Coffey, who has 17 years with the department, had a previous commitment. "This restructuring of the ranks puts the new captains in leadership positions to give them experience in those roles in advance of the…

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Police & Fire
Saddle Brook Doctor, 78, Charged With Taking $200,000 In Bribes Saddle Brook Doctor, 78, Charged With Taking $200,000 In Bribes
Saddle Brook Doctor, 78, Charged With Taking $200,000 In Bribes SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- A 78-year-old Saddle Brook family doctor was charged Tuesday with accepting $200,000 in bribes in exchange for test referrals. A federal grand jury in Newark indicted Bernard Greenspan as part of what U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said was "a long-running and elaborate scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, its president and numerous associates." A total of 39 people – 26 of them doctors – have pleaded guilty in connection with the bribery scheme, which its organizers have admitted involved millions of dollars in bribes…

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Police & Fire
Maywood Police Bust Hackensack Man, 60, On Drug Charges Twice In 2 Weeks Maywood Police Bust Hackensack Man, 60, On Drug Charges Twice In 2 Weeks
Maywood Police Bust Hackensack Man, 60, On Drug Charges Twice In 2 Weeks MAYWOOD, N.J. -- Maywood police for the second time in two weeks arrested a 60-year-old Hackensack man on drug charges Tuesday. Officer Eric Aronson stopped George Giumarra Jr. for traffic violations on West Central Avenue and spotted crack cocaine in the car, Police Chief David Pegg told Daily Voice. When Aronson and backups tried to retrieve it, Giumarra "put the substance in his mouth and swallowed it," he said. An officer was injured as they got a struggling Giumarra into custody, the chief said. Because they didn't know how much drugs he'd swallowed, police summoned a Maywo…

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Police & Fire
Wyckoff Police Make Arrest In Theft Of Church Tools For Needy Wyckoff Police Make Arrest In Theft Of Church Tools For Needy
Wyckoff Police Make Arrest In Theft Of Church Tools For Needy WYCKOFF, N.J. -- Wyckoff police charged a North Haledon man with stealing $1,000 worth of tools from a church van. The pastor at Cornerstone Christian Church on Wyckoff Avenue reported the tools missing at the end of January from a volunteer ministry van used to help people in need with construction projects, Police Chief Benjamin C. Fox said Tuesday. Lt. Charles Van Dyk conducted the initial investigation, followed up by Detective Sgt. Joseph Soto and Detective Ryan Noon, who identified 36-year-old Jason Wittner from area surveillance footage. They then learned that Wittner hocked the too…

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