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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Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Firefighters Use Dry Chemicals To Douse Blaze At Upper Saddle River Medical Manufacturer Firefighters Use Dry Chemicals To Douse Blaze At Upper Saddle River Medical Manufacturer Firefighters Use Dry Chemicals To Douse Blaze At Upper Saddle River Medical Manufacturer
Firefighters Use Dry Chemicals To Douse Blaze At Upper Saddle River Medical Manufacturer Firefighters used chemicals to extinguish a fire at the Triangle Manufacturing plant in Upper Saddle River early Thursday. The fire broke out just before 8:30 a.m. in a unit at the Parkway plant that collects aluminum dust, USR Police Detective Lt. Edward Kane said. Water can't douse that type of fire -- and may, instead, cause an explosion, Kane said.  Extinguishers containing a dry chemical blend are necessary. Firefighters from Upper Saddle River, Mahwah and Ramsey responded, along with hazardous materials units from Bergen County and Mahwah. Triangle manufactures medical instrum…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Box Truck Rams Gas Pump, Igniting Fire On Northbound Route 17 In Upper Saddle River Box Truck Rams Gas Pump, Igniting Fire On Northbound Route 17 In Upper Saddle River Box Truck Rams Gas Pump, Igniting Fire On Northbound Route 17 In Upper Saddle River
Box Truck Rams Gas Pump, Igniting Fire On Northbound Route 17 In Upper Saddle River A box truck whose driver swerved to avoid colliding with another vehicle careened off northbound Route 17 in Upper Saddle River and slammed into a service station pump, igniting a pre-dawn fire Thursday. The 38-year-old driver from Perth Amboy wasn’t injured in the crash at the Valero station just before the Upper Saddle River/Ramsey exit shortly after 4:30 a.m., Detective Lt. Edward Kane said. Members of the borough’s volunteer fire department doused the blaze, the lieutenant said. A hazardous materials unit responded and found no need for further action, he said. ****** ALSO SEE: …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Car Fire Beneath Route 80 Near Hackensack River Sends Smoke Billowing Skyward Car Fire Beneath Route 80 Near Hackensack River Sends Smoke Billowing Skyward Car Fire Beneath Route 80 Near Hackensack River Sends Smoke Billowing Skyward
Car Fire Beneath Route 80 Near Hackensack River Sends Smoke Billowing Skyward A Thursday morning car fire sent smoke billowing up toward Route 80 near the Hackensack River. No one was injured in the Railroad Avenue fire in Ridgefield Park at the border of Bogota. The cause hadn’t been immediately determined. Ridgefield Park and Bogota firefighters and police responded. Flames consume car Thursday under Route 80 at Ridgefield Park/Bogota border.PHOTOS: Courtesy Alex Breuss and Leann Cordero PHOTOS: Courtesy Alex Breuss and Leann Cordero

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Citywide Paterson Police Strikes Net Dealers, Buyers, 800 Heroin Folds, Coke, Cash, Gun Citywide Paterson Police Strikes Net Dealers, Buyers, 800 Heroin Folds, Coke, Cash, Gun Citywide Paterson Police Strikes Net Dealers, Buyers, 800 Heroin Folds, Coke, Cash, Gun
Citywide Paterson Police Strikes Net Dealers, Buyers, 800 Heroin Folds, Coke, Cash, Gun Paterson police arrested several dealers and buyers throughout the city over a 10-day span, seizing more than 800 heroin folds, 75 vials and 10 bags of crack, $1,660 in cash, and an illegal handgun and ammo, authorities said Thursday. In one strike, narcotics detectives hit a notorious drug neighborhood -- Godwin Avenue and Auburn Street -- arresting several accused street dealers and buyers while seizing 155 heroin folds, along with 66 vials and four bags of crack, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. Among those arrested were alleged dealers Derrick McGill, 39, of Paterson and Timothy Bow…

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Passaic Sheriff's Officer Takes Keys Of DWI Motorist Who Drove Onto Closed Bridge Police: Passaic Sheriff's Officer Takes Keys Of DWI Motorist Who Drove Onto Closed Bridge Police: Passaic Sheriff's Officer Takes Keys Of DWI Motorist Who Drove Onto Closed Bridge
Police: Passaic Sheriff's Officer Takes Keys Of DWI Motorist Who Drove Onto Closed Bridge A Passaic County sheriff’s officer had to pull the keys from a vehicle that a drunken West Milford man tried driving through a closed bridge construction site in the middle of the afternoon, authorities said. Brian Shand, 67, of Hewitt also refused to submit a breath sample, according to a police report. Township police were summoned by a sheriff’s officer on a traffic control detail on Union Valley Road. She told Officer James McMahon that she’d taken the keys after Shand ignored her instructions and drove through the road closure around 3 p.m. March 25, they said. Shand failed a roadsid…

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
West Milford PD: Drunk Driver Plows Through Neighbor's Flower Bed, Booze In Hand, After Warning West Milford PD: Drunk Driver Plows Through Neighbor's Flower Bed, Booze In Hand, After Warning West Milford PD: Drunk Driver Plows Through Neighbor's Flower Bed, Booze In Hand, After Warning
West Milford PD: Drunk Driver Plows Through Neighbor's Flower Bed, Booze In Hand, After Warning West Milford police had just left a drunken township woman’s home after telling her not to drive when she got behind the wheel and plowed through her neighbor’s flower bed, authorities said. Police called to do a welfare check in the middle of the afternoon found 49-year-old MaryAnn Norczyk intoxicated at her home, according to a police report. “Being that she was not a harm to herself or others, officers warned her not to drive and left the residence,” the report says. “A short time later police received a call that [Norczyk] left her residence in her car and drove over the neighbor’s flo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Glen Rock PD: Hawthorne DWI Driver Hits Fence, Fountain, Trees -- And House Glen Rock PD: Hawthorne DWI Driver Hits Fence, Fountain, Trees -- And House Glen Rock PD: Hawthorne DWI Driver Hits Fence, Fountain, Trees -- And House
Glen Rock PD: Hawthorne DWI Driver Hits Fence, Fountain, Trees -- And House A Hawthorne tax consultant was drunk when his car careened off the road before dawn, damaging a Glen Rock homeowner’s fence, fountain, trees and grass before hitting the house itself, authorities said. Brian Taveras, 25, of Hawthorne was headed south on Lincoln Avenue when the crash occurred just before 2:30 a.m. Friday at the corner of Rock Road just across the border from Hawthorne, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Police charged Taveras with DWI and issued him a summons for careless driving, then released him to the custody of a sober adult while impounding his vehicle for 12 hours unde…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Obituaries
Former New Milford Salon Owner Donna Salomone, 73, Of Westwood: 'Beautiful Inside And Out' Former New Milford Salon Owner Donna Salomone, 73, Of Westwood: 'Beautiful Inside And Out' Former New Milford Salon Owner Donna Salomone, 73, Of Westwood: 'Beautiful Inside And Out'
Former New Milford Salon Owner Donna Salomone, 73, Of Westwood: 'Beautiful Inside And Out' “When someone dies, people always say how good they were, how nice, etc,” Liz Sciarretta Cammarano wrote of her aunt, Donna M. Salomone of Westwood, who died Tuesday at 73. “In this case, it is the purest of truth.” Many knew Salomone from when she owned and operated Arthur Angelo’s Hair Salon in New Milford. “She made me laugh through the craziest times,” former co-worker Sandra Theriaque wrote. “She touched a lot of people.” Salomone was “truly one of those people [who] deserve all the compliments -- beautiful inside and out.” Yvonne McKenzie Franklin added. “Funny sense of humor, a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Good News For Paramus Residents, Merchants: Fire Department Joins Elite Class Good News For Paramus Residents, Merchants: Fire Department Joins Elite Class Good News For Paramus Residents, Merchants: Fire Department Joins Elite Class
Good News For Paramus Residents, Merchants: Fire Department Joins Elite Class Fire protection premiums in Paramus will be helped by a significant boost in a critical safety rating that puts the borough's fire department in a class of only two dozen throughout the entire state. The jump to a Public Protection Classification 2 rating from a Class 4 by the Insurance Service Organization (ISO) can make a real difference for residents and business owners. "A community's investment in fire mitigation is a proven and reliable predictor of future fire losses," borough Fire Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. "Insurance companies use PPC information to help establish fair prem…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
SEEN IT? Suspected Car ID'd After Windows Smashed, Belongings Stolen At Westwood Charity Event SEEN IT? Suspected Car ID'd After Windows Smashed, Belongings Stolen At Westwood Charity Event SEEN IT? Suspected Car ID'd After Windows Smashed, Belongings Stolen At Westwood Charity Event
Seen IT? Suspected Car ID'd After Windows Smashed, Belongings Stolen At Westwood Charity Event Westwood police released a photo of a sedan that they believe may have been involved in a mini-burglary spree that left the windows of three vehicles smashed and valuables stolen during a weekend charity event. Three vehicles had their windows smashed and valuables taken during Sunday’s Berkeley School Charity Walk-A-Thon at Westvale Park, Police Chief Michael Pontillo said. The break-ins occurred between 1:21 p.m. and 1:31 p.m. -- 10 minutes, the chief said. The suspected vehicle -- possibly a four-door black Volkswagen Jetta or Passat -- pulled into a parking spot, then left a short tim…

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