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
RETURNED! Women Who Took Yorkie Terrier Off Leonia Street Bring Him Back A Day Later RETURNED! Women Who Took Yorkie Terrier Off Leonia Street Bring Him Back A Day Later RETURNED! Women Who Took Yorkie Terrier Off Leonia Street Bring Him Back A Day Later
Returned! Women Who Took Yorkie Terrier Off Leonia Street Bring Him Back A Day Later A 6-year-old Yorkie Terrier who two women picked up off a Leonia street Thursday morning brought him to Fort Lee police more than 24 hours later, authorities said. Leonia police said Friday that they were looking into why the women took the dog and why it took so long to return him. Anxious family members called police in Leonia and neighboring Fort Lee after Mochi, who’d been running loose, was grabbed near the intersection of Fort Lee Road and Chestnut Street, a quarter-mile west of Route 46, around 10:30 a.m. Thursday. The women -- both blondes, between 40 and 50 years old and riding in…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
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Haworth Sergeant Recognizes, Nabs Ex-Englewood Basketball Star Who Claimed To Be Someone Else Haworth Sergeant Recognizes, Nabs Ex-Englewood Basketball Star Who Claimed To Be Someone Else Haworth Sergeant Recognizes, Nabs Ex-Englewood Basketball Star Who Claimed To Be Someone Else
Haworth Sergeant Recognizes, Nabs Ex-Englewood Basketball Star Who Claimed To Be Someone Else Call it fame or call it notoriety: Trying to tell a police officer in Bergen County that he's someone else wasn't getting 6-foot-8 former Englewood basketball phenom turned career criminal Sean Banks very far. Banks was a passenger in a car with Florida license plates that was pulled over for a traffic violation by Haworth Police Sgt. Gianluca Ragone last Friday. Wanted by Englewood police for yet another domestic violence assault, he gave Ragone a different name, Detective Sgt. Justin Fox said. Trouble was: Ragone knew the onetime Bergen Catholic star from his days on the hardwood, which …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
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SEE ANYTHING? Police Try To Find Who Dumped Live Goat In Ridgewood Cemetery SEE ANYTHING? Police Try To Find Who Dumped Live Goat In Ridgewood Cemetery SEE ANYTHING? Police Try To Find Who Dumped Live Goat In Ridgewood Cemetery
SEE Anything? Police Try To Find Who Dumped Live Goat In Ridgewood Cemetery Police were trying to find whoever abandoned a live goat in a Ridgewood cemetery. An animal control officer, with help from police and employees corraled the goat, who'd been left in a box Friday morning at the Valleau Cemetery on Franklin Turnpike. If you saw anything, or have information that could help them determine who was responsible, call Ridgewood police: (201) 652-3900. Boyd A. Loving took the photos and contributed to this story. Goat pokes around the Ridgewood cemetery.Boyd A. Loving Goat pokes around the Ridgewood cemetery.Boyd A. Loving Goat pokes around the Ridgewo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Pedestrian Seriously Injured Near Accident Scene In Totowa Pedestrian Seriously Injured Near Accident Scene In Totowa Pedestrian Seriously Injured Near Accident Scene In Totowa
Pedestrian Seriously Injured Near Accident Scene In Totowa A pedestrian was hospitalized with what responders said they believed were life-threatening injuries after she was struck by a car Thursday night in Totowa while a police officer was investigating a nearby crash that occurred moments earlier. The freak accident occurred in front of the Delta gas station on Union Boulevard and Boyle Avenue around 5 p.m. The officer was writing his report when the woman was hit. The Totowa First Aid Squad took her to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center. The Passaic County Prosecutor's Office responded along with borough police and EMS.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
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Feds Charge Morris County Ex-Con With Building, Exploding Bomb Feds Charge Morris County Ex-Con With Building, Exploding Bomb Feds Charge Morris County Ex-Con With Building, Exploding Bomb
Feds Charge Morris County Ex-Con With Building, Exploding Bomb Federal agents arrested a Morris County man who they said built and exploded a bomb. Christopher Faschan, a 31-year-old ex-con from Landing, remained in custody Thursday pending an appearance Friday in U.S. District Court in Newark. He is charged with possessing several “explosive/destructive devices,” as well as precursor materials, and with being a felon in possession of explosive materials, firearms and ammunition, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Fashon showed the bomb to an unidentified woman on Feb. 1 in Stanhope, then detonated it at Lake Lackawanna, Carpenito said. “That’s some…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
RETURNED! Women Who Took Yorkie Terrier Off Leonia Street Bring Him Back A Day Later RETURNED! Women Who Took Yorkie Terrier Off Leonia Street Bring Him Back A Day Later RETURNED! Women Who Took Yorkie Terrier Off Leonia Street Bring Him Back A Day Later
Returned! Women Who Took Yorkie Terrier Off Leonia Street Bring Him Back A Day Later A 6-year-old Yorkie Terrier who two women picked up off a Leonia street Thursday morning brought him to Fort Lee police more than 24 hours later, authorities said. Leonia police said Friday that they were looking into why the women took the dog and why it took so long to return him. Anxious family members called police in Leonia and neighboring Fort Lee after Mochi, who’d been running loose, was grabbed near the intersection of Fort Lee Road and Chestnut Street, a quarter-mile west of Route 46, around 10:30 a.m. Thursday. The women -- both blondes, between 40 and 50 years old and riding in…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: 2005 Palisades Park Gunpoint Rapist Identified, Caught Trying To Flee Country Prosecutor: 2005 Palisades Park Gunpoint Rapist Identified, Caught Trying To Flee Country Prosecutor: 2005 Palisades Park Gunpoint Rapist Identified, Caught Trying To Flee Country
Prosecutor: 2005 Palisades Park Gunpoint Rapist Identified, Caught Trying To Flee Country A Bronx man wanted in the 2005 gunpoint rape of a Palisades Park woman was nabbed at the gate as he tried to board a flight at JFK Airport carrying a one-way ticket to Jamaica and thousands of dollars in cash, authorities said. The arrest of Roydell Cameron, 39, in the nearly 14-year-old assault was announced Thursday during the official expansion of the North Jersey Regional Cold Case Task Force. The victim had parked her car at a borough apartment complex when Cameron attacked her on April 15, 2005, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. A DNA hit produced by the New Jersey St…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Dog Rescued From Waldwick House Fire Dog Rescued From Waldwick House Fire Dog Rescued From Waldwick House Fire
Dog Rescued From Waldwick House Fire A dog was rescued from a house fire on a Waldwick dead end Thursday. A discarded cigarette may have been responsible for the two-alarm Bender Road blaze, Police Chief Mark Messner said. No one was inside at the time, he said. The two-story home was severely damaged. Joining their colleages were firefighters from Ho-Ho-Kus, Midland Park, Mahwah, Saddle River, Upper Saddle River and Wyckoff, along with the borough Volunteer Ambulance Corps. At the two-alarm fire on Bender Road in Waldwick.COURTESY: Waldwick FD COURTESY: Waldwick FD

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Pedestrian, 84, Struck In Wyckoff Pedestrian, 84, Struck In Wyckoff Pedestrian, 84, Struck In Wyckoff
Pedestrian, 84, Struck In Wyckoff An 84-year-old Wyckoff woman was hospitalized with injuries that authorities didn't consider life-threatening after she was struck at a busy intersection around noon. The 57-year-old Waldwick driver remained at the scene and cooperated with the investigation after her 2018 Ford Edge struck the victim around 11:50 a.m., Lt. Joseph Soto said.  No summonses were immediately issued, he said. The Wyckoff Police Traffic Bureau was investigating. The Wyckoff Ambulance Corps and paramedics from The Valley Hospital responded along with police. 

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
75-Year-Old Driver Hospitalized After Runaway SUV Crashes Through Fences In Glen Rock 75-Year-Old Driver Hospitalized After Runaway SUV Crashes Through Fences In Glen Rock 75-Year-Old Driver Hospitalized After Runaway SUV Crashes Through Fences In Glen Rock
75-Year-Old Driver Hospitalized After Runaway SUV Crashes Through Fences In Glen Rock A 75-year-old driver was hospitalized Thursday after her SUV ran off the road, crashed through several fences and wound up wedged against fencing and shrubs in Glen Rock. An ambulance took the driver to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood with injuries that responders said weren't considered life-threatening after the Ackerman Avenue crash. A flatbed tow truck removed the damaged vehicle from the scene. Glen Rock police were joined by Ridgewood police, firefighters and EMS. Boyd A. Loving took the photos and contributed to this story.

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