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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Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Carlstadt PD: Fleeing Car Burglars Tracked Down Carlstadt PD: Fleeing Car Burglars Tracked Down Carlstadt PD: Fleeing Car Burglars Tracked Down
Carlstadt PD: Fleeing Car Burglars Tracked Down CARLSTADT, N.J. – Carlstadt police tracked down a pair of fleeing car burglars thanks to an off-duty officer and Bergen County sheriff’s K-9, authorities said. The officer notified his colleagues that Rashawn Vaughan, 20, and Thomas Hansen, 23, of Passaic were walking along Jefferson Street near Fritch Avenue on Thursday, “pulling on car door handles in an attempt to find unlocked vehicles,” Police Chief Thomas Nielsen said. They got into at least one, from which they took cash and loose change, he said. When patrol officers pulled up, the pair bolted into a backyard in Wood-Ridge, the chi…

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Haledon Man, 65, Struck, Killed Outside Paterson Dunkin Donuts Haledon Man, 65, Struck, Killed Outside Paterson Dunkin Donuts Haledon Man, 65, Struck, Killed Outside Paterson Dunkin Donuts
Haledon Man, 65, Struck, Killed Outside Paterson Dunkin Donuts PATERSON, N.J. – A 65-year-old Haledon man was struck and killed Thursday night outside a Paterson Dunkin Donuts, authorities said. Jose Furtado was struck by a 1999 GMC Savana van on store property near the intersection of Route 20 and East 33rd Street around 7 p.m., authorities said. Neither the 59-year-old van driver -- who also is from Haledon -- nor his passenger, a 15-year-old Paterson boy, were injured, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Deputy Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint statement. Furtado was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in P…

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Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
2 Convicted Of Cruelty For 26 Pups Stuffed Into Van Behind Garfield Walmart 2 Convicted Of Cruelty For 26 Pups Stuffed Into Van Behind Garfield Walmart 2 Convicted Of Cruelty For 26 Pups Stuffed Into Van Behind Garfield Walmart
2 Convicted Of Cruelty For 26 Pups Stuffed Into Van Behind Garfield Walmart GARFIELD, N.J. -- Two Florida residents were convicted of animal cruelty Thursday for packing 26 thirsty, imported puppies into a minivan found parked behind the Walmart in Garfield. A judge in Hackensack ordered that all 26 puppies be surrendered to foster families who have cared for them over the past few months while convicting Vanessa Millan, 31, and Elaine Ramos, 27. Charges were dropped against a third defendant, Jesus Gabriel Valentin Rivera, 36, who's in prison in Florida in another case. The puppies' "extensive medical needs are being met and they are with loving, experienced…

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Ridgewood, NJ
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Ridgewood School Officials Accused Of Covering Up Cyber-Bullying, Assault Ridgewood School Officials Accused Of Covering Up Cyber-Bullying, Assault Ridgewood School Officials Accused Of Covering Up Cyber-Bullying, Assault
Ridgewood School Officials Accused Of Covering Up Cyber-Bullying, Assault RIDGEWOOD, N.J. – Ridgewood school officials tried to cover up a series of incidents in which a 14-year-old girl was cyber-bullied by another student and a boy who tried to defend her was severely beaten, a defense attorney said Thursday. Another student “disseminated a private photograph of her via Snapchat to many students of the high school,” said defense lawyer Rosemarie Arnold, who filed a notice of intent to sue the school district and high school Thursday on behalf of the two students – while filing a separate suit for them against Snapchat. “When her friend intervened to try to st…

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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Wyckoff PD: Five-Member Stolen Car Tag Team Busted After Predawn Chase Wyckoff PD: Five-Member Stolen Car Tag Team Busted After Predawn Chase Wyckoff PD: Five-Member Stolen Car Tag Team Busted After Predawn Chase
Wyckoff PD: Five-Member Stolen Car Tag Team Busted After Predawn Chase WYCKOFF, N.J. – A car theft tag-team was tackled by Wyckoff and Port Authority police before dawn Thursday after one of the vehicles sped off, authorities said. An alert resident reported seeing a man get out of one of two suspicious vehicles, walk up to his driveway and approach one of his cars around 3:40 a.m., Lt. Joseph Soto said. The resident confronted the would-be thief, who fled in one of the cars, he said. A short time later, Sgt. Michael Demaio stopped a Buick matching the resident’s descriptions, Soto said. At the same time, Patrolman Kenneth Marcoux saw an accompanying Corvett…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Man Who Conned Elderly 'Lottery Winners' Of $578,000 Gets Prison Time Man Who Conned Elderly 'Lottery Winners' Of $578,000 Gets Prison Time Man Who Conned Elderly 'Lottery Winners' Of $578,000 Gets Prison Time
Man Who Conned Elderly 'Lottery Winners' Of $578,000 Gets Prison Time A Jamaican resident was sentenced Thursday to 63 months in federal prison for swindling elderly U.S. residents out of their money by telling them they'd won millions in lotteries. There's no parole in the federal prison system, meaning Ricardo Reid, 32, must serve nearly the entire term. Reid previously admitted in U.S. District Court in Newark that he bought mailing lists of elderly Americans nationwide, then solicited them over five years, beginning in 2011. He said he purposely tricked them into believing they had won millions in lotteries and sweepstakes. In order to redeem their mon…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Dumont, Bergenfield Trio Got Crystal Meth For Sale Through Mail Prosecutor: Dumont, Bergenfield Trio Got Crystal Meth For Sale Through Mail Prosecutor: Dumont, Bergenfield Trio Got Crystal Meth For Sale Through Mail
Prosecutor: Dumont, Bergenfield Trio Got Crystal Meth For Sale Through Mail DUMONT, N.J. -- Two men from Dumont and one from Bergenfield sold crystal meth they had shipped cross-country from California through the mail, authorities said. Detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office who were tipped off to the operation seized nearly three ounces of crystal methamphetamine, worth about $10,000, authorities said. Arrested were Cloyde R. Pulones, 39, and Roger N. Vinluan, 57, of Dumont, along with Carlito S. Mendoza, also 57, of Bergenfield. The drug was shipped through the U.S. Postal Service to Pulmones's Washington Avenue apartment, where it was then re-pa…

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Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgewood Cocaine Sellers Busted, Prosecutor Says Ridgewood Cocaine Sellers Busted, Prosecutor Says Ridgewood Cocaine Sellers Busted, Prosecutor Says
Ridgewood Cocaine Sellers Busted, Prosecutor Says RIDGEWOOD, N.J, -- Authorities collared two men who they said were selling cocaine in Ridgewood. Village resident Hector Rivas, a 24-year-old dishwasher, began selling cocaine to undercover detectives over several weeks in October, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Wednesday. On Tuesday, he negotiated the sale of 80 bags of cocaine, which were delivered to a detective by Victor Martinez, 28, of Bloomfield, he said. Both were charged with distributing drugs in a school zone and were ordered held in the Bergen County Jail pending detention hearings, the prosecutor said.

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Wayne PD Captures Tennessee Fugitive Passed Out From 'Huffing' Duster Fumes Wayne PD Captures Tennessee Fugitive Passed Out From 'Huffing' Duster Fumes Wayne PD Captures Tennessee Fugitive Passed Out From 'Huffing' Duster Fumes
Wayne PD Captures Tennessee Fugitive Passed Out From 'Huffing' Duster Fumes WAYNE, N.J. -- Wayne police captured a fugitive from Tennessee after they said he blacked out from inhaling gas from a can of computer cleaner. Sgt. Sergeant Michael McNiff spotted John D. Mulvaney, 50, of Hamburg slumped over the wheel of a vehicle parked outside Miranda's on northbound Route 23, Capt. Laurence Martin said. Mulvaney tried to toss the can of “ultra-duster” that he'd been inhaling -- a practice commonly known as "huffing" -- after McNiff roused him, the captain said. McNiff spotted six more cans, then found 92 glassine bags of heroin stamped “CHERRY BOMB,” he said…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Fair Lawn Woman, 87, Struck By Car Driven By 86-Year-Old Man Fair Lawn Woman, 87, Struck By Car Driven By 86-Year-Old Man Fair Lawn Woman, 87, Struck By Car Driven By 86-Year-Old Man
Fair Lawn Woman, 87, Struck By Car Driven By 86-Year-Old Man FAIR LAWN, N.J – An 87-year-old Fair Lawn woman was struck by a car driven by an 86-year-old borough man Monday night, authorities said. The victim was in the crosswalk headed across Fair Lawn Avenue at Radburn Road when she was struck by the 2003 Toyota, causing head and leg injuries, just before 5:30 p.m., Sgt. Brian Metzler said.The driver said "he did not see the pedestrian in the roadway," the sergeant added. The woman remained at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson on Thursday, Metzler said.The driver was charged with failing to yield to a pedestrian, he sa…

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