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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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Feds: Elmwood Park 7-Eleven Among Targets Of Ski-Masked Armed Robbers Feds: Elmwood Park 7-Eleven Among Targets Of Ski-Masked Armed Robbers Feds: Elmwood Park 7-Eleven Among Targets Of Ski-Masked Armed Robbers
Feds: Elmwood Park 7-Eleven Among Targets Of Ski-Masked Armed Robbers ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. – A ski-masked gunman and getaway driver went on a robbery spree through several counties in North and Central Jersey -- holding up, among other businesses, a 7-Eleven in Elmwood Park and leading local police on chases, federal authorities charged Tuesday. Tione Davis, 35, of East Orange, stuck a silver handgun in the clerk's face in the convenience store at the corner of Market Street and Mola Boulevard around 4:15 a.m. last Dec. 7 before making off with $350 in cash, an FBI complaint on file in federal court in Newark charges. An, 29-year-old Meshach Whagar of Newark, w…

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Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Slow News Day: Bear-Tailing Reporters Flock To Ridgewood Slow News Day: Bear-Tailing Reporters Flock To Ridgewood Slow News Day: Bear-Tailing Reporters Flock To Ridgewood
Slow News Day: Bear-Tailing Reporters Flock To Ridgewood UPDATE (3 p.m.): A fugitive black bear who gave authorities the slip in Paramus a day earlier was brought down safely from a Ridgewood tree Tuesday afternoon. ****** RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- What began as a blow-by-blow bear hunt exploded Tuesday when a young black bear who gave authorities the slip in Paramus on Monday climbed another tree -- this time in Ridgewood -- and reporters came running. Village police cordoned off an area around a Circle Avenue home during the standoff while Carol Tyler, the president of Tyco Animal Control Services, conducted an impromptu news conference across the st…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
HEROES: Garfield Police Officers Pull Unconscious Driver From Burning Car HEROES: Garfield Police Officers Pull Unconscious Driver From Burning Car HEROES: Garfield Police Officers Pull Unconscious Driver From Burning Car
Heroes: Garfield Police Officers Pull Unconscious Driver From Burning Car GARFIELD, N.J. – Two Garfield police officers broke the windows of a smoke-filled car that had just struck a dozen parked vehicles and pulled the unconscious driver to safety overnight Tuesday, authorities said. It was unclear when or why the 61-year-old Clifton motorist passed out when Officers Daniel Taylor and Marvin Monroig found his 2000 Ford Explorer on fire on MacArthur Avenue just before 2 a.m. It had just crashed into the rear of a parked vehicle and was on fire, Capt. Darren Sucorowski said. “The officers broke the windows and forced open the door to gain entry to the vehicle as …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: Armed Ex-Con Seized In Fairview Pizzeria Authorities: Armed Ex-Con Seized In Fairview Pizzeria Authorities: Armed Ex-Con Seized In Fairview Pizzeria
Authorities: Armed Ex-Con Seized In Fairview Pizzeria FAIRVIEW, N.J. -- Fairview police nabbed an ex-con who they said was carrying a handgun in a local pizzeria. Officers George Alexiou and Geremia DeMartino, responding to an anonymous tip at Luigi's Restaurant early Sunday evening, found Josue "Sway" Correa, 30, with a bulge in his waistband and part of the gun sticking out from under his sweatshirt, Police Chief Martin Kahn said. They immediately seized him and the gun, Kahn said. The silver-topped, black plastic-handled Glock-design handgun had a defaced serial number and was loaded with starter-pistol ammo, he said. Correa, wh…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
South Hackensack PD: Officers Bust Out-Of-Staters With Guns, Ammo, Drugs South Hackensack PD: Officers Bust Out-Of-Staters With Guns, Ammo, Drugs South Hackensack PD: Officers Bust Out-Of-Staters With Guns, Ammo, Drugs
South Hackensack PD: Officers Bust Out-Of-Staters With Guns, Ammo, Drugs SOUTH HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A pair of South Hackensack police officers found two handguns, a high-capacity magazine, drugs and $6,300 in illicit proceeds after stopping two men and a teenager, all from Massachusetts, on Route 46, authorities said. They arrested both men -- identified as Brian DeLeon, 24, of Leominster, MA (originally from Paterson) and Enrique Coello, 21, from Lunenburg, MA -- and detained the juvenile, 17. Officers Stephen Oliver and Sean Bannon stopped their Nissan on eastbound Route 46 around 1:30 a.m. Monday for having a headlight out, Capt. Robert Kaiser said. "The…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack Brush Fire Doused Hackensack Brush Fire Doused Hackensack Brush Fire Doused
Hackensack Brush Fire Doused HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Hackensack firefighters quickly doused a brush blaze Tuesday behind the Home Depot off Route 4. Engines 5, 4, & 1 were among the responders to the Hackensack Avenue fire, which sent up smoke visible from the highway.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Hillsdale PD Kids' Fishing Derby Has An Angle: Positive Relationships Hillsdale PD Kids' Fishing Derby Has An Angle: Positive Relationships Hillsdale PD Kids' Fishing Derby Has An Angle: Positive Relationships
Hillsdale PD Kids' Fishing Derby Has An Angle: Positive Relationships HILLSDALE, N.J. – Patience, ingenuity, preparation and humility are all part of what makes fishing a great way for people to connect – which is why Hillsdale police are holding their 2nd annual “Cops and Bobbers” fishing derby this month. Officers will work side-by-side with youngsters 16 and under at the Woodcliff Lake Reservoir, "helping them bait, cast, hook and release fish all while bonding and learning that they are not so different from each other, after all,” Detective Bill Diedtrich said. Trophies will be awarded for prize catches. No equipment? No problem. The NJ Department…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Your Community
Artists To Visit Paterson's Historic Hinchliffe Stadium Artists To Visit Paterson's Historic Hinchliffe Stadium Artists To Visit Paterson's Historic Hinchliffe Stadium
Artists To Visit Paterson's Historic Hinchliffe Stadium PATERSON, N.J. -- Visitors will keep their eyes open but no doubt hear echoes during a “mobile workshop” at historic Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson sponsored this Friday by the National Consortium for Creative Placemaking. Part of a two-day Northeast summit at Drew University, the workshop visit aims to help artists participate in a current façade restoration project to help revitalize the surrounding neighborhood. Set above the Great Falls, the 10,000-seat Hinchliffe Stadium – built during the Great Impression -- is one of only three remaining ballparks from the Jim Crow era of segregated …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Woodland Park Police Officer Charged With Theft Woodland Park Police Officer Charged With Theft Woodland Park Police Officer Charged With Theft
Woodland Park Police Officer Charged With Theft WOODLAND PARK, N.J. – A Woodland Park police officer well-known in the community was charged with theft, authorities said Monday night. Sgt. Thomas Bolen, 46 -- who has been a Boys and Girls Club president, Board of Education member and athletic coach -- was issued a summons to appear in court to answer a theft charge, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said. Valdes said the crimes occurred “on or April 1, 2016, through on or about December 2, 2016, from the Borough of Woodland Park” while Bolen worked as a police officer. “It is alleged that he received compensation from the Boro…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Ex-Rutherford Man Who Supported ISIS Gets 10 Years In Fed Pen Ex-Rutherford Man Who Supported ISIS Gets 10 Years In Fed Pen Ex-Rutherford Man Who Supported ISIS Gets 10 Years In Fed Pen
Ex-Rutherford Man Who Supported ISIS Gets 10 Years In Fed Pen RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- A Jordanian national who previously lived in Rutherford was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on Monday for conspiring to support foreign terrorism in Iraq. Nader Saadeh, 23, was among a group of men charged by federal agents with "trying to provide material support" to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. He took a plea deal from the government in exchange for the sentence. He also will have a lifetime of supervised release, under the sentence imposed by U.S. Dis…

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