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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Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Overnight Fire Severely Damages Lyndhurst Home Overnight Fire Severely Damages Lyndhurst Home Overnight Fire Severely Damages Lyndhurst Home
Overnight Fire Severely Damages Lyndhurst Home The first-floor residents of a Lyndhurst house being renovated made it to safety without injury overnight Tuesday after a fire broke out upstairs. Investigators suspect oil-soaked rags improperly discarded by contractors staining the upper residence’s floors might be responsible for the Summit Avenue blaze, Police Detective Sgt. Vincent Auteri said. All three adult residents downstairs got out OK after the sound of glass breaking from the flames woke one of them just after 1:45 a.m., he said. “The second floor was vacant and under renovation,” Auteri said. “A contractor was on the premises…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Hawthorne PD: Upstate NY Driver Caught With 250 Heroin Folds 85 Miles From Home Hawthorne PD: Upstate NY Driver Caught With 250 Heroin Folds 85 Miles From Home Hawthorne PD: Upstate NY Driver Caught With 250 Heroin Folds 85 Miles From Home
Hawthorne PD: Upstate NY Driver Caught With 250 Heroin Folds 85 Miles From Home An upstate New York driver was caught with 250 folds of heroin during a traffic stop 85 miles from home, Hawthorne police said. Kevin Fanning, 27, of Liberty, NY, had several inconsistencies in his story when asked where he was coming from after police stopped his 2002 GMC Envoy for motor vehicle violations on Goffle Road near Watchung Drive, police said. Officers said they also noted a “non-natural square-looking bulge” in his pants. Fanning the removed five bricks of heroin – containing 50 folds per brick – and gave it to them, the officers said. He was taken to the Passaic County Jail …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
BEWARE: Residents Falling For Increasing IRS, Social Security Phone Scams, Glen Rock Police Say BEWARE: Residents Falling For Increasing IRS, Social Security Phone Scams, Glen Rock Police Say BEWARE: Residents Falling For Increasing IRS, Social Security Phone Scams, Glen Rock Police Say
Beware: Residents Falling For Increasing IRS, Social Security Phone Scams, Glen Rock Police Say At least two Glen Rock residents were conned into providing personal information to phone scammers – one of whom claimed to be from the IRS and two others who said they were Social Security agents who’d found a car registered to him at the Mexican border carrying 22 pounds of cocaine. The purported agents told a 93-year-old borough man that documents that indicated it was his car were found in the abandoned vehicle, Police Chief Glen Ackermann said. They also claimed that there was a warrant issued for his arrest and that he needed to confirm personal identification – which he unfortunately…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson PD: Street Busts Yield 10,000+ Heroin Bags, $16,500 In Drug Cash, Dozens Of Arrests Paterson PD: Street Busts Yield 10,000+ Heroin Bags, $16,500 In Drug Cash, Dozens Of Arrests Paterson PD: Street Busts Yield 10,000+ Heroin Bags, $16,500 In Drug Cash, Dozens Of Arrests
Paterson PD: Street Busts Yield 10,000+ Heroin Bags, $16,500 In Drug Cash, Dozens Of Arrests An unrelenting series of streets busts by Paterson police have yielded nearly 10,000 bags of heroin, more than $16,500 in drug money, a few illegal handguns and dozens of arrests the past few weeks, authorities said. The biggest haul – 8,900 folds of heroin -- was taken from 29-year-old Don Gonzalez, 23-year-old Shacell Nugent and 24-year-old Jocquice Timmons while they and others were being taken into custody during a quick strike at 10th Avenue and East 29th Street, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. Police also seized more than $4,000 from the trio, Speziale said. The second-biggest b…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
SEEN HIM? Bergenfield Landscaper Sought In Bar Fight Stabbing Death SEEN HIM? Bergenfield Landscaper Sought In Bar Fight Stabbing Death SEEN HIM? Bergenfield Landscaper Sought In Bar Fight Stabbing Death
Seen HIM? Bergenfield Landscaper Sought In Bar Fight Stabbing Death Authorities sought the public's help finding a laborer who they said stabbed and killed another man during a fight that began in a Bergenfield bar. Jose D. Perez Vasquez, 50, is charged with murder and weapons possession in connection with the overnight stabbing death of 43-year-old Uvaldo de Gabriel Aguilar, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. A passing police officer found the bleeding, unresponsive Aguilar on Portland Avenue, a few steps from Armando's Bar on South Washington Avenue -- where law enforcement sources said the fight broke out -- and less than a block from the…

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by Jerry DeMarco & Cecilia Levine
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Director Of Fair Lawn Early Learning Center Helps Police Find Parents Of Wandering Toddler Director Of Fair Lawn Early Learning Center Helps Police Find Parents Of Wandering Toddler Director Of Fair Lawn Early Learning Center Helps Police Find Parents Of Wandering Toddler
Director Of Fair Lawn Early Learning Center Helps Police Find Parents Of Wandering Toddler UPDATE: A Fair Lawn toddler found wandering alone wasn't able to help police find his parents -- but the director of a local early learning center was, authorities said. Confusion between the parents and the boy’s grandmother over who was watching him left him wandering alone around dinnertime Monday, Sgt. Brian Metzler said Tuesday. Police were called after he was found on Westmoreland Avenue around 5:30 p.m., Metzler said. Because the boy was non-verbal -- and no one had reported him missing -- police had a mystery on their hands. So they went to Jessica DeMott, director of the Lightbri…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Wrong-Way Driver High On Heroin Sends 3 To Hospital In Head-On Elmwood Park Crash Wrong-Way Driver High On Heroin Sends 3 To Hospital In Head-On Elmwood Park Crash Wrong-Way Driver High On Heroin Sends 3 To Hospital In Head-On Elmwood Park Crash
Wrong-Way Driver High On Heroin Sends 3 To Hospital In Head-On Elmwood Park Crash An adult and two youngsters were injured when an unlicensed, out-of-town drug addict high on heroin crashed his car into theirs while driving on the wrong side of the road in Elmwood Park, authorities said. Kyle Apgar, 29, kept going before his car struck two parked vehicles around 8:15 p.m. Saturday, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. The victims, whose car was struck on Broadway, weren’t seriously injured, he said Police found a hypodermic syringe and heroin in Apgar's car after it hit the two parked vehicles on Bellevue Avenue and came to a stop, Foligno said. Apgar, who the chief sai…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
SEEN HIM? Bergenfield Landscaper Sought In Bar Fight Stabbing Death SEEN HIM? Bergenfield Landscaper Sought In Bar Fight Stabbing Death SEEN HIM? Bergenfield Landscaper Sought In Bar Fight Stabbing Death
Seen HIM? Bergenfield Landscaper Sought In Bar Fight Stabbing Death Authorities sought the public's help finding a laborer who they said stabbed and killed another man during a fight that began in a Bergenfield bar. Jose D. Perez Vasquez, 50, is charged with murder and weapons possession in connection with the overnight stabbing death of 43-year-old Uvaldo de Gabriel Aguilar, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. A passing police officer found the bleeding, unresponsive Aguilar on Portland Avenue, a few steps from Armando's Bar on South Washington Avenue -- where law enforcement sources said the fight broke out -- and less than a block from the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Glen Rock PD: Local Bicyclist Struck By Vehicle Driven By Hackensack Motorist Glen Rock PD: Local Bicyclist Struck By Vehicle Driven By Hackensack Motorist Glen Rock PD: Local Bicyclist Struck By Vehicle Driven By Hackensack Motorist
Glen Rock PD: Local Bicyclist Struck By Vehicle Driven By Hackensack Motorist A 32-year-old bicyclist from Glen Rock was hospitalized with injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening after being struck by a vehicle in the borough Sunday afternoon, authorities said. The victim was crossing with the bike in the crosswalk at Boulevard and Kenmore Place when he was struck just before 2:30 p.m., Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. He was taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, the chief said. The 67-year-old driver, a Hackensack man, received a summons for failing to yield to a pedestrian, he said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
Breaking News
Police Responding To Car Burglary Spree Nab East Orange Ex-Con Wanted On Warrant Police Responding To Car Burglary Spree Nab East Orange Ex-Con Wanted On Warrant Police Responding To Car Burglary Spree Nab East Orange Ex-Con Wanted On Warrant
Police Responding To Car Burglary Spree Nab East Orange Ex-Con Wanted On Warrant Authorities were trying to determine whether a wanted ex-con from East Orange captured just before dawn in Clifton was responsible for burglarizing vehicles in a local neighborhood. Officers responding to a call of a man testing door handles in the 500 block of Grove Street just before 6 a.m. Monday found 34-year-old Patrick Slaughter carrying latex gloves and several apparently stolen items, Clifton Detective Sgt. Robert Anderson said. Slaughter “was deceptive in his answers to basic questions and provided false information to the officers,” who nonetheless identified him, Anderson said. …

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