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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
Totowa Mortgage Broker Admits $1.3 Million Fraud Totowa Mortgage Broker Admits $1.3 Million Fraud
Totowa Mortgage Broker Admits $1.3 Million Fraud TOTOWA, N.J. -- A self-employed loan broker from Totowa admitted in federal court in Newark on Monday that he used bogus documents and simultaneous applications at multiple banks to fraudulently obtain home equity lines of credit, resulting in losses of $1.3 million. Sung Ho Mo, 53, owned and operated “Douglas Mo Mortgage” -- a mortgage brokerage business with offices also in Englewood and Englewood Cliffs -- which federal authorities said was a decade-long conspiracy to fraudulently obtain home equity lines of credit and first mortgages. "As part of the scheme, Mo fraudulently obtain…

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Police & Fire
Cliffside Park Man Charged In State 'Operation Skin Deep' Drug Probe Cliffside Park Man Charged In State 'Operation Skin Deep' Drug Probe
Cliffside Park Man Charged In State 'Operation Skin Deep' Drug Probe CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. -- A Cliffside Park man made "bulk purchases" of cocaine from a ring that marked it and designed drugs online and distributed them through the mail, state authorities said Monday. Eric Rodriguez, 45, was among more than a dozen people arrested or wanted as part of "Operation Skin Deep" -- which included to one of the largest seizures in state history of alelged drug money, $1.2 million, from a defendant's trunk, Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman said. It began as an undercover probe into cocaine sales in Atlantic City before exposiong a mail-or…

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Cliffside Park Police Nab One Suspect, Seek Another In Home Break-In Cliffside Park Police Nab One Suspect, Seek Another In Home Break-In
Cliffside Park Police Nab One Suspect, Seek Another In Home Break-In CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. -- Cliffside Park police arrested one man moments after a home burglary and were searching for another, authorities told Daily Voice. Anthony A. Sable, 27, was caught coming out of a Kearney Avenue home after he threw a brick through a window to get in shortly before 3 p.m. Friday, Police Chief Richard Gaito said Monday. He was carrying a seven-inch folding knife, the chief said. A block or so away, police briefly detained and released Jonathan E. Emiliano. The Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation collected evidence at the scene. Meanwhile, polic…

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Police & Fire
Car Hits Divider, Takes Out Two Lanes, On Route 3 In Clifton Car Hits Divider, Takes Out Two Lanes, On Route 3 In Clifton
Car Hits Divider, Takes Out Two Lanes, On Route 3 In Clifton CLIFTON, N.J. -- A car slammed into the divider on westbound Route 3 in Clifton on Saturday afternoon. Two lanes of traffic were taken out by the crash just prior to the Grove Street exit around 1:45 p.m.

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Police & Fire
Rowdy Hasbrouck Heights Bar Patron Fights Police -- Twice, Authorities Say Rowdy Hasbrouck Heights Bar Patron Fights Police -- Twice, Authorities Say
Rowdy Hasbrouck Heights Bar Patron Fights Police -- Twice, Authorities Say HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N.J. -- A 57-year-old Hasbrouck Heights man smashed a glass on the bar of a local tavern, then fought twice with police who were prepared to let him go on a summons before having him jailed on $15,000 bail, authorities told Daily Voice. Officers responding to a fight at the Ivy Inn just before 7:30 p.m. Friday found Timothy S. Pond "intoxicated and causing a disturbance," Detective Lt. Michael Colaneri said Saturday. After being asked to leave the Terrace Avenue tavern, Pond "began yelling obscenities and threw a drinking glass at the bar, causing it to sha…

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Police & Fire
Westwood Driver, 23, Seriously Injured When Car Hits Montvale Pole Westwood Driver, 23, Seriously Injured When Car Hits Montvale Pole
Westwood Driver, 23, Seriously Injured When Car Hits Montvale Pole MONTVALE, N.J. -- A 23-year-old Westwood man was hospitalized with internal injuries after his car slammed into a utility pole overnight in Montvale, authorities told Daily Voice. AirMed One flew Yave Cortes to Hackensack University Medical Center after his 2012 Nissan Altima hit the pole on Main Street just after 2 a.m., Police Chief Jeremy Abrams said. Orange and Rockland Utilities responded to replace the damaged pole and restore power to 200 or so residents, he said. An investigation was continuing, the chief said.

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News
Women's Pioneer In Baseball, Mets' Shannon Forde Of Little Ferry, Dies Women's Pioneer In Baseball, Mets' Shannon Forde Of Little Ferry, Dies
Women's Pioneer In Baseball, Mets' Shannon Forde Of Little Ferry, Dies LITTLE FERRY N.J. -- Tributes mounted in and around the New York Mets organization and Major League Baseball for Shannon Dalton Forde of Little Ferry, a pioneer for women in baseball public relations who died Friday night at 44 after battling breast cancer. Forde, a senior director of media relations for the Mets, leaves her husband, John, and sons Nicholas and Kendall. Forde was "a wonderful, dedicated member of the Mets family" Hall of Fame catcher Mike Piazza tweeted. “Shannon was an absolute inspiration to everyone in this organization, including me, and I told her so,” said …

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Police & Fire
Paramus PD: Woman Swiped $24,000 Worth Of Victoria's Secret Lingerie, Bras Paramus PD: Woman Swiped $24,000 Worth Of Victoria's Secret Lingerie, Bras
Paramus PD: Woman Swiped $24,000 Worth Of Victoria's Secret Lingerie, Bras PARAMUS, N.J. -- A Pennsylvania woman swiped $24,000 worth of lingerie and bras from floor displays at Victoria's Secret in Paramus before she was caught, authorities said Friday. Cynthia Roman, 39, of Tobyhanna, PA was being held on $75,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with various counts of theft. Employees helped detectives identify Roman as the woman who snatched the items during nine different trips to the Garden State Plaza store, Deputy Police Chief Robert Guidetti said. Detectives Norman Gin and Christopher Zuck worked the case and in January developed her as a suspect a…

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Police & Fire
Fire Consumes Carrier Vehicles At Lombardi Turnpike Stop In Ridgefield Fire Consumes Carrier Vehicles At Lombardi Turnpike Stop In Ridgefield
Fire Consumes Carrier Vehicles At Lombardi Turnpike Stop In Ridgefield RIDGEFIELD, N.J. -- Fire consumed six vehicles and severely damaged their carrier Thursday morning at the Vince Lombardi Service Area on the New Jersey Turnpike in Ridgefield. Responders to the 8 a.m. blaze included local and state police and members of the Ridgefield Police EMS and the Office of Emergency Management. Firefighters had it out in 15 minutes or so.

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Police & Fire
Bergen, Passaic Schools Swatted Again By Robocalls Bergen, Passaic Schools Swatted Again By Robocalls
Bergen, Passaic Schools Swatted Again By Robocalls Bergen County schools Friday morning received another flood of bomb scare robocalls, prompting evacuations, shelters in place and searches by bomb-sniffing K-9 units from the county sheriff's office. Among those that received swatting calls were schools in Cliffside Park, Englewood, Fort Lee, Hackensack, Mahwah, Oradell, Paramus, Ramsey, Teaneck and Waldwick in Bergen County, as well as Haledon and Little Falls in Passaic County. "It's Friday and here we go again," the sheriff's Anthony Cureton told Daily Voice. "They keep burdening police services and disrupting childrens' e…

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