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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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Wayne PD Nets Large-Scale Jersey Shore Shoplifting Crew At Willowbrook With $6,000 In Hot Merch Wayne PD Nets Large-Scale Jersey Shore Shoplifting Crew At Willowbrook With $6,000 In Hot Merch
Wayne PD Nets Large-Scale Jersey Shore Shoplifting Crew At Willowbrook With $6,000 In Hot Merch A Jersey Shore-based crew that steals pricey goods from stores and then brings them to North Jersey to exchange for cash or store credit was caught by Wayne police with $6,000 worth of stolen items -- all with the security sensors still on them, authorities said. Responding to a theft call at the Nordstrom Rack at the Willowbrook Mall, Sgt. James Clark and Officers Adrian Sulejmani and Bruce Conklin stopped the crew’s 1999 Oldsmobile, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. Goods with their senor security tags still attached were piled on the seats and floorboards, Martin said. The driver, 3…

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Hawthorne Police Nab NYC Fugitive, Grab Two Others In Stolen Car Hawthorne Police Nab NYC Fugitive, Grab Two Others In Stolen Car
Hawthorne Police Nab NYC Fugitive, Grab Two Others In Stolen Car Hawthorne police recovered a stolen car while capturing a fugitive wanted out of New York City. An officer initially pulled over the 2017 Audi A4 on Lafayette Avenue near Wagaraw Road on Thursday. But the driver – 20-year-old Carl Alston of Queens -- hit the gas as a rear passenger jumped out, Detective Sgt. Matthew Hoogmoed said. Immediately arrested was 24-year-old Andre Foster, of Clifton, who the sergeant said was carrying pot. Members of the Passaic County Sheriff’s Office and Glen Rock Police Department joined the search for the Audi, which was found abandoned on May Street. An are…

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Paramus Firefighters Douse Garbage Truck Blaze Paramus Firefighters Douse Garbage Truck Blaze
Paramus Firefighters Douse Garbage Truck Blaze Paramus firefighters doused a Friday morning blaze in a garbage truck in a Route 4 parking lot near Bergen Town Center. Black smoke billowed from the truck as firefighters doused the flames outside Paramus Furniture & Dinettes on the eastbound highway. No injuries were reported.

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At Least Three Vehicle Thefts In Two Days; Clifton Police Nab Accused Thief At Least Three Vehicle Thefts In Two Days; Clifton Police Nab Accused Thief
At Least Three Vehicle Thefts In Two Days; Clifton Police Nab Accused Thief Clifton police nabbed a repeat offender in a minivan that he stole barely 24 hours after swiping two other vehicles, authorities said Friday. Officer Edward Welsh and Diorys Turbides stopped the Dodge minivan in the area of Lafayette Avenue and Oak Streeet in Passaic, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. The driver, 28-year-old Rafael Mora-Reynoso resisted at first but was quickly taken into custody, he said. He was charged with stealing the minivan from the 200 block of Clifton Avenue around 11:30 a.m. Feb. 11 and with taking a 2003 Hyundai from Walgreens on Main Avenue the day before – whi…

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6,000-Image Shared Child Porn Collection Gets Postal Worker 2½-Year Minimum Prison Term 6,000-Image Shared Child Porn Collection Gets Postal Worker 2½-Year Minimum Prison Term
6,000-Image Shared Child Porn Collection Gets Postal Worker 2½-Year Minimum Prison Term A 64-year-old postal worker who gathered more than 6,000 videos and photos of child pornography that he was sharing with others must spend the next 2½ in state prison before he’s eligible for parole. Kevin M. Groeger, 64, of Carteret, was sentenced Friday to five years behind bars. He also must register as a sex offender under Megan’s Law and will be subject to lifetime parole supervision, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Groeger was among 79 men seized statewide during “Operation Safety Net,” a multi-agency child protection operation led by the New Jersey Regional Internet Cri…

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Fingerprint Match Produces Arrest Of Accused Carlstadt Warehouse Burglar 18 Months Later Fingerprint Match Produces Arrest Of Accused Carlstadt Warehouse Burglar 18 Months Later
Fingerprint Match Produces Arrest Of Accused Carlstadt Warehouse Burglar 18 Months Later A fingerprint match led Carlstadt police to one of two accused burglars who they said broke into a women’s fashion warehouse 18 months ago. Felix Cintron and his accomplice “attempted to cover their appearance by wearing baseball-style hats and holding shirts up towards their faces,” after they threw a rock through the front window of KW Fashions on Gotham Parkway on Aug. 31, 2017, Police Chief Thomas Nielsen said Friday. "But some features were still visible, such as skin color, facial hair, etc.," he said. The Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification lifted fingerpr…

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Rochelle Park Police Stop Stolen Car Driven By 14-Year-Old Rochelle Park Police Stop Stolen Car Driven By 14-Year-Old
Rochelle Park Police Stop Stolen Car Driven By 14-Year-Old A 14-year-old boy was behind the wheel of a stolen car stopped by a Rochelle Park police officer, authorities said. Officer Todd Starling pulled over the 2002 Honda Civic – which had its keys taken from the owner at an Elmwood Park fitness center -- on Rochelle Avenue, Detective Sgt. James M. DePreta Said. Taken into custody were the 14-year-old driver and three passengers – only one of whom, 18-year-old Osvaldo Mejia, is an adult. Mejia was charged with knowingly riding in a stolen vehicle, given a court date and released. Delinquency complaints for receiving stolen property and joyridi…

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Port Authority PD Veteran Honored For Rescuing Suicidal Subjects From GWB Port Authority PD Veteran Honored For Rescuing Suicidal Subjects From GWB
Port Authority PD Veteran Honored For Rescuing Suicidal Subjects From GWB A Port Authority police sergeant with a history of preventing suicides at the George Washington Bridge received a prestigious award on Thursday. Sgt. Michael Barry, a 33-year department veteran who’s been assigned to the bridge command staff the past five, was named Officer of the Year by the New Jersey Crisis Intervention Team. Barry, who became only the second PAPD officer ever to be given the CIT-NJ award, directly kept would-be suicides from jumping from the GWB but also has trained colleagues to do the same, the authority's Lenis Rodrigues said. Just three months ago, he and a supervi…

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Clifton PD: Detectives Smash Two-Man Crime Wave, Solve Dozens Of Burglaries In Several Towns Clifton PD: Detectives Smash Two-Man Crime Wave, Solve Dozens Of Burglaries In Several Towns
Clifton PD: Detectives Smash Two-Man Crime Wave, Solve Dozens Of Burglaries In Several Towns Dozens of home burglaries in more than a dozen towns were cracked when Clifton detectives caught two middle-aged ex-cons – one of them a former Paterson public works employee – moments after a local break-in, authorities said. Clifton detectives began working with their colleagues in other towns last April during what became a two-man crime wave, Lt. Robert Bracken said Thursday. A month later, they arrested former Paterson DPW worker Terry Tisder, 50, of Garfield, and Gregory Perry, 48, of Paterson following a burglary at a Richfield Village apartment. Both were quickly released under New…

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Garfield Pedestrian, 40, Struck Outside Saddle Brook Shopping Center Garfield Pedestrian, 40, Struck Outside Saddle Brook Shopping Center
Garfield Pedestrian, 40, Struck Outside Saddle Brook Shopping Center A 40-year-old pedestrian from Garfield was hospitalized with a leg and hip injury after she was struck Thursday morning while crossing Route 46 near a Saddle Brook shopping center, authorities said. The Harrisburg, PA driver had a green light as she turned right (westbound) out of Saddle Brook Center to go west on the highway when her vehicle hit the woman in the crosswalk around 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Police Chief Robert Kugler said. Saddle Brook EMS took the victim to Hackensack University Medical Center. Police gave the driver a summons for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk,…

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