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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Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Suicide Call Leads New Milford Police To Basement Pot-Growing Operation Suicide Call Leads New Milford Police To Basement Pot-Growing Operation Suicide Call Leads New Milford Police To Basement Pot-Growing Operation
Suicide Call Leads New Milford Police To Basement Pot-Growing Operation A suicide call led New Milford police to a pot-growing operation in the basement of a local home. Officers were originally called to do a welfare check on a woman at a River Road home, Detective Lt. Kevin Van Saders said. The woman answered the door -- not telling police that she was the one who made the call -- then directed them to the basement. There they found her brother, 48-year-old Victor A. Collado, and “detected an odor of raw marijuana,” Van Saders said. On a table in plain view was pot, the lieutenant said. Collado admitted growing the weed, then showed the officers “a climate…

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Train Death Confirmed In Paterson Train Death Confirmed In Paterson Train Death Confirmed In Paterson
Train Death Confirmed In Paterson NJ Transit confirmed that someone was struck and killed by a commuter train Monday morning in Paterson. The circumstances following the incident at Wait Street and 5th Avenue weren’t immediately clear. NJ Transit was gathering information. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Residents Awoken As Would-Be Burglars Flee Clifton Home Residents Awoken As Would-Be Burglars Flee Clifton Home Residents Awoken As Would-Be Burglars Flee Clifton Home
Residents Awoken As Would-Be Burglars Flee Clifton Home Sleeping residents of a Clifton home awoke when two men tried to break in overnight Tuesday, police said. Both were trying to get in through a bathroom window of the Oregon Street home around 1:40 a.m. when they were "scared off by nearby activity," Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. Bracken asked that anyone who might have seen something or has information that could help investigators call Clifton detectives: (973) 470-5908.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Glen Rock Gas Station Customer With Declined Credit Card Deliberately Damages Pump Police: Glen Rock Gas Station Customer With Declined Credit Card Deliberately Damages Pump Police: Glen Rock Gas Station Customer With Declined Credit Card Deliberately Damages Pump
Police: Glen Rock Gas Station Customer With Declined Credit Card Deliberately Damages Pump A driver whose credit card was declined pulled out of a Glen Rock service station with the gas nozzle still attached to her car after arguing with the attendant, authorities said. The Maple Avenue Exxon attendant had told the 25-year-old Wayne woman she could go get the $15 she owed if she left her driver’s license because “he would be financially responsible to his employer if she did not return,” Police Chief Dean Ackermann said Monday. “The woman refused and began to argue with the attendant,” Ackermann said. “She then tried to drive off with the gas nozzle still attached to her vehicle,…

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Ridgewood, NJ
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Ridgewood PD: Knife-Wielding Bar Robber Nabbed Ridgewood PD: Knife-Wielding Bar Robber Nabbed Ridgewood PD: Knife-Wielding Bar Robber Nabbed
Ridgewood PD: Knife-Wielding Bar Robber Nabbed A knife-wielding intruder was taking liquor bottles from the basement storage room of a Ridgewood bar – cash stuffed into his pockets – when he was confronted by employees, authorities said. Officers responded to a call from MacMurphy’s on Godwin Avenue just after 2 a.m. Sunday and arrested 23-year-old Brian Arevalo of Wayne, Sgt. Michael W. Lembo said. The bar was closed when an employee found Arevalo in the basement, knife in hand, Lembo said. He also “had cash in his pockets that was taken from a cash register drawer,” the sergeant said. What began as a theft turned into a robbery, he…

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
Fire KO'd At Vacant Wanaque Store Fire KO'd At Vacant Wanaque Store Fire KO'd At Vacant Wanaque Store
Fire KO'd At Vacant Wanaque Store Fire damaged a vacant Wanaque store in a multi-business building Sunday afternoon. Flames spread to the roof and inside the wooden Ringwood Avenue building, near the Ringwood border, which also houses a daycare center and a liquor store. The site of the fire was once a framing company. Bloomingdale and Pompton Lakes firefighters were among the responders who joined their Wanaque colleagues.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Police: Serial Masturbator Does It Again Outside Edgewater Hair Salon Police: Serial Masturbator Does It Again Outside Edgewater Hair Salon Police: Serial Masturbator Does It Again Outside Edgewater Hair Salon
Police: Serial Masturbator Does It Again Outside Edgewater Hair Salon It wasn’t difficult for police to identify a man whom employees of an Edgewater hair salon said they saw masturbating outside their shop: He’d been caught doing the same thing twice before, authorities said. Ernesto G. Martinez of West New York was charged with masturbating in his car in Edgewater in 2016 and in Cliffside Park in 2017, records show. This time, Edgewater Detective Dale Price issued a summons to Martinez to appear in Municipal Court on Feb. 7 to answer lewdness charges after salon employees got the car’s license plate number, Detective Sgt. Tim Farell said Saturday. ****** …

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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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CANDID CAMERA: Gate Guard At Private Edgewater Community Caught Swiping Packages, Police Say CANDID CAMERA: Gate Guard At Private Edgewater Community Caught Swiping Packages, Police Say CANDID CAMERA: Gate Guard At Private Edgewater Community Caught Swiping Packages, Police Say
Candid Camera: Gate Guard At Private Edgewater Community Caught Swiping Packages, Police Say A series of package thefts convinced management at a private community in Edgewater to install a surveillance camera, leading to the arrest of a gate guard, authorities said. Police arrested Darcel E. Wood, 21, after reviewing the video, Detective Sgt. Tim Farell said Saturday. Wood, who worked the overnight shift, “abandoned his post at the gatehouse to walk into the mailroom and take packages” at Independence Harbor, Farell said. He was charged with two counts each of burglary and attempted theft and sent to the Bergen County Jail on Thursday. A judge ordered him released the next day p…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
SEE ANYTHING? Cellphone Seller Says He Was Mugged In Letgo App Meet On Rutherford Street SEE ANYTHING? Cellphone Seller Says He Was Mugged In Letgo App Meet On Rutherford Street SEE ANYTHING? Cellphone Seller Says He Was Mugged In Letgo App Meet On Rutherford Street
SEE Anything? Cellphone Seller Says He Was Mugged In Letgo App Meet On Rutherford Street A man told Rutherford police he tried to sell a cellphone in a meeting set up through the Letgo app and got mugged instead. Police asked borough residents and merchants in the area of Ames Avenue headed toward the train station to check their surveillance systems for a gold-colored Chevy sedan that the victim said his attackers fled in. The 33-year-old man told police he brokered a deal on the classifieds application to sell an iPhone to a buyer on Ames Avenue just before 10:30 p.m. Friday, Lt. Sean Farrell said. The Chevy had three black men and a black woman inside when he approached it …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
SWAT Team Removes Barricaded Teaneck Auto Detailer From Home SWAT Team Removes Barricaded Teaneck Auto Detailer From Home SWAT Team Removes Barricaded Teaneck Auto Detailer From Home
SWAT Team Removes Barricaded Teaneck Auto Detailer From Home A SWAT team stormed a Teaneck home early Saturday afternoon and seized a 72-year-old auto detailer who's had trouble before with the law. John Heywang barricaded himself in the Ogden Avenue home after Bergen County sheriff's officers went there Saturday morning to execute a removal order, law enforcement sources said. "What began as a civil eviction became a welfare check after there was no answer at the door," Sheriff Anthony Cureton said.  Officers determined that Heywang was inside but wasn't answering the door, Cureton said.  So reinforcements were called in. After 90 minut…

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