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 Starts Compiling Local Business List Glen Rock Starts Compiling Local Business List Glen Rock Starts Compiling Local Business List
Glen Rock Starts Compiling Local Business List GLEN ROCK, N.J. -- Needing to reach out to residents and merchants during a recent E. coli water scare, Mayor Bruce Packer said he discovered that the borough didn't have a database of local businesses. So it's creating one. "We will be working with the Board of Health to create a list and a protocol for contacting [them] in the future when there are similar emergencies," he said. The mayor created a page on the borough web site to begin collecting the information: https://tinyurl.com/GlenRockBusinesses "Please help us by spreading the word and/or filling out info for your …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: 80+ Displaced, No Serious Injuries In Passaic Warehouse Fire VIDEO: 80+ Displaced, No Serious Injuries In Passaic Warehouse Fire VIDEO: 80+ Displaced, No Serious Injuries In Passaic Warehouse Fire
Video: 80+ Displaced, No Serious Injuries In Passaic Warehouse Fire PASSAIC, N.J. -- Three firefighters were treated for smoke inhalation and more than 80 residents were displaced after a five-alarm fire ravaged a Passaic food warehouse late Tuesday into Wednesday, authorities said. Firefighters continued to douse pockets Wednesday morning from a blaze that took several hours to knock down after it ignited in the single-story First Street building just after 10 p.m. Flames quickly burst through the rear of the squat structure spreading to the homes of nearly three dozen nearby families on Market Street. Mayor Hector Lora urged those displaced by the fire to…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Missing Tourist With Dementia, 78, Walks Into Englewood Cliffs Police HQ Missing Tourist With Dementia, 78, Walks Into Englewood Cliffs Police HQ Missing Tourist With Dementia, 78, Walks Into Englewood Cliffs Police HQ
Missing Tourist With Dementia, 78, Walks Into Englewood Cliffs Police HQ ENGLEWOOD, N.J. -- A missing 78-year-old French tourist with dementia who was visiting family in Englewood when he wandered off several hours earlier was found Tuesday night. Jose Moreira, who speaks very little " Detective Capt. Timothy Torell told Daily Voice. "He appears fine. "He will be checked out by medics and reunited with his family shortly."Moreira went missing between 9:45 and 10:15 a.m. Tuesday from a north Englewood residence, the captain said.  City detectives, assisted by Tenafly police and Bergen County sheriff's officers, were "out all day attemptin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen Man Brags Of Robbing Post Office -- On Facebook Bergen Man Brags Of Robbing Post Office -- On Facebook Bergen Man Brags Of Robbing Post Office -- On Facebook
Bergen Man Brags Of Robbing Post Office -- On Facebook PALISADES PARK, N.J. -- A Moonachie man hopped the counter at the Palisades Park post office, fled with $90 in cash -- then bragged about it on Facebook, said the borough detective who connected him to the crime. At only 21 years old, Christopher Siguenza is well known to police in Bergen County following a delinquency history that began in his early teens. He was being held in the Bergen County Jail, in fact, when Palisades Park Detective Frank DeCicco nailed him for the March 22 post office robbery. Siguenza has been lodged in the jail since Hasbrouck Heights police arrested him last Thu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Maywood Police Route 17 Stop Yields Drugs, Warrants Maywood Police Route 17 Stop Yields Drugs, Warrants Maywood Police Route 17 Stop Yields Drugs, Warrants
Maywood Police Route 17 Stop Yields Drugs, Warrants MAYWOOD, N.J. – Maywood police found nearly 200 Xanax pills, more than a dozen bags of heroin and other drugs and paraphernalia during a Route 17 traffic stop, authorities said Tuesday. Roberto Nunez, 27, of New York, NY was charged with drug possession and distribution offenses and ordered held in the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack, Police Chief David Pegg said. Officer William Phayre and Detective Jason Liaban smelled pot after stopping Nunez’s silver Mercedes for a broken tail light and a suspended registration, Pegg said…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Maywood Police: Pair Who Sold Various Drugs From Home Nabbed Maywood Police: Pair Who Sold Various Drugs From Home Nabbed Maywood Police: Pair Who Sold Various Drugs From Home Nabbed
Maywood Police: Pair Who Sold Various Drugs From Home Nabbed MAYWOOD, N.J. – Responding to neighborhood complaints, Maywood police arrested two men after finding Xanax, Ecstasy, LSD, pot and amphetamines, along with other drugs and drug-packaging materials, at their home. Kyle Delarosa, 25, and Matthew Zottarelli, 27 – both of whom, records show, have a history of arrests – also had Clonazepam and Diazepam, as well as digital scales, plastic vials and vacuum sealers, in their Maybrook Drive home, along with $1,733 in suspected drug proceeds, Police Chief David Pegg told Daily Voice Tuesday afternoon. The drugs and cash were seized and Delarosa was or…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Elderly Motorist OK After Turning Wayne Liquor Store Into Drive-Thru Elderly Motorist OK After Turning Wayne Liquor Store Into Drive-Thru Elderly Motorist OK After Turning Wayne Liquor Store Into Drive-Thru
Elderly Motorist OK After Turning Wayne Liquor Store Into Drive-Thru WAYNE, N.J. -- A driver in his 80s escaped injury after his car crashed into a Wayne liquor store on Monday, authorities said. The vehicle first crossed the entire lot at Gary’s Wine and Marketplace from a parking spot before hitting the concrete base of a light pole around 1:15 p.m., Capt. Martin Laurence said Tuesday. "The driver then put the car in forward gear and crossed back across the lot, striking the curb and knocking over a handicapped parking sign," he said. The car kept going before it ultimately crashed into a glass window next to the sliding doors in the business' …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Witnesses Sought In Fair Lawn Motorcyclist's GSP Crash In Woodcliff Lake Witnesses Sought In Fair Lawn Motorcyclist's GSP Crash In Woodcliff Lake Witnesses Sought In Fair Lawn Motorcyclist's GSP Crash In Woodcliff Lake
Witnesses Sought In Fair Lawn Motorcyclist's GSP Crash In Woodcliff Lake WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J. – A Fair Lawn motorcyclist had to have her spleen removed after a crash on the Garden State Parkway in Woodcliff Lake that New Jersey State Police hope others witnessed. Surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center went well for Joan Kavanagh Mernick, said her husband, John. “The arm is not broken, but her shoulder is messed up and may need surgery,” he wrote in a Facebook post late Monday. The crash occurred just before 8 a.m. Monday at milepost 169.2 on the northbound parkway, New Jersey State Trooper Lawrence Peele said. Mernick “told the trooper who spoke to h…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: Recognize Him? Gunman Robs Paterson Used Tire Business VIDEO: Recognize Him? Gunman Robs Paterson Used Tire Business VIDEO: Recognize Him? Gunman Robs Paterson Used Tire Business
Video: Recognize Him? Gunman Robs Paterson Used Tire Business Paterson, N.J. – A video released Tuesday shows a masked gunman ordering two employees of a Paterson used tire business to the floor while he robbed them. Police hope it helps find him. "We welcome and appreciate the community's assistance in this investigation," Police Director Jerry Speziale said. The employees were preparing to close up Full Circle Used Tires on Kentucky Avenue around 7:40 p.m. Feb. 1 when, the video shows, the robber hustled in. The victims dialed 911 after he left, Speziale said. He asked that anyone who recognizes the man in the video, or has information t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Brawl With Barricaded Gunman Gives Leonia Police Sergeant Deep Cut Brawl With Barricaded Gunman Gives Leonia Police Sergeant Deep Cut Brawl With Barricaded Gunman Gives Leonia Police Sergeant Deep Cut
Brawl With Barricaded Gunman Gives Leonia Police Sergeant Deep Cut LEONIA, N.J. -- A Leonia man who barricaded himself in his apartment brawled with police -- sending a sergeant to the hospital with a deep leg cut and an officer there with a shoulder injury -- after they said he pointed a gun at another man on the street. Kyle Stambaugh, 27, repeatedly refused demands to open the door of his Grand Avenue apartment Monday afternoon, Police Chief Thomas Rowe said. Rowe had responded along with Sgt. Frank Rocco, Detective Sgt. Chris Garris and Officer Erik Goodell. Moments earlier, he said, Stambaugh pulled up at Grand and Hillside avenues in a vehicle, poin…

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