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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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Fairview Police Officer Stalked Girlfriend With Hidden GPS Prosecutor: Fairview Police Officer Stalked Girlfriend With Hidden GPS Prosecutor: Fairview Police Officer Stalked Girlfriend With Hidden GPS
Prosecutor: Fairview Police Officer Stalked Girlfriend With Hidden GPS FAIRVIEW, N.J. – Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives charged a Fairview police officer Thursday with stalking a former girlfriend by sticking a GPS on her car. Vache “Mike” Assadourian, 42, of Ringwood was issued a summons for an April 12 first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. Assadourian, who is charged with stalking and invasion of privacy, “had been tracking his former girlfriend’s whereabouts for a period of approximately 3 months using the device” before she discovered it, Grewal said. He also “disclosed p…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahopac, NY
Breaking News
Mahopac Resident Charged In Superstorm Sandy Scam Mahopac Resident Charged In Superstorm Sandy Scam Mahopac Resident Charged In Superstorm Sandy Scam
Mahopac Resident Charged In Superstorm Sandy Scam A Mahopac resident was among five people charged Thursday by New Jersey authorities with filing fraudulent applications for federal relief funds in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.  Dominic M. Moccia, 66, received $33,839 in relief funds to which he was not entitled by filing bogus applications for FEMA assistance and a state grant under the Homeowner Resettlement Program (RSP), authorities charged.Moccia claimed in his applications that a home he owns on Webster Avenue in Seaside Heights, N.J., which was damaged by Superstorm Sandy was his primary residence when Sandy struck the Northeast on O…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Westport, CT
Breaking News
Police: Westport Nanny Stole $100K In Jewelry From Seriously Ill Client Police: Westport Nanny Stole $100K In Jewelry From Seriously Ill Client Police: Westport Nanny Stole $100K In Jewelry From Seriously Ill Client
Police: Westport Nanny Stole $100K In Jewelry From Seriously Ill Client WESTPORT, Conn. — A Westport nanny stole $100,000 worth of jewelry from the home of a seriously ill client she was hired to care for in New Jersey, police there said. Detectives arrested 23-year-old Chandroutie Gurudat of South Ozone Park, N.J., when she returned to the house, Mahwah Police Chief James N. Batelli said Thursday. Gurudat, who Batelli said has an extensive criminal history, was hired more than a year ago to take care of young children for a Westport family who has relatives in Mahwah, N.J., the chief said.  When one of the relatives became ill, she began working there, he sai…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
PHOTOS: Van Plows Through Snow Pile, Tree, Into Dumont Pole PHOTOS: Van Plows Through Snow Pile, Tree, Into Dumont Pole PHOTOS: Van Plows Through Snow Pile, Tree, Into Dumont Pole
Photos: Van Plows Through Snow Pile, Tree, Into Dumont Pole DUMONT, N.J. -- An out-of-control passenger van loaded with soda bottles jumped a sidewalk, plowed through a snow pile, uprooted a tree, then slammed into a telephone pole in Dumont Wednesday afternoon. The driver sustained a cut on his head in the crash just before 3 p.m. on westbound Madison Avenue west of the Camp Merritt Memorial Circle, which spilled a half dozen or so bottles into the street. That side of the circle was closed for a block for just under an hour as workers cut sections from the tree and the van was removed. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Cause Of Death Of Cresskill Woman Found At PIP Lookout Probed Cause Of Death Of Cresskill Woman Found At PIP Lookout Probed Cause Of Death Of Cresskill Woman Found At PIP Lookout Probed
Cause Of Death Of Cresskill Woman Found At PIP Lookout Probed ALPINE, N.J. -- Authorities were investigating the death of a 45-year-old Cresskill woman whose body was found Wednesday night at State Line Lookout in Palisades Interstate Park in Alpine. A Palisades Interstate Police officer on patrol found an unoccupied Subaru Forester parked in the lot just after 10:30 p.m., several hours after closing, Police Chief Michael Coppola said Thursday. She and a backup officer searched the area and found an unattended woman's hand bag on a rock wall located north of the main overlook along old Route 9W, he said. "As they investigated the area closer, th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Seriously Ill Mahwah Resident's Nanny Stole $100G In Jewelry Police: Seriously Ill Mahwah Resident's Nanny Stole $100G In Jewelry Police: Seriously Ill Mahwah Resident's Nanny Stole $100G In Jewelry
Police: Seriously Ill Mahwah Resident's Nanny Stole $100G In Jewelry MAHWAH, N.J. – A Westport nanny from Queens stole $100,000 worth of jewelry from the home of a seriously ill Mahwah resident she was hired to care for, township police charged. Township detectives arrested 23-year-old Chandroutie Gurudat of South Ozone Park when she returned to the house, Police Chief James N. Batelli said Thursday. They also recovered $30,000 worth of jewelry and returned it to the victim after discovering that it had been hocked in Queens, he said. Gurudat, who Batelli said has an extensive criminal history, was originally hired more than a year ago to take care of young…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Rookie Hillsdale Police Officer Nabs 3 In ID Theft, Pot, Pill Possession Rookie Hillsdale Police Officer Nabs 3 In ID Theft, Pot, Pill Possession Rookie Hillsdale Police Officer Nabs 3 In ID Theft, Pot, Pill Possession
Rookie Hillsdale Police Officer Nabs 3 In ID Theft, Pot, Pill Possession HILLSDALE, N.J. – A rookie Hillsdale police officer nabbed a trio of men after they’d swiped IDs from residents’ cars, authorities said Thursday. Officer Corey Rooney pulled their car over on Ellen Court Sunday night after it crossed the double-yellow line several times on Hillsdale Avenue, Police Chief Robert Francaviglia said. Speaking with the occupants, Rooney smelled raw marijuana, Francaviglia said. Investigating the source, he found a duffel bag containing the identifications, removed from two cars, the chief said. He also found a bag of pot, he said. One of the men, identified as …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Israeli Teen Arrested In Terror Threats To Tenafly's JCC, 150 More Israeli Teen Arrested In Terror Threats To Tenafly's JCC, 150 More Israeli Teen Arrested In Terror Threats To Tenafly's JCC, 150 More
Israeli Teen Arrested In Terror Threats To Tenafly's JCC, 150 More TENAFLY, N.J. -- An Israeli teen with American citizenship was arrested Thursday in connection with more than 100 bomb threats against Jewish institutions and community centers -- including Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly. “He’s the guy who was behind the JCC threats," Israel police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. The 19-year-old suspect -- arrested at his southern Israel home -- used voice-altering technology to call in most of the threats, authorities said. The others were emailed, they said. These of the threats were received at Kaplen JCC, the most recent the last week of F…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Two Hospitalized, One Extricated, In Closter Crash Two Hospitalized, One Extricated, In Closter Crash Two Hospitalized, One Extricated, In Closter Crash
Two Hospitalized, One Extricated, In Closter Crash CLOSTER, N.J. -- One of two drivers involved in a Thursday morning Closter crash had to be cut from the car after it rolled against a telephone pole. The crash, which occurred just before 9 a.m. at the corner of High and Perry streets, drew borough police, firefighters and ambulance workers, along with a Harrington Park ambulance crew and Demarest police. Police were investigating, Detective Sgt. Vincent Aiello said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Hillsdale Man Accused Of Stealing 200 Dead IDs To Get Credit Cards Hillsdale Man Accused Of Stealing 200 Dead IDs To Get Credit Cards Hillsdale Man Accused Of Stealing 200 Dead IDs To Get Credit Cards
Hillsdale Man Accused Of Stealing 200 Dead IDs To Get Credit Cards HILLSDALE, N.J. – A Hillsdale man steered more than 200 bogus change-of-address to his home so he could apply for credit cards using the identities of dead people, authorities charged. Demetrio Tejada, 51, was carrying various stolen identities, fraudulently obtained credit cards, forged driver’s licenses and “equipment utilized in the production of fraudulent identification cards” when he was arrested Wednesday in Hillsdale, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. U.S. Postal Inspection Service inspectors last month noticed “an unusual number of online change-of-address requests ha…

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