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 Highlands, NJ
Obituaries
Waldwick Mom Stricken By Lupus, 43, Collapses, Dies Outside 'Back To School' Night Waldwick Mom Stricken By Lupus, 43, Collapses, Dies Outside 'Back To School' Night Waldwick Mom Stricken By Lupus, 43, Collapses, Dies Outside 'Back To School' Night
Waldwick Mom Stricken By Lupus, 43, Collapses, Dies Outside 'Back To School' Night A Waldwick mother of 8th-grade triplets collapsed and died in the borough’s middle school parking lot as she headed to “Back to School” night Thursday -- hours before her 44th birthday. Borough police and EMS “did all they could” to try and revive Danielle Tessaro Convertino in the parking lot of the Wyckoff Avenue school, a responder told Daily Voice. She was taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, where she was pronounced dead. Convertino, who battled Lupus and heart issues, grew up in Waldwick and was intensely involved in scholastic sports and school fundraisers. She and her husband,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Saudino Resigns As Sheriff Over Racist, Homophobic Remarks Saudino Resigns As Sheriff Over Racist, Homophobic Remarks Saudino Resigns As Sheriff Over Racist, Homophobic Remarks
Saudino Resigns As Sheriff Over Racist, Homophobic Remarks Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino announced his resignation Friday afternoon -- as did Executive Undersheriff George Buono, Undersheriff Robert Colaneri, Undersheriff Brian Smith and Undersheriff Joseph Hornyak -- following the release of secretly-recorded racist and homophobic comments by the sheriff. The announcement came as multiple sources told Daily Voice of the existence of other equally incriminating audio. Less than 20 minutes after the announcement, the Bergen County Courthouse was evacuated in response to an unspecified threat. The sheriff's office provides security to the cou…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Saudino Resigns As Sheriff Over Racist, Homophobic Remarks Saudino Resigns As Sheriff Over Racist, Homophobic Remarks Saudino Resigns As Sheriff Over Racist, Homophobic Remarks
Saudino Resigns As Sheriff Over Racist, Homophobic Remarks Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino announced his resignation Friday afternoon -- as did Executive Undersheriff George Buono, Undersheriff Robert Colaneri, Undersheriff Brian Smith and Undersheriff Joseph Hornyak -- following the release of secretly-recorded racist and homophobic comments by the sheriff. The announcement came as multiple sources told Daily Voice of the existence of other equally incriminating audio. Less than 20 minutes after the announcement, the Bergen County Courthouse was evacuated in response to an unspecified threat. The sheriff's office provides security to the cou…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Upstate NY Woman Who Drove Onto Teterboro Airport Runways Charged Upstate NY Woman Who Drove Onto Teterboro Airport Runways Charged Upstate NY Woman Who Drove Onto Teterboro Airport Runways Charged
Upstate NY Woman Who Drove Onto Teterboro Airport Runways Charged A 31-year-old upstate New York woman who drove her car across two runways at Teterboro Airport on Tuesday was hospitalized for a psychological evaluation, authorities said Thursday. Ciara Schultz, of Ballston Spa, NY was sent to New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus after being processed by Port Authority police on trespassing, obstruction and improper behavior charges, they said. Schultz -- formerly of North Carolina -- got into the airport off Industrial Avenue just after 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, drove across the runways, then bailed out of her car, authorities said. The security breach brought…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Maywood Residents Complain, Neighbor Busted For Drugs For 2nd Time In Three Weeks Maywood Residents Complain, Neighbor Busted For Drugs For 2nd Time In Three Weeks Maywood Residents Complain, Neighbor Busted For Drugs For 2nd Time In Three Weeks
Maywood Residents Complain, Neighbor Busted For Drugs For 2nd Time In Three Weeks A Maywood man arrested only a few weeks ago with a half-pound of pot and more than $2,500 in drug proceeds kept dealing from his house, said police who busted him again on Thursday. New Jersey’s 2017 bail reform law forced authorities to release 22-year-old Salvatore Ferriolo after he was arrested with a Hackensack man on Aug. 30. Responding to several complaints from concerned citizens, police raided his family’s Louis Street home and found marijuana, hash oil and THC edibles, Police Chief David Pegg said. Ferriolo was charged with several drug-related offenses and sent to the Bergen Coun…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
New NJ Civil Rights Director Rachel Wainer Apter Of Englewood Boasts Prestigious Law Record New NJ Civil Rights Director Rachel Wainer Apter Of Englewood Boasts Prestigious Law Record New NJ Civil Rights Director Rachel Wainer Apter Of Englewood Boasts Prestigious Law Record
New NJ Civil Rights Director Rachel Wainer Apter Of Englewood Boasts Prestigious Law Record Rachel Wainer Apter of Englewood already had a distinguished resume when New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal appointed her Thursday as the new director of the state Division on Civil Rights. Apter, 38, most recently has served as Grewal’s counsel on civil right and immigration – and led the New Jersey team that defeated a motion by Texas and seven other states to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). “This is a unique time for civil rights law in New Jersey,” Apter said. “While civil rights are under siege at the national level, the New Jersey legislature has been dram…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
CT Couple Charged With Burglarizing USS Ling After It Was Flooded CT Couple Charged With Burglarizing USS Ling After It Was Flooded CT Couple Charged With Burglarizing USS Ling After It Was Flooded
CT Couple Charged With Burglarizing USS Ling After It Was Flooded Hackensack police charged a Connecticut couple with stealing a lantern and shoulder lapel from the USS Ling submarine on the Hackensack River a short time after someone looted and flooded the landmark museum, authorities said. Jon P. Stevens of West Haven and Laura Palmese of Colchester, both 48, parked in the lot of the Heritage Diner and "swam through the Hackensack River to the submarine" on Aug. 11, Capt. Peter Busciglio said. Damage had already been done to the submarine when the couple "removed a lantern and a Medical Corps lieutenant shoulder lapel," he said. Cit…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Passaic Sheriff's Warrants Sweep Nets 39 Defendants, Many Released Under Bail Reform Passaic Sheriff's Warrants Sweep Nets 39 Defendants, Many Released Under Bail Reform Passaic Sheriff's Warrants Sweep Nets 39 Defendants, Many Released Under Bail Reform
Passaic Sheriff's Warrants Sweep Nets 39 Defendants, Many Released Under Bail Reform A three-day warrant sweep by the Passaic County sheriff’s officers netted 39 arrests for a variety of offenses, including rape, robbery and weapons possession. Several of those charged were soon back on the street, however. Among those arrested was 34-year-old Clarence Jones, who had dozens of envelopes and bags of heroin and crack when officers went to his Paterson home to execute a warrant, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Bernik said Thursday. Jones was charged with various drug counts and released under New Jersey’s 2017 bail reform law. “I want to commend the detectives involved in t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
CAUGHT! Franklin Lakes Man Charged In Hit-Run Death Of Garfield Special Needs Resident CAUGHT! Franklin Lakes Man Charged In Hit-Run Death Of Garfield Special Needs Resident CAUGHT! Franklin Lakes Man Charged In Hit-Run Death Of Garfield Special Needs Resident
Caught! Franklin Lakes Man Charged In Hit-Run Death Of Garfield Special Needs Resident UPDATE: A 59-year-old building superintendent from Franklin Lakes was arrested at his home Wednesday morning and charged with the hit-run death of a special needs resident outside a Garfield group home -- thanks to news accounts that included photos of the fleeing vehicle. The Chevy Suburban that struck Giovanni Rivera, 42, was in the driveway when police and investigators took Paul Frischer into custody at his Phelps Road home near the Route 287 overpass just after 6:30 a.m., authorities told Daily Voice. It was impounded as evidence. Frischer was charged with leaving the scene of a crash…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson Woman Admits Selling Thousands Of Heroin Pills Disguised As Percocet Paterson Woman Admits Selling Thousands Of Heroin Pills Disguised As Percocet Paterson Woman Admits Selling Thousands Of Heroin Pills Disguised As Percocet
Paterson Woman Admits Selling Thousands Of Heroin Pills Disguised As Percocet A Paterson woman admitted in federal court in Newark on Wednesday that she sold thousands of heroin-packed pills that her boyfriend made to look like Percocet. Karen Rojas, 28, told a U.S. District Court judge that she and Juan Vidal distributed thousands of pills for $5 each that he’d made at their home using a press between this past February and April. A buyer who cooperated with the government secretly recorded Rojas providing 40 pills for $200, after which she said that Vidal needed to “get supplies” in order to fulfill the buyer’s request for 100 to 150 of them, U.S. Attorney Craig Ca…

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