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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Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Feds Snatch Garfield Lawyer Charged With Swiping $100,000 From Client Feds Snatch Garfield Lawyer Charged With Swiping $100,000 From Client Feds Snatch Garfield Lawyer Charged With Swiping $100,000 From Client
Feds Snatch Garfield Lawyer Charged With Swiping $100,000 From Client A Garfield lawyer who authorities said pocketed $100,000 from a client was seized by federal agents at JFK Airport as he got off a flight from Colombia, authorities said. Then he smiled for his mugshot. Alfredo Ramos, 38, was extradited to New Jersey, booked into the Bergen County Jail on Friday and then ordered released by a judge the next day on charges of misapplication of entrusted property, records show. The self-employed, 6-foot, 300-pound Ramos “received the funds into his attorney trust account but, instead of forwarding them to the client, used them for his own purposes, Acting Ber…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson PD: Stop Yields Semi-Auto, High-Capacity Magazine, 460 Heroin Folds, 27 Cocaine Bags Paterson PD: Stop Yields Semi-Auto, High-Capacity Magazine, 460 Heroin Folds, 27 Cocaine Bags Paterson PD: Stop Yields Semi-Auto, High-Capacity Magazine, 460 Heroin Folds, 27 Cocaine Bags
Paterson PD: Stop Yields Semi-Auto, High-Capacity Magazine, 460 Heroin Folds, 27 Cocaine Bags A pair of Paterson detectives who stopped a sedan believed involved in a robbery found a semi-automatic handgun -- with a high-capacity magazine – along with 460 folds of heroin and more than two dozen bags of cocaine, authorities said. Backups arrived as Detectives Martin Luizzi and John Farfan pulled over the green Chevy in the area of Presidential Boulevard and Clinton Street just before 10 p.m. Monday, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. They arrested Frank Warren III, of Paterson, on drug and weapons charges after finding the 9mm handgun, ammo and drugs -- including 27 bags of cocaine…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Check Your Security Cameras: Glen Rock Police Seek Public's Help In Home Break-Ins Check Your Security Cameras: Glen Rock Police Seek Public's Help In Home Break-Ins Check Your Security Cameras: Glen Rock Police Seek Public's Help In Home Break-Ins
Check Your Security Cameras: Glen Rock Police Seek Public's Help In Home Break-Ins Glen Rock police asked residents in neighborhoods barely a mile and a half apart to check their exterior surveillance cameras as they investigate a pair of home burglaries. Someone apparently removed a first-floor window at an Ellsworth Terrace residence before taking several pieces of jewelry from the homeowner’s and daughter’s bedrooms sometime last week, police said. “That window may have been left unlocked, allowing access to the bedroom once the screen was removed,” Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Around 7 p.m. Friday, residents who summoned police to a Stonefield Road home said the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Your Community
Englewood Soccer Club Youngsters Bring Holiday Cheer to City Elderly Englewood Soccer Club Youngsters Bring Holiday Cheer to City Elderly Englewood Soccer Club Youngsters Bring Holiday Cheer to City Elderly
Englewood Soccer Club Youngsters Bring Holiday Cheer to City Elderly Young members of the champion Englewood Soccer Club brought some cookies and holiday cheer to residents of a city senior complex.The club is a not-for-profit organization created to teach Englewood kids the fundamentals of the soccer. The Christmas Eve visit reinforced the idea among member of the ESC U12 of caring for others and paying forward, organizers said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Car Slams Into Franklin Lakes House: Motorist, 81, Hit Reverse Instead Of Drive, Responders Say Car Slams Into Franklin Lakes House: Motorist, 81, Hit Reverse Instead Of Drive, Responders Say Car Slams Into Franklin Lakes House: Motorist, 81, Hit Reverse Instead Of Drive, Responders Say
Car Slams Into Franklin Lakes House: Motorist, 81, Hit Reverse Instead Of Drive, Responders Say An 81-year-old driver was hospitalized after her car slammed into a Franklin Lakes home on Christmas morning. The woman apparently put the car into reverse instead of drive, sending it careening across Pueblo Drive, across the lawn and through the front of the single-family house, which responders said was unoccupied at the time. "Crews first used mechanical shoring, utilizing our Super X Struts from Res-Q-Jack, to temporarily shore [the damaged corner of the building] so crews could safely work in the damaged area, followed by wood shoring which remained in place," the Franklin Lakes Volun…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn PD: Burglar Caught Swiping Items From Unlocked Vehicles Fair Lawn PD: Burglar Caught Swiping Items From Unlocked Vehicles Fair Lawn PD: Burglar Caught Swiping Items From Unlocked Vehicles
Fair Lawn PD: Burglar Caught Swiping Items From Unlocked Vehicles Summoned by citizens reporting a drunken man in their neighborhood, Fair Lawn police arrested a local resident who they said stole debit cards, sunglasses, headphones, a phone charger and change from three unlocked vehicles. Responding Officer Mark Roskowsky spotted 33-year-old Christian Rossiter on Dewey Place at Morlot Avenue, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Roskowsky found Rossiter carrying proceeds taken from vehicles on Canger Place and Morlot Avenue, the sergeant said. Rossiter also was carrying some marijuana, he said. Police charged Rossiter with three counts of burglary and possession of…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Clifton PD: Christmas Burglar Caught Carrying Two Loaded Guns Clifton PD: Christmas Burglar Caught Carrying Two Loaded Guns Clifton PD: Christmas Burglar Caught Carrying Two Loaded Guns
Clifton PD: Christmas Burglar Caught Carrying Two Loaded Guns It wasn't Santa trying to make his way into a Clifton resident's apartment window just after midnight on Christmas: Police said they chased down and caught a burglar carrying not one but two loaded handguns. Responding to the attempted burglary call in the 200 block of Ackerman Avenue, Officers Christian Martinez and Kevin Berdnik spotted 31-year-old ex-con Juan Zenquis of Passaic, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. Zenquis took off, but the officers chased him down as he tried to scale a nearby backyard fence, Bracken said. He "then resisted arrest by tucking both hands in his waistband a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
2 More Arrests Made In Ridgefield Park Home Invasion; Residents Pistol-Whipped, Slashed 2 More Arrests Made In Ridgefield Park Home Invasion; Residents Pistol-Whipped, Slashed 2 More Arrests Made In Ridgefield Park Home Invasion; Residents Pistol-Whipped, Slashed
2 More Arrests Made In Ridgefield Park Home Invasion; Residents Pistol-Whipped, Slashed Three people were taken into custody following a Ridgefield Park home invasion that left a village homeowner pistol-whipped and both him and an older woman slashed. Ryan Blake, 19 of Ridgefield Park, was charged with resisting arrest and Tysheem Clinton-McQueen, 21 of Little Ferry with supplying a handgun in last Tuesday's incident, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. ** ORIGINAL STORY: Arrest Made In Ridgefield Park Home Invasion That Left Owner Pistol-Whipped, Slashed ** Around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, authorities said, Julian Mangal, 18 of Pennsylvania, searched an unlocked…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Female Pedestrian, 61, Killed In Fort Lee, Fleeing Driver Caught Female Pedestrian, 61, Killed In Fort Lee, Fleeing Driver Caught Female Pedestrian, 61, Killed In Fort Lee, Fleeing Driver Caught
Female Pedestrian, 61, Killed In Fort Lee, Fleeing Driver Caught Authorities took a fleeing driver into custody Wednesday night a short time after a 61-year-old woman was struck and killed in Fort Lee, authorities confirmed. ** UPDATE: A 70-year-old Fort Lee woman was charged in the hit-and-run death of a female pedestrian Wednesday ** The victim "was struck by a westbound box truck, then struck again by an eastbound Mercedes-Benz SUV" on Main Street near Jones Road just off Route 46, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. "The box truck remained on the scene, but the Mercedes-Benz fled the area." Detectives from Calo's Fatal Accident Investi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Fire Damages Allendale Restaurant Fire Damages Allendale Restaurant Fire Damages Allendale Restaurant
Fire Damages Allendale Restaurant A Monday morning electrical fire brought emergency responders to Allendale's downtown business district for the second time in two weeks. No injuries were immediately reported. The two-alarm fire broke out in the ceiling between the Mezza Luna Bistro on West Allendale Avenue and a residence above around 8:30 a.m., responders said. Firefighters who were met with heavy smoke knocked down the blaze, then doused additional flames found during the overhaul. The fire damaged the restaurant and temporarily closed adjoining businesses. Firefighters from Franklin Lakes, Ramsey, Upper Saddle River…

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