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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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Mahwah Program Shows Opioids' Destruction Of Users, Those Who Love Them Mahwah Program Shows Opioids' Destruction Of Users, Those Who Love Them Mahwah Program Shows Opioids' Destruction Of Users, Those Who Love Them
Mahwah Program Shows Opioids' Destruction Of Users, Those Who Love Them MAHWAH, N.J. – An award-winning film that shows the devastation of opioid addiction will be screened at Ramapo College later this month. Admission is free, but pre-registration is required to attend the 7 p.m. Jan. 31 on-campus screening of "Dying in Vein — The Opiate Generation," presented by the Mahwah Municipal Alliance in conjunction with township police and the college, at the Sharp Theater (Berrie Center). REGISTER: www.mahwahalliance.org Families will “leave the theater with a better understanding of the opioid epidemic that is occurring across our nation” after viewing fo…

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Hackensack, NJ
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NJ Attorney General: State Trooper Justified In Shooting Suspect NJ Attorney General: State Trooper Justified In Shooting Suspect NJ Attorney General: State Trooper Justified In Shooting Suspect
NJ Attorney General: State Trooper Justified In Shooting Suspect LAKE HOPATCONG, N.J. -- A State Police trooper was justified in shooting a Lake Hopatcong man who charged at him and his colleagues as they tried to arrest him for assaulting his girlfriend, New Jersey Attorney General Christopher Porrino said Tuesday. "An officer may use deadly force in New Jersey when the officer reasonably believes it is immediately necessary to protect the officer or another person from imminent danger of death or serious bodily harm," Porrino said. In this case, he said, "the facts and circumstances reasonably led the officer to believe his actions were …

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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Wyckoff Employer's Credit Card 'Swiped' By Fair Lawn Nanny, Police Charge Wyckoff Employer's Credit Card 'Swiped' By Fair Lawn Nanny, Police Charge Wyckoff Employer's Credit Card 'Swiped' By Fair Lawn Nanny, Police Charge
Wyckoff Employer's Credit Card 'Swiped' By Fair Lawn Nanny, Police Charge WYCKOFF, N.J. – A nanny from Fair Lawn swiped her Wyckoff employer’s credit card number, said police who arrested her. Grace E. Kloby, 26 , was charged with theft after surrendering to Detective Sgt. Michael Ragucci, Lt. Joseph Soto said. “The resident reported that she had hired a nanny to care for her children and suspected that the nanny may be responsible for the fraudulent credit card activity,” Soto said. Police immediately turned to Kolby, who was released pending a court hearing.

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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VIDEO: Glen Rock Resident Foils Car Burglars With Simple Move: Common Sense VIDEO: Glen Rock Resident Foils Car Burglars With Simple Move: Common Sense VIDEO: Glen Rock Resident Foils Car Burglars With Simple Move: Common Sense
Video: Glen Rock Resident Foils Car Burglars With Simple Move: Common Sense GLEN ROCK, N.J. -- A Glen Rock resident didn't become a victim after making sure he locked the cars in his driveway, authorities said. Video recorded by a Ring doorbell camera, and supplied by Glen Rock police, shows two shadowy figures in the Hudson Place driveway just before 4:30 a.m. last Wednesday. The pair "pulled on the door handles to his vehicles," Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. "Discovering that the vehicles were locked, they left the area. "No damage or theft occurred." The video "is not sufficient to make an ID," but the incident served as …

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Rutherford, NJ
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PHOTOS: Route 17 Head-On Crash In Rutherford Leaves Driver Critical PHOTOS: Route 17 Head-On Crash In Rutherford Leaves Driver Critical PHOTOS: Route 17 Head-On Crash In Rutherford Leaves Driver Critical
Photos: Route 17 Head-On Crash In Rutherford Leaves Driver Critical RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- (UPDATE) A driver remained in critical condition Tuesday after his car was hit head-on by another on southbound Route 17 in Rutherford. Soscia Salo, 43, of Lyndhurst, was driving a Dodge Caliber 2008 heading north on Route 17 when it crossed the highway at Highland Cross and slammed into a 2005 Hyundai Accent driven by a 65-year-old Belleville man in the center southbound lane at 10:20 p.m., Detective Sgt. Michael Garner said. Both drivers were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center after being extricated by Rutherford firefighters, he said. Salo was charged with…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Passaic Sheriff: Drug Runner's Ledger Had Buyers' IDs, Dates, Payment Info Passaic Sheriff: Drug Runner's Ledger Had Buyers' IDs, Dates, Payment Info Passaic Sheriff: Drug Runner's Ledger Had Buyers' IDs, Dates, Payment Info
Passaic Sheriff: Drug Runner's Ledger Had Buyers' IDs, Dates, Payment Info PATERSON, N.J. -- A suspected drug dealer kept careful records, an extremely grateful Passaic County sheriff said Monday. Sgt. Jose Vargas conducted a random license plate check on a Honda Civic that turned up an active warrant for the owner, so he stopped the car on Putnam and E 17th streets in Paterson, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. After finding a bag of heroin, Bargas searched the car -- turning up more than $9,000 bundled in rubber bands, along with a "a black notebook used as a ledger, indicating dates, names and money amounts," Berdnik said. The driver, 26-year-old Vlad…

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Fort Lee, NJ
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Police: GWB Toll Cheat Had Both License Plates Taped Over Police: GWB Toll Cheat Had Both License Plates Taped Over Police: GWB Toll Cheat Had Both License Plates Taped Over
Police: GWB Toll Cheat Had Both License Plates Taped Over FORT LEE, N.J. -- A trucker who blew through a George Washington Bridge E-ZPass toll without paying had both license plates covered with gray tape, authorities said. A Port Authority police officer spotted the 2008 Kenworth tractor-trailer and pulled it over Sunday afternoon on the bridge's upper level, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo said. Alejandro Sanchez, 43, of Hialeah, Florida, was charged with theft of services, tampering with a public document and using the E-ZPass lane without a transponder. He was released pending a court hearing.

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Saddle Brook Kessler Patients Moved After Water Leak Causes Odor Saddle Brook Kessler Patients Moved After Water Leak Causes Odor Saddle Brook Kessler Patients Moved After Water Leak Causes Odor
Saddle Brook Kessler Patients Moved After Water Leak Causes Odor SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- A busted water pipe released an odor that forced a partial evacuation of a Kessler rehab center Sunday night in Saddle Brook, authorities said. Firefighters found the break on the main and first floor of the Kessler Institute of Rehabilitation on Market Street following an 8:50 p.m. call after the odor made some people's eyes tear, Police Chief Robert Kugler said. "It was a water pipe that serves the heating system," Kugler said. "There was an additive in the water that caused the strange odor and was likely spread throughout the building through the HVA…

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West Milford, NJ
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Pair OK After Small Plane Makes Emergency Landing In North Jersey Field Pair OK After Small Plane Makes Emergency Landing In North Jersey Field Pair OK After Small Plane Makes Emergency Landing In North Jersey Field
Pair OK After Small Plane Makes Emergency Landing In North Jersey Field Two people aboard a small plane survived an emergency landing late Sunday afternoon in northwest New Jersey, State Police confirmed. A distress call was transmitted from the craft over Lake Hopatcong in Sussex County just after 4 p.m., responders said. The Cessna 172 then landed hard in Lafayette Township, eight or so miles from Sussex County Airport and about 25 miles south of the New York State border, NJSP Lawrence Peele confirmed. The craft sustained minor damage, he said.

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Paterson, NJ
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Manhunt: Attempted Murder Charges Follow Haledon Domestic Violence Shooting Manhunt: Attempted Murder Charges Follow Haledon Domestic Violence Shooting Manhunt: Attempted Murder Charges Follow Haledon Domestic Violence Shooting
Manhunt: Attempted Murder Charges Follow Haledon Domestic Violence Shooting HALEDON, N.J. – A domestic violence shooting in Haledon that sent a critically injured victim to the hospital sparked a manhunt that led to the arrest of a 40-year-old Paterson resident, authorities said. Investigators and uniformed officers from several agencies “worked around the clock, extending multiple resources,” to identify and capture Michael Mitchell, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said Saturday. Mitchell, who was arrested Friday night, was charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, endangering an injured victim, making terroristic threats, criminal restraint …

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