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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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Clifton Officer Finds Wanted Pennsylvania Man In Stolen Gun Case Clifton Officer Finds Wanted Pennsylvania Man In Stolen Gun Case Clifton Officer Finds Wanted Pennsylvania Man In Stolen Gun Case
Clifton Officer Finds Wanted Pennsylvania Man In Stolen Gun Case CLIFTON, N.J. -- A Clifton police officer making a traffic stop found a wanted man from Pennsylvania who'd ducked authorities for nearly five months. Gerard Manzueta-Abreu, 25, of Tobyhama, PA had tossed a handgun after bailing out of a car and fleeing through the streets of Passaic before dawn on Aug. 30, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken. He'd remained in the wind until Officer Christopher O'Brien stopped a car that Manzueta-Abreu was driving Tuesday night on Route 21 near Ackerman Avenue, he said. Manzueta-Abreu was arrested without incident and charged with weapons and drug offenses in conn…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Your Community
Ms. Bikini Olympia Visits Mahwah's Powerhouse Gym Ms. Bikini Olympia Visits Mahwah's Powerhouse Gym Ms. Bikini Olympia Visits Mahwah's Powerhouse Gym
Ms. Bikini Olympia Visits Mahwah's Powerhouse Gym MAHWAH, N.J. -- The reigning Ms. Bikini Olympia, Brazilian fitness model Angelica Teixeira, stopped by Powerhouse Gym in Mahwah on Tuesday. Teixeira, 32, came to the United States less than a decade ago. She began competing in 2013 on what became a meteoric rise to the title -- including 15 first-place finishes as an amateur and a professional -- and works as a professional trainer. "One of the nicest and humblest people I've ever met," said Powerhouse trainer Greg Wetterau of Mahwah. To be lean and toned, she told GreatestPhysiques.com: Eat small, and clean portions every 3 h…

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Footprints In Snow Lead Little Ferry Police To Suspect Hiding In Shed Footprints In Snow Lead Little Ferry Police To Suspect Hiding In Shed Footprints In Snow Lead Little Ferry Police To Suspect Hiding In Shed
Footprints In Snow Lead Little Ferry Police To Suspect Hiding In Shed LITTLE FERRY, N.J. -- A driver who sped off during a Little Ferry traffic stop crashed his car, ran off, then was found hiding by officers who followed his footprints in the snow, authorities said. Police also recovered a backpack that a witness saw 32-year-old Najee Ray of Lodi toss as he ran, Detective Sgt. Ronald M. Klein Jr. said. Inside was marijuana and packaging bags, he said. Officer John Clark stopped Ray on Franklin Street, got out of his police cruiser and was talking to him Friday when the former Garfield resident sped off, Klein said. He crashed moments later near the corner …

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Fort Lee, NJ
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Leonia Road Closures: Both Legal And Guess What? They Worked Leonia Road Closures: Both Legal And Guess What? They Worked Leonia Road Closures: Both Legal And Guess What? They Worked
Leonia Road Closures: Both Legal And Guess What? They Worked LEONIA, N.J. -- Leonia Police Chief Thomas Rowe was headed to work Tuesday morning in yet another George Washington Bridge-bound traffic jam when he checked Waze -- which told him NOT to take a borough side street but to stay on Route 95 instead. In only its second day, Leonia's internationally-publicized rush-hour street closing initiative was working. The key: Navigation companies are programming the "Do Not Enter" restrictions on five dozen local streets into their GPS apps. "For four or five years now, the apps told you to come directly through Leonia," Rowe said. &…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
PHOTOS: BMW Crashes Outside Paramus Bank PHOTOS: BMW Crashes Outside Paramus Bank PHOTOS: BMW Crashes Outside Paramus Bank
Photos: BMW Crashes Outside Paramus Bank PARAMUS, N.J. -- A driver was hospitalized with injuries that responders didn't consider life-threatening after crashing her car Tuesday morning outside a TD Bank in Paramus. Firefighters and EMS workers got the woman out of the older-model BMW coupe after it crashed on Paramus Road. The Beamer was removed by a flatbed tow truck. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this report.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
PHOTOS: Hillsdale Hero Police Officers Rescue Driver In Burning Car PHOTOS: Hillsdale Hero Police Officers Rescue Driver In Burning Car PHOTOS: Hillsdale Hero Police Officers Rescue Driver In Burning Car
Photos: Hillsdale Hero Police Officers Rescue Driver In Burning Car HILLSDALE, N.J. -- An overturned car had burst into flames when two Hillsdale police officers quickly doused the fire with extinguishers, saving the 47-year-old Bergenfield driver inside. The northbound BMW X6 struck a tree and overturned in the driveway of a Kinderkamack Road home near Washington Avenue just before 2 a.m., police said. Finding the undercarriage ablaze, responding Officers Alex Kaplan and Matt Buesser grabbed their extinguishers. Backups provided help until the fire was completely doused. Borough firefighters then extricated the driver, who was taken by Hillsdale Voluntee…

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Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Fugitive Ex-Con Wanted In Dumont Rampage Captured Fugitive Ex-Con Wanted In Dumont Rampage Captured Fugitive Ex-Con Wanted In Dumont Rampage Captured
Fugitive Ex-Con Wanted In Dumont Rampage Captured DUMONT, N.J. -- Bergen County tactical officers and detectives captured an ex-con from Cliffside Park after authorities said he tried to go after a victim in Dumont with a machete. Christopher Campana, 34, was being held in the county jail pending a detention hearing following the Monday afternoon arrest. Campana has a criminal history stretching back more than a decade -- including an arrest in Fairview in 2010 on charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault, making terroristic threats and weapons possession, among other offenses, records show. He'd been serving the rest of a recent se…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Judge: Couple Who Bought Heroin In Paterson Not Liable For User's OD Death Judge: Couple Who Bought Heroin In Paterson Not Liable For User's OD Death Judge: Couple Who Bought Heroin In Paterson Not Liable For User's OD Death
Judge: Couple Who Bought Heroin In Paterson Not Liable For User's OD Death PATERSON, N.J. -- A New York couple who sold a 25-year-old overdose victim the heroin from Paterson that killed him can't be prosecuted for causing a drug-induced death in New Jersey, a judge ruled. Because Kean Cabral received and used the drug in Warwick, the judge said, authorities in New Jersey don't have jurisdiction to prosecute Anthony Potts and Noel Ferguson, who authorities said bought it from a dealer in Paterson. Representatives of the attorney general's office in both states worked together to bring the charges after Cabral's mother found her son's body in their home on April 3,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Monroe, NY
Breaking News
Drug-Induced Death Charges Against Couple Dismissed In Warwick Man's OD Drug-Induced Death Charges Against Couple Dismissed In Warwick Man's OD Drug-Induced Death Charges Against Couple Dismissed In Warwick Man's OD
Drug-Induced Death Charges Against Couple Dismissed In Warwick Man's OD A Warwick couple who authorities said sold a 25-year-old overdose victim the heroin that killed him can't be prosecuted for causing a drug-induced death, a judge in New Jersey ruled. Because Kean Cabral received and used the drug in Warwick, the judge said, authorities in New Jersey don't have jurisdiction to prosecute Anthony Potts and Noel Ferguson, who authorities said bought it from a dealer in Paterson.Representatives of the attorney general's office in both states worked together to bring the charges after Cabral's mother found her son's body in their home on April 3, 2016.  She calle…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Construction Closes Stretch Of Elmwood Park's Market Street Construction Closes Stretch Of Elmwood Park's Market Street Construction Closes Stretch Of Elmwood Park's Market Street
Construction Closes Stretch Of Elmwood Park's Market Street ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- A work-week of road construction in Elmwood Park has closed a stretch of River Road in Elmwood, police said. The work -- which closes River Road from River Drive to Market Street -- was scheduled to run from Monday through Friday, Jan. 26. Plan alternate routes.

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