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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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Police: DWI School Bus Driver Struck On Rt. 46 In Hasbrouck Heights Police: DWI School Bus Driver Struck On Rt. 46 In Hasbrouck Heights Police: DWI School Bus Driver Struck On Rt. 46 In Hasbrouck Heights
Police: DWI School Bus Driver Struck On Rt. 46 In Hasbrouck Heights HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N.J. -- An intoxicated school bus driver was struck Tuesday afternoon after she got out following a minor crash and wandered into traffic on Route 46 in Hasbrouck Heights, authorities said. The private bus was empty when it hit a guardrail ramp coming off Terrace Avenue onto eastbound Route 46, Lt. Michael Colaneri Jr. told Daily Voice. It wasn't immediately clear where the bus -- owned by a Bogota company -- was headed, but it wasn't to or from Hasbrouck Heights, Colaneri said. Following the crash, 27-year-old Jasmine Miller of Lodi "started wandering off," th…

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Paterson, NJ
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Passaic County Podiatrist Admits He Scammed Insurers Out Of $3 Million Passaic County Podiatrist Admits He Scammed Insurers Out Of $3 Million Passaic County Podiatrist Admits He Scammed Insurers Out Of $3 Million
Passaic County Podiatrist Admits He Scammed Insurers Out Of $3 Million NORTH HALEDON, N.J. -- A Passaic County podiatrist admitted in federal court Tuesday that he conned Medicare and private insurers out of $3 million. Anthony J. Enrico, 60 -- who had offices in Paterson and Passaic -- told a U.S. District Court judge in Newark that he billed for more than 150,000 physical therapy sessions that were conducted by unlicensed and unqualified personnel from January 2007 through May 2016. Medicare and private insurers require that physical therapy services be conducted only by individuals such as Enrico who meet certain criteria based on training and certification…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Fort Lee Bank Robber Gets 43 Months In Fed Pen Fort Lee Bank Robber Gets 43 Months In Fed Pen Fort Lee Bank Robber Gets 43 Months In Fed Pen
Fort Lee Bank Robber Gets 43 Months In Fed Pen FORT LEE, N.J. -- A Harlem man was sentenced to 43 months in federal prison Tuesday for robbing a Bank of New Jersey branch in Fort Lee. Isaac Nesbit, 30, previously admitted handing a teller a handwritten note this past Jan. 20 threatening to shoot everyone in the bank if he wasn't given money. He then fled with an undisclosed amount of cash, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick said. Fort Lee police captured Nesbit after they said he tried to elude them by running across 14 lanes of traffic on a George Washington Bridge approach. An alert was issued and uniformed officers respond…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Glen Rock PD: Road Rage Dad Gets Out, Car Rolls Into Truck With Baby Inside Glen Rock PD: Road Rage Dad Gets Out, Car Rolls Into Truck With Baby Inside Glen Rock PD: Road Rage Dad Gets Out, Car Rolls Into Truck With Baby Inside
Glen Rock PD: Road Rage Dad Gets Out, Car Rolls Into Truck With Baby Inside GLEN ROCK, N.J. -- A car with a Hawthorne infant inside rolled into a truck after the driver got out to confront the trucker in a road-rage incident on Route 208 in Glen Rock, authorities said. The vehicle rolled backward into the truck, but the child wasn’t injured and there was minor damage, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. The 52-year-old trucker from upstate New York told police the 38-year-old father refused to allow him to merge in a construction zone on the northbound highway before Lincoln Avenue just after 11 a.m. last Tuesday, Ackermann said. Both then pulled over on the shoulde…

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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Car Thieves Hit Franklin Lakes Hard Car Thieves Hit Franklin Lakes Hard Car Thieves Hit Franklin Lakes Hard
Car Thieves Hit Franklin Lakes Hard FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. – A weekend car theft and burglary spree cost one Franklin Lakes resident a new Jaguar and another a Jeep, while others had items taken from their vehicles. Township police handled a batch of reports Sunday, Capt. John Bakelaar said: A Ginger Lane resident reported a 2017 Jaguar stolen from the driveway overnight; An Ashmont Road resident reported a 2012 Toyota stolen from the driveway overnight; A Hamburg resident said a laptop and cellphone were taken from his vehicle while it was parked outside a Navajo Trail Drive home; A Sterling Drive resident reported losing a c…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
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BEWARE: Ridgewood Residents Lose $1,600+ In 'Hacked Computer' Scam BEWARE: Ridgewood Residents Lose $1,600+ In 'Hacked Computer' Scam BEWARE: Ridgewood Residents Lose $1,600+ In 'Hacked Computer' Scam
Beware: Ridgewood Residents Lose $1,600+ In 'Hacked Computer' Scam RIDGEWOOD, N.J. – Five different Ridgewood residents lost more than $1,600 combined to scammers who offered to fix "hacked" computers, said police who urged consumers not to become victims. In each case, the victim was told that a computer was compromised but could be fixed if he or she bought Apple or iTunes gift cards and provided the seral numbers, Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke said. All realized it was a scam AFTER they’d been taken: An Upper Boulevard man who provided access to his computer lost $500; A Grove Street resident said she lost $400 after buying the cards and g…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Fair Lawn Police Officer Revives OD'ing Driver Off Rt. 208 In Glen Rock Fair Lawn Police Officer Revives OD'ing Driver Off Rt. 208 In Glen Rock Fair Lawn Police Officer Revives OD'ing Driver Off Rt. 208 In Glen Rock
Fair Lawn Police Officer Revives OD'ing Driver Off Rt. 208 In Glen Rock FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- A Fair Lawn police officer used Narcan to save an overdosing heroin addict who passed out behind the wheel of his car off Route 208 in Glen Rock. Officer Timothy Ammann found the 31-year-old Fort Lauderdale man in his car by the De Boer Drive off ramp from the northbound highway just after 4 p.m. on Oct. 9, Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Ammann administered two doses of Narcan, after which Glen Rock Sgt. Rob Wojtecki and Officer Sam Evans helped remove the victim and assist with rescue breathing, the chief said. The driver regained consciousness and was trea…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Dozens Flee As Wyckoff Police Crash Underage Drinking Party Dozens Flee As Wyckoff Police Crash Underage Drinking Party Dozens Flee As Wyckoff Police Crash Underage Drinking Party
Dozens Flee As Wyckoff Police Crash Underage Drinking Party WYCKOFF, N.J. -- Wyckoff police crashed a house party where they said some of more than 50 underage attendees were drinking. Dozens fled a garage as Officer John Rafferty, responding to a complaint, walked up the driveway the night of Sept. 29, Lt. Joseph Soto said Monday. Delinquency complaints were field against three of the juveniles for hosting an underage drinking party, he said. The complaints were forwarded to the Family Part of Superior Court in Hackensack for a delinquency hearing, Soto said. Backups Sgts. Daniel Kellogg, Kevin Kasak and Kevin Pinches, officers Kyle Ferreira, Rob…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEOS: '5 Firemen' Killed In Cliffside Park Bowling Alley Blaze Honored VIDEOS: '5 Firemen' Killed In Cliffside Park Bowling Alley Blaze Honored VIDEOS: '5 Firemen' Killed In Cliffside Park Bowling Alley Blaze Honored
Videos: '5 Firemen' Killed In Cliffside Park Bowling Alley Blaze Honored RIDGEFIELD, N.J. – A memorial filled with pride and sadness drew hundreds this weekend who recalled the tragic deaths 50 years ago of five Ridgefield firefighters in a Cliffside Park bowling alley blaze. A quarter-mile procession that included apparatus from Ridgefield and neighboring towns -- including an original truck used to battle the Oct. 15, 1967 Cardinal Lanes Bowling Alley arson fire -- ended with a re-dedication of the Ridgefield Fallen Firemen Little League field off Route 5. Each family of the fallen was presented with an anniversary plaque and a bouquet of flowers: Chief …

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by Jodylynn Bachiman and Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Family Tradition: Popular 27-Year Mahwah Police Veteran Retires Family Tradition: Popular 27-Year Mahwah Police Veteran Retires Family Tradition: Popular 27-Year Mahwah Police Veteran Retires
Family Tradition: Popular 27-Year Mahwah Police Veteran Retires MAHWAH, N.J. -- He comes from a family with well over a century of combined law enforcement experience -- more than a quarter of which retiring Mahwah Detective Gerald Falotico Jr. dedicated to township residents and merchants. Falotico, who's a councilman in Emerson, served in the Mahwah Police Department's Juvenile Bureau and several terms times was PBA president during his 27-year-old township career. His father, Gerald Falotico Sr., served 38 years with the Emerson Police Department. Othre relatives include Thomas Falotico, who retired from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, Sgt. R…

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