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
Breaking News
Mahwah Sued In Federal Court Over Eruv Ordinance Mahwah Sued In Federal Court Over Eruv Ordinance Mahwah Sued In Federal Court Over Eruv Ordinance
Mahwah Sued In Federal Court Over Eruv Ordinance MAHWAH, N.J. -- A Rockland County group on Friday filed a federal lawsuit against the township of Mahwah, citing "government interference," "hostility and rank prejudice" and an "openly anti-Semitic campaign" that violates its civil rights to construct an eruv. The lawsuit follows an order from the Township Council to its zoning official Thursday night to issue summonses, beginning Aug. 18, for each violation of what the Bergen Rockland Eruv Association contends is an unconstitutional ordinance. The ordinance was hastily adopted to deny its members' "right…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
4 Admit Roles In Dog-Fighting Ring That Stretched From NJ To New Mexico 4 Admit Roles In Dog-Fighting Ring That Stretched From NJ To New Mexico 4 Admit Roles In Dog-Fighting Ring That Stretched From NJ To New Mexico
4 Admit Roles In Dog-Fighting Ring That Stretched From NJ To New Mexico Four men admitted participating in an interstate dog-fighting network that stretched from New Jersey to New Mexico, federal authorities announced Friday. Ring members told a federal judge in Trenton that they trafficked dogs with associates in New Jersey, Illinois, Indiana, New Mexico and elsewhere so that they could be used in fights – often to the death, New Jersey’s Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick said. “They also maintained fighting dogs and dog fighting equipment, such as treadmills, intravenous drug bags and lines, ‘breeding stands’ used to immobilize female dogs and chain…

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Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Pair Nabbed In $11,000 Stabbing Robbery At East Rutherford Hotel Pair Nabbed In $11,000 Stabbing Robbery At East Rutherford Hotel Pair Nabbed In $11,000 Stabbing Robbery At East Rutherford Hotel
Pair Nabbed In $11,000 Stabbing Robbery At East Rutherford Hotel EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (UPDATE) – The accused getaway driver in a stabbing robbery at an East Rutherford hotel has been captured, authorities announced on Aug. 15. Authorities said Kendrick Terrell Brown, 21, and two accomplices left the victim for dead with several stab wounds the afternoon of Aug. 6 at the Extended Stay America Hotel on Route 3, taking what sources told Daily Voice was $11,000. CONTINUED: https://hackensack.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/accused-driver-in-11000-stabbing-robbery-at-east-rutherford-hotel-caught/719125/ ORIGINAL STORY: EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Bergen County pro…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Paterson Police Seize Loaded Gun After Tussle With Fleeing Ex-Con Paterson Police Seize Loaded Gun After Tussle With Fleeing Ex-Con Paterson Police Seize Loaded Gun After Tussle With Fleeing Ex-Con
Paterson Police Seize Loaded Gun After Tussle With Fleeing Ex-Con PATERSON, N.J. -- A fleeing Paterson ex-con tossed a loaded gun and tussled with police before being taken into custody, authorities said. Officers Eudy Ramos, Jonathan Bustios and Frank Toledo were patrolling the area of 12th Avenue and E 23rd Street when they approached a group of men just before 5 a.m., Police Director Jerry Speziale said. One of them, 25-year-old Shaquan Capron, took off "while gripping his waistband and looking back at the officers," Speziale said. They chased him to the rear of 323 12th Avenue -- where the director said Capron pulled out a silver handgun an…

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Clifton Mayor's Home Burglarized Clifton Mayor's Home Burglarized Clifton Mayor's Home Burglarized
Clifton Mayor's Home Burglarized CLIFTON, N.J. -- Someone broke into Clifton Mayor James Anzaldi's home and took a substantial amount of jewelry last month, police confirmed Friday. The mayor's front door apparently was forced open and several items of value taken on July 21, according to a report filed with police. A diamond ring passed down from his grandmother reportedly was among the items missing from the home of Anzaldi, who's been the city's mayor for more than a quarter-century. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Ridgefield Park Man Charged With Molesting 11-Year-Old Ridgefield Park Man Charged With Molesting 11-Year-Old Ridgefield Park Man Charged With Molesting 11-Year-Old
Ridgefield Park Man Charged With Molesting 11-Year-Old RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J. – A 45-year-old Ridgefield Park clerk was charged with molesting an 11-year-old child, authorities said Friday. Venkata Bondapalli of Hillie Place “inappropriately touched” the victim in June, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. A judge ordered Bondapalli held in the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing Friday afternoon in Central Judicial Court in Hackensack. He is charged with sexual assault by sexual contact and child endangerment.

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Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Westwood Crash Rolls SUV Westwood Crash Rolls SUV Westwood Crash Rolls SUV
Westwood Crash Rolls SUV WESTWOOD, N.J. -- A female driver was hospitalized after SUVs collided in Westwood, authorities said Friday morning. The 42-year-old victim sustained minor injuries when her SUV rolled following the crash at the intersection of Broadway and Irvington Street just before 9 p.m. Thursday, said Lt. Matthew McClutchy, the officer in charge of the department. She was taken to HackensackUMC at Pascack Valley, he said. The other driver wasn't injured, McClutchy told Daily Voice.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Clifton Police Chase Ends With Arrest Of Wrong-Way Route 21 Driver Clifton Police Chase Ends With Arrest Of Wrong-Way Route 21 Driver Clifton Police Chase Ends With Arrest Of Wrong-Way Route 21 Driver
Clifton Police Chase Ends With Arrest Of Wrong-Way Route 21 Driver CLIFTON, N.J. -- Persistence paid off when a Passaic County sheriff's officer helped Clifton police collar a wrong-way speeding motorist who they said drove through oncoming traffic -- twice. It began when Sgt. Bruce Lawson pulled over a vehicle riding along the shoulder of northbound Route 21 near Ackerman Avenue around 9 a.m. Aug. 2, Lt. Robert Bracken said. As Lawson walked toward the car, the driver sped off, he said. Lawson began chasing the vehicle in his cruiser when the driver -- identified as 29-year-old Erick Gomez of Paterson -- headed into oncoming northbound traffic, Bracken s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Fort Lee Police Dog Finds Drugs In Speeding, Tailgating, Cellphone Stop Fort Lee Police Dog Finds Drugs In Speeding, Tailgating, Cellphone Stop Fort Lee Police Dog Finds Drugs In Speeding, Tailgating, Cellphone Stop
Fort Lee Police Dog Finds Drugs In Speeding, Tailgating, Cellphone Stop FORT LEE, N.J. -- A Fort Lee police dog sniffed out more than two pounds of pot after officers stopped a speeding driver who was tailgating a motorcycle while using his cellphone, authorities said. Police arrested 32-year-old Demarcus D. Shelborne of Milford, DE, thanks to help from Hudson and his handler, Officer Zack Joseph, Police Chief Keith Bendul said. Jospeh and Officer Kester Osaigbovo stopped the rented Nissan on southbound Routes 1&9 just after midnight July 30, Bendul said. Shelborne was doing 80 miles an hour while tailgating a motorcycle and not maintaining a lane -- while…

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Fort Lee, NJ
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Palisades Park Police Use Narcan To Save Same User For 3rd Time In 4 Months Palisades Park Police Use Narcan To Save Same User For 3rd Time In 4 Months Palisades Park Police Use Narcan To Save Same User For 3rd Time In 4 Months
Palisades Park Police Use Narcan To Save Same User For 3rd Time In 4 Months PALISADES PARK, N.J. -- Palisades Park police used Narcan to revive the same heroin overdose victim for the third time in four months, responders said. The 30-year-old transgender male victim came around and was hospitalized after officers administered the anti-opioid antidote in a Grand Avenue home last Thursday, police said. Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal has made fighting the opioid epidemic a hallmark of his tenure. "Last year, Bergen County didn't go a day without a heroin arrest, an overdose or a Narcan save," he said recently. "There's just more work to do.…

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