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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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Franklin Lakes PD: Accused Serial Tools Thief Fenced Goods At Home Depot Franklin Lakes PD: Accused Serial Tools Thief Fenced Goods At Home Depot Franklin Lakes PD: Accused Serial Tools Thief Fenced Goods At Home Depot
Franklin Lakes PD: Accused Serial Tools Thief Fenced Goods At Home Depot FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. – A former Franklin Lakes home renovator with an addiction that has turned him into a serial tool thief has been peddling the goods outside a Home Depot, authorities said. And despite being arrested three times in a little over a month, the accused heroin user remained free Wednesday. Brian Hoeverman, 36, who last month was charged with stealing tools in Franklin Lakes, Mahwah and Wyckoff, was re-arrested by Franklin Lakes police, along with their Saddle River colleagues, on Monday and charged with stealing equipment from landscape trailers in both towns, borough police…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Child Welfare Takes Fairview Boy, 12, After Dad Busted With 3 Pounds Of Pot Child Welfare Takes Fairview Boy, 12, After Dad Busted With 3 Pounds Of Pot Child Welfare Takes Fairview Boy, 12, After Dad Busted With 3 Pounds Of Pot
Child Welfare Takes Fairview Boy, 12, After Dad Busted With 3 Pounds Of Pot FAIRVIEW, N.J. -- State child welfare authorities took custody of a 12-year-old Fairview boy after after borough police and DEA agents swooped in during a drug deal Tuesday night, scooped up three pounds of pot and arrested his father and another man. Cedric Ulloa, 32 (above photo, right), also had a stun gun, for which he was charged, along with child endangerment and various drug and distribution counts, Sgt. Michael Martic told Daily Voice. A three-month investigation led to Tuesday's climax. Authorities were watching as Ahned Bahlol, 29, pulled up to the Probst Avenue home and Ulloa e…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Kitchen Fire Closes Fair Lawn School For Day Kitchen Fire Closes Fair Lawn School For Day Kitchen Fire Closes Fair Lawn School For Day
Kitchen Fire Closes Fair Lawn School For Day FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- A kitchen fire before classes began cleared a Fair Lawn school for the day Wednesday, authorities said. No children were harmed in the blaze at the Warren Point Elementary School, which was contained to the kitchen, Police Sgt. Brian Metzler said. There was no immediate word on whether the school was reopening Thursday.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Closter School Official Charged With Assaulting Westwood Councilman's Son Closter School Official Charged With Assaulting Westwood Councilman's Son Closter School Official Charged With Assaulting Westwood Councilman's Son
Closter School Official Charged With Assaulting Westwood Councilman's Son WESTWOOD, N.J. -- (UPDATE) Closter Public Schools Business Administrator Peter Iappelli was formally charged with simple assault and disorderly conduct after witnesses said he grabbed the teenage son of a Westwood councilman in a headlock during a youth flag football game. As Daily Voice first reported exclusively, Assistant Pee Wee Jets Coach Philip Bicocchi, 16, had assumed head coaching duties in Westwood on Saturday in the absence of the team's coach on Yom Kippur. At some point, Iappelli got into a disagreement with the boy, apparently over his son being moved from the quarterback posi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Passaic Sheriff: Detective Pops Crack Bag From Wayne Buyer's Mouth Passaic Sheriff: Detective Pops Crack Bag From Wayne Buyer's Mouth Passaic Sheriff: Detective Pops Crack Bag From Wayne Buyer's Mouth
Passaic Sheriff: Detective Pops Crack Bag From Wayne Buyer's Mouth PATERSON, N.J. -- A Passaic County sheriff's detective grabbed a drug buyer by the jaw and popped out a bag of crack hidden in his mouth before arresting him and the alleged dealer, authorities said. Detectives investigating "several detailed tips" about drug dealing at a Main Street home watched William Fuentes, 26, emerge from inside and sell the bag of crack to 49-year-old William Marin of Wayne, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. The investigators followed each as they split up, he said. One entered a nearby business and cornered Marin, who "quickly reached into his pants …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Garfield Walmart Van Trio Skips Court, Authorities Seek Custody Of Puppies Garfield Walmart Van Trio Skips Court, Authorities Seek Custody Of Puppies Garfield Walmart Van Trio Skips Court, Authorities Seek Custody Of Puppies
Garfield Walmart Van Trio Skips Court, Authorities Seek Custody Of Puppies GARFIELD, N.J. -- Three Florida residents charged with animal cruelty for packing 26 thirsty, imported puppies into a minivan found parked behind the Walmart in Garfield didn't show up for court Tuesday, authorities said. As a result, Bergen County animal protection authorities are going to ask a judge for custody of those puppies who survived, a law enforcement told Daily Voice. Warrants also were issued for their arrest, said the law enforcement official, who wasn't authorized to speak publicly. One of the suspects, 36-year-old Jesus Gabriel Valentin Rivera, was behind bars in Florida on…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
No Fatal Crashes In One Day In Bergen? It's Worth A Try No Fatal Crashes In One Day In Bergen? It's Worth A Try No Fatal Crashes In One Day In Bergen? It's Worth A Try
No Fatal Crashes In One Day In Bergen? It's Worth A Try It's an unreachable goal, for sure, but police in North Jersey and beyond hope to go a full day next Tuesday, Oct. 10, without any traffic deaths from coast to coast. "Put the Brakes on Fatalities Day" was launched 16 years ago -- not as a crackdown but to help convince Americans to drive safer. It's become more critical than ever, organizers say, because of the alarming rate of distracted driving fatalities. Four years ago, authorities said distracted driving contributed to 58 deaths on New Jersey roadways. Last year, that number had ballooned to 115 -- nearly 20% of all traffi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Prospect Park Teens Phoned Bomb Threats To Manchester HS, Grade School Prospect Park Teens Phoned Bomb Threats To Manchester HS, Grade School Prospect Park Teens Phoned Bomb Threats To Manchester HS, Grade School
Prospect Park Teens Phoned Bomb Threats To Manchester HS, Grade School PASSAIC COUNTY, N.J. – Two juveniles – 14 and 15 – phoned in bogus bomb threats to Manchester Regional High School in Haledon and Prospect Park School No. 1, said authorities who served them with delinquency complaints. The Prospect Park teens could be committed to a juvenile detention facility by a Family Court judge following a hearing on complaints of causing a false public alarm, authorities noted. The schools were evacuated and then searched by the Passaic County Sheriff’s Department’s Bomb Squad following the threats. The juveniles cannot be identified, under state law, because of th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Accused Murderer Who Robbed Passaic Nightclub Gets 12½ Years In Fed Prison Accused Murderer Who Robbed Passaic Nightclub Gets 12½ Years In Fed Prison Accused Murderer Who Robbed Passaic Nightclub Gets 12½ Years In Fed Prison
Accused Murderer Who Robbed Passaic Nightclub Gets 12½ Years In Fed Prison PASSAIC, N.J. -- An accused murderer was sentenced Tuesday to 12½ years in federal prison for robbing a Passaic club of $26,084 at gunpoint.  Shaheed Blamahsah, also known as “Aboo,” admitted in May that he and an accomplice got the cash by threatening an employee with a gun the night of Sept. 6, 2015. Federal prosecutors, in turn, agreed to the sentence.  There is no parole in the federal prison system, so Blamahsah, 30, of East Orange, must serve nearly the entire term. Blamahsah told a U.S. District Court judge earlier this year that he and the accomplice – identified by federal autho…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
DWI Driver Nods Out Behind Wheel Outside Port Authority Police Fort Lee HQ DWI Driver Nods Out Behind Wheel Outside Port Authority Police Fort Lee HQ DWI Driver Nods Out Behind Wheel Outside Port Authority Police Fort Lee HQ
DWI Driver Nods Out Behind Wheel Outside Port Authority Police Fort Lee HQ FORT LEE, N.J. -- A drunk driver from Bogota stopped his car in front of the wrong building before passing out, Port Authority police said -- theirs. A PAPD officer spotted Reynaldo A. Tarquino, 22, at about 4:20 a.m. Tuesday slumped over the center console of a 2008 Infiniti parked illegally in front of 220 Bruce Reynolds Boulevard, less than a block from the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. "The motor was running," he said. Speaking with Tarquino, the officer noticed "his eyes were bloodshot and he smelled of alcohol…

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