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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Lyndhurst, NJ
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North Arlington Driver Charged With Exposing Himself, Fondling Youngster North Arlington Driver Charged With Exposing Himself, Fondling Youngster North Arlington Driver Charged With Exposing Himself, Fondling Youngster
North Arlington Driver Charged With Exposing Himself, Fondling Youngster A fuel delivery driver from North Arlington fondled a youngster several times while exposing himself, said authorities who arrested him Wednesday. Daniel A. Rente -- who records show is legally separated from his wife -- was charged with sexual assault and child endangerment, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Wednesday. He remained held in the Bergen County Jail pending a first appearance Thursday in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack.  North Arlington police received a report in January that a juvenile under the age of 16 “was inappropriately touched on several…

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Fort Lee, NJ
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Ex-Mets Star Lenny Dykstra Charged With Putting Gun To Uber Driver's Head Ex-Mets Star Lenny Dykstra Charged With Putting Gun To Uber Driver's Head Ex-Mets Star Lenny Dykstra Charged With Putting Gun To Uber Driver's Head
Ex-Mets Star Lenny Dykstra Charged With Putting Gun To Uber Driver's Head Troubled former New York Mets centerfielder Lenny Dykstra was carrying cocaine, Ecstasy and pot when he was arrested by police in Linden before dawn Wednesday for threatening an Uber driver, authorities said. The 47-year-old driver headed to police headquarters and leaned on the horn, then ran from the car toward officers who seized Dykstra, 55, just before 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, Lt. Christopher Guenther said. Moments earlier, he told police, Dykstra “put a weapon to his head and threatened to kill him” when the former World Series champion refused Dykstra’s commands to change the original de…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Boy, 11, Breaks Nose, Pelvis In Fall From Hackensack High-Rise Balcony Boy, 11, Breaks Nose, Pelvis In Fall From Hackensack High-Rise Balcony Boy, 11, Breaks Nose, Pelvis In Fall From Hackensack High-Rise Balcony
Boy, 11, Breaks Nose, Pelvis In Fall From Hackensack High-Rise Balcony UPDATE: A 5th-grader broke his nose and pelvis after plunging from the 7th floor of a Hackensack high-rise balcony onto the roof of a popular restaurant Wednesday afternoon, police said. The 11-year-old boy was in stable condition at Hackensack University Medical Center, accompanied by his mother, after the 12:34 p.m. fall onto the Picco Tavern on Prospect Avenue, police said. The exact cause of the fall was being investigated, they said.

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by Jerry DeMarco & Cecilia Levine
Pascack Valley, NJ
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FINED: River Vale Hustler Used Investments For Strip Club, Limos, More FINED: River Vale Hustler Used Investments For Strip Club, Limos, More FINED: River Vale Hustler Used Investments For Strip Club, Limos, More
Fined: River Vale Hustler Used Investments For Strip Club, Limos, More Investors who “thought they were getting in on the ground floor of a legitimate business venture” were instead funding the lavish lifestyle of a River Vale man who used their money on steak dinners, limo service, $8,800 worth of visits to a strip club and other personal expenses, authorities charged. Eric J. Bruno and his company, Mirakill Brands, “misled at least eight investors – including at least seven from New Jersey – into buying unregistered securities in the form of membership interests and warrants to buy membership interests in Mirakill,” state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal sai…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Boy, 11, Breaks Nose, Pelvis In Fall From Hackensack High-Rise Balcony Boy, 11, Breaks Nose, Pelvis In Fall From Hackensack High-Rise Balcony Boy, 11, Breaks Nose, Pelvis In Fall From Hackensack High-Rise Balcony
Boy, 11, Breaks Nose, Pelvis In Fall From Hackensack High-Rise Balcony UPDATE: A 5th-grader broke his nose and pelvis after plunging from the 7th floor of a Hackensack high-rise balcony onto the roof of a popular restaurant Wednesday afternoon, police said. The 11-year-old boy was in stable condition at Hackensack University Medical Center, accompanied by his mother, after the 12:34 p.m. fall onto the Picco Tavern on Prospect Avenue, police said. The exact cause of the fall was being investigated, they said.

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by Jerry DeMarco & Cecilia Levine
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Driver Hospitalized In Crash Outside New Bridge Medical Center In Paramus Driver Hospitalized In Crash Outside New Bridge Medical Center In Paramus Driver Hospitalized In Crash Outside New Bridge Medical Center In Paramus
Driver Hospitalized In Crash Outside New Bridge Medical Center In Paramus Paramus firefighters cut a Lyft driver from a sedan after a crash with another vehicle Wednesday morning outside New Bridge Medical Center. He was taken to the Valley Hospital in initially unknown condition. Police, Fire Companies 1 and 2, the Rescue Squad and EMS were among the responders to the East Ridgewood Avenue crash, which jammed area traffic. Both vehicles were removed by flatbed tow truck. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this report.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Resident Critical In Clifton Garden Apartment Fire Resident Critical In Clifton Garden Apartment Fire Resident Critical In Clifton Garden Apartment Fire
Resident Critical In Clifton Garden Apartment Fire A man was hospitalized in critical condition after suffering cardiac arrest during a Wednesday morning garden apartment fire in Clifton. Firefighters quickly doused the two-alarm blaze at the Sytertown Apartments on Market Street, which broke out around 7:40 a.m. Three apartments were affected. As with all fires involving serious injury or death, the Passaic County Prosecutor's Arson Squad was summoned. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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Prosecutor: New Milford Bookkeeper Swiped $200,000 From 3 Bergen Schools Prosecutor: New Milford Bookkeeper Swiped $200,000 From 3 Bergen Schools Prosecutor: New Milford Bookkeeper Swiped $200,000 From 3 Bergen Schools
Prosecutor: New Milford Bookkeeper Swiped $200,000 From 3 Bergen Schools The now-former business manager for three parochial schools in Bergen County stole more than $200,000 that she used to make more than 1,500 purchases on personal credit cards that she opened in other people’s names through a "large-scale, complex theft scheme," authorities charged. Mary M. Ayoub, 52, of New Milford “compromised the accounting records of one of the schools by making false vendor payment entries into the financial ledger system,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Tuesday. The Alpine native and former Price Waterhouse audit manager then “used the false…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Fire Consumes Tractor-Trailer On NJ Turnpike In Ridgefield Park Fire Consumes Tractor-Trailer On NJ Turnpike In Ridgefield Park Fire Consumes Tractor-Trailer On NJ Turnpike In Ridgefield Park
Fire Consumes Tractor-Trailer On NJ Turnpike In Ridgefield Park A tractor-trailer burst into flames on the New Jersey Turnpike in Ridgefield Park early Tuesday afternoon Southbound traffic was backed up for miles as firefighters doused the flames. Meanwhile, rubberneckers thickened the northbound side. Plumes of black smoke could be seen for miles. There was no immediate word on injuries.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Disbarred Drug-Dealing Hackensack Lawyer Begins Prison Term Disbarred Drug-Dealing Hackensack Lawyer Begins Prison Term Disbarred Drug-Dealing Hackensack Lawyer Begins Prison Term
Disbarred Drug-Dealing Hackensack Lawyer Begins Prison Term A disbarred lawyer from Hackensack with a history of drug-dealing convictions has begun serving a state prison term that won't see him eligible for parole until January 2022. Barry Hoffberg, 51, was sentenced last month to a plea-bargained 12-year maximum term -- with a four-year minimum before parole eligibility -- for operating what authorities said was a booby-trapped drug mill out of his Prospect Avenue apartment. An early January raid there turned up cocaine and marijuana, as well as various tools of distribution -- among them, scales, grinders and sifters -- city police said at the ti…

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