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
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Rochelle Park PD: Driver In Route 17 Crash Had Backpack Of Drugs Rochelle Park PD: Driver In Route 17 Crash Had Backpack Of Drugs Rochelle Park PD: Driver In Route 17 Crash Had Backpack Of Drugs
Rochelle Park PD: Driver In Route 17 Crash Had Backpack Of Drugs ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. – A Rockland County man who crashed his car into another on Route 17 early Friday had cocaine and pot stashed in a backpack, Rochelle Park police said. Officer Brian Gallina smelled burnt marijuana coming from a car driven by Matthew Bosco, 20, of Pearl River following the crash just after 8 8 a.m., Lt. Dean Pinto said. In plain view was a glass bong and the backpack, Pinto said. Inside the pack police found three baggies of cocaine, a large sandwich bag filled with marijuana, two baggies with 10 Xanax pills, four vials of THC oil and various drug paraphernalia, he sai…

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Stony Point, NY
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Stony Point DWI Crash Driver Charged In Passenger's Death Stony Point DWI Crash Driver Charged In Passenger's Death Stony Point DWI Crash Driver Charged In Passenger's Death
Stony Point DWI Crash Driver Charged In Passenger's Death WOODLAND PARK, N.J. – A 20-year-old passenger was killed and the Stony Point driver charged with causing his death in a New Jersey crash, authorities said Friday. Francisco Alberto Almonte, 29, of Tompkins Cove, was under the influence when he crashed his 2004 Chevy Impala in the Passaic County town of Woodland Park just after 6:15 a.m. Thursday, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Police Chief Anthony J. Galietti said in a joint statement. The crash killed his passenger, whose name was being withheld pending family notification, they said. Almonte, meanwhile, was charged with …

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Paterson, NJ
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Blown Stop Sign Leads Paterson Anti-Crime Detectives To Loaded Handgun Blown Stop Sign Leads Paterson Anti-Crime Detectives To Loaded Handgun Blown Stop Sign Leads Paterson Anti-Crime Detectives To Loaded Handgun
Blown Stop Sign Leads Paterson Anti-Crime Detectives To Loaded Handgun PATERSON, N.J. -- Paterson police who stopped a stolen car after the driver ran a stop sign found a loaded semi-automatic handgun and arrested both occupants, authorities said. The Anti-Crime Unit officers were in the 5th Ward on Monday when the black Acura MDX blew the sign at Market and East 18th streets, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. They followed the vehicle and ran a records check that showed the license plate not recorded, he said, so they pulled the Acura over on 20th Avenue. The passenger -- identified as Carlos Burgos, 19, of Paterson – was trying to conceal a license plate…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
DWI Driver Charged In Passenger's Death In Woodland Park Crash DWI Driver Charged In Passenger's Death In Woodland Park Crash DWI Driver Charged In Passenger's Death In Woodland Park Crash
DWI Driver Charged In Passenger's Death In Woodland Park Crash WOODLAND PARK, N.J. – A 20-year-old passenger was killed and the Rockland County driver charged with causing his death in a Woodland Park crash, authorities said Friday. Francisco Alberto Almonte, 29, of Tompkins Cove in Stony Point, was under the influence when he crashed his 2004 Chevy Impala on Rifle Camp Road just after 6:15 a.m. Thursday, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Woodland Park Police Chief Anthony J. Galietti said in a joint statement. The crash killed his passenger, whose name was being withheld pending family notification, they said. Almonte, meanwhile, was ch…

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Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Police: DWI Driver In New Milford Crash Tried Getting Into Other Cars Police: DWI Driver In New Milford Crash Tried Getting Into Other Cars Police: DWI Driver In New Milford Crash Tried Getting Into Other Cars
Police: DWI Driver In New Milford Crash Tried Getting Into Other Cars NEW MILFORD, N.J. -- A Connecticut woman high on heroin sped past a police roadblock, slammed her car into one driven by an elderly motorist, then hopped into another driver's car in an attempt to get away, New Milford police said Friday. Nilajah N. Sumter, 36, of Norwalk, drove around the road closure on Boulevard and "continued north at a high rate of speed" around 11 a.m. Thursday, Detective Kevin Van Saders told Daily Voice. Sgt. Christopher Vinci, who was working the traffic detail, got out of his vehicle in an attempt to stop her, Van Saders said, but she sped past him on th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
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Police: Car Abandoned By DWI Driver Struck By Train In Ridgewood Police: Car Abandoned By DWI Driver Struck By Train In Ridgewood Police: Car Abandoned By DWI Driver Struck By Train In Ridgewood
Police: Car Abandoned By DWI Driver Struck By Train In Ridgewood RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- A drunk driver abandoned her car on railroad tracks overnight in Ridgewood, where it was struck by a train, police said. No one was injured, they said. "The vehicle was driven onto tracks from Lake Avenue behind 233-239 Goffle Road at about 1:15 a.m.," Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke told Daily Voice. "The driver exited her vehicle after abandoning it on the tracks and walked to the roadway," Luthcke said. "The train then struck her parked vehicle." Police found the 28-year-old driver from Little Falls on Goffle Road, the chief said. They c…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Your Community
New Jersey 'Teacher Of The Year' Changing Lives At Pascack Valley High New Jersey 'Teacher Of The Year' Changing Lives At Pascack Valley High New Jersey 'Teacher Of The Year' Changing Lives At Pascack Valley High
New Jersey 'Teacher Of The Year' Changing Lives At Pascack Valley High HILLSDALE, N.J. — Pascack Valley High School's Argine Safari was named New Jersey's 2016-17 Teacher of the Year by Classroom Close-Up NJ. Safari, who was born in Armenia, teaches music at the high school. "I truly believe that music and arts  have this transformative power," Safari told Classroom Close-Up. "We can actually change lives." Safari is an award-winning music educator, advocate, vocal coach, clinician and conductor. She is active as a pianist and vocalist, having performed at Carnegie Hall, MSG and Zankel Hall. "While her school is 88 percent white, she…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Gang Of Four Plus One Busted In Bergenfield Drug Raid Gang Of Four Plus One Busted In Bergenfield Drug Raid Gang Of Four Plus One Busted In Bergenfield Drug Raid
Gang Of Four Plus One Busted In Bergenfield Drug Raid BERGENFIELD, N.J. – Four men who've combined for more than 50 arrests over two decades were taken into custody when authorities raided a Bergenfield home that they said was being used as a drug market. Authorities seized a stolen .45-caliber handgun, along with hollow-point bullets, and nearly an ounce of cocaine in Wednesday’s raid on a Howard Drive apartment shared by Justin Coombs and Courtney Fung, both 35, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. Coombs was carrying 17 grams of cocaine at the time, Grewal said. Inside the home detectives from the prosecutor’s office and borough…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Your Community
Bergen School Officials Reassure Parents After Sub's Child Sex Abuse Arrest Bergen School Officials Reassure Parents After Sub's Child Sex Abuse Arrest Bergen School Officials Reassure Parents After Sub's Child Sex Abuse Arrest
Bergen School Officials Reassure Parents After Sub's Child Sex Abuse Arrest School administrators in various Bergen County districts reached out to parents Thursday as news spread that a substitute teacher from Teaneck was charged with inappropriately touching a 6-year-old township girl. Ronald Kraus, 41, was ordered held in the Bergen County Jail pending a court appearance on charges of sexual assault by sexual contact and child endangerment. Kraus, who is single, is a substitute teacher in several districts, including Teaneck and Waldwick. Administrators in both districts were among those who wrote to parents early Thursday. "Although I was aware that an i…

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Pascack Valley, NJ
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PVHS Shelters In Place As Police Chase Parolee Through Woods PVHS Shelters In Place As Police Chase Parolee Through Woods PVHS Shelters In Place As Police Chase Parolee Through Woods
Pvhs Shelters In Place As Police Chase Parolee Through Woods HILLSDALE, N.J. -- Pascack Valley High School briefly went into a shelter-in-place Thursday morning while police searched the nearby woods for a parolee wanted on warrants who took off from Hillsdale officers who stopped him moments earlier. Richard L. Coquel, 38, eventually was tracked down and taken into custody without further incident, Detective William Diedtrich said. Officers responding to a 10:30 a.m. call of a panhandler outside the Shop Rite found a white SUV with New York State license plates parked outside the Oritani Bank on Broadway in Woodcliff Lake, Diedtrich said. Officer B…

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