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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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Federal Agents Seize Sussex County Man In Online Child Porn Sting Federal Agents Seize Sussex County Man In Online Child Porn Sting
Federal Agents Seize Sussex County Man In Online Child Porn Sting U.S. Homeland Security agents seized a Sussex County man who they said shared hundreds of child pornography videos and still images with an undercover investigator. Gaetano Lapegna, 64, was arrested after a warranted search of his Franklin home turned up two videos and 100 other images, Homeland Security Investigations' Newark Special-Agent-In-Charge Ricky J. Patel and U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said in a joint announcement. A federal magistrate judge in Newark released Lapegna, formerly of Maine, on $100,000 unsecured bond pending trial on distribution of child pornog…

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OTHER SHOE DROPS: Young Armed Robber From Garfield Spits On Deal, Gets 23 Years Without Parole OTHER SHOE DROPS: Young Armed Robber From Garfield Spits On Deal, Gets 23 Years Without Parole
Other Shoe Drops: Young Armed Robber From Garfield Spits On Deal, Gets 23 Years Without Parole UPDATE: A state judge in Paterson on Friday hammered a 22-year-old Garfield man who was convicted of robbing four different victims at gunpoint in a one-man crime spree. Jimmy German rejected a plea offer from prosecutors and lost big when it came time to face the music. Superior Court Judge Justine A. Niccollai sentenced German to 27 years in state prison -- 85% of which must be served under New Jersey’s No Early Release Act before he’ll be eligible for parole -- during a brief court proceeding on March 31. That’s 23 years before German will taste freedom again, longer than he's been aliv…

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Paterson Police, Private SUVs Collide On Rainy Morning Paterson Police, Private SUVs Collide On Rainy Morning
Paterson Police, Private SUVs Collide On Rainy Morning A police vehicle and a civilian's SUV collided on a rain-slicked Paterson street before dawn Saturday. A city police sergeant sustained injuries that weren't considered life-threatening after the front driver's fender of the vehicle t-boned the rear seat area of a Nissan at Memorial Drive and Ellison Street around 6 a.m. April 1. The officer was taken to nearby St. Joseph's University Medical Center, responders said. The other driver was uninjured and remained at the scene. The New Jersey Attorney General's Office, which is temporarily in command of the city police department, is investig…

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Gunpoint Rapist Robbed, Kidnapped One Of His Saddle Brook Victims: Prosecutor Gunpoint Rapist Robbed, Kidnapped One Of His Saddle Brook Victims: Prosecutor
Gunpoint Rapist Robbed, Kidnapped One Of His Saddle Brook Victims: Prosecutor Authorities on Friday seized a former Montclair High School football star who they said kidnapped and robbed one of multiple rape victims at gunpoint in Saddle Brook. There may be other victims, they said. Fokam Parfait, a 25-year-old repeat offender, fled the kidnapping rape on a motorcycle last Friday, March 24, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said in announcing his arrest a week later. Investigators from his Special Victims Unit and Saddle Brook police found that Parfait had also sexually assaulted “multiple” victims while armed in the township. Parfait – who played safety and lin…

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Devil-Masked Visitor Pranks Supervisor, Triggers Scare At Major Testing Lab In Elmwood Park Devil-Masked Visitor Pranks Supervisor, Triggers Scare At Major Testing Lab In Elmwood Park
Devil-Masked Visitor Pranks Supervisor, Triggers Scare At Major Testing Lab In Elmwood Park UPDATE: A Westchester County resident who works at one of the largest clinical testing labs in the U.S. triggered a large emergency response Friday when she walked into the Bergen County building wearing a devil mask, handed a supervisor a jar of salsa with her name on it and left without saying a word, authorities said. Ray Greenwald, 27, of Ardsley, NY, and the supervisor at BioReference Laboratories just off Route 80 in Elmwood didn't know one another and apparently had never met before, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. However, Greenwald, who works in another building, told police sh…

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Double Amputee's Sedan Plows Through Paramus Bank Fence Double Amputee's Sedan Plows Through Paramus Bank Fence
Double Amputee's Sedan Plows Through Paramus Bank Fence A sedan driven by a double amputee plowed through a wooden fence outside a Paramus bank Friday afternoon. The senior driver was fortunate that his BMW X5 lodged onto the curb, stopping just short of a drop of a few feet behind the Spencer Savings Bank on Oradell Avenue around 2:30 p.m. March 31. He was tended to by EMS and firefighters and refused further treatment. A Paramus Emergency Services Unit winched out the sedan, which took down a section of fence that landed on the hood. Boyd A. Loving took the photos and contributed to this story. The BMW crashed through the fence behind t…

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Baby Ingests Fentanyl, Revived With Narcan, Fairview Police Praised As Life Savers Baby Ingests Fentanyl, Revived With Narcan, Fairview Police Praised As Life Savers
Baby Ingests Fentanyl, Revived With Narcan, Fairview Police Praised As Life Savers A 1-year-old girl who'd ingested fentanyl was revived with Narcan thanks to a fast-acting group of Fairview police officers, Daily Voice has learned. "They literally saved that child's life," a source with direct knowledge of the incident said. Borough resident Geraldo J. Colon, 35, was arrested and charged with child endangerment after being identified as the individual responsible, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Friday, March 31. Colon and the mother had come to Fairview police headquarters with 13-month-old Abigail Colon shortly after 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 29. She…

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Silent Clown-Masked Visitor Leaves Suspicious Item At Major Testing Lab In Elmwood Park Silent Clown-Masked Visitor Leaves Suspicious Item At Major Testing Lab In Elmwood Park
Silent Clown-Masked Visitor Leaves Suspicious Item At Major Testing Lab In Elmwood Park UPDATE: A Westchester County resident who works at one of the largest clinical testing labs in the U.S. triggered a large emergency response Friday when she walked into the Bergen County building wearing a devil mask, handed a supervisor a jar of salsa with her name on it and left without saying a word, authorities said. Ray Greenwald, 27, of Ardsley, NY, and the supervisor at BioReference Laboratories just off Route 80 in Elmwood didn't know one another and apparently had never met before, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. However, Greenwald, who works in another building, told police sh…

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Accused Serial Masturbator From Hudson Jailed In Bergen After Transit Bus Incident Accused Serial Masturbator From Hudson Jailed In Bergen After Transit Bus Incident
Accused Serial Masturbator From Hudson Jailed In Bergen After Transit Bus Incident East Rutherford police snatched a 24-year-old serial masturbator from a commuter bus following another incident, authorities said. Marvin Vargas of Jersey City was taken from the NJ TRANSIT bus and booked on lewdness charges after police were called to a bus shelter on Paterson Plank Road around 1:30 p.m. Thursday, March 30, Capt. Jeff Yannacone said. Vargas had masturbated in front of a female passenger, also 24, on the #163 bus, which runs between Ridgewood and the Port Authority bus station in Manhattan, the captain said. "Nothing was said to the female, but he was looking at her," Yann…

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NO PAROLE: Ex-NJ Trooper Gets 5 Years For Using ID To Skate From Traffic Stops While Suspended NO PAROLE: Ex-NJ Trooper Gets 5 Years For Using ID To Skate From Traffic Stops While Suspended
NO Parole: Ex-NJ Trooper Gets 5 Years For Using ID To Skate From Traffic Stops While Suspended UPDATE: A disgraced former New Jersey State Police sergeant was sentenced to five years in prison without parole after a jury convicted him of using an ID card to get out of a string of Jersey Shore traffic stops while he was suspended from the force. Ex-NJSP Sgt. Marc Dennis, 51, of Waretown, also must forfeit his pension and cannot be publicly employed in New Jersey ever again, state Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said. Dennis shouldn’t have had the identification card in his possession after being relieved of his authority during the suspension, Platkin said. The 17-year department…

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