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
Accomplished Palisades Park Sergeant Adds New Title: Editor-In-Chief Of Law Enforcement Mag Accomplished Palisades Park Sergeant Adds New Title: Editor-In-Chief Of Law Enforcement Mag Accomplished Palisades Park Sergeant Adds New Title: Editor-In-Chief Of Law Enforcement Mag
Accomplished Palisades Park Sergeant Adds New Title: Editor-In-Chief Of Law Enforcement Mag He’s had a distinguished career as a police officer, author and adjunct professor, and now Palisades Park Police Sgt. George Beck is the new Editor-In-Chief of Blue Magazine. Beck’s “passion, intellect and abilities have continually impressed me,” wrote Daniel Del Valle, the CEO of Haledon-based Envisage Productions. Beck, who grew up in Palisades Park, authored the books "The Killer Among Us," "Trounce: A Suspense Thriller" and "Images of America: Palisades Park." He holds a Ph.D. in History & Culture from Drew University, a master’s degree in Criminal Justice from Boston University, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
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Body Of Mom Stabbed Dead In NYC Found At Morristown Home, Son Charged Body Of Mom Stabbed Dead In NYC Found At Morristown Home, Son Charged Body Of Mom Stabbed Dead In NYC Found At Morristown Home, Son Charged
Body Of Mom Stabbed Dead In NYC Found At Morristown Home, Son Charged The body of a 65-year-old Morristown mom who’d been missing since Monday was found in a garbage bag outside her home – and her son reportedly is among those charged with stashing it there -- after she was stabbed to death in lower Manhattan. A trio was charged with “concealing a corpse” after the body of Paula Chin was found Tuesday at her Bailey Hollow Road home, the NYPD said. Investigators believe someone stabbed Chin in the throat in an apartment she kept in a building she owned in the Tribeca section of lower Manhattan in a fight over money. Those reportedly charged with illegally con…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Lodi Pedestrian, 75, Critically Injured In Hackensack Lodi Pedestrian, 75, Critically Injured In Hackensack Lodi Pedestrian, 75, Critically Injured In Hackensack
Lodi Pedestrian, 75, Critically Injured In Hackensack A 75-year-old Lodi man was critically injured when he was struck while jaywalking in Hackensack before dawn Wednesday, police said.Jose Gonzalez-Gonzalez was unconscious when he was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with potentially life-threatening injuries after being struck crossing Essex Street near Railroad Avenue at 6:25 a.m. crash, Capt. Nicole Foley said. The 32-year-old female driver of the westbound 2018 Honda HRV that hit him remained at the scene, Foley said. A summons was prepared against Gonzalez-Gonzalez for failing to yield to a vehicle outside a crosswalk.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Hasbrouck Heights PD: Out-Of-Towners Busted For Bringing BB Gun To Street Fight Hasbrouck Heights PD: Out-Of-Towners Busted For Bringing BB Gun To Street Fight Hasbrouck Heights PD: Out-Of-Towners Busted For Bringing BB Gun To Street Fight
Hasbrouck Heights PD: Out-Of-Towners Busted For Bringing BB Gun To Street Fight Two out-of-towners who were with a group that got into a fight with a bunch of Hasbrouck Heights locals were taken into custody after one of them pulled out a BB gun, authorities said. Several callers reported seeing a man with a handgun in front of the 101 Terrace Avenue apartment complex, Sgt. John Behr said. Responding officers learned of the fight and were told that someone wearing an orange and pink shirt was armed, Behr said. Moments later, someone called police to report a suspicious black Volkswagen circling the area. Detectives and uniformed officers who pulled the vehicle over …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
'In Review': Charitable Law Enforcement Group Faces Unexplained Facebook Shutdown 'In Review': Charitable Law Enforcement Group Faces Unexplained Facebook Shutdown 'In Review': Charitable Law Enforcement Group Faces Unexplained Facebook Shutdown
'In Review': Charitable Law Enforcement Group Faces Unexplained Facebook Shutdown After a Bergen County sheriff’s lieutenant collapsed during a charity basketball game and died, Craig Polen and members of his LEO Only Facebook page didn’t hesitate: They financed a Christmas shopping spree for his five daughters. Polen’s acts of kindness for law enforcement officer and their loved ones have stretched across the length and breadth of the U.S., at a time when brotherhood and kinship are particularly valuable – and needed. No fewer than 20 people, most of them police, have told him that LEO Only directly kept them from committing suicide. Now Polen and his group are the one…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen Detectives Smash Cocaine, Heroin Ring With SWAT Raids In Hackensack, Garfield, Lodi Bergen Detectives Smash Cocaine, Heroin Ring With SWAT Raids In Hackensack, Garfield, Lodi Bergen Detectives Smash Cocaine, Heroin Ring With SWAT Raids In Hackensack, Garfield, Lodi
Bergen Detectives Smash Cocaine, Heroin Ring With SWAT Raids In Hackensack, Garfield, Lodi With help from a variety of law enforcement agencies, Bergen County prosecutor's detectives smashed a local drug ring, arresting five people during a series of quick-strike SWAT raids in Garfield, Lodi and Hackensack, authorities announced Tuesday. Responders grabbed three defendants who tried to flee a vacant first-floor Garfield apartment that was being used to process and package heroin for sale – among them, third-floor resident Frankley Sanchez-Javier, 31, who “jumped through a glass pane window before being apprehended outside,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo sai…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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CNN Investigation: Did Someone Kill James Brown? CNN Investigation: Did Someone Kill James Brown? CNN Investigation: Did Someone Kill James Brown?
CNN Investigation: Did Someone Kill James Brown? The doctor who signed the death certificate of iconic singer James Brown 12 years ago is among more than a dozen people who suspect someone may have killed the Godfather of Soul, according to CNN. The condition of the performer also known as the Hardest Working Man In Show Business "changed too fast," Dr. Marvin Crawford told CNN. “He was a patient I would never have predicted would have coded,” said Crawford, who signed the death certificate at an Atlanta hospital after the 73-year-old Brown reportedly died of a heart attack and fluid in his lungs on Christmas Day in 2006. “But he died th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Yonkers, NY
Breaking News
Federal Judge Sends Yonkers Ex-Con Caught With Gun Back To Prison For 6+ Years Federal Judge Sends Yonkers Ex-Con Caught With Gun Back To Prison For 6+ Years Federal Judge Sends Yonkers Ex-Con Caught With Gun Back To Prison For 6+ Years
Federal Judge Sends Yonkers Ex-Con Caught With Gun Back To Prison For 6+ Years A federal judge in New Jersey sent a Yonkers ex-con back to prison for more than six years Tuesday after she convicted him of carrying a gun in Passaic. Because there's no parole in the federal prison system, 29-year-old Francisco Vallejo must serve the entire six years and four months for being a (three-time) convicted felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton convicted him of the weapons charge last July following a four-day bench trial that included surveillance video of him stashing a loaded .25-caliber handgun in a garbage can. Ci…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Federal Judge Sends Ex-Con Caught Stashing Gun In Passaic Back To Prison For 6+ Years Federal Judge Sends Ex-Con Caught Stashing Gun In Passaic Back To Prison For 6+ Years Federal Judge Sends Ex-Con Caught Stashing Gun In Passaic Back To Prison For 6+ Years
Federal Judge Sends Ex-Con Caught Stashing Gun In Passaic Back To Prison For 6+ Years A federal judge sent an ex-con back to prison for more than six years Tuesday after she convicted him of carrying a gun in the city of Passaic. Because there's no parole in the federal prison system, 29-year-old Francisco Vallejo of Yonkers must serve the entire six years and four months for being a (three-time) convicted felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton convicted him of the weapons charge last July following a four-day bench trial that included surveillance video of him stashing a loaded .25-caliber handgun in a garbage can. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Wayne PD: Route 23 Driver Caught With Coke, Pot Wayne PD: Route 23 Driver Caught With Coke, Pot Wayne PD: Route 23 Driver Caught With Coke, Pot
Wayne PD: Route 23 Driver Caught With Coke, Pot A driver pulled over by Wayne police for talking on his cellphone was carrying cocaine and nearly two ounces of pot, authorities said. Officers Jonathon Donado and Pawel Jadczak stopped a 2003 Chevy Tahoe driven by 27-year-old Joshua Santiago of Paterson in front of the Hooters on northbound Route 23, Detective Capt. Lawrence Martin said. They immediately “detected a strong odor of raw marijuana emanating from the interior of the vehicle,” he said. A search turned up a zip-locking bag of coke, eight bags of pot weighing more than 1.7 ounces, a blunt, a digital scale and a metal grinder, La…

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