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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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Customers Halt Hammer-Wielding Patron In Fair Lawn Bar Fight Customers Halt Hammer-Wielding Patron In Fair Lawn Bar Fight Customers Halt Hammer-Wielding Patron In Fair Lawn Bar Fight
Customers Halt Hammer-Wielding Patron In Fair Lawn Bar Fight FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- A Fair Lawn pub patron who got into an argument with another man left and returned with a hammer but was stopped by other customers from using it, police said. Francis Schneider, 53, was charged with aggravated assault and weapons offenses and released pending a court hearing after the 1:30 a.m. incident Sunday at JJ's Pub on Broadway (Route 4) at Plaza Road, Sgt. Brian Metzler said.

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Hackensack, NJ
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Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives Bust Woman, Pair With 12 Pounds Of Pot Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives Bust Woman, Pair With 12 Pounds Of Pot Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives Bust Woman, Pair With 12 Pounds Of Pot
Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives Bust Woman, Pair With 12 Pounds Of Pot HACKENSACK, N.J. – Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives crashed a drug deal in Hackensack, arresting an accused dealer from Paterson, busting a pair of pot buyers from Poughkeepsie and seizing 12 pounds of weed, authorities said. Tipped off a short time earlier that Sashagaye Brown, 31, was selling large quantities of the drug in the area, investigators moved in Friday during a deal in Hackensack and found the pot in the trunk, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. They arrested Brown, along with Kevin Marsh, 39, and Dale Smart, 38, all of whom are unemployed, he said. An under…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Masked Gunman Robs Clifton QuickChek Masked Gunman Robs Clifton QuickChek Masked Gunman Robs Clifton QuickChek
Masked Gunman Robs Clifton QuickChek CLIFTON, N.J. -- An armed robber wearing a covering over his face held up a QuickChek in Clifton's Allwood section before dawn Monday, police said. The gunman made off with an undetermined amount of cash from the register, running off on Market Street, after the 4 a.m. robbery, Lt. Robert Bracken said. No one was injured, he said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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PHOTOS: Unoccupied Bus Fire Shuts New Milford Road PHOTOS: Unoccupied Bus Fire Shuts New Milford Road PHOTOS: Unoccupied Bus Fire Shuts New Milford Road
Photos: Unoccupied Bus Fire Shuts New Milford Road NEW MILFORD, N.J. -- A morning bus fire temporarily closed River Road in New Milford on Monday. No injuries were reported in the fire, which borough police Detective Lt. Kevin Van Saders said broke out in the unoccupied bus around 9 a.m. in front of the post office. Borough firefighters doused the blaze. They were joined by their River Edge colleagues.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Armonk, NY
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VIDEO: Times Square Suicide Bomber, 27, Identified VIDEO: Times Square Suicide Bomber, 27, Identified VIDEO: Times Square Suicide Bomber, 27, Identified
Video: Times Square Suicide Bomber, 27, Identified UPDATE: Authorities identified a would-be suicide bomber who was caught on video prematurely detonating an improvised device beneath Times Square early Monday as 27-year-old Akayed Ullah. Ullah, a Bangladeshi national who worked at an electrical company, was "wearing an improvised low-tech explosive device attached to his body" when it accidentally went off as he walked through passageway between the IND line at 7th Avenue and the IRT at 42nd Street and 8th Avenue around 7:20 a.m., city Police Commissioner James P. O'Neill said. "The device is based on a pipe bomb, affixed wi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
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River Vale Couple's Car Struck By Freight Train In Norwood River Vale Couple's Car Struck By Freight Train In Norwood River Vale Couple's Car Struck By Freight Train In Norwood
River Vale Couple's Car Struck By Freight Train In Norwood NORWOOD, N.J. -- A River Vale couple whose car got struck on the tracks in Norwood got out before it was struck by a freight train Sunday night, authorities said. The car was on Broadway when the driver made a left onto the tracks, thinking it was a road, just before 5:45 p.m., Police Chief Jeffrey Krapels said. The car got stuck, then was pushed down to the Blanche Crossing by the CSX train, he said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Former NY Financial Planner Who Robbed Lodi Bank Could Be Freed in 6½ Years Former NY Financial Planner Who Robbed Lodi Bank Could Be Freed in 6½ Years Former NY Financial Planner Who Robbed Lodi Bank Could Be Freed in 6½ Years
Former NY Financial Planner Who Robbed Lodi Bank Could Be Freed in 6½ Years HACKENSACK, N.J. — A former New York businessman was sentenced Friday to a plea-bargained 10 years for robbing a bank in Lodi. As part of the deal, 41-year-old Michael Cassano of Queens admitted in Superior Court in Hackensack in August that he held up the bank.  Cassano must serve 85% of the sentence before being eligible for parole under New Jersey's No Early Release Act. A judge also agreed to subtract time served in jail while the case progressed -- which means he could be freed in 6½. He's also due for sentencing this Friday, however, for robbing a Toms River bank more than two weeks …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Garfield Woman In GWB DWI Crash Was 2x Legal Limit, Port Authority PD Says Garfield Woman In GWB DWI Crash Was 2x Legal Limit, Port Authority PD Says Garfield Woman In GWB DWI Crash Was 2x Legal Limit, Port Authority PD Says
Garfield Woman In GWB DWI Crash Was 2x Legal Limit, Port Authority PD Says GARFIELD, N.J. -- A Garfield woman who got into a drunk-driving crash on the George Washington Bridge registered twice the legal limit on a blood-alcohol test, authorities said. Officer Ed Berdecia found a blue 2012 Honda sedan with a flat tire and body damage and the driver, 28-year-old Nicole A. Suero-Vinicio, with bloodshot and watery eyes after the 1 a.m. crash Saturday on the bridge's westbound upper level, Joseph Pentangelo of the Port Authority said. Suero-Vinicio lost her balance during a field sobriety test and was taken into custody, Pentangelo said. The Honda also was impounded. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Clifton Good Samaritan Grabs, Holds Onto Accused Car Burglar For Police Clifton Good Samaritan Grabs, Holds Onto Accused Car Burglar For Police Clifton Good Samaritan Grabs, Holds Onto Accused Car Burglar For Police
Clifton Good Samaritan Grabs, Holds Onto Accused Car Burglar For Police CLIFTON, N.J. -- A Clifton man interrupted a car burglary, then held onto one of the suspects for police. "The action by the area resident was successful in this case," Clifton Detective Sgt. Robert Anderson said, "but we do not recommend that residents take these matters into their own hands." Responding officers found the 34-year-old caller restraining Timothy Jeffery, 47, of Paterson just after midnight Friday, Anderson said. Moments earlier, the resident grabbed Jeffery after spotting him and an accomplice "acting suspiciously near a neighbor's vehicle," t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Clifton Detectives Nab Boy, 15, With Loaded Handgun Clifton Detectives Nab Boy, 15, With Loaded Handgun Clifton Detectives Nab Boy, 15, With Loaded Handgun
Clifton Detectives Nab Boy, 15, With Loaded Handgun CLIFTON, N.J. -- Clifton police detectives found a 15-year-old boy carrying a loaded handgun, authorities said Friday. Detectives Steven Farrell and Samuel Arnowitz were on patrol at 1:50 p.m. Thursday when they approached a suspicious-looking vehicle at Jewett and Madison avenues and smalled marijuana, Detective Sgt. Robert Anderson said. A search of the boy turned up a small amount of marijuana intended for sale and a Walther 7.65mm semi-automatic pistol, he said. He was taken to the Essex County Juvenile Detention Center pending a hearing in the Family Division of Superior Court in Pat…

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