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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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Mahwah PD: ID Theft Suspects Had $31,000 Cash, Cellphones, Credit Cards Mahwah PD: ID Theft Suspects Had $31,000 Cash, Cellphones, Credit Cards Mahwah PD: ID Theft Suspects Had $31,000 Cash, Cellphones, Credit Cards
Mahwah PD: ID Theft Suspects Had $31,000 Cash, Cellphones, Credit Cards MAHWAH, N.J. – Mahwah police seized $31,000 in cash, along various forms of identification, more than a dozen cellphones and a number of credit and gift cards from two men who they suspect are part of a stolen ID ring. After stopping the duo’s 2009 Chevrolet Malibu on Route 287 for tailgating, Officer Tyler Boucher said he was told a small amount of marijuana was in the trunk, Police Chief James N. Batelli said Tuesday. During the search, Boucher found two shopping bags, “each containing bundles of U.S. currency packaged in such a manner that is consistent with criminal activity -- specific…

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Hackensack, NJ
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Prosecutor Warns: Diversion Burglars Stealing From Unsuspecting Elderly Prosecutor Warns: Diversion Burglars Stealing From Unsuspecting Elderly Prosecutor Warns: Diversion Burglars Stealing From Unsuspecting Elderly
Prosecutor Warns: Diversion Burglars Stealing From Unsuspecting Elderly HACKENSACK, N.J. – Thieves posing as utility workers, law enforcement and other occupations have been stealing money from elderly residents in Bergen County through “diversion burglaries,” authorities warned. Residents recently have been victimized in Cliffside Park, East Rutherford, Garfield, Hasbrouck Heights, Lyndhurst, North Arlington, Palisades Park, Paramus, Saddle Brook, Waldwick and Wood-Ridge, they said. The distraction-styled thefts ordinarily involve two bandits – one of whom keeps an elderly resident busy with a purported incident or emergency that requires entry into the home a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Quick Strikes: Paterson PD Seizes 2+ Pounds Of Heroin, Coke, Cash, Pot Quick Strikes: Paterson PD Seizes 2+ Pounds Of Heroin, Coke, Cash, Pot Quick Strikes: Paterson PD Seizes 2+ Pounds Of Heroin, Coke, Cash, Pot
Quick Strikes: Paterson PD Seizes 2+ Pounds Of Heroin, Coke, Cash, Pot PATERSON, N.J. -- Recent quick strikes by Paterson police produced the seizures of more than two pounds of heroin, various amounts of crack and pot, as well as a handgun, along with more than a dozen arrests, authorities said Tuesday. City police seized nearly a pound a half of worth of heroin in 1,171 individually packaged glassine envelopes, along with a 10mm semi-automatic pistol, while arresting three men living in an East 22nd Street apartment, a few doors in off Broadway, last Wednesday, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. Charged with possession of the heroin -- in bags stamped &quo…

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Fort Lee, NJ
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Port Authority PD: Man Accused Of Shooting Himself Busted For Pot At GWB Port Authority PD: Man Accused Of Shooting Himself Busted For Pot At GWB Port Authority PD: Man Accused Of Shooting Himself Busted For Pot At GWB
Port Authority PD: Man Accused Of Shooting Himself Busted For Pot At GWB FORT LEE, N.J. -- The smell of pot smoke drew Port Authority police's attention to a car with a bogus license plate and a driver from Paterson who had no license, registration or insurance at the George Washington Bridge toll plaza, authorities said Tuesday. His passenger had been freed earlier this year after authorities said he shot himself with an illegal handgun and then lied about it. Officers smelled the burnt marijuana when the Daniel N. Morgan, 23, rolled down the window of his 2003 Taurus to pay the upper-level toll Sunday afternoon, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo said. The Tau…

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Northern Highlands, NJ
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Coffee Cops: Allendale Police, Citizens Chit Chat Coffee Cops: Allendale Police, Citizens Chit Chat Coffee Cops: Allendale Police, Citizens Chit Chat
Coffee Cops: Allendale Police, Citizens Chit Chat ALLENDALE, N.J. -- Allendale police welcomed civilians for cups of free coffee and other giveaways in exchange for a little conversation. “I’d say more than 50 people actually stopped to have an extended conversation,” Police Chief George Scherb said after the gathering at the Dunkin Donuts on Allendale Avenue. Besides the java, police distributed pencils, “Back-to-School” rulers and “Buckle Up” key chains. 

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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Your Community
Disrupting American Nazis: 'Last Jewish Gangster' Tells Mob Tales Disrupting American Nazis: 'Last Jewish Gangster' Tells Mob Tales Disrupting American Nazis: 'Last Jewish Gangster' Tells Mob Tales
Disrupting American Nazis: 'Last Jewish Gangster' Tells Mob Tales FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. -- A man who calls himself "the last Jewish gangster" will tell how organized crime disrupted American Nazi party rallies in the 1930s during a talk in Franklin Lakes next week. Myron "Shugie" Sugerman will also tell of how the Jewish mafia supplied money and weapons to the underground armies during Israel’s fight for independence, among other stories, at the Chabad Jewish Center on Pulis Avenue. A former gangster and international gambling point man, "Shugie" recently published "The Last Jewish Gangster: From Meyer to Myron." To…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Glen Rock Police Charge Saddle Brook Trucker In Hit-Run Crash Glen Rock Police Charge Saddle Brook Trucker In Hit-Run Crash Glen Rock Police Charge Saddle Brook Trucker In Hit-Run Crash
Glen Rock Police Charge Saddle Brook Trucker In Hit-Run Crash GLEN ROCK, N.J. -- Glen Rock police tracked down a Saddle Brook trucking company driver who they said fled after hitting a vehicle stopped at a traffic light. The victim said he was stopped for a light at Maple Avenue and Harristown Road just after 2 p.m. last Tuesday when his car was struck from behind, Police Chief Glen Ackermann said. The trucker then "backed up and fled the scene, passing over the double yellow line and driving on the wrong side of the street," he said. The license plate came back to a Saddle Brook trucking company, where Officer Jim Donnelly and Detective Ji…

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Garfield-Lodi, NJ
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Garfield Police Give Kids Bicycle Helmets For Safety Garfield Police Give Kids Bicycle Helmets For Safety Garfield Police Give Kids Bicycle Helmets For Safety
Garfield Police Give Kids Bicycle Helmets For Safety GARFIELD, N.J. -- Garfield police provided an impromptu bicycle safety course -- as well as free bike helmets -- during a visit to a local school. Officers visited youngsters in the second-grade classes of Wioletta Zagorski and Tara Varna at Public School No. 5. The giveaway was made possible by AAA North Jersey and Hackensack University Medical Center's Trauma and Injury Prevention unit.

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Pascack Valley, NJ
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Ribbon-Cutting For New Homes In Emerson For Special Needs Military Veterans Ribbon-Cutting For New Homes In Emerson For Special Needs Military Veterans Ribbon-Cutting For New Homes In Emerson For Special Needs Military Veterans
Ribbon-Cutting For New Homes In Emerson For Special Needs Military Veterans EMERSON, N.J. -- (UPDATE/OCT. 11) The ribbon was formally cut Wednesday at a 14-unit housing project in Emerson for military veterans with special needs. American Legion Post 269 owns the Main Street building and is leasing it for a dollar a year to the non-profit Housing Development Corporation of Bergen County, which completed the renovations. “We can never fully repay the men and women in our armed services who are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to protect us," County Executive Jim Tedesco said, "But we have a moral obligation to make sure affordable homes are …

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Northern Highlands, NJ
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Allendale Police Blessed Allendale Police Blessed Allendale Police Blessed
Allendale Police Blessed ALLENDALE, N.J. -- The Rev. Michael Allen made his annual visit to bless the badges of officers at the Allendale Police Department. “Realizing that our police officers need to know that the communities they serve do support them” was the reason, said Allen, of Trinity Episcopal Church, who began the tradition a few years ago to coincide with the Feast of St. Michael, the patron saint of police. “It’s personal, which made it a more powerful experience,” Police Chief George Scherb said.

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