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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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Two Pedestrians Struck In Hackensack, Hospitalized Two Pedestrians Struck In Hackensack, Hospitalized Two Pedestrians Struck In Hackensack, Hospitalized
Two Pedestrians Struck In Hackensack, Hospitalized Two pedestrians were hospitalized with injuries that responders said weren’t considered serious Wednesday afternoon after they were hit by a car on River Street in Hackensack. Both were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center after the 2 p.m. mishap at the intersection of East Salem Street, responders said. The driver received a summons for not yielding to pedestrians, police said. ****** ALSO SEE: A resident was hospitalized with smoke inhalation in a Wednesday afternoon fire at a Hackensack high-rise apartment building. https://hackensack.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/resi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
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Haworth PD: Secret Service Investigating Fairview Man Caught With Hundreds In Counterfeit Bills Haworth PD: Secret Service Investigating Fairview Man Caught With Hundreds In Counterfeit Bills Haworth PD: Secret Service Investigating Fairview Man Caught With Hundreds In Counterfeit Bills
Haworth PD: Secret Service Investigating Fairview Man Caught With Hundreds In Counterfeit Bills The Secret Service is investigating several hundred dollars in counterfeit bills that Haworth police said they found on a Fairview man awaiting trial on charges of forgery, money laundering and making false threats. Responding to a report of a disruptive patron at a local sushi restaurant, Sgt. Gianluca Ragone and Officer Kevin McKeary found 29-year-old Andrew D. Lochard walking along nearby Schraalenburgh Road, Detective Sgt. Justin Fox said. Lochard, who has an arrest record stretching back several years, allegedly smelled of marijuana. He also was carrying more than $650 in what turned …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Passaic County Rapper Juelz Santana Gets 2+ Years In Fed Pen For Bringing Gun To Newark Airport Passaic County Rapper Juelz Santana Gets 2+ Years In Fed Pen For Bringing Gun To Newark Airport Passaic County Rapper Juelz Santana Gets 2+ Years In Fed Pen For Bringing Gun To Newark Airport
Passaic County Rapper Juelz Santana Gets 2+ Years In Fed Pen For Bringing Gun To Newark Airport Passaic County rapper Juelz Santana was sentenced Wednesday to 27 months in federal prison for bringing a gun into Newark Airport earlier this year. Santana, 36, of Totowa -- whose real name is Laron L. James -- must serve just about all of the sentence: There's no parole in the federal prison system. U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler also sentenced him to one year of supervised release. Santana, who took a plea deal from the government earlier this year, had a prior felony conviction out of Bergen County that prohibited him from carrying a firearm. SEE: Passaic County Rapp…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Driver, 51, Killed By Tractor-Trailer After Leaving Disabled Car Near Rt 287/17 Split In Mahwah Driver, 51, Killed By Tractor-Trailer After Leaving Disabled Car Near Rt 287/17 Split In Mahwah Driver, 51, Killed By Tractor-Trailer After Leaving Disabled Car Near Rt 287/17 Split In Mahwah
Driver, 51, Killed By Tractor-Trailer After Leaving Disabled Car Near Rt 287/17 Split In Mahwah UPDATE: A driver was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer late Tuesday on Route 287 near the Route 17 split in Mahwah after he got out of his car following an accident, State Police said. John J. Neumayer, 51, of Wantage was pronounced dead at the scene following the 11:20 crash at a convergence of highways notorious for serious accidents. Neumayer had gotten out of his 2015 Honda after it became disabled by a crash in the southbound travel lanes, New Jersey State Police Trooper Charles Marchan said."A tractor-trailer then struck both him and his vehicle," the trooper told Daily Voice. A…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Arrest Made In Ridgefield Park Home Invasion That Left Owner Pistol-Whipped, Slashed Arrest Made In Ridgefield Park Home Invasion That Left Owner Pistol-Whipped, Slashed Arrest Made In Ridgefield Park Home Invasion That Left Owner Pistol-Whipped, Slashed
Arrest Made In Ridgefield Park Home Invasion That Left Owner Pistol-Whipped, Slashed Bergen County prosecutor's detectives and Ridgefield Park police made an arrest overnight Wednesday in a home invasion that left a village homeowner pistol-whipped and both him and an older woman slashed. Julian Mangal, 18, had been free, under New Jersey’s 2017 bail reform law, since village police charged him with a car burglary in June. ** UPDATE: Two more people were arrested in connection to a home invasion that left the owner and an older woman pistol-whipped and slashed ** Around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, authorities said, he searched an unlocked car outside the victims' 4th Street home. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Driver, 51, Killed By Tractor-Trailer Near Route 287/17 Split In Mahwah Driver, 51, Killed By Tractor-Trailer Near Route 287/17 Split In Mahwah Driver, 51, Killed By Tractor-Trailer Near Route 287/17 Split In Mahwah
Driver, 51, Killed By Tractor-Trailer Near Route 287/17 Split In Mahwah A driver was struck and killed after he got out of his car following an accident and was struck by a tractor-trailer late Tuesday on Route 287 near the Route 17 split in Mahwah, responders said. John J. Neumayer, 51, of Wantage was pronounced dead at the scene following the 11:20 crash at a convergence of highways notorious for serious accidents. Neumayer had gotten out of his 2015 Honda after it became disabled by a crash in the southbound travel lanes, New Jersey State Police Trooper Charles Marchan said."A tractor-trailer then struck both him and his vehicle," the trooper told Daily Voic…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Aerial Circuits: New Mahwah Police Drones Aim To Boost Protection, Service Aerial Circuits: New Mahwah Police Drones Aim To Boost Protection, Service Aerial Circuits: New Mahwah Police Drones Aim To Boost Protection, Service
Aerial Circuits: New Mahwah Police Drones Aim To Boost Protection, Service If a law enforcement agency is going to add a trio of drones to serve and protect the public, as Mahwah police just did, it might as well get the best. The three new additions are “the most advanced drones available to law enforcement,” Police Chief James N. Batelli said Tuesday. Township police can’t be everywhere, but they can maneuver to unique vantage points with their new mini-squadron. Batelli cited: Search and rescue operations: The drones assist with missing person investigations, Amber Alerts, Silver Alerts and lost hikers, for instance – the last of which will be particularly u…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Monsey, NY
Breaking News
Gunman Who Robbed 14 Hotels In Airmont, Nanuet, Elsewhere Gets 21 Years In Federal Pen Gunman Who Robbed 14 Hotels In Airmont, Nanuet, Elsewhere Gets 21 Years In Federal Pen Gunman Who Robbed 14 Hotels In Airmont, Nanuet, Elsewhere Gets 21 Years In Federal Pen
Gunman Who Robbed 14 Hotels In Airmont, Nanuet, Elsewhere Gets 21 Years In Federal Pen A 46-year-old man who robbed employees at gunpoint at hotels in Airmont and Nanuet was sentenced Tuesday to 21 years in federal prison. Tremone Burnett, 46, of Orange, New Jersey, must serve just about all of the term: There's no parole in the federal prison system. Burnett told a federal judge in Newark three months ago that he tied the victims’ hands and feet in some of the holdups -- another dozen of which occurred in New Jersey. He also fired the gun during a hotel robbery at a Sheraton in Weehawken, federal prosecutors said. Among the victimized hotels were a Howard Johnson's in …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
PHOTOS: Fire Damages Midland Park Beauty Salon PHOTOS: Fire Damages Midland Park Beauty Salon PHOTOS: Fire Damages Midland Park Beauty Salon
Photos: Fire Damages Midland Park Beauty Salon No injuries were immediately reported in a late Tuesday afternoon fire at a Midland Park beauty salon. The two-alarm blaze ignited on the exterior of the Godwin Avenue building that houses Custom Cut Salon before making its way inside just after 4 p.m. The salon and apartments above it in the three-story building were evacuated safely. Mutual aid responders included firefighters from Wyckoff, Waldwick and Ho-Ho-Kus. Sean Sokoly took this photo: The fire broke out on the exterior of the building.COURTESY: Sean Sokoly Boyd A. Loving took the photos below and contributed to this account…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Gunman Who Robbed 14 Hotels In Paramus, Rockland, Elsewhere Gets 21 Years In Fed Pen Gunman Who Robbed 14 Hotels In Paramus, Rockland, Elsewhere Gets 21 Years In Fed Pen Gunman Who Robbed 14 Hotels In Paramus, Rockland, Elsewhere Gets 21 Years In Fed Pen
Gunman Who Robbed 14 Hotels In Paramus, Rockland, Elsewhere Gets 21 Years In Fed Pen An Essex County man who robbed employees at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Paramus at gunpoint -- as well as those at 13 other hotels in New Jersey and Rockland County -- was sentenced Tuesday to 21 years in federal prison. Tremone Burnett, 46, of Orange, must serve just about all of the term: There's no parole in the federal prison system. That means he'll be in his late 60s when he's eventually released. Burnett told a federal judge in Newark three months ago that he tied the victims’ hands and feet in some of the holdups. SEE: Gunman Robs Cash From Paramus Hotel He also fired the gun during…

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