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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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Taxi Struck By Gunfire In Paterson As Clifton Cabbie Flees Robber Taxi Struck By Gunfire In Paterson As Clifton Cabbie Flees Robber Taxi Struck By Gunfire In Paterson As Clifton Cabbie Flees Robber
Taxi Struck By Gunfire In Paterson As Clifton Cabbie Flees Robber A Clifton cabbie told police a robber in a mask fired a shot into his door in Paterson as he tried to flee before dawn Thursday. The 54-year-old driver said the robber approached him near the Dr. Frank Napier School of Technology (School #4) in the area of 1st and Clinton streets around 1 a.m. and took his cellphone. He said he hit the gas and the robber fired, hitting his door. The cabbie wasn't injured, authorities said. Anyone who might have seen something or who has information that could help investigators is asked to contact the Passaic County prosecutor’s tips line at 1-877-370-PCP…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Special Needs Students OK After School Van Catches Fire In Glen Rock Special Needs Students OK After School Van Catches Fire In Glen Rock Special Needs Students OK After School Van Catches Fire In Glen Rock
Special Needs Students OK After School Van Catches Fire In Glen Rock UPDATE: Two special needs students and three workers were safely removed to a nearby store after a school van caught fire Thursday afternoon in Glen Rock.  Fair Lawn and Glen Rock firefighters doused the blaze outside an office building on Harristown Road near the northbound Route 208 exit ramp to South Maple Avenue, borough Police Sgt. Bryan Scott said. The driver had pulled into the safe spot and got everyone off after spotting smoke coming from the engine compartment, Scott said. Children were safely removed to a nearby store.Boyd A. Loving Also responding were Glen Rock and Fair La…

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
School Bus Driver Gets 5 Years For Viewing, Sharing Child Porn During Breaks School Bus Driver Gets 5 Years For Viewing, Sharing Child Porn During Breaks School Bus Driver Gets 5 Years For Viewing, Sharing Child Porn During Breaks
School Bus Driver Gets 5 Years For Viewing, Sharing Child Porn During Breaks A former school bus driver from Stanhope was sentenced Thursday to five years in state prison for trafficking child pornography online. Eugene Triston, 58, admitted last year that he viewed and shared upwards of 500 images on breaks between bus runs of elementary school students and others in the Sparta School District. He pleaded guilty to a charge of distribution of child pornography in exchange for leniency. Triston – who viewed and shared videos of very young children being sexually assaulted -- will be required to register as a sex offender under Megan’s Law and will be subject to par…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Judge Frees Teacher Charged With Threatening To Shoot Up Elmwood Park Pre-School Pending Trial Judge Frees Teacher Charged With Threatening To Shoot Up Elmwood Park Pre-School Pending Trial Judge Frees Teacher Charged With Threatening To Shoot Up Elmwood Park Pre-School Pending Trial
Judge Frees Teacher Charged With Threatening To Shoot Up Elmwood Park Pre-School Pending Trial A judge in Hackensack on Wednesday ordered the release of a teacher who police said threatened to shoot up the Elmwood Park pre-school where she works. Gina Schroeder of Nutley was booked into the Bergen County Jail on Tuesday after police said she “made the threatening statements towards" the Goddard School.  A judge released her, under New Jersey's 2017 bail reform law, following a detention hearing Wednesday in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. The school was placed in lockdown last Friday after staffers there said that Schroeder, 39, threatened to “one day…come here…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Disbarred Teaneck Attorney Continued To Practice Law, Pocketed Funds, Prosecutor Charges Disbarred Teaneck Attorney Continued To Practice Law, Pocketed Funds, Prosecutor Charges Disbarred Teaneck Attorney Continued To Practice Law, Pocketed Funds, Prosecutor Charges
Disbarred Teaneck Attorney Continued To Practice Law, Pocketed Funds, Prosecutor Charges A Teaneck attorney continued to practice law after being disbarred, using client funds for himself, said authorities who arrested him. With his previous attorney trust account seized by the state Supreme Court, 57-year-old Barry D. Friedman deposited money from new clients into a business and personal account that he used “for his own purposes,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Wednesday. New Jersey’s highest court first suspended Friedman’s license to practice in the state last January, after his attorney trust account reached a negative balance three times and he failed to…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Monsey, NY
Breaking News
Police Break Window To Remove Resisting DWI Pomona Driver From Car, Authorities Say Police Break Window To Remove Resisting DWI Pomona Driver From Car, Authorities Say Police Break Window To Remove Resisting DWI Pomona Driver From Car, Authorities Say
Police Break Window To Remove Resisting DWI Pomona Driver From Car, Authorities Say Police had to break a window to get an argumentative – and suspended -- drunk driver from Pomona out of his car after it swerved toward oncoming traffic, authorities said Wednesday. An officer in Tenafly,  New Jersey was following the Toyota sedan when it swerved into the opposite lane on East Clinton Avenue near Buckingham Road just after 1 a.m. Saturday, police said. The driver, 26-year-old Manolo Morales of Ramapo, “was argumentative and refused to provide his identification and vehicle documents” after the officer stopped him, Capt. Michael deMoncada said. The officer smelled…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Tenafly Police: Officers Break Window To Remove Resisting DWI Driver From Car Tenafly Police: Officers Break Window To Remove Resisting DWI Driver From Car Tenafly Police: Officers Break Window To Remove Resisting DWI Driver From Car
Tenafly Police: Officers Break Window To Remove Resisting DWI Driver From Car Tenafly officers had to break a window to get an argumentative – and suspended -- drunk driver out of his car after it swerved toward oncoming traffic, authorities said Wednesday. Officer Maxwell Werner was following the Toyota sedan when it swerved into the opposite lane on East Clinton Avenue near Buckingham Road just after 1 a.m. Saturday, Capt. Michael deMoncada said. The driver, 26-year-old Manolo Morales of Ramapo, “was argumentative and refused to provide his identification and vehicle documents” after Werner pulled him over, deMoncada said. Werner smelled alcohol and saw evidence o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: BMW Stolen From Mahwah Owner's Driveway VIDEO: BMW Stolen From Mahwah Owner's Driveway VIDEO: BMW Stolen From Mahwah Owner's Driveway
Video: BMW Stolen From Mahwah Owner's Driveway SEE ANYTHING? Home surveillance video shows a BMW just stolen from a Mahwah resident’s driveway before dawn Wednesday speeding away with another vehicle, authorities said. The key fob apparently had been left in the 2016 X6 BMW, which was stolen from a Swan Road home around 4 a.m. – apparently by an organized group responsible for the theft of high-end vehicles in the area, Police Chief James N. Batelli said. Video from a neighbor’s home shows an SUV initially drive by. Moments later it speeds past in the opposite direction, followed closely by the stolen BMW. The car’s EZ pass transponde…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Driver Whose Jeep Hit Route 208 Guardrail, Median Was Under Influence, Franklin Lakes PD Says Driver Whose Jeep Hit Route 208 Guardrail, Median Was Under Influence, Franklin Lakes PD Says Driver Whose Jeep Hit Route 208 Guardrail, Median Was Under Influence, Franklin Lakes PD Says
Driver Whose Jeep Hit Route 208 Guardrail, Median Was Under Influence, Franklin Lakes PD Says A driver was under the influence of drugs when her Jeep bounced off the shoulder guardrail and smashed into the center median of Route 208 in Franklin Lakes Tuesday night, authorities said. Aimee Dumont-Peppel, 59, of Chester, NJ (Morris County) was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center following the 9 p.m. southbound crash, Capt. John Bakelaar said Wednesday. The Jeep had just passed the Colonial Road exit when it “veered into the right lane, crossing the rumble strips and striking the guard rail,” he said. It then “crossed all lanes into the left shoulder, approximately 150 feet …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Ex-Cons Charged In Connection With Shooting That Left Hackensack Man Dead Outside Bogota Bar Ex-Cons Charged In Connection With Shooting That Left Hackensack Man Dead Outside Bogota Bar Ex-Cons Charged In Connection With Shooting That Left Hackensack Man Dead Outside Bogota Bar
Ex-Cons Charged In Connection With Shooting That Left Hackensack Man Dead Outside Bogota Bar UPDATE: Two repeat offenders were each charged with aggravated assault in connection with a brawl between two groups outside a Bogota bar last month that ended with a Hackensack man shot dead, authorities announced Wednesday. Zachary C. Anderson, 26, of Englewood and Corey A. McKay Jr., 22, of Hackensack, both unemployed, each assaulted another victim who was hospitalized for his injuries after the brawl, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. McKay was scheduled for a detention hearing Tuesday and Anderson for a Feb. 4 first appearance, both in Central Judicial Processing Court…

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