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
Breaking News
Rochelle Park Officer Makes Pair Of Pot Busts In Hours-Apart Stops Rochelle Park Officer Makes Pair Of Pot Busts In Hours-Apart Stops Rochelle Park Officer Makes Pair Of Pot Busts In Hours-Apart Stops
Rochelle Park Officer Makes Pair Of Pot Busts In Hours-Apart Stops ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. – A Rochelle Park police officer made a pair of pot busts within hours of one another before dawn Friday, authorities said. Officer Ryan Burke was patrolling the area of Essex Street when he stopped a white 2004 Dodge just after midnight because a passenger wasn’t wearing a seat belt, Lt. Dean Pinto said. Burke smelled raw marijuana coming from inside the car – and then on the driver, 23-year-old Cassandra M. Gould of Lodi, after she got out, Pinto said. A search turned up six vials of pot, a pipe and a blunt wrapper used to smoke marijuana in her purse, he said. Gould…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Passaic Sheriff: Dealer, 62, Has 6,570 Heroin Bags, Buyer Injures Officer Passaic Sheriff: Dealer, 62, Has 6,570 Heroin Bags, Buyer Injures Officer Passaic Sheriff: Dealer, 62, Has 6,570 Heroin Bags, Buyer Injures Officer
Passaic Sheriff: Dealer, 62, Has 6,570 Heroin Bags, Buyer Injures Officer PATERSON, N.J. -- Passaic County sheriff's detectives chased down an accused heroin buyer who broke one of their fingers during a struggle and an alleged 62-year-old dealer who had nearly $25,000 worth of the drug packaged in 6,570 glassine envelopes, authorities said. A "concerned citizen" led his detectives to 775 East 22nd Street in Paterson, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. As they watched, a silver Hyundai pulled up in front and 21-year-old Alan Valdez of Paterson got out of the passenger side, he said. Valdez "walked up the driveway near the rear of the house" and…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
PHOTOS: Roof Collapses In Paterson Blaze PHOTOS: Roof Collapses In Paterson Blaze PHOTOS: Roof Collapses In Paterson Blaze
Photos: Roof Collapses In Paterson Blaze PATERSON, N.J. -- The roof of a multi-family building in Paterson collapsed as a Friday morning fire went to four alarms. The blaze broke out at River and Lyon streets and spread to an adjoining building sometime after 8 a.m., witnesses said. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
SEEN HIM? Mahwah Police Investigate Series Of Condo Burglaries SEEN HIM? Mahwah Police Investigate Series Of Condo Burglaries SEEN HIM? Mahwah Police Investigate Series Of Condo Burglaries
Seen HIM? Mahwah Police Investigate Series Of Condo Burglaries MAWAH, N.J. – Mahwah police investigating the theft of $15,000 in jewelry and two handguns in a condo burglary hope someone recognizes a backpack-carrying suspect wanted for questioning. The burglar pried open the front door of the Society Hill condominium, then ransacked the bedroom and closet, Police Chief James N. Batelli said. While canvassing the neighborhood, detectives found surveillance images of their suspect, who’s shown carrying a Herschel brand backpack on the opposite side of where the burglary occurred, Batelli said. “The images were shown to residents, who did not recognize …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Clifton PD: Street Cellphone Robbers Strike Twice Clifton PD: Street Cellphone Robbers Strike Twice Clifton PD: Street Cellphone Robbers Strike Twice
Clifton PD: Street Cellphone Robbers Strike Twice CLIFTON, N.J. -- Two women and a man were assaulted in separate incidents on Clifton streets by cellphone-stealing thugs, authorities said. A 21-year-old woman and 19-year-old man told police they were walking in the area of Getty and Clifton avenues on Monday when a robber on a bicycle rode up and assaulted the woman while trying to snatch her phone, Lt. Robert Bracken said. The bandit "made threats to both the victim and her friend before fleeing on his bicycle on Clifton Avenue toward First Street," Bracken said. A few hours later, a 36-year-old Passaic woman told police two m…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Your Community
Emerson High School Softball Star Bound For UAlbany Makes All-County Team Emerson High School Softball Star Bound For UAlbany Makes All-County Team Emerson High School Softball Star Bound For UAlbany Makes All-County Team
Emerson High School Softball Star Bound For UAlbany Makes All-County Team EMERSON, N.J. -- A former Emerson High School standout softball player headed to play for the nationally-ranked University of Albany team was selected first-team All County for 2017. Katie Falotico, who starred at EHS for four years, will be attending UAlbany on full scholarship. Her father, Detective Gerald Falotico, works in the Juvenile Division of the Mahwah Police Department and was previously PBA president.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
SUV Keels Over In Ridgewood Crash SUV Keels Over In Ridgewood Crash SUV Keels Over In Ridgewood Crash
SUV Keels Over In Ridgewood Crash RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- There was no immediate word on injuries after an SUV landed on its side Thursday afternoon in Ridgewood. The mishap occurred on East Ridgewood Avenue between the park and Raymond's.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Wood-Ridge Man Convicted Of Bludgeoning, Burning Realtor, 70 Wood-Ridge Man Convicted Of Bludgeoning, Burning Realtor, 70 Wood-Ridge Man Convicted Of Bludgeoning, Burning Realtor, 70
Wood-Ridge Man Convicted Of Bludgeoning, Burning Realtor, 70 HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Jurors in Hackensack on Thursday convicted a Wood-Ridge man in the 2012 bludgeoning and burning of a 70-year-old East Rutherford realtor. A judge scheduled sentencing for Daniel Rochat for July 28, in what has been one of the longest cases to come to trial in Bergen County history. Rochat, who turns 42 next Monday, had been held on $3 million bail in the Bergen County Jail since his arrest on Oct. 4, 2012. Rochat, a Waldwick native, was accused of breaking into Barbara Vernieri’s Sheppard Terrace home on Sept. 14, 2012, bludgeoning her and then setting fire to the bod…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Wyckoff Police Pull Drowning Man, 93, From Backyard Pool Wyckoff Police Pull Drowning Man, 93, From Backyard Pool Wyckoff Police Pull Drowning Man, 93, From Backyard Pool
Wyckoff Police Pull Drowning Man, 93, From Backyard Pool WYCKOFF, N.J. (UPDATE) -- A 93-year-old man was hospitalized in critical condition after police pulled him, unconscious, from a backyard Wyckoff swimming pool Thursday afternoon. A neighbor was holding the victim at the pool's edge when, Police Chief David Murphy said, he and Officer William Christopher arrived at  the Carriage Lane call just before 4 p.m.  Murphy said he and Christopher "pulled the victim from the pool and confirmed him to be in cardiac arrest," he said. Sgt. Michael DeMaio and Officer Ryan Noon then administered an AED and began CPR. Wyckoff Volunteer Ambulance…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Saddle Brook Deadbeat Dad Charged With Arson In Garfield Car Fire Saddle Brook Deadbeat Dad Charged With Arson In Garfield Car Fire Saddle Brook Deadbeat Dad Charged With Arson In Garfield Car Fire
Saddle Brook Deadbeat Dad Charged With Arson In Garfield Car Fire GARFIELD, N.J. – A Saddle Brook man with a history of arrests for DWI and failing to pay child support was nabbed by Garfield police two hours after he torched a car, authorities said. Michael W Hendrickson, who earlier this month turned 45, was caught trying to hide behind a car around 11:40 p.m. Wednesday after he’d “broken the front window of a vehicle, lighted it on fire and fled on foot toward Ray street,” Capt. Darren Sucorowski said. An area resident turned a garden hose on the car until Garfield firefighters arrived and extinguished the blaze, Sucorowski said. Detective Lts. Joseph…

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