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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Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: East Rutherford Rt 3 Stop Turns Up Hidden Fentanyl, $67,000 Prosecutor: East Rutherford Rt 3 Stop Turns Up Hidden Fentanyl, $67,000 Prosecutor: East Rutherford Rt 3 Stop Turns Up Hidden Fentanyl, $67,000
Prosecutor: East Rutherford Rt 3 Stop Turns Up Hidden Fentanyl, $67,000 A Jeep stopped by Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives on westbound Route 3 in East Rutherford had a secret compartment containing a small amount of Fentanyl and $67,000 in suspected drug proceeds, authorities said. They arrested the driver – Fermin A. Castillo, a 38-year-old convenience store cashier from Miami, FL – and confiscated the cash and cash found in the 2008 Grand Cherokee, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Tuesday. Authorities charged Castillo with money laundering and drug possession and sent him to the Bergen County Jail on Friday. Hours later, a judge ordered…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Six Injuries Reported In Senior Mini-Bus Crash At Routes 17/80 In Lodi Six Injuries Reported In Senior Mini-Bus Crash At Routes 17/80 In Lodi Six Injuries Reported In Senior Mini-Bus Crash At Routes 17/80 In Lodi
Six Injuries Reported In Senior Mini-Bus Crash At Routes 17/80 In Lodi Six passengers were initially reported injured Tuesday morning after a Bergen County senior mini-bus was involved in a crash with a dump truck near the intersection of Routes 17 and 80 in Lodi, authorities said. The crash occurred just before 10 a.m. near the Wholesale Liquidators. The Bergen County Sheriff's Office responded, along with EMS and area firefighters.  CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Prosecutor: Fair Lawn Mom Tried Dialing 911 Before Son Stabbed Her Dead Prosecutor: Fair Lawn Mom Tried Dialing 911 Before Son Stabbed Her Dead Prosecutor: Fair Lawn Mom Tried Dialing 911 Before Son Stabbed Her Dead
Prosecutor: Fair Lawn Mom Tried Dialing 911 Before Son Stabbed Her Dead Ann Kaplan of Fair Lawn never got the words out after dialing 911, said authorities who charged her son with stabbing her to death as she tried to get help on Sunday. Eric Daniel Kaplan attacked his 64-year-old mother with a knife as she desperately tried calling 911 around 3 p.m. Sunday, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Monday. She later died of her injuries. Exactly four years ago Monday, police arrested Eric Kaplan and seized a knife from him after they said he stabbed his brother, Andrew. He spent a day in the Bergen County Jail and later successfully completed a Pre-Tri…

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: West Milford Body Likely That Of Woman Missing After Car Crash Authorities: West Milford Body Likely That Of Woman Missing After Car Crash Authorities: West Milford Body Likely That Of Woman Missing After Car Crash
Authorities: West Milford Body Likely That Of Woman Missing After Car Crash Authorities on Monday wouldn't conclusively say that a body found in West Milford over the weekend was that of a  29-year-old woman who went missing a week before after a crash nearby -- but they admitted that it's most likely her. The body was found Saturday “in heavy brush” near where Stephanie Bronaugh of Lafayette went missing on July 1, Detective Sgt. Joseph Walker said. "Clothing matching the description of the missing adult female were discovered with the remains," Walker said in a release Monday. "At this time formal identification is pending from the medical examine…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
PHOTOS: No Serious Injuries After Commuter Train Whacks Bus In Garfield PHOTOS: No Serious Injuries After Commuter Train Whacks Bus In Garfield PHOTOS: No Serious Injuries After Commuter Train Whacks Bus In Garfield
Photos: No Serious Injuries After Commuter Train Whacks Bus In Garfield No one was seriously injured when a commuter train clipped the front of a bus at a grade crossing in Garfield Monday afternoon, police said.  Only one of the 15 people on the Community Coach-operated bus sustained an injury after the NJ Transit train hit the front of it near the Plauderville Avenue station just before 5 p.m., NJ Transit's Lisa Torbic said. The injury wasn't considered life-threatening, she said, adding that none of the 100 or so people on the train reported an injury. Bus riders told Daily Voice that the driver stopped midway over the first set of tracks as the gates came …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Woman Killed By Car In Edgewater Parking Garage Woman Killed By Car In Edgewater Parking Garage Woman Killed By Car In Edgewater Parking Garage
Woman Killed By Car In Edgewater Parking Garage A woman was killed in an Edgewater parking garage Sunday night after she was pinned beneath a slow-moving car, authorities said. The incident occurred around 8 p.m. on the third level of the SOJO Spa Club on River Road, Police Chief Donal Martin said. Responding officers lifted the car off her and administered aid before Edgewater EMS took her to nearby Palisades Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 8:42 p.m., Martin said. Her identity will be released once next of kin are formally notified, he said. An investigation was continuing, the chief said. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
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Cold Case: Staten Island Convict Charged With 38-Year-Old Teaneck Murder Cold Case: Staten Island Convict Charged With 38-Year-Old Teaneck Murder Cold Case: Staten Island Convict Charged With 38-Year-Old Teaneck Murder
Cold Case: Staten Island Convict Charged With 38-Year-Old Teaneck Murder Authorities charged a Staten Island man with a 38-year-old murder out of Teaneck. Joseph Labosco, 71, was one of two men who shot and killed Wayne Eckhart of Manhattan and left his body in a remote area off Teaneck Road, where it was found on Oct. 1, 1980, Bergen County Acting Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Monday. The other -- George King of New York -- died in June 2007 at 76 years old, he said. Calo's Cold Case Homicide Unit -- working with the partnering New Jersey State Police -- cracked the case after interviewing various witnesses and forensic testing by State Police, the prosecutor sa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Are Bergen County 'Mother Of God' Warnings Based On Fact Or Fiction? Are Bergen County 'Mother Of God' Warnings Based On Fact Or Fiction? Are Bergen County 'Mother Of God' Warnings Based On Fact Or Fiction?
Are Bergen County 'Mother Of God' Warnings Based On Fact Or Fiction? Local police say there's little they can do about recent Facebook reports that a female group of religious followers is stalking people in Bergen County if the victims don't report the incidents to them. Several readers commented on this story on Facebook, saying that they've been aggressively approached in a variety of locations throughout Bergen County by members of the World Mission Society Church of God, which has churches in Bogota and Ridgewood. None of them reported the incidents to police. "These people are always at the Paramus Park Mall stopping people," Zeina Mansilla …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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Carlstadt PD: Quartet Planned To Rob Resident Of 4-Year-Old $500 Debt Carlstadt PD: Quartet Planned To Rob Resident Of 4-Year-Old $500 Debt Carlstadt PD: Quartet Planned To Rob Resident Of 4-Year-Old $500 Debt
Carlstadt PD: Quartet Planned To Rob Resident Of 4-Year-Old $500 Debt With help from their East Rutherford colleagues, Carlstadt police arrested a quartet who they said planned to rob someone they claimed owed them $500 from four years ago. When they didn’t find their target home, two of those arrested damaged a car they thought was his, Carlstadt Police Capt. John Gilligan said. It began when police received a report Sunday of a possible car burglary on Madison Street. Responding Officers Jason Colombo and Matthew Smith got a description of the men and their getaway car – which was immediately broadcast to surrounding police departments. Moments later, Eas…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Paterson Police Chase Group, Nab Two With Guns Paterson Police Chase Group, Nab Two With Guns Paterson Police Chase Group, Nab Two With Guns
Paterson Police Chase Group, Nab Two With Guns Paterson police on a special traffic detail chased down two men and seized a pair of handguns that they said they were carrying. The officers were part of a special operation Saturday that produced 434 traffic summonses, 17 other violations and 10 vehicle tows, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. At one point, Detective Sgt. Jack DeSalvo and Detective Ricardo Vazquez heard a radio transmission from headquarters advising that several men wearing all black clothing were seen with guns in the area of 150 Putnam Street. On their way to the scene, the detectives spotted a group on Warren Stree…

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