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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Garfield-Lodi, NJ
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Terrifying Driveway Carjacking Of Garfield Resident Leads To Arrests Of Young Trio Terrifying Driveway Carjacking Of Garfield Resident Leads To Arrests Of Young Trio Terrifying Driveway Carjacking Of Garfield Resident Leads To Arrests Of Young Trio
Terrifying Driveway Carjacking Of Garfield Resident Leads To Arrests Of Young Trio UPDATE: More than three months have passed since four robbers rushed a Garfield resident in his driveway and took his car, cash and jewelry at gunpoint. An intense investigation of the May 14 carjacking and robbery produced the arrests this week of two 20-year-old men and the detention of a 17-year-old boy, all from Paterson, according to Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella. Investigators also seized two handguns during simultaneous raids on Monday, the prosecutor announced on Wednesday, Aug. 30. It was around 8 o’clock on a Sunday night when the victim was ambushed as he sat in his Lexu…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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CAUGHT: Fugitive Gang Member Wanted For Attempted Murder Nabbed By Mahwah PD CAUGHT: Fugitive Gang Member Wanted For Attempted Murder Nabbed By Mahwah PD CAUGHT: Fugitive Gang Member Wanted For Attempted Murder Nabbed By Mahwah PD
Caught: Fugitive Gang Member Wanted For Attempted Murder Nabbed By Mahwah PD A fugitive member of the Crips who was wanted for attempted murder in New York City was nabbed by Mahwah police on Route 17, authorities said. Hakeem “Flow Cash” Jamison, 28, was a passenger in a 2005 Mercedes E500 driven by a Vermont woman who committed several motor vehicle violations before Officer John Lange stopped her on the northbound highway near the Route 287 flyover, Capt. Guido Bussinelli said. Sgt. Richard Albro quickly joined his colleague during the 10:15 a.m. stop on Monday, Aug. 28, the captain said. After getting conflicting stories from the driver, 44-year-old Jill Steel…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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GOTCHA! Just-Released Repeat Offender Pinched For Porch Pirating In Franklin Lakes GOTCHA! Just-Released Repeat Offender Pinched For Porch Pirating In Franklin Lakes GOTCHA! Just-Released Repeat Offender Pinched For Porch Pirating In Franklin Lakes
Gotcha! Just-Released Repeat Offender Pinched For Porch Pirating In Franklin Lakes A repeat offender was caught snatching packages from a trio of mailboxes in a Franklin Lakes neighborhood, authorities said. Officers responding to a call of a trespasser at a Franklin Lakes Road residence grabbed Salvatore Cardinale, 47, of Hackensack on Mulberry Way shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 29, Capt. Mark McCombs said. Cardinale, who already had an outstanding warrant from the borough of Middlesex, had only just been released from the Bergen County Jail the day before after being arrested for shoplifting in Paramus over the weekend, records show. Franklin Lakes police charged…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
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Fire That Destroyed, Damaged Vehicles On Route 46 Lot Deliberately Set By PA Man: Prosecutor Fire That Destroyed, Damaged Vehicles On Route 46 Lot Deliberately Set By PA Man: Prosecutor Fire That Destroyed, Damaged Vehicles On Route 46 Lot Deliberately Set By PA Man: Prosecutor
Fire That Destroyed, Damaged Vehicles On Route 46 Lot Deliberately Set By PA Man: Prosecutor UPDATE: A pre-dawn fire that destroyed some vehicles and damaged others at a used car dealership on Route 46 in Lodi last month was intentionally set by a Pennsylvania man, authorities said. Jonathan Czyzewski, 37, of Levittown, PA remained held in the Bucks County Correctional Facility in Doylestown pending extradition to Bergen County. Czyzewski set fire to a 2011 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck at MFT Auction off Money Street at 4:40 a.m. July 30, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Flames engulfed the pickup and quickly spread to other vehicles on the lot, the prosecutor said. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Kids In Stolen Car Speed Wrong Way On Route 23, Two Nabbed After Intense Hunt Off Routes 80, 46 Kids In Stolen Car Speed Wrong Way On Route 23, Two Nabbed After Intense Hunt Off Routes 80, 46 Kids In Stolen Car Speed Wrong Way On Route 23, Two Nabbed After Intense Hunt Off Routes 80, 46
Kids In Stolen Car Speed Wrong Way On Route 23, Two Nabbed After Intense Hunt Off Routes 80, 46 Two boys – one 16, the other 14 -- were captured following a stolen car pursuit in which the driver at one point perilously sped south on northbound Route 23, authorities said. Four masked thieves in all were pulling on vehicle door handles when police pulled up in response to a call on Oak Hill Drive in Wayne shortly before 5:30 a.m., Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. The crew also tried to break into a home through the back, the captain said. Officer David Talerico spotted an occupied vehicle with a smashed backseat passenger window and no rear license plate on nearby Timberline Drive, Daly…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Road-Raging Driver, 20, Pulls Knife On 73-Year-Old Motorist In Midland Park: Police Road-Raging Driver, 20, Pulls Knife On 73-Year-Old Motorist In Midland Park: Police Road-Raging Driver, 20, Pulls Knife On 73-Year-Old Motorist In Midland Park: Police
Road-Raging Driver, 20, Pulls Knife On 73-Year-Old Motorist In Midland Park: Police A 20-year-old driver was arrested after pulling a knife on a 73-year-old motorist during a road rage incident in Midland Park, authorities said. Police responding to the call stopped a Volkswagen at Mohawk Avenue and North 17th Street in Hawthorne and arrested Anthony Polnarev of Wyckoff around 3 p.m. Monday, Aug. 28. Polnarev and the alleged victim, also of Wyckoff, apparently both got out of their vehicles five miles up the road, in the area of Sicomac Avenue and Faner Road at the Wyckoff border, responders said. They argued and the younger man flashed a folding knife before leaving the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Vandal Caught Spray Painting Elmwood Park Playground: Police Vandal Caught Spray Painting Elmwood Park Playground: Police Vandal Caught Spray Painting Elmwood Park Playground: Police
Vandal Caught Spray Painting Elmwood Park Playground: Police Nothing like having a lawbreaker caught red-handed cop to the crime he'd just committed. Brian Silvestre, 20, of Elmwood Park had just finished spray-painting various equipment and a port-o-john at a park around the corner from his home when Officer Michael Juliano found him and a female walking toward a vehicle in the parking lot shortly after 10 p.m. Monday, Aug. 28, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. The paint hadn’t even dried yet, the chief said. Silvestre, who was carrying two cans of spray paint in his rear pants pocket, admitted to “spray painting a couple of things” in the playgr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Carjackers Fail In Paramus, Succeed In Fair Lawn, Crash In Englewood Carjackers Fail In Paramus, Succeed In Fair Lawn, Crash In Englewood Carjackers Fail In Paramus, Succeed In Fair Lawn, Crash In Englewood
Carjackers Fail In Paramus, Succeed In Fair Lawn, Crash In Englewood Armed robbers who carjacked a vehicle in Fair Lawn after an attempt in Paramus failed were pursued into Englewood, where they bailed out and quickly made themselves scarce, authorities said. It began at 11:55 p.m. Monday, Aug. 28, when the masked pair approached a driver who’d stopped for a cup of coffee at the BP station on eastbound Route 4 in Paramus. The victim was parked in the lot when the robbers ordered him out of his 2021 Volkswagen Jetta at gunpoint and forcibly took his wallet, Paramus Police Chief Robert Guidetti said. He fled into the convenience store at the station with the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Crash Sends Hackensack Officer To Hospital Crash Sends Hackensack Officer To Hospital Crash Sends Hackensack Officer To Hospital
Crash Sends Hackensack Officer To Hospital A Hackensack police officer was hospitalized following a Tuesday morning crash. The officer was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with "a minor complaint of pain," a responder told Daily Voice following the Aug. 29 rear-end collision on River Street near Bridge Street. No one appeared seriously injured in the vehicle that was rear-ended by the patrol unit, witnesses said. Witnesses said the Nissan Sentra driver suddenly slammed on her brakes at a green light, causing the crash. Witnesses said the Nissan Sentra driver suddenly slammed on her brakes at a green light.CONTRIBU…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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SERIOUSLY? Yet Another Tractor-Trailer Crash Jams Morning Rush Near NJ/NY Border SERIOUSLY? Yet Another Tractor-Trailer Crash Jams Morning Rush Near NJ/NY Border SERIOUSLY? Yet Another Tractor-Trailer Crash Jams Morning Rush Near NJ/NY Border
Seriously? Yet Another Tractor-Trailer Crash Jams Morning Rush Near NJ/NY Border Another tractor-trailer jack-knifed, landing on its side, on a notorious stretch of road near the New Jersey-New York border in northwest Bergen County before dawn Tuesday. Northbound Route 17 was temporarily closed near the Route 287 flyover in Mahwah just south of Rockland County near Mountainside Avenue after the 4:09 a.m. crash on Aug. 29, Police Chief Timothy O'Hara said. "The driver told the officers that he was traveling northbound in the right lane when he felt the load shift in the trailer because of what he described as 'angled pavement' in a temporary lane due to construction in …

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