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
Shock, Sadness Follow 18-Year-Old Leonia Man's Drowning Death Shock, Sadness Follow 18-Year-Old Leonia Man's Drowning Death Shock, Sadness Follow 18-Year-Old Leonia Man's Drowning Death
Shock, Sadness Follow 18-Year-Old Leonia Man's Drowning Death LEONIA, N.J. -- Shock continued to shake those who knew him as word spread of the drowning death of an 18-year-old Leonia man in Rockland. ****** UPDATE: A funeral Mass was scheduled for Saturday for an 18-year-old Leonia man who drowned in Rockland last week. DETAILS: https://fortlee.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/services-set-for-leonia-man-18-who-drowned-in-rockland-lake/717334/ ****** Luke Rambharose was cliff-jumping and swimming with friends at Pine Meadow Lake in Harriman State Park on Thursday in Haverstraw when he went under, a source with direct knowledge of the incident told Daily…

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Monsey, NY
Breaking News
Monsey Man Gets 37 Months In Counterfeit Electronics Smuggling Scheme Monsey Man Gets 37 Months In Counterfeit Electronics Smuggling Scheme Monsey Man Gets 37 Months In Counterfeit Electronics Smuggling Scheme
Monsey Man Gets 37 Months In Counterfeit Electronics Smuggling Scheme MONSEY, N.J. -- An Italian national living in Monsey was sentenced Friday to 37 months in federal prison for smuggling counterfeit iPhones, camcorders and other electronics into the U.S. from China. Rosario La Marca, 54, and a married couple pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Newark in February to smuggling the goods, among other counts. LaMarca was named in an April 2015 federal indictment along with Roberto Volpe, 34, who's also an Italian national; Volpe's wife, Andreina Becerra, 31, a Venezuelan national; and Jianhua Li, 42, a Chinese national. The indictment charged them with im…

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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority: Stopped GWB Driver Owed $44,445 Port Authority: Stopped GWB Driver Owed $44,445 Port Authority: Stopped GWB Driver Owed $44,445
Port Authority: Stopped GWB Driver Owed $44,445 FORT LEE, N.J. -- A driver stopped by Port Authority police at the GWB early Friday owed $44,445 in unpaid tolls and fees, authorities said. Officer Colman O'Reilly pulled over the 2012 Honda Accord after it passed through an E-ZPass lane at the lower-level tolls without a transpoder, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo said. Antonio L. Laracuente, 37, of Newark had neither a driver's license or E-ZPass account, he said. He was also wanted on a warrant of out Clark, Pentangelo said. Laracuente was arrested on charges of theft of services, toll evasion, driving with a suspended license and t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: Lyndhurst Firefighters Contain Three-Story House Blaze VIDEO: Lyndhurst Firefighters Contain Three-Story House Blaze VIDEO: Lyndhurst Firefighters Contain Three-Story House Blaze
Video: Lyndhurst Firefighters Contain Three-Story House Blaze LYNDHURST, N.J. -- A candle left burning ignited a Lyndhurst house fire on Friday, authorities said. First Assistant Chief Joseph Abruscato confimed heavy smoke running the east side of the there-story residence from a second-floor bedroom and extending throughout the third floor as crews responded to the unoccupied Second Avenue home around 11:20 a.m., Police Capt. John Valente told Daily Voice. Borough firefighters brought the blaze under control in 20 minutes or so with an aggressive interior attack assisted by a North Arlington ladder and Rutherford and East Rutherford engines, due to t…

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Pascack Valley, NJ
Your Community
NJ Child Rape Law Extended To Murderers Of Under-18 Victims In Sex Crimes NJ Child Rape Law Extended To Murderers Of Under-18 Victims In Sex Crimes NJ Child Rape Law Extended To Murderers Of Under-18 Victims In Sex Crimes
NJ Child Rape Law Extended To Murderers Of Under-18 Victims In Sex Crimes HILLSDALE, N.J. -- It wasn't the public signing she'd hoped for, but Rosemarie D'Alessandro of Hillsdale was still thrilled to see Gov. Christie sign a law Friday mandating life imprisonment without parole for anyone convicted of murdering a minor under 18 during a sex crime. “This day is a tremendous victory," D'Alessandro said after "Joan's Law" officially joined the state books. "The law named after Joan will stop suffering and bring justice for families," D'Alessandro said. "They will never have to go through parole hearings and appeals like our family had …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Accused Bergenfield Grandma Abuser Arrested Yet Again -- In River Vale Accused Bergenfield Grandma Abuser Arrested Yet Again -- In River Vale Accused Bergenfield Grandma Abuser Arrested Yet Again -- In River Vale
Accused Bergenfield Grandma Abuser Arrested Yet Again -- In River Vale RIVER VALE, N.J. – A Bergenfield man accused of abusing his 84-year-old grandmother was arrested for the third time in two weeks after police were called by another family member, Daily Voice has learned. Stephen Willard, 25, and his father took a cab from New York City to River Vale, where he attempted to obtain a credit card from a family member to pay the tab, authorities said. Willard and his 61-year-old father, Vance, were freed by a judge on Tuesday, hours after police charged them with denying the elderly victim necessities and selling her valuables. This came after both had been fre…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: Fair Lawn Detectives Nab 3 In Beating, Robbery Of Gas Attendant, 77 VIDEO: Fair Lawn Detectives Nab 3 In Beating, Robbery Of Gas Attendant, 77 VIDEO: Fair Lawn Detectives Nab 3 In Beating, Robbery Of Gas Attendant, 77
Video: Fair Lawn Detectives Nab 3 In Beating, Robbery Of Gas Attendant, 77 FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- Fair Lawn police tracked down and charged three people in connection with the beating robbery of a 77-year-old service station attendant, which was caught on video. Detectives from Riverdale helped their Fair Lawn colleagues identify the getaway vehicle from surveillance video, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Before long, the investigators had Leonard McNeill, 40, and Tyree Lusk, 34, both of Paterson, and Gina Taddio, 36, of Ringwood in custody. A robber wearing a mask got out of the beige Nissan Pathfinder at 4:40 a.m. July 12, pulled out a silver handgun and pistol-whipped …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: Clifton Police Chase, Crash, Arrest: What Really Happened VIDEO: Clifton Police Chase, Crash, Arrest: What Really Happened VIDEO: Clifton Police Chase, Crash, Arrest: What Really Happened
Video: Clifton Police Chase, Crash, Arrest: What Really Happened CLIFTON, N.J. -- (UPDATE) A Clifton man rammed several police cars with an SUV during a wild chase through through towns Thursday that ended with him and two officers hospitalized. Correcting erroneous reports by other area news media, police told Daily Voice early Friday that the chase began on Mount Pleasant Avenue, when a Clifton officer spotted an SUV driven by a man wanted for hitting a Verona officer with it earlier in the day. As the officers moved in, 24-year-old Alex Kashani of Clifton jumped into the SUV, Lt. Robert Bracken said. "He rammed a responding unit with his vehicle…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
PHOTOS: Downed Pole In Hackensack Spells Trouble For Southbound Route 17 PHOTOS: Downed Pole In Hackensack Spells Trouble For Southbound Route 17 PHOTOS: Downed Pole In Hackensack Spells Trouble For Southbound Route 17
Photos: Downed Pole In Hackensack Spells Trouble For Southbound Route 17 HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A utility pole that toppled into the Crow's Nest parking lot in Hackensack early Friday slowed southbound Route 17 traffic. A transformer blew, knocking down the pole and taking down another with it, police told Daily Voice. No injuries were reported. Lane closures for repairs were expected to last several hours.

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Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
FOUND! Lodi Girl, 16, Turns Up In Paterson FOUND! Lodi Girl, 16, Turns Up In Paterson FOUND! Lodi Girl, 16, Turns Up In Paterson
Found! Lodi Girl, 16, Turns Up In Paterson LODI, N.J. -- A 16-year-old Lodi girl who was the subject of a missing-persons search -- and also vanished briefly a little over a year ago -- was found in Paterson, police said. Paterson police located Jakira Jeffrey -- also known as Jakira Waddell -- around 11:30 p.m. Thursday, Lodi Police Detective Legrand Castro told Daily Voice. She'd been gone five days. Jakira was supposedly headed to the Rainbow Clothing Store on Washington Street in Lodi when she was last seen at 7:30 p.m. last Saturday, authorities said. Jakira went missing in May 2016 but was found soon after: https://fairlawn.…

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