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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Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
ALL CLEAR: Non-Credible Bomb Threat At Paramus Catholic Prompts K9 Search ALL CLEAR: Non-Credible Bomb Threat At Paramus Catholic Prompts K9 Search ALL CLEAR: Non-Credible Bomb Threat At Paramus Catholic Prompts K9 Search
ALL Clear: Non-Credible Bomb Threat At Paramus Catholic Prompts K9 Search UPDATE: An hour-long shelter-in-place ended at Paramus Catholic High School around 11 a.m. Thursday following what authorities deemed a non-credible bomb threat. A Bergen County Sheriff's K-9 unit joined Paramus police to check the school as a precaution, authorities said.

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson Drug Raid: 3 Young Children Turned Over To Relative Paterson Drug Raid: 3 Young Children Turned Over To Relative Paterson Drug Raid: 3 Young Children Turned Over To Relative
Paterson Drug Raid: 3 Young Children Turned Over To Relative Three young children who were home during a Paterson drug raid were turned over to a relative after authorities found three pounds of pot, several bags of cocaine and dozens of Oxycodone. Members of the Paterson Police Narcotics Division who’d been watching the second-floor River Street residence and detached garage for weeks also seized more than $40,000 in drug money while arresting Rafael Rosario, 35, and Jessica Madera, 27, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. Investigators and uniformed officers hit the home around 1:30 a.m. last Friday and found the youngsters – ages 9, 8 and 3 – alon…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Ridgewood Woman Strands Utility Worker Mid-Air In Bucket Police: Ridgewood Woman Strands Utility Worker Mid-Air In Bucket Police: Ridgewood Woman Strands Utility Worker Mid-Air In Bucket
Police: Ridgewood Woman Strands Utility Worker Mid-Air In Bucket A Ridgewood woman upset with a cable company worker hopped into the cab of an Optimum truck and cut the power to a utility bucket, leaving him hanging in mid-air, police said. Elena Gerlihman, 59, then “removed utility property from the truck and walked away,” Capt. William Amoruso said. Responding officers found the worker stranded in the bucket near Gerlihman’s home at East Ridgewood and South Pleasant avenues, Amoruso said. They arrested Gerlihman on charges of harassment, false imprisonment, disorderly conduct and criminal trespassing, then released her pending a court date.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Hasbrouck Heights Crash: Officers Aid Critically Injured Motorcyclist Hasbrouck Heights Crash: Officers Aid Critically Injured Motorcyclist Hasbrouck Heights Crash: Officers Aid Critically Injured Motorcyclist
Hasbrouck Heights Crash: Officers Aid Critically Injured Motorcyclist Two Hasbrouck Heights police officers applied a tourniquet to the leg of a 26-year-old female motorcyclist from Carlstadt who was hospitalized in critical condition after an overnight crash Wednesday. The driver of the Kia sedan that struck her, a 20-year-old Rutherford woman, was hospitalized, as well, following the crash just after midnight at Boulevard and Washington Place, Detective Lt. Michael Colaneri Jr. said. Responding Officers Christopher Connors and Sean WoodBridge rendered immediate aid to the cyclist, who was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center along with the other mo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Murder Victim Found In Car Positively ID'd As Missing Paterson Woman Murder Victim Found In Car Positively ID'd As Missing Paterson Woman Murder Victim Found In Car Positively ID'd As Missing Paterson Woman
Murder Victim Found In Car Positively ID'd As Missing Paterson Woman Authorities late Tuesday finally were able to say conclusively that missing Paterson mother Shanaya Coley was the murder victim whose badly decomposed body was found over the weekend in the back seat of her car. The body was found with "puncture and incision wounds" in the back seat of Coley's gray Nissan Altima after a resident summoned police to the parking lot of a Marion Street garden apartment complex shortly before 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Troy Oswald said in a joint announcement. Coley, a 24-year-old single mom …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Wyckoff PD: DWI Driver Stopped On Rt. 208 Illegally Entered US 9 Years Ago Wyckoff PD: DWI Driver Stopped On Rt. 208 Illegally Entered US 9 Years Ago Wyckoff PD: DWI Driver Stopped On Rt. 208 Illegally Entered US 9 Years Ago
Wyckoff PD: DWI Driver Stopped On Rt. 208 Illegally Entered US 9 Years Ago WYCKOFF, N.J. – A Wyckoff police officer stopped a drunk, unlicensed driver on Route 208 who it turned out had been living in the U.S. illegally the past nine years, authorities said. Keilor Mendez-Herrera, 28, who’d been living in Paterson after entering the U.S. from Costa Rica, was briefly held in the Bergen County Jail before being turned over to the Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau, Lt. Joseph Soto said. Officer Robert Schlossberg was on patrol around 10 p.m. last Tuesday when he stopped Mendez-Herrera for erratically driving his silver Honda o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgefield Park Woman Charged With Selling Coke To Restaurant Customers Ridgefield Park Woman Charged With Selling Coke To Restaurant Customers Ridgefield Park Woman Charged With Selling Coke To Restaurant Customers
Ridgefield Park Woman Charged With Selling Coke To Restaurant Customers A Rockland County restaurant worker from Ridgefield Park sold cocaine to customers, said authorities who busted her and eight other accused members of a drug-dealing ring. Paige Willock, 27, was the only out-of-Rockland resident among those that District Attorney Thomas Zugibe said catered to upwards of 150 customers in local bars and restaurants in Clarkstown, Nyack, Pearl River, Ramapo and Spring Valley. SEE: Nine Nabbed In Rockland Drug Ring, DA Says The ringleader, was 32-year-old Stanley Juin, of Nyack, who got the drugs from his cousin, Zugibe said. Juin then used Willock and others…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Thwarted Undercover Drug Deal Leads To Pursuit, Fort Lee House Search Thwarted Undercover Drug Deal Leads To Pursuit, Fort Lee House Search Thwarted Undercover Drug Deal Leads To Pursuit, Fort Lee House Search
Thwarted Undercover Drug Deal Leads To Pursuit, Fort Lee House Search FORT LEE, N.J. -- An undercover drug deal turned into a pursuit and a house-by-house search Tuesday afternoon in Fort Lee. Two suspects sped off in a Mercedes during the undercover buy in Englewood, with police chasing them. The pursuit was terminated out of safety concerns, but the damaged vehicle was found soon after -- with its front end smashed -- in a private driveway on New York Avenue in Fort Lee. ****** HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED: 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…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen Prosecutor: PA Tech Trafficked Assault Rifles, High-Capacity Mags Bergen Prosecutor: PA Tech Trafficked Assault Rifles, High-Capacity Mags Bergen Prosecutor: PA Tech Trafficked Assault Rifles, High-Capacity Mags
Bergen Prosecutor: PA Tech Trafficked Assault Rifles, High-Capacity Mags An undercover detective with the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office bought several rifles – including assault weapons – along with more than a half-dozen high-capacity magazines and over 100 rounds of ammo from a Pennsylvania man, said authorities who arrested him. Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Andrew Okie, a 23-year-old electronics technician from Tobyhanna, PA met with the investigator several times and sold: one Century Arms AK47 rifle; two Ruger AR15 rifles; one American Tactical AR15 rifle; seven high-capacity firearm magazines; more than 100 rounds of ammunition (7.62 x 39MM and 5.56 x …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Former Alpine Businessman Gets 19 Months In $5M Investment Scam Former Alpine Businessman Gets 19 Months In $5M Investment Scam Former Alpine Businessman Gets 19 Months In $5M Investment Scam
Former Alpine Businessman Gets 19 Months In $5M Investment Scam A former Alpine businessman who scammed investors out of more than $5 million was sentenced to 19 months in federal prison on Tuesday. James Trolice, 64, previously admitted selling investors interests in companies that he and Lee Vaccaro, 46, of Las Vegas, claimed held securities that “gave holders the right to buy common stock at a specific price within a certain time frame,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Trolice at the time was president and owner of Trolice Consulting Services LLC and president and chief marketing officer of eAgency, a California-based company that developed mobil…

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