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 Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Worker At Northvale Lighting Manufacturer Injured, Hospitalized Worker At Northvale Lighting Manufacturer Injured, Hospitalized Worker At Northvale Lighting Manufacturer Injured, Hospitalized
Worker At Northvale Lighting Manufacturer Injured, Hospitalized NORTHVALE, N.J. -- A worker was hospitalized with non-critical injuries after an industrial accident Tuesday night in Northvale, authorities told Daily Voice. The 27-year-old Passaic man "was alert, conscious and feeling slightly dizzy after being struck in the head by a metal-type cage that had fallen from a forklift" at RAB Lighting on Ludlow Avenue around 9:45 p.m., Capt. Howard Ostrow said.

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Clifton Street Robberies: Woman Maced, Man Beaten Clifton Street Robberies: Woman Maced, Man Beaten Clifton Street Robberies: Woman Maced, Man Beaten
Clifton Street Robberies: Woman Maced, Man Beaten CLIFTON, N.J. -- A woman was Maced and robbed of her purse after being dropped off by an Uber driver in Clifton overnight Wednesday, authorities reported. Clifton police said they also were looking for the robbers who beat a man on a city street while trying to steal his cellphone. The 32-year-old woman told police that two men in their 20s -- one black, the other Hispanic -- rushed her at the corner of Madeline Avenue and Oregon Street around 1 a.m. Wednesday, sprayed her with Mace and fled with her purse toward Main Avenue, Lt. Robert Bracken said. Last week, a 37-year-old Belleville man…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Passaic Sheriff: Raid Nets 'Meticulous Inventory' Of 500+ Child Porn Images Passaic Sheriff: Raid Nets 'Meticulous Inventory' Of 500+ Child Porn Images Passaic Sheriff: Raid Nets 'Meticulous Inventory' Of 500+ Child Porn Images
Passaic Sheriff: Raid Nets 'Meticulous Inventory' Of 500+ Child Porn Images PATERSON, N.J. -- Passaic County Sheriff’s detectives busted a Paterson man on Tuesday who they said had a "meticulous inventory" of more than 500 child pornography images -- including videos involving toddlers. Omar Saloukha, 29, collected and shared the files which he stored "in folders and subfolders labeled by various sexually explicit categories," Sheriff Richard N. Berdnik said. He was taken to the Passaic County Jail pending a detention hearing on various child pornography charges after members of the sheriff's Internet Crime Unit searched his Crooks Avenue home a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Clifton PD: Detectives Quickly Bust Pair Who Sucker-Punched Robbery Victim Clifton PD: Detectives Quickly Bust Pair Who Sucker-Punched Robbery Victim Clifton PD: Detectives Quickly Bust Pair Who Sucker-Punched Robbery Victim
Clifton PD: Detectives Quickly Bust Pair Who Sucker-Punched Robbery Victim CLIFTON, N.J. -- An unsuspecting 29-year-old pedestrian carrying a shopping bag was punched in the face and robbed of his iPad, iPhone and other personal belongings by a gang of thugs -- two of whom Clifton detectives later caught with help from their Passaic colleagues, authorities said Tuesday. The victim told police he was walking home at 9:45 p.m. Sunday when the robbers set upon him on Knapp Avenue. One knocked him down with a punch in the face before the crew made off with his belongings, Lt. Robert Bracken said. Patrol officers and detectives flooded the area, seeking witnesses, sur…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
6½ Years For Robber Who Posed As Sheriff's Officer In Paterson Home Robbery 6½ Years For Robber Who Posed As Sheriff's Officer In Paterson Home Robbery 6½ Years For Robber Who Posed As Sheriff's Officer In Paterson Home Robbery
6½ Years For Robber Who Posed As Sheriff's Officer In Paterson Home Robbery PATERSON, N.J. – A man who committed a home invasion robbery in Paterson with an accomplice while both impersonated Passaic County sheriff’s officers was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 6½ years in federal prison. Clemente R. Carlos, 30, will have to serve nearly all of the time: The federal prison system doesn't have parole. Carlos admitted in U.S. District Court in Newark last December that he and 34-year-old ex-con Jason Thompson of Paterson conspired with an unidentified getaway car driver to hold up the resident who lived there because they believed he kept money from his business there. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Stony Point, NY
Breaking News
Police: Haverstraw, New City Men Nabbed Moments After NJ Armed Robbery Police: Haverstraw, New City Men Nabbed Moments After NJ Armed Robbery Police: Haverstraw, New City Men Nabbed Moments After NJ Armed Robbery
Police: Haverstraw, New City Men Nabbed Moments After NJ Armed Robbery ROCKLAND COUNTY, N.Y. -- Police grabbed two Rockland men -- one from New City and the other from Garnerville -- moments after authorities said they robbed an upscale grocery store just across the border in Montvale. Michael Mann, 30, of Garnerville, "put a handgun in the manager’s ribs and demanded that he open the safe" at the Fresh Market just after 9:30 p.m. Monday, Police Chief Jeremy Abrams said. Mann "also stole $20 from the manager and threw [his]cellphone into the trash," the chief said. Officers who responded instantly found him and Luis Baez, 33, of New City,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Montvale Police Nab Pair Moments After Fresh Market Robbery Montvale Police Nab Pair Moments After Fresh Market Robbery Montvale Police Nab Pair Moments After Fresh Market Robbery
Montvale Police Nab Pair Moments After Fresh Market Robbery MONTVALE, N.J. -- Montvale police grabbed two men moments after they robbed an upscale grocery store at gunpoint, authorities said. Michael Mann, 30, of Garnerville, "put a handgun in the manager’s ribs and demanded that he open the safe" at the Fresh Market just after 9:30 p.m. Monday, Police Chief Jeremy Abrams said. Mann "also stole $20 from the manager and threw [his]cellphone into the trash," the chief said. Officers who responded instantly found him and Luis Baez, 33, of New City, in the nearly empty parking lot of the Chestnut Ridge Road store, Abrams said. The…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Rochelle Park PD: Cadillac Driver Had $5,100+ In Shoplifted Cosmetics Rochelle Park PD: Cadillac Driver Had $5,100+ In Shoplifted Cosmetics Rochelle Park PD: Cadillac Driver Had $5,100+ In Shoplifted Cosmetics
Rochelle Park PD: Cadillac Driver Had $5,100+ In Shoplifted Cosmetics ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. – A Paterson woman had more than $5,000 worth of stolen cosmetics stuffed into bags in her Cadillac CTS, left running across two parking spaces outside a Rochelle Park CVS where she’d just shoplifted nearly $150 worth of items, authorities said. Stefany J. Davila-Toledo, 24, told officers called to the Rochelle Avenue store by security officers on Monday that she’d taken a bus there from Paterson and wasn’t carrying identification, Lt. Dean Pinto told Daily Voice. Pinto said he and Officer Jared Shatkin found 13 stolen items in a leather handbag that security officers sa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
SWAT Team Helps Seize Garfield Man On Drug Charges SWAT Team Helps Seize Garfield Man On Drug Charges SWAT Team Helps Seize Garfield Man On Drug Charges
SWAT Team Helps Seize Garfield Man On Drug Charges GARFIELD, N.J. – A SWAT team helped Garfield police take a local man into custody on charges of having cocaine for sale after he refused to open the door, authorities said Tuesday. Investigators began looking at Safet Cajevic, 55, after a tipster said he was selling the drug from his Cedar Street home, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. Following an investigation by Grewal’s Narcotics Task Force and Garfield police, they went there to take Cajevic into custody on Friday, he said. Cajevic braced himself against the door, refusing to let the officers in, so members of the Bergen…

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
Utility Pole Slices Into Truck In West Milford Crash Utility Pole Slices Into Truck In West Milford Crash Utility Pole Slices Into Truck In West Milford Crash
Utility Pole Slices Into Truck In West Milford Crash WEST MILFORD, N.J. -- A downed utility pole sliced through the trailer of a rental truck in a Tuesday morning crash in West Milford. Responders said the truck snapped the pole and dragged it into a ditch off Union Valley Road near Green Brook around 8 a.m. The driver was sitting on the guardrail and appeared fine when responders arrived, witnesses said. Union Valley Road in that area remained closed past 10:45 a.m. while utility crews continued repairs. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS

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