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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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: Spectators Interfering With Police Sparked Passaic Softball Game Melee, Authorities Say VIDEO: Spectators Interfering With Police Sparked Passaic Softball Game Melee, Authorities Say VIDEO: Spectators Interfering With Police Sparked Passaic Softball Game Melee, Authorities Say
Video: Spectators Interfering With Police Sparked Passaic Softball Game Melee, Authorities Say A softball game at a Passaic park escalated into arrests when people interfered with police who were trying to issue summonses to those drinking and smoking there, authorities said. One of those charged is a Brooklyn man who officers said threw water on them. Another who was taken into custody told a TV news reporter he believed police overreacted. No other accounts of the incident were reported by local news media in the wake of the melee. A review by Daily Voice of police reports and cellphone video shot during the incident tell this story: Responding to complaints, four members of the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Closter Dad Who Assaulted Teen Football Coach Has Teaching License Suspended Closter Dad Who Assaulted Teen Football Coach Has Teaching License Suspended Closter Dad Who Assaulted Teen Football Coach Has Teaching License Suspended
Closter Dad Who Assaulted Teen Football Coach Has Teaching License Suspended State education authorities suspended the teaching license for three years of a local dad and former Closter schools official who cursed out and put a 16-year-old in a headlock during a youth flag football game. Former Closter Public Schools Business Administrator Peter Iappelli, 52, in 2017 was formally charged with simple assault and disorderly conduct after witnesses said he grabbed the teen coach -- the son of a Westwood councilman -- and put him in a headlock. Following an investigation, the New Jersey Department of Education's State Board of Examiners suspended Iappelli's teachin…

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by Cecilia Levine & Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Feds Indict Former Midland Park Businessman In $350,000 Ponzi Scheme Feds Indict Former Midland Park Businessman In $350,000 Ponzi Scheme Feds Indict Former Midland Park Businessman In $350,000 Ponzi Scheme
Feds Indict Former Midland Park Businessman In $350,000 Ponzi Scheme A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted a former Midland Park man accused of scamming at least 20 people by soliciting investments in a phony foreign currency Ponzi scheme. Thomas Lanzana, 51, used the money to buy things on Amazon.com, make payments to a luxury car dealer and jewelry retailer, and for golf expenses, the government charges. Lanzana, now of Pawleys Island, South Carolina, first solicited $1.1 million from at least 45 customers to invest in what he claimed were highly successful, algorithm-based trading pools in foreign currency derivatives (forex) and other financial instru…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Pedestrian, 49, Struck In Englewood Pedestrian, 49, Struck In Englewood Pedestrian, 49, Struck In Englewood
Pedestrian, 49, Struck In Englewood A 49-year-old pedestrian was hospitalized after she was struck Tuesday by an SUV in Englewood. The victim was crossing East Palisade Avenue off Jones Road when she was struck by a Nissan Rogue driven by a 70-year-old woman around 9 a.m., Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said. The driver had been turning from Jones Road headed east on Palisades Avenue, he said. The victim was taken to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening, the deputy chief said. Police were investigating, he said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Clifton Police Nab Drivers In Separate Vehicle Thefts Out Of Nutley, Paterson Clifton Police Nab Drivers In Separate Vehicle Thefts Out Of Nutley, Paterson Clifton Police Nab Drivers In Separate Vehicle Thefts Out Of Nutley, Paterson
Clifton Police Nab Drivers In Separate Vehicle Thefts Out Of Nutley, Paterson Clifton police nabbed two men driving stolen cars -- one out of Nutley and the other from Paterson -- less than 14 hours apart, authorities said Tuesday. An officer tried stopping a large passenger van traveling north on Van Houten Avenue with its lights off shortly before 2 a.m. Tuesday when the vehicle took off, Detective Sgt. Robert Anderson said. The driver continued several blocks, eventually turning onto southbound Van Houten Avenue and into Passaic, before stopping on Broadway near Grove Street, he said. The driver, identified as 20-year-old Angel Lucero of Passaic, surrendered and …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Fort Lee PD: Officers Chase Down Supermarket Stock Boy In Car Burglary Near GWB Fort Lee PD: Officers Chase Down Supermarket Stock Boy In Car Burglary Near GWB Fort Lee PD: Officers Chase Down Supermarket Stock Boy In Car Burglary Near GWB
Fort Lee PD: Officers Chase Down Supermarket Stock Boy In Car Burglary Near GWB Fort Lee police chased down a local supermarket employee who they said broke into a car before dawn Tuesday. Responding to a resident’s 5:15 a.m. call, Sgt. Vassilios Triantafillou spotted Michael A. Cokley, a 28-year-old Key Food stock clerk, in the area of Lemoine Avenue and Bruce Reynolds Boulevard. Seeing the sergeant get out of his car, Cokley ran, Capt. Ricky Mirkovic said. Triantafillou chased Cokley, who was cut off by backup Officers Andrew Lakawicz and Harold Campo on Lemoine Avenue near the George Washington Bridge, the captain said. They took him into custody and found him car…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Hawthorne PD: Drivers Face More Serious Charges After Defying Officers Writing Parking Tickets Hawthorne PD: Drivers Face More Serious Charges After Defying Officers Writing Parking Tickets Hawthorne PD: Drivers Face More Serious Charges After Defying Officers Writing Parking Tickets
Hawthorne PD: Drivers Face More Serious Charges After Defying Officers Writing Parking Tickets Hawthorne police officers trying to write simple parking tickets came up against one driver who had to be chased down and another who tore up the summonses and threw them at their feet, authorities said. Now both face more serious charges. An officer was issuing a summons to an illegally parked 2015 Chevy Spark on Diamond Bridge Avenue when Kristen Chin, 24, of Bloomfield “came out and attempted to move the vehicle,” Detective Sgt. Matthew Hoogmoed said. The officer told her to stop and asked her why she parked there, considering that the subcompact hatchback nearly caused an accident …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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NJ Priest Gets 4 Years In Prison For Sexually Abusing Girl NJ Priest Gets 4 Years In Prison For Sexually Abusing Girl NJ Priest Gets 4 Years In Prison For Sexually Abusing Girl
NJ Priest Gets 4 Years In Prison For Sexually Abusing Girl A New Jersey priest who admitted sexually abusing a young girl was sentenced Monday to a plea-bargained four years in state prison. Fr. Thomas P. Ganley, 64, of Phillipsburg admitted abusing the girl from when she was 14 until she was 17, beginning in 1990, while he was a priest at St. Cecelia Church in the Iselin section of Woodbridge. Ganley had supervisory authority over the victim as head of the Youth Ministry for the parish, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. The charges were the first ever brought by the New Jersey Clergy Abuse Task Force, which Grewal created la…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bogus 911 Call Of Man With Gun Brings Police To Popular Bogota Bar Forced Closed By Crime Bogus 911 Call Of Man With Gun Brings Police To Popular Bogota Bar Forced Closed By Crime Bogus 911 Call Of Man With Gun Brings Police To Popular Bogota Bar Forced Closed By Crime
Bogus 911 Call Of Man With Gun Brings Police To Popular Bogota Bar Forced Closed By Crime Adding insult to injury, a false report of a man with a gun brought police to a Bogota bar forced by crime to close for good. Police did make an arrest – of a Ridgefield Park ex-con who they said made the unfounded 911 call. Buddy’s Place on East Fort Lee Road held its last call ever Saturday night after becoming a lightning rod for authorities trying to stem neighborhood crime. Borough police reported making 33 arrests, nearly a third involving drugs, while responding to a total of 85 reports at Buddy's since January 2017. The majority of calls were for fights and disorderly conduct, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: Cliffside Park Police Capture Muggers, 15, 19 Authorities: Cliffside Park Police Capture Muggers, 15, 19 Authorities: Cliffside Park Police Capture Muggers, 15, 19
Authorities: Cliffside Park Police Capture Muggers, 15, 19 Cliffside Park police captured two strong-armed robbers moments after they mugged a victim on a local street, authorities said. One of them, a 15-year-old delinquent, is about to become a high school freshman, they said. The 24-year-old victim had just been dropped off from work by a motorist who apparently drove off without yielding to the teen and another juvenile who were on bicycles in the roadway, Capt. Vincent Capano said. The delinquent followed the victim and began yelling and spitting on him while waving over 19-year-old Juan Toro, the captain said. Both then went through his poc…

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