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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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
North Arlington Man, 59, Struck By Car Driven By Lodi Motorist In Hasbrouck Heights North Arlington Man, 59, Struck By Car Driven By Lodi Motorist In Hasbrouck Heights North Arlington Man, 59, Struck By Car Driven By Lodi Motorist In Hasbrouck Heights
North Arlington Man, 59, Struck By Car Driven By Lodi Motorist In Hasbrouck Heights A 59-year-old North Arlington man was hospitalized with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening after a car struck him in a Hasbrouck Heights crosswalk early Tuesday, authorities said. The pedestrian was crossing Boulevard around 8 a.m. when he was hit by a vehicle driven by a 27-year-old Lodi motorist making a left turn off Williams Avenue, Detective Lt. Michael Colaneri Jr. said. She received a summons for failing to yield to a pedestrian. The victim was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center. Hasbrouck Heights police and ambulance responded, along with medics.

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Northern Valley, NJ
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Hackensack Transient Charged With Sexually Assaulting 3 Norwood Women, Girl Under 13 Hackensack Transient Charged With Sexually Assaulting 3 Norwood Women, Girl Under 13 Hackensack Transient Charged With Sexually Assaulting 3 Norwood Women, Girl Under 13
Hackensack Transient Charged With Sexually Assaulting 3 Norwood Women, Girl Under 13 A Hackensack transient sexually assaulted a trio of women in Norwood – as well as an underage girl -- before being arrested, authorities said Tuesday. Lavert Conway, 25, fondled three victims, who knew him, against their will, authorities said. They went to local police, who notified Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo’s Special Victims Unit. Conway, who is unemployed, was then taken into custody by members of the unit and Norwood police. In addition to being accused of having sexual contact with the three alleged victims, all adults, Conway was also charged with sexually assaulti…

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Ridgewood, NJ
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Ridgewood Police Officer Charged With Trying To Arrange Sex With What He Thought Was Girl, 15 Ridgewood Police Officer Charged With Trying To Arrange Sex With What He Thought Was Girl, 15 Ridgewood Police Officer Charged With Trying To Arrange Sex With What He Thought Was Girl, 15
Ridgewood Police Officer Charged With Trying To Arrange Sex With What He Thought Was Girl, 15 A Ridgewood police officer remained jailed after authorities said he had sex chats on Tinder with what he thought was a 15-year-old girl but was really an undercover detective with the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office. Peter J. Tuchol Jr., 28, "arranged to meet with the purported 15-year-old girl to engage in sex," Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Tuesday. A Monday night raid on Tuchol's home by Calo's Cyber Crimes Unit and local police turned up evidence, as well as steroids, a hypodermic syringe and medical drugs without prescriptions, he said. A judge in Hackensack…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Ramsey Firefighters Contain Pre-Dawn Garage Blaze Ramsey Firefighters Contain Pre-Dawn Garage Blaze Ramsey Firefighters Contain Pre-Dawn Garage Blaze
Ramsey Firefighters Contain Pre-Dawn Garage Blaze Ramsey firefighters contained a pre-dawn attached garage blaze Tuesday before it extended into the home. The Elbert Street house sustained some smoke damage after firefighters pulled down the wall and ceiling of an adjoining bathroom to be sure the flames hadn't spread. No one was hurt in the 5:30 a.m. two-alarm blaze, which responders said was doused in a half hour or so. The cause hadn't officially been declared. Allendale and Mahwah firefighters joined their Ramsey colleagues, who included Ramsey Rescue. Borough police and EMS also responded. It was the second working fire in a little…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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State AG: Couple Denied Palisades Park Apartment Because They Aren't Korean State AG: Couple Denied Palisades Park Apartment Because They Aren't Korean State AG: Couple Denied Palisades Park Apartment Because They Aren't Korean
State AG: Couple Denied Palisades Park Apartment Because They Aren't Korean A Palisades Park real estate agent refused to show an apartment to a prospective tenant who wasn’t Korean, state authorities charged. KayMax Realty, Inc. and the couple who own the basement apartment are listed in a complaint filed by the state Division of Civil Rights, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Tuesday. Anna Ceylan, who was seeking to move to New Jersey from New York City, saw a Zillow.com ad in mid-February 2018 and called KayMax to arrange a tour of the four-bedroom unit, Grewal said. The agent listed as the contact “said she was too busy to talk and would call her back,” h…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Franklin Lakes PD: Officer Stops To Help Disabled Car, Finds Ex-Con Carrying Gun, Ecstasy, More Franklin Lakes PD: Officer Stops To Help Disabled Car, Finds Ex-Con Carrying Gun, Ecstasy, More Franklin Lakes PD: Officer Stops To Help Disabled Car, Finds Ex-Con Carrying Gun, Ecstasy, More
Franklin Lakes PD: Officer Stops To Help Disabled Car, Finds Ex-Con Carrying Gun, Ecstasy, More A Franklin Lakes police officer who stopped to help what turned out to be a Rhode Island ex-con with his disabled car found him carrying a handgun, authorities said. Roland Morgan, 35, of Providence, RI, had a previous gun possession conviction from Rhode Island, along with arrests that included a mad chase and crash following a theft last year in Massachusetts, records show. Besides a .25-caliber handgun, Franklin Lakes Officer Christopher Heffner also found a small amount of Ecstasy, more than 100 Gabapentin pills without a prescription and some pot in the 2001 Toyota during the mid-morni…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Grief For Family Of Boy Struck, Killed Crossing Rt 208 In Rain, Dark, For Officer Driving Grief For Family Of Boy Struck, Killed Crossing Rt 208 In Rain, Dark, For Officer Driving Grief For Family Of Boy Struck, Killed Crossing Rt 208 In Rain, Dark, For Officer Driving
Grief For Family Of Boy Struck, Killed Crossing Rt 208 In Rain, Dark, For Officer Driving UPDATE: It's an unimaginable tragedy all around -- for the family of a 12-year-old boy who inexplicably tried crossing the Route 208 median in Fair Lawn with his older brother in the rainy darkness, as well as for the highly-respected Bergen County sheriff's officer whose vehicle struck and killed the youngster. Christian Tawadros, who was in a special education program at the Thomas Jefferson Middle School, had joined his 7th-grade brother and two friends to go out to eat, a source with direct knowledge of the incident said. The older boy "took Christian everywhere with him," the person sa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
PHOTOS: Homeowner Burned Trying To Douse Lodi Fire Taken To St. Barnabas PHOTOS: Homeowner Burned Trying To Douse Lodi Fire Taken To St. Barnabas PHOTOS: Homeowner Burned Trying To Douse Lodi Fire Taken To St. Barnabas
Photos: Homeowner Burned Trying To Douse Lodi Fire Taken To St. Barnabas UPDATE: A homeowner was taken to St. Barnabas Medical Center with upper-body burns in an apparently accidental fire that destroyed a Lodi home early Monday evening, officials said. The Mitchell Street homeowner "tried to put the fire out and sustained what appear to be second-degree burns on the upper part of his body," Fire Chief Ron Cannici said. "Then he ran out of the house. "He was about a half a block away when responders got him," Cannici told Daily Voice. "He was probably in shock." His injuries didn't appear life-threatening, the chief said. A firefighter, meanwhile, was taken to…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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GUILTY! Paterson Boxer Who Shot Ex-GF 5 Times, Beat Her With Gun Convicted Of Attempted Murder GUILTY! Paterson Boxer Who Shot Ex-GF 5 Times, Beat Her With Gun Convicted Of Attempted Murder GUILTY! Paterson Boxer Who Shot Ex-GF 5 Times, Beat Her With Gun Convicted Of Attempted Murder
Guilty! Paterson Boxer Who Shot Ex-GF 5 Times, Beat Her With Gun Convicted Of Attempted Murder Jurors needed two days of deliberations to convict a 41-year-old jilted Paterson boxer of attempted murder charges for shooting his ex-girlfriend five times and then pistol-whipping her in the face after she refused to take him back. Michael Mitchell, a 41-year-old light heavyweight, was caught on surveillance video shooting Tishell Jackson at close range and beating her on Belmont Avenue on Jan. 3, 2018 before fleeing, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes noted. Passaic County sheriff’s officers and Haledon police captured him at an Elmwood Park hotel two days later. Prosecutors said …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Motorcyclist Killed After Collision With Car On Route 20 In Paterson Motorcyclist Killed After Collision With Car On Route 20 In Paterson Motorcyclist Killed After Collision With Car On Route 20 In Paterson
Motorcyclist Killed After Collision With Car On Route 20 In Paterson A motorcyclist was killed in a collision with a sedan on southbound Route 20 in Paterson early Saturday evening, authorities said. Miguel Soto, 30, of Paterson was pronounced dead a half hour after his 2008 Honda CBR made contact with a 2008 Acura MDX driven by a 70-year-old Wayne man and spun out near Park Avenue, authorities said Sunday. Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes asked that anyone who might have seen the incident contact her office’s tips line at 1-877-370-PCPO or [email protected]. Or contact the Paterson Police Department Traffic Division at (973) 321-1112. 

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