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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Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
New Milford Student Threatens To Bring Weapons To School New Milford Student Threatens To Bring Weapons To School New Milford Student Threatens To Bring Weapons To School
New Milford Student Threatens To Bring Weapons To School NEW MILFORD, N.J. -- A New Milford High School student was suspended indefinitely after telling classmates not to come to school Wednesday because he'd "researched weapons online and had previously brought a knife to school," officials said. "At this point there is no credible threat to the school," Schools Supt. Michael A. Polizzi said Tuesday. Building administrators and the borough police School Resource Officer Bill Wilde "were notified from students of rumors involving a threat to the high school," the superintendent said in a message to parents. "…

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Wayne PD: Pot-Deal Struggle At Bank Spills Up Street Wayne PD: Pot-Deal Struggle At Bank Spills Up Street Wayne PD: Pot-Deal Struggle At Bank Spills Up Street
Wayne PD: Pot-Deal Struggle At Bank Spills Up Street WAYNE, N.J. – A drug deal turned into a struggle between two Wayne men that spilled from the parking lot of a local bank across the front of two other businesses, said police who arrested both. Ryan D Teschner, 19, apparently had gone to the home of Luis Munoz, 18, Sunday afternoon, Capt. Laurence W. Martin said. According to Munoz, Teschner came with “accomplices” who intimidated him into going to the TD Bank on Berdan Avenue to withdraw money, Martin said. Once they got there, the captain said, Munoz told police he “saw his avenue of escape and ran -- only to be attacked punched repeated…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Tenafly Police Nab NY Suspect In Chase, Cresskill Crash Tenafly Police Nab NY Suspect In Chase, Cresskill Crash Tenafly Police Nab NY Suspect In Chase, Cresskill Crash
Tenafly Police Nab NY Suspect In Chase, Cresskill Crash TENAFLY, N.J. -- A suspect wanted in connection with a chase that ended with a Tenafly police officer hospitalized after a crash in Cresskill was arrested in Peekskill, authorities said. Jamie Smalls, 21, spent barely 48 hours in the Bergen County Jail before a judge released him Friday under New Jersey's 2017 bail reform law, records show. The Nov. 20 pursuit began after police were alerted to someone trying to pass a bogus check at the Chase Bank on County Road, Capt. Michael deMoncada said at the time. Responding officers spotted a black BMW SUV with New York license plates idling on Ce…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Two Glen Rock Students OK After Apparent Drug Reactions Two Glen Rock Students OK After Apparent Drug Reactions Two Glen Rock Students OK After Apparent Drug Reactions
Two Glen Rock Students OK After Apparent Drug Reactions GLEN ROCK, N.J. --  Two Glen Rock High School students were briefly hospitalized Tuesday afternoon after apparent drug reactions, authorities said.  One is 14 and the other 15, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said, without disclosing the exact nature of the medical emergencies. The chief didn't confirm a source's contention that the boys had been using vapes. In a release, Ackermann wrote: "At 12:29 p.m., Glen Rock PD along with Emergency Medical Services were dispatched to the Glen Rock High School in response to a 9-1-1 report of two students in the nurse’s office who were experiencing…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen Map: How Many Vehicles Were Recently Stolen From Your Area? Bergen Map: How Many Vehicles Were Recently Stolen From Your Area? Bergen Map: How Many Vehicles Were Recently Stolen From Your Area?
Bergen Map: How Many Vehicles Were Recently Stolen From Your Area? HACKENSACK, N.J. – How many cars and SUVs have to be stolen in Bergen County before people stop becoming victims? Local police chiefs have been reminding vehicle owners over and again, but not everyone is listening. So, with the number of thefts escalating rapidly, county Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal issued a map this week showing towns with recent thefts. Grewal highlighted 30 incidents in 19 Bergen County towns the past month – including more than one vehicle being stolen from the same home in two separate instances. WATCH THIS VIDEO: Would-be car thief caught on camera Bands of thieves,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Police: River Edge Driver At Twice Legal DWI Limit Did 70+ MPH On GWB Police: River Edge Driver At Twice Legal DWI Limit Did 70+ MPH On GWB Police: River Edge Driver At Twice Legal DWI Limit Did 70+ MPH On GWB
Police: River Edge Driver At Twice Legal DWI Limit Did 70+ MPH On GWB FORT LEE, N.J. -- A DWI driver from River Edge stopped for doing more than 70 miles an hour on the George Washington Bridge recorded nearly two times the legal limit on a breath test, authorities said. Port Authority Police Officer Ed Berdecia spotted the blue, 2014 Honda sedan on the upper level of the bridge and pulled it over near a service station on westbound Route 4 around 4:30 a.m. Monday, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo said. The driver, 23-year-old Luis F. Martinez, had a "breath that smelled of alcohol and a flushed face," Pentangelo said. Martinez "swayed and us…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Repeat Offense: Old Tappan Man Posts Nude Pics Of Woman, Authorities Charge Repeat Offense: Old Tappan Man Posts Nude Pics Of Woman, Authorities Charge Repeat Offense: Old Tappan Man Posts Nude Pics Of Woman, Authorities Charge
Repeat Offense: Old Tappan Man Posts Nude Pics Of Woman, Authorities Charge OLD TAPPAN, N.J. – An Old Tappan man who'd been charged with similar crimes before posted nude photos online of a woman he knew, said authorities who charged him with stalking, cyber-harassment and violating a restraining order. Daniel G. Pfeiffer, 28, was released pending a Dec. 13 arraignment in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Tuesday. Investigators found that Pfeiffer “posted nude and sexually explicit photos of a woman he was acquainted with on the Internet,” Gurbir said. “Some of the postings included personal identifying …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
SEEN IT? Garfield PD Seeks Hit-Run SUV That Struck Woman, 81 SEEN IT? Garfield PD Seeks Hit-Run SUV That Struck Woman, 81 SEEN IT? Garfield PD Seeks Hit-Run SUV That Struck Woman, 81
Seen IT? Garfield PD Seeks Hit-Run SUV That Struck Woman, 81 GARFIELD, N.J. – Garfield police released a surveillance image of an SUV that took off after striking an 81-year-old woman as she crossed a street Monday afternoon. An “older male with grey hair and a beard” was driving the Chevrolet Equinox that hit the victim at the intersection of Outwater Lne and Midland Avenue just before 3 p.m., Capt. Darren Sucorowski said. The vehicle continued south on Midland Avenue with front-end damage before vanishing, he said. The woman was hospitalized with unspecified injuries. Garfield police asked that anyone with information that could help find the SUV…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
The Lamb Lies Down On Wilsey: Betsy Herded, Ridgewood Mattress Store Fined The Lamb Lies Down On Wilsey: Betsy Herded, Ridgewood Mattress Store Fined The Lamb Lies Down On Wilsey: Betsy Herded, Ridgewood Mattress Store Fined
The Lamb Lies Down On Wilsey: Betsy Herded, Ridgewood Mattress Store Fined RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- Rather than prolong a wild and woolly saga, the owners of a Ridgewood mattress store have corralled a life-sized fiberglass sheep they'd kept in front of their shop. "Otherwise we would have to shut the store down again for another court date," said Barbara Goodfriend of the Healthy Choice Organic Mattresses store, after a Municipal Court judge reduced a potential $250 fine to $93. Betsy had beckoned passersby into the Wilsey Square store -- until local officials cited the owners for an "unapproved" display of a product outside the business, a village …

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Lyndhurst, NJ
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NJ Bail Reform: Twice-Freed North Arlington Ex-Con Busted Again NJ Bail Reform: Twice-Freed North Arlington Ex-Con Busted Again NJ Bail Reform: Twice-Freed North Arlington Ex-Con Busted Again
NJ Bail Reform: Twice-Freed North Arlington Ex-Con Busted Again NORTH ARLINGTON, N.J. -- New Jersey's bail reform law strikes again: A two-time North Arlington ex-con freed by judges after two recent arrests will likely return to state prison if he's convicted of carrying a firearm during a traffic stop. Danny J. Lazo, 31, who's spent more than six years of his life in prison, was arrested twice in Essex County earlier this year -- for resisting arrest by force and eluding police in June, then for hindering his prosecution by trying to get witnesses to recant the following month, records show. Each time a judge released him, with conditions, under New …

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