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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Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood PD Tracing Gun That Fleeing Group Left Behind Englewood PD Tracing Gun That Fleeing Group Left Behind Englewood PD Tracing Gun That Fleeing Group Left Behind
Englewood PD Tracing Gun That Fleeing Group Left Behind A crowd scattered as Englewood police approached earlier this week, leaving a loaded gun behind, authorities said. The Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification collected the firearm for ballistic testing, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell said. Fingerprints and DNA retrieve from the weapon were being sent to the New Jersey State Police lab, he added. The gun was retrieved after officers approached the group, which Torell said acted suspiciously, around 8 p.m. Thursday in the Martin Luther King Garden housing complex on William Street. All “ran upon seeing the officers,” the …

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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Dumont Driver Gets 5 Years In MetLife Death Of Cliffside Park Record King Dumont Driver Gets 5 Years In MetLife Death Of Cliffside Park Record King Dumont Driver Gets 5 Years In MetLife Death Of Cliffside Park Record King
Dumont Driver Gets 5 Years In MetLife Death Of Cliffside Park Record King A former employee of an Englewood luxury sports car company whose car struck and killed popular Cliffside Park record store owner Steve Lenge as he rode his motorcycle outside MetLife Stadium on Mother’s Day 2012 was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday. Joseph A. Ferretti, 34, of Dumont must serve four years and three months of his sentence before being eligible for parole, under the sentenced handed down by Presiding Superior Court Judge Margaret Foti in Hackensack. Ferretti and Joseph Meyer of Oviedo, Fla., originally were charged with death by auto, a second-degree crime that ha…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Englewood PD: Shoplifter Leaves Daughter, 9, Behind Englewood PD: Shoplifter Leaves Daughter, 9, Behind Englewood PD: Shoplifter Leaves Daughter, 9, Behind
Englewood PD: Shoplifter Leaves Daughter, 9, Behind A shoplifter who left her 9-year-old daughter behind while trying to flee the Englewood ShopRite was arrested soon after, authorities said. Lois King, 33, who was with carrying $90 in stolen good with her daughter when a security guard at the Nathaniel Place supermarket tried stopping her last Saturday, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell said. King bolted, leaving the youngster behind, but the guard chased her down, he said. King fought back, leaving the guard with minor injuries that required medical attention, the captain said. Responding officers took King into custody and notified the sta…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack IT Worker Trafficked Kiddie Porn, Authorities Charge Hackensack IT Worker Trafficked Kiddie Porn, Authorities Charge Hackensack IT Worker Trafficked Kiddie Porn, Authorities Charge
Hackensack IT Worker Trafficked Kiddie Porn, Authorities Charge An IT worker from Hackensack was caught trafficking hundreds of files of kiddie porn, said authorities who arrested him Friday. Yenhung Lee, 34, was sent to the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing on charges of possessing child pornography, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. Lee was taken into custody after members of Calo’s Cyber Crimes Unit executed a court-authorized search warrant at his Clinton Place apartment, the prosecutor said. Calo thanked members of the Hackensack and Glen Rock police departments, as well as the Passaic County Sheriff’s Office, for thei…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Bergen Prosecutor: Driver In Undercover Drug Buy Tried Running Down Officer Bergen Prosecutor: Driver In Undercover Drug Buy Tried Running Down Officer Bergen Prosecutor: Driver In Undercover Drug Buy Tried Running Down Officer
Bergen Prosecutor: Driver In Undercover Drug Buy Tried Running Down Officer UPDATE: A Washington Heights drug dealer nearly ran over a police officer and hit several vehicles with his car after an undercover drug deal in Englewood turned into a chase that ended when he tossed two pounds of crystal meth from the window and bailed out in Fort Lee, authorities said. Daily Voice first reported the aborted deal-turned-pursuit on Tuesday, after authorities cordoned off Fort Lee neighborhood around the New York Avenue driveway where Andrew Herrera, 24, abandoned the badly damaged Mercedes. SEE: Thwarted Undercover Drug Deal Leads To Pursuit, Fort Lee House Search Police …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Little Ferry Laborer, 26, Had Sex With Underage Girl, Authorities Charge Little Ferry Laborer, 26, Had Sex With Underage Girl, Authorities Charge Little Ferry Laborer, 26, Had Sex With Underage Girl, Authorities Charge
Little Ferry Laborer, 26, Had Sex With Underage Girl, Authorities Charge A married Little Ferry laborer was charged with having sex with a girl under 16 years old, authorities said. Kelvis Vizcaino, 26, remained held Friday in the Bergen County Jail following his arrest the day before on charges of sexual assault and child endangerment. Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said members of his Special Victims Unit and Little Ferry police took Vizcaino into custody receiving a report that he’d “engaged in sexual activity with a juvenile under the age of sixteen during the spring of 2017.”

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Falling Tree Hits Car, Blocks River Road In Elmwood Park Falling Tree Hits Car, Blocks River Road In Elmwood Park Falling Tree Hits Car, Blocks River Road In Elmwood Park
Falling Tree Hits Car, Blocks River Road In Elmwood Park ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- The driver was OK after a falling tree struck a vehicle in Elmwood Park during Thursday night's rainstorm, authorities said. Borough firefighters and EMS workers cut up the tree and cleared River Road at Martha Avenue after the tree fell just before 9:30 p.m. Police Chief Michael Foligno said. River Road traffic in both directions was temporarily diverted, the chief said. The driver escaped without injury, but the vehicle had to be towed, he said.

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Hackensack, NJ
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Guess How Many Tickets SoHackensack PD Wrote In Distracted Driver Crackdown Guess How Many Tickets SoHackensack PD Wrote In Distracted Driver Crackdown Guess How Many Tickets SoHackensack PD Wrote In Distracted Driver Crackdown
Guess How Many Tickets SoHackensack PD Wrote In Distracted Driver Crackdown South Hackensack police may not have one of Bergen County’s biggest departments, but they pick off plenty of offenders passing through. Thanks primarily to the efforts of a 14-member patrol unit, township officers wrote 539 traffic summonses during last month’s annual three-week distracted driving campaign, Capt. Robert Kaiser said. They also made 13 arrests – including a suspect with a loaded 9mm handgun in the car, others carrying heroin and marijuana and several defendants who skipped court elsewhere, Kaiser said. With driver inattention contributing to crashes in New Jersey at a rate n…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Judge Frees Ex-Con Accused Of Exposing Himself At Five Oakland Businesses Judge Frees Ex-Con Accused Of Exposing Himself At Five Oakland Businesses Judge Frees Ex-Con Accused Of Exposing Himself At Five Oakland Businesses
Judge Frees Ex-Con Accused Of Exposing Himself At Five Oakland Businesses A 28-year-old ex-con with a lengthy criminal history was ordered released from jail this week after Oakland police charged him with exposing himself five different times in town the same day. Kassan Drakeford exposed himself in five different establishments -- including a nail salon and a Starbucks -- before being taken into custody on Monday, Oakland Police Lt. Christian Eldridge said. There were children under 13 at some of the establishments, he said. Despite Drakeford's history, the nature of the crimes and a drug arrest from earlier this year, records show that a judge freed him from …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Suspected Medical Emergency Sends SUV Into Teaneck Utility Pole Suspected Medical Emergency Sends SUV Into Teaneck Utility Pole Suspected Medical Emergency Sends SUV Into Teaneck Utility Pole
Suspected Medical Emergency Sends SUV Into Teaneck Utility Pole TEANECK, N.J. -- Responders believe a driver suffered a medical emergency before her SUV slammed into a utility pole Thursday afternoon in Teaneck, shattering it and downing a transformer and various wires. Teaneck police, firefighters and EMS responded to the 2:15 p.m. crash on East Lawn Drive, which knocked out power to more than 135 area customers, according to a PSE&G outage map. The injured female driver was taken to nearby Holy Name Medical Center. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this account. 

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