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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Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
ICE Puts Detainers On East Rutherford Restaurant Trio Charged In Gang Rape ICE Puts Detainers On East Rutherford Restaurant Trio Charged In Gang Rape ICE Puts Detainers On East Rutherford Restaurant Trio Charged In Gang Rape
ICE Puts Detainers On East Rutherford Restaurant Trio Charged In Gang Rape EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – ICE has placed detainers on three restaurant workers charged with sexually assaulting an incapacitated woman in East Rutherford. Records show that dishwasher Rene Jimenez, 29, and kitchen helper Emeterio Castelan, 25, are both Mexican citizens sharing an East Rutherford apartment across from the borough post office and a day-care center. The third defendant, 20-year-old Luis Tenecela, is an Ecuadoran citizen living in Hackensack. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers allow federal authorities to take custody of the trio for deportation purposes if a loc…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Reward Grows In Route 46 Hit-Run Death Of Teaneck Man, 28 Reward Grows In Route 46 Hit-Run Death Of Teaneck Man, 28 Reward Grows In Route 46 Hit-Run Death Of Teaneck Man, 28
Reward Grows In Route 46 Hit-Run Death Of Teaneck Man, 28 TEANECK, N.J. -- A GoFundMe reward grew Thursday to nearly $3,000 for information that helps find whoever was responsible for the hit-and-run death of 28-year-old Teaneck man as he crossed Route 46 near the Teterboro Walmart last month. "Brian Rossi was a loving son, brother, uncle, and friend who was taken away from us all too soon," his sister, Sharyn Rossi Agnew, wrote on the GoFundMe page she launched earlier this week. "The culprit(s) left the scene and left Brian to die on the side of the road, alone," after the 5:50 a.m. Jan. 5 crash near Industrial Avenue. "…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
IS IT YOU? 'Mystery' EMT Revives Man At Teaneck Armory, Then Leaves IS IT YOU? 'Mystery' EMT Revives Man At Teaneck Armory, Then Leaves IS IT YOU? 'Mystery' EMT Revives Man At Teaneck Armory, Then Leaves
IS IT YOU? 'Mystery' EMT Revives Man At Teaneck Armory, Then Leaves TEANECK, N.J. -- An off-duty EMT saved the life of a 50-year-old man whose heart stopped beating at the Teaneck Armory -- then left without receiving any credit or thanks. Members of the Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps are hoping he'll see this story and contact them so they can offer their appreciation. Another bystander was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher just before midnight late Wednesday while the unknown EMT began CPR on the victim, who had no pulse and wasn't breathing, TVAC Public Information Officer Larry Robertson said. An off duty squad member arrived on scene along with Te…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Feds: Couple Caught In Paterson Selling 'Oxy' Pills That Were Really Heroin Feds: Couple Caught In Paterson Selling 'Oxy' Pills That Were Really Heroin Feds: Couple Caught In Paterson Selling 'Oxy' Pills That Were Really Heroin
Feds: Couple Caught In Paterson Selling 'Oxy' Pills That Were Really Heroin PATERSON, N.J. -- DEA agents seized a Pennsylvania couple who they said sold tens of thousands of what looked like oxycodone tablets that actually contained heroin to an undercover investigator in Paterson. A federal judge in Newark on Thursday ordered Francisco Perez, 31, detained and 33-year-old Nadia Moronta Pena released on a $150,000 unsecured bond. The Hazleton, PA couple are charged with conspiring to distribute heroin in bulk. Investigators pursuing the manufacture and sale of opioids and other drugs in New Jersey got a tip that Perez was illegally selling oxy, U.S. Attorney Craig …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
'Kidnapped' Fair Lawn Student OK After Scam Ransom Call To Dad 'Kidnapped' Fair Lawn Student OK After Scam Ransom Call To Dad 'Kidnapped' Fair Lawn Student OK After Scam Ransom Call To Dad
'Kidnapped' Fair Lawn Student OK After Scam Ransom Call To Dad RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- A woman on the other end of the line yelled for help before a scam caller from a phone number in Mexico told an employee at the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood that his teenage daughter was being held for ransom late Thursday morning. It was bogus. The employee "believed the caller had the wrong number and hung up on the caller and contacted the Ridgewood police, Chief Jacqueline Luthcke said. Village police, in turn, asked their colleagues in Fair Lawn, where the girl goes to school, to check on her, the chief said. She was "safe and in school as expected,"…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Talk About Timing: Troubled Jet News Follows Rochelle Park Emergency Drill Talk About Timing: Troubled Jet News Follows Rochelle Park Emergency Drill Talk About Timing: Troubled Jet News Follows Rochelle Park Emergency Drill
Talk About Timing: Troubled Jet News Follows Rochelle Park Emergency Drill ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. -- When news came Thursday morning that a troubled incoming Lear jet was safely diverted from Teterboro to another airport, Rochelle Park Emergency Management Coordinator Pete Donatello smiled. "We can only hope an event doesn’t happen," he wrote moments later, "but I am confident based on the participation and input from all who participated in our recent Air Crash Table Top Exercise that we will respond to this like we have responded to ALL major disasters in the past – with the utmost professionalism, dedication and focus on life safety." More than…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Port Authority: DWI Tractor-Trailer Driver In GWB Crash Was 3x Legal Limit Port Authority: DWI Tractor-Trailer Driver In GWB Crash Was 3x Legal Limit Port Authority: DWI Tractor-Trailer Driver In GWB Crash Was 3x Legal Limit
Port Authority: DWI Tractor-Trailer Driver In GWB Crash Was 3x Legal Limit FORT LEE, N.J. -- A drunken tractor-trailer driver whose rig crashed into a sedan at a George Washington Bridge bus slip registered more than three times the legal limit on a blood-alcohol test, authorities said. Port Authority police found Nurkhanov Bakhtiyor, 40, of Brooklyn slumped over the wheel of his truck, smelling of alcohol, after the 6:30 p.m. crash Wednesday on the westbound slip coming off the bridge, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. They also found two bottles of vodka in the cab, he said. "He was roused and left the truck and was administered a field …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
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
Hackensack, NJ
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Bergen Sheriff Provides Anti-Heroin Drug To Eligible Jail Inmates Bergen Sheriff Provides Anti-Heroin Drug To Eligible Jail Inmates Bergen Sheriff Provides Anti-Heroin Drug To Eligible Jail Inmates
Bergen Sheriff Provides Anti-Heroin Drug To Eligible Jail Inmates HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino's staff this week began offering the anti-heroin drug Vivitrol to addicted inmates. “This is just another tool that we can offer with our partners to break the deadly cycle of addiction in our communities,” Saudino said. Eligible inmates enrolled in a program to reintegrate them into society who are struggling with opioid/heroin addiction are being offered the drug. The first two participants are already being monitored "to support them and to measure the impact of this initiative," the sheriff said. The injectable Vivitr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newburgh, NY
Breaking News
Lear Jet In Trouble Over NJ Lands Safely At Stewart Airport Lear Jet In Trouble Over NJ Lands Safely At Stewart Airport Lear Jet In Trouble Over NJ Lands Safely At Stewart Airport
Lear Jet In Trouble Over NJ Lands Safely At Stewart Airport A Lear jet that had problems with the nose landing gear diverted safely from New Jersey to Stewart Airport in Orange County late Thursday morning, authorities said. The troubled jet landed just before noon at the public/military airport nearly 57 miles north of Teterboro, the Port Authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. Hasbrouck Heights firefighters and Port Authority responders were at Teterboro Airport as the jet, with five people aboard, began circling to burn off fuel around 10:30 a.m., Pentangelo said. The decision was made soon after to head to Stewart, where, as pilot Josep…

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