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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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Lexus Goes Airborne, Hits Boulder On Route 17 In Mahwah: Driver, 69, Unscathed Lexus Goes Airborne, Hits Boulder On Route 17 In Mahwah: Driver, 69, Unscathed
Lexus Goes Airborne, Hits Boulder On Route 17 In Mahwah: Driver, 69, Unscathed A Lexus SUV went airborne before crashing into a boulder off Route 17 in Mahwah after the driver fell asleep Wednesday, authorities said. The 69-year-old driver from Monroe refused medical treatment after the crash between the Pilot Truck Stop and the Comfort Inn on the highway’s southbound side around 10:15 a.m., Police Chief James Batelli said. He was checked out by Mahwah Emergency Services and his vehicle was towed, the chief said. No summonses were issued pending completion of an investigation.

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Westwood Gas Station Attendant Charged With Fondling Customer, Soliciting Sex Westwood Gas Station Attendant Charged With Fondling Customer, Soliciting Sex
Westwood Gas Station Attendant Charged With Fondling Customer, Soliciting Sex A Westwood gas station attendant fondled a customer, then offered the victim money for sex, said police who arrested him. Now police are searching for any other potential victims. Ravi Kumel, 27, was working at the Irvington Street service station when he “forcibly and inappropriately touched the 30-year-old victim” this past Sunday, Police Chief Michael Pontillo said. Kumel, who lives on Broadway, “then solicited sex by offering to pay the victim money,” the chief said. Police charged Kumel with criminal sexual contact and released him pending a March 8 first appearance in Central Judicia…

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Kids OK After Special Needs School Bus Driver ODs Behind Wheel, Crashes In Newark Kids OK After Special Needs School Bus Driver ODs Behind Wheel, Crashes In Newark
Kids OK After Special Needs School Bus Driver ODs Behind Wheel, Crashes In Newark A day after three people were killed by an overdosing driver in a crash at a Route 23 gas station, the driver of a school bus carrying children with special needs had to be revived with Narcan after a crash in Newark. The dozen or so students weren’t injured in the 1 p.m. crash at 14th Avenue and Jones Street. Responders used Narcan to revive the woman, who police said apparently had overdosed on heroin. ****** ALSO SEE: Authorities charged the drugged driver in a Tuesday morning crash that killed a father and son and a gas station attendant on Route 23 in Wayne. https://dailyvoice.…

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Authorities Charge Ex-Con With Shooting Female Clifton Bystander, 19, In Paterson Bodega Authorities Charge Ex-Con With Shooting Female Clifton Bystander, 19, In Paterson Bodega
Authorities Charge Ex-Con With Shooting Female Clifton Bystander, 19, In Paterson Bodega UPDATE: A Paterson ex-con surrendered to police Wednesday in connection with the shooting of an innocent bystander from Clifton at a city bodega. Keith Hill, 26, is charged with attempted murder and weapons offenses, including being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. He remained held in the Passaic County Jail pending a detention hearing. Authorities apparently were looking to charge other suspects, but they didn't disclose details. They also didn't say what prompted the shooting. The 19-year-old victim took a bullet in the left hindquarters near her hip during Monday…

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Drug Crackdown: Paterson PD Says Quartet Dealt Heroin, Crack From Multi-Family Home Drug Crackdown: Paterson PD Says Quartet Dealt Heroin, Crack From Multi-Family Home
Drug Crackdown: Paterson PD Says Quartet Dealt Heroin, Crack From Multi-Family Home Paterson police continued an ongoing campaign against drug dealing with a raid that turned up 237 folds of heroin, 15 small bags of crack and more than two and a half pounds of PCP, authorities said. Of the six people arrested during Tuesday’s raid, four live in the Rosa Parks Boulevard multi-family building where Police Director Jerry Speziale said drugs were being sold from a second-floor apartment. They were identified as: Dante Coakieanos, 32; Kiante Izquierdo, 22; Naomi Bailey, 22; Raymond Wright, 30. Police charged the quartet with having and selling the drugs within 1,000 feet of P…

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Hackensack Repeat Offender Charged With Sexually Assaulting Pre-Teen Hackensack Repeat Offender Charged With Sexually Assaulting Pre-Teen
Hackensack Repeat Offender Charged With Sexually Assaulting Pre-Teen A Hackensack ex-con with a previous sex charge on his decade-long criminal record sexually assaulted a pre-teen, said authorities who arrested him. A judge ordered that Justis A. Oliver, 27 remain held in the Bergen County Jail on charges of aggravated sexual assault and child endangerment following a detention hearing last week, records show. Newark police passed along a tip that Oliver, while in Hackensack, “engaged in sexual activity with a child under the age of thirteen,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. Calo’s Special Victims Unit and the Hackensack Police Department…

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Drugged Driver, 29, Charged In Gas Station Crash That Killed Dad, Teenage Son, Attendant Drugged Driver, 29, Charged In Gas Station Crash That Killed Dad, Teenage Son, Attendant
Drugged Driver, 29, Charged In Gas Station Crash That Killed Dad, Teenage Son, Attendant UPDATE: Authorities late Tuesday identified the drugged driver in a morning crash that killed a father and son and a gas station attendant as a 29-year-old Sussex County resident. Jason Vanderee, of the Glenwood section of Vernon Township, was charged with three counts each of aggravated manslaughter and death by auto, among other offenses. A detention hearing was scheduled this Monday. SEE: https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/southpassaic/police-fire/hearing-set-for-driver-charged-in-gas-station-crash-that-killed-dad-teenage-son-attendant/748562/ Jon Warbeck, a former Carlstadt firefighte…

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Paterson PD: Parked 'Weed Smoking' Driver Found With 4,700 Heroin Folds, More Paterson PD: Parked 'Weed Smoking' Driver Found With 4,700 Heroin Folds, More
Paterson PD: Parked 'Weed Smoking' Driver Found With 4,700 Heroin Folds, More A driver who told police who found him parked in an empty Paterson lot that he was just “smoking weed” had 4,700 folds of heroin, along with other drugs, authorities said. The 2½ pounds of heroin was bundled into 94 bricks stuffed into an open gift bag, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. There was also a large plastic bag and nearly a dozen clear vials of pot, four bags of crack and more than two dozen generic Xanax pills without a prescription, Speziale said. City police also seized $1,200 in drug proceeds, the director said. Officers Jonathan Traynor and James Iandoli were patrolling …

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Passaic Sheriff: Hawthorne Electrician Caught Trafficking Child Porn Passaic Sheriff: Hawthorne Electrician Caught Trafficking Child Porn
Passaic Sheriff: Hawthorne Electrician Caught Trafficking Child Porn Authorities teamed up to bust a Hawthorne electrician who was trafficking child porn, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said Tuesday. Working with the FBI and county prosecutor’s office, sheriff’s detectives and officers seized John O’Hagan, 48, during a raid Tuesday at his Maitland Avenue home, Berdnik said. The joint investigation began after the FBI got a tip that O’Hagan was texting images of child pornography to someone in California, the sheriff said. Federal agents forwarded the information to the prosecutor’s office, which alerted his Internet Crime Against Children Task F…

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UPDATE: Drugged Driver In Route 23 Gas Station Crash Kills Dad, Teenage Son, Attendant UPDATE: Drugged Driver In Route 23 Gas Station Crash Kills Dad, Teenage Son, Attendant
Update: Drugged Driver In Route 23 Gas Station Crash Kills Dad, Teenage Son, Attendant UPDATE: Authorities late Tuesday identified the drugged driver in a morning crash that killed a father and son and a gas station attendant as a 29-year-old Sussex County resident. Jason Vanderee, of the Glenwood section of Vernon Township, was charged with three counts each of aggravated manslaughter and death by auto, among other offenses. A detention hearing was scheduled this Monday. SEE: https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/southpassaic/police-fire/hearing-set-for-driver-charged-in-gas-station-crash-that-killed-dad-teenage-son-attendant/748562/ Jon Warbeck, a former Carlstadt firefighte…

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