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
Port Authority PD Nabs Man Charged With Stabbing Woman On PATH Platform Port Authority PD Nabs Man Charged With Stabbing Woman On PATH Platform Port Authority PD Nabs Man Charged With Stabbing Woman On PATH Platform
Port Authority PD Nabs Man Charged With Stabbing Woman On PATH Platform Port Authority police arrested a man who they said was seen on video stabbing a woman on a platform at Newark's Penn Station. Officers found the 25-year-old victim down on the platform, "bleeding from a puncture wound to her back," around 1:30 a.m. Thursday, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo said. She was taken to University Hospital. Meanwhile, police recovered the knife used and arrested 38-year-old William F. Harden of Brooklyn. They charged him with aggravated assault, weapons count and possession of marijuana for a joint they said was found in his pocket, Pentangelo said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Leonia PD: Ex-Englewood Driver Found With 4 Pounds Of Pot Leonia PD: Ex-Englewood Driver Found With 4 Pounds Of Pot Leonia PD: Ex-Englewood Driver Found With 4 Pounds Of Pot
Leonia PD: Ex-Englewood Driver Found With 4 Pounds Of Pot LEONIA, N.J. -- A Leonia police officer who stopped a Pennsylvania driver found him carrying four pounds of pot, authorities said. Kellem Pretlor, 34, also had $1,200 in suspected drug proceeds when Officer Raymond Forsdahl stopped his unregistered blue Nissan as it headed north on Broad Avenue near Route 95, Capt. Scott Tamagny said. Fordahl immediately smelled the marijuana when he approached the car, Tamagny said. It was found in four large vacuum-sealed plastic bags, he said. Pretlor, a former Englewood resident whose family still lives there, was once employed as a food service handl…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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East Rutherford Restaurant Trio Charged With Raping Incapacitated Woman East Rutherford Restaurant Trio Charged With Raping Incapacitated Woman East Rutherford Restaurant Trio Charged With Raping Incapacitated Woman
East Rutherford Restaurant Trio Charged With Raping Incapacitated Woman EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – (UPDATE) The INS has placed detainers on three restaurant workers charged with sexually assaulting an incapacitated woman in East Rutherford. SEE: https://rutherford.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/ins-puts-detainers-on-east-rutherford-restaurant-trio-charged-in-gang-rape/732635/ ****** Taken into custody after East Rutherford police received a 911 call Monday from the woman were 29-year-old dishwasher Rene Jimenez of East Rutherford and two kitchen helpers, 20-year-old Luis Tenecela, of Hackensack, and Emeterio Castelan, 25, also of East Rutherford. Jiminez and Castela…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Community Unites To Support Fair Lawn Family Burned Out By Fire Community Unites To Support Fair Lawn Family Burned Out By Fire Community Unites To Support Fair Lawn Family Burned Out By Fire
Community Unites To Support Fair Lawn Family Burned Out By Fire FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- Supporters from Fair Lawn and beyond are banding together to aid a well-known borough family after a fire tore through their home. "The Milnes/Vaughan family has contributed so much to our community and have always responded to others," Deputy Mayor John Cosgrove. "We need to help them." There's veteran U.S. Army veteran Kyle, fellow Fair Lawn Volunteer Rescue Squad member Steve -- who also serves as a Class 1 police officer in town -- and Jackie, a pre-school teacher. A Go Fund Me campaign was already near its $12,000 goal Sunday evening, less than 2…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Rochelle Park PD Stop Missouri Driver With Two Loaded Guns, Illegal Ammo Rochelle Park PD Stop Missouri Driver With Two Loaded Guns, Illegal Ammo Rochelle Park PD Stop Missouri Driver With Two Loaded Guns, Illegal Ammo
Rochelle Park PD Stop Missouri Driver With Two Loaded Guns, Illegal Ammo ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. – A Missouri driver had two loaded guns in her glove compartment, one with hollow-nosed bullets, when she was stopped by Rochelle Park police, authorities said. Officer Brian Gallina stopped the 2013 Dodge Avenger with Missouri plates and heavily tinted windows Friday afternoon on West Passaic Street, Lt. Dean Pinto said. The driver, 24-year-old Savanah Dee Faith Nimmo, of Poplar Bluff, MO, didn’t have any paperwork for the car, said Pinto, who was one of the backup officers who responded to the scene. “When she was asked to retrieve the registration and insurance inf…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
POLICE: Philly Pair 'Lost' In Wayne Caught With Pot, $12,000 In Drug Cash POLICE: Philly Pair 'Lost' In Wayne Caught With Pot, $12,000 In Drug Cash POLICE: Philly Pair 'Lost' In Wayne Caught With Pot, $12,000 In Drug Cash
Police: Philly Pair 'Lost' In Wayne Caught With Pot, $12,000 In Drug Cash WAYNE, N.J. -- Two Philadelphia men who told police they didn't know what they were doing in Wayne were carrying several bags of pot and $12,000 in suspected drug money, authorities said. Officers Mark Ciavirella and James Monaghan were on an afternoon patrol of the northbound Route 23 business corridor when they spotted the pair's 2003 Honda Odyssey in the center lane of the highway with equipment violations, then stopped it in the parking lot of the Packanack Lake Shopping Center. Capt. Laurence Martin said. The officers immediately smelled pot and ordered both men out, he said. Neither …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
PHOTOS: Paramus Firefighters Free Driver Trapped In Crash PHOTOS: Paramus Firefighters Free Driver Trapped In Crash PHOTOS: Paramus Firefighters Free Driver Trapped In Crash
Photos: Paramus Firefighters Free Driver Trapped In Crash PARAMUS, N.J. -- Firefighters extricated an elderly driver trapped in her sedan after a crash Saturday afternoon in Paramus. There was no immediate word on the condition of the victim, who was taken by ambulance to Hackensack University Medical Center after her car collided with an SUV at the intersection of Carl Place and Paramus Road, knocking the sedan into a street sign. Borough police, EMS and firefighters responded along with the Rescue Squad and a paramedic team from The Valley Hospital. Both vehicles were removed by flatbed tow truck. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this article.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Accused Lodi Dealer Busted With 3 Ounces Of Cocaine Prosecutor: Accused Lodi Dealer Busted With 3 Ounces Of Cocaine Prosecutor: Accused Lodi Dealer Busted With 3 Ounces Of Cocaine
Prosecutor: Accused Lodi Dealer Busted With 3 Ounces Of Cocaine LODI, N.J. -- A 32-year-old Lodi man was busted with nearly three ounces of cocaine, authorities said Friday. Brian E. Delgado was released pending a Feb. 21 hearing in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack following a raid on his Central Apartment apartment Tuesday, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. Delgado, who became the target of a drug-selling investigation last month, is charged with various drug and paraphernalia possession counts, the prosecutor said. The approximate street value of the cocaine is $4,000, said Calo, who thanked Lodi and Lyndhurst police, t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Man Who Tried To Get Fair Lawn Kids To Open School Doors: District Employee Man Who Tried To Get Fair Lawn Kids To Open School Doors: District Employee Man Who Tried To Get Fair Lawn Kids To Open School Doors: District Employee
Man Who Tried To Get Fair Lawn Kids To Open School Doors: District Employee FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- A man who a group of Fair Lawn 4th graders said tried to get them to open their school's doors is an employee of the district, police said Friday. The Warren Point School boys told police they'd been reading near a stairwell in the original school building on Monday when the man "came up to the door on the 30th Street side of the building and knocked on the door, motioning for the students to open [it]," Sgt. Brian Metzler said. "He then went to the playground side of the building and attempted the same thing" before leaving, the sergeant said. "E…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Car Rams Pole, Closes Franklin Turnpike In Ho-Ho-Kus Car Rams Pole, Closes Franklin Turnpike In Ho-Ho-Kus Car Rams Pole, Closes Franklin Turnpike In Ho-Ho-Kus
Car Rams Pole, Closes Franklin Turnpike In Ho-Ho-Kus HO-HO-KUS, N.J. -- A portion of busy North Franklin Turnpike in Ho-Ho-Kus was closed Friday morning after a sedan slammed into a utility pole. The driver was taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood after sustaining minor injuries in the crash near Hollywood Avenue. Ho-Ho-Kus police, firefighters and EMS units responded, along with a PSE&G crew. The vehicle was removed by flatbed tow truck. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this article.

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