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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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn PD: Car Passenger Had LSD, Ecstasy, Heroin In Pants Fair Lawn PD: Car Passenger Had LSD, Ecstasy, Heroin In Pants Fair Lawn PD: Car Passenger Had LSD, Ecstasy, Heroin In Pants
Fair Lawn PD: Car Passenger Had LSD, Ecstasy, Heroin In Pants FAIR LAWN, N.J. – Fair Lawn police said they found a passenger carrying Ecstasy, LSD and heroin in his pants during a traffic stop Sunday night. Officers stopped the car on northbound Route 208 at Harristown Road after the driver failed to maintain his lane or signal a lane change, Sgt. Brian Metzler said Monday. The driver, 30-year-old Nicholas Colella of Walden, NY, had marijuana in the car, Metzler said. Police arrested Colella and his passenger, 41-year-old Lenard Best of Paterson, after discovering outstanding warrants for Best out of Mahwah and Paterson. During a search at police he…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Ridgewood Women, Glen Rock Girl Pool Trespass On Shapchat Police: Ridgewood Women, Glen Rock Girl Pool Trespass On Shapchat Police: Ridgewood Women, Glen Rock Girl Pool Trespass On Shapchat
Police: Ridgewood Women, Glen Rock Girl Pool Trespass On Shapchat GLEN ROCK, N.J. -- Two Ridgewood women and a Glen Rock girl are headed to court after Glen Rock police said they sneaked into the municipal pool after hours -- and posted it on Snapchat. Defiant trespassing charges, to be heard in Glen Rock Municipal Court, were filed against the two women for the Aug. 18 incident, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said Monday. The 17-year-old Glen Rock girl received a delinquency complaint that was referred to the Juvenile Intake Unit at the Family Division of Superior Court in Hackensack, he said.  Officers responding to a disturbance complaint took the trio i…

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Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: Fire Guts Paramus House VIDEO: Fire Guts Paramus House VIDEO: Fire Guts Paramus House
Video: Fire Guts Paramus House PARAMUS, N.J. -- Flames gutted a Paramus house Monday morning. Borough firefighters knocked down the fast-moving Alden Road ranch-home blaze within 20 minutes  (CLICK on the video above). The homeowner "was taken to Valley Hospital and treated for some minor injuries," said Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg, who is also a deputy fire chief. Although the cause of the fire officially remained under investigation, Ehrenberg told Daily Voice that it appeared accidental.

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Sinead O'Connor Changes Name After South Hackensack Motel Incident Sinead O'Connor Changes Name After South Hackensack Motel Incident Sinead O'Connor Changes Name After South Hackensack Motel Incident
Sinead O'Connor Changes Name After South Hackensack Motel Incident SOUTH HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Following a media storm over a video she made at a South Hackensack motel, Sinead O'Connor announced Monday that she was out of treatment -- and had changed her name. "My new name is Magda Davitt," the Irish singer-songwriter wrote in a video she posted on Facebook in a plea to Dr. Phil to save three women from a treatment center he'd referred them to. "Please, please don't ever send anybody to that trauma center again," she says. Davitt/O'Connor, 50, made headlines last month with a tearful video recorded at the Travelodge on Huyler Street in …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: Gunman Shot By Fort Lee Police Charged UPDATE: Gunman Shot By Fort Lee Police Charged UPDATE: Gunman Shot By Fort Lee Police Charged
Update: Gunman Shot By Fort Lee Police Charged FORT LEE, N.J. -- A Fort Lee man was shot by borough police outside his home Sunday after he pointed a gun at them, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. Jaquan A. Suber was in police custody Sunday night at Hackensack University Medical Center, charged with pointing an illegal handgun at police. Suber pointed the firearm "under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference," Grewal said. He was in critical but stable condition at HUMC, the prosecutor said. The officers, who sustained facial injuries in the 10:30 a.m. confrontation, were taken to Englewood Hospital an…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: Gunman Shot, Fort Lee Police Officers Injured UPDATE: Gunman Shot, Fort Lee Police Officers Injured UPDATE: Gunman Shot, Fort Lee Police Officers Injured
Update: Gunman Shot, Fort Lee Police Officers Injured FORT LEE, N.J. -- A Fort Lee man was shot by borough police outside his home Sunday after he pointed a gun at them, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. Jaquan A. Suber was in police custody Sunday night at Hackensack University Medical Center, charged with pointing an illegal handgun at police. Suber pointed the firearm "under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference," Grewal said. He was in critical but stable condition at HUMC, the prosecutor said. The officers, who sustained facial injuries in the 10:30 a.m. confrontation, were taken to Englewood Hospital an…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Driver Hospitalized After Car Hits Tree On GSP In Paramus Driver Hospitalized After Car Hits Tree On GSP In Paramus Driver Hospitalized After Car Hits Tree On GSP In Paramus
Driver Hospitalized After Car Hits Tree On GSP In Paramus PARAMUS, N.J. -- A driver was hospitalized with injuries that State Police weren't life-threatening after his car hit a tree on the Garden State Parkway early Saturday evening. A Nissan Rogue collided with a Honda Accord, sending it off the roadway at milepost 165.3 in Paramus at 5:45 p.m., Trooper Alejandro Goez told Daily Voice. Members of the Paramus Rescue Squad extricated the Accord driver, who was taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, Goez said. Two lanes were initially shut down and then reopened at 7:18 p.m., the trooper said. An investigation was continuing, he said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack Firefighters Raise Money For MDA, Douse Blaze Hackensack Firefighters Raise Money For MDA, Douse Blaze Hackensack Firefighters Raise Money For MDA, Douse Blaze
Hackensack Firefighters Raise Money For MDA, Douse Blaze HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Hackensack firefighters had wrapped up a "Fill the Boot" collection Saturday when they had to rush to a blaze. All companies responded to the Union Street address, where they knocked down the first-floor fire. For more than 60 years, International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) locals across the U.S. and Canada have held "Fill the Boot" campaigns to send children with muscular dystrophy to Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) summer camp. Members of Hackensack Professional Firefighters IAFF Local 2081 and Hackensack Uniformed Fire Officers IAFF …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Airline Employee, 54, Struck In Head By Propeller At Newark Airport Airline Employee, 54, Struck In Head By Propeller At Newark Airport Airline Employee, 54, Struck In Head By Propeller At Newark Airport
Airline Employee, 54, Struck In Head By Propeller At Newark Airport NEWARK, N.J. -- (UPDATE) An airline employee was severely injured when she struck in the head by a moving airplane propeller at Newark Airport, authorities said. The plane wasn't on a runway when the 54-year-old Orange woman was struck opposite the Terminal A maintenance area around 2:20 a.m. Saturday, the Port Authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. She was taken to University Hospital with a severe head injury, he said. Airport operations weren't disrupted, Pentangelo said.

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
SEEN HIM? Police Say He Took $5G From Saddle Brook Grandma In Utility Scam SEEN HIM? Police Say He Took $5G From Saddle Brook Grandma In Utility Scam SEEN HIM? Police Say He Took $5G From Saddle Brook Grandma In Utility Scam
Seen HIM? Police Say He Took $5G From Saddle Brook Grandma In Utility Scam SADDLE BROOK, N.J. – Police released a sketch Friday night of a heartless thief who they said stole more than $5,000 from a Saddle Brook grandmother using a “gas emergency” scam. The diversion burglar came to the door of the elderly woman, who lives alone near Westminster Place, late Thursday afternoon and told her he needed to check her basement gas lines immediately, Police Chief Robert Kugler said. “When the resident began to question the issue, the [thief] quickly showed what appeared to be some sort of a badge identification and reiterated that it was ‘a life or death emergency’ and th…

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