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
Hackensack Driver, 19, Caught In Rockland After Wyckoff Police Chase Hackensack Driver, 19, Caught In Rockland After Wyckoff Police Chase Hackensack Driver, 19, Caught In Rockland After Wyckoff Police Chase
Hackensack Driver, 19, Caught In Rockland After Wyckoff Police Chase A teenage driver from Hackensack was being held in the Bergen County Jail – following extradition from Rockland County -- after Wyckoff police said he passed vehicles on the shoulder on northbound Route 208, then pretended to stop before fleeing during a chase. Sgt. Mark Tagliareni was monitoring traffic on the northbound highway when the silver Honda passed him “at an extremely high rate of speed, making no effort to slow down,” Lt. Joseph Soto said. Melvin A. Jovel, 19, “was using both the acceleration lane and shoulders to recklessly pass other vehicles as [he] continued northbound on th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Wallington Retiree Gets 5+ Years In Fed Pen For Buying Live Child Sex Shows Wallington Retiree Gets 5+ Years In Fed Pen For Buying Live Child Sex Shows Wallington Retiree Gets 5+ Years In Fed Pen For Buying Live Child Sex Shows
Wallington Retiree Gets 5+ Years In Fed Pen For Buying Live Child Sex Shows A 67-year-old Wallington retiree was sentenced Friday to more than five years in federal prison – just about all of which he must serve – for buying live child sex shows online. Stephen Hallett admitted in federal court in Newark last October that he bought dozens of shows from sellers in the Philippines of minors “engaging in sexually explicit conduct” from 2013 through 2015, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Hallett -- who once worked in administration at what was then Bergen Regional Medical Center in Paramus and is currently married to a physician -- was sentenced to five years of sup…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Edgewater Defendant Indicted In $12M Go-Go Bar Theft Ring Edgewater Defendant Indicted In $12M Go-Go Bar Theft Ring Edgewater Defendant Indicted In $12M Go-Go Bar Theft Ring
Edgewater Defendant Indicted In $12M Go-Go Bar Theft Ring An Edgewater man conspired with the owner of a shuttered go-go bar to use stolen credit card information – and illegally acquired gift cards – to steal more than $12 million, authorities said. Kevin Bae, 30, shared a bank account with the Morris County bar owner “into which millions of dollars were transferred” through the scheme, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Friday. They generated the money through a variety of scams, including scaring elderly people over the phone into buying gift cards by pretending to be a grandchild who was in jail and needed bail money, Grewal said. The own…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
MUGSHOT: Accused Fair Lawn Bank Robber Ordered Held MUGSHOT: Accused Fair Lawn Bank Robber Ordered Held MUGSHOT: Accused Fair Lawn Bank Robber Ordered Held
Mugshot: Accused Fair Lawn Bank Robber Ordered Held A judge ordered that a Paterson man arrested by Fair Lawn police for a $10,000 bank robbery last month remain held in the Bergen County Jail. "10K or You Die" read the note that 22-year-old Jose Cuevas of Paterson handed a teller at the Columbia Bank branch on  Broadway on July 13, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Cuevas "grabbed his hip, making the teller believe that he was holding a weapon," Metzler said. Detectives Brian Rypkema and Anthony Lugo identified Cuevas, who was carrying a 27-inch machete when he was arrested Tuesday night, Aug. 1, the sergeant said. The proceeds…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack PD: Chicken Store Robber Frightens Teen Clerk Hackensack PD: Chicken Store Robber Frightens Teen Clerk Hackensack PD: Chicken Store Robber Frightens Teen Clerk
Hackensack PD: Chicken Store Robber Frightens Teen Clerk "I don't want to use this," the robber of a new Hackensack fried chicken restaurant told a juvenile cashier, pointing to his hip. City police soon after arrested local resident Valmir Xhemajli, 29, who they said made off with $60 to $80 in cash from the Blaze'd Chicken on Passaic Street after convincing the young cashier that he had a knife. The cashier and cook waved in police who'd responded to a panic alarm just after 4 p.m. Thursday, Capt. Peter Busciglio said. They found the cashier crying, he said. Moments earlier, the captain said, Xhemajli entered the restaurant and deman…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor Finds Rampant Violations: Palisades Parkway PD Chief Suspended Prosecutor Finds Rampant Violations: Palisades Parkway PD Chief Suspended Prosecutor Finds Rampant Violations: Palisades Parkway PD Chief Suspended
Prosecutor Finds Rampant Violations: Palisades Parkway PD Chief Suspended The chief of the Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department was suspended for 90 days and will likely have to attend management training courses when he returns, according to a scathing report from Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo's office that uncovered a host of violations -- many that fell short of being criminal. Although the Palisades Interstate Parkway Commision imposed the suspension on Chief Michael Coppola beginning this Monday, the prosecutor also "strongly advise[d]" that it direct him to attend specialized training, as well. "We also strongly advise…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Man In Dumont SWAT Incident Arrested At Parents' Home In Mahwah Police: Man In Dumont SWAT Incident Arrested At Parents' Home In Mahwah Police: Man In Dumont SWAT Incident Arrested At Parents' Home In Mahwah
Police: Man In Dumont SWAT Incident Arrested At Parents' Home In Mahwah UPDATE: A suicidal man who threatened to shoot police brought a Bergen County Regional SWAT team and negotiators to his Dumont home Thursday afternoon -- but he wasn't there, authorities said. He was at his parents' home in Mahwah. The 31-year-old borough resident called the New Jersey Hopeline at Rutgers University saying that "he was going to commit suicide and if police came he was going to shoot them," a law enforcement official told Daily Voice. Responders went to the Dumont address on Revere Drive while closing off local streets. An ambulance was put on standby. After disco…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah PD: Rockland Man Ran Credit Card Theft Scam From Hotel Room Mahwah PD: Rockland Man Ran Credit Card Theft Scam From Hotel Room Mahwah PD: Rockland Man Ran Credit Card Theft Scam From Hotel Room
Mahwah PD: Rockland Man Ran Credit Card Theft Scam From Hotel Room A Rockland man who checked into a Mahwah hotel with a stolen credit card was printing up bogus cards there, said police who busted him after being alerted by a manager. Davidson Gilot, 26, of Spring Valley was running “a complex scam” from the hotel room – but was sniffed out after he tried to pay for an additional night with the stolen card, Chief James N. Batelli said. Gilot bought legitimate credit card numbers off the dark web and stole other numbers, all of which he entered into a credit card reader “to identify an individual's name and information associated with those numbers,” the c…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
KNOW HER? Front Porch Video Shows Ridgefield Park Clothing Thief KNOW HER? Front Porch Video Shows Ridgefield Park Clothing Thief KNOW HER? Front Porch Video Shows Ridgefield Park Clothing Thief
Know HER? Front Porch Video Shows Ridgefield Park Clothing Thief She's become Public Enemy #1 in and around Ridgefield Park: A home surveillance video being shared publicly shows a woman stealing a bag of clothing from a front porch. The woman, wearing orange reflector sunglasses, a white and blue striped tank top and blue jeans, drove up in a four-door blue sedan with spoked wheels and snatched the delivery left at the front door of the Emerson Street resident on Monday, Police Lt. Joseph Rella said. Detectives were working with their colleagues in other departments to try and identify the woman. The video's resolution isn't high enough for police to b…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Obituaries
TRIBUTE: Late Cresskill Teacher, 50, Taught Students To Be Kind, Give Back TRIBUTE: Late Cresskill Teacher, 50, Taught Students To Be Kind, Give Back TRIBUTE: Late Cresskill Teacher, 50, Taught Students To Be Kind, Give Back
Tribute: Late Cresskill Teacher, 50, Taught Students To Be Kind, Give Back The parents of a popular Cresskill social studies teacher killed by a heart attack as he walked around the district high school track asked that donations in lieu of flowers be made to the library, band or a special scholarship that he created in memory of a former student. An interment and committal service for Stephen W. Kline, 50, is scheduled this Saturday in Shenango Valley Cemetery in Greenville, PA, near his parents' home. Although Kline never married and had no children of his own, parents Richard and Janette (Hill) Kline believe that his students "became his sons and daughters…

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