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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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson PD: Couple With Kids -- 3, 4, 6 -- Sold X, Crack, Pot From Minivan Paterson PD: Couple With Kids -- 3, 4, 6 -- Sold X, Crack, Pot From Minivan Paterson PD: Couple With Kids -- 3, 4, 6 -- Sold X, Crack, Pot From Minivan
Paterson PD: Couple With Kids -- 3, 4, 6 -- Sold X, Crack, Pot From Minivan PATERSON, N.J. -- A couple with three children -- ages 3, 4 and 6 -- had a variety of Ecstasy, crack and pot for sale in their minivan and apartment, said Paterson police who arrested them. Detectives investigating a tip that Jahad Crayton, 26, was selling drugs from the 2005 Dodge Caravan in the area of Montgomery Park obtained search warrants for the vehicle and the Butler Street apartment, city Police Director Jerry Speziale said Saturday. They pulled Crayton over with all three children and teir mother, 25-year-old Bridgette Williams, in the minivan on Lawrence Place and found Ecstasy a…

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Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Tree Falls Onto Route 4 Tree Falls Onto Route 4 Tree Falls Onto Route 4
Tree Falls Onto Route 4 TEANECK, N.J. -- A tree fell across two lanes of westbound Route 4 in Teaneck early Saturday afternoon. A single lane of traffic was at first able to pass through the spot, just before River Road, as backups stretched to Fort Lee.

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Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Pedestrian Seriously Injured In Westwood Crash, Fatal Team Investigating Pedestrian Seriously Injured In Westwood Crash, Fatal Team Investigating Pedestrian Seriously Injured In Westwood Crash, Fatal Team Investigating
Pedestrian Seriously Injured In Westwood Crash, Fatal Team Investigating WESTWOOD, N.J. -- A pedestrian was seriously injured Saturday morning after being struck by a vehicle driven by an elderly motorist outside Westwood Cemetery on Kinderkamack Road, police told Daily Voice. The Bergen County Prosecutor's Fatal Accident Investigations Unit was investigating the crash, reported at 9:05 a.m. near the corner of Lester Avenue, Lt. Matthew McClutchy said. The victim was taken to nearby HackensackUMC at Pascack Valley for what was believed to be air transport by AirMed One to Hackensack University Medical Center. Responders said he had head and spleen injuries and …

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Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Paramus Police Department Opens Doors To Drug Addicts Seeking Recovery Paramus Police Department Opens Doors To Drug Addicts Seeking Recovery Paramus Police Department Opens Doors To Drug Addicts Seeking Recovery
Paramus Police Department Opens Doors To Drug Addicts Seeking Recovery PARAMUS, N.J. – Drug addicts seeking recovery can walk into the Paramus police station “and be connected with services to meet their needed level of care” without the fear of being arrested, beginning this coming Wednesday as part of a pilot program targeted for the entire county, authorities said. Every Wednesday, Paramus police will connect those who show up between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. seeking help for their addictions -- from anywhere in Bergen County -- to the kinds of services that can truly help them. Those carrying a personal-use amount of drugs or paraphernalia on them won’t face char…

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Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Bergenfield PD: Local, County, Federal Strike Force Busts 4 With Drugs Bergenfield PD: Local, County, Federal Strike Force Busts 4 With Drugs Bergenfield PD: Local, County, Federal Strike Force Busts 4 With Drugs
Bergenfield PD: Local, County, Federal Strike Force Busts 4 With Drugs BERGENFIELD, N.J. – A strike force of local, county and federal officers seized a pound and a half of pot, along with cocaine, crystal meth, $5,000 in alleged drug proceeds and two vehicles, while arresting four accused drug ring members in a pair of raids on separate apartments in Teaneck, Bergenfield police said Friday. Bergenfield police – along with members of the Bergen County Regional SWAT, the county sheriff’s K-9 squad, Teaneck police and the DEA – nabbed the quartet Thursday as part of an ongoing investigation, Capt. Mustafa Rabboh told Daily Voice. Hasan Carter, 30, of Hackensack,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority PD: GWB Toll Evader Owes $17,500 Port Authority PD: GWB Toll Evader Owes $17,500 Port Authority PD: GWB Toll Evader Owes $17,500
Port Authority PD: GWB Toll Evader Owes $17,500 FORT LEE, N.J. -- A Bronx driver who blew through a George Washington Bridge E-ZPass lane Friday morning owed nearly $17,500 in unpaid tolls and fines, Port Authority police told Daily Voice. Gabriel Arturo Urbano, 25, had committed 268 violations when Port Authority Police Officer Lionel Gonzalez stopped his 2008 Ford Edge after it passed a lower level toll around 9 a.m., the authority's Joseph Pentangelo said. The Ford was impounded and Urbano was arrested on charges theft of services, toll evasion and failure to observe a directional sign, he said. There was no disruption to traffic as …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bogus Bergen Courthouse Bomb Threat Jams Local Streets Bogus Bergen Courthouse Bomb Threat Jams Local Streets Bogus Bergen Courthouse Bomb Threat Jams Local Streets
Bogus Bergen Courthouse Bomb Threat Jams Local Streets HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Authorities evacuated the Bergen County courthouse and closed adjacent streets Friday afternoon after receiving a bomb threat that they determined wasn't credible. Local streets on and around River Road and Main Street were jammed with traffic past 4:30 p.m. "We have no specific credible evidence of anything more than this anonymous threat," Bergen County Sheriff's Public Information Director William Schievella told Daily Voice an hour earlier. "But our protocol in all instances is that we clear the building completely and thoroughly search with our Bomb …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson Student, 18, Charged In Videotaped Route 17 Hit-Run Crash Paterson Student, 18, Charged In Videotaped Route 17 Hit-Run Crash Paterson Student, 18, Charged In Videotaped Route 17 Hit-Run Crash
Paterson Student, 18, Charged In Videotaped Route 17 Hit-Run Crash WALDWICK, N.J. -- An 18-year-old student at Lincoln Tech in Mahwah was the reckless hit-and-run driver caught on dashboard video who sent an SUV bouncing off the media onn northbound Route 17 in Waldwick before speeding off, authorities told Daily Voice on Friday. Franmer Ferreras-Diaz, 18, of Paterson was issued several traffic summonses while an investigation continues, Waldwick Detective Sergeant Troy E. Seifert said. A Mahwah police sergeant spotted the car outside the school on McKee Drive behind the TD Bank, State Line Diner and other businesses on the highway and notified his colleag…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Waldwick PD Arrests Driver, 18, In Videotaped Route 17 Hit-Run Crash Waldwick PD Arrests Driver, 18, In Videotaped Route 17 Hit-Run Crash Waldwick PD Arrests Driver, 18, In Videotaped Route 17 Hit-Run Crash
Waldwick PD Arrests Driver, 18, In Videotaped Route 17 Hit-Run Crash WALDWICK, N.J. -- An 18-year-old student at Lincoln Tech in Mahwah was the reckless hit-and-run driver caught on dashboard video who sent an SUV bouncing off the median on northbound Route 17 in Waldwick before speeding off, authorities told Daily Voice on Friday. Franmer Ferreras-Diaz, 18, of Paterson was issued several traffic summonses while an investigation continues, Waldwick Detective Sergeant Troy E. Seifert said. A Mahwah police sergeant spotted the car outside the school on McKee Drive behind the TD Bank, State Line Diner and other businesses on the highway and notified his colleag…

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Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood School Locked Down As Police Pursue Street Robber Englewood School Locked Down As Police Pursue Street Robber Englewood School Locked Down As Police Pursue Street Robber
Englewood School Locked Down As Police Pursue Street Robber ENGLEWOOD, N.J. -- An armed street robbery caused a brief lockdown Friday afternoon at an Englewood elementary school, authorities told Daily Voice. One of several officers who descended on the area following the mugging in the 100 block of Knickerbocker Road around 1:30 p.m. saw a possible suspect who fit the robber's description, Detective Capt. Tim Torell said. The Dr. Leroy McCloud Elementary School on Tenafly Road was immediately locked down as officers briefly detained the man -- then released him after determining it wasn't their suspect, Torell told Daily Voice. The lockdown was th…

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