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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Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
Breaking News
FOUND! Search Team Finds Hopatcong Man Reported Missing By Wife FOUND! Search Team Finds Hopatcong Man Reported Missing By Wife FOUND! Search Team Finds Hopatcong Man Reported Missing By Wife
Found! Search Team Finds Hopatcong Man Reported Missing By Wife UPDATE: A search-and-rescue team that numbered in the dozens on Saturday found a 34-year-old Hopatcong man whose wife reported him missing the night before. Kevin Fawthrop was hospitalized for hypothermia after members of the Ramapo Search and Rescue Team and co-workers from Blue Diamond Waste Removal found him in a heavily wooded area about a mile and a half from his home, responders said. "He was confused, disoriented and hypothermia had set in," Hopatcong police said. Also participating in the five-square-mile search were Hopatcong police and firefighters, Jefferson firefighters, the Su…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Bergenfield Police: How Are We Doing? Bergenfield Police: How Are We Doing? Bergenfield Police: How Are We Doing?
Bergenfield Police: How Are We Doing? Bergenfield residents and merchants are invited to assess the borough's police department as part of a process known as accreditation. Members of the department and borough employees also are encouraged to call during the scheduled phone-in period on Monday, April 8, from 9-11 a.m. THE NUMBER: (201) 387-4000, x4012 Telephone comments will be fielded by an assessment team from the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police, whose members will examine “all aspects of the Bergenfield Police Department’s policies and procedures, management, operations, and support services…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Area Spree: Car Thief Crashes Unlocked Car, Key Inside, Backing Out Of Unlocked Tenafly Garage Area Spree: Car Thief Crashes Unlocked Car, Key Inside, Backing Out Of Unlocked Tenafly Garage Area Spree: Car Thief Crashes Unlocked Car, Key Inside, Backing Out Of Unlocked Tenafly Garage
Area Spree: Car Thief Crashes Unlocked Car, Key Inside, Backing Out Of Unlocked Tenafly Garage A thief trying to back a Tenafly resident’s car out of a garage after finding it unlocked with the key inside overnight slammed into a row of bushes and left it there, police said. Another car left unlocked in the same Depeyster Avenue garage – also not locked -- had valuables taken from inside around 3:15 a.m. Tuesday, Capt. Michael deMoncada said. Responding officers found the 2005 Honda Civic with the engine running and the driver’s side door open partially wedged in some bushes in-between two neighboring properties, he said. “It appears the [bandit] was able to start the car and back i…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Amtrak Worker Train Derails Near NYC's Penn Station, Commuter Tickets Cross-Honored By PATH Amtrak Worker Train Derails Near NYC's Penn Station, Commuter Tickets Cross-Honored By PATH Amtrak Worker Train Derails Near NYC's Penn Station, Commuter Tickets Cross-Honored By PATH
Amtrak Worker Train Derails Near NYC's Penn Station, Commuter Tickets Cross-Honored By PATH Direct Saturday morning commuter rail service into Manhattan's Penn Station was being diverted to Hoboken after an Amtrak worker train derailed, NJ Transit said. Customers could then switch to PATH, which was cross-honoring their tickets at Newark, Hoboken and 33rd Street in order to get to the area. No injuries were reported after a mechanical problem caused the derailment just outside Penn Station, the agency said. The train derailed just before 7 a.m., NJ Transit tweeted. Results included LIRR delays in and out of Penn.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Prostitution Raid At Paterson Men's Club Nets Manager, 62-Year-Old Stripper, $8,800 Cash Prostitution Raid At Paterson Men's Club Nets Manager, 62-Year-Old Stripper, $8,800 Cash Prostitution Raid At Paterson Men's Club Nets Manager, 62-Year-Old Stripper, $8,800 Cash
Prostitution Raid At Paterson Men's Club Nets Manager, 62-Year-Old Stripper, $8,800 Cash Paterson police raided a gentlemen’s club – arresting the manager, a 62-year-old stripper and six of her co-workers – after dancers openly solicited undercover officers for sex, authorities said. The undercover officers went in after concerned citizens tipped the city ABC/Vice unit off to prostitution at “El Cabaret” on Cianci Street, which was closed by the city following the raid, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. Uniformed officers and drug detectives joined the unit in making the arrests, seizing $8,799 in illegal prostitution proceeds and writing up a total of 15 administrative comp…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
New Bergen County Sheriff's Recruits, Inter-Governmental Transfers Sworn, Heroes Honored New Bergen County Sheriff's Recruits, Inter-Governmental Transfers Sworn, Heroes Honored New Bergen County Sheriff's Recruits, Inter-Governmental Transfers Sworn, Heroes Honored
New Bergen County Sheriff's Recruits, Inter-Governmental Transfers Sworn, Heroes Honored Seven new recruits, one investigator and five inter-governmental transfers were sworn in Friday to the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office. Three of them are military service veterans. Sheriff Anthony Cureton also honored seven corrections officers and four nurses whose efforts saved the life last year of an inmate who’d had gone into cardiac arrest. “The Bergen County Sheriff’s Office is the premier law enforcement agency in Northern New Jersey,” Cureton said. “I am proud to welcome these thirteen new officers to our ranks and wish them well as they begin their careers.” RECRUITS Wayne Kubs…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Tree Falls Onto Paramus House Tree Falls Onto Paramus House Tree Falls Onto Paramus House
Tree Falls Onto Paramus House A tree fell onto a Paramus house early Friday evening. No injuries were reported in the Evergreen Place mishap. Police, firefighters and the borough Building Department responded. Michael Jannicelli took the photo and contributed to this account.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: Car Falls Off Tow Truck, Catches Fire On Route 80 In Hackensack VIDEO: Car Falls Off Tow Truck, Catches Fire On Route 80 In Hackensack VIDEO: Car Falls Off Tow Truck, Catches Fire On Route 80 In Hackensack
Video: Car Falls Off Tow Truck, Catches Fire On Route 80 In Hackensack A car fell off the back of a flatbed tow truck and caught fire Friday afternoon on Route 80 in Hackensack. The tow operator was able to disconnect the rig from the car and escape any danger. No other vehicles were involved. City firefighters extinguished the blaze. WATCH THE DAILY VOICE VIDEO:

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Lodi Stalker Impersonated Woman, 18, On Dating Sites Prosecutor: Lodi Stalker Impersonated Woman, 18, On Dating Sites Prosecutor: Lodi Stalker Impersonated Woman, 18, On Dating Sites
Prosecutor: Lodi Stalker Impersonated Woman, 18, On Dating Sites A self-employed insurance adjuster from Lodi impersonated an 18-year-old woman on dating sites for several months -- and even tried making a date, authorities charged Friday. Matthew J. Bolger Jr., 46, created two “fictitious social media accounts on dating and romance websites/applications in the likeness” of the victim for “a period spanning several months,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. Detectives from Calo’s Cyber Crimes Unit raided Bolger’s Long Valley Road residence and took him into custody on Friday. They charged him with stalking, impersonation and cyber-harass…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Ex-Hackensack HS Football Star Busted On Warrants During Drug Raid Ex-Hackensack HS Football Star Busted On Warrants During Drug Raid Ex-Hackensack HS Football Star Busted On Warrants During Drug Raid
Ex-Hackensack HS Football Star Busted On Warrants During Drug Raid A former Hackensack High School football star who was acquitted several years ago of beating a man into critical condition outside a Passaic nightclub was arrested by city police during a drug raid at an ex-con’s house. Ausar Walcott, 29, of Lodi wasn’t charged with any drug-related offenses during the arrest of Kisaac Martin at Martin’s Broadway home before dawn Friday, Capt. Peter Busciglio said. However, Busciglio said Walcott – who’d stayed there overnight -- had two outstanding warrants, one of them out of Wyckoff and the other from the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office, so he was taken i…

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