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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Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Double-Whammy: Sedan Knocked Onto Rt. 3 Divider In Rutherford Struck Again Double-Whammy: Sedan Knocked Onto Rt. 3 Divider In Rutherford Struck Again Double-Whammy: Sedan Knocked Onto Rt. 3 Divider In Rutherford Struck Again
Double-Whammy: Sedan Knocked Onto Rt. 3 Divider In Rutherford Struck Again RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- A car that was knocked onto a divider on Route 3 in Rutherford early Thursday was then struck by a truck, police said. A 30-year-old West New York man was in the middle eastbound lane when his Nissan Maxima clipped the front of a tractor-trailer he was trying to pass between Route 17 North and South around 8:15 a.m., Capt. Patrick Feliciano told Daily Voice. The impact sent the Maxima spinning across the highway, where it T-boned a Nissan Altima driven by 25-year-old Union City woman, Feliciano said. An instant later, a Ford Explorer driven in the left lane by a 34-year…

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: Clifton Police Chase Ends In Crash VIDEO: Clifton Police Chase Ends In Crash VIDEO: Clifton Police Chase Ends In Crash
Video: Clifton Police Chase Ends In Crash CLIFTON, N.J. -- (UPDATE) A Clifton man rammed several police cars with an SUV during a wild chase through several 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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by Jerry DeMarco
Stony Point, NY
Breaking News
Rockland Man, NYC Woman Busted In NJ With $24K Suspected Drug Money Rockland Man, NYC Woman Busted In NJ With $24K Suspected Drug Money Rockland Man, NYC Woman Busted In NJ With $24K Suspected Drug Money
Rockland Man, NYC Woman Busted In NJ With $24K Suspected Drug Money HAVERSTRAW, N.J. – A Haverstraw man and New York City woman were accused of money laundering after a Ridgefield traffic stop turned up $24,000. Narcotics detectives investigating drug dealing found the “suspiciously packaged” cash after stopping the 2006 grey Honda Accord and obtaining consent from the driver for a search of the vehicle, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Thursday. Given the circumstances, they arrested the driver, Doloris Abeau-Santana and her passenger, Wilfred Lopez-Bueno, both 26, on charges of transporting or possessing property derived from criminal activi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Rockland Man, NYC Woman Busted In Ridgefield With $24K Suspected Drug Money Rockland Man, NYC Woman Busted In Ridgefield With $24K Suspected Drug Money Rockland Man, NYC Woman Busted In Ridgefield With $24K Suspected Drug Money
Rockland Man, NYC Woman Busted In Ridgefield With $24K Suspected Drug Money RIDGEFIELD, N.J. – A Rockland man and New York City woman were accused of money laundering after a Ridgefield traffic stop turned up $24,000. Narcotics detectives investigating drug dealing found the “suspiciously packaged” cash after stopping the 2006 grey Honda Accord and obtaining consent from the driver for a search of the vehicle, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Thursday. They arrested the driver, Doloris Abeau-Santana and her passenger, Wilfred Lopez-Bueno of Haverstraw, both 26, on charges of transporting or possessing property derived from criminal activity. The pair…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Monsey, NY
Breaking News
Sex Offender From Monsey Gets 13 Months For Groping Woman On Flight Sex Offender From Monsey Gets 13 Months For Groping Woman On Flight Sex Offender From Monsey Gets 13 Months For Groping Woman On Flight
Sex Offender From Monsey Gets 13 Months For Groping Woman On Flight MONSEY, N.Y. -- A registered sex offender from Monsey was sentenced Thursday to 13 months in federal prison for repeatedly fondling a woman on a flight from Israel to Newark. Yoel Oberlander, 36, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Newark in March to assault with the intent to stalk. He must serve out the entire sentence: There's no parole in the federal prison system. Oberlander was sitting next to the victim and her mother on a May 29, 2016 El Al flight from Tel Aviv to Newark Liberty International Airport, authorities said. During the flight, he admitted Wednesday, he "touche…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn PD: DWI Motorist Threatens Officers, Their Families, 'Americans' Fair Lawn PD: DWI Motorist Threatens Officers, Their Families, 'Americans' Fair Lawn PD: DWI Motorist Threatens Officers, Their Families, 'Americans'
Fair Lawn PD: DWI Motorist Threatens Officers, Their Families, 'Americans' FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- A drunken Fairview motorist threatened to kill Fair Lawn police and their families, authorities said Thursday. An off-duty New Jersey State Police trooper alerted police to the erratically driven car, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Responding Officers Nicholas Snyder, Michael Van Ness, Thomas Spear and Anthony Ferreira responded stopped 26-year-old Ali Sawaed on Arcadia Road at Whitehall Street, Metzler said. Sawaed "took a fighting stance when instructed to perform roadside sobriety tests, then threatened to kill officers, their families and ‘Americans'," the sergea…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
FOUND! Missing Lodi Girl, 16, Ran Away Before FOUND! Missing Lodi Girl, 16, Ran Away Before FOUND! Missing Lodi Girl, 16, Ran Away Before
Found! Missing Lodi Girl, 16, Ran Away Before 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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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
NJ Bail Reform: Accused Tenafly Criminal Caught Twice, Released Twice NJ Bail Reform: Accused Tenafly Criminal Caught Twice, Released Twice NJ Bail Reform: Accused Tenafly Criminal Caught Twice, Released Twice
NJ Bail Reform: Accused Tenafly Criminal Caught Twice, Released Twice TENAFLY, N.J. – Moments after Tenafly police released a man caught driving a stolen car, they found him breaking into cars, authorities said. Soon after, a judge freed again. It began at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, when Officer Louis Smaragdakis followed a maroon Kia whose driver “made an abrupt left turn into the parking lot of Montammy Country Club [on Route 9W] without signaling his turn,” Capt. Michael deMoncada said. The driver, 22-year-old Tobey Kamleh, wasn’t wearing a seatbelt, deMoncada noted. After pulling to a stop, Kamleh got out of the car and began to walk away from the area, the ca…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Neighbors Call: Paterson Police Bust Three, Seize 2 Lbs. Pot, Cocaine, $10k Neighbors Call: Paterson Police Bust Three, Seize 2 Lbs. Pot, Cocaine, $10k Neighbors Call: Paterson Police Bust Three, Seize 2 Lbs. Pot, Cocaine, $10k
Neighbors Call: Paterson Police Bust Three, Seize 2 Lbs. Pot, Cocaine, $10k PATERSON, N.J. -- Cars came and went at all hours, bringing police to a Paterson neighborhood where they seized more than two pounds of pot, a couple of ounces of cocaine and more than $10,000 in suspected drug money. Narcotics detectives responding to citizen complaints in the 100 block of East 25th Street arrested three people. Two of them, Jonathan Mejia, 29, and Camilo Mejia, 35, were dealing from their apartment at 150 East 25th Street, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. Also arrested was Vanessa Gonzalez, 35, of Summer Street, who Speziale said bought a small bag of marijuana from …

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
SEE ANYTHING? West Milford PD Seeks Witnesses To Crash That Injured 2 SEE ANYTHING? West Milford PD Seeks Witnesses To Crash That Injured 2 SEE ANYTHING? West Milford PD Seeks Witnesses To Crash That Injured 2
SEE Anything? West Milford PD Seeks Witnesses To Crash That Injured 2 WEST MILFORD, N.J. – West Milford police were seeking witnesses to a single-car crash that injured two Highland Lakes residents. Responding officers found the severely damaged two-door 2017 Toyota off northbound Route 23 just north of the High Crest bridge at 11:37 p.m. Tuesday, Police Chief Timothy C. Storbeck said. The passenger, Miranda L. Bohmer, 21, was flown by Hackensack University Medical Center’s AirMed One to Morristown Memorial Hospital, Storbeck said. The driver, Ryan P. Simpson, 19, was transported to the hospital by the West Milford Township First Aid Squad, the chief said. …

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