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.

Jerry DeMarco's Contributions

Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Saddle Brook Police Hunt Arsonists Who Set Cinder Block Company Fire Saddle Brook Police Hunt Arsonists Who Set Cinder Block Company Fire Saddle Brook Police Hunt Arsonists Who Set Cinder Block Company Fire
Saddle Brook Police Hunt Arsonists Who Set Cinder Block Company Fire SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- Whoever set an arson fire at a cinder block company in Saddle Brook the night of July 4th might have panicked and tried to douse it themselves, authorities said Wednesday. "We're thinking it was probably juveniles who put a ladder up and climbed through a non-used window into a second-floor office" at Clayton Cinder Block on North 5th Street around 10 p.m. Tuesday, Police Chief Robert Kugler told Daily Voice. "They lit some desk papers on fire -- it looks like with a blowtorch -- setting off the alarm," Kugler said. Township firefighters who quickly doused the blaze, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Franklin Lakes Police Bust Upstate NY Women At Ball Field On Drug Charges Franklin Lakes Police Bust Upstate NY Women At Ball Field On Drug Charges Franklin Lakes Police Bust Upstate NY Women At Ball Field On Drug Charges
Franklin Lakes Police Bust Upstate NY Women At Ball Field On Drug Charges FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. -- Franklin Lakes police investigating a report of a suspicious vehicle at a local ball field on July 4th arrested a female couple from upstate New York on drug charges. Officers who checked out the car parked at McBride Field on Franklin Lake Road found Nellie Sequin, 37, and Shannon Clay, 35, with a hypodermic needle, as well as clonazepam and the pain killer buprenorphine hydrochloride, Capt. John Bakelaar said Wednesday. Both were released pending a hearing on drug charges. Sgt. Andrew Cacciatore and Officers Dennis Hill and Richard Osenbruck investigated.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Maywood PD: Repeat Offender Nabbed Fleeing Store Burglary Maywood PD: Repeat Offender Nabbed Fleeing Store Burglary Maywood PD: Repeat Offender Nabbed Fleeing Store Burglary
Maywood PD: Repeat Offender Nabbed Fleeing Store Burglary MAYWOOD, N.J. -- Two Maywood police officers assisting Hackensack police chased down an ex-con they caught following a pre-dawn burglary Tuesday, authorities said. Mark Todd, 43, not only has a criminal history dating back nearly 25 years. He'd also been freed on $10,000 bail after Maywood police charged him with burglarizing five West Pleasant Avenue businesses last September.  That followed three previous arrests -- in Garfield, Hackensack and Hasbrouck Heights -- for which judges later released him. Officer Greg Mulawka was checking businesses on Maywood's East Passaic Street overnight…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Monsey, NY
Breaking News
Mahwah Man, 62, Killed In Ramapo Mountains ATV Crash Identified Mahwah Man, 62, Killed In Ramapo Mountains ATV Crash Identified Mahwah Man, 62, Killed In Ramapo Mountains ATV Crash Identified
Mahwah Man, 62, Killed In Ramapo Mountains ATV Crash Identified ROCKLAND COUNTY, N.J. -- A Mahwah contractor was killed after being pinned beneath his ATV in Hillburn during his daily ride in the Ramapo Mountains, township police who found him said Tuesday. Gregory Morris, 62, was reported missing by his wife at 10:40 p.m. Monday after he didn't return from his 3 p.m. ride, Mahwah Police Chief James Batelli told Daily Voice. "She was concerned that he had not returned home yet and she could not contact him on his cell," Batelli said. Police pinged the cellphone carried by Morris, who'd gone riding at the top of Stag Hill in Mahwah, which abu…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Food-Foraging Mahwah Mama Bear Prompts Common-Sense Tips From Police Food-Foraging Mahwah Mama Bear Prompts Common-Sense Tips From Police Food-Foraging Mahwah Mama Bear Prompts Common-Sense Tips From Police
Food-Foraging Mahwah Mama Bear Prompts Common-Sense Tips From Police MAHWAH, N.J. -- A food-foraging black bear photographed when she came to a Mahwah homeowners's back door prompted township police to reissue warnings about dealing with them. Several residents reported seeing bears the middle of Monday morning in Rio Vista, located in the Fardale section of town near the Ramapo Mountains, Police Chief James Batelli told Daily Voice. A female black bear (sow) and her cub were first spotted trying to remove a cover from an outdoor grill and then looking in the back door of a residence, the chief said. Estimated at 250 or so pounds, she eventually raised up …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Bergenfield Boyfriend Charged In Missing Edgewater Woman's Murder Bergenfield Boyfriend Charged In Missing Edgewater Woman's Murder Bergenfield Boyfriend Charged In Missing Edgewater Woman's Murder
Bergenfield Boyfriend Charged In Missing Edgewater Woman's Murder 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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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Maywood Man Charged With Luring Two Local Girls Maywood Man Charged With Luring Two Local Girls Maywood Man Charged With Luring Two Local Girls
Maywood Man Charged With Luring Two Local Girls MAYWOOD, N.J. -- Maywood police arrested a local man early Monday who two young girls said tried to lure them into his car. A composite sketch led to the identification of Anyelo A. Mejia, 37, after two girls told police he twice offered them a ride home as they passed his white newer-model Honda Accord, which was parked on West Pleasant Avenue near Lincoln Avenue, around 8:45 p.m. Sunday, Police Chief David Pegg told Daily Voice. The first time, the girls told police, they ran in the opposite direction. A few minutes later, they said, he pulled up to them on West Pleasant Avenue and "aske…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Food-Foraging Black Bear With Cub Visits Mahwah Resident Food-Foraging Black Bear With Cub Visits Mahwah Resident Food-Foraging Black Bear With Cub Visits Mahwah Resident
Food-Foraging Black Bear With Cub Visits Mahwah Resident MAHWAH, N.J. -- Mahwah police reported the sighting of a black bear who was photographed peeking into a resident's home Monday morning while searching for food for her cub. The bear -- estimated at about 250 pounds -- was with seen with her cub in the Rio Vista section of the township first just before 10:30 a.m. in the area of Tudor Rose and then just after noon on Walsh Drive, police said. She "attempted to remove the cover off of an outdoor grill and, when unsuccessful, approached the rear door of a residence," police said in an alert issued to residents. "When the homeowner went to mak…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Car Barrels Off Route 208 Into Woods Car Barrels Off Route 208 Into Woods Car Barrels Off Route 208 Into Woods
Car Barrels Off Route 208 Into Woods WYCKOFF, N.J. -- Police were trying to determine why a car veered across two lanes and into the woods off northbound Route 208 on the border of Franklin Lakes and Wyckoff Monday afternoon. The crash occurred just after 2 p.m. near the Ewing Avenue exit, temporarily closing the northbound highway while the vehicle was removed. The Hawthorne driver was taken to a local hospital, responders said. Wyckoff emergency service workers responded. ****** 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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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
SEEN HIM? Would-Be Robber Flees Saddle Brook Bank Empty-Handed SEEN HIM? Would-Be Robber Flees Saddle Brook Bank Empty-Handed SEEN HIM? Would-Be Robber Flees Saddle Brook Bank Empty-Handed
Seen HIM? Would-Be Robber Flees Saddle Brook Bank Empty-Handed SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- Poor writing cost a would-be Saddle Brook bank robber who was being sought by police early Monday afternoon. "He displayed a note but it was incoherent," Sgt. Jeff Panagia told Daily Voice following the abortive holdup just before noon. "There was no weapon shown." The would-be robber walked toward Market Street from the Mayhill Street bank. He was wearing a dark-colored Los Angeles Ram cap and a similarly-colored polo shirt. Police released a surveillance photo (above). ANYONE who sees him is asked to immediately dial 911. ****** WANT MORE NEWS? Sign up for free …

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