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
Glen Rock PD: How Are We Doing? Glen Rock PD: How Are We Doing? Glen Rock PD: How Are We Doing?
Glen Rock PD: How Are We Doing? GLEN ROCK, N.J. -- Glen Rock residents and merchants are invited to give their opinion of the borough police department as part of a process known as accreditation. Members of the department and borough employees are encouraged to call, as well, during the scheduled phone-in period between 10 a.m. and noon April 30. THE NUMBER: (201) 815-7475 OR EMAIL: [email protected]  Telephone comments are limited to 5 minutes and “must address the agency’s ability to comply with the accreditation standards,” according to Police Chief Dean Ackerman. (You can also write to the New Jersey Sta…

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Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Lyndhurst Bank Robber Pleads Guilty To 4 Altogether Lyndhurst Bank Robber Pleads Guilty To 4 Altogether Lyndhurst Bank Robber Pleads Guilty To 4 Altogether
Lyndhurst Bank Robber Pleads Guilty To 4 Altogether LYNDHURST, N.J. -- A Newark man admitted Tuesday that he robbed banks in Lyndhurst and Clifton – as well as the same Kearny bank twice. James Lockwood, 39, first eluded police on Sept. 8, when he dragged a Kearny police officer a short distance after holding up the Schuyler Savings Bank – the same bank that he admitted robbing two weeks earlier -- authorities said. He was captured on Sept. 23 after his car overturned during another pursuit. Lockwood told a federal judge in Newark on Tuesday that he was the robber wearing a white towel over his head who fled with an undetermined amount of c…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
PHOTO GALLERY: Two Houses Heavily Damaged In Totowa Fire PHOTO GALLERY: Two Houses Heavily Damaged In Totowa Fire PHOTO GALLERY: Two Houses Heavily Damaged In Totowa Fire
Photo Gallery: Two Houses Heavily Damaged In Totowa Fire TOTOWA, N.J. -- A fire that neighbors said apparently began in a garbage bin between two Totowa houses spread to both of them Tuesday afternoon, responders said. No injuries were reported in the two-alarm Boyle Avenue blaze, which broke out just before 2 p.m. Clifton, Haledon, Little Falls, Paterson, West Paterson and Woodland Park firefighters joined their Totowa colleagues at the scene. ALL PHOTOS: Werner R. Ennesser

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Missing Rockland Woman, 83, Returned To Former Cliffside Park Home Police: Missing Rockland Woman, 83, Returned To Former Cliffside Park Home Police: Missing Rockland Woman, 83, Returned To Former Cliffside Park Home
Police: Missing Rockland Woman, 83, Returned To Former Cliffside Park Home CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. -- An 83-year-old Rockland County woman who went missing on Easter Sunday was found walking along the main commercial drag in Cliffside Park a few blocks from where she used to live, police told Daily Voice. Detectives from Orangetown spotted Victoria Desimone of Orangeburg on Monday across from the new Towne Centre shopping mall/residential high-rise on Anderson Avenue -- barely a quarter-mile from her former home on Shannon Place -- after conferring with local police. "She got on a bus to go to Mass and never returned," Cliffside Park Police Chief Richard Ga…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Cleveland Facebook Killer Shoots Himself Dead After Police Chase Cleveland Facebook Killer Shoots Himself Dead After Police Chase Cleveland Facebook Killer Shoots Himself Dead After Police Chase
Cleveland Facebook Killer Shoots Himself Dead After Police Chase The man wanted for killing an elderly man in cold blood in Cleveland and posting a video of it on Facebook shot and killed himself after a brief pursuit in Erie County, PA early Tuesday, authorities said. Authorities pinging his phone said Steve Stephens -- who'd become the focus of a nationwide manhunt -- was headed east through Pennsylvania, possibly to New York State when a tip came in around 11 a.m., Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams told reporters. Stevens had been seen in a McDonalds parking lokt near Erie, PA -- about 100 miles away, the chief said. Seeing the responding office…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Passaic Mayor Gets 27 Months Federal Prison Time For Taking $110G In Bribes Passaic Mayor Gets 27 Months Federal Prison Time For Taking $110G In Bribes Passaic Mayor Gets 27 Months Federal Prison Time For Taking $110G In Bribes
Passaic Mayor Gets 27 Months Federal Prison Time For Taking $110G In Bribes PASSAIC, N.J. – Former Passaic Mayor Alex Blanco was sentenced to a plea-bargained 27 months in federal prison Tuesday for taking $110,000 in bribes from developers doing business in the city. Because it's the federal system -- which has no parole -- the 45-year-old Blanco will have to serve nearly all of the term after pleading guilty last November to “soliciting and accepting corrupt payments" in connection with city business. He'll also have to undergo three years of supervised release and pay the full amount of the bribes back to the city, under the sentence imposed by U.S. Distric…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Startled Ridgewood Resident Gets Unscheduled Mail Delivery: Bag Of Pot Startled Ridgewood Resident Gets Unscheduled Mail Delivery: Bag Of Pot Startled Ridgewood Resident Gets Unscheduled Mail Delivery: Bag Of Pot
Startled Ridgewood Resident Gets Unscheduled Mail Delivery: Bag Of Pot RIDGEWOOD, N.J. – A Ridgewood resident got an unscheduled delivery: a bag of pot. The Fairfield Avenue resident called police after he found the small, clear plastic bag filled with marijuana in his mailbox on Saturday, authorities said Tuesdsay. Moments earlier, he said, he saw a gray Ford Explorer parked in front of his house and heard his mailbox open and close. Village police seized the pot. They were investigating.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Rochelle Park PD: Out-Of-Towners Nabbed With Drug Assortment Rochelle Park PD: Out-Of-Towners Nabbed With Drug Assortment Rochelle Park PD: Out-Of-Towners Nabbed With Drug Assortment
Rochelle Park PD: Out-Of-Towners Nabbed With Drug Assortment ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. – An out-of-town couple had a collection of pills, pot and cocaine with them when a Rochelle Park police officer stopped them for various motor vehicle violations, authorities said. Officer Frank LaBoy pulled over the 2011 Nissan sedan near the ShopRite on West Passaic Street for having improperly displayed license plates and improper safety glass, Lt. Dean Pinto told Daily Voice. The driver, 32-year-old Nana K. Gardinier of the Burlington County town of Lumberton, didn’t have the necessary documents for the uninsured vehicle, Pinto said. LaBoy also smelled pot from ins…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: Helicopters Control Ramapo Reservation Brush Fire VIDEO: Helicopters Control Ramapo Reservation Brush Fire VIDEO: Helicopters Control Ramapo Reservation Brush Fire
Video: Helicopters Control Ramapo Reservation Brush Fire MAHWAH, N.J. -- Video shows a state Forest Fire Service helicopter scooping and dropping lake water on a brush fire that spread more than five acres on the Ramapo Reservation in Mahwah before being doused Monday afternoon. The service had help from local responders, including Mahwah Fire Rescue Co. 1, which produced the YouTube video, and township companies 2 and 5. The blaze was initially reported at 2:43 p.m. near the Yellow-Silver Trail beyond the reservoirs upper lake. Mahwah and Ramsey firefighters and Mahwah police joined in all-terrain vehicles. Hillburn firefighters provided mutual…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Passaic Sheriff: Pennsylvania Man Had Handgun On Hip, Heroin In Hand Passaic Sheriff: Pennsylvania Man Had Handgun On Hip, Heroin In Hand Passaic Sheriff: Pennsylvania Man Had Handgun On Hip, Heroin In Hand
Passaic Sheriff: Pennsylvania Man Had Handgun On Hip, Heroin In Hand PATERSON, N.J. -- A Pennsylvania man had a handgun on his hip and heroin in his hand when Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said his detectives arrested him and a female companion in Paterson. The drug investigators were in the area of 10th Avenue and East 26th Street in Paterson Tuesday night when they saw a blue Hyundai Elantra pull to the curb and a drug deal conducted, Berdnik said. They followed and then stopped the car, he said. Inside, they noticed 26-year-old Preston Henwood of Jefferson Township, PA carrying a holstered Glock handgun, the sheriff said. He was also conceal…

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