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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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
'Sovereign Citizens' Tangle With Rochelle Park Police After Crash 'Sovereign Citizens' Tangle With Rochelle Park Police After Crash 'Sovereign Citizens' Tangle With Rochelle Park Police After Crash
'Sovereign Citizens' Tangle With Rochelle Park Police After Crash ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. – A transient involved in a crash and female associate who showed up at the scene Friday morning both assaulted Rochelle Park police while refusing to provide information about themselves -- and were then released without bail by a judge. Officers eventually had to pepper spray 37-year-old Wayne Hall, a transient primarily based in Hackensack who gave them only his name – and, it turned out, had both an active warrant for his arrest and a suspended driver’s license – following the Central Avenue crash, Lt. Dean Pinto said. Officer Chris Saldivia asked Hall for his licens…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Garfield Homeowner Wrestles With Burglar Garfield Homeowner Wrestles With Burglar Garfield Homeowner Wrestles With Burglar
Garfield Homeowner Wrestles With Burglar GARFIELD, N.J. – A Garfield homeowner fought with a 60-year-old burglar he caught in his house until a detective who was in the area arrived and seized the intruder, authorities said Friday. Detective Dennis Serritella responded to the Willow Street burglary call just after 9 p.m. Wednesday and found the homeowner struggling with Theodore Sutton of Garfield in a second-floor apartment, Capt. Darren Sucorowski said. Serritella arrested Sutton, who records show has an extensive criminal history. Officers and detectives, meanwhile, determined that he’d entered through an unlocked rear door an…

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Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Garfield Man, 21, Charged With Masturbating In Front Of Teen Girls Garfield Man, 21, Charged With Masturbating In Front Of Teen Girls Garfield Man, 21, Charged With Masturbating In Front Of Teen Girls
Garfield Man, 21, Charged With Masturbating In Front Of Teen Girls GARFIELD, N.J. -- A 21-year-old man masturbated in front of four early-teenage girls, said Garfield police who arrested him. Nicholas Damico of Garfield was taken into custody after the girls reported the incident and investigators identified him, with help from patrol officers, Capt. Darren Sucorowski said. The girls – ages 13 and 14 – told police he’d masturbated in full view and then walked past them with his genitals exposed before entering a Hartman Avenue residence just before 5:30 p.m. this past Sunday, Sucorowski said. Damico was released pending a court hearing on charges of crimi…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority Police Rescue Newark, JFK Airport Victims Hours Apart Port Authority Police Rescue Newark, JFK Airport Victims Hours Apart Port Authority Police Rescue Newark, JFK Airport Victims Hours Apart
Port Authority Police Rescue Newark, JFK Airport Victims Hours Apart Port Authority police revived two unresponsive victims at separate area airports within less than eight hours of one another. PAPD officers at Newark Airport's Terminal found a 78-year-old Middlesex County man on the floor of the mezzanine level around 10 p.m. Thursday, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. "He had no pulse and wasn't breathing," he said. Using a defibrillator, the officers officers applied three shocks to the man, who was still unresponsive. "Another officer took over manual chest compressions until an Advanced Life Support team responded and…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahopac, NY
Breaking News
Cable TV Worker From Brewster Dies On Job At High School Cable TV Worker From Brewster Dies On Job At High School Cable TV Worker From Brewster Dies On Job At High School
Cable TV Worker From Brewster Dies On Job At High School A 62-year-old Optimum cable worker from Brewster whose body was found in a utility closet at a New Jersey all-girls high school died of an apparent heart attack, authorities said. Paul A. Glatz was doing installation work at the Academy of the Holy Angels in Demarest when he was struck, they said. His body was found just before noon Wednesday morning, about 24 hours after he arrived at the school, Demarest Police Chief James Powderly III said. School officials quickly sent a robo-message to parents and assembled students and staff for a briefing, the chief said. Counselors were made availa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Grease Truck Burns Outside Lyndhurst Diner Grease Truck Burns Outside Lyndhurst Diner Grease Truck Burns Outside Lyndhurst Diner
Grease Truck Burns Outside Lyndhurst Diner LYNDHURST, N.J. -- A grease truck collecting waste caught fire outside the Lyndhurst Diner before dawn Friday. Firefighters quickly knocked down the blaze, which broke out around 5:45 a.m. Also damaged were several trash bins, fire officials said. All units were released by 6:30 a.m.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen, Passaic Police Paying Extra Attention To Inattentive Drivers Bergen, Passaic Police Paying Extra Attention To Inattentive Drivers Bergen, Passaic Police Paying Extra Attention To Inattentive Drivers
Bergen, Passaic Police Paying Extra Attention To Inattentive Drivers Police in Bergen and Passaic are all in to make roads safer during Distracted Driver Month in April. From April 1-21, police in dozens of departments will literally be working overtime on roving patrols and fixed checkpoints targeting distracted drivers as part of the nationwide “U Drive. U Text. U Pay” campaign. “Our objective is to reduce the number of motor vehicle fatalities in the state with a distracted driver contributing cause by 2.5% percent,” Wallington Police Chief Carmelo Imbruglia said. In New Jersey, the most significant cause of fatal and incapacitating crashes is inattentio…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Stunt-Riding Body-Building Motorcyclist In Chase Was DUI Police: Stunt-Riding Body-Building Motorcyclist In Chase Was DUI Police: Stunt-Riding Body-Building Motorcyclist In Chase Was DUI
Police: Stunt-Riding Body-Building Motorcyclist In Chase Was DUI CLIFTON, N.J. -- A body-building Bogota motorcyclist was under the influence of drugs when he traveled in and out of the cones at a construction site, knocking some down and endangering workers, then led Clifton police on a chase, authorities said Thursday. Officer Garrell Middleton was working the traffic detail at Broad Street site near Route 19 Wednesday when he spotted the cycle -- without a license plate -- darting in and out of the cones, Lt. Robert Bracken told Daily Voice. Middleton tried stopping him, but the rider took off, leading a pursuit onto Colfax Avenue toward Clifton Avenu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Wayne PD: Rebuffed Store Employee Put Knife To Female Co-Worker's Throat Wayne PD: Rebuffed Store Employee Put Knife To Female Co-Worker's Throat Wayne PD: Rebuffed Store Employee Put Knife To Female Co-Worker's Throat
Wayne PD: Rebuffed Store Employee Put Knife To Female Co-Worker's Throat WAYNE, N.J. -- A Route 23 convenience store employee whose advances were rejected by a co-worker was caught on surveillance video putting a knife to her throat, said Wayne police who arrested him Thursday. Officers responded around 5:30 a.m. to the Circle K convenience store at the corner of Packanack Lake Road, where the woman told them that Jaber Baker, 24, of Clifton made "unsolicted advances" -- including grabbing her face, fondling her and making attempts to kiss her. She said she "rebuffed [Baker’s] aggressive advances" and he pulled a switchblade "with the bl…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood PD: Rewards Offered For Tips In Home Invasion, Street Robberies Englewood PD: Rewards Offered For Tips In Home Invasion, Street Robberies Englewood PD: Rewards Offered For Tips In Home Invasion, Street Robberies
Englewood PD: Rewards Offered For Tips In Home Invasion, Street Robberies ENGLEWOOD, N.J. -- Rewards are being offered for information in an Englewood neighborhood-shaking home invasion, in which a couple was held at gunpoint while their valuables were stolen, and in a 14-month series of street robberies of Hispanic victims, the latest of whom was stabbed. Authorities hope the promise of cash for information in the cases "will generate a call to our hotline, which could be the key to arrests," Detective Capt. Tim Torell told Daily Voice Thursday morning. "To those who do know something, imagine these victims were you or your family," he said. …

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