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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Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
North Arlington PD: Dozing Driver Had Loaded Handgun, Drugs For Sale North Arlington PD: Dozing Driver Had Loaded Handgun, Drugs For Sale North Arlington PD: Dozing Driver Had Loaded Handgun, Drugs For Sale
North Arlington PD: Dozing Driver Had Loaded Handgun, Drugs For Sale NORTH ARLINGTON, N.J. – A driver found passed out behind the wheel of a truck parked outside a North Arlington diner had a loaded handgun in his pocket and various drugs – including cocaine and Xanax – stashed in the console, authorities said. Officers responding to a 2 a.m. call Wednesday that a man had been asleep or unconscious in a GMC Denali outside the Arlington Diner for about an hour found 22-year-old Ramel A. Harrison of Orange out cold inside, Police Chief John Hearn said. It took several attempts to wake Harrison, after which an officer “observed what appeared to be the handle of…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Palisades Parkway PD: Body Found At State Line Lookout In Alpine Palisades Parkway PD: Body Found At State Line Lookout In Alpine Palisades Parkway PD: Body Found At State Line Lookout In Alpine
Palisades Parkway PD: Body Found At State Line Lookout In Alpine UPDATE (1:40 p.m.): 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…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
9W In Englewood Cliffs Finally Cleared After DWI Driver Splits Pole 9W In Englewood Cliffs Finally Cleared After DWI Driver Splits Pole 9W In Englewood Cliffs Finally Cleared After DWI Driver Splits Pole
9W In Englewood Cliffs Finally Cleared After DWI Driver Splits Pole ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. -- A DWI driver from the Bronx escaped injury after his van split a utility pole on 9W in Englewood Cliffs overnight Wednesday, thickening traffic throughout the day. Workers were finally able to remove the van just before 5 p.m., after utility crews untangled the wires that fell after the 4:30 a.m. crash at Hollywood Avenue. Police Chief Michael Cioffi was right when he told Daily Voice early Wednesday that it would be an all-day job. "None of the wires broke and the power wasn't interrupted," Cioffi said. "[The driver] is lucky he got out of it OK.&q…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Driver Flees Stuck Car In Bergenfield Before Freight Train Smacks It Driver Flees Stuck Car In Bergenfield Before Freight Train Smacks It Driver Flees Stuck Car In Bergenfield Before Freight Train Smacks It
Driver Flees Stuck Car In Bergenfield Before Freight Train Smacks It BERGENFIELD, N.J. – An upstate New York driver got out of her stalled car moments before it was struck overnight Wednesday by a freight train in Bergenfield, authorities said. The 23-year-old Utica woman told police she was headed west on West Clinton Avenue when her 2005 Honda Civic got stuck in a gravel ditch along the railroad tracks as she tried to make a right turn onto South Front Street at 1:50 a.m., Capt. Mustafa Rabboh said. She “attempted to drive the vehicle out of the ditch but was unsuccessful,” he said. A witness who was stopped behind her got out of his car and warned her th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Elmwood Park Mayor, 65, Foils Utility Scam, Arrest Made Elmwood Park Mayor, 65, Foils Utility Scam, Arrest Made Elmwood Park Mayor, 65, Foils Utility Scam, Arrest Made
Elmwood Park Mayor, 65, Foils Utility Scam, Arrest Made ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- A Little Ferry man accused of claiming to be a utility worker checking the furnace Wednesday chose the wrong target: Elmwood Park Mayor Robert Colletti. Colletti stopped home for coffee between a breakfast meeting and four afternoon weddings at Borough Hall when he noticed "a figure through the glass at the front door." "He had a face mask on and some type of bandana around his forehead, with a hardhat on top of that," the mayor told Daily Voice. "He was also carrying a duffel bag with no insignia of any company whatsoever." Ensuring tha…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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PHOTOS: Oakland Driver, 26, Struck By Fallen Tree In Mahwah Critical PHOTOS: Oakland Driver, 26, Struck By Fallen Tree In Mahwah Critical PHOTOS: Oakland Driver, 26, Struck By Fallen Tree In Mahwah Critical
Photos: Oakland Driver, 26, Struck By Fallen Tree In Mahwah Critical MAHWAH, N.J. -- A 26-year-old Oakland driver was critically injured when her car was struck by a falling tree on Ramapo Valley Road in Mahwah during Wednesday afternoon's high winds, authorities said. Responding officers rendered aid to the woman, who was alone in the Hyundai Elantra when it was hit by the 100-foot tree, Police Chief James Batelli told Daily Voice. Mahwah Ambulance and Rescue Squad took her to Hackensack University Medical Center with critical facial and internal injuries, Batelli said. Wind gusts were somewhere around 35 to 40 miles an hour when the crash occurred, the ch…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
NJ Bail Reform: Twice-Freed Garfield Convict Charged With Attempted Murder NJ Bail Reform: Twice-Freed Garfield Convict Charged With Attempted Murder NJ Bail Reform: Twice-Freed Garfield Convict Charged With Attempted Murder
NJ Bail Reform: Twice-Freed Garfield Convict Charged With Attempted Murder PATERSON, N.J. – New Jersey’s bail reform law continues to have repercussions: Two weeks after a judge released him from jail while awaiting sentencing in one gun case and a trial in another, a Garfield man shot someone, Passaic County authorities said. Andre Morales, 29, was free on bail while awaiting a plea-bargained five-year sentence for carrying a gun when he was arrested on Feb. 27 in Paterson on charges of maintaining a drug production facility. Once again, he was carrying a gun, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said Wednesday. A hearing followed four days later, during …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Monsey, NY
Breaking News
Sex Offender From Monsey Admits Groping Woman On Flight Sex Offender From Monsey Admits Groping Woman On Flight Sex Offender From Monsey Admits Groping Woman On Flight
Sex Offender From Monsey Admits Groping Woman On Flight MONSEY, N.Y. -- A registered sex offender from Rockland County admitted Wednesday that he repeatedly fondled a woman on a flight from Israel to Newark, federal authorities said. Yoel Oberlander, 36, of Monsey pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Newark to assault with the intent to stalk, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick said. Oberlander was sitting next to the victim and her mother on a May 29 El Al flight from Tel Aviv to Newark Liberty International Airport, Fitzpatrick said. During the flight, he admitted Wednesday, he "touched [the victim] in the area of her chest,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Closter, Demarest Men Had Heroin, Pot, LSD, More For Sale Prosecutor: Closter, Demarest Men Had Heroin, Pot, LSD, More For Sale Prosecutor: Closter, Demarest Men Had Heroin, Pot, LSD, More For Sale
Prosecutor: Closter, Demarest Men Had Heroin, Pot, LSD, More For Sale CLOSTER, N.J. – Two single, unemployed men – one from Closter, the other from Demarest – had a variety of drugs for sale in their homes when Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives and local police busted them, authorities said Wednesday. Demarest resident Adam A. Russi, who turned 20 on Sunday, and 21-year-old Michael Walling of Closter, had heroin, marijuana, “numerous doses of LSD,” psilocybin mushrooms, cocaine and hash-oil, as well as items used to package drugs for sale, when their homes were raided earlier this week, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. The warranted searche…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Your Community
Paramus Lawmaker Pushes Bid For Mandatory Heroin Antidote In NJ Schools Paramus Lawmaker Pushes Bid For Mandatory Heroin Antidote In NJ Schools Paramus Lawmaker Pushes Bid For Mandatory Heroin Antidote In NJ Schools
Paramus Lawmaker Pushes Bid For Mandatory Heroin Antidote In NJ Schools PARAMUS, N.J. -- All New Jersey schools would be required to keep Narcan on hand to administer to students or staffers who overdose on opiates, if a bill co-sponsored by a legislator from Paramus who represents Bergen and Passaic counties becomes law. “In the same way that schools are prepared to deal with life-threatening incidents like allergic reactions and cardiac arrest, they also should be equipped to deal with overdoses,” Assemblyman Joseph Lagana said after the state Assembly Appropriations Committee advanced the measure on Tuesday. “We have a means of saving children’s lives,"…

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