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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Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: Montvale Woman, 77, Dies In House Fire UPDATE: Montvale Woman, 77, Dies In House Fire UPDATE: Montvale Woman, 77, Dies In House Fire
Update: Montvale Woman, 77, Dies In House Fire UPDATE: A fire that killed a 77-year-old Montvale widow in her home last weekend was ignited by a discarded cigarette, authorities said Friday. The blaze that tore through the North Avenue home of Ninette Grannis broke out just before 1 p.m. Sunday. "When the Montvale Police and Fire Departments arrived on the scene, the single-family residence was consumed by heavy fire," Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Friday. Grannis "was unaccounted for and presumed to be inside," he said. Her remains were later located, Calo said. "The cause of the fire was determined to be accident…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
8 Busted In Clifton, Hudson With 80 Pounds Of Pot, Weapons, $75,000 Cash -- And Gold 8 Busted In Clifton, Hudson With 80 Pounds Of Pot, Weapons, $75,000 Cash -- And Gold 8 Busted In Clifton, Hudson With 80 Pounds Of Pot, Weapons, $75,000 Cash -- And Gold
8 Busted In Clifton, Hudson With 80 Pounds Of Pot, Weapons, $75,000 Cash -- And Gold Authorities seized more than 80 pounds of pot, along with weapons, $75,000 in cash -- and 100 grams of pure gold – while arresting eight accused members of a ring that they said put drugs on the street of Passaic and Hudson counties. Two other Clifton residents and four from North Bergen were among those charged in a joint probe by the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Narcotics Task Force and the Newark Office of Homeland Security Investigations. Besides the marijuana – worth an estimated $200,000 on the street -- authorities seized what Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said were “large qua…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Palisades Park PD: Repeat Offender Couple Tried Selling Stolen Steak On Craigslist Palisades Park PD: Repeat Offender Couple Tried Selling Stolen Steak On Craigslist Palisades Park PD: Repeat Offender Couple Tried Selling Stolen Steak On Craigslist
Palisades Park PD: Repeat Offender Couple Tried Selling Stolen Steak On Craigslist A male-female pair of repeat offenders from Ridgefield were caught trying to fence shoplifted steak on Craigslist, Palisades Park police said. An off-duty Palisades Park police officer whose suspicions were raised alerted patrol units after he spotted Danielle Rose Marttine, 29, and James Vietzen, 33, toting stuffed supermarket bags. Responding officers arrested Vietzen and Marttine on 8th Street at East Brinkerhoff Avenue around 8 p.m. Friday after Vietzen showed them a bogus receipt for the steaks, which were shoplifted from the Shop-Rite on South River Street in Hackensack, police said. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
HEROES: Northvale EMS Workers Revive 84-Year-Old Heart Attack Victim HEROES: Northvale EMS Workers Revive 84-Year-Old Heart Attack Victim HEROES: Northvale EMS Workers Revive 84-Year-Old Heart Attack Victim
Heroes: Northvale EMS Workers Revive 84-Year-Old Heart Attack Victim An 84-year-old heart attack victim was revived by Northvale Volunteer Ambulance workers as they rushed him to the hospital. The victim fell to the ground at Paris Avenue and Franklin Street around 6 p.m. Saturday, authorities said. Northvale police, firefighters and members of the Volunteer Ambulance Corps quickly arrived. Members of Ambulance 226 shocked the victim with a defibrillator on the way to Pascack Valley Medical Center in Westwood and got his pulse and breathing going again. A hospital ambulance met them there and took the man – conscious and alert – to Hackensack University Me…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Cliffside Park Police Find AK-47 With Hollow Points, Handguns In Pickup Packed With 7 People Cliffside Park Police Find AK-47 With Hollow Points, Handguns In Pickup Packed With 7 People Cliffside Park Police Find AK-47 With Hollow Points, Handguns In Pickup Packed With 7 People
Cliffside Park Police Find AK-47 With Hollow Points, Handguns In Pickup Packed With 7 People Cliffside Park police said they found an AK-47, two handguns and several rounds of hollow-point ammunition after they stopped a pickup truck packed with seven people before dawn Sunday. Detective Daniel Murtagh and Sgt. Sergio Khanukayev were on patrol when they approached the Chevy Avalanche at Anderson and Lafayette avenues, a few blocks from the Fort Lee border, just after midnight, Lt. Vincent Capano said. Seven people were inside -- including five in the back set, two of whom were sitting other passengers' laps, Capano said. The windshield also had an obstructed view, he said. The of…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Feds: Cliffside Park Dealer Had Softball-Sized Heroin Bags, Stolen Gun, Stashed In Bronx Garage Feds: Cliffside Park Dealer Had Softball-Sized Heroin Bags, Stolen Gun, Stashed In Bronx Garage Feds: Cliffside Park Dealer Had Softball-Sized Heroin Bags, Stolen Gun, Stashed In Bronx Garage
Feds: Cliffside Park Dealer Had Softball-Sized Heroin Bags, Stolen Gun, Stashed In Bronx Garage A Cliffside Park man had heroin bags the size of softballs, a stolen handgun with a high-capacity magazine and tens of thousands of dollars in cash stashed in a minivan parked in a public garage near the Bronx Botanical Gardens, federal authorities said. DEA agents followed Jose Pena, a/k/a “Gucci,” 31, as he drove from Cliffside Park to the garage, parked next to a minivan and got into it, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Approaching the minivan, they immediately spotted the bags of heroin, he said. They also found the stolen Glock .22-caliber pistol -- loaded with 13 bullets in a larg…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Commuter Struck, Killed After Getting Off Stalled Bus On Route 3 In East Rutherford Commuter Struck, Killed After Getting Off Stalled Bus On Route 3 In East Rutherford Commuter Struck, Killed After Getting Off Stalled Bus On Route 3 In East Rutherford
Commuter Struck, Killed After Getting Off Stalled Bus On Route 3 In East Rutherford A man was struck and killed on Route 3 in East Rutherford late Friday after getting off a stalled bus. The victim apparently walked away from the disabled bus with his phone just before 11 p.m. when he was struck, responders said. A driver exiting the highway to Route 120 by the Meadowlands apparently lost control of the vehicle, which jumped the curb, mounted the grassy area off the road and hit the victim, they said. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Your Community
Lyndhurst Fitness Guru Brings Christmas To North Jersey Homeless, Volunteers Sought Lyndhurst Fitness Guru Brings Christmas To North Jersey Homeless, Volunteers Sought Lyndhurst Fitness Guru Brings Christmas To North Jersey Homeless, Volunteers Sought
Lyndhurst Fitness Guru Brings Christmas To North Jersey Homeless, Volunteers Sought Leah Fairchild of Lyndhurst had just given Christmas bags to a dozen homeless people on the streets of Manhattan when she began to cry. She wanted to do more. Since that Christmas four years ago, she has. “Each year I vow to do it bigger and better,” said Fairchild, who, with help from a team of volunteers, will distribute 275 bags Monday morning to those living on the streets and in shelters in Bergen, Passaic, Hudson and Essex counties. Fairchild, a single mom of three who owns and operates Train on Purpose (TOP) Hybrid Fitness Studio in Lyndhurst, launched her “Christmas Miracle Projec…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
New Elmwood Park Program Provides Food, Christmas Toys For Families In Need New Elmwood Park Program Provides Food, Christmas Toys For Families In Need New Elmwood Park Program Provides Food, Christmas Toys For Families In Need
New Elmwood Park Program Provides Food, Christmas Toys For Families In Need Local businesses, residents and others in Elmwood Park pitched in to buy Christmas toys, gift cards and food cards for borough families in need. Launched this year, the borough's Residents Assistance Program (RAP) also provided meals to the families of 50 local children for Thanskgiving and the current holiday season. Coordinated by Mirella Hernandez and boosted by the mayor and council, the RAP provides a variety of services, including leaf and snow removal, language translation and income tax preparation, in addition to the holiday drives. Participants included the Elmwood Park Polic…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Closter PD Crashes Shopping Spree: NYC Trio Caught With Dozens Of Stolen Credit, Gift Cards Closter PD Crashes Shopping Spree: NYC Trio Caught With Dozens Of Stolen Credit, Gift Cards Closter PD Crashes Shopping Spree: NYC Trio Caught With Dozens Of Stolen Credit, Gift Cards
Closter PD Crashes Shopping Spree: NYC Trio Caught With Dozens Of Stolen Credit, Gift Cards An illegally parked car at the Closter Plaza shopping center led to the arrests of three Brooklyn men who police said had nearly 50 stolen credit and gift cards. Officer Daniel Hargrave was approaching the car when the trio emerged from a Closter Plaza liquor store, Detective Sgt. Vincent Aiello said. Although they clearly appeared about to get into the car, the men told Hargrave and backup officers who quickly arrived that it wasn’t their vehicle, Aiello said. They also “refused to produce identification and were extremely uncooperative,” he said. Smelling pot, the officers searched the …

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