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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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Gas Instead Of Brake: Driver Topples Column Outside Saddle Brook Pizzeria Gas Instead Of Brake: Driver Topples Column Outside Saddle Brook Pizzeria Gas Instead Of Brake: Driver Topples Column Outside Saddle Brook Pizzeria
Gas Instead Of Brake: Driver Topples Column Outside Saddle Brook Pizzeria A runaway sedan slammed into a support column that kept it from plowing through the front of a pizzeria in a Saddle Brook shopping center on Tuesday. The 56-year-old township resident wasn’t injured Tuesday after she hit the gas instead of the brake and her 2015 Volvo crashed into the brick column outside Donna’s Pizza at the Terra Mini Mall on Market Street, Police Chief Robert Kugler said. A building inspector was on scene with the shopping center property manager to shore up the façade, Kugler said. It's the same shopping center where an out-of-control sedan driven by a 91-year-old…

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Pascack Valley, NJ
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90-Year-Old Driver Runs Over 80-Year-Old Washington Township Man's Leg Twice 90-Year-Old Driver Runs Over 80-Year-Old Washington Township Man's Leg Twice 90-Year-Old Driver Runs Over 80-Year-Old Washington Township Man's Leg Twice
90-Year-Old Driver Runs Over 80-Year-Old Washington Township Man's Leg Twice An 80-year-old Washington Township man was knocked down and had his leg run over twice by a car driven by a 90-year-old Ho-Ho-Kus woman in the parking lot of a township supermarket. The victim was taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood with what possibly is a compound fracture, Capt. Richard Skinner said. The victim was walking along a row of cars to the right of the 2016 Kia Soul outside the Foodtown off Pascack Road when he was struck around 12:15 p.m., Skinner said. The driver "apparently thought she had room to pass him," the captain said. Instead, he was knocked down and run over …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Former Paterson Police Officer Gets 6 Months In Federal Pen For Video'd Hospital Assault Former Paterson Police Officer Gets 6 Months In Federal Pen For Video'd Hospital Assault Former Paterson Police Officer Gets 6 Months In Federal Pen For Video'd Hospital Assault
Former Paterson Police Officer Gets 6 Months In Federal Pen For Video'd Hospital Assault A former Paterson police officer must serve six months in federal prison for concealing the assault of a hospitalized suicidal man by his partner, which he recorded with his cellphone. Roger Then, 29, of Paterson, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Newark after pleading guilty last December to misprison of felony for concealing the civil rights crime committed by his partner, Ruben McAusland, at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson. McAusland was sentenced last week to 5½ years for the assault. ****** SEE: A former Paterson police officer will spend 5½ years in federal pr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Man's Body Found Hanging From Passaic Bridge Man's Body Found Hanging From Passaic Bridge Man's Body Found Hanging From Passaic Bridge
Man's Body Found Hanging From Passaic Bridge A man's body was found hanging early Tuesday morning from an NJ Transit bridge near the Passaic train station. The body was found around 6:30 a.m. on the Passaic Avenue bridge about a hundred yards from the station, NJ Transit's Nathan Rudy said. The Passaic County Prosecutor's Office, which was investigating, didn't immediately say whether homicide or suicide was suspected. A Medical Examiner was to determine cause of death. The incident didn't cause any significant delays on the Main Line, Rudy said. ****** VIDEO: No serious injuries were immediately reported in a Tuesday morning town…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: Flames Consume Lodi Townhouses VIDEO: Flames Consume Lodi Townhouses VIDEO: Flames Consume Lodi Townhouses
Video: Flames Consume Lodi Townhouses No serious injuries were immediately reported in a Tuesday morning fire that consumed the upper half of a Lodi townhouse condo complex. The fire broke out around 6:20 a.m. and shot through the roof and upper floor of the Home Place complex, near Passaic Street, demolishing four upper units and at least one below. Several fire companies joined their Lodi colleagues at the blaze, which one responder said began on an upper-floor deck. Fire and smoke alarms sounded, sending all residents out, he said. The building will have to be torn down. See video, below. ****** DAILY VOICE video, photo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
SEE ANYTHING? Saddle Brook Woman Showering When Burglar Breaks In, Police Seek Public's Help SEE ANYTHING? Saddle Brook Woman Showering When Burglar Breaks In, Police Seek Public's Help SEE ANYTHING? Saddle Brook Woman Showering When Burglar Breaks In, Police Seek Public's Help
SEE Anything? Saddle Brook Woman Showering When Burglar Breaks In, Police Seek Public's Help A Saddle Brook woman was showering Monday afternoon when a burglar broke in and ransacked her bedrooms, authorities said. Police are hoping someone on the busy street might have seen something -- or has surveillance video that could help find the culprit. The visibly shaken 20-something woman told police she emerged from the shower around 4 p.m. to find all bedrooms in the Outwater Lane single-family house near Fifth Street "had the dresser drawers pulled open and contents sifted through," Police Chief Robert Kugler said. The intruder had forced open a side door and was gone by the time th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
Feds Charge Tri-State Area Tour Company Founder With Trafficking Child Porn Feds Charge Tri-State Area Tour Company Founder With Trafficking Child Porn Feds Charge Tri-State Area Tour Company Founder With Trafficking Child Porn
Feds Charge Tri-State Area Tour Company Founder With Trafficking Child Porn The North Jersey founder of a nature tour company operating from the Jersey Shore north to Poughkeepsie and southern Connecticut was arrested by federal Homeland Security agents on charges of trafficking child porn. Vaughn Tiedeman, 46, of Living Adventure Tours, was ordered held without bail by a federal judge in Newark Monday afternoon on a charge of distributing child pornography. Between July 2018 and January 2019, Tiedeman, of West Milford, “distributed at least 50 videos and 100 images depicting the sexual abuse of children via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer network,” U.S. Attorney Craig…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Full Law Enforcement Funeral Set For Passaic County Sheriff's K-9 Leo, 8, At Garrett Mountain Full Law Enforcement Funeral Set For Passaic County Sheriff's K-9 Leo, 8, At Garrett Mountain Full Law Enforcement Funeral Set For Passaic County Sheriff's K-9 Leo, 8, At Garrett Mountain
Full Law Enforcement Funeral Set For Passaic County Sheriff's K-9 Leo, 8, At Garrett Mountain The highest level of respect for an officer who gave up his or her life in the line of duty will be paid to Passaic County Sheriff's K-9 Leo at Garrett Mountain this Wednesday, a week after he died. Shoes will be shined and hair tucked beneath hats as officers in Class A uniforms assemble for what's known as muster on April 3 on the Big Meadow off Mountain Avenue in Woodland Park. A color guard will be part of a large law enforcement turnout for the 1 p.m. service. "Taps" will be played. Leo became ill while conducting a search last and was rushed to an animal hospital, where he passed, Pa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Tipped Rig Dumps Load Of Mulch Near Bergen-Rockland Border Tipped Rig Dumps Load Of Mulch Near Bergen-Rockland Border Tipped Rig Dumps Load Of Mulch Near Bergen-Rockland Border
Tipped Rig Dumps Load Of Mulch Near Bergen-Rockland Border A dump truck spilled a load of mulch Monday afternoon near the Bergen-Rockland border, toppling a utility pole, yanking down power lines and spilling fuel. Brookside Auto & Towing sent a heavy-duty wrecker to Rockleigh to right the rig after the Piermont Road mishap. New Milford sent its Hazardous Materials Unit to handle the fuel spill. The driver appeared unharmed.

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: ID Thief Who Owed $18,776 In Child Support Captured By Glen Rock Detective, NYPD Authorities: ID Thief Who Owed $18,776 In Child Support Captured By Glen Rock Detective, NYPD Authorities: ID Thief Who Owed $18,776 In Child Support Captured By Glen Rock Detective, NYPD
Authorities: ID Thief Who Owed $18,776 In Child Support Captured By Glen Rock Detective, Nypd An identity thief who owed $18,776 in unpaid child support tried obtaining credit cards by posing as a Glen Rock woman’s son but was quickly tracked down by a borough detective. It began last summer when the woman’s bank notified her that someone tried to get a duplicate debit card on a joint account she had with her son, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said Monday. The thief used a New Jersey driver’s license in her son’s name, the chief said. He then tried to open a PC Richards credit card in the son’s name in New York, Ackermann said. There was a breach on the son’s American Express Card, …

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