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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Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
FOUND (AGAIN): Lodi Runaway, 16, Back Home FOUND (AGAIN): Lodi Runaway, 16, Back Home FOUND (AGAIN): Lodi Runaway, 16, Back Home
Found (Again): Lodi Runaway, 16, Back Home LODI, N.J. -- A 16-year-old Lodi girl who's run away at least three times in a little over a year was back home again, police said Monday. Jakira Jeffrey -- also known as Jakira Waddell -- took off last Wednesday, police said. She'd also run away and was gone for five days last month before police found her in Paterson. Jakira also went missing in May 2016 but turned up soon after:  https://fairlawn.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/missing-lodi-girl-15-found/656606/.

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Moonachie PD: Hasbrouck Heights Shoplifter, 70, Injures Walmart Worker Moonachie PD: Hasbrouck Heights Shoplifter, 70, Injures Walmart Worker Moonachie PD: Hasbrouck Heights Shoplifter, 70, Injures Walmart Worker
Moonachie PD: Hasbrouck Heights Shoplifter, 70, Injures Walmart Worker MOONACHIE, N.J. – A 70-year-old Hasbrouck Heights man hit a Teterboro Walmart employee in the head with his car hatch after stealing a propane tank, Moonachie police said. William Simmons was putting the tank in the back of the car Friday night when the employee approached and asked whether he’d paid for it, Police Chief Richard Behrens said. Simmons “closed the rear hatch of the vehicle, striking the employee in the head, and then entered the driver’s seat and drove way,” Behrens said. The injured worker gave police a license plate number that Moonachie police used to track him down, the …

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Fort Lee, NJ
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Guatemalan Charged With Sex Assault Of Palisades Park Girl, 12, Released Guatemalan Charged With Sex Assault Of Palisades Park Girl, 12, Released Guatemalan Charged With Sex Assault Of Palisades Park Girl, 12, Released
Guatemalan Charged With Sex Assault Of Palisades Park Girl, 12, Released PALISADES PARK, N.J. – A Guatemalan national who was charged with sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl in Palisades Park has been released pending further court action under New Jersey's bail reform law. A judge on Friday ordered William Lopez Medina, 31, released on his own recognizance, with conditions, after he spent 10 days in the Bergen County Jail, records show. Medina, a married construction worker, was arrested Aug. 1 after the girl told members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit that he touched her inappropriately, authorities said. The INS was notified, reco…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Police: Stolen Fair Lawn Car Crashes In Paterson Police: Stolen Fair Lawn Car Crashes In Paterson Police: Stolen Fair Lawn Car Crashes In Paterson
Police: Stolen Fair Lawn Car Crashes In Paterson FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- A sedan stolen from a Fair Lawn driveway was recovered after it crashed in Paterson, authorities confirmed Monday. Unofficial reports were that three adults and a juvenile were involved and that a Paterson police car was damaged during a chase. Police said the First Street owner told them the Hyundai Sonata was locked with the keys in the console when it was stolen sometime between 11 p.m. Saturday and 6:30 a.m. Sunday. Suspects were taken into custody and the car impounded around 6 p.m. Sunday, police said. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS

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Teaneck, NJ
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Bergen Prosecutor: SUV In Teaneck Stop Held Hidden Heroin, Cocaine, Cash Bergen Prosecutor: SUV In Teaneck Stop Held Hidden Heroin, Cocaine, Cash Bergen Prosecutor: SUV In Teaneck Stop Held Hidden Heroin, Cocaine, Cash
Bergen Prosecutor: SUV In Teaneck Stop Held Hidden Heroin, Cocaine, Cash TEANECK, N.J. – An SUV stopped in Teaneck held five bricks of heroin and a half-ounce of cocaine in an electronically-operated secret compartment, the Bergen County prosecutor said. Detectives investigating drug trafficking stopped the 2004 Honda Pilot, found the compartment, and arrested two 35-year-old occupants Miguel A. Urbaez, a store manager from McAdoo, PA, and George Perez, of Harlem, who is self-employed, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. They also seized more than $1,500.00 in suspected drug proceeds, Grewal said. Both were processed on drug charges and released pe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Passaic County Sheriff: Video Shows Driver Fleeing With Gun Passaic County Sheriff: Video Shows Driver Fleeing With Gun Passaic County Sheriff: Video Shows Driver Fleeing With Gun
Passaic County Sheriff: Video Shows Driver Fleeing With Gun PATERSON, N.J. -- Dashcam video shows a man fleeing his car carrying a gun in his hand moments before a Passaic County sheriff's officer arrested him. Sgt. Sergeant Damian Priddy stopped the vehicle just after 3 a.m. Sunday on 7th Avenue because its headlights were off, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. The driver, 30-year-old Javar Williams, stopped at first, then turned right onto East 26th Street before stopping at 6th Avenue, Berdnick said. Williams then got out, a revolver in his left hand, and ran down a wooded path, the sheriff said. Priddy chased him down at Grimes Place and 5th Av…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Mahwah Police Chief: Eruv Vandals Will Be Charged With Hate Crimes Mahwah Police Chief: Eruv Vandals Will Be Charged With Hate Crimes Mahwah Police Chief: Eruv Vandals Will Be Charged With Hate Crimes
Mahwah Police Chief: Eruv Vandals Will Be Charged With Hate Crimes MAHWAH, N.J. -- Whoever vandalized a half-dozen sections of eruv in Mahwah over the weekend will be charged under state hate crime statutes, Police Chief James Batelli said Sunday. The PVC piping, used to create a special religious enclosure for Hassidics attending temple services across the state line in Rockland County, has stirred a firestorm in Mahwah since installations began in June. SEEN THEM? A couple was caught on surveillance camera damaging an eruv, Mahwah police said. https://mahwah.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/know-them-mahwah-eruv-vandals-caught-on-camera/720725/ Rockland Util…

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Fort Lee, NJ
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Leonia Police Seek Help Finding Gas Station Robber Leonia Police Seek Help Finding Gas Station Robber Leonia Police Seek Help Finding Gas Station Robber
Leonia Police Seek Help Finding Gas Station Robber LEONIA, N.J. – Leonia detectives were seeking witnesses and checking area surveillance cameras after a late-afternoon gas station robbery. An attendant at the Delta station on Broad Avenue told police the robber approached around 4:45 p.m. Friday and demanded money, “indicating that he had a handgun in his sweatshirt pocket,” Capt. Scott Tamagny said. “The attendant turned over cash and the [robber] then fled on foot,” Tamagny said. Leonia police searched the area, with help from their colleagues from Englewood, Fort Lee, Palisades Park and Ridgfield Park, as well as the Bergen County Sher…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Mahwah PBA: Wear A Helmet, Get Free Ice Cream Mahwah PBA: Wear A Helmet, Get Free Ice Cream Mahwah PBA: Wear A Helmet, Get Free Ice Cream
Mahwah PBA: Wear A Helmet, Get Free Ice Cream MAHWAH, N.J. -- Mahwah youngsters out having fun will want police to "ticket" them -- for wearing helmets. Children wearing a helmet while riding a bicycle, skateboard, roller skates/blades, or razor scooter in town can get a free small ice cream cone at the Dairy Queen on Franklin Turnpike if a township police officer spots them, said Rosario Zito, president of Mahwah PBA Local #143. "The goal of this program is to not only encourage kids to wear their helmets but also to create the opportunity for positive interactions between Mahwah officers and the youth of our town,"…

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Fort Lee, NJ
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Leonia Store Employee Slugged, Shoplifter Charged With Robbery Leonia Store Employee Slugged, Shoplifter Charged With Robbery Leonia Store Employee Slugged, Shoplifter Charged With Robbery
Leonia Store Employee Slugged, Shoplifter Charged With Robbery LEONIA, N.J. – What began as a shoplifting turned into robbery when a Dumont woman slugged a grocery store employee, Leonia police said. Donna Farrell, 54, punched the employee who’d chased after her Friday outside the H-Mart on Broad Avenue, Capt. Scott Tamagny said. Officer John Longo found Farrell in a park a few blocks from the market and arrested her after she admitted taking the items, Tamagny said. Farrell was released pending a court hearing on robbery charges.

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