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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Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
NJ's Top Cop Honors Midland Park Community Policing NJ's Top Cop Honors Midland Park Community Policing NJ's Top Cop Honors Midland Park Community Policing
NJ's Top Cop Honors Midland Park Community Policing MIDLAND PARK, N.J. -- Midland Park police were among a small group of law enforcement agencies and officers from New Jersey honored Monday by state Attorney General Christopher Porrino for "outstanding achievements and innovation in community policing throughout the state." Porrino presented the 2017 Community Policing Awards to four Bergen County recipients -- Emerson, Midland Park, Park Ridge and Woodcliff Lake police -- at a ceremony Monday in the Rutgers University Livingston Campus Student Center in Piscataway honoring nearly 30 altogether. “I firmly believe that a successful…

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Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
NJ's Top Cop Honors Emerson's Community Policing Strategies NJ's Top Cop Honors Emerson's Community Policing Strategies NJ's Top Cop Honors Emerson's Community Policing Strategies
NJ's Top Cop Honors Emerson's Community Policing Strategies EMERSON, N.J. -- Emerson police were among a small group of law enforcement agencies and officers from New Jersey honored Monday by state Attorney General Christopher Porrino for "outstanding achievements and innovation in community policing throughout the state." Porrino presented the 2017 Community Policing Awards to four Bergen County recipients -- Emerson, Midland Park, Park Ridge and Woodcliff Lake police -- at a ceremony Monday in the Rutgers University Livingston Campus Student Center in Piscataway honoring nearly 30 altogether. “I firmly believe that a successful community…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Lodi Man Says Mugger Tried To Rob Him Of Bank Money Lodi Man Says Mugger Tried To Rob Him Of Bank Money Lodi Man Says Mugger Tried To Rob Him Of Bank Money
Lodi Man Says Mugger Tried To Rob Him Of Bank Money LODI, N.J. – A Lodi man told police he was followed from a Paterson bank to a friend’s home, where he said a would-be robber threatened him with a machete and hit him in the leg with a metal pipe. The assailant then took off after the 10 a.m. incident Saturday in the 200 block of Roosevelt Avenue, the victim told police. The man “sustained minor injuries that did not require hospitalization,” Lt. Robert Salerno said Monday morning. The assailant was described as black, about 6 feet tall and 190 pounds, wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and driving a black Honda Civic -- either a 2008 or 20…

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
NJ Fines Five Paterson Businesses For Halal Violations Before Ramadan NJ Fines Five Paterson Businesses For Halal Violations Before Ramadan NJ Fines Five Paterson Businesses For Halal Violations Before Ramadan
NJ Fines Five Paterson Businesses For Halal Violations Before Ramadan PATERSON, N.J. -- With Ramadan approaching, state officials cited five Paterson businesses -- a full third of those receiving summonses statewide -- for failing to properly disclose practices relating to the preparation, handling, and sale of food sold or served as halal. The use of halal foods – i.e., those permitted by Islamic dietary rules – is centrally important to the celebration of the month-long Muslim religious holiday, which begins on or about Friday of this year. The Paterson businesses: · Al Hilal Meat & Fish Market in Paterson · Al-Kumah Restaurant & Halal…

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Clifton Police Officer Punched In Bar Brawl, Other Nearly Run Down In Chase Clifton Police Officer Punched In Bar Brawl, Other Nearly Run Down In Chase Clifton Police Officer Punched In Bar Brawl, Other Nearly Run Down In Chase
Clifton Police Officer Punched In Bar Brawl, Other Nearly Run Down In Chase CLIFTON, N.J. -- One Clifton police officer was punched in the face and another had to jump out of the path of a speeding car in separate weekend incidents with resisting suspects, authorities said Monday. Passaic police joined their Clifton colleagues in breaking up a brawl at J Aldo's Bar on Highland Avenue -- with some combatants throwing bottles in the street -- around 12:30 a.m., Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. Officers recovered a knife, then tried taking the suspected owner, 23-year-old Wilmer Alvarado-Rodriguez of Clifton, into custody, Bracken said. Alvarado-Rodriguez "bec…

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Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen County Exec Releases Mosquito-Eating Fish In Wallington Bergen County Exec Releases Mosquito-Eating Fish In Wallington Bergen County Exec Releases Mosquito-Eating Fish In Wallington
Bergen County Exec Releases Mosquito-Eating Fish In Wallington WALLINGTON, N.J. -- Bergen bit back again on Monday when County Executive Jim Tedesco joined county health and mosquito control officials in releasing a school of minnow-like fish in a Wallington Lake to help combat the West Nile and Zika viruses. The silvery Gambusia fish -- barely and inch or two long -- feed on mosquito larvae. The annual release -- this time at Samuel Nelkin County Park on Rose Street -- "is an environmentally friendly practice used in tandem with other methods to control the mosquito population and prevent mosquito-borne illness," Tedesco said Monday. It's …

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Glen Rock Sports Fan Loses Cash, Credit Cards From Unlocked Car At Ballgame Glen Rock Sports Fan Loses Cash, Credit Cards From Unlocked Car At Ballgame Glen Rock Sports Fan Loses Cash, Credit Cards From Unlocked Car At Ballgame
Glen Rock Sports Fan Loses Cash, Credit Cards From Unlocked Car At Ballgame GLEN ROCK, N.J. -- A Glen Rock man who left his wallet in his unlocked car while he attended a ballgame at Hamilton School returned to find cash and credit cards missing, authorities said. The cards were used almost immediately following the Sunday thefts, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said Monday. There were no known witnesses and no other evidence was recovered, the chief said. Detectives were "following up on the credit cards transactions in an effort to identify a possible suspect," Ackermann said. He urged citizens to lock their cars and protect their valuables.

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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Sedan Broadsides Pickup Outside Wyckoff Restaurant Sedan Broadsides Pickup Outside Wyckoff Restaurant Sedan Broadsides Pickup Outside Wyckoff Restaurant
Sedan Broadsides Pickup Outside Wyckoff Restaurant WYCKOFF, N.J. -- An Infiniti sedan took the brunt of the damage after it broadsided a pickup truck while pulling out of the Barn restaurant in Wyckoff before dusk Friday. Both vehicles had to be removed by tow trucks after the crash tied up traffic on Sicomac Avenue. Borough firefighters disconnected the sedan's battery and cleaned up a small fuel spill. No critical injuries were reported. Police administered a field sobriety test to the 60-something sedan driver. There was no immediate word on the results. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this article.

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Disabled Marine Vet, Companion Busted In Elmwood Park After Crack Buy Disabled Marine Vet, Companion Busted In Elmwood Park After Crack Buy Disabled Marine Vet, Companion Busted In Elmwood Park After Crack Buy
Disabled Marine Vet, Companion Busted In Elmwood Park After Crack Buy ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- A disabled Franklin Lakes Marine Corps veteran now living in Clifton was arrested in Elmwood Park with a companion after Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives watched them buy crack in Paterson, authorities said. Scott J. McGuire, 42, was with Terri Ann Bridge-Holzman, 33, also of Clifton, when they were stopped on eastbound Route 46 by Narcotics Task Force detectives after the drug buy moments earlier, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. The detectives saw drug paraphernalia in plain view, obtained consent to search the car and found the crack, Grewal said…

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Bergenfield, NJ
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Teacher Who Swapped Sex Pics With New Milford Girl, 15, Loses Certificates Teacher Who Swapped Sex Pics With New Milford Girl, 15, Loses Certificates Teacher Who Swapped Sex Pics With New Milford Girl, 15, Loses Certificates
Teacher Who Swapped Sex Pics With New Milford Girl, 15, Loses Certificates NEW MILFORD, N.J. -- A schoolteacher convicted of exchanging sexual images online with a 15-year-old New Milford girl had his teaching certificates revoked by the state, records show. Neal E. Ziskind, 36, of Woodbridge was arrested last June by members of the Bergen County prosecutor's Special Victims Unit and New Milford police on charges of sexual assault, child exploitation, child endangerment and promoting obscene material. He accepted a plea deal from prosecutors, pleading guilty to one count of sexual assault, for which a judge this past month sentenced him this past March with no man…

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