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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
Gunshot Fired In Photo Booth At Urban Air, Police Seize Boys 12, 15 Gunshot Fired In Photo Booth At Urban Air, Police Seize Boys 12, 15
Gunshot Fired In Photo Booth At Urban Air, Police Seize Boys 12, 15 A steel plate prevented a potential tragedy at Urban Air in South Hackensack when a loaded gun brought into a photo booth by two boys -- one 12, the other 15 -- went off, authorities said. "If not for the steel plate, the round could have gone through the machine and struck an innocent victim," South Hackensack Police Detective Sgt. James Donatello said.  The 6:30 p.m. shooting on Sunday, April 28, was another in a series of incidents that have recently drawn a massive law enforcement response to the all-ages Urban Air Trampoline & Adventure Park just off westbound Route 80. Surve…

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Police & Fire
Ex-Con Formerly Of Paterson Convicted Of Selling Fentanyl To Federal Operative At Jersey Shore Ex-Con Formerly Of Paterson Convicted Of Selling Fentanyl To Federal Operative At Jersey Shore
Ex-Con Formerly Of Paterson Convicted Of Selling Fentanyl To Federal Operative At Jersey Shore 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: An ex-con from out of state is facing a significantly long federal prison sentence after being convicted of selling fentanyl to a government cooperator at the Jersey Shore. Jurors in U.S. District Court in Trenton found former Paterson resident Djavon Holland, 37, guilty of possession with the intent to sell the deadly drug, U.S. Attorney Philip Sellinger said. As an ex-con with multiple convictions on his record, Holland, currently of Virginia, could be sentenced to more than a decade in federal prison. Holland served a majority of an eight-year state prison sentence after he was …

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Police & Fire
Emotionally Troubled Resident With Crack Leaves Fire Burning In Cliffside Apartment: Prosecutor Emotionally Troubled Resident With Crack Leaves Fire Burning In Cliffside Apartment: Prosecutor
Emotionally Troubled Resident With Crack Leaves Fire Burning In Cliffside Apartment: Prosecutor An emotionally disturbed man was arrested after leaving a fire burning in his Cliffside Park apartment, investigators said. Authorities found Christopher J. Perez at his sister's home after the two-alarm blaze was set in a top-floor apartment of the three-story brick building on Palisade Avenue near Washington Place shortly after 10:30 a.m. Sunday, they told Daily Voice. Borough police and firefighters responded. No injuries were reported. Crack was found in the apartment, for which Perez was charged along with endangering the lives of others and failing to put out or control a fire, Berge…

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Police & Fire
Exterior Fire Enters Hasbrouck Heights Home Exterior Fire Enters Hasbrouck Heights Home
Exterior Fire Enters Hasbrouck Heights Home Firefighters quickly doused a blaze that found its way inside a Hasbrouck Heights home. Flames climbed the side and extended into the basement and attic of the three-story wood-frame home on Franklin Avenue between Oak Grove Avenue and Boulevard at 9:15 p.m.  Saturday, April 27, responders said. No injuries were reported in the two-alarm blaze. The Red Cross found temporary food, clothing shelter for the occupants. Mutual aid responders included firefighters from Carlstadt, Hackensack, Little Ferry, Lodi, Moonachie, South Hackensack, Wallington and Wood-Ridge. A PSE&G c…

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Police & Fire
DoorDasher Delivering Dessert Escapes Horrific Fate When Kia Catches Fire In Ho-Ho-Kus DoorDasher Delivering Dessert Escapes Horrific Fate When Kia Catches Fire In Ho-Ho-Kus
DoorDasher Delivering Dessert Escapes Horrific Fate When Kia Catches Fire In Ho-Ho-Kus A DoorDash driver delivering ice cream in Ho-Ho-Kus escaped a horrific fate when she bailed out of her burning car. The 2016 Kia Sorento went up in flames at the intersection of Timberline Road and Powderhorn Drive shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday, April 27. Ho-Ho-Kus police and firefighters responded. CityWide Towing removed the charred vehicle. CityWide Towing removed the Kia Sorrento. CONTRIBUTED

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Police & Fire
Driver Hits Two Poles, Dies In Predawn Route 17 Crash Driver Hits Two Poles, Dies In Predawn Route 17 Crash
Driver Hits Two Poles, Dies In Predawn Route 17 Crash A driver was killed in a single-vehicle crash in front of the Home Depot on Route 17 in Lodi before dawn on Sunday, authorities confirmed. The 31-year-old Jersey City motorist's Jeep struck two different poles on the northbound highway shortly after 4 a.m. April 28, Lodi Police Lt. Dominic Miller said. Paramus police called it in, the lieutenant said. Lodi firefighters extricated the victim, who Miller said was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities have since been trying to reach next of kin. Lodi police are handling the investigation, assisted by the Bergen County Prosecutor's …

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Police & Fire
Man Plunges To Death At Fort Lee High-Rise Man Plunges To Death At Fort Lee High-Rise
Man Plunges To Death At Fort Lee High-Rise A 22-year-old out-of-state man jumped to his death at Fort Lee high-rise complex, sources with direct knowledge of the incident told Daily Voice. The body of the North Carolina man was found between buildings at the Horizon House shortly before 1:30 a.m. Saturday, April 27, responders said. He apparently was visiting relatives when he jumped from the 17th floor of one of the Horizon Towers off Palisade Avenue a mile south of the George Washington Bridge, they said. ****** The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (formerly known as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline) offers 24/7 ca…

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Police & Fire
Undocumented Englewood Resident Becomes Second Charged With Child Sex Assault This Week Undocumented Englewood Resident Becomes Second Charged With Child Sex Assault This Week
Undocumented Englewood Resident Becomes Second Charged With Child Sex Assault This Week Federal immigration agents seized a 49-year-old Mexican national who local authorities said sexually assaulted a pre-teen in Englewood. Abel Garcia Landeros became the second undocumented immigrant living in the city who was charged with a child sex crime this week. SEE: Guatemalan National Held By Feds Charged With Raping Pre-Teen In Englewood Landeros was charged with sexual assault and child endangerment by Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella’s Special Victims Unit after city police arrested him in Englewood. He'd just been booked into the Bergen County Jail on Thursday, April 25 whe…

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Police & Fire
Guatemalan National Held By Feds Charged With Raping Pre-Teen In Englewood Guatemalan National Held By Feds Charged With Raping Pre-Teen In Englewood
Guatemalan National Held By Feds Charged With Raping Pre-Teen In Englewood A 21-year-old Guatemalan national seized by federal authorities has been charged with raping a pre-teen in Englewood last summer. Melvin Zacarias-Esquivel, who's been living in an apartment over a Colombian restaurant on West Palisade Avenue, remained in federal custody at the Elizabeth detention center on Friday, April 26, records show. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Friday that members of his Special Victims Unit charged Melvin Zacarias-Esquivel with aggravated sexual assault and child endangerment for forcibly having intercourse with the victim. They then served him with a c…

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Sports
Former NY Giants Player Korey Cunningham, Found Dead In Clifton Home At 28 Former NY Giants Player Korey Cunningham, Found Dead In Clifton Home At 28
Former NY Giants Player Korey Cunningham, Found Dead In Clifton Home At 28 Korey Cunningham, a former NFL player who spent time with the New York Giants, has died at 28 years old. The former offensive lineman, who played 121 snaps in 13 games with Big Blue, died by suicide in his Clifton home on Thursday, April 25 — the first day of the 2024 NFL Draft, local police confirm.  Family members became concerned after not having heard from him for days, so police conducted a welfare check at his Riverwalk Way townhouse shortly after 1 p.m. Thursday, responders said. They found Cunningham's body after forcing their way in. The New England Patriots are…

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