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
Midland Park PD Among Few In NJ Honored For Community Policing Midland Park PD Among Few In NJ Honored For Community Policing Midland Park PD Among Few In NJ Honored For Community Policing
Midland Park PD Among Few In NJ Honored For Community Policing MIDLAND PARK, N.J. -- Midland Park 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 &qu…

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Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
State Attorney General Honors Emerson's Community Policing State Attorney General Honors Emerson's Community Policing State Attorney General Honors Emerson's Community Policing
State Attorney General Honors Emerson's Community Policing 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 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 honoring nearly 30 altogether. Porrino was joined by state Criminal Justice Director Elie H…

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Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
More Than Muffler Repair Needed After Paramus Crash More Than Muffler Repair Needed After Paramus Crash More Than Muffler Repair Needed After Paramus Crash
More Than Muffler Repair Needed After Paramus Crash PARAMUS, N.J. -- A driver lost control of a BMW that crashed into a Route 17 muffler shop Thursday afternoon, rupturing a gas line. Police evacuated the Midas Muffler after the four-door sedan slammed into the building on the highway's northbound side. The driver was evaluated by EMS. Police were investigating. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this report.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Hackensack Driver Used Bogus Out-Of-State ID To Get NJ License Prosecutor: Hackensack Driver Used Bogus Out-Of-State ID To Get NJ License Prosecutor: Hackensack Driver Used Bogus Out-Of-State ID To Get NJ License
Prosecutor: Hackensack Driver Used Bogus Out-Of-State ID To Get NJ License HACKENSACK, N.J. – A 36-year-old restaurant worker from Hackensack used a bogus driver’s license from Maryland to get one in New Jersey, said authorities who arrested her Thursday. Nube D. Toalongo was targeted for investigation through an ongoing fraud initiative by state authorities after she used the out-of-state license to obtain a valid New Jersey one at the MVC facility in Lodi, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. In doing so, she was able to duck road and written tests, he said. Detectives from his office arrested Toalongo at her home on charges of theft and tampering wi…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn Heroin User ODs During Therapy, Revived By Police Fair Lawn Heroin User ODs During Therapy, Revived By Police Fair Lawn Heroin User ODs During Therapy, Revived By Police
Fair Lawn Heroin User ODs During Therapy, Revived By Police FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- A 25-year-old Fair Lawn heroin user needed to be revived by police after he overdosed on the drug during a substance abuse therapy session. The victim told police he'd injected a bag of heroin at home before heading to his appointment Wednesday morning at The Counseling Center at Broadway and Summit Avenue, Sgt. Brian Metzler told Daily Voice. He was found on a couch in a doctor's office just before 10:30 a.m. by responding Officers Luis Vasquez, Thomas Spear, Nicholas Snyder, Pete Federico and Tim Ammann, Metzler said. A single dose of Narcan brought him around, the ser…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Passaic County Man Admits Robbing Bank Passaic County Man Admits Robbing Bank Passaic County Man Admits Robbing Bank
Passaic County Man Admits Robbing Bank LITTLE FALLS, N.J. – A Passaic County man admitted in federal court Thursday that he robbed a TD Bank in Hawthorne 15 months ago. Robert Somers, 45, of Little Falls told a U.S. District Corut judge that he handed the Lafayette Avenue bank teller a note on Feb. 17, 2016 that said: “This is a holdup” and demanded cash. After getting some, he demanded more – then fled with the entire haul, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick said. He fled in a car identified by federal authorities as Alehandro L. Ortiz of East Stroudsburg, PA. Somers’s sentencing was set for Sept. 5. Fitzpatrick cr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
NYPD: Driver Who Killed Tourist, 18, In Times Square High On Synth Pot NYPD: Driver Who Killed Tourist, 18, In Times Square High On Synth Pot NYPD: Driver Who Killed Tourist, 18, In Times Square High On Synth Pot
Nypd: Driver Who Killed Tourist, 18, In Times Square High On Synth Pot The driver who plowed a car into pedestrians over three blocks of a busy Times Square sidewalk just before noon Thursday -- killing an 18-year-old Michigan tourist and seriously injuring her 13-year-old sister -- apparently was high on synthetic marijuana, also known as K2, the NYPD said. Richard Rojas, a 26-year-old notary from the Bronx, also had two prior DWI arrests and was charged in March with putting a knife to a man's throat, the department confirmed. Rojas got out of the car after it crashed against a light stanchion, then ran across Seventh Avenue before a city traffic enforcement…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Judge Frees Englewood Promoter In Child Porn Case After Long Thailand Stay Judge Frees Englewood Promoter In Child Porn Case After Long Thailand Stay Judge Frees Englewood Promoter In Child Porn Case After Long Thailand Stay
Judge Frees Englewood Promoter In Child Porn Case After Long Thailand Stay ENGLEWOOD, N.J. – A former promoter from Englewood caught trafficking in child pornography skipped the country to Thailand for four years, was arrested when he got off a plane at Newark Airport from Bangkok on Wednesday – then was released by a judge in Hackensack, authorities said Thursday. A grand jury in Hackensack indicted Avi Kartin on child endangerment charges in 2015 after Cyber Crimes Unit detectives found that he’d been collecting the images two years earlier, , Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. Grewal said Kartin – who formerly sold cars for Mercedes-Benz and Porsch…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Prosecutor: Hackensack Maintenance Worker Caught Viewing Child Porn Prosecutor: Hackensack Maintenance Worker Caught Viewing Child Porn Prosecutor: Hackensack Maintenance Worker Caught Viewing Child Porn
Prosecutor: Hackensack Maintenance Worker Caught Viewing Child Porn HACKENSACK, N.J. – A 59-year-old maintenance worker from Hackensack surfed child pornography sites before being arrested by Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives, authorities said Thursday. Members of the Cyber Crimes Unit took Richard T. Proctor into custody Wednesday after a warranted search of his Clinton Place apartment found that he "utilized the Internet to access and view images of prepubescent and pubescent females," Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. Proctor was issued a summons on charges of child endangerment through possessing child pornography and release…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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Prosecutor: Bergenfield Mom, Son Busted After Paterson Heroin Buy Prosecutor: Bergenfield Mom, Son Busted After Paterson Heroin Buy Prosecutor: Bergenfield Mom, Son Busted After Paterson Heroin Buy
Prosecutor: Bergenfield Mom, Son Busted After Paterson Heroin Buy BERGENFIELD, N.J. – A Bergenfield man and his 49-year-old mother were stopped and arrested by Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives in Elmwood Park after they bought heroin in Paterson, authorities said Thursday. John J. Schiraldi, 26, and his mother, Lisa, were taken into custody Monday after investigators stopped their car following a street buy in Paterson, Bergen County Gurbir S. Grewal said. The Schiraldis, of Alice Place, were released without bail pending first May 31 first appearances in Central Municipal Court in Hackensack, he said. Both are charged with drug possession.

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