Jerry DeMarco

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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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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
HIGH DRAMA: Port Authority Police Rescue Suicidal Man, 24, Perched Past GWB Railing HIGH DRAMA: Port Authority Police Rescue Suicidal Man, 24, Perched Past GWB Railing HIGH DRAMA: Port Authority Police Rescue Suicidal Man, 24, Perched Past GWB Railing
High Drama: Port Authority Police Rescue Suicidal Man, 24, Perched Past GWB Railing A despondent Bronx man was perched on a narrow ledge after climbing over the upper-level westbound railing on the George Washington Bridge before dawn Thursday when a trio of Port Authority police officers arrived. Officers responding to a 911 call shortly before 5:30 a.m. found the 24-year-old Bronx man on the northside perch threatening to jump, said Steve Coleman, the Port Authority's deputy media director. Officer Miguel Correa-Rodriguez and Sgt. Michael Barry were talking with him when the man "began to walk along the narrow perch on the outside of the railing, seeking to avoid [them],…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Oakland Dad Who Police Said Came To Court High With Son Charged With Cashing Stolen Checks Oakland Dad Who Police Said Came To Court High With Son Charged With Cashing Stolen Checks Oakland Dad Who Police Said Came To Court High With Son Charged With Cashing Stolen Checks
Oakland Dad Who Police Said Came To Court High With Son Charged With Cashing Stolen Checks An Oakland man busted earlier this year for bringing his 4-year-old son to court with him while he was high to answer drug charges was caught cashing $2,140 worth of stolen bank checks, authorities said. Detective Michael Griffin reviewed bank surveillance video that showed Jared Spingler cashing four stolen bank checks -- one per day, beginning Aug. 18 -- Oakland Police Lt. Christian Eldridge said Thursday. Spingler, a 37-year-old repeat offender, was arrested at his home Wednesday and charged with four counts each of forgery, ID theft by impersonation and theft by deception. He remained …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Weather
VIDEO: Florida Braces For Direct Hit After Strengthening Dorian Spares Puerto Rico VIDEO: Florida Braces For Direct Hit After Strengthening Dorian Spares Puerto Rico VIDEO: Florida Braces For Direct Hit After Strengthening Dorian Spares Puerto Rico
Video: Florida Braces For Direct Hit After Strengthening Dorian Spares Puerto Rico Dorian spared Puerto Rico on Wednesday but threatened to become a major hurricane that could slam directly into the Florida coast on Labor Day. By then, forecasters said, the Category 1 storm could rise to Category 3, with winds stronger than 111 miles an hour. Georgia and South Carolina were also potential targets, they said. As always, forecasts are never precisely correct, so it won’t be until Thursday, the earliest, before the potential impact on the U.S. will be more certainly known. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis nonetheless declared a state of emergency on Wednesday while urging coastal…

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
Van Snaps Utility Pole In Ringwood Van Snaps Utility Pole In Ringwood Van Snaps Utility Pole In Ringwood
Van Snaps Utility Pole In Ringwood A driver sustained injuries that weren't considered life-threatening after a van slammed into a utility pole, snapping it, early Wednesday evening in Ringwood. Skyline Drive was closed at Greenwood Lake Turnpike after the crash just after 5:30 p.m. Power had to be cut to the pole so the driver could be taken to the hospital and the van could safely be removed.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
'Shark Tank' Star In Double-Fatal Boat Crash Still Scheduled For Thursday BergenPAC Show 'Shark Tank' Star In Double-Fatal Boat Crash Still Scheduled For Thursday BergenPAC Show 'Shark Tank' Star In Double-Fatal Boat Crash Still Scheduled For Thursday BergenPAC Show
'Shark Tank' Star In Double-Fatal Boat Crash Still Scheduled For Thursday BergenPAC Show Officials at bergenPAC said Wednesday that they expected to stage Thursday’s afternoon’s free scheduled appearance by "Shark Tank" star Kevin O'Leary as planned following a boating accident in Ontario, Canada this past weekend that killed two people. “We haven’t heard otherwise,” an employee at the Englewood theater told Daily Voice late Wednesday afternoon. O’Leary’s wife reportedly was driving his boat on Lake Joseph around 11:30 p.m. Saturday when it rammed into a larger vessel, flew over its bow and struck a man, who was killed instantly, as well as a woman who later succumbed to critic…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
Breaking News
Stray Cat Strut: Frightened Feline Fetched From Lincoln Tunnel Stray Cat Strut: Frightened Feline Fetched From Lincoln Tunnel Stray Cat Strut: Frightened Feline Fetched From Lincoln Tunnel
Stray Cat Strut: Frightened Feline Fetched From Lincoln Tunnel A frightened feline was rescued from the Lincoln Tunnel early Wednesday after being stranded on – what else? – the catwalk. Maeghan Grant, a field supervisor in the tunnel's Operations Unit, traveled nearly the length of the tunnel’s center tube with trainee Christopher Lizotte following a motorist’s call before finding the cold kitten about 400 feet from the Manhattan exit, authority spokeswoman Lenis Rodrigues said. The stray was taken to the Lincoln Tunnel’s New York Emergency Garage, where Tunnel & Bridge Agent Christopher Kerrigan provided water and a box for a trip back to the ad…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Freed From State Prison, Ex-Con Facing Other Counts Is Charged With Another Paterson Shooting Freed From State Prison, Ex-Con Facing Other Counts Is Charged With Another Paterson Shooting Freed From State Prison, Ex-Con Facing Other Counts Is Charged With Another Paterson Shooting
Freed From State Prison, Ex-Con Facing Other Counts Is Charged With Another Paterson Shooting Barely four months after being released from state prison on a gun conviction, a two-strikes ex-con was charged with shooting a man on a Paterson street. Authorities snatched up 25-year-old Ruddy Mena on Tuesday in connection with a shooting in the area of Park and Carroll Street the afternoon before. The 21-year-old victim went to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson to be treated for a gunshot wound before police arrived, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Troy Oswald said in a joint release Wednesday. An investigation quickly pegged Mena as…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives Seize $17,500, Bust Pennsylvania Pair Near GWB Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives Seize $17,500, Bust Pennsylvania Pair Near GWB Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives Seize $17,500, Bust Pennsylvania Pair Near GWB
Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives Seize $17,500, Bust Pennsylvania Pair Near GWB Two Pennsylvania men had $17,518 in cash stuffed into the sleeves of a child’s winter coat when they were stopped in Fort Lee near the George Washington Bridge, authorities said. Narcotic Task Force members pulled over the pair’s 2012 Jeep Cherokee on northbound I-95 and found the rubber-banded bundles of money, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Wednesday. Joel Maldonado, a truck driver, and Joel Rivera, a warehouse worker, both 23, were both released on summonses to appear on money-laundering charges in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack on Sept. 11, the prosecutor s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Garfield Sales Clerk Collected, Distributed Child Porn, Authorities Charge Garfield Sales Clerk Collected, Distributed Child Porn, Authorities Charge Garfield Sales Clerk Collected, Distributed Child Porn, Authorities Charge
Garfield Sales Clerk Collected, Distributed Child Porn, Authorities Charge A retail sales clerk from Garfield trafficked child porn, said authorities who arrested him. Justin Leigh Macancela, 22, had more than 2,000 digital files “depicting nude and/or sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Wednesday. He also shared more than 500 files, Musella said. Macancela was sent to the Bergen County Jail, pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack, following his arrest Tuesday on charges of possession of child pornography.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Sheriff: Paterson Fugitive Who Owed $25,305 In Child Support Found With 72 Crack Bags Sheriff: Paterson Fugitive Who Owed $25,305 In Child Support Found With 72 Crack Bags Sheriff: Paterson Fugitive Who Owed $25,305 In Child Support Found With 72 Crack Bags
Sheriff: Paterson Fugitive Who Owed $25,305 In Child Support Found With 72 Crack Bags A Paterson man wanted for owing $25,305 in child support was carrying 72 baggies of crack when Passaic County sheriff’s officers found him, authorities said. Undercover members of the Fugitive Warrant Squad found 40-year-old Richard Mann in the area of Park Avenue and Summer Street and took him into custody on the outstanding warrant just after 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sheriff Richard Berdnik said. Mann “had a bulge near the zipper area of his pants,” Berdnik said. “When asked by detectives, he voluntarily pulled a clear plastic bag from his underwear, revealing 72 blue Zip-lock baggies [of] crack…

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