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
Police Crash Franklin Lakes Underage Drinking Party, Intoxicated Girl Hospitalized Police Crash Franklin Lakes Underage Drinking Party, Intoxicated Girl Hospitalized Police Crash Franklin Lakes Underage Drinking Party, Intoxicated Girl Hospitalized
Police Crash Franklin Lakes Underage Drinking Party, Intoxicated Girl Hospitalized A severely drunken girl had to be hospitalized after Franklin Lakes police crashed an underage drinking party Sunday night, authorities said. Matthew Lyons, 19, was arrested on charges of providing alcohol to minors after the 11:20 p.m. incident on Scioto Drive. He was released pending a hearing. Franklin Lakes Ambulance Corps took the teenage girl to The Valley Hospital.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Stolen Car Thieves Scatter After Nearly Ramming Clifton Dealership Fence Stolen Car Thieves Scatter After Nearly Ramming Clifton Dealership Fence Stolen Car Thieves Scatter After Nearly Ramming Clifton Dealership Fence
Stolen Car Thieves Scatter After Nearly Ramming Clifton Dealership Fence A thief driving a stolen luxury sedan seemed intent on ramming the fence of a Clifton dealership parking lot to escape police but changed his mind at the last instant and bailed out with two accomplices leading to an extensive search. Assisted by a Passaic County Sheriff's K-9 Unit, Clifton Police Sgt. David Roe found 18o-year-old Jerry Castillo of Newark hiding in the yard of an adjacent business, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. Two accomplices got away, he said. Police found a stolen van that the trio used to get to the Fette Ford lot on Kingsland Avenue, where police found them – all…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Clifton PD: Serial Burglar Rams Police Cruiser, Fights Officers Clifton PD: Serial Burglar Rams Police Cruiser, Fights Officers Clifton PD: Serial Burglar Rams Police Cruiser, Fights Officers
Clifton PD: Serial Burglar Rams Police Cruiser, Fights Officers An accused burglar tried to get away from Clifton police by ramming their cruiser with his car – forcing an officer to jump out of the way – before they subdued and arrested him, authorities said. It began with an East 5th Street burglary Thursday afternoon. A witness reported seeing 55-year-old David Britt fleeing the house with a black garbage bag filled with stolen valuables, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. Investigators already were looking into Britt’s suspected connection to a May 7 break-in in the same neighborhood, Bracken said. The detectives went to Britt’s Buffalo Avenue hom…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: Bogota PD In Humvee Rescue Bride, Groom, Guests Stranded In Rising Floodwaters VIDEO: Bogota PD In Humvee Rescue Bride, Groom, Guests Stranded In Rising Floodwaters VIDEO: Bogota PD In Humvee Rescue Bride, Groom, Guests Stranded In Rising Floodwaters
Video: Bogota PD In Humvee Rescue Bride, Groom, Guests Stranded In Rising Floodwaters Some say you can count on at least one thing going wrong on your wedding day, but a bride and groom stranded in Bogota during Saturday’s flash flooding actually had good fortune – thanks to a handy piece of police property. "We'd usually use something else, but the water was coming up so fast, we grabbed the Humvee," Sgt. Geoffrey Cole said. Cole and Officer Michael Laferrera reached the stranded vehicle at River Road and Elm Avenue -- an area prone to flooding -- around 6:15 p.m. "They were shocked not just to be stuck in the water but to see us in the Humvee,' Cole said. &…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Passaic Nightclub Double Murderer Gets 100+ Years -- Minimum Passaic Nightclub Double Murderer Gets 100+ Years -- Minimum Passaic Nightclub Double Murderer Gets 100+ Years -- Minimum
Passaic Nightclub Double Murderer Gets 100+ Years -- Minimum By imposing consecutive sentences of 50 years each for the murders of two people outside a Passaic nightclub – along with 18 more years for the attempted murder of a third victim who survived – a judge ensured that gunman Luis Delcarmen will eventually die in prison. Under New Jersey law, the 27-year-old double murderer from Passaic must serve 85% of the sentence imposed Friday in Paterson by Superior Court Marybel Mercado-Ramirez before he could be eligible for parole. That comes out to 100 years and 3 months. Jurors in January convicted Delcarmen of the murders of Denisse Gonzalez, 22, o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Fort Lee PD Bust Crew Of 7 From Virginia With Stolen Cars, Guns Near GWB Fort Lee PD Bust Crew Of 7 From Virginia With Stolen Cars, Guns Near GWB Fort Lee PD Bust Crew Of 7 From Virginia With Stolen Cars, Guns Near GWB
Fort Lee PD Bust Crew Of 7 From Virginia With Stolen Cars, Guns Near GWB Fort Lee police seized three 18-year-olds and four juveniles from Virginia who they said they found with two stolen cars at a local motel near the George Washington Bridge. Officers Carlos Cabrera and Police Officer Nicholas Cima were checking the Skyview Motel parking lot off Bergen Boulevard around 6:30 a.m. Saturday when they found the crew in a 2017 Blue Ford Fusion and a 2008 Silver Subaru Forrester, both with Virginia license plates, Lt. Sean Peppard said. A routine check of both vehicles found both reported stolen. Backup officers from Fort Lee and the Palisades Park and Port Author…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: Bogota PD In Humvee Rescue Bride, Groom, Guests Stranded In Rising Floodwaters VIDEO: Bogota PD In Humvee Rescue Bride, Groom, Guests Stranded In Rising Floodwaters VIDEO: Bogota PD In Humvee Rescue Bride, Groom, Guests Stranded In Rising Floodwaters
Video: Bogota PD In Humvee Rescue Bride, Groom, Guests Stranded In Rising Floodwaters Some say you can count on at least one thing going wrong on your wedding day, but a bride and groom stranded in Bogota during Saturday’s flash flooding actually had good fortune – thanks to a handy piece of police property. "We'd usually use something else, but the water was coming up so fast, we grabbed the Humvee," Sgt. Geoffrey Cole said. Cole and Officer Michael Laferrera reached the stranded vehicle at River Road and Elm Avenue -- an area prone to flooding -- around 6:15 p.m. "They were shocked not just to be stuck in the water but to see us in the Humvee,' Cole said. &…

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEOS: Torrent Tosses Vehicles Through Route 46 Dealer Lot In Little Falls VIDEOS: Torrent Tosses Vehicles Through Route 46 Dealer Lot In Little Falls VIDEOS: Torrent Tosses Vehicles Through Route 46 Dealer Lot In Little Falls
Videos: Torrent Tosses Vehicles Through Route 46 Dealer Lot In Little Falls A rushing torrent of muddy water during Saturday's rainstorm sent vehicles floating and crashing into one another at a Route 46 dealership in Little Falls. No injuries were reported after the torrent raged through Route 46 Chrysler Jeep Dodge RAM. Route 46 was closed in both directions. ****** (ALSO SEE) HEROES at WORK: Fair Lawn firefighters, with help from their Elmwood Park colleagues, rescued the occupants of a sedan stranded by Saturday's flash flooding. https://fairlawn.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/rainstorm-fair-lawn-elmwood-park-firefighters-rescue-stranded-car-occupants/740792/

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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RAINSTORM: Fair Lawn, Elmwood Park Firefighters Rescue Stranded Car Occupants RAINSTORM: Fair Lawn, Elmwood Park Firefighters Rescue Stranded Car Occupants RAINSTORM: Fair Lawn, Elmwood Park Firefighters Rescue Stranded Car Occupants
Rainstorm: Fair Lawn, Elmwood Park Firefighters Rescue Stranded Car Occupants Fair Lawn firefighters, with help from their Elmwood Park colleagues, rescued the occupants of a sedan stranded by Saturday's flash flooding. Fair Lawn police joined the responders under the NJ Transit trestle on eastbound Broadway around 5 p.m. No one required medical attention, responders said. A tow truck retrieved the soaked sedan. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this account. ****** (ALSO SEE) VIDEOS: A rushing torrent of muddy water during Saturday's rainstorm sent vehicles floating and crashing into one another at a Route 46 dealership in Little Falls. https://northpassaic.dailyvo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: Black Clifton, Paterson Girls Chased From Jersey Shore Shop VIDEO: Black Clifton, Paterson Girls Chased From Jersey Shore Shop VIDEO: Black Clifton, Paterson Girls Chased From Jersey Shore Shop
Video: Black Clifton, Paterson Girls Chased From Jersey Shore Shop Video shows a Jersey Shore shopkeeper telling a group of young black girls from Clifton and Paterson that they weren’t welcome in the store, leaving their parents -- and the innocent children themselves -- all wondering what happens now. The employee who kicked out the girls was suspended Sunday amid an internal investigation that led to her being fired, a spokesperson for Jenkinson's Boardwalk said Tuesday. SEE: Employee Fired For Chasing Clifton, Paterson Girls From Jersey Shore Gift Shop The children are in a special all-girls summer camp that gives them “a safe place to adjust, to self…

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