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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Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
PEDO FILE: Ecuadorian National Charged With Sexually Assaulting Pre-Teens In Paramus PEDO FILE: Ecuadorian National Charged With Sexually Assaulting Pre-Teens In Paramus PEDO FILE: Ecuadorian National Charged With Sexually Assaulting Pre-Teens In Paramus
Pedo File: Ecuadorian National Charged With Sexually Assaulting Pre-Teens In Paramus A 53-year-old Ecuadorian national who lives in Paramus sexually assaulted two pre-teens in the borough multiple times, authorities charged. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said detectives from his Special Victims Unit began investigating Edison Pro, who works as a handyman, after being contacted by the state Division of Child Protection & Permanency a month ago. A joint probe with Paramus police led to various charges of sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual contact and child endangerment, the prosecutor said on Thursday, Sept. 21. Pro was arrested in Paramus on Wednesday an…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
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Out-Of-State Man Recorded Sex With Underage Teaneck Teen: Prosecutor Out-Of-State Man Recorded Sex With Underage Teaneck Teen: Prosecutor Out-Of-State Man Recorded Sex With Underage Teaneck Teen: Prosecutor
Out-Of-State Man Recorded Sex With Underage Teaneck Teen: Prosecutor An unemployed man from Minnesota recorded himself sexually assaulting an underage teen multiple times in Teaneck, authorities charged. Isaiha Price, 25, of St. Paul, was arrested earlier this week and was being held at the Adult Detention Center in St. Paul, MN (in photo above), pending extradition to New Jersey, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. An investigation by his Special Victims Unit detectives and Teaneck police “revealed that Price recorded himself sexually assaulting a child who was under the age of 16 on more than one occasion in Teaneck,” the prosecutor said on Th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
SEEN HIM? 9-Year-Old Pascack Valley Runaway Still Missing SEEN HIM? 9-Year-Old Pascack Valley Runaway Still Missing SEEN HIM? 9-Year-Old Pascack Valley Runaway Still Missing
Seen HIM? 9-Year-Old Pascack Valley Runaway Still Missing A search continued in earnest for a 9-year-old rescue who got away from his Emerson home. Shaggy is a Schweenie -- a dachshund/shih tzu mix -- who wasn't wearing a collar when he went missing in Emerson around 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 13. He's also quite fearful. Shaggy was last seen on High Street crossing Palisade Avenue into the golf course. His devastated owners have been hanging posters and asking whether anyone's seen the little guy. Anyone who lives in the area is asked to check security cameras beginning around the time he was last seen. If you see Shaggy, don't approach, follow, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Marlton-Evesham, NJ
Breaking News
PREDATOR STING: PA Man Expected Sex With Girl, 12, At NJ Hotel, Homeland Security Says PREDATOR STING: PA Man Expected Sex With Girl, 12, At NJ Hotel, Homeland Security Says PREDATOR STING: PA Man Expected Sex With Girl, 12, At NJ Hotel, Homeland Security Says
Predator Sting: PA Man Expected Sex With Girl, 12, At NJ Hotel, Homeland Security Says A Pennsylvania man who arranged what he thought was sex with a pre-teen in a New Jersey hotel was instead seized by federal agents when he showed up, authorities said Wednesday. Louis Goldenberg, 41 of Philadelphia, "began interacting on a messaging application with an undercover Homeland Security Investigations agent, who was posing as a middle-aged woman with a 12-year-old niece" last month, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said on Sept. 20. Goldenberg messaged the purported aunt, "continuously expressing interest in having sexual contact," the U.S. att…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Couple Tries To Rescue Beagle Struck By Truck On GWB Couple Tries To Rescue Beagle Struck By Truck On GWB Couple Tries To Rescue Beagle Struck By Truck On GWB
Couple Tries To Rescue Beagle Struck By Truck On GWB A pair of good Samaritans rushed a dog who was struck on the George Washington Bridge to the hospital, but he didn't survive, they said. The unchipped, tri-color beagle, believed to be no older than two, was hit by a truck in the upper level's westbound lanes around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19, they said. A couple driving past scooped him up and took the Oradell Animal Hospital in Paramus. "He didn't make it," the wife said. "We saw the dog running along the left lane as we got into the bridge so it’s likely [he] came from the NY side," she added. Port Authority police confirmed the repo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Wrong-Way Driver Crashes Off Route 80 Wrong-Way Driver Crashes Off Route 80 Wrong-Way Driver Crashes Off Route 80
Wrong-Way Driver Crashes Off Route 80 No injuries were reported after a wrong-way driver crashed Wednesday on a Route 80 exit ramp. The Kia barreled up an embankment and into a tree off eastbound Exit 56B in Woodland Park mid-morning on Sept. 20. ABC Towing removed the SUV. New Jersey State Police responded and are investigating the cause.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Worker At Wyckoff Warehouse Injured By Falling Plate Glass Sections Worker At Wyckoff Warehouse Injured By Falling Plate Glass Sections Worker At Wyckoff Warehouse Injured By Falling Plate Glass Sections
Worker At Wyckoff Warehouse Injured By Falling Plate Glass Sections A worker was hospitalized after several large sections of plate glass fell on him at a warehouse in Wyckoff. The 31-year-old Ramsey resident was alert and conscious when his colleagues at Innovative Closet Designs on West Main Street freed him from beneath the debris around 1 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19, Wyckoff Police Lt. Kevin Kasak said. Responding officers rendered first aid to the victim, who was then tended to by Wyckoff Volunteer Ambulance members and paramedics, the lieutenant said. He was taken to St. Joseph's University Medical Center with a cut on his head and possible injuries to hi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Crime Fighters From NJ Work Case Of Baby, 1, Killed By Fentanyl At NYC Day Care Center Crime Fighters From NJ Work Case Of Baby, 1, Killed By Fentanyl At NYC Day Care Center Crime Fighters From NJ Work Case Of Baby, 1, Killed By Fentanyl At NYC Day Care Center
Crime Fighters From NJ Work Case Of Baby, 1, Killed By Fentanyl At NYC Day Care Center The owner of a Bronx daycare center where a 1-year-old boy died from fentanyl exposure was seized by federal authorities on Tuesday along with her husband’s cousin. Grei Mendez De Ventura, 36, the owner of Divino Niño Daycare, and her alleged accomplice, Carlisto Acevedo Brito, 41, were charged by the federal government on Sept. 19 with possession with the intent and conspiracy to distribute drugs resulting in death. Meanwhile, a manhunt continued for De Ventura’s fugitive husband, who was identified as the leader of the drug operation. Children who napped where the defendants were cuttin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Grandfather Struck, Killed By Fellow Senior Parishioner Outside Fairview Church Grandfather Struck, Killed By Fellow Senior Parishioner Outside Fairview Church Grandfather Struck, Killed By Fellow Senior Parishioner Outside Fairview Church
Grandfather Struck, Killed By Fellow Senior Parishioner Outside Fairview Church A 77-year-old grandfather from Ridgefield was laid to rest following a funeral at a Fairview church where he was fatally struck by a runaway sedan a week earlier. Athanios Dimitriou and a 56-year-old companion from North Bergen were having lunch under a canopy in the parking lot of the Ascension Greek Orthodox Church on Anderson Avenue when both were struck by a BMW 328 shortly before 11:30 a.m. Sept. 11. The driver – a fellow parishioner who, coincidentally, is also 77 – had accidentally hit the gas and backed into them, Fairview Police Capt. Michael Martic said. Detective Sgt. Anthony Sc…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Downed Wires Halt Train Service In Bergen Downed Wires Halt Train Service In Bergen Downed Wires Halt Train Service In Bergen
Downed Wires Halt Train Service In Bergen NJ TRANSIT announced at 3 p.m.: "Bergen County Line rail service has resumed in both directions and is subject to up to 45-minute delays." ****** Service along NJ TRANSIT's Bergen Line was suspended in both directions for hours on Tuesday after a power line fell onto the tracks. A No. 58 train had left Port Jervis at 9:21 a.m. Sept. 19 and was due to arrive in Hoboken at 11:38 a.m. Sept. 19. However, at 11:15 a.m., the wire stopped the train near the Plauderville Station in Garfield. "There were no reported injuries to the 110 customers and crew on board," NJ TRANSIT reported. "PSE&G…

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