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
Hasbrouck Heights Professor Found Unfit To Be Tried In Attempted St. Patrick's Arson Hasbrouck Heights Professor Found Unfit To Be Tried In Attempted St. Patrick's Arson Hasbrouck Heights Professor Found Unfit To Be Tried In Attempted St. Patrick's Arson
Hasbrouck Heights Professor Found Unfit To Be Tried In Attempted St. Patrick's Arson UPDATE: A philosophy professor from Hasbrouck Heights who authorities said planned to burn down St. Patricks' Cathedral was found unfit to stand trial, Manhattan's district attorney announced Tuesday. Marc Lamparello, a 37-year-old East Rutherford native who'd been staying at a hotel in the city, was carrying a one-way ticket to Rome when he was caught entering the famed cathedral with four gallons of gasoline, two cans of lighter fluid and lighters on April 17, authorities said. He was charged with attempted arson and reckless endangerment. Earlier that same week, Essex County s…

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Bergenfield, NJ
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Prosecutor: Delaware Man, 23, Had Sex Chats, Planned Meeting With 12-Year-Old New Milford Girl Prosecutor: Delaware Man, 23, Had Sex Chats, Planned Meeting With 12-Year-Old New Milford Girl Prosecutor: Delaware Man, 23, Had Sex Chats, Planned Meeting With 12-Year-Old New Milford Girl
Prosecutor: Delaware Man, 23, Had Sex Chats, Planned Meeting With 12-Year-Old New Milford Girl A Delaware man who’d been having sexually explicit online chats with a 12-year-old New Milford girl arranged a meeting with her, said authorities who arrested him before that could happen. A family member interrupted the planned liaison and alerted authorities who arrested Nicholas G. Clark, a 23-year-old package handler from Newark, DE, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Tuesday. The chats had gone on for nearly two months before Clark planned what was to be an April 5 meeting, Calo said. Thanks to the relative, a detective from the prosecutor’s Cyber Crimes Unit took contro…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
'Son Held Captive': Oakland Detective Finds Caller Who Conned Dad Out Of $5,000 'Son Held Captive': Oakland Detective Finds Caller Who Conned Dad Out Of $5,000 'Son Held Captive': Oakland Detective Finds Caller Who Conned Dad Out Of $5,000
'Son Held Captive': Oakland Detective Finds Caller Who Conned Dad Out Of $5,000 Believing that his son was being held captive at gunpoint, an Oakland man gave $5,000 to a con artist who was arrested by police, authorities said. Borough police Detective Michael Griffin obtained subpoenas, as well as surveillance video from a Walmart in Pennsylvania, to identify Johnny Figueroa Ferreira, 38, of Oak Ridge, Detective Lt. Christian Eldridge said. Ferreira had convinced the victim by phone to send him gift cards and a money order last November by making the bogus claim, Eldridge said. Bergen County sheriff’s officers arrested Ferreira on Oakland’s warrant when he showed up …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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3M, DuPont, Others Produced, Sold Firefighting Foam They Knew Was Toxic, NJ Authorities Charge 3M, DuPont, Others Produced, Sold Firefighting Foam They Knew Was Toxic, NJ Authorities Charge 3M, DuPont, Others Produced, Sold Firefighting Foam They Knew Was Toxic, NJ Authorities Charge
3M, DuPont, Others Produced, Sold Firefighting Foam They Knew Was Toxic, NJ Authorities Charge For decades 3M, DuPont and other companies made and sold firefighting foam that released toxic and harmful chemicals, contaminating ground and surface water – including several lakes -- and creating "a continuing threat to natural resources and human health,” New Jersey authorities charged. An environmental and consumer fraud lawsuit filed by the state on Tuesday seeks damages and penalties against eight companies that have manufactured, advertised and sold aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) products. The products contain chemicals known as PFOS (perfluorooctane sulfonic acid) and PFOA (perf…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Hawthorne PD: Glen Rock Driver Caught Cooking Heroin In Auto Dealership Lot Hawthorne PD: Glen Rock Driver Caught Cooking Heroin In Auto Dealership Lot Hawthorne PD: Glen Rock Driver Caught Cooking Heroin In Auto Dealership Lot
Hawthorne PD: Glen Rock Driver Caught Cooking Heroin In Auto Dealership Lot A Hawthorne police officer caught a drug user from Glen Rock cooking heroin in a local car dealer’s parking lot, authorities said. The officer saw 35-year-old Anton Ordjonikidze lighting the drug in tin foil as he approached the 2013 Nissan Altima with California license plates in the Goffle Road lot, Detective Sgt. Matthew Hoogmoed said Tuesday. When he asked if he had anything else in the car, Ordjonikidze gave the officer a bundle of heroin, rubber bands and other pieces of drug paraphernalia, the sergeant said. He was taken into custody, charged with possession of drugs and drug-relate…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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PHOTOS: Saddle Brook Police Officer Rescues Cat From Smoky House Blaze PHOTOS: Saddle Brook Police Officer Rescues Cat From Smoky House Blaze PHOTOS: Saddle Brook Police Officer Rescues Cat From Smoky House Blaze
Photos: Saddle Brook Police Officer Rescues Cat From Smoky House Blaze UPDATE: A Saddle Brook police officer rescued a cat from a smoky fire that destroyed a local resident’s home Tuesday. Officer Matt Benus was the first responder at the two-alarm Hutter Street blaze. The 60-something woman got out safely, while her cat remained inside. Benus rushed in, found the feline in the living room and completed the rescue. The 7 a.m. fire -- the third residential blaze in the township in a week – broke out in the basement and quickly roared out the back of the 864-square-foot, wood-frame home, responders said. Firefighters had to open the roof to vent the fire whi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Carlstadt Police Officer Injured In Crash Carlstadt Police Officer Injured In Crash Carlstadt Police Officer Injured In Crash
Carlstadt Police Officer Injured In Crash A Carlstadt police officer sustained injuries that weren't considered life-threatening Monday night in a crash with another vehicle, authorities said. The other driver refused medical attention following the crash at 6th Street and Passaic Avenue around 9 p.m., Detective Sgt. John Cleary said. The officer went to Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, he said. Both vehicles had to be towed. The Bergen County Prosecutor's Office was investigating the circumstances of the crash, under state Attorney General general guidelines in such instances.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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Prosecutor: USR Police Officer Busted For Waving Weapon, Compromising Internal Probe, More Prosecutor: USR Police Officer Busted For Waving Weapon, Compromising Internal Probe, More Prosecutor: USR Police Officer Busted For Waving Weapon, Compromising Internal Probe, More
Prosecutor: USR Police Officer Busted For Waving Weapon, Compromising Internal Probe, More An Upper Saddle River police officer was arrested Monday by Bergen County prosecutor's detectives who accused him of waving his weapon at someone in his car, compromising an internal affairs investigation and cyber harassment, among other offenses. Kyle Zyskowski, 34, of Ramsey "hindered a potential internal affairs investigation by encouraging a witness to destroy evidence," Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. Zyskowski also "revealed a resident’s domestic violence restraining order and other privileged information and that he conspired to harass and intimidate a witness" in…

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
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West Milford PD: Crossbow Gets DWI Driver Weapons Charge West Milford PD: Crossbow Gets DWI Driver Weapons Charge West Milford PD: Crossbow Gets DWI Driver Weapons Charge
West Milford PD: Crossbow Gets DWI Driver Weapons Charge An ex-con stopped by West Milford police for drunk driving was also charged with being a convicted felon in possession of a weapon after officers found a crossbow in his car, authorities said. Officer Michael Onembo, responding to a motorist’s call of an erratic driver, stopped the vehicle driven by 38-year-old Hewitt resident Michael Coulahan as he pulled into the Tractor Supply parking lot on Union Valley Road with its ride-side driver’s mirror missing and a busted tail light, police records show. “While speaking to the driver, the officer noticed signs of drug use,” the police report say…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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5-Year-Old Demarest Girl Severely Burned Falling Into Home Fire Pit 5-Year-Old Demarest Girl Severely Burned Falling Into Home Fire Pit 5-Year-Old Demarest Girl Severely Burned Falling Into Home Fire Pit
5-Year-Old Demarest Girl Severely Burned Falling Into Home Fire Pit A 5-year-old Demarest girl was flown to St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston after she tripped and fell into a home fire pit, burning her face and arms over the weekend, responders said. The accident left the child with second- and third-degree burns, they said.

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