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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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgefield PBA Donates Backbacks To Borough Schoolkids Ridgefield PBA Donates Backbacks To Borough Schoolkids Ridgefield PBA Donates Backbacks To Borough Schoolkids
Ridgefield PBA Donates Backbacks To Borough Schoolkids Led by two officers and boosted by local businesses, members of Ridgefield P.B.A. Local #330 collected 57 backpacks for borough schoolchildren. Donations by Walmart of North Bergen and Lawton Exxon and the Oritani Bank, both of Ridgefield supported the campaign spearheaded by Officers Gregory Anastassatos and Digna Mendez.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Maywood PD: Google Search Prompts Owner Of Damaged Laptop To Pretend It Was Stolen Maywood PD: Google Search Prompts Owner Of Damaged Laptop To Pretend It Was Stolen Maywood PD: Google Search Prompts Owner Of Damaged Laptop To Pretend It Was Stolen
Maywood PD: Google Search Prompts Owner Of Damaged Laptop To Pretend It Was Stolen A Maywood man told police a Google search prompted him to file a false burglary report after he absently left his laptop on the roof of his car and it fell off on the highway, authorities said. The burglary call brought Maywood police and detectives with a K-9 unit, as well as a Bergen County sheriff’s forensics unit to the home of from 32-year-old Sabir Miah, Police Chief David T. Pegg said Monday. Miah told them “he left the apartment to take his dog for a walk and when he returned home he found his front door open and a black bag containing the laptop gone,” Pegg said. There were no sig…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Bergenfield PD: Name On Work Van Foils Painter Who Swiped Tree, Other Items In Theft Spree Bergenfield PD: Name On Work Van Foils Painter Who Swiped Tree, Other Items In Theft Spree Bergenfield PD: Name On Work Van Foils Painter Who Swiped Tree, Other Items In Theft Spree
Bergenfield PD: Name On Work Van Foils Painter Who Swiped Tree, Other Items In Theft Spree A painting contractor from Bergenfield drove through town swiping items from private homes and businesses – including a tree – while driving a van with his name on the side, authorities said. Robert Solano, 47, kept busy for nearly a month, stealing a garden hose and faucet from an automobile business, a weeping cherry tree from the front lawn of a private residence, two ladders from a power supply company and several packages from people’s front steps, Capt. Mustafa Rabboh said. The items were collectively valued at $1,200, Rabboh said. Detectives found surveillance video of Solano and hi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Fallen Tree Hits Van At Busy New Milford Intersection Fallen Tree Hits Van At Busy New Milford Intersection Fallen Tree Hits Van At Busy New Milford Intersection
Fallen Tree Hits Van At Busy New Milford Intersection No one was injured when a tree fell on a commercial van early Monday afternoon at a busy New Milford intersection. The tree came down at the corner of River and New Bridge roads during lunch hour. The Ford transit van sustained minor damage, witnesses said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn PD: Repeat Offender, 25, Caught On Video Swiping Cash From FLHS Athletes' Lockers Fair Lawn PD: Repeat Offender, 25, Caught On Video Swiping Cash From FLHS Athletes' Lockers Fair Lawn PD: Repeat Offender, 25, Caught On Video Swiping Cash From FLHS Athletes' Lockers
Fair Lawn PD: Repeat Offender, 25, Caught On Video Swiping Cash From Flhs Athletes' Lockers Fair Lawn police reviewed surveillance video to identify a 25-year-old repeat offender who they said stole several hundred dollars in cash from lockers at the high school after slipping into the building during summer vacation. Demetri Walker of Fair Lawn already was facing charges out of Glen Rock of receiving stolen property and obstruction and for obstruction out of Englewood – both from June -- when he entered the school on Aug. 28, police said. He got in through an entrance on the south side of the school that was left open for two hours in the morning for student athletes, they said. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Sheriff: Paterson Dealer Busted At Vacant House Had Guns, $4,300 Worth Of Heroin, Crack, Pot Sheriff: Paterson Dealer Busted At Vacant House Had Guns, $4,300 Worth Of Heroin, Crack, Pot Sheriff: Paterson Dealer Busted At Vacant House Had Guns, $4,300 Worth Of Heroin, Crack, Pot
Sheriff: Paterson Dealer Busted At Vacant House Had Guns, $4,300 Worth Of Heroin, Crack, Pot Passaic County Sheriff’s detectives busted a Paterson man with two guns – one of them stolen -- and nearly 1,000 packages of heroin and cocaine that they said he was selling from a stolen minivan parked outside an abandoned house. Dion Moore, 40, also had nearly $1,000 in drug proceeds when he was caught in the parking lot of the Hamilton Avenue building, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. Detectives stopped and arrested the driver of a red pickup truck moments after they said they watched him buy drugs from Moore, the sheriff said. When they returned their attention to Moore, he tossed a p…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Day Trader Busted Selling Cocaine To Undercover Detective Prosecutor: Day Trader Busted Selling Cocaine To Undercover Detective Prosecutor: Day Trader Busted Selling Cocaine To Undercover Detective
Prosecutor: Day Trader Busted Selling Cocaine To Undercover Detective A day trader from Monmouth County was busted after selling cocaine to an undercover detective from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, authorities said. William Berry Jr., 46, of Englishtown first sold a half-ounce in August after members of the Narcotics Task Force targeted him, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. He then sold an undercover investigator nearly half a pound of the the drug last week and was busted, Calo said. Detectives found him carrying more cocaine, along with a digital scale and several plastic baggies for packaging, the prosecutor said. Berry was rele…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Pint-Sized Bandit In One-Eyed Ski Mask Robs Lodi Burger King Of $1,000 Pint-Sized Bandit In One-Eyed Ski Mask Robs Lodi Burger King Of $1,000 Pint-Sized Bandit In One-Eyed Ski Mask Robs Lodi Burger King Of $1,000
Pint-Sized Bandit In One-Eyed Ski Mask Robs Lodi Burger King Of $1,000 A diminutive robber wearing a ski mask with only one eye hole fled the Lodi Burger King with nearly $1,000 before dawn Sunday after ringing the rear doorbell, authorities said. Another employee opened the locked door thinking it was a colleague reporting to work around 5 a.m., Police Chief Donald Scorzetti said. The robber -- who wore brown dress shoes and what was either a black poncho or long raincoat -- led the employee to the safe and ordered him to open it before fleeing the Washington Street eatery on foot with $956 in cash, the chief said. He was described as having a light brown co…

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
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HERO: Passing West Milford Firefighter Rescues Trapped Driver In Burning SUV HERO: Passing West Milford Firefighter Rescues Trapped Driver In Burning SUV HERO: Passing West Milford Firefighter Rescues Trapped Driver In Burning SUV
Hero: Passing West Milford Firefighter Rescues Trapped Driver In Burning SUV A driver trapped in an overturned, burning SUV faced certain death as fire spread from the engine to the cabin in a wooded area off a West Milford road. But a passing West Milford firefighter rushed into the woods with an extinguisher, knocked back the flames and climbed in through the rear hatch to save him. Firefighter Lukas Graf was in his car when he spotted the burning SUV in the woods off Cahill Cross Road around 11:15 p.m. Saturday, West Milford Fire Chief Michael Blondin said. Graf “heard yelling and banging from the male driver who was trapped inside the vehicle” as he headed towa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
'Swatting' Hoax Caller Threatens To 'Blow Up' Bergenfield Gas Station 'Swatting' Hoax Caller Threatens To 'Blow Up' Bergenfield Gas Station 'Swatting' Hoax Caller Threatens To 'Blow Up' Bergenfield Gas Station
'Swatting' Hoax Caller Threatens To 'Blow Up' Bergenfield Gas Station A Bergen County Regional SWAT team, crisis negotiators and the county bomb squad were among the responders to what turned out to be a "swatting" incident at a Bergenfield gas station before dawn Saturday. The 5:13 a.m. a.m. caller claimed to be holed up in the BP station on New Bridge Road near the CSX railroad tracks and was planning to “blow the place up" -- prompting an immediate response, Bergenfield Police Capt. Mustafa Rabboh said. The caller made several claims -- among them, that he could see police outside, a law enforcement source with knowledge of the incident said…

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