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
Passaic Sheriff's Officer Nabs Gunman On Paterson Street Passaic Sheriff's Officer Nabs Gunman On Paterson Street Passaic Sheriff's Officer Nabs Gunman On Paterson Street
Passaic Sheriff's Officer Nabs Gunman On Paterson Street A Passaic County sheriff’s officer responding to a call of a gunman on a Paterson street Thursday afternoon seized the loaded weapon and the Elmwood Park man carrying it, authorities said. Officer Jason Michaels headed to Carol Street after Paterson police issued an alert at 3:50 p.m. following a call from a woman who said a man in a red hoodie approached her and her boyfriend carrying the gun, Passaic Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. While turning onto Coral Street from Union Avenue, the officer spotted Yusef Ibrahim, 54, standing next to a white van and two other people, Berdnik said. Ap…

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Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Bergenfield IT Manager Charged With Uploading Child Porn Bergenfield IT Manager Charged With Uploading Child Porn Bergenfield IT Manager Charged With Uploading Child Porn
Bergenfield IT Manager Charged With Uploading Child Porn An IT manager from Bergenfield uploaded more than 1,000 images of child porn, authorities said. Jason Prashad, 45, was arrested by cyber crimes detectives who during a warranted raid of his Legion Manor apartment, found that he'd opened files "depicting nude or sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children," Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Friday. Prashad, who is single, was charged with possession of child pornography. He was released pending a July 17 first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack.

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgefield Park Pizzeria Cook From Hackensack Found Drowned In Passaic River Ridgefield Park Pizzeria Cook From Hackensack Found Drowned In Passaic River Ridgefield Park Pizzeria Cook From Hackensack Found Drowned In Passaic River
Ridgefield Park Pizzeria Cook From Hackensack Found Drowned In Passaic River Authorities were trying to determine how a Hackensack cook who worked at a popular Ridgefield Park pizzeria drowned in the Passaic River on the Fourth of July. Someone spotted the 30-year-old victim’s body on the Harrison side of the river from Raymond Boulevard in Newark just after 4:45 p.m., responders said. Harrison firefighters recovered the body near the PSE&G lot about 40 minutes later. The cook, who worked at Dante's Pizzeria & Restaurant on Main Street, had been watching a World Cup soccer match at a local tavern earlier. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
BAIL REFORM: Career Criminal Caught On Camera Burglarizing Rochelle Park Hair Salon Freed Again BAIL REFORM: Career Criminal Caught On Camera Burglarizing Rochelle Park Hair Salon Freed Again BAIL REFORM: Career Criminal Caught On Camera Burglarizing Rochelle Park Hair Salon Freed Again
Bail Reform: Career Criminal Caught On Camera Burglarizing Rochelle Park Hair Salon Freed Again It never ends with some guys: Recorded by surveillance cameras, a repeat offender with a 25-year criminal history broke into a Rochelle Park hair salon – and then was arrested by police less than two hours later, authorities said. Borough police and their colleagues in Maywood immediately recognized Mark Todd, 45, of Hackensack, who’s repeatedly been charged in recent years with the type of crimes that don’t put or keep him in jail pending trial. Then he goes out does it again, police say. In the past two years, police in Rochelle Park, Maywood, Hackensack, Hasbrouck Heights, Garfield and …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: Undercover Paterson Police Work Both Sides Of Street, Bust 14 Hookers, 27 Johns Authorities: Undercover Paterson Police Work Both Sides Of Street, Bust 14 Hookers, 27 Johns Authorities: Undercover Paterson Police Work Both Sides Of Street, Bust 14 Hookers, 27 Johns
Authorities: Undercover Paterson Police Work Both Sides Of Street, Bust 14 Hookers, 27 Johns Female Paterson police posing as prostitutes bagged 27 johns, while their male colleagues snatched up 14 streetwalkers who offered them sex for money, authorities said. Citizen complaints about an open-air prostitution market drove ABC/Vice unit detectives to work both sides of the street, city Police Director Jerry Speziale said. They had help from the department’s Narcotics Division and the Passaic County Sheriff’s Department, as well as from counselors with the county prosecutor’s Human Trafficking Unit, he said. Substance abuse counseling also was provided, Speziale said. A total of …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
NJ Pet Salesman Gets Home Confinement For Importing Black Scorpions, Giant Millipedes NJ Pet Salesman Gets Home Confinement For Importing Black Scorpions, Giant Millipedes NJ Pet Salesman Gets Home Confinement For Importing Black Scorpions, Giant Millipedes
NJ Pet Salesman Gets Home Confinement For Importing Black Scorpions, Giant Millipedes A group of live scorpions and other endangered species who escaped from an international parcel on its way from Tanzania to the U.S. first brought attention to a Central Jersey pet salesman who was ordered to never do it again. He didn’t listen, though. He even posted photos from his collection while seeking buyers on Facebook – featuring, among others, the immense and popular black scorpion, which glows green or blue under ultraviolet light. A federal judge in Trenton this week sentenced Wlodzimie Lapkiewicz, 30, to six months home confinement and four years’ probation for illegally smuggl…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
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Driver Critical After Garbage Truck Plummets Off Overpass Driver Critical After Garbage Truck Plummets Off Overpass Driver Critical After Garbage Truck Plummets Off Overpass
Driver Critical After Garbage Truck Plummets Off Overpass A Union City DPW garbage truck plummeted off an overpass onto westbound Route 495 in Weehawken after the driver suffered a medical emergency Wednesday afternoon, responders told Daily Voice. The driver was taken to Jersey City Medical Center with critical injuries, they said.  A passenger in the truck sustained a broken femur, police at the scene told Daily Voice. The driver -- who apparently suffered a heart attack -- and another person who was on the street above were also hospitalized, as were several people who were aboard a bus that struck the truck after it landed, they said. In to…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Bones In Bag Left At State Line Lookout On Palisades Confirmed As Human, More Found Bones In Bag Left At State Line Lookout On Palisades Confirmed As Human, More Found Bones In Bag Left At State Line Lookout On Palisades Confirmed As Human, More Found
Bones In Bag Left At State Line Lookout On Palisades Confirmed As Human, More Found UPDATE: Bones found in a bag at the State Line Lookout atop the Palisades in Alpine were identified as human remains -- as well as those found along with some personal items nearby, authorities said Wednesday. "The remains will be submitted to a lab for identification and will be compared to missing persons records," Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Employees arriving for work at a lookout snack stand on Monday found the bones in a bag tied to the door, the prosecutor previously said. "The individual who left the bag of remains on the snack stand door was located and directed la…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Glen Rock Homes Temporarily Evacuated, Roads Closed After Work Crew Ruptures Gas Main Glen Rock Homes Temporarily Evacuated, Roads Closed After Work Crew Ruptures Gas Main Glen Rock Homes Temporarily Evacuated, Roads Closed After Work Crew Ruptures Gas Main
Glen Rock Homes Temporarily Evacuated, Roads Closed After Work Crew Ruptures Gas Main Two dozen residents in the immediate area had to leave their homes after a Glen Rock DPW crew ruptured a gas line while doing work on a sidewalk ramp Wednesday morning. Officials offered shelter at Borough Hall while repairs were done at the corner of Main Street and Argyle Road following the mishap just after 9:30 a.m. Police transported several residents who didn't have vehicles, Chief Dean Ackermann said.  The De Boer Drive from northbound Route 208 was temporarily closed. Lower Main Street, Argyle Road and Southboro Lane were also temporarily blocked off. The evacuated homes…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
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Not This Time: Lyndhurst Supermarket Employee Nabs Man With Child Making Bogus Cash Withdrawals Not This Time: Lyndhurst Supermarket Employee Nabs Man With Child Making Bogus Cash Withdrawals Not This Time: Lyndhurst Supermarket Employee Nabs Man With Child Making Bogus Cash Withdrawals
Not This Time: Lyndhurst Supermarket Employee Nabs Man With Child Making Bogus Cash Withdrawals Less than two weeks after a Bronx duo withdrew $2,800 using stolen credit cards at a Lyndhurst Stop & Shop self-checkout aisle, an employee was ready when a Newark man tried to do it again, authorities said. The observant employee saw the thief make a low-dollar purchase, get $200 cash back, and then repeat the maneuver a half hour later, Detective Sgt. Vincent Auteri said. A manager called police after determining that a stolen debit card was used, Auteri said. Responding Lt. Kevin Breslin and Officers Phil Reina, Michael Giangeruso and Anthony Giaquinto found the suspect parked near …

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