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
Port Authority: GWB Trucker Used Homemade Plastic Plate To Evade Tolls Port Authority: GWB Trucker Used Homemade Plastic Plate To Evade Tolls Port Authority: GWB Trucker Used Homemade Plastic Plate To Evade Tolls
Port Authority: GWB Trucker Used Homemade Plastic Plate To Evade Tolls FORT LEE, N.J. -- A trucker created his own bogus license plate to avoid higher tolls, said police who arrested him at the George Washington Bridge. Port Authority police who spotted the plate stopped a 2006 Freightliner driven by 27-year-old Danquan J. Smith of North Carolina at the upper-level tolls early Thursday, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo said. "The truck had an EZPass tag that was registered for a class1 truck, instead of a class5, enabling it to illegally pass through the tolls at a lower toll rate," he said. Smith gave the officer a Texas driver's license -- even t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Reports Of Route 21 Bridge Jumper In Rutherford Unfounded Reports Of Route 21 Bridge Jumper In Rutherford Unfounded Reports Of Route 21 Bridge Jumper In Rutherford Unfounded
Reports Of Route 21 Bridge Jumper In Rutherford Unfounded RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Reports of someone possibly jumping into the Passaic River from the Route 21 bridge in Rutherford Friday afternoon proved bogus, police said.  Responders put boats in the river amid reports that a man or woman was last seen sitting on the bridge. "The accounts kept changing," Detective Capt. Patrick Feliciano told Daily Voice. "Someone said it was girl or woman, then someone said it was a man." Rutherford firefighters "checked both shorelines," while police on both sides of the river searched the immediate areas "just to be sure,"…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Fort Lee Police Dogs Get Body Armor Thanks To Cresskill Women Fort Lee Police Dogs Get Body Armor Thanks To Cresskill Women Fort Lee Police Dogs Get Body Armor Thanks To Cresskill Women
Fort Lee Police Dogs Get Body Armor Thanks To Cresskill Women FORT LEE, N.J. – Both Fort Lee police K-9s are receiving bullet- and stab-protective vests, thanks to two Cresskill women. Chloe and ShaeLee Campbell hosted a fundraiser that paid for the vests for Bodie and Hudson, which are expected to be delivered in eight to 10 weeks, Police Chief Keith Bendul said. Making it possible was Vested Interest in K9s, a Massachusetts non-profit that provides the vests and other assistance to dogs of law enforcement and related agencies throughout the U.S. Established in 2009, the organization has provided more than 2,600 protective vests to dogs in 50 states…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Fob Left In Other Car Still Gets BMW Stolen From Tenafly Fob Left In Other Car Still Gets BMW Stolen From Tenafly Fob Left In Other Car Still Gets BMW Stolen From Tenafly
Fob Left In Other Car Still Gets BMW Stolen From Tenafly TENAFLY, N.J. – The seventh car stolen out of Tenafly this year – the fourth in a little over a month – prompted police to again urge owners to lock their vehicles and take their fobs with them, especially in their own driveways. Several police departments tried chasing the black 2015 BMW X5M later that morning, authorities said. But each had to cut off pursuit because of the speed risk, they said. A Ridge Road resident reported the Beamer stolen before dawn Thursday, Capt. Michael deMoncada said. “The victim stated the key fob was apparently left in another unlocked vehicle, which was par…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Thieves Steal $5,000 From Saddle Brook Grandmother In 'Gas Emergency' Scam Thieves Steal $5,000 From Saddle Brook Grandmother In 'Gas Emergency' Scam Thieves Steal $5,000 From Saddle Brook Grandmother In 'Gas Emergency' Scam
Thieves Steal $5,000 From Saddle Brook Grandmother In 'Gas Emergency' 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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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
National Guardsman Charged In Prospect Park Church, Deli Burglaries National Guardsman Charged In Prospect Park Church, Deli Burglaries National Guardsman Charged In Prospect Park Church, Deli Burglaries
National Guardsman Charged In Prospect Park Church, Deli Burglaries PROSPECT PARK, N.J. – A National Guard infantryman and an accomplice from Hackensack broke into a Prospect Park church and its pantry and made off with $4,000 in valuables, authorities charged. Michael Jefferson and Robert Santiago of Paterson, both 22, also burglarized a Brown Avenue deli and took 40 cartons of cigarettes, Beats headphones, condoms, cigar wraps and about $200 in coins last Saturday, Detective Walter Richmond said. The pair stole an Apple Macbook Air laptop, several gift cards and two bank checks from the New Hope Community Ministries on North Street, Richmond said. Capt. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack Police Rescue Middle-Age OD Victims With Narcan Hackensack Police Rescue Middle-Age OD Victims With Narcan Hackensack Police Rescue Middle-Age OD Victims With Narcan
Hackensack Police Rescue Middle-Age OD Victims With Narcan HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Hackensack police rescued two overdosing drug users -- one 51 and the other 47 -- in separate Narcan incidents. Officers administered the anti-opiate antidote to the younger man on Aug. 23 and the older man this past Sunday, Capt. Patrick Coffey said. Both were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, he said. Coffey reminded the public of a "Project Medicine Drop" box at headquarters for citizens to toss out unused or expired prescriptions anonymously, no questions asked, any time of day. SEE: Hackensack PD Adds Anytime Collection Box For Unused Medica…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
13 Occupants: Two Ejected, One Pinned In Woodcliff Lake GSP Van Crash 13 Occupants: Two Ejected, One Pinned In Woodcliff Lake GSP Van Crash 13 Occupants: Two Ejected, One Pinned In Woodcliff Lake GSP Van Crash
13 Occupants: Two Ejected, One Pinned In Woodcliff Lake GSP Van Crash WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J. -- Two people were ejected and another pinned under a van packed with 13 people that crashed on the Garden State Parkway in Woodcliff Lake late Wednesday. Remarkably, only six had serious injuries -- none life-threatening -- after the Ford Econoline careened off the Parkway and into the woods at mile marker 169.9 just after 11:30 p.m., Trooper Alejandro Goez told Daily Voice. Woodcliff Lake firefighters extricated the pinned occupant, he said. The dozen passengers were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center and the driver to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Heroin Dealer Resists Arrest In Paramus Undercover Sting Prosecutor: Heroin Dealer Resists Arrest In Paramus Undercover Sting Prosecutor: Heroin Dealer Resists Arrest In Paramus Undercover Sting
Prosecutor: Heroin Dealer Resists Arrest In Paramus Undercover Sting PARAMUS, N.J. – A Passaic County man caught selling heroin to an undercover Bergen County prosecutor’s detective fought with his captors and tried to run but was taken into custody, authorities said Thursday. Shortly after Jamil Robinson, 23, of Haledon met with the detective in Paramus on Tuesday, backups moved in, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. Robinson ended up charged with resisting arrest, obstruction, creating a substantial risk of injury to police, conspiracy and possessing and distributing drugs, the prosecutor said. Robinson remained held in the Bergen County Jail…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: Oxy OD Kills Palisades Park Man Authorities: Oxy OD Kills Palisades Park Man Authorities: Oxy OD Kills Palisades Park Man
Authorities: Oxy OD Kills Palisades Park Man PALISADES PARK, N.J.— A 31-year-old Palisades Park man died of a suspected Oxycontin overdose, responders said. It was Bergen County's 68th fatality caused by an opioid overdose this year, Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said.  There have also been more than 150 Narcan saves of overdose victims by local responders in Bergen County since the beginning of the year, authorities said.

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