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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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Trailer Topples On Rain-Slicked Route 287 In Oakland Trailer Topples On Rain-Slicked Route 287 In Oakland Trailer Topples On Rain-Slicked Route 287 In Oakland
Trailer Topples On Rain-Slicked Route 287 In Oakland The second crash of the morning Friday on northbound Route 287 in Oakland toppled a dump trailer, leaving it and a full-sized SUV in the middle of the highway and gravel across the road. Traffic backed up quickly on the northbound highway near Skyline Drive just after 10:30 a.m. There were no apparent injuries. More than six hours earlier, two tractor-trailers involved in a crash on the same stretch of highway reportedly sent beer bottles crashing onto the road. The toppled trailer.Mike Moris for DAILY VOICE

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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HEARTBREAKING: Phone Scammers Steal $22,500 From 80-Year-Old Tenafly Woman HEARTBREAKING: Phone Scammers Steal $22,500 From 80-Year-Old Tenafly Woman HEARTBREAKING: Phone Scammers Steal $22,500 From 80-Year-Old Tenafly Woman
Heartbreaking: Phone Scammers Steal $22,500 From 80-Year-Old Tenafly Woman Heartless phone scammers stole $22,000 from an 80-year-old Tenafly woman by claiming her computer was hacked and her banking information was compromised, police said. Claiming to be from “Apple technical support,” the thieves called each night for five nights, getting the woman to buy GooglePlay gift cards in $500 allotments at various stores to cover the “investigation,” Capt. Michael deMoncada said. Once they got her to provide the numbers from one batch of cards, they told her she had to buy more, deMoncada said. Eventually, they convinced her to buy 45 cards, he said. It would have go…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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New Milford PD: Essex Car Thieves Busted With Ski Masks, Counterfeit Cash, More New Milford PD: Essex Car Thieves Busted With Ski Masks, Counterfeit Cash, More New Milford PD: Essex Car Thieves Busted With Ski Masks, Counterfeit Cash, More
New Milford PD: Essex Car Thieves Busted With Ski Masks, Counterfeit Cash, More A trio of Essex County 18-year-olds suspected in local car thefts were grabbed by New Milford police with ski masks, mechanics’ gloves, stolen bank checks and counterfeit money in their car before dawn Thursday, authorities said. Officer Samuel Gerais smelled marijuana coming from the vehicle after he stopped it on New Bridge Road a minute after midnight, Detective Lt. Kevin Van Saders said. The three apparently had been cruising the area, looking for cars to steal, he said. Backup Officers Mark O’Brien, Vincent Siekierski and Andrew Lignos found pot along with the other items in the car, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Monsey, NY
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Spring Valley Security Guard In Traffic Stop Posed As Police Officer, Police In NJ Charge Spring Valley Security Guard In Traffic Stop Posed As Police Officer, Police In NJ Charge Spring Valley Security Guard In Traffic Stop Posed As Police Officer, Police In NJ Charge
Spring Valley Security Guard In Traffic Stop Posed As Police Officer, Police In NJ Charge A security guard from Spring Valley flashed a badge and identified himself as a cop after a police officer in a North Jersey town pulled his companion over, authorities said. He wasn’t -- and it got him arrested, they said. Leonard C. Miles, 47, was released after the 11:45 p.m. stop Monday, Wyckoff police said. Miles, who owned the Ford Mustang, had “identified himself as a law enforcement officer in the state of New York and displayed a badge,” Lt. Joseph Soto said. Miles, in fact, “was employed as a security officer for a NY state agency and was not a sworn law enforcement officer,” Sot…

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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Wyckoff PD: Security Guard In Traffic Stop Posed As Police Officer Wyckoff PD: Security Guard In Traffic Stop Posed As Police Officer Wyckoff PD: Security Guard In Traffic Stop Posed As Police Officer
Wyckoff PD: Security Guard In Traffic Stop Posed As Police Officer A security guard from Rockland flashed a badge and identified himself as a cop after a Wyckoff police officer pulled his companion over, authorities said. He wasn’t -- and it got him arrested, they said. Leonard C. Miles, 47, of Spring Valley was released after the 11:45 p.m. stop. Miles, who owned the Ford Mustang, had “identified himself as a law enforcement officer in the state of New York and displayed a badge,” Lt. Joseph Soto said. Borough police later did a little digging. The discovered that Miles, in fact, “was employed as a security officer for a NY state agency and was not a sw…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
'Next Fix Could Be Last': AG Warns Users Of Fatal Drugs After Hudson/Essex Drug Mill Takedown 'Next Fix Could Be Last': AG Warns Users Of Fatal Drugs After Hudson/Essex Drug Mill Takedown 'Next Fix Could Be Last': AG Warns Users Of Fatal Drugs After Hudson/Essex Drug Mill Takedown
'Next Fix Could Be Last': AG Warns Users Of Fatal Drugs After Hudson/Essex Drug Mill Takedown The takedown of a massive Hudson/Essex-based drug ring that pumped out 15,000 bags a day of heroin and fentanyl a day prompted a rare public warning to drug users Thursday from state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal about which brands to avoid.  The massive drug mill was operated by three men from a luxury condo in Hudson County where authorities said they seized 32,500 individual doses and nearly nine pounds of fentanyl and heroin -- some with the same brand names linked to 84 overdose deaths in New Jersey. “We know that our state is home to far too many people struggling with addiction,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Repeat Offender’s 200 Hospital Transports, Assault On EMT Worry East Bergen Responders Repeat Offender’s 200 Hospital Transports, Assault On EMT Worry East Bergen Responders Repeat Offender’s 200 Hospital Transports, Assault On EMT Worry East Bergen Responders
Repeat Offender’s 200 Hospital Transports, Assault On EMT Worry East Bergen Responders EMTs in neighboring Bergenfield, Dumont, New Milford and elsewhere in Bergen County know 53-year-old Dean Mancini, and not in a good way: Homeless and often combative, he’s been transported to hospitals an estimated 200 times the past year alone, they say. Mancini's arrest sheet stretches 25 years, mostly for non-violent crimes in towns that include Englewood, Fort Lee, Garfield, Maywood, New Milford, Teaneck and Tenafly. Records also show as many parole violations as disorderly persons arrests -- although there also was an aggravated assault a decade ago. As a result, Mancini hasn’t done …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
South Hackensack Police Nab Fugitive Teen After Hasbrouck Heights Stop Near Felician In Lodi South Hackensack Police Nab Fugitive Teen After Hasbrouck Heights Stop Near Felician In Lodi South Hackensack Police Nab Fugitive Teen After Hasbrouck Heights Stop Near Felician In Lodi
South Hackensack Police Nab Fugitive Teen After Hasbrouck Heights Stop Near Felician In Lodi South Hackensack police nabbed a fugitive teen from Passaic who took off after a Hasbrouck Heights traffic stop in Lodi, ending a search involving officers from several towns. It began when Hasbrouck Heights Police Officer Nicholas Brunetti stopped a silver Honda Accord near the Felician University campus with three occupants and a strong smell of marijuana coming from inside, Detective Lt. Michael Colaneri Jr. said. The 17-year-old, wanted for escaping a juvenile facility in Trenton, took off on foot, Colaneri said. Several agencies responded to search for him while Hasbrouck Heights poli…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Group Of Rogue Paterson Police Exchanged Texts While Robbing Innocent Victims, FBI Finds Group Of Rogue Paterson Police Exchanged Texts While Robbing Innocent Victims, FBI Finds Group Of Rogue Paterson Police Exchanged Texts While Robbing Innocent Victims, FBI Finds
Group Of Rogue Paterson Police Exchanged Texts While Robbing Innocent Victims, FBI Finds A group of rogue Paterson police officers who targeted pedestrians and motorists for stops just to steal their money exchanged texts about it, authorities revealed Wednesday. The evidence, obtained by the FBI, is described in a nine-count federal grand jury indictment charging Officer Eudy Ramos, 28, of Paterson, with violating and conspiring to violate the victims’ civil rights, as well as with filing false reports to cover up his crimes. Ramos was one of three city officers originally identified as being arrested and charged by the FBI last April. He “targeted, stopped and searched” spec…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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RECOGNIZE HER? Police Say She Robbed A Paterson Bank Of More Than $5,000 RECOGNIZE HER? Police Say She Robbed A Paterson Bank Of More Than $5,000 RECOGNIZE HER? Police Say She Robbed A Paterson Bank Of More Than $5,000
Recognize HER? Police Say She Robbed A Paterson Bank Of More Than $5,000 Paterson police turned to the public for help Wednesday in trying to catch a woman who robbed a local bank of more than $5,000. Wearing a blue hooded jacket and blue-and-white scarf, the robber handed a teller at the Wells Fargo branch on Chamberlain Avenue a crumpled note on Monday (inset photo above), surveillance video of the holdup shows. The teller, in turn, gave her a flattened red pouch filled with cash. Wells Fargo was offering a $2,500 reward to anyone who could provide information leading to the robber’s arrest. Anyone who knows her, sees her or has information that could help c…

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