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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Hackensack, NJ
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Legends Football Clinics At Hackensack High Provide Special Skills Training Legends Football Clinics At Hackensack High Provide Special Skills Training Legends Football Clinics At Hackensack High Provide Special Skills Training
Legends Football Clinics At Hackensack High Provide Special Skills Training HACKENSACK, N.J. – You have to hurry if you want position-specific training at a series of "Legends of the Fall" football clinics, which start Monday at Hackensack High School. Several well-known Bergen County football stars, most of them from Hackensack, will provide special skills training at individual positions for youngsters in grades 6 through 12. Offensive and defensive linemen begin Monday. The following week (July 17)  it's quarterbacks, wide receivers, tight ends and defensive backs. Then it's running backs and linebackers (July 24). The camp is hosted by Lyndhurst-bas…

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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Boyfriend Charged With Killing, Dismembering Missing Edgewater Woman Boyfriend Charged With Killing, Dismembering Missing Edgewater Woman Boyfriend Charged With Killing, Dismembering Missing Edgewater Woman
Boyfriend Charged With Killing, Dismembering Missing Edgewater Woman EDGEWATER, N.J. -- A missing Edgewater woman was killed and dismembered by her Bergenfield boyfriend, authorities charged. Raphael Lolos dumped the remains of 31-year-old Jennifer Londono in the Hudson River, then "consistently and repeatedly" used her credit cards, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said late Friday. A torso cut from the waist to the knees was found by passersby along the rocks of Pier 44 in Red Hook three days after her mother said Londono went missing, authorities said. It bore a sanskrit tattoo below the right hip, Grewal said. Detectives at the 76th Precinct s…

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Feds: Convicted Bank Robber Charged In Saddle Brook, Paterson, Clifton Jobs Feds: Convicted Bank Robber Charged In Saddle Brook, Paterson, Clifton Jobs Feds: Convicted Bank Robber Charged In Saddle Brook, Paterson, Clifton Jobs
Feds: Convicted Bank Robber Charged In Saddle Brook, Paterson, Clifton Jobs SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- Federal agents charged an ex-con convicted of robbing banks in 1996 and 2004 with holding up three others the past week in Saddle Brook, Clifton and Paterson. FBI agents trailing James Maurice Chestnut, 62, of Paterson took him into custody in Passaic on Thursday, authorities said. Acting U.S. Attorney William Fitzpatrick said they charged Chestnut federally with: entering a TD Bank in Paterson on June 30 and handing a teller a note stating “Put 100s and 50s in the envelope. No dye pack”; entering an Investors Bank in Clifton on Wednesday, pointing a firearm at the t…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Mahwah Assistant Fire Chief Charged With Sexually Abusing Girl, 10 Mahwah Assistant Fire Chief Charged With Sexually Abusing Girl, 10 Mahwah Assistant Fire Chief Charged With Sexually Abusing Girl, 10
Mahwah Assistant Fire Chief Charged With Sexually Abusing Girl, 10 MAHWAH, N.J. -- A Mahwah assistant fire chief remained held without bail after authorities charged him with sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl Friday. Brian J. Potter, 39, is charged with aggravated sexual assault involving a victim under 13, sexual assault also involving a victim under 13 and child endangerment through "sexual conduct" on March 5, as Daily Voice reported earlier today. Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said his investigators arrested Potter at his office on Friday after they and Mahwah police "received information that a ten-year-old victim was inap…

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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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PHOTOS: Hero Nearly Killed Rescuing Dump Truck Driver In Route 287 Pileup PHOTOS: Hero Nearly Killed Rescuing Dump Truck Driver In Route 287 Pileup PHOTOS: Hero Nearly Killed Rescuing Dump Truck Driver In Route 287 Pileup
Photos: Hero Nearly Killed Rescuing Dump Truck Driver In Route 287 Pileup OAKLAND, N.J. – A retired Bloomingdale volunteer firefighter stood atop the door of an overturned dump truck filled with rocks on Route 287 in Oakland, trying to get to its pinned driver, when a tractor-trailer suddenly slammed into them Friday morning. “I was just about to open the passenger side door when I heard air brakes and tires squealing,” Joseph Keegan II told Daily Voice. “I kept the door shut and held onto the door rail for dear life.” The impact pushed the dump truck further onto the divider. “I ended up taking a rodeo ride,” Keegan said. A responder who arrived soon after the…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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PHOTOS/VIDEOS: Fair Lawn Gas Box Fire Could Burn Into Night, Responders Say PHOTOS/VIDEOS: Fair Lawn Gas Box Fire Could Burn Into Night, Responders Say PHOTOS/VIDEOS: Fair Lawn Gas Box Fire Could Burn Into Night, Responders Say
Photos/Videos: Fair Lawn Gas Box Fire Could Burn Into Night, Responders Say FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- (UPDATE) A gas box fire ignited by a downed power line outside a Fair Lawn bank could continue burning well past dark, authorities said late Friday afternoon. The gas-fueled fire spread to the Valley National Bank on Lincoln Avenue -- knocking out power to the immediate area and sending smoke billowing -- after a high-voltage wire fell on a gas box around 11:15 a.m., Police Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Police evacuated local residences and businesses, including the bank, which Metzler said began to fill with smoke from a basement fire fueled by the gas. PSE&G crews conti…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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VIDEO: Watch Pair Torch Parked Tenafly Car VIDEO: Watch Pair Torch Parked Tenafly Car VIDEO: Watch Pair Torch Parked Tenafly Car
Video: Watch Pair Torch Parked Tenafly Car TENAFLY, N.J. – Daily Voice has obtained surveillance video showing what police said are two accused arsonists torching a car parked in a Tenafly driveway. Police police nabbed a 20-year-old borough man and 16-year-old accomplice who they said went on a destructive rampage – igniting the car in the video on one block and bushes on another while slashing tires and breaking vehicle windows. Video shows a man identified by borough police as Jeanluc Dulot pouring gasoline on a 2013 Honda Civic in a North Browning Avenue driveway just after 5 a.m. June 28. “Due to the proximity of the car parke…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
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Apparent Overdose Victim Left At Teaneck Hospital Pronounced Dead Apparent Overdose Victim Left At Teaneck Hospital Pronounced Dead Apparent Overdose Victim Left At Teaneck Hospital Pronounced Dead
Apparent Overdose Victim Left At Teaneck Hospital Pronounced Dead TEANECK, N.J. -- An apparent drug overdose victim who was dropped off overnight Thursday at Holy Name Medical Center by a couple who then took off was pronounced dead soon after, police said. A male and female companion left after dropping the 59-year-old woman off at the hospital just after midnight, Capt. John A. Faggello told Daily Voice. "Emergency medical personnel immediately began CPR but were unsuccessful in their attempt to revive the woman and she was pronounced dead on arrival," the captain said. Several hours later, detectives tracked down the couple and interviewed t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Hillsdale Officer Who Beat Cancer Joins Pink Heals Bergen's Special Visits Hillsdale Officer Who Beat Cancer Joins Pink Heals Bergen's Special Visits Hillsdale Officer Who Beat Cancer Joins Pink Heals Bergen's Special Visits
Hillsdale Officer Who Beat Cancer Joins Pink Heals Bergen's Special Visits HACKENSACK, N.J. – Two Hillsdale police officers – one of whom beat cancer twice – and a group of Fort Lee firefighters joined Pink Heals Bergen County for a special round of visits. Capt. Sean Smith and Officer Corey Rooney were along to help the Pink Heals crew “bring the young ones gifts and help them forget they were ill for a day” at the Joseph Sanzari Children’s Center in Hackensack, John LaFalce, the organization’s president, told Daily Voice. There were also song-and-dance routines from Olivia Summer Hutcherson (who overcame breast cancer) and her dance group, as well as a visit fro…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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New Milford PD: Masturbating Driver Outside 7-Eleven Had Crystal Meth New Milford PD: Masturbating Driver Outside 7-Eleven Had Crystal Meth New Milford PD: Masturbating Driver Outside 7-Eleven Had Crystal Meth
New Milford PD: Masturbating Driver Outside 7-Eleven Had Crystal Meth NEW MILFORD, N.J. -- A Bergenfield man found masturbating in his car outside a New Milford 7-Eleven before dawn Thursday was carrying crystal meth, police said. Officers responding to a 4:43 a.m. call at the River Road convenience store arrested Jerol Jalocon, 45, Detective Sgt. Kevin Van Saders told Daily Voice. They charged him with lewdness and possession of drugs and a fictitious license plate. They released him under New Jersey's 2017 Bail Reform and Speedy Trial Act pending a detention hearing in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack.

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