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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Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Ex-Demarest Man Who Wore Wire In $65M Tax Fraud Takedown Gets 17 Months Ex-Demarest Man Who Wore Wire In $65M Tax Fraud Takedown Gets 17 Months Ex-Demarest Man Who Wore Wire In $65M Tax Fraud Takedown Gets 17 Months
Ex-Demarest Man Who Wore Wire In $65M Tax Fraud Takedown Gets 17 Months DEMAREST, N.J. – A former Demarest businessman who helped federal authorities crack one of the nation's largest income tax scams ever was sentenced to 17 months in federal prison Tuesday in exchange for wearing a wire. Roberto Diaz will have to serve just about all of that time: There is no parole in the federal prison system. Diaz, 48, agreed to wear a listening device after Bergen County Police officers helped lead federal agents to a ring responsible for filing 8,000 fraudulent U.S. income tax returns that produced losses to federal taxpayers of $12 million. Although he purportedly work…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Check Fraud Suspect Tussles With Tenafly Police Officers Check Fraud Suspect Tussles With Tenafly Police Officers Check Fraud Suspect Tussles With Tenafly Police Officers
Check Fraud Suspect Tussles With Tenafly Police Officers TENAFLY, N.J. – A Bronx woman caught trying to cash a forged check hit one Tenafly police officer in the neck and grabbed another while being arrested, authorities said Tuesday. Tenese N. Thompson, 36, “became agitated and attempted to walk away” from officers responding to the PNC Bank just before 6 p.m. Monday, Capt. Michael deMoncada said. Officials at the Highwood Avenue bank had called them, he said, after Thompson tried cashing a $956.87 check that belonged to someone else. Thompson “refused to comply with directions of officers and flailed her arms in an attempt to avoid being taken…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
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Two New Officers Join Northvale PD Two New Officers Join Northvale PD Two New Officers Join Northvale PD
Two New Officers Join Northvale PD NORTHVALE, N.J. -- Two new officers joined the ranks of the Northvale Police Department. Sworn in Monday night by Mayor Ed Piehler in front of loved ones, friends and colleagues were Officers David Kropilak and Edward Sedano. Kropilak received his Police Training Commission (PTC) certificate from the Atlantic County Police Academy this past June. Sedano, already having received a SLEO II, will be attending the police academy at the Bergen County Law & Public Safety Institute in Mahwah to complete his PTC certification. ****** WANT MORE NEWS? Sign up for free news alerts or follow Dai…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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$15,000 Cash, Pot Seized, Arrest Made By Fair Lawn Police $15,000 Cash, Pot Seized, Arrest Made By Fair Lawn Police $15,000 Cash, Pot Seized, Arrest Made By Fair Lawn Police
$15,000 Cash, Pot Seized, Arrest Made By Fair Lawn Police FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- Fair Lawn detectives seized $15,000 in suspected proceeds and an ounce of pot from a man who they said was selling the drug from his home. Edward Martinez, 23, had the pot "in different storage containers" at his Grunaer Place home, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. He was processed and released on a court summons charging him with various drugs counts and money laundering following a raid late last month, Metzler said. ****** WANT MORE NEWS? Sign up for free news alerts or follow Daily Voice on Facebook. FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/DailyVoiceBergenCounty/

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Hackensack, NJ
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Hackensack PD: Arrest Made In 4,000-Pill Armed Oxy Robbery Hackensack PD: Arrest Made In 4,000-Pill Armed Oxy Robbery Hackensack PD: Arrest Made In 4,000-Pill Armed Oxy Robbery
Hackensack PD: Arrest Made In 4,000-Pill Armed Oxy Robbery HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Hackensack detectives tracked down and seized a Teaneck man who they said robbed a local pharmacy of 4,000 Oxycodone pills. Steven A. Aquino, 28, sold the pills for $7,000 in cash that the detectives said they found stashed in a pair of gloves used during the June 16 holdup at J&J Pharmacy on State Street. Aquino was wearing all black clothing, a cloth over his face, when he demanded all the Oxy pills from a store employee while wielding either a knife or a pair of scissors, Capt. Patrick Coffey said. He fled the store carrying a white plastic bag full of pills and …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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Bergenfield Police Seek Help Finding Masked Chinese Takeout Gunman Bergenfield Police Seek Help Finding Masked Chinese Takeout Gunman Bergenfield Police Seek Help Finding Masked Chinese Takeout Gunman
Bergenfield Police Seek Help Finding Masked Chinese Takeout Gunman BERGENFIELD, N.J. – A masked robber in a tweed cap took $200 at gunpoint from a Bergenfield Chinese takeout restaurant Monday night, said authorities who asked the public for help finding him. The victim told police she was the front counter of Hunan Express on North Washington Avenue when the robber came in just after 9:30 p.m., Capt. Mustafa Rabboh said. “He pointed what appeared to be a black pistol and demanded all the money,” the captain said. “So she opened the register and gave [him] approximately $200.” The robber than ran north on North Washington, he said. The victim described h…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Custody Brawl On Route 46 In South Hackensack: Man Clutching Child Slashed Custody Brawl On Route 46 In South Hackensack: Man Clutching Child Slashed Custody Brawl On Route 46 In South Hackensack: Man Clutching Child Slashed
Custody Brawl On Route 46 In South Hackensack: Man Clutching Child Slashed SOUTH HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A woman repeatedly slashed a man cradling a 1-year-old child in the back with a box cutter during a Hackensack custody dispute became a brawl in the middle of Route 46, authorities said. South Hackensack police took five people into custody on various assault and weapons charges. Responding officers Sunday afternoon found four siblings and a fifth man -- all from Hackensack -- fighting over the child, Capt. Rober Kaiser said. Witnesses told them that Asia Anderson, 23, repeatedly stabbed the fifth man, 20-year-old Davoun Hill, in the back with a box cutter as he l…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Tenafly PD: Are Knickerbocker Golf Club Thefts Related To Others? Tenafly PD: Are Knickerbocker Golf Club Thefts Related To Others? Tenafly PD: Are Knickerbocker Golf Club Thefts Related To Others?
Tenafly PD: Are Knickerbocker Golf Club Thefts Related To Others? TENAFLY, N.J. -- Is the theft of a set of golf clubs from the Knickerbocker Country Club in Tenafly related to others around North Jersey? Tenafly detectives were investigating. A victim said he left his clubs and bag unattended next to his vehicle in the Knickerbocker parking lot for a short period of time around 2:30 p.m. July 2, Police Capt. Michael deMoncada said. He returned to find them gone, the captain said. Anyone who might have information about the thefts, or others, is urged to call borough detectives: (201) 568-5100.

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Glen Rock Pedestrian Hospitalized, Driver Charged Glen Rock Pedestrian Hospitalized, Driver Charged Glen Rock Pedestrian Hospitalized, Driver Charged
Glen Rock Pedestrian Hospitalized, Driver Charged GLEN ROCK, N.J. -- A Glen Rock pedestrian was in the crosswalk when she was struck Friday afternoon by an SUV driven by a borough woman. The 49-year-old victim "entered the Glen Avenue crosswalk in front of the Glen Rock Inn [in the central business district] and began crossing the street heading east" just after 2 p.m., Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. "The pedestrian crossing light was on, giving her the right of way," he said. The 42-year-old SUV driver, also from Glen Rock, made a left turn from Rock Road onto Glen Avenue, where her vehicle struck the victim, the c…

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Paterson Woman, 37, Killed Crossing Route 46 Near Teterboro Walmart Paterson Woman, 37, Killed Crossing Route 46 Near Teterboro Walmart Paterson Woman, 37, Killed Crossing Route 46 Near Teterboro Walmart
Paterson Woman, 37, Killed Crossing Route 46 Near Teterboro Walmart TETERBORO, N.J. – Authorities on Friday identified a woman struck and killed crossing Route 46 outside the Teterboro Walmart Thursday night as 37-year-old Sharonda Hayes of Paterson. Hayes sustained massive head trauma after being struck by an eastbound vehicle at 10:14 p.m., responders said late Thursday. “At present the cause of the crash remains under investigation and no charges have been filed,” Police Chief Richard Behrens said Friday. "We were at the light to turn left onto 46 from Walmart and it seems she was crossing a specific area where there is a bus station across the street,"…

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