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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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities ID Vehicles In Teterboro Hit-Run Death Authorities ID Vehicles In Teterboro Hit-Run Death Authorities ID Vehicles In Teterboro Hit-Run Death
Authorities ID Vehicles In Teterboro Hit-Run Death TETERBORO, N.J. -- Authorities released a photo of a black Ford Focus that they said struck and killed a 28-year-old Teaneck man as he crossed Route 46 near the Teterboro Walmart earlier this month and another car that picked up the driver. Brian Rossi was pronounced dead at the scene of the 5:50 a.m. Jan. 5 crash near Industrial Avenue, and investigators have been searching for whomever was responsible ever since. On Wednesday, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said that evidence recovered from the scene "indicates that the vehicle is a black Ford Focus, sedan or hatchback, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Bail Reform: Wayne Police Arrest Fugitive Wanted In Four Counties Bail Reform: Wayne Police Arrest Fugitive Wanted In Four Counties Bail Reform: Wayne Police Arrest Fugitive Wanted In Four Counties
Bail Reform: Wayne Police Arrest Fugitive Wanted In Four Counties WAYNE, N.J. -- Two Wayne detectives nabbed a Clifton man wanted for skipping court in four counties. Detectives Paul Kindler and Vincent Ricciardelli were on a fugitive hunt Tuesday night on southbound Route 23 when they found Franklin Wesner III, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. Wesner III was wanted out of Middlesex County for selling drugs, out of Morris County for unpaied child support and out of Clifton and Hillsdale for unspecified warrants, Martin said. A search turned up 11 bags of heroin stamped "HEROIN KING," a small bag of pot, two metal spoons with heroin residue…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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DWI Hackensack Driver In Crash Hospitalized With Broken Arm, Leg DWI Hackensack Driver In Crash Hospitalized With Broken Arm, Leg DWI Hackensack Driver In Crash Hospitalized With Broken Arm, Leg
DWI Hackensack Driver In Crash Hospitalized With Broken Arm, Leg HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A 45-year-old driver was drunk when he crashed his car in Hackensack before dawn Thursday, police said. Firefighters extricated the city man after the crash, just after 2 a.m. in the 300 block of Euclid Avenue, said Capt. Francesco Aquila, the officer in command of the department. He was taken Hackensack University Medical Center with a broken left arm and leg and possible internal injuries, the captain said. Police charged him with DWI and issued him summonses for traffic violations, Aquila said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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13 Years Later: Bergen Fugitive Captured In Jamaica 13 Years Later: Bergen Fugitive Captured In Jamaica 13 Years Later: Bergen Fugitive Captured In Jamaica
13 Years Later: Bergen Fugitive Captured In Jamaica FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. – It took 13 years, but Bergen County authorities secured the arrest -- in Jamaica -- of a "Most Wanted" accused drug dealer who they said tried to run down a police detective. Davey Scott, 48, was seized by U.S. Marshals early Tuesday in Kingston, where he’d been living and working as a disc jockey under the name “DJ Tallman,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. Detectives from Calo’s office, along with the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Marshal’s Regional Fugitive Task Force had been searching for the Jamaican national since he ski…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Wayne PD: Hit-Run Driver Three Times Legal DWI Limit Bounces Car Off Curbs Wayne PD: Hit-Run Driver Three Times Legal DWI Limit Bounces Car Off Curbs Wayne PD: Hit-Run Driver Three Times Legal DWI Limit Bounces Car Off Curbs
Wayne PD: Hit-Run Driver Three Times Legal DWI Limit Bounces Car Off Curbs WAYNE, N.J. -- A hit-and-run vehicle filled with airbag smoke and bounced off curbs before Wayne police pulled it over and arrested the driver, who was too drunk to stand, authorities said. Peter Cryan, 43, of Pompton Lakes, registered a .24 on a blood-alcohol level breath test -- three times the legal limit, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. Cryan told the officer who stopped him that "he thought he had struck an ambulance but was not sure," Martin said. Members of the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad were responding to an emergency call when they saw Cryan's 1995 Nissan Max…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Saddle Brook Police Fish Fleeing Lodi Ex-Con Out Of River Saddle Brook Police Fish Fleeing Lodi Ex-Con Out Of River Saddle Brook Police Fish Fleeing Lodi Ex-Con Out Of River
Saddle Brook Police Fish Fleeing Lodi Ex-Con Out Of River SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- A wanted Lodi ex-con hopped a highway guard rail and jumped into the Saddle River but was quickly grabbed by police, authorities said. Steven W. Gore, 34, lied to Saddle Brook police who stopped him Wednesday on eastbound Route 46, then jumped over a guardrail and down an embankment to the river, Police Chief Robert Kugler said. Gore, who was wanted on warrants out of Passaic, Paterson and Lodi, was taken into custody and turned over to Lodi police before being lodged in the Bergen County Jail. He remained held there, charged with theft and simple assault out of Lodi,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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NJ Trooper Cleared In Shooting Death Of Driver Who Tried To Run Him Down NJ Trooper Cleared In Shooting Death Of Driver Who Tried To Run Him Down NJ Trooper Cleared In Shooting Death Of Driver Who Tried To Run Him Down
NJ Trooper Cleared In Shooting Death Of Driver Who Tried To Run Him Down A New Jersey State Police trooper was justified in shooting and killing a driver who rammed his pickup truck into two police vehicles and then tried to run him over, a grand jury found. Christopher Pizzichetta, 46, of Lewes, Delaware, was sitting in his pickup truck at the north end of the Molly Pitcher Service Area in Cranbury last March 30 when plainclothes State Police officers investigating drugs and other crimes at the NJ Turnpike rest stop approached in an unmarked SUV,  state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Other troopers in an unmarked black pickup truck positioned their veh…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Prosecutor: Passaic High School Teacher Charged In Student Sex Case Prosecutor: Passaic High School Teacher Charged In Student Sex Case Prosecutor: Passaic High School Teacher Charged In Student Sex Case
Prosecutor: Passaic High School Teacher Charged In Student Sex Case PASSAIC, N.J. -- Authorities on Wednesday arrested a Passaic High School teacher who they said had "sexually inappropriate conversations and behavior" with two teenage victims. Jose Maria, 39, was charged with four counts of child endangerment and one of official misconduct for incidents that authorities said occurred between 2010 and 2012.  The victims "were students at the school during the relevant time period and are now adults," Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Passaic Police Chief Luis A. Guzman said in a joint announcement. He was due in court in P…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Wayne Entrepreneur, Singer Admits Embezzling $13.8M From Hotel Company Wayne Entrepreneur, Singer Admits Embezzling $13.8M From Hotel Company Wayne Entrepreneur, Singer Admits Embezzling $13.8M From Hotel Company
Wayne Entrepreneur, Singer Admits Embezzling $13.8M From Hotel Company WAYNE, N.J. -- A Wayne entrepreneur and entertainer admitted Wednesday that he embezzled $13.8 million from a New York-based hospitality company where he was the chief operating officer while evading taxes on nearly $28 million in income. A federal judge in Newark released George Dfouni, 47, on a $150,000 unsecured bond after he pleaded guilty to wire fraud and tax evasion. Dfouni was CEO for Amsterdam Hospitality Group, which owned several boutique hotels -- among them, The Marcel at Gramercy, The Empire Hotel, Astor on the Park, The Bentley Hotel, The Blake and The Moderne. AHG also owne…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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PHOTOS: Second SUV This Month Plows Through Riverfront Storefront PHOTOS: Second SUV This Month Plows Through Riverfront Storefront PHOTOS: Second SUV This Month Plows Through Riverfront Storefront
Photos: Second SUV This Month Plows Through Riverfront Storefront EDGEWATER, N.J. -- For the second time this month, an SUV plowed through the front of a store at an Edgewater shopping mall. No serious injuries were reported Wednesday morning after the Toyota Highlander slammed through the front of the Panera Bread at City Place. Earlier this month, an SUV crashed through the front of the Charming Charlie store at City Place.

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