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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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Pedestrian Struck In Edgewater Pedestrian Struck In Edgewater Pedestrian Struck In Edgewater
Pedestrian Struck In Edgewater EDGEWATER, N.J. -- A pedestrian was struck on busy River Road in Edgewater Saturday afternoon. The pedstrian was hit near the Maramis Cafe. Traffic was jammed in both directions. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Trucker Charged With Sexually Assaulting North Arlington Teen Four Times Trucker Charged With Sexually Assaulting North Arlington Teen Four Times Trucker Charged With Sexually Assaulting North Arlington Teen Four Times
Trucker Charged With Sexually Assaulting North Arlington Teen Four Times NORTH ARLINGTON, N.J. – A Hudson County truck driver was charged with sexually assaulting an underage North Arlington girl several times spanning this and last year, said authorities who arrested him. Luis Lozano, 40, of North Bergen remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Saturday following a detention hearing in Hackensack. Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Lozano was arrested Friday after members of his Special Victims Unit and North Arlington police investigated a Feb. 15 report Lozano is charged with sexually assaulting the girl four times beginning when she was 16, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Investigators At Scene Of Critical Injury In Ramsey Investigators At Scene Of Critical Injury In Ramsey Investigators At Scene Of Critical Injury In Ramsey
Investigators At Scene Of Critical Injury In Ramsey RAMSEY, N.J. -- A Ramsey man who was rushed to the hospital around noontime Saturday after bleeding severely from an internal rupture had a minimal chance of survival, responders said. The circumstances of the West Main Street incident initially didn't appear suspicious, a law enforcement official told Daily Voice. However, because the victim lost a tremendous amount of blood, the Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification collected evidence.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson Ex-Con Busted: 870 Heroin Bags, 2 Stolen Guns, $26,000 Drug Cash Paterson Ex-Con Busted: 870 Heroin Bags, 2 Stolen Guns, $26,000 Drug Cash Paterson Ex-Con Busted: 870 Heroin Bags, 2 Stolen Guns, $26,000 Drug Cash
Paterson Ex-Con Busted: 870 Heroin Bags, 2 Stolen Guns, $26,000 Drug Cash PATERSON, N.J. -- Paterson police seized three handguns -- two of them stolen -- along with 870 bags of heroin and $26,306 in drug proceeds from an ex-con, authorities said. They also seized more than a half-ounce of cocaine, eight suboxone films and several hollow-point bullets, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. It began with the smaller bust of a driver stopped by Narcotics Division detectives who, Speziale said, had just bought 10 bags of heroin stamped "Karma" in red ink, along with a knotted bag of crack, from a dealer in a white Chrysler 3000 on McBride Avenue. The detec…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Jets Fans Sue Team Over PSL Change Jets Fans Sue Team Over PSL Change Jets Fans Sue Team Over PSL Change
Jets Fans Sue Team Over PSL Change A group of New York Jets season ticket holders are suing the organization for no longer requiring licenses for buying seats in MetLife Stadium's mezzanine. The class-action suit was filed in Superior Court in Hackensack on Friday by an attorney for longtime Jets fans James T. Gengo of Trumbull, CT, who says he was required to pay $8,000 for personal seat licenses before he could buy two mid-level seats at the stadium before it opened in 2010. The Jets rendered that outlay for him and more than 1,000 fellow fans "entirely or substantially worthless" -- violating consumer-protection…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Yonkers, NY
Breaking News
Thief Gets 3 Years In Fed Pen For Swiping $500,000 From Michaels' Customers Thief Gets 3 Years In Fed Pen For Swiping $500,000 From Michaels' Customers Thief Gets 3 Years In Fed Pen For Swiping $500,000 From Michaels' Customers
Thief Gets 3 Years In Fed Pen For Swiping $500,000 From Michaels' Customers A 28-year-old man received three years in federal prison Wednesday for his role in stealing information from 94,000 credit and debit cards used by customers at Michaels stores in New York State and elsewhere and then pulling nearly $500,000 from the victims' accounts. Angel Angulo of Riverside, California, previously admitted that he and his co-conspirators replaced swipe terminals with imitations that they used to record the bank account numbers and PINs. They used the information to create bogus cards that were then used to withdraw money from hundreds of victims' accounts, he said. The …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Dumont Driver Convicted In MetLife Death Of Cliffside Park Record King Dumont Driver Convicted In MetLife Death Of Cliffside Park Record King Dumont Driver Convicted In MetLife Death Of Cliffside Park Record King
Dumont Driver Convicted In MetLife Death Of Cliffside Park Record King HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Jurors in Hackensack convicted a former employee of an Englewood luxury sports car company of vehicular homicide for striking and killing popular Cliffside Park record store owner Steve Lenge (photo above) as he rode his motorcycle outside MetLife Stadium on Mother’s Day 2012. Joseph A. Ferretti (left in mugshots above), of Dumont, and Joseph Meyer (right), of Oviedo, Fla., were originally charged with death by auto, a second-degree crime that has sent those convicted in New Jersey to prison for terms of five to 10 years, depending on various factors. A grand jury late…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen Prosecutor: Print Shop Worker Had Thousands Of Child Porn Files Bergen Prosecutor: Print Shop Worker Had Thousands Of Child Porn Files Bergen Prosecutor: Print Shop Worker Had Thousands Of Child Porn Files
Bergen Prosecutor: Print Shop Worker Had Thousands Of Child Porn Files HACKENSACK, N.J. – A print shop worker from Central Jersey thought he was sharing child pornography with a fellow enthusiast who turned out to be a Bergen County Prosecutor’s detective. Jimmy Rivera, 41, remained held in the Bergen County Jail Friday pending a detention hearing Monday in Central Judicial Municipal Court in Hackensack, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. Rivera, who is married had thousands of files of “nude and sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children” at his Perth Amboy home when investigators raided it on Wednesday, Calo said. They arrested him…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
$40,000 Bergen Jewel Thief Who Also Killed 2 Rivals Gets 40 Years $40,000 Bergen Jewel Thief Who Also Killed 2 Rivals Gets 40 Years $40,000 Bergen Jewel Thief Who Also Killed 2 Rivals Gets 40 Years
$40,000 Bergen Jewel Thief Who Also Killed 2 Rivals Gets 40 Years The theft of $40,000 of jewelry from a Bergen County store was directed by a Westchester gang leader who was sentenced Thursday to 40 years in federal prison for killing two rivals just months earlier, authorities said. Jamel "Flynt" Upson, 33, ran the Mount Vernon-based "Boss Playa Family" -- or "BPF" -- which waged open warfare on its rivals, authorities said. Upson, in particular, displayed "disturbing indifference to the lives of others," including two rivals he shot down in cold blood, said Geoffrey S. Berman, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson Police Nab Trio In Convenience Store Robberies Paterson Police Nab Trio In Convenience Store Robberies Paterson Police Nab Trio In Convenience Store Robberies
Paterson Police Nab Trio In Convenience Store Robberies PATERSON, N.J. -- A trio of Paterson convenience store robberies were tied to an adult and two teens taken into custody after dogged work by detectives -- who also solved a fourth holdup in the process, authorities said.The first target was a 10th Avenue bodega robbed early on Dec. 21, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. Two of the robbers, "dressed in dark clothing with face masks" walked in, pointed a gun at the clerk and fled with $100, he said. That very next morning, a 7-Eleven off McLean Boulevard by the Tenth Avenue Circle was robbed at gunpoint by three bandits who hopped…

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