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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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Wyckoff PD: Co-Worker Steals Employee's $1,100 Vacation Fund Wyckoff PD: Co-Worker Steals Employee's $1,100 Vacation Fund Wyckoff PD: Co-Worker Steals Employee's $1,100 Vacation Fund
Wyckoff PD: Co-Worker Steals Employee's $1,100 Vacation Fund An employee at a Wyckoff business stole $1,100 that a co-worker had saved for a vacation, said authorities who arrested him. Mark A. Nether, 30, of Paterson was “the only person who knew” that the money – in an envelope in the glove box – was in the locked vehicle, Police Lt. Joseph Soto said. Detective Sgt. Kevin Kasak investigated and charged Nether with burglary and theft, Soto said. He was released pending a court hearing. ****** ALSO SEE: A teenage thief had already swiped six packages from porches in a Wyckoff neighborhood when police alerted by a victim grabbed him. https://wycko…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Multi-Vehicle Route 4 Hackensack Crash Crunches Rear Of SUV, Front Of Sedan Multi-Vehicle Route 4 Hackensack Crash Crunches Rear Of SUV, Front Of Sedan Multi-Vehicle Route 4 Hackensack Crash Crunches Rear Of SUV, Front Of Sedan
Multi-Vehicle Route 4 Hackensack Crash Crunches Rear Of SUV, Front Of Sedan There was no immediate word on injuries after a multi-vehicle crash on eastbound Route 4 in Hackensack early Monday evening. A sedan rear-ended an SUV, severely damaging both vehicles, just west of the Coach House diner near the Hackensack Avenue overpass a little after 5:30 p.m.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Passaic Sheriff: Loaded Gun, Ammo, 2,000 Heroin Envelopes Seized In Home Raid On Quiet Street Passaic Sheriff: Loaded Gun, Ammo, 2,000 Heroin Envelopes Seized In Home Raid On Quiet Street Passaic Sheriff: Loaded Gun, Ammo, 2,000 Heroin Envelopes Seized In Home Raid On Quiet Street
Passaic Sheriff: Loaded Gun, Ammo, 2,000 Heroin Envelopes Seized In Home Raid On Quiet Street A Passaic County sheriff’s raid on a home in an otherwise quiet Paterson neighborhood turned up a loaded gun, dozens of rounds of ammunition and nearly 2,000 glassine envelopes of heroin worth roughly $5,000 on the street, authorities said. Three men were arrested during the raid, which followed a two-month investigation into drug dealing from the single-family home on Plymouth Road, barely 1,000 feet from a Catholic elementary school, Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik said. Raheem T. McCoy, 41, and Rajon S. Leftwich, 25, were both seen going in and out of the house to sell drugs out f…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
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3 Ridgewood Residents Cyber-Harassed In 24 Hours, Arrest Made In One 3 Ridgewood Residents Cyber-Harassed In 24 Hours, Arrest Made In One 3 Ridgewood Residents Cyber-Harassed In 24 Hours, Arrest Made In One
3 Ridgewood Residents Cyber-Harassed In 24 Hours, Arrest Made In One In a series of attacks that Ridgewood police said were unrelated, three village residents in roughly 24 hours reported being cyber-harassed, leading in one instance to the arrest of an Orange County man. Jacob Goodman, 19, was arrested after he hacked into a 19-year-old woman’s social media account and “posted photos of her and illicit photos of other people,” Ridgewood Police Chief Jaqueline Luthcke said Monday. Goodman of Warwick was charged with cyber harassment and released pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Municipal Court in Hackensack, she said. A 65-year-old Walthery Av…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Westwood Police Donate Senior Van To Borough Westwood Police Donate Senior Van To Borough Westwood Police Donate Senior Van To Borough
Westwood Police Donate Senior Van To Borough You can’t see it just yet -- only a few more weeks to go -- but Westwood Police Chief Michael Pontillo suspects residents and business owners will be pleased with the borough's new senior van. The Westwood Police Officers Association picked up the cost of the van, “a great savings to taxpayers,” the chief said. It all began with a pedestrian safety campaign by Pontillo’s department that expanded to “enhance the safety of all people of this community,” the chief said. The vehicle was obtained “with the intention of a light cleanup, wrapping it to make an attractive outer appearance and publ…

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by Jerry DeMarco
New City, NY
Breaking News
Rogue Rockland Moving Companies Fined Rogue Rockland Moving Companies Fined Rogue Rockland Moving Companies Fined
Rogue Rockland Moving Companies Fined Two unlicensed moving companies from Rockland were snagged in a New Jersey undercover sting that cost them $2,500 each, authorities announced Monday. Big Men in Trucks from Sloatsburg and Enterprise Van Lines from Congers each has the option of seeking mitigation or requesting an administrative hearing to contest the violation and civil penalty, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. “The $2,500 civil penalty for unlicensed operation will be reduced to $1,250 for any mover that applies for licensure with the Division within 30 days of receiving the [Notice of Violation],” Grewal…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
'Operation Mother's Attic': State Snags Six Rogue Moving Companies From Bergen, Passaic 'Operation Mother's Attic': State Snags Six Rogue Moving Companies From Bergen, Passaic 'Operation Mother's Attic': State Snags Six Rogue Moving Companies From Bergen, Passaic
'Operation Mother's Attic': State Snags Six Rogue Moving Companies From Bergen, Passaic Four unlicensed moving companies from Bergen County and two from Passaic County were snagged in a state-led undercover sting that cost them $2,500 each, authorities announced Monday. Over the course of four days in April, investigators from the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs posed as people planning to move from an upscale neighborhood in Montvale in what was dubbed “Operation Mother’s Attic,” state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. “The investigators found various unlicensed moving companies advertising online and hired them for their ‘move’,” Grewal said. “The movers drove…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Paterson PD: Officer Nabs Sports Bar Burglar Paterson PD: Officer Nabs Sports Bar Burglar Paterson PD: Officer Nabs Sports Bar Burglar
Paterson PD: Officer Nabs Sports Bar Burglar Moments after a local sports bar was burglarized, Paterson police had a suspect in custody, authorities said Monday. Jose Luis Rosario, 39, of Paterson already was wanted in connection with another burglary when he broke in through the front door of the Colt Café on Church Street just before 8 a.m. Sunday and swiped the cash register, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. Thanks to a witness’ description, Officer Fravlin Munoz found Rosario – cut up from the front-door glass -- in the area of Van Houten Avenue and Auburn Street, Speziale said. Officer Selba Perez assisted Munoz in identifyi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Wyckoff Police End Porch Package Theft Spree, Seize Teen Wyckoff Police End Porch Package Theft Spree, Seize Teen Wyckoff Police End Porch Package Theft Spree, Seize Teen
Wyckoff Police End Porch Package Theft Spree, Seize Teen A teenage thief had already swiped six packages from porches in a Wyckoff neighborhood when police alerted by a victim grabbed him. The James Way resident was telling Officer Michael Scalise he had surveillance video of the boy taking a package from his porch and running away when the officer spotted the teen nearby, Lt. Joseph Joseph Soto said. Speaking with the teen and one of his parents, Scalise and Detective Sgt. Michael Ragucci “ discovered that he took packages that were delivered to approximately six homes in the neighborhood,” Soto said. All of the packages were returned from the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Passaic Sheriff: Route 23 Jalopy Stop Turns Up BB Handgun, Knives, Baton, More Passaic Sheriff: Route 23 Jalopy Stop Turns Up BB Handgun, Knives, Baton, More Passaic Sheriff: Route 23 Jalopy Stop Turns Up BB Handgun, Knives, Baton, More
Passaic Sheriff: Route 23 Jalopy Stop Turns Up BB Handgun, Knives, Baton, More Passaic County sheriff’s officers who stopped a couple for having an obstructed view in their 16-year-old Chevy seized an array of weapons – among them, five knives, a BB gun, ammunition and an expandable metal baton, authorities said. Officers Christopher Savitsky and Tomaz Cydzik smelled marijuana after stopping the red 2002 Chevrolet Malibu on northbound Route 23 in Wayne last weekend, Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik said. The clothing of both Ruben Carraballo, 31, who was driving, and 23-year-old passenger Joanna Motl, who owns the car, also reeked of pot, the sheriff said. They…

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