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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Scarsdale, NY
Breaking News
Scarsdale Doctor Admits Taking $400,000 In Bribes Scarsdale Doctor Admits Taking $400,000 In Bribes Scarsdale Doctor Admits Taking $400,000 In Bribes
Scarsdale Doctor Admits Taking $400,000 In Bribes A Scarsdale internist who practiced in Yonkers admitted taking $400,000 in payoffs for lab test referrals as part of what federal authorities said is the nation’s largest-ever bribery case of its kind. Ricky J. Sayegh, 44, pleaded guilty to violating the Federal Trade Act before a U.S. District Court judge in Newark on Thursday. Sayegh admitted taking the bribes from Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, its president and various associates in return for referring blood specimens to them from February 2010 through April 2013. The referrals generated more than $1.4 mil…

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Beloved Ridgefield Park Firefighter Killed In Crash, Family Fund Created Beloved Ridgefield Park Firefighter Killed In Crash, Family Fund Created Beloved Ridgefield Park Firefighter Killed In Crash, Family Fund Created
Beloved Ridgefield Park Firefighter Killed In Crash, Family Fund Created RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J. -- Heartfelt expressions of grief and condolence continued to pour into the village of Ridgefield Park on Friday, as word spread of the death of a beloved volunteer fireman in a motorcycle accident nearly a year to the day that his youngest child was born. Freddie Montanez, 32, was killed when his motorcycle was involved in a four-vehice crash on the southbound Pulaski Skyway (Routes 1 & 9) in Newark just after 11 p.m. Thursday, authorities said. He was pronounced dead at the scene, they said. Montanez had two children with his wife of two years, Elaine Parra. He a…

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Wayne PD: DWI Pickup Driver Fights Officers After Stiffing Hooters Wayne PD: DWI Pickup Driver Fights Officers After Stiffing Hooters Wayne PD: DWI Pickup Driver Fights Officers After Stiffing Hooters
Wayne PD: DWI Pickup Driver Fights Officers After Stiffing Hooters WAYNE, N.J. -- “You will have to take me down!” shouted a drunken pickup truck driver who registered three times the legal limit after fighting with Wayne police who stopped him for skipping out on his Hooters bar tab, authorities said Friday. Officer Ardian Cela injured his shoulder in the resulting scuffle with Reginald Casterlin II of Franklin, Capt. Laurence Martin said. Cela and Officer Sean Mitchell responded to the Route 23 restaurant on a disorderly persons call, Martin said. A manager pointed to a fleeing black Dodge Ram, and the officers pulled it over near Riverlawn Drive, he sa…

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Paterson, NJ
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Wayne PDs Hunt Police Impersonators Trying To Swipe Security Videos Wayne PDs Hunt Police Impersonators Trying To Swipe Security Videos Wayne PDs Hunt Police Impersonators Trying To Swipe Security Videos
Wayne PDs Hunt Police Impersonators Trying To Swipe Security Videos WAYNE, N.J. -- Wayne detectives were on the trail of con artists who've been impersonating police officers in an attempt to get surveillance security recordings from commercial properties. The would-be thieves were trying to take advantage of a special "Community Cam Share" that allows township residences and business with security cameras to share the recordings with police conducting investigations, Capt. Lawrence W. Martin said. They called a commercial property owner along the Hamburg Turnpike and Terhune Drive corridor and "demanded to get copies of the commercial proper…

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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgefield, Leonia Police Team Up To Collar Suspect Moments After Break-In Ridgefield, Leonia Police Team Up To Collar Suspect Moments After Break-In Ridgefield, Leonia Police Team Up To Collar Suspect Moments After Break-In
Ridgefield, Leonia Police Team Up To Collar Suspect Moments After Break-In RIDGEFIELD, N.J. -- Quick, alert work by two police officers -- one from Ridgefield, the other from Leonia -- produced a burglary arrest minutes after a home break-in, authorities said. The Elm Avenue resident "has motion-activated cameras that sent an alarm to her phone that someone was in the house" around noon Thursday, Ridgefield Police Chief Thomas J. Gallagher told Daily Voice. "So she called us right away with a description of the suspect." Responding Officer Nicholas Coppolecchia "ran to SafeNet Computers on Broad Avenue and got a view of the [getwaway] veh…

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Fort Lee, NJ
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Fingerprint Found By Sheriff's Detective Produces Leonia Burglary Arrest Fingerprint Found By Sheriff's Detective Produces Leonia Burglary Arrest Fingerprint Found By Sheriff's Detective Produces Leonia Burglary Arrest
Fingerprint Found By Sheriff's Detective Produces Leonia Burglary Arrest LEONIA, N.J. -- Fingerprints found by a Bergen County sheriff's investigator linked an attempted burglary in Leonia last fall to a 55-year-old West New York man, authorities said Friday. Nothing was reported in the Palisade Avenue basement window break-in last Sept. 16, leading police to suspect the intruder - captured on surveillance video walking away in a yellow sweater -- "was scared away before he had the opportunity to commit a theft," Capt. Scott Tamagny told Daily Voice. Called to the scene, Detective Eddie Alicea of the sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification found th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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Prosecutor: Woman Took Drugs In Front Of Daughter, 12, In East Rutherford Prosecutor: Woman Took Drugs In Front Of Daughter, 12, In East Rutherford Prosecutor: Woman Took Drugs In Front Of Daughter, 12, In East Rutherford
Prosecutor: Woman Took Drugs In Front Of Daughter, 12, In East Rutherford EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – A Morris County woman took drugs in front of her 12-year-old daughter, said Bergen County authorities who arrested her. Authorities kept details to a minimum, other than to say that 41-year-old Janis Giambertone, who is single and unemployed, was released pending a May 31 first appearance in Central Judicial Court in Hackensack. Giambertone, of Parsippany, is charged with child endangerment, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said.

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Hackensack, NJ
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Donate Clothing To Bergenfield-Englewood-Teaneck-Hackensack Crime Stoppers Donate Clothing To Bergenfield-Englewood-Teaneck-Hackensack Crime Stoppers Donate Clothing To Bergenfield-Englewood-Teaneck-Hackensack Crime Stoppers
Donate Clothing To Bergenfield-Englewood-Teaneck-Hackensack Crime Stoppers ENGLEWOOD, N.J. -- Besides gathering tips to help law enforcement, the Bergenfield-Englewood-Teaneck-Hackensack CrimeStoppers group is collecting clothing for those in need. “Many people are always searching for reputable bins when they want to donate clothing items to those less fortunate individuals and families,” Police Capt. Timothy Torell said.  “Proceeds from the bin go directly to assisting this non-profit, crime-fighting organization, which allows citizens to be awarded cash for tips they give to the police that help solve crimes in our communities,” he said. The Englewood bin is a…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Driver Hospitalized After SUV Slams Into Glen Rock Tree Driver Hospitalized After SUV Slams Into Glen Rock Tree Driver Hospitalized After SUV Slams Into Glen Rock Tree
Driver Hospitalized After SUV Slams Into Glen Rock Tree GLEN ROCK, N.J. -- A driver was hospitalized with what appeared to be non-critical injuries Friday morning after being cut by firefighters from an SUV that crashed into a large tree in Glen Rock. A paramedic team took the Nissan Rogue driver to the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood after the Radburn Road crash, joining Glen Rock firefighters and police -- who were investigating. The driver was taken to the Valley Hospital. A flatbed truck removed the wrecked Nissan. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this report.

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Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Park Ridge PD Among Few In NJ Honored For Community Policing Park Ridge PD Among Few In NJ Honored For Community Policing Park Ridge PD Among Few In NJ Honored For Community Policing
Park Ridge PD Among Few In NJ Honored For Community Policing PARK RIDGE, N.J. -- Park Ridge police will be among fewer than three dozen law enforcement agencies and officers from New Jersey who will be honored next week for "outstanding achievements and innovation in community policing throughout the state," officials said Thursday. Attorney General Christopher Porrino said he will present the 2017 Attorney General’s Community Policing Awards to three Bergen County recipients -- Emerson, Midland Park and Park Ridge police -- at a ceremony Monday in the Rutgers University Livingston Campus Student Center in Piscataway. The ceremony "wil…

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