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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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
3 Suspicious Bags Bring Bomb Squad To Maywood 3 Suspicious Bags Bring Bomb Squad To Maywood 3 Suspicious Bags Bring Bomb Squad To Maywood
3 Suspicious Bags Bring Bomb Squad To Maywood MAYWOOD, N.J. -- Bergen County's bomb squad had a busy Friday morning in Maywood after a trio of suspicious bags were found in the same area. All turned out harmless. Two separate backpacks were found by a police officer at an Essex Street bus shelter near Maywood Avenue around 4:45 a.m., Police Chief David Pegg said. The streets were closed off and the area secured. The Bergen County Sheriff’s Bomb Squad found both backpacks stuffed with papers, the chief said. A jogger then called police just before 6:30 a.m. after finding a suspicious bag on Maywood Avenue between Essex Street and Dem…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Serial Bank Robber Who Grabbed Little Ferry Teller By Blouse Gets 9+ Years Serial Bank Robber Who Grabbed Little Ferry Teller By Blouse Gets 9+ Years Serial Bank Robber Who Grabbed Little Ferry Teller By Blouse Gets 9+ Years
Serial Bank Robber Who Grabbed Little Ferry Teller By Blouse Gets 9+ Years LITTLE FERRY, N.J. – An Elizabeth man was sentenced Thursday to more than nine years in federal prison for robbing four banks -- including one in Little Ferry in which he grabbed a teller by the blouse and threatened to shoot her before making off with nearly $4,000. Israel Cosme, 36, pleaded guilty in January in exchange for the 115-month sentence -- nearly all of which he must serve because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Cosmo was arrested on Jan. 24, 2017, nine days after federal authorities said he robbed the Main Street TD Bank in Little Ferry in an incident captured o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Accused Rapper Robber Freed, Other Held In Bergen Jail, Video Shows Holdup Accused Rapper Robber Freed, Other Held In Bergen Jail, Video Shows Holdup Accused Rapper Robber Freed, Other Held In Bergen Jail, Video Shows Holdup
Accused Rapper Robber Freed, Other Held In Bergen Jail, Video Shows Holdup FORT LEE, N.J. -- A former friend accused of robbing rapper-turned-reality TV personality Safaree Samuels and a companion remained held at the Bergen County Jail as surveillance video emerged of last week's holdup in a Fort Lee parking garage. Shawn Brandon Harewood, 33 (mugshot above), is charged with two counts of robbery, as well as aggravated assault by pointing a firearm, theft, making terroristic threats and illegal weapons possession. Although Harewood was ordered held pending further court action, a judge freed an accused accomplice, Jonathan G. Ricketts, who turns 28 on Friday. Ric…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Feds: Fort Dix Officer Smuggled Synth Pot, Suboxone To Inmates For Cash Feds: Fort Dix Officer Smuggled Synth Pot, Suboxone To Inmates For Cash Feds: Fort Dix Officer Smuggled Synth Pot, Suboxone To Inmates For Cash
Feds: Fort Dix Officer Smuggled Synth Pot, Suboxone To Inmates For Cash A Fort Dix corrections officer with an apparent penchant for gambling delivered synth pot and suboxone to inmates in exchange for cash before being arrested by federal agents Thursday, authorities said. A U.S. District Court judge in Newark released Paul Anton Wright, 32, of Berlin, on a $100,000 unsecured bond Thursday afternoon after a brief hearing. Between February and September 2015, Wright “received thousands of dollars in cash payments from the relative of an FCI Fort Dix inmate and subsequently delivered contraband, including K2 [synthetic marijuana], to the inmate,” U.S. Attorney C…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen Detectives Seize 4½ Pounds Of Raw Heroin In Raid Bergen Detectives Seize 4½ Pounds Of Raw Heroin In Raid Bergen Detectives Seize 4½ Pounds Of Raw Heroin In Raid
Bergen Detectives Seize 4½ Pounds Of Raw Heroin In Raid HACKENSACK, N.J. – A drug investigation took Bergen County detectives to Elizabeth, where they seized nearly 4½ pounds of raw heroin while arresting a man who they said tried to sell it to them. Jhon Rodriguez-Acosta, 31, who is single and unemployed, was dealing in Bergen County, among other areas, when he arranged a sale to an undercover investigator, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Thursday. On Wednesday, a strike force executed search warrants at his Elizabeth apartment and a hair studio that he lives above, where Calo said they found the unpackaged heroin, as well as d…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Ex-Con, Four Others Charged In Passaic Attempted Murder Ex-Con, Four Others Charged In Passaic Attempted Murder Ex-Con, Four Others Charged In Passaic Attempted Murder
Ex-Con, Four Others Charged In Passaic Attempted Murder PASSAIC, N.J. – What authorities said was the attempted murder of a 19-year-old Passaic man on a city street Wednesday night produced the arrests of five men -- one of them an ex-con who's already served state prison time for gun convictions. Several shots were deliberately fired at Wellington Figari, who was struck once near the corner of Montgomery Street and Paulison Avenue, sustaining a non-fatal wound, around 5:20 p.m. Wednesday, authorities said. He was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson and was expected to survive, Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Passaic Polic…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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SUV Flips In Cliffside Park Crash SUV Flips In Cliffside Park Crash SUV Flips In Cliffside Park Crash
SUV Flips In Cliffside Park Crash CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. -- A driver whose vehicle flipped during a crash Wednesday night in Cliffside Park was hospitalized as a precaution. A blue van headed east on Greenmount Avenue collided with a Lexus headed north on Olympia Avenue just after 9 p.m. No serious injuries resulted, responders said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
FOUND! Missing Ramsey Woman With Alzheimer's, 71, Found FOUND! Missing Ramsey Woman With Alzheimer's, 71, Found FOUND! Missing Ramsey Woman With Alzheimer's, 71, Found
Found! Missing Ramsey Woman With Alzheimer's, 71, Found RAMSEY, N.J. -- A MISSING 71-year-old Ramsey woman with Alzheimer's who went missing from a local shopping center early Wednesday evening was found a couple of hours later, authorities said. An NJ State Police helicopter was en route when Selma Rowe was found in Finch Park. She'd been reported missing from the Interstate Shopping Center off southbound Route 17 and Franklin Turnpike -- which has a Shop-Rite, Bed Bath & Beyond and DSW, among other stores -- a couple of blocks from the park.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Backpack Left Against Midland Park Utility Pole Draws Bomb Squad Backpack Left Against Midland Park Utility Pole Draws Bomb Squad Backpack Left Against Midland Park Utility Pole Draws Bomb Squad
Backpack Left Against Midland Park Utility Pole Draws Bomb Squad MIDLAND PARK, N.J. -- A backpack left against a utility pole that brought the Bergen County Bomb Squad to Midland Park early Wednesday evening proved harmless. Ridgewood police notified the unit after responding to Lake Avenue and South Cottage Street about 5 p.m. No buildings were evacuated. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this article.

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by Jerry DeMarco
New City, NY
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Rockland Gang Member's Accomplice Gets 3 Years In Cabbie Carjacking Rockland Gang Member's Accomplice Gets 3 Years In Cabbie Carjacking Rockland Gang Member's Accomplice Gets 3 Years In Cabbie Carjacking
Rockland Gang Member's Accomplice Gets 3 Years In Cabbie Carjacking The confessed accomplice of a Rockland gang member was sent to federal prison for three years Wednesday for smashing a carjacked cab driver in the head with a beer bottle before others dumped the victim on the side of the New York State Thruway in Orange County. Arlyn Jowany Carrasco Cruz, 28, will have to serve just about all of the sentence because there is no parole in the federal prison system. Cruz and five accomplices carjacked the driver of a 2008 Dodge Caravan in the early morning hours of Dec. 26, 2016, in Ridgewood, N.J., forcing him into the back of the vehicle, authorities said.…

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