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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Bergenfield, NJ
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3rd One: Bergenfield Man Accused Of Grabbing Woman's Butt In Paramus Charged In Dumont Incident 3rd One: Bergenfield Man Accused Of Grabbing Woman's Butt In Paramus Charged In Dumont Incident 3rd One: Bergenfield Man Accused Of Grabbing Woman's Butt In Paramus Charged In Dumont Incident
3rd One: Bergenfield Man Accused Of Grabbing Woman's Butt In Paramus Charged In Dumont Incident A Bergenfield man charged with grabbing a woman's butt at a Marshalls in Paramus did the same in Dumont two years ago and more recently followed a woman and her granddaughter around a Closter shopping center, authorities said. The mother of the 19-year-old woman in the Marshalls incident in Paramus chased down Edward Evans, 53, and recorded him with her cellphone, Deputy Police Chief Robert Guidetti said Thursday. Detective Lt. Robert Olive and Detective Jeff Lattanzi, in turn, identified Evans as the man in the video after checking with Closter police. They arrested him at his home on Wed…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Notorious Washington Township Hill Claims Another Vehicle: Truck Hauling Granite Notorious Washington Township Hill Claims Another Vehicle: Truck Hauling Granite Notorious Washington Township Hill Claims Another Vehicle: Truck Hauling Granite
Notorious Washington Township Hill Claims Another Vehicle: Truck Hauling Granite The back end of a flatbed truck loaded with several tons of granite wound up in a roadside ditch on a notorious hill in Washington Township early Tuesday afternoon. Traffic on Washington Avenue was temporarily diverted while a tow truck did its thing. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this account.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Your Community
Want To Donate To Victims Of Hurricane Florence? Here's How Want To Donate To Victims Of Hurricane Florence? Here's How Want To Donate To Victims Of Hurricane Florence? Here's How
Want To Donate To Victims Of Hurricane Florence? Here's How As experts warn of damage that could be worse than from Katrina, administrators of one of the area's largest Facebook groups have compiled a list of Hurricane Florence relief organizations. The list in the Bergen County-based Northern New Jersey All Incidents group will be updated, as needed, co-administrator James Bohan said Thursday. “All organizations are, to the best of our knowledge, reputable,” Bohan said. “We encourage everyone to follow their conscience when donating. Unless otherwise specified, what relief organizations need most right now is money,” he added. Unsolicited, physic…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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PHOTOS: Woman Suspected Of DWI Drives Wrong Way Into Hawthorne Car Wash PHOTOS: Woman Suspected Of DWI Drives Wrong Way Into Hawthorne Car Wash PHOTOS: Woman Suspected Of DWI Drives Wrong Way Into Hawthorne Car Wash
Photos: Woman Suspected Of DWI Drives Wrong Way Into Hawthorne Car Wash Hawthorne police took a drunken motorist into custody Thursday morning after she drove the wrong way into a car wash, authorities said. The entire bumper of the 2017 Hyundai Elantra came off in the incident at the Hawthorne Car Wash on Goffle Road around 10:30 a.m. A tow truck was summoned to remove the sedan as the 52-year-old Ridgewood woman -- who had a dog with her -- was taken into custody.  The vehicle was impounded under John's Law and she was released to a responsible adult, police said. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this account.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
3rd One: Bergenfield Man Accused Of Grabbing Woman's Butt In Paramus Charged In Dumont Incident 3rd One: Bergenfield Man Accused Of Grabbing Woman's Butt In Paramus Charged In Dumont Incident 3rd One: Bergenfield Man Accused Of Grabbing Woman's Butt In Paramus Charged In Dumont Incident
3rd One: Bergenfield Man Accused Of Grabbing Woman's Butt In Paramus Charged In Dumont Incident A Bergenfield man charged with grabbing a woman's butt at a Marshalls in Paramus did the same in Dumont two years ago and more recently followed a woman and her granddaughter around a Closter shopping center, authorities said. The mother of the 19-year-old woman in the Marshalls incident in Paramus chased down Edward Evans, 53, and recorded him with her cellphone, Deputy Police Chief Robert Guidetti said Thursday. Detective Lt. Robert Olive and Detective Jeff Lattanzi, in turn, identified Evans as the man in the video after checking with Closter police. They arrested him at his home on Wed…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Disguised Garfield, Teaneck Bank Robber Gets Three Years In Federal Prison Disguised Garfield, Teaneck Bank Robber Gets Three Years In Federal Prison Disguised Garfield, Teaneck Bank Robber Gets Three Years In Federal Prison
Disguised Garfield, Teaneck Bank Robber Gets Three Years In Federal Prison A Passaic woman who went on a two-month bank robbery spree with another woman that stretched from Teaneck to the Poconos last year -- and included them wearing hijabs and nuns' habits as disguises -- was sentenced Wednesday to 37 months in federal prison. There's no parole in the federal prison system, meaning that 24-year-old Melissa Aquino Arias will have to serve just about all of the sentence. Arias told a judge in U.S. District Court in Newark in June that she and accomplice Swahilys Pedraza-Rodriguez, 20, of New Haven, CT dressed as nuns in a failed attempt to rob a bank in Tannersvil…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Park Ridge Businessman Gets 61 Months In Fed Pen For Conning Toys R Us, Other Company Of $3M Park Ridge Businessman Gets 61 Months In Fed Pen For Conning Toys R Us, Other Company Of $3M Park Ridge Businessman Gets 61 Months In Fed Pen For Conning Toys R Us, Other Company Of $3M
Park Ridge Businessman Gets 61 Months In Fed Pen For Conning Toys R Us, Other Company Of $3M A Park Ridge con man was sentenced Wednesday to 61 months in federal prison for using shell companies and phony invoices to scam both an international company he worked for and Toys R Us, where his now-deceased ex-wife had worked, out of $3 million. Philip Charles de Gruchy, 64, admitted conspiring to commit mail fraud and subscribing to false individual and corporate tax returns in U.S. District Court in Newark in March. de Gruchy, 64, was married at the time to Barbara Brown, an administrator with Toys R Us in Wayne who authorities said steered a contract to CEM Direct Marketing — a ficti…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Paterson Dealer Admits Selling Thousands Of Heroin Pills Disguised As Percocet Paterson Dealer Admits Selling Thousands Of Heroin Pills Disguised As Percocet Paterson Dealer Admits Selling Thousands Of Heroin Pills Disguised As Percocet
Paterson Dealer Admits Selling Thousands Of Heroin Pills Disguised As Percocet A Paterson drug dealer admitted in federal court in Newark on Wednesday that he made and sold thousands of heroin-packed pills that he made to look like Percocet. Juan Vidal, 33, told a U.S. District Court judge that he and fellow defendant Karen Rojas distributed thousands of pills he’d made at his home using a press for $5 each 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. Attor…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Police Suspect DWI In Hawthorne Crash Police Suspect DWI In Hawthorne Crash Police Suspect DWI In Hawthorne Crash
Police Suspect DWI In Hawthorne Crash A collision in Hawthorne led to charges against one of the drivers, whom police suspected of driving under the influence. Borough police, firefighters and EMS responded to Tuesday's crash involving a Jeep and Volkswagen Jetta -- whose driver had to be extricated -- at the intersection of Goffel Road and Warburton Avenue. One driver was expected to be taken into custody for processing by police after being released from the hospital. At least one other occupant of one of the vehicles was hospitalized, as well. A flatbed tow truck removed both wrecks from the roadway. Firefighters tended to …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Shooting Threat At High School Elsewhere Mistakenly Prompts Swift Action In Bogota Shooting Threat At High School Elsewhere Mistakenly Prompts Swift Action In Bogota Shooting Threat At High School Elsewhere Mistakenly Prompts Swift Action In Bogota
Shooting Threat At High School Elsewhere Mistakenly Prompts Swift Action In Bogota Bogota police and school district officials moved quickly after a threat made by a student in Georgia was mistakenly thought to involve Bogota High School. The online threat against “BHS” actually was directed at Brunswick High School in that town, Bogota Schools Supt. Damien Kennedy said Tuesday. Officials there took a 16-year-old boy into custody after they said he threatened on the AirDrop social media app to go on a school shooting spree. He had no intention of carrying out the threats, they said. Meanwhile, all was well in Bogota. “Our district takes all possible threats seriously an…

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