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
Sheriff: Distracted Driver Details Nets Detective Heroin Dealer In Wayne Sheriff: Distracted Driver Details Nets Detective Heroin Dealer In Wayne Sheriff: Distracted Driver Details Nets Detective Heroin Dealer In Wayne
Sheriff: Distracted Driver Details Nets Detective Heroin Dealer In Wayne WAYNE, N.J. -- Another distracted driver stop led to larger charges when a Passaic County sheriff's detective found a passenger in Wayne carrying 50 folds of heroin and packaging materials used to distribute the drug, authorities said Sunday. PCSO Detective Joseph Royce was on special assignment Saturday afternoon when he stopped a blue Honda Accord on southbound Route 23 near Packanack Lake Road because the driver wasn't wearing a seatbeat, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. Berdnik's department received the area's largest grant out of hundreds of law enforcement agencies throughout the stat…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Sheriff: Little Falls Heroin User Grazes Pedestrian With Car, Keeps Going Sheriff: Little Falls Heroin User Grazes Pedestrian With Car, Keeps Going Sheriff: Little Falls Heroin User Grazes Pedestrian With Car, Keeps Going
Sheriff: Little Falls Heroin User Grazes Pedestrian With Car, Keeps Going PATERSON, N.J. -- A 53-year-old Little Falls motorist was under the influence of heroin when he grazed a pedestrian with his car while running a stop sign in Paterson and then kept going, authorities said Sunday. The 48-year-old victim flagged down Officer Piotr Pogorzelski at East 31st Street and Madison Avenue Saturday night and described being "lightly" struck by a burgundy Chevy Camaro driven by a man who seemed drunk or on drugs, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. Pogorzelski, with help from backup officers, found Brian Vanbiert, who had a valid registration and …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
3-Car Crash Closes GWB Lower Level 3-Car Crash Closes GWB Lower Level 3-Car Crash Closes GWB Lower Level
3-Car Crash Closes GWB Lower Level FORT LEE, N.J. -- The eastbound lower level of the George Washington Bridge was closed for more than an hour Sunday afternoon after a three-car crash created major traffic tie-ups in Fort Lee. "Injuries reportedly were all minor," the Port Authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice after the 2:40 p.m. crash, which forced authority police to re-route motorists to the upper level -- in some instances by turning them around. One lower-level eastbound lane was reopened 20 minutes after the crash, Pentangelo said. All were open by 3:55 p.m., he said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Passaic Sheriff: Prescription Drug Dealer Stashed Pills In Steering Column Passaic Sheriff: Prescription Drug Dealer Stashed Pills In Steering Column Passaic Sheriff: Prescription Drug Dealer Stashed Pills In Steering Column
Passaic Sheriff: Prescription Drug Dealer Stashed Pills In Steering Column PATERSON, N.J. -- A Paterson dealer selling prescription drugs on the street had more than four dozen Oxycodone pills hidden in the steering column of his car -- and 230 Clonazepams in his home, Passaic County Sheriff Richard N. Berdnik said Saturday. Berdnik's detectives checked out a tip in the area of E. 35th Street and 20th Avenue and saw 44-year-old Damon Brown approach a car holding a prescription bottle, remove several pills and "hand them to the occupants in exchange for money," Berdnik said. As the vehicle left, Brown got into a parked green 2001 Audi and drove off, the s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Upper Saddle River PD: Distracted Driver Duty Nets 3 'Felony Lane' Members Upper Saddle River PD: Distracted Driver Duty Nets 3 'Felony Lane' Members Upper Saddle River PD: Distracted Driver Duty Nets 3 'Felony Lane' Members
Upper Saddle River PD: Distracted Driver Duty Nets 3 'Felony Lane' Members UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J. -- An Upper Saddle River patrol officer on a special distracted drivers detail picked off three members of the infamous Felony Lane Gang of Florida-based car burglars, authorities told Daily Voice. Upper Saddle River police were among 20 law enforcement agencies in Bergen County that received April state funding for stepped-up "U drive. U text. U pay." enforcement as part of the National Safety Council's Distracted Driving Month campaign. Around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Officer Ken Osborne stopped a a white BMW SUV on Lake Street and East Saddle River Road for…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Wayne PD: Camera Helps Detectives Nab Burglar With Stolen NJ State Van Wayne PD: Camera Helps Detectives Nab Burglar With Stolen NJ State Van Wayne PD: Camera Helps Detectives Nab Burglar With Stolen NJ State Van
Wayne PD: Camera Helps Detectives Nab Burglar With Stolen NJ State Van WAYNE, N.J. -- A quality surveillance camera caught clear images of a 51-year-old Paterson ex-con driving a stolen state Treasury Department van stealing copper piping and fixtures from a supply trailer early Friday, said Wayne police who arrested him a short time later. Construction workers at the Sisco Village complex on Runnymede Drive reported the theft at 6:45 a.m. Friday, Capt. Laurence Martin said. Video surveillance systems picked up "clear images" of Vincent M. Fornino breaking a chain that locked the trailer, removing several pieces of copper and loading it into the whit…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood Cabbie Charged With Sexually Abusing Underage Victim Englewood Cabbie Charged With Sexually Abusing Underage Victim Englewood Cabbie Charged With Sexually Abusing Underage Victim
Englewood Cabbie Charged With Sexually Abusing Underage Victim ENGLEWOOD, N.J. – A married cab driver from Englewood sexually abused an underage victim, said authorities who arrested him. Russel Joseph, 37, “was engaging in inappropriate sexual conduct with a victim who was less than sixteen years of age,” Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Friday. Detectives from his office and Englewood police arrested Joseph after interviewing the alleged victim, Grewal said. A judge ordered him held in the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack on charges of sexual assault by sexual contact, ag…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
DNA Links Garfield Ex-Con To $25,000 Fair Lawn Diner Burglary DNA Links Garfield Ex-Con To $25,000 Fair Lawn Diner Burglary DNA Links Garfield Ex-Con To $25,000 Fair Lawn Diner Burglary
DNA Links Garfield Ex-Con To $25,000 Fair Lawn Diner Burglary FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- A Garfield ex-con with a 20-year rap sheet was in drug rehab last month when DNA tied him to the theft of $25,000 during the burglary of a Fair Lawn diner where he used to work, authorities said. Randy Pino, 37, shimmied through a food delivery chute and forced his way into a basement where the cash was kept at the Empress Diner on River Road during an overnight break-in on Sept. 20, 2015, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Detective Sgt. Tim O’Shaughnessy and the Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation recovered DNA from a torn latex glove found outside the diner …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Bottles Of Booze Point To Moonachie Man In Hasbrouck Heights Gym Theft Bottles Of Booze Point To Moonachie Man In Hasbrouck Heights Gym Theft Bottles Of Booze Point To Moonachie Man In Hasbrouck Heights Gym Theft
Bottles Of Booze Point To Moonachie Man In Hasbrouck Heights Gym Theft HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N.J. -- Hasbrouck Heights police charged a Moonachie man with stealing a credit card from a gym locker after they said he used it to buy booze. A 24-Hour Fitness patron told police someone took the credit card Thursday night after swiping his car keys from a locker at the Route 17 facility, Lt. Michael Colaneri Jr told Daily Voice. Officer Joseph Olivo soon after spotted 21-year-old Christopher Siguenza walking north along the southbound highway after leaving Liquor Master, Coloneri said. Siguenza, who was carrying two bottles of alcohol, immediately "became argume…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Obituaries
Cremation To Follow Monday Service For Popular Ramsey Teen Cremation To Follow Monday Service For Popular Ramsey Teen Cremation To Follow Monday Service For Popular Ramsey Teen
Cremation To Follow Monday Service For Popular Ramsey Teen RAMSEY, N.J. -- A private cremation will follow a funeral service Monday for a former Ramsey High School soccer captain who died suddenly on Wednesday. A service for Samuel Wyatt "Sam" Berman, 19, will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Paul RC Church, 200 Wyckoff Ave. in Ramsey. The family asked that attendees meet at the church. Sam is survived by his parents, Don and Rosemarie Berman, his sister, Lauren Deger, and her husband, and his grandparents, Sergio and Mary Sciancalepore. He also leaves aunts, uncles and cousins. ****** Condolences continued to pour in to the fam…

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