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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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: Paterson Pedestrian, 43, Seriously Injured Authorities: Paterson Pedestrian, 43, Seriously Injured Authorities: Paterson Pedestrian, 43, Seriously Injured
Authorities: Paterson Pedestrian, 43, Seriously Injured A 43-year-old Paterson woman was seriously injured when she was struck by a vehicle Tuesday night, authorities said. The victim was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center after being struck near the corner of Broadway and East 23rd Street by a Honda Civic around 6:30 p.m., Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Troy Oswald said Wednesday. The 28-year-old Passaic driver remained at the scene, they said. No charges were immediately brought nor summonses issued, they said. An investigation was continuing. Valdes asked that anyone who might have witnesse…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Teaneck Social Worker Charged With Collecting On Bogus Claims For Kids' Mental Health Services Teaneck Social Worker Charged With Collecting On Bogus Claims For Kids' Mental Health Services Teaneck Social Worker Charged With Collecting On Bogus Claims For Kids' Mental Health Services
Teaneck Social Worker Charged With Collecting On Bogus Claims For Kids' Mental Health Services A clinical social worker from Teaneck falsely billed the Medicaid program for mental health services she claimed she provided to at-risk children and adolescents, a state grand jury has charged. Gloria Andrade, 56, of Teaneck, was employed full-time as a social services specialist with the Township of Teaneck when she submitted the bogus claims while working a side job as a solo practitioner providing in-home counseling and therapy to children, adolescents, and their families in the NJ Department of Children and Families’ Intensive In-Community Services program (IICS), authorities said). “L…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Historic $148M Settlement In Uber Data Breach: New Jersey Gets $3.75 Million Historic $148M Settlement In Uber Data Breach: New Jersey Gets $3.75 Million Historic $148M Settlement In Uber Data Breach: New Jersey Gets $3.75 Million
Historic $148M Settlement In Uber Data Breach: New Jersey Gets $3.75 Million New Jersey will get $3.75 million of a whopping $148 million that Uber Technologies is paying all 50 states and the District of Columbia for a data breach that compromised the personal information of Uber riders and drivers, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced Wednesday.  The $148 million settlement represents the largest multi-state data breach settlement in U.S. history, Grewal said. It "resolves allegations that Uber failed to comply with state laws relating to the collection, maintenance and safeguarding of consumers’ personal information, and with state data breach notific…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Franklin Turnpike Stretch In Ridgewood Closed After Digging For New 7-Eleven Tips Utility Pole Franklin Turnpike Stretch In Ridgewood Closed After Digging For New 7-Eleven Tips Utility Pole Franklin Turnpike Stretch In Ridgewood Closed After Digging For New 7-Eleven Tips Utility Pole
Franklin Turnpike Stretch In Ridgewood Closed After Digging For New 7-Eleven Tips Utility Pole Excavation for a new 7-Eleven in Ridgewood tipped a utility pole Wednesday morning, temporarily closing a stretch of Franklin Turnpike. The exit ramp from southbound Route 17 to Franklin Turnpike also was closed. Repairs were being made. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this account.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Bergen SWAT Joins Fairview Search For Man Accused Of Abducting His Kids, Stabbing Their Mom Bergen SWAT Joins Fairview Search For Man Accused Of Abducting His Kids, Stabbing Their Mom Bergen SWAT Joins Fairview Search For Man Accused Of Abducting His Kids, Stabbing Their Mom
Bergen SWAT Joins Fairview Search For Man Accused Of Abducting His Kids, Stabbing Their Mom A Bergen County Regional SWAT team was deployed to a Fairview home in search of a man who authorities said abducted his children after stabbing their mother. Pedro Vaca, 29, apparently visited a relative there after signing the kids out of school and dropping them off with a family member in North Bergen around 3 p.m., authorities said. Police pinged his cellphone to Fairview, where Vaca "had been laying his head" with another relative on Greeley Avenue, borough Police Chief Martin Kahn told Daily Voice. The SWAT team was dispatched to Fairview at 9:21 p.m. Tuesday, Kahn said. V…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
'It's For My Daughter': Hackensack PD Nabs Local Man In $1,150 Steak Knife Bank Robbery 'It's For My Daughter': Hackensack PD Nabs Local Man In $1,150 Steak Knife Bank Robbery 'It's For My Daughter': Hackensack PD Nabs Local Man In $1,150 Steak Knife Bank Robbery
'It's For My Daughter': Hackensack PD Nabs Local Man In $1,150 Steak Knife Bank Robbery Thanks to a GPS tracking device hidden in a pack of cash, Hackensack police captured a 22-year-old city man moments after he robbed a TD Bank branch of $1,150 armed with a steak knife on Tuesday, authorities said. “Hey, gimme the money. Big bills only. It’s for my daughter,” police said Drew Hughes told a teller at the TD Bank on River Street at Atlantic Street just after noon. The teller then handed him $600, Capt. Peter Buscilgio said. Hughes "demanded more money, at which point the teller gave him an additional $468," Buscilgio said. "Hughes then turned his attention to t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Blame Key Fobs: Fort Lee PD Nabs Seven Teens In 17 Vehicle Burglaries, Four Auto Thefts Blame Key Fobs: Fort Lee PD Nabs Seven Teens In 17 Vehicle Burglaries, Four Auto Thefts Blame Key Fobs: Fort Lee PD Nabs Seven Teens In 17 Vehicle Burglaries, Four Auto Thefts
Blame Key Fobs: Fort Lee PD Nabs Seven Teens In 17 Vehicle Burglaries, Four Auto Thefts Fort Lee police cracked a rash of vehicle burglaries and thefts by seizing seven Hudson County teens – three of them 16 and one 15, authorities said Tuesday. A total of 17 break-ins and four outright thefts of automobiles were reported over a 10-day span in August in Fort Lee alone, Capt. Matthew Hintze said, adding that others were reported in neighboring Cliffside Park, Palisades Park, Ridgefield Park and Leonia. Blame key fobs, he said. “Although this technology has added a level of convenience, it has also created opportunities for criminals to burglarize and steal vehicles without hav…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Responders Rescue 100+ From Flooded Fairview Industrial Park Responders Rescue 100+ From Flooded Fairview Industrial Park Responders Rescue 100+ From Flooded Fairview Industrial Park
Responders Rescue 100+ From Flooded Fairview Industrial Park Firefighters rescued more than 100 people from a flooded Fairview industrial park on Tuesday. Responders used a backhoe and a High Water Rescue Vehicle brought by Ridgefield firefighters to evacuate the industrial park at 815 Fairview Avenue, Fairview Police Chief Martin Kahn said. Rain swelled creeks fed by the Hackensack River, flooding the area just off Broad Avenue.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Midland Park Mailman Charged: Video Shows Hit-Run SUV That Killed Hawthorne Man In Ridgewood Midland Park Mailman Charged: Video Shows Hit-Run SUV That Killed Hawthorne Man In Ridgewood Midland Park Mailman Charged: Video Shows Hit-Run SUV That Killed Hawthorne Man In Ridgewood
Midland Park Mailman Charged: Video Shows Hit-Run SUV That Killed Hawthorne Man In Ridgewood UPDATE: Bergen County prosecutor's detectives charged a 47-year-old postal carrier from Midland Park with the hit-and-run death of a Hawthorne man in Ridgewood earlier this week. Rafael Ramos was charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident and ordered held in the Bergen County Jail pending a first appearance Monday in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo confirmed Saturday night. Ramos's Chevy Blazer was towed from the driveway of his home on Prospect Street. It will be processed for evidence by the Bergen County Sheriff's Burea…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Prosecutor: Drug-Dealing Cliffside Imposter Caught With Gun, Bogus Documents, $21,650 In Cash Prosecutor: Drug-Dealing Cliffside Imposter Caught With Gun, Bogus Documents, $21,650 In Cash Prosecutor: Drug-Dealing Cliffside Imposter Caught With Gun, Bogus Documents, $21,650 In Cash
Prosecutor: Drug-Dealing Cliffside Imposter Caught With Gun, Bogus Documents, $21,650 In Cash Nearly 15 years after he was last busted for ID theft, a drug dealer who used a stolen identity to rent a Cliffside Park apartment was caught with fraudulently obtained credit cards, counterfeit driver’s licenses, a credit card skimming device, pot, $21,650 in suspected proceeds and a .45 caliber handgun loaded with hollow-point ammunition, authorities said. Obiajulu Ntukogu, 42, was arrested at his Carlyle Towers apartment with Nicole Khemraj, a 32-year-old student from Queens who was carrying a bogus driver’s license and phony credit cards, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said.…

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