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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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn Junior Police Academy Registration Opens Fair Lawn Junior Police Academy Registration Opens Fair Lawn Junior Police Academy Registration Opens
Fair Lawn Junior Police Academy Registration Opens FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- The Fair Lawn Police Department’s popular annual Junior Police Academy runs this year from July 17-21. The free training includes visits to the Bergen County Law & Public Safety Complex in Mahwah, the county courthouse in Hackensack and the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office, where recruits will see the inner workings of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation, the K-9 Unit, the Bomb Squad and the Regional SWAT Team. They’ll also visit the Fair Lawn Fire Department, Rescue Squad and Ambulance Corps. Junior recruits must be between 11-14 before Aug. 1 to apply. Applications…

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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
PLEASE SHARE: Fairview PD Seek Hit-Run Tractor-Trailer In Ambulance Crash PLEASE SHARE: Fairview PD Seek Hit-Run Tractor-Trailer In Ambulance Crash PLEASE SHARE: Fairview PD Seek Hit-Run Tractor-Trailer In Ambulance Crash
Please Share: Fairview PD Seek Hit-Run Tractor-Trailer In Ambulance Crash FAIRVIEW, N.J. -- Fairview police asked the public for help finding a tractor-trailer that struck a pickup truck, sending it head-on into an occupied ambulance. Members of the Fairview Volunteer Ambulance Corps were headed north on Broad Avenue around 10:30 p.m. Monday, transporting a patient from a mutual aid call to Guttenberg, when the red-and-white tractor-trailer in front of them drifted into the southbound lane as it approached West Prospect Avenue, Police Chief Martin Kahn told Daily Voice. The tractor-trailer then struck the Ford Ranger, sending it head-on into the ambulance, he s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Maywood Police: U-Turning Driver Injures 2 Pedestrians, One Seriously Maywood Police: U-Turning Driver Injures 2 Pedestrians, One Seriously Maywood Police: U-Turning Driver Injures 2 Pedestrians, One Seriously
Maywood Police: U-Turning Driver Injures 2 Pedestrians, One Seriously MAYWOOD, N.J. -- Two Hackensack pedestrians struck by a car making a U-turn in Maywood early Wednesday evening were hospitalized -- him with serious injuries and her with a leg injury, police told Daily Voice. The windshield of the compact vehicle was smashed after it struck the 37-year-old man and 23-year-old woman at East Passaic Street by The Esplanade just after 5:30 p.m., Police Chief David Pegg said. Both were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center by HUMC ALS/BLS. The driver, characterized as a young adult from Hackensack, could receive summonses once an investigation is comp…

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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Car Tips Along Hudson In Fort Lee Car Tips Along Hudson In Fort Lee Car Tips Along Hudson In Fort Lee
Car Tips Along Hudson In Fort Lee FORT LEE, N.J. -- One minor injury was reported after a car keeled onto its side at Ross Dock in the Fort Lee section of Palisades Interstate Park along the Hudson River early Wednesday evening. The crash occurred at Carpenters Circle on Henry Hudson Drive, in the shadow of the George Washington Bridge, just before 6 p.m.

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Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Garfield PD, Pre-School Celebrate 'Week Of Young Child' With Kickball Game Garfield PD, Pre-School Celebrate 'Week Of Young Child' With Kickball Game Garfield PD, Pre-School Celebrate 'Week Of Young Child' With Kickball Game
Garfield PD, Pre-School Celebrate 'Week Of Young Child' With Kickball Game GARFIELD, N.J. -- The Garfield Public Preschool Annex 3 celebrated the "Week of the Young Child" with its second annual city police and high school kick ball game on Wednesday. Officers and high school students teamed up to help foster positive relationships between the preschool students and the department.

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Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood Police Help Teen Chase Basketball Dream Englewood Police Help Teen Chase Basketball Dream Englewood Police Help Teen Chase Basketball Dream
Englewood Police Help Teen Chase Basketball Dream ENGLEWOOD, N.J. -- Giving back to the community, Englewood police have raised money to support a native teen who's playing AAU basketball this spring. As a freshman, 15-year-old Nakie Graham started varsity last season for Garfield High School, where coaches believe his physical and mental maturity could make him a first-team All League player someday. Nakie is honing his skills this spring playing for the Englewood-based Bulls Basketball Club, an elite traveling team that competes against some of the best squads in the Amateur Athletic Union across the Metropolitan area. "We have som…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Man Shot On Paterson Street Dies At Hospital Man Shot On Paterson Street Dies At Hospital Man Shot On Paterson Street Dies At Hospital
Man Shot On Paterson Street Dies At Hospital PATERSON, N.J. – A 39-year-old man shot on a Paterson street died at the hospital, said authorities who were searching for his killer. Juan Martinez was “in the area” of Madison Street and Essex Street when he was shot around 4:45 p.m. Monday, authorities said. He was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, where he later died, they said. As part of their investigation, authorities were trying to identify several people who were in the area at the time of the shooting. They asked that anyone with information that could help in this instance contact them at the Paterson Detective Bu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority PD: GWB Toll Evader Hits Median, Traffic Trying To Flee Port Authority PD: GWB Toll Evader Hits Median, Traffic Trying To Flee Port Authority PD: GWB Toll Evader Hits Median, Traffic Trying To Flee
Port Authority PD: GWB Toll Evader Hits Median, Traffic Trying To Flee FORT LEE, N.J. -- A toll evader who hit the gas trying to lose Port Authority police on the George Washington Bridge slammed his car into the divider, then got stuck in traffic and was arrested, authorities said Wednesday. Michael Finnery, 52, of East Orange had his window down when he rolled his 2009 Dodge sedan through the toll booth without paying around 8:20 a.m. Tuesday, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. As a PAPD officer walked toward him, Finnery gunned it, and the sedan slammed into the divider, Pentangelo said. He tried to keep going but hit backed-up Cross Bronx…

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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Ex-Student In Leonia Parking Lot Rollover Charged With DWI, Drugs Ex-Student In Leonia Parking Lot Rollover Charged With DWI, Drugs Ex-Student In Leonia Parking Lot Rollover Charged With DWI, Drugs
Ex-Student In Leonia Parking Lot Rollover Charged With DWI, Drugs LEONIA, N.J. -- A crash in the parking lot at Leonia High School involving current and former students Tuesday morning sent a Jeep rolling and left two teens in custody on drug-related charges, authorities told Daily Voice. Two Jeeps Cherokees were headed toward one another when the driver over a gray 1999 model turned left and struck a silver 2015 model around 7:45 a.m., Capt. Scott Tamagny said. The 2015 Jeep got knocked into a parked car and rolled onto the driver's side, he said.The driver of the 2015 Jeep -- identified as former LHS student Marc Helewa, 19, of Edgewater -- apparently h…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
More Charges Filed In Dumping Of Dismembered Bergenfield Husband More Charges Filed In Dumping Of Dismembered Bergenfield Husband More Charges Filed In Dumping Of Dismembered Bergenfield Husband
More Charges Filed In Dumping Of Dismembered Bergenfield Husband BERGENFIELD, N.J. – The brother of a Bergenfield woman charged with dumping her dead husband’s body in plastic containers later found in South Jersey faces additional charges after being extradited from New York. Orville Cousins, 30, is charged with desecration of human remains and hindering apprehension, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal announced Wednesday. Cousins, who is single and unemployed, originally was charged after Grewal’s investigators said they learned that he and his sister, 43-year-old surgical technician Adrienne Smith, “purchased materials that were used in connect…

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