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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Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Storm Knocks Ridgewood Church Tree Across Road Storm Knocks Ridgewood Church Tree Across Road Storm Knocks Ridgewood Church Tree Across Road
Storm Knocks Ridgewood Church Tree Across Road RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- Friday morning's squalls toppled a large tree on the property of a Ridgewood church. The St. Elizabeth's Church tree fell across Fairmount Road, blocking traffic and downing utility lines, knocking out power to customers in the immediate area. Members of village police, firefighters and the Shade Tree Division responded, along with PSE&G. ****** ALSO SEE: Several Ridgewood High School students heading home at the end of their school day Friday found their cars damaged by a fallen tree. https://ridgewood.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/tree-falls-on-ridgewood-students-ca…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority Police At WTC Reunite Non-Verbal Missing Man With Family Port Authority Police At WTC Reunite Non-Verbal Missing Man With Family Port Authority Police At WTC Reunite Non-Verbal Missing Man With Family
Port Authority Police At WTC Reunite Non-Verbal Missing Man With Family A missing Bronx man who couldn't speak and wasn't carrying identification seemed confused as he wandered around the 9/11 memorial in lower Manhattan before dawn Thursday. Port Authority officers assigned to the World Trade Center handed him a pen -- on which the man wrote an address that ended up reuniting him with his family. Loved ones and others distributed fliers and police had issued alerts in the search for 21-year-old Tanvir Hossain. Hossain, who's non-verbal and has schizophrenia, was last seen on Sunday. The officers who found him flashed his photo to the NYPD's 52nd Precinct. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Sheriff Saudino: Enrollment Open For Bergen Citizens Police Academy Sheriff Saudino: Enrollment Open For Bergen Citizens Police Academy Sheriff Saudino: Enrollment Open For Bergen Citizens Police Academy
Sheriff Saudino: Enrollment Open For Bergen Citizens Police Academy HACKENSACK, N.J. – Enrollment is open for the 21st class of the Bergen County Citizen’s Police Academy, an eight-week course designed to give residents a working knowledge of law enforcement policies and tactics, Sheriff Michael Saudino said.   Bergen County residents 18 and older are eligible to participate. “One of the most important components of law enforcement is fostering strong relationships with the community,” Saudino said. “Our Citizen’s Police Academy gives residents firsthand knowledge of the important work police do to enhance public safety and protect Bergen County residents.…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Clifton/Garfield PD: Two Caught In Police Impersonator 'Prostitution' Raids Clifton/Garfield PD: Two Caught In Police Impersonator 'Prostitution' Raids Clifton/Garfield PD: Two Caught In Police Impersonator 'Prostitution' Raids
Clifton/Garfield PD: Two Caught In Police Impersonator 'Prostitution' Raids CLIFTON, N.J. -- Three men posting as police officers had been ransacking hotel rooms in New Jersey, claiming they were conducting prostitution raids, until Clifton and Garfield police teamed up to find and bust them. Using the ruse, two of them entered the hotel room of a 35-year-old hotel guest at the Clifton Howard Johnson on Route 3, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. While one guarded the victim, the other robber grabbed cash, electronics and the keys to the woman's car, he said. Over the next several weeks, Bracken said, detectives spoke with their colleagues in other towns and the F…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Snow Closes GWB Walkway Snow Closes GWB Walkway Snow Closes GWB Walkway
Snow Closes GWB Walkway FORT LEE, N.J. -- Friday morning's snow closed the George Washington Bridge pedestrian walkway. Port Authority of New York & New Jersey made the call just after 5 a.m. They didn't say when they planned to reopen the walkway.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Clifton PD: Burglar Bolts After Finding Family Home, Tracked Down By K-9 Clifton PD: Burglar Bolts After Finding Family Home, Tracked Down By K-9 Clifton PD: Burglar Bolts After Finding Family Home, Tracked Down By K-9
Clifton PD: Burglar Bolts After Finding Family Home, Tracked Down By K-9 CLIFTON, N.J. -- A Clifton family scared off a would-be burglar, who was caught soon after by a police dog in a nearby backyard, authorities said. The Delawanna Avene residents were watching TV when a bedroom window burglar alarm sensor went off, Detective Sgt. Robert Anderson said. One of the residents spotted 20-year-old Nigel Patel trying to get in, he said. He bolted but was caught after police established a perimeter and the Passaic County Sheriff's Office brought in K-9 Officer Anthony Testino and "Luna" -- who tracked Patel to the backyard, Anderson said. Patel was sent t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
POLICE: Scrawled Bathroom Wall Scribble Prompts Lodi HS Lockdown POLICE: Scrawled Bathroom Wall Scribble Prompts Lodi HS Lockdown POLICE: Scrawled Bathroom Wall Scribble Prompts Lodi HS Lockdown
Police: Scrawled Bathroom Wall Scribble Prompts Lodi HS Lockdown LODI, N.J. -- A barely decipherable message scrawled on a bathroom wall led to an afternoon lockdown Thursday at Lodi High School. "It's nothing serious. The building and students are safe," a law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the incident told Daily Voice. Included in the ineligible writing was the time "1 p.m," authorities said. School officials and Lodi police dealt with the matter quickly. The lockdown was temporarily kept in place while a pair of tactical officers with a K-9 swept the building, as anxious parents waited outside. A trio of New Jerse…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Passaic Temp Agency Owner Bilked Trucking Company, Own Workers Prosecutor: Passaic Temp Agency Owner Bilked Trucking Company, Own Workers Prosecutor: Passaic Temp Agency Owner Bilked Trucking Company, Own Workers
Prosecutor: Passaic Temp Agency Owner Bilked Trucking Company, Own Workers PASSAIC, NJ. -- The owner of a temp agency with offices in Passaic and Woodland Park overbilled a trucking company by $700,000 for phantom employees who never showed up for work, authorities charged. Pedro L. Carbajal, 43, and his Options Staffing company also defrauded their own employees by failing to give the state payroll deductions withheld from their paychecks.  As a result, they "were declined when they applied for disability and unemployment benefits," Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said Wednesday. Carbajal also failed to maintain workers comp for employees i…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Hillsdale PD: Shoplifter Strolled Out With Hand Basket, $2,500 Hidden Goods Hillsdale PD: Shoplifter Strolled Out With Hand Basket, $2,500 Hidden Goods Hillsdale PD: Shoplifter Strolled Out With Hand Basket, $2,500 Hidden Goods
Hillsdale PD: Shoplifter Strolled Out With Hand Basket, $2,500 Hidden Goods HILLSDALE, N.J. – He was hardly discrete about it: A suspect picked up by a passing patrol officer near the Hillsdale train station was carrying a Walgreens shopping basket and $2,500 worth of stolen merchandise bulging from his pockets, police said. Officer Travis Woods was headed to the shoplifting call when he spotted Mark P. Zurich, 32, of Jersey City carrying the hand basket – with several of the stolen items sticking out of his jacket, Detective Bill Diedtrich said Thursday. Zurich was charged with shoplifting and sent to the Bergen County Jail before a judge released him a short tim…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Haledon PD: 5,000 Heroin Folds In Taxi Stop Lead To Stolen Gun Seizures Haledon PD: 5,000 Heroin Folds In Taxi Stop Lead To Stolen Gun Seizures Haledon PD: 5,000 Heroin Folds In Taxi Stop Lead To Stolen Gun Seizures
Haledon PD: 5,000 Heroin Folds In Taxi Stop Lead To Stolen Gun Seizures HALEDON, N.J. -- A Woodland Park passenger in a cab stopped for an improper turn was carrying 5,000 envelopes of heroin for sale -- leading to the discovery of two stolen handguns, one of them loaded, said Haledon police who arrested him Wednesday night. Officer Jeffrey Welsh stopped the Lincoln Town and Country Taxicab​ on Oxford Street just before midnight for "for failing to properly signal a turn and having inoperable rear license plate light bulbs," Lt. George Guzman said. Welsh noticed that the rear-seat passenger -- Adrian Rodriguez, 23 -- wasn't wearing a seat belt, so he …

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