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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Newark, NJ
Breaking News
'Inches From Being Killed': Responder At Route 280 Pileup Begs Motorists To Slow Down 'Inches From Being Killed': Responder At Route 280 Pileup Begs Motorists To Slow Down 'Inches From Being Killed': Responder At Route 280 Pileup Begs Motorists To Slow Down
'Inches From Being Killed': Responder At Route 280 Pileup Begs Motorists To Slow Down In a heartfelt public appeal, a responder who was at the scene of a dump truck crash Tuesday on Route 280 urged drivers to approach accident sites cautiously. "I beg you, even if this just reaches one person, PLEASE slow down and move over if you see emergency lights -- or even just a car pulled over on the side of the road," EMT Tyler Treible wrote on Facebook. Treible and his partner (and girlfriend) Taylor Van Sant were in the second ambulance that responded to a crash on the highway in West Orange just before 10:30 a.m. "While we were on scene we heard the air horn of a dump truck seco…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Sticky-Fingered Fair Lawn Restaurant Employee Caught Stealing $3,629 Police: Sticky-Fingered Fair Lawn Restaurant Employee Caught Stealing $3,629 Police: Sticky-Fingered Fair Lawn Restaurant Employee Caught Stealing $3,629
Police: Sticky-Fingered Fair Lawn Restaurant Employee Caught Stealing $3,629 A Fair Lawn Mediterranean restaurant employee was caught stealing $3,628.56, authorities said. The owners of Juicy Platters on Broadway called police after catching Lanceford Henry, 27, of Paterson taking money from the register during his shifts, Sgt. Brian Metzler aid. Henry was released pending a hearing on theft charges, he said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Hawthorne Police Nab Northbound NY Trio With Nearly 350 Heroin Bags Hawthorne Police Nab Northbound NY Trio With Nearly 350 Heroin Bags Hawthorne Police Nab Northbound NY Trio With Nearly 350 Heroin Bags
Hawthorne Police Nab Northbound NY Trio With Nearly 350 Heroin Bags A Hawthorne police officer nabbed a northbound New York State trio with 349 bags of heroin that were apparently bought in Paterson, authorities said. The passengers gave conflicting accounts of where they’d been and what they were doing, Police Chief Richard McAuliffe said, adding that officers also smelled burnt marijuana after stopping their 1999 Subaru sedan on northbound Route 208. The driver meanwhile, “stated that he had just dropped a friend off in Paterson and was on his way to Liberty, NY,” the chief said. One of the passengers, identified as Theresa Light, 25, of Liberty, had “a …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Charges Pending After Wrong-Way West Milford Pickup Driver Hits Day Camp Buses In Oakland Charges Pending After Wrong-Way West Milford Pickup Driver Hits Day Camp Buses In Oakland Charges Pending After Wrong-Way West Milford Pickup Driver Hits Day Camp Buses In Oakland
Charges Pending After Wrong-Way West Milford Pickup Driver Hits Day Camp Buses In Oakland UPDATE: Oakland police on Tuesday said they were preparing charges against a driver from West Milford whose pickup truck swerved across the road and into two buses carrying more than two dozen young day campers. The 21-year-old driver was hospitalized with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening following Monday's crash just after 4 p.m. on Skyline Drive.  None of the youngsters aboard either Spring Lake Day Camp (Ringwood) short school bus -- one carrying 16, the other 14 -- had to be hospitalized, authorities said.  "All of the children were evaluated on sce…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson Detectives Seize 430 Bags Of Heroin, 44 Of Coke, $4,223 Drug Cash, Bust Four Paterson Detectives Seize 430 Bags Of Heroin, 44 Of Coke, $4,223 Drug Cash, Bust Four Paterson Detectives Seize 430 Bags Of Heroin, 44 Of Coke, $4,223 Drug Cash, Bust Four
Paterson Detectives Seize 430 Bags Of Heroin, 44 Of Coke, $4,223 Drug Cash, Bust Four Paterson police detectives seized 430 bags of heroin, 44 bags of coke and nearly a half-pound of pot in a series of busts. They also confiscated $4,223 in suspected drug money, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said Tuesday. Police charged two men – Shamir Wade, 26, and Shaheem Austin, 33 -- with having the heroin at Wade’s second-floor East 31st Street apartment, Speziale said. They also seized $869 in drug proceeds from Austin and $121 from Wade, he said. Caught with the cocaine and $1,842 in drug cash at East 21st and Ellison streets was Gregorio Penaranda, 44, the director said. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Car Hits Porch In Wyckoff Crash Car Hits Porch In Wyckoff Crash Car Hits Porch In Wyckoff Crash
Car Hits Porch In Wyckoff Crash Two people were hospitalized after a crash that sent one of the vehicles into the porch of a Wyckoff home. An extrication was needed after one of the victims was knocked out in the 10 p.m. crash between a Volkswagen Beetle and a sedan on Wyckoff Avenue, responders said. Township police, firefighters and the Volunteer Ambulance Corps responded. Wyckoff Avenue was temporarily closed between Russell Avenue and Carlton Place. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Worker, 60, Dies In Fall At Site Of Former Clifton Nightclub Worker, 60, Dies In Fall At Site Of Former Clifton Nightclub Worker, 60, Dies In Fall At Site Of Former Clifton Nightclub
Worker, 60, Dies In Fall At Site Of Former Clifton Nightclub A 60-year-old worker died after he fell 20 feet from a scaffold Monday afternoon in Clifton. The victim had been part of a crew that's transforming the former Bliss nightclub on Allwood Road into an attorney's office. Responders said the victim sustained a skull fracture. CPR was conducted before he was taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, they said. Next-of-kin notifications were being made, authorities said. OSHA was notified.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Kids OK After Wrong-Way West Milford Pickup Truck Hits Day Camp Buses In Oakland Police: Kids OK After Wrong-Way West Milford Pickup Truck Hits Day Camp Buses In Oakland Police: Kids OK After Wrong-Way West Milford Pickup Truck Hits Day Camp Buses In Oakland
Police: Kids OK After Wrong-Way West Milford Pickup Truck Hits Day Camp Buses In Oakland A pickup truck driver from West Milford swerved across the road and into two short school buses carrying more than two dozen young day campers in Oakland, authorities said Tuesday. The 21-year-old driver was hospitalized with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening following Monday's crash just after 4 p.m. on Skyline Drive. None of the youngsters aboard either Spring Lake Day Camp (Ringwood) buses -- one carrying 16, the other 14 -- had to be hospitalized, authorities said. "All of the children were evaluated on scene by EMTs and no further medical treatment was required," Lt.…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Rochelle Park President Spends $6,000 For Herself On PTA Card Police: Rochelle Park President Spends $6,000 For Herself On PTA Card Police: Rochelle Park President Spends $6,000 For Herself On PTA Card
Police: Rochelle Park President Spends $6,000 For Herself On PTA Card A past Rochelle Park PTA president surrendered to borough police Monday after ringing up $6,000 in charges for herself with an association credit card, authorities said. Detectives zeroed in on Shawna Riordan, 33, of Saddle Brook after a Midland School #1 PTA member reported that "credit card, co-signed by her, had an outstanding balance and was currently in collections," Detective Sgt. James M. DePreta. The charges began in January 2017 and didn't end until April 2018, DePreta said. The co-signing PTA member "did not make the charges, nor authorize them," he said. "The PTA, currently nam…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Driver Blows Stop Sign In Lyndhurst, Knocks Other Car Onto Its Side Driver Blows Stop Sign In Lyndhurst, Knocks Other Car Onto Its Side Driver Blows Stop Sign In Lyndhurst, Knocks Other Car Onto Its Side
Driver Blows Stop Sign In Lyndhurst, Knocks Other Car Onto Its Side A Geo Prism landed on its roof after it was struck by an SUV whose driver ran a stop sign in Lyndhurst early Monday afternoon, authorities said. The Ford Escape was headed west on Second Avenue when it blew past the stop sign and slammed into the Prism, which was headed south on Stuyvesant Avenue, Detective Sgt. Vincent Auteri said. The second vehicle struck an occupied Toyota Tacoma pickup truck and rolled onto its roof, he said. No one was seriously injured, Auteri said. The Prism driver had minor cuts and the Tacoma driver complained of chest pains, so both were hospitalized as a preca…

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