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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Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Feds: Lodi Member Of All-Female Oxy Ring Sold Thousands Of Pills Feds: Lodi Member Of All-Female Oxy Ring Sold Thousands Of Pills Feds: Lodi Member Of All-Female Oxy Ring Sold Thousands Of Pills
Feds: Lodi Member Of All-Female Oxy Ring Sold Thousands Of Pills LODI, N.J. -- A Lodi resident was one of four women charged by federal authorities with operating an oxycodone ring that sold thousands of pills in New Jersey. Marie DeJulia, 42, of Lodi and the other three -- including a mother and daughter -- were released after federal court appearances on Thursday, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. The accused ringleader, Alicia Balaban, 35, had her appearance near her home in Wellington, FL, before being released, he said. Balaban's mother, 63-year-old Michele Call of Flemington, was arrested in New Jersey, along with DeJulia and Nelida Rios, 55, a…

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Hackensack, NJ
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Dumont, Englewood Rape Case Convictions Overturned By Immigrant Status Dumont, Englewood Rape Case Convictions Overturned By Immigrant Status Dumont, Englewood Rape Case Convictions Overturned By Immigrant Status
Dumont, Englewood Rape Case Convictions Overturned By Immigrant Status HACKENSACK, N.J. -- New Jersey's highest court overturned an undocumented day laborer's conviction of sexually assaulting three women on the streets of Dumont and Englewood -- in part because prosecutors revealed during his trial that he was in the country illegally. The judge in the case also should have instructed jurors on how to consider testimony from the one eyewitness who prosecutors put on the stand during the fall 2013 trial of Alexis Sanchez-Medina. Taken together, both flaws prevented the Honduran immigrant from getting fair trial and "raise serious questions about whether t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah Homeowner, 71, Charged With Setting Foreclosure Fire Mahwah Homeowner, 71, Charged With Setting Foreclosure Fire Mahwah Homeowner, 71, Charged With Setting Foreclosure Fire
Mahwah Homeowner, 71, Charged With Setting Foreclosure Fire MAHWAH, N.J. -- (UPDATE) A 71-year-old Mahwah man was charged with torching his foreclosed house. Everett Nathaniel Johnson was being held in the Bergen County Jail Friday, charged with aggravated arson with the knowledge of "danger of death or bodily injury" in Thursday night's Marion Drive fire, records show. Mahwah police officers dispatched to the house on a welfare check saw Johnson near the garage holding a can of gasoline, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. "Multiple points of fire" also were found in the 5:30 p.m. blaze, responders told Daily Voic…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Police 'Almost Feel Sorry': Christie Sent To Back Of Newark Airport Line Police 'Almost Feel Sorry': Christie Sent To Back Of Newark Airport Line Police 'Almost Feel Sorry': Christie Sent To Back Of Newark Airport Line
Police 'Almost Feel Sorry': Christie Sent To Back Of Newark Airport Line For once, police showed now-ex-Gov. Chris Christie some sympathy -- but not before telling him he had to wait in line for a Newark Airport flight like the rest of us. At least that's what some of them are saying. "We're no fans of this guy by any stretch of the imagination," said a Port Authority police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity. "But this whole thing's been blown out of proportion." Christie, meanwhile, called it bogus. "Absolutely false story about my travel today," he tweeted. "NJSP security detail & I were led to one entrance in…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Bergenfield Brawl: Officer Punched In Face, Assailant Subdued At 7-Eleven Bergenfield Brawl: Officer Punched In Face, Assailant Subdued At 7-Eleven Bergenfield Brawl: Officer Punched In Face, Assailant Subdued At 7-Eleven
Bergenfield Brawl: Officer Punched In Face, Assailant Subdued At 7-Eleven BERGENFIELD, N.J. – A man arrested for causing a disturbance in a Bergenfield 7-Eleven before dawn Thursday punched an officer in the face, cutting his lip, authorities said. Darian Perry, 23, of Bergenfield threatened responding Officer James Acito and others in the North Washington Avenue store after police were called just after 4 a.m. about him “walking in and out of the business, causing a disturbance,” Capt. Mustafa Rabboh said. Perry struggled as Acito began to arrest him – striking the officer in the face, “causing a laceration to the officer’s lip and a hand injury” – before being …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hospitalized Homeless Man Improving After Hackensack Crash Hospitalized Homeless Man Improving After Hackensack Crash Hospitalized Homeless Man Improving After Hackensack Crash
Hospitalized Homeless Man Improving After Hackensack Crash HACKENSACK, N.J. — A hospitalized homeless man was doing better after being hit by a pickup truck near the Hackensack city shelter, sources said Thursday. Daniel Gallagher, 57, had made it across both southbound lanes and one northbound lane toward the South River Street shelter -- narrowly missing being hit by another vehicle –when he was struck in the middle of the block around 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, surveillance video shows. The pickup driver from New Milford, who was headed north in the right lane, “never saw him,” a responder said. The city volunteer ambulance corps took Gallagher to Hack…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Stony Point, NY
Breaking News
Thiells Man Found Behind Wheel Of Stolen Spring Valley Car, Police Say Thiells Man Found Behind Wheel Of Stolen Spring Valley Car, Police Say Thiells Man Found Behind Wheel Of Stolen Spring Valley Car, Police Say
Thiells Man Found Behind Wheel Of Stolen Spring Valley Car, Police Say A Rockland man pulled his jacket over his head after a police officer in New Jersey spotted him behind the wheel of a stolen car before dawn Thursday, authorities said. The officer was patrolling the Courtyard by Marriott parking lot off northbound Route 17 in Paramus just after 2:30 a.m. when he saw Carvin Gilot, 28, of Thiells acting suspiciously, Deputy Police Chief Robert Guidetti said. Police soon discovered the gold 2011 BMW was reported stolen hours earlier out of Spring Valley, Guidetti said. Gilot was charged with possession of stolen property and sent to the Bergen County Jail pe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Paramus Officer Finds Stolen Car Driver In Hotel Parking Lot Paramus Officer Finds Stolen Car Driver In Hotel Parking Lot Paramus Officer Finds Stolen Car Driver In Hotel Parking Lot
Paramus Officer Finds Stolen Car Driver In Hotel Parking Lot PARAMUS, N.J. – A driver pulled his jacket over his head after a Paramus police officer spotted him behind the wheel of a stolen car before dawn Thursday, authorities said. Officer Brian Doughty was patrolling the Courtyard by Marriott parking lot off northbound Route 17 just after 2:30 a.m. when he saw Carvin Gilot, 28, of Rockland County acting suspiciously, Deputy Police Chief Robert Guidetti said. Joined by Officer Gil Maynard, he ran a check on the gold 2011 BMW and found it was reported stolen hours earlier out of Spring Valley, Guidetti said. Gilot was charged with possession of sto…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Wayne PD: Package Theft Trio Nabbed Thanks To Residents Wayne PD: Package Theft Trio Nabbed Thanks To Residents Wayne PD: Package Theft Trio Nabbed Thanks To Residents
Wayne PD: Package Theft Trio Nabbed Thanks To Residents WAYNE, N.J. – Nearly $2,000 worth of designer clothing was snatched by a trio of package thieves – who, in turn, were grabbed by Wayne police, authorities said. Summoned by a neighbor, Sgt. Don Davidson and Officers Robert Hitson and Kyle Vergano stopped a black Honda with New York license plates on the Black Oak Ridge Road connector with Route 23 parallel to Bottle King just after 4 p.m. Wednesday, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. In the back seat of the Zip car they could see two packages – one of which contained designer sneakers and a sweatsuit worth a combined $885 that had just b…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Four-Vehicle Pileup In Fair Lawn Smashes Sedan Four-Vehicle Pileup In Fair Lawn Smashes Sedan Four-Vehicle Pileup In Fair Lawn Smashes Sedan
Four-Vehicle Pileup In Fair Lawn Smashes Sedan FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- A four-vehicle chain-reaction crash Thursday morning in Fair Lawn took the greatest toll on a sedan that had to be towed. No injuries were reported in the Saddle River Road pileup near Naugle Drive. Glen Rock police provided traffic control assistance. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this report.

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