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
NJ Legislators Send Proposed Service Dogs Access Law To Christie NJ Legislators Send Proposed Service Dogs Access Law To Christie NJ Legislators Send Proposed Service Dogs Access Law To Christie
NJ Legislators Send Proposed Service Dogs Access Law To Christie New Jersey can keep pace as a national leader in its protection for guide and service dogs and their handlers if Gov. Christie signs a law adopted by the state Legislature that upholds the rights of people with disabilities to have equal access to public facilities. The full Senate approved the measure, already agreed to by the Assembly, in Trenton on Thursday. It now goes to the governor's desk. Known as "Charlie's Law" -- for a service dog who was kicked out of a Cherry Hill airport while with a teen owner given to panic attacks -- establishes fines for anyone who deny individu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Teaneck's David Lerner Group Agrees To $650G Fine For Securities Violation Teaneck's David Lerner Group Agrees To $650G Fine For Securities Violation Teaneck's David Lerner Group Agrees To $650G Fine For Securities Violation
Teaneck's David Lerner Group Agrees To $650G Fine For Securities Violation TEANECK, N.J. -- David Lerner Associates, with offices in Teaneck, has agreed to pay $650,000 to resolve an investigation into its sales of non-traded real estate investment trusts in New Jersey, authorities said Thursday. In a consent order entered into with the state Bureau of Securities, the Syosset, Long Island-based company agreed to pay civil penalties and other costs to resolve the Bureau’s findings that agents of the firm sold non-traded REITs to unsuitable investors, that DLA supervisors approved those sales, and that the firm failed to make and keep adequate records for sales of no…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Pepper Spray Release Clears Fair Lawn High School Pepper Spray Release Clears Fair Lawn High School Pepper Spray Release Clears Fair Lawn High School
Pepper Spray Release Clears Fair Lawn High School FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- Police were reviewing surveillance video to determine who released pepper spray in a stairwell near the end of the school day Thursday at Fair Lawn High School. "It obviously was a prank," one officer told Daily Voice after students were dismissed and the building was emptied. It was a small amount confined to an area of the school, so no one was injured, he said. Taking no chances, members of Fair Lawn Rescue, the Fire Department, the Ambulance Corps and police responded. The building was ventilated and the air quality was checked with gas meters. Police as…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Rain-Slicked Paramus Crash Sends Mini-Van Onto Lawn, Driver To Hospital Rain-Slicked Paramus Crash Sends Mini-Van Onto Lawn, Driver To Hospital Rain-Slicked Paramus Crash Sends Mini-Van Onto Lawn, Driver To Hospital
Rain-Slicked Paramus Crash Sends Mini-Van Onto Lawn, Driver To Hospital PARAMUS, N.J. -- One driver was hospitalized, while the other complained of back pain but refused treatement after a crash Thursday on a rain-slicked Paramus road sent a minvan onto the lawn of a nearby home. The mini-van driver was hospitalized after the crash with a sedan at the intersection of West Ridgewood Avenue and Roosevelt Boulevard. Both heavily damaged vehicles were removed from the scene by separate flatbed tow trucks. Paramus police and a Bergen County sheriff's officer responded and assisted the victims. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this report.

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Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Garfield PD: Would-Be Victim Chases Car Burglar Into South Hackensack Garfield PD: Would-Be Victim Chases Car Burglar Into South Hackensack Garfield PD: Would-Be Victim Chases Car Burglar Into South Hackensack
Garfield PD: Would-Be Victim Chases Car Burglar Into South Hackensack GARFIELD, N.J. -- A Garfield man chased a car burglar long and far enough for police to grab him, authorities said. The Marsellus Place resident told police he caught a man later identified as 26-year-old Josten M Jesters-Young of Lodi with his shirt off laying next to his car and trying to remove to remove his front bumper cover just after 10 p.m. Wednesday, Capt. Darren Sucorowski told Daily Voice. He chased Jesters-Young toward Midland Avenue, where the suspect put on a dark shirt from a small backpack and vanished onto Hobart Place, the captain said. Moments later, Sgt. Gerald Wich f…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Wayne PD: 'Flailing' Pickup Driver With Busted Windshield Was High On Coke Wayne PD: 'Flailing' Pickup Driver With Busted Windshield Was High On Coke Wayne PD: 'Flailing' Pickup Driver With Busted Windshield Was High On Coke
Wayne PD: 'Flailing' Pickup Driver With Busted Windshield Was High On Coke WAYNE, N.J. -- A driver high on cocaine was flailing his arms when a Wayne police officer stopped his speeding pickup -- which had a cracked front windshield and no front license plate, authorities said Thursday. Officer Adrian Sulejmani stopped the speeding the 1997 GMC Sierra pick-up after the driver made an abrupt turn into a Hamburg Turnpike chiropractic office parking lot around 7:50 p.m. Wednesday, Capt. Laurence Martin said. The driver, 50-year-old Michael Miller of Wayne, "had white powder residue around both his nostrils and appeared to be in a highly agitated state flailing h…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Couple OK After Car Rolls On GSP In Washington Township Couple OK After Car Rolls On GSP In Washington Township Couple OK After Car Rolls On GSP In Washington Township
Couple OK After Car Rolls On GSP In Washington Township WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- A Danbury, CT couple escaped serious injury Thursday morning when their car rolled on the Garden State Parkway in Washington Township. The Mercedes-Benz was headed south on the rain-slicked parkway when it rolled in the E-ZPass toll lane at Exit 166 just before 10:30 a.m., New Jersey State Police said. The 62-year-old driver and her passenger sustained only minor injuries, the NJSP said. The lane was reopened just after 11 a.m.

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Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Garfield PD: Officer Tracks Down Package Thief Garfield PD: Officer Tracks Down Package Thief Garfield PD: Officer Tracks Down Package Thief
Garfield PD: Officer Tracks Down Package Thief GARFIELD, N.J. – Garfield police officers weren’t going to let a package thief get away, so they checked the surrounding neighborhood -- and found their suspect. John Fermin, 21, of Paterson was wearing the jeans and red sweater described by the Garwood Court victim when Officer Sebastian Tyburski spotted him running near the Garfield High School parking lot just after 7 p.m. Wednesday, Capt. Darren Sucorowski said. Fermin was carrying Xanax without a prescription, Sucorowski said. They also recovered the package, worth at $67. Police charged him with theft and criminal trespass and releas…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Your Community
Maywood Store Produces Instant $5M Winner In NJ Lottery Scratch-Off Maywood Store Produces Instant $5M Winner In NJ Lottery Scratch-Off Maywood Store Produces Instant $5M Winner In NJ Lottery Scratch-Off
Maywood Store Produces Instant $5M Winner In NJ Lottery Scratch-Off MAYWOOD, N.J. -- Krupen "Kay" Dudhia was servicing a stream of customers at his Coronet Variety Store in Maywood when one of them calmly told him he'd just won $5 million on an instant scratch-off New Jersey lottery ticket. "I guess it didn't sink in immediately," Dudhia told Daily Voice on Thursday, as he accepted kudos from customers and friends for selling the ticket. The middle-aged winner is a regular customer who Dudhia said ordinarily buys at least two tickets a day at his West Pleasant Avenue store. Although he doesn't know what the man does for a living, "…

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Saddle Brook PD: No Drugs Found, Message Sent During K-9 School Sweep Saddle Brook PD: No Drugs Found, Message Sent During K-9 School Sweep Saddle Brook PD: No Drugs Found, Message Sent During K-9 School Sweep
Saddle Brook PD: No Drugs Found, Message Sent During K-9 School Sweep SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- No drugs were found, but a message was sent, authorities said after a random unannounced K-9 sweep Thursday morning of the Saddle Brook Middle/High School. The operation, led by township Detective Capt. Vincent Laurentino involved an announcement that all classes were locked down while the Bergen County Sheriff's drug-sniffing K-9s were brought in -- with School Resource Officer Christopher Stanton and Principal John Lawlor in tow. "They searched all hallway corridors and restrooms, specifically zeroing in on all students' lockers and areas where drugs could be se…

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