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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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Repeat Offender Threatens Bergen Law Enforcement, Businesses Prosecutor: Repeat Offender Threatens Bergen Law Enforcement, Businesses Prosecutor: Repeat Offender Threatens Bergen Law Enforcement, Businesses
Prosecutor: Repeat Offender Threatens Bergen Law Enforcement, Businesses PALISADES PARK, N.J. – A former corrections officer caught doing it several times before sent threatening letters to several Bergen County towns -- including to police in Paramus, Fair Lawn and Garfield and to businesses in Englewood and Allendale, authorities said Thursday. Nikolay Levinson, 34, now living in Palisades Park, sent “harassing and threatening letters” to police in the three towns and followed up with "racial, homophobic, and threatening messages” to several local businesses, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. Detectives and local police were investigating wh…

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Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Four Arrests Made In Shooting, Stabbing Of Women In Garfield Four Arrests Made In Shooting, Stabbing Of Women In Garfield Four Arrests Made In Shooting, Stabbing Of Women In Garfield
Four Arrests Made In Shooting, Stabbing Of Women In Garfield GARFIELD, N.J. -- Garfield police charged two couples – one from town and the other from Newark -- in connection with a drug-related incident that left one woman shot and another stabbed. The accused shooter, Tasheemah N. Tyson, 37, of Newark was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, among other related counts, stemming from Tuesday’s 5:30 p.m. incident on Palisade Avenue between Belmont Avenue and Botany Street, Police Chief Raymond Kovach said Thursday. A Newark man, 26-year-old Michael Clark, was charged with drug dealing, he said. Both Clark and Tyson were ordered held …

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West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
Passaic Sheriff: Ex-Con Ringwood Business Owner Collected Kid Porn Passaic Sheriff: Ex-Con Ringwood Business Owner Collected Kid Porn Passaic Sheriff: Ex-Con Ringwood Business Owner Collected Kid Porn
Passaic Sheriff: Ex-Con Ringwood Business Owner Collected Kid Porn RINGWOOD, N.J. – A Ringwood business owner previously convicted of child endangerment was uploading kiddie porn to his phone, said authorities who arrested him. Fernando Isaza, 61, was arrested following a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that led to raid at his Lakeview Avenue home and the Skyline Drive office of his janitorial supply business, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said Thursday. Isaza, who was convicted in 2014 of endangering the welfare of a 9-year-old girl he’d been left alone with, remained held in the Passaic County Jail on Thursday.…

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Newburgh, NY
Breaking News
Police: Orange Duo Busted With 250 Heroin Bags Stashed In Car Engine Police: Orange Duo Busted With 250 Heroin Bags Stashed In Car Engine Police: Orange Duo Busted With 250 Heroin Bags Stashed In Car Engine
Police: Orange Duo Busted With 250 Heroin Bags Stashed In Car Engine PINE BUSH, N.Y. – An Orange County couple whose car was stopped just across the New Jersey border had 250 bags of heroin stashed in the engine and a pellet gun in the trunk, authorities said. An officer stopped the 2005 Infiniti for several violations on northbound Route 287 Tuesday night and was joined by a K-9 unit, Mahwah Police Chief James N. Batelli said Thursday. The driver, 25-year-old Scott R. Coopermen of Pine Bush, and passenger, 33-year-old Jessica Miller of Walden, gave conflicting stories about why they were in the area, the chief told Daily Voice. Cooperman agreed to a search…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah PD: NY Pair Busted On 287 With 250 Heroin Bags Stashed In Car Engine Mahwah PD: NY Pair Busted On 287 With 250 Heroin Bags Stashed In Car Engine Mahwah PD: NY Pair Busted On 287 With 250 Heroin Bags Stashed In Car Engine
Mahwah PD: NY Pair Busted On 287 With 250 Heroin Bags Stashed In Car Engine MAHWAH, N.J. – A New York State couple had 250 bags of heroin stashed in the engine and a pellet gun in the trunk when a Mahwah police officer stopped their car on Route 287, authorities said. Officer Christopher Fasulo stopped the 2005 Infiniti for several violations on the northbound highway Tuesday night and was joined by Officer Robert Rapp and K-9 Remco, Police Chief James N. Batelli said. The driver, 25-year-old Scott R. Coopermen of Pine Bush, and passenger, 33-year-old Jessica Miller of Walden, gave conflicting stories about why they were in the area, the chief said. Cooperman agre…

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Saddle Brook Student, 14, Hit By Car Saddle Brook Student, 14, Hit By Car Saddle Brook Student, 14, Hit By Car
Saddle Brook Student, 14, Hit By Car SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- A 14-year-old Saddle Brook boy was hospitalized with minor injuries after he was struck by a car as he tried to board a school bus Thursday morning, authorities said. The Bergen Academy bus had pulled up on Fair Lawn Parkway at Wilson Street around 7 a.m. when the boy crossed the street and was struck by the passing car, Police Chief Robert Kugler told Daily Voice. The bus "didn't have its flashing red lights on yet," Kugler said. The Saddle Brook Volunteer Ambulance Corps. took the boy to Hackensack University Medical Center with injuries that weren't consi…

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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Pedestrian Struck Near GWB In Fort Lee, Hit-Run Driver Caught Prosecutor: Pedestrian Struck Near GWB In Fort Lee, Hit-Run Driver Caught Prosecutor: Pedestrian Struck Near GWB In Fort Lee, Hit-Run Driver Caught
Prosecutor: Pedestrian Struck Near GWB In Fort Lee, Hit-Run Driver Caught FORT LEE, N.J. – The driver of one of two cars that crashed near the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee Thursday morning, leaving a pedestrian in critical condition, was arrested after fleeing the scene, authorities said. Carmen Lombardi, a 43-year-old vehicle inspector from Elmwood Park, was behind the wheel of one of the vehicles that crashed at the corner of Lemoine Avenue and Bridge Plaza North shortly before 10 a.m., Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. Lombardi took off, Grewal said, leaving the critically injured 57-year-old victim beneath the other car, which came to re…

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Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Teaneck Police Nab Female Bank Robber Teaneck Police Nab Female Bank Robber Teaneck Police Nab Female Bank Robber
Teaneck Police Nab Female Bank Robber TEANECK, N.J. -- A woman robbed a Teaneck bank Thursday morning and was arrested moments later, police said. The arrest was made at Johnson and Palisade avenues, five blocks from the holdup of the Bank of America branch on Palisade, they said. It wasn't immediately known whether the robber was believed involved in a Sept. 28 bank robbery in Garfield, in which somewhere between $2,000 and $3,000 was taken by two women. SEE: https://garfield.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/seen-them-fbi-releases-photos-of-garfield-female-bank-robbers/722789/

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Dump Truck Rams Divider, Loses Wheels On Route 80 In Elmwood Park Dump Truck Rams Divider, Loses Wheels On Route 80 In Elmwood Park Dump Truck Rams Divider, Loses Wheels On Route 80 In Elmwood Park
Dump Truck Rams Divider, Loses Wheels On Route 80 In Elmwood Park ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- A dump truck slammed into the divider on westbound Route 80 in Elmwood Park early Thursday, losing its front wheels, sending debris into oncoming traffic and jamming the morning commute. Two other vehicles were involved in the 6:30 a.m. crash near Exit 61, which left those involved with minor injuries, State Police said. Werner Ennesser contributed to this report.

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Man's Body Found At Paterson Bus Terminal Man's Body Found At Paterson Bus Terminal Man's Body Found At Paterson Bus Terminal
Man's Body Found At Paterson Bus Terminal PATERSON, N.J. -- NJ Transit police were trying to determine whether a man whose body was found in Paterson before dawn Thursday was already dead when he was struck by a bus. "Cameras show the body was lying in the driveway prior to a bus entering the terminal," NJ Transit's Jim Smith told Daily Voice. "The bus then made contact with the body on the ground." NJ Transit police discovered the body at the Broadway bus terminal after getting a call at 2:25 a.m., Smith said.

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