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.

Jerry DeMarco's Contributions

Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah's Ramapo Valley Road/Route 202 Culvert Reopens Mahwah's Ramapo Valley Road/Route 202 Culvert Reopens Mahwah's Ramapo Valley Road/Route 202 Culvert Reopens
Mahwah's Ramapo Valley Road/Route 202 Culvert Reopens MAHWAH, N.J. -- The Ramapo Valley Road/Route 202 culvert in Mahwah officially reopened to traffic Saturday afternoon. The original date set for re-opening Ramapo Valley Road over the Darlington Brook after the project began in July was established as the end of October but various factors -- including significant utility relocation delays -- pushed the date forward.  The county fired the original contractor, from whom authorities expected to recover damages and brought in Joseph M. Sanzari Inc., which got to work right away. The revised date for completion was this coming Tuesday, but Sanz…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Passaic Sheriff's Detectives Seize 100+ Bags of Heroin, Other Drugs, $5,340 Passaic Sheriff's Detectives Seize 100+ Bags of Heroin, Other Drugs, $5,340 Passaic Sheriff's Detectives Seize 100+ Bags of Heroin, Other Drugs, $5,340
Passaic Sheriff's Detectives Seize 100+ Bags of Heroin, Other Drugs, $5,340 PATERSON, N.J. -- Passaic sheriff's detectives seized more than 100 bags of heroin, crack, cocaine and pot combined, along with $5,340 in drug proceeds, from an accused dealer, authorities said. A tip led them to Elias Jerez-Inoa, 30, whom they watched leave his 17th Avenue apartment on Friday and get into a silver Honda CRV holding a small plastic bag, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. They followed Jerez-Inoa to a 6th Avenue address, where he went into a shed at the back of the driveway and then emerged with the bag, Berdnik said. He pulled away in the Honda, which detectives stopped mome…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack Man Accused Of Killing Wife After Years Of Abuse Dies Hackensack Man Accused Of Killing Wife After Years Of Abuse Dies Hackensack Man Accused Of Killing Wife After Years Of Abuse Dies
Hackensack Man Accused Of Killing Wife After Years Of Abuse Dies HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A 68-year-old Hackensack man charged with beating his wife to death with a cane in their home more than four years ago has died. Thomas Fabbricatore had been at the Ann Klein Forensic Center, a state psychiatric facility in West Trenton, since August 2015. A defense lawyer previously said that the Viet Nam veteran had "gone psychotic” while in custody. "Unfortunately, we are not at liberty to disclose the defentant’s cause of death," Susan M. Tanis, a victim/witness advocate with the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, wrote in an email to family members o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Maywood PD: Officer Reels In Trio Of 'Mailbox Fishers' With Stolen Checks Maywood PD: Officer Reels In Trio Of 'Mailbox Fishers' With Stolen Checks Maywood PD: Officer Reels In Trio Of 'Mailbox Fishers' With Stolen Checks
Maywood PD: Officer Reels In Trio Of 'Mailbox Fishers' With Stolen Checks MAYWOOD, N.J. -- A Maywood police officer snagged three accused mailbox fishers who authorities said were carrying stolen checks and unopened mail before dawn outside the local post office. A getaway car was parked a block away, with more stolen mail inside -- as well as ill-gotten cash and drug paraphernalia, Police Chief David Pegg said. Officer Brian Rubio spotted the Paterson trio outside the West Pleasant Avenue post office just after 2 a.m. Tuesday and quickly discovered the stolen items, Pegg said. Arrested on theft and receiving stolen property charges, among other offenses, were L…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Paramus PD: Career Criminals Tied To Burglary Spree Thanks To Home Camera Paramus PD: Career Criminals Tied To Burglary Spree Thanks To Home Camera Paramus PD: Career Criminals Tied To Burglary Spree Thanks To Home Camera
Paramus PD: Career Criminals Tied To Burglary Spree Thanks To Home Camera PARAMUS, N.J. -- A Paramus resident's surveillance camera led police to a pair of career criminals responsible for burglaries in town, in Palisades Park and likely elsewhere, authorities said. Residents in several towns were experiencing similar break-ins the last two months of last year, Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said Friday. On Dec. 14, a Paramus homeowner's surveillance system captured images of two men -- one wearing a mask -- forcing open the front door, he said. Detectives Mark Pinajian and Nicolas Luciano, working with their colleagues from Palisades Park and the Bergen…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Obituaries
Teammates Mourn Death Of Wyckoff Soccer Player Ben Landel, 18 Teammates Mourn Death Of Wyckoff Soccer Player Ben Landel, 18 Teammates Mourn Death Of Wyckoff Soccer Player Ben Landel, 18
Teammates Mourn Death Of Wyckoff Soccer Player Ben Landel, 18 WYCKOFF, N.J. -- The Ramapo High School community is mourning the loss of standout athlete Ben Landel of Wyckoff. The soccer and track star died Jan. 25 after a battle with cancer at 18 years old after a months-long battle with a rare and powerful cancer. Teammates announced  his passing on a GoFundMe page for Landel, which had raised nearly $43,000 as of Friday afternoon. "Ben taught us all so much during this fight," they wrote. "He was always thinking of how he could help someone else, when everyone else just wanted to help him." "Words can't desrcibe my emotio…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Grewal Expresses Concern Over ICE Arrests Of Parents Dropping Off Kids Grewal Expresses Concern Over ICE Arrests Of Parents Dropping Off Kids Grewal Expresses Concern Over ICE Arrests Of Parents Dropping Off Kids
Grewal Expresses Concern Over ICE Arrests Of Parents Dropping Off Kids Federal agents' arrest of two Indonesian nationals as they dropped off their children may have violated a longstanding prohibition on immigration enforcement actions at “sensitive locations,” New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Grewal, of Glen Rock, called on U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen to personally review the "deeply upsetting" incident. In a letter addressed to Nielsen, Grewal expressed “serious concern” about the arresst of Indonesian nationals Gunawan Liem of Franklin Park and Roby Sanger of Metuchen by agents of Immigration and Cust…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
SEE ANYTHING? Help Sought In Carlstadt Hit-Run That Left Woman Critical SEE ANYTHING? Help Sought In Carlstadt Hit-Run That Left Woman Critical SEE ANYTHING? Help Sought In Carlstadt Hit-Run That Left Woman Critical
SEE Anything? Help Sought In Carlstadt Hit-Run That Left Woman Critical CARLSTADT, N.J. -- Authorities on Thursday asked the public to help find the driver who struck a woman crossing a Carlstadt street Monday night, leaving her in critical condition. The victim was crossing Washington Avenue near Avenue Awhen she was struck by a northbound Nissan Murano -- model year 2003 to 2007 -- just after 6 p.m., Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. The vehicle swerved after it struck her and continued northbound without stopping, witnesses said. The victim "suffered serious injuries that required surgery" and was listed in critical but stable cond…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Clifton Medical Supplier Who Billed Medicaid For Dead Patients Gets 4 Years Clifton Medical Supplier Who Billed Medicaid For Dead Patients Gets 4 Years Clifton Medical Supplier Who Billed Medicaid For Dead Patients Gets 4 Years
Clifton Medical Supplier Who Billed Medicaid For Dead Patients Gets 4 Years CLIFTON, N.J. — A medical equipment supply store owner from Clifton was sentenced Thursday to four years in state prison for billing Medicaid more than $100,000 for medical supplies for dead people. Alfredo Valdes, Jr., 43, admitted in August that he submitted the bogus claims to Horizon NJ Health, a provider of Medicaid services in the state, through his T-N-T medical supplies company in the Hudson County city of West New York from January 2008 to March 2016. The durable medical equipment – including compression stockings, diapers and other items – were reimbursed in the name of patients w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
One Bust, Eight Burglaries Solved For Prospect Park Detective One Bust, Eight Burglaries Solved For Prospect Park Detective One Bust, Eight Burglaries Solved For Prospect Park Detective
One Bust, Eight Burglaries Solved For Prospect Park Detective PROSPECT PARK, N.J. – A Prospect Park police detective cracked eight burglaries – in which a combined $14,600 worth of valuables were taken -- with the arrest of a local man. Detective Walter Richmond identified and, then, with the assistance of Officer Arthur Canestrino and Sgt. Amy Perlmutter, arrested 20-year-old Trevon Williams. Richmond had arrested Williams in November for burglarizing a local deli, and he was released soon after under New Jersey bail reform law. This time, the detective said, Williams confessed during a recorded interview to seven other burglaries and thefts in the …

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