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
Wayne Police Nab Accused 'Booster Crew' Shoplifters On Route 80 Wayne Police Nab Accused 'Booster Crew' Shoplifters On Route 80 Wayne Police Nab Accused 'Booster Crew' Shoplifters On Route 80
Wayne Police Nab Accused 'Booster Crew' Shoplifters On Route 80 WAYNE, N.J. -- Wayne police pulled over a getaway car and arrested two accused members of a "booster crew" centered in the Rockland and Orange county (NY) area -- one of them from Mahwah -- who'd just stolen several pairs of high-priced sneakers, authorities said Monday. Officers Lorenzo “Larry” Passano, Brian Bradford and John Barrows stopped the white Nissan Altima with New York license plates on eastbound Route 80 around 5:30 p.m. Sunday after it left the Wayne Towne Center, Capt. Laurence Martin said. Moments earlier, James R. Taylor, 32, of Mahwah and a 28-year-old companion,…

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Pascack Valley, NJ
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Change Draws Closer In NJ Law Named For Hillsdale Girl Killed In Sex Crime Change Draws Closer In NJ Law Named For Hillsdale Girl Killed In Sex Crime Change Draws Closer In NJ Law Named For Hillsdale Girl Killed In Sex Crime
Change Draws Closer In NJ Law Named For Hillsdale Girl Killed In Sex Crime HILLSDALE, N.J. -- A measure that would amend state law to require life imprisonment without parole for anyone convicted of murder of a minor under 18 years old while committing a sex crime drew closer to reality on Monday. The legislation, already approved by the Assembly, was advanced to the full Senate by its Judiciary Committee in Trenton. The original meaure is known as Joan's Law, for 7-year-old Joan D’Alessandro of Hillsdale, who was raped and killed by a neighbor while selling Girl Scout cookies door-to-door in 1973. It applied to anyone convicted of killing a victim under 14 years …

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Hackensack, NJ
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Seen Him? Rochelle Park Police Seek Help Identifying ATM Thief Seen Him? Rochelle Park Police Seek Help Identifying ATM Thief Seen Him? Rochelle Park Police Seek Help Identifying ATM Thief
Seen Him? Rochelle Park Police Seek Help Identifying ATM Thief ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. -- Rochelle Park police asked the public for help identifying a man who they said installed a skimming device on an ATM machine over the weekend. The bandit attached the device at a West Passaic Street bank on Sunday, Detective Sgt. James DePreta said. The skimmers, which are often unnoticeable, collect information from the magnetic strips of cards inserted into ATMs.  Identity thieves then use that information to make purchases or payments for themselves -- or they sell the information to those who will.  The weekend thief in Rochelle Park was described as Asian, in h…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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No One Hurt As Allendale Home Burns To Ground No One Hurt As Allendale Home Burns To Ground No One Hurt As Allendale Home Burns To Ground
No One Hurt As Allendale Home Burns To Ground ALLENDALE, N.J. -- No serious injuries were reported after an Allendale home burned to the ground before dawn Monday. The 2½- story Crescent Place home was immediately evacuated after the fire broke out around 3 a.m., responders said. Flames spread quickly, drawing assisting firefighters from Franklin Lakes, Glen Rock, Ho-Ho-Kus, Mahwah, Midland Park, Oakland, Ramsey, Saddle River, Upper Saddle River, Waldwick and Wyckoff. CLICK HERE for PHOTOS: BTFirePhotos.com

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Armed Bandit Robs $1,800 From Wayne Nail Salon Armed Bandit Robs $1,800 From Wayne Nail Salon Armed Bandit Robs $1,800 From Wayne Nail Salon
Armed Bandit Robs $1,800 From Wayne Nail Salon WAYNE, N.J. -- A masked gunman fled with $1,800 from a Wayne nail salon over the weekend, said police who were investigating the holdup. Described as white and in his 40s, the robber didn't harm any customers or take anything from them before fleeing with cash from the register at the Hamburg Turnpike salon around 4:15 p.m. Sunday, Capt. Laurence Martin said. Detectives were reviewing video surveillance, said Martin. The robber was about 5-foot-9, with salt and pepper hair and wearing wire-frame prescription glasses along with the mask, he said. Martin asked that anyone who saw anything o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Knife-Wielding Clifton Bar Patron Resists Arrest Police: Knife-Wielding Clifton Bar Patron Resists Arrest Police: Knife-Wielding Clifton Bar Patron Resists Arrest
Police: Knife-Wielding Clifton Bar Patron Resists Arrest CLIFTON, N.J. -- A Clifton police officer disarmed a bar patron who refused to give up a knife and then was joined by fellow officers who had to subdue the man after a lengthy struggle, authorities said Monday. Jhordan Gutierrez, 22, of Clifton was seated at the end of the bar in La Officina on Lexington Avenue around 12:30 a.m. Monday when Officer Christopher O'Brien -- alerted to a report of a patron carrying a knife -- ordered him to show his hands, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. Gutierrrez refused and then fought back when O'Brien grabbed him, Bracken said. O'Brien got the knife aw…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Clifton Detective Cracks Car Burglary String With Arrest Police: Clifton Detective Cracks Car Burglary String With Arrest Police: Clifton Detective Cracks Car Burglary String With Arrest
Police: Clifton Detective Cracks Car Burglary String With Arrest CLIFTON, N.J. -- Clifton police cracked a series of overnight car burglaries with the arrest of a Passaic man, authorities said Monday. Thomas Hansen, 22, was already in the Passaic County Jail, having been arrested Feb. 21 on drug charges, when Detective Alex Zamora connected him to more than a dozen car break-ins reported in a four- to five-block radius of the Rosemawr section a few days before. Hansen was charged with 15 counts of burglary, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Glen Rock High School Student, 15, Caught With LSD Glen Rock High School Student, 15, Caught With LSD Glen Rock High School Student, 15, Caught With LSD
Glen Rock High School Student, 15, Caught With LSD GLEN ROCK, N.J. -- A 15-year-old Glen Rock High School student was caught on school grounds with LSD, police said. Acting on "information and evidence" provided by school officials, Detective Mike Trover took the boy into custody and seized the "acid" on Friday, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Police issued a juvenile complaint for drug charges that will be heard in the Family Part of Superior Court in Hackensack, he said. Heroin has dominated news accounts in recent years, with suburbanites of varying ages overdosing or being arrested. Some say LSD poses a threat of…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Two-Car Crash Backs Northbound PIP Traffic From GWB Two-Car Crash Backs Northbound PIP Traffic From GWB Two-Car Crash Backs Northbound PIP Traffic From GWB
Two-Car Crash Backs Northbound PIP Traffic From GWB FORT LEE, N.J. -- A two-car crash from the upper level of the George Washington Bridge backed up northbound Palisades Interstate Parkway traffic during the Monday morning rush. A tow truck was requested.

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Yorktown, NY
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BMW Dealer From Yorktown Uses Buyer's Money For Himself, Police Say BMW Dealer From Yorktown Uses Buyer's Money For Himself, Police Say BMW Dealer From Yorktown Uses Buyer's Money For Himself, Police Say
BMW Dealer From Yorktown Uses Buyer's Money For Himself, Police Say WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. – A BMW dealer from Yorktown Heights used a Tenafly, NJ customer’s money to pay for his own car and its insurance, said police who arrested him on theft charges. Michael J. Goldberg, 25, stole the victim’s checking account information, made several withdrawals from the account and also never credited him for a service contract he bought for a new car, Tenafly Police Capt. Michael deMoncada said. The money was transferred instead to an account maintained by BMW Financial Services, then ended up being used or pocketed by Goldberg, he said. The victim contacted police…

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