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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West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
Ringwood Man Gets Two Years In Federal Prison For Illegal Guns Ringwood Man Gets Two Years In Federal Prison For Illegal Guns Ringwood Man Gets Two Years In Federal Prison For Illegal Guns
Ringwood Man Gets Two Years In Federal Prison For Illegal Guns RINGWOOD, N.J. -- A Ringwood man was sentenced to two years in prison for having dozens of illegal firearms and ammunition – including machine guns. Mariusz Cebula, 36, previously admitted knowingly possessing five machine guns, which are defined as weapons that can shoot more than one shot automatically without manual reloading by a single function of the trigger – and are illegal under federal law. He also agreed to forfeit to the government an additional 12 machine guns and machine gun parts, all of which were possessed illegally, as well as 10 other firearms and firearm parts. He got m…

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: Watch Saddle Brook Burglar At Work VIDEO: Watch Saddle Brook Burglar At Work VIDEO: Watch Saddle Brook Burglar At Work
Video: Watch Saddle Brook Burglar At Work SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- A pair of surveillance videos capture a burglar breaking into a Saddle Brook motor home. The footage shows the 20-something bandit opening a large window and sliding into the 2006 Prowler Fleetwood 34-foot motor home, parked and kept at Kellar's K-9 Academy on Market Street. "He may have slept for some time inside before coming out and smoking a morning cigarette," Police Chief Robert Kugler told Daily Voice. A second video shows him going back inside and emerging with a 32-inch Samsung TV, a DVD player and a Dish Network Satellite receiver. The burglar dum…

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Beekman-Poughquag, NY
Breaking News
Pawling Driver With Broken Arm Freed In GWB Double Tractor-Trailer Crash Pawling Driver With Broken Arm Freed In GWB Double Tractor-Trailer Crash Pawling Driver With Broken Arm Freed In GWB Double Tractor-Trailer Crash
Pawling Driver With Broken Arm Freed In GWB Double Tractor-Trailer Crash A 61-year-old Pawling man sustained a broken arm and had to be cut from an SUV after a crash with two tractor trailers on the eastbound George Washington Bridge late Monday morning. Members of the Port Authority Police Emergency Services unit and authority tunnel and bridge agents freed the driver from his Mercedes after the 11:30 a.m. crash, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo said. The driver as then taken to Harlem Hospital. There were significant delays. No summonses were issued.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
River Edge Family Doctor, 79, Convicted Of Taking $200,000 In Bribes River Edge Family Doctor, 79, Convicted Of Taking $200,000 In Bribes River Edge Family Doctor, 79, Convicted Of Taking $200,000 In Bribes
River Edge Family Doctor, 79, Convicted Of Taking $200,000 In Bribes RIVER EDGE, N.J. -- Federal jurors in Newark on Monday convicted a 79-year-old River Edge family doctor of accepting $200,000 in bribes in exchange for test referrals. Jurors deliberated for just over four hours be following an 11-day trial before finding Bernard Greenspan guilty of all 10 counts brought against him: conspiring to commit violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute, the Federal Travel Act and wire fraud; three violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute; three violations of the Federal Travel Act;  three counts of wire fraud. Greenspan was part of what U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman c…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Swastika Painted On Former Mahwah Country Club Building Swastika Painted On Former Mahwah Country Club Building Swastika Painted On Former Mahwah Country Club Building
Swastika Painted On Former Mahwah Country Club Building MAHWAH, N.J. – Mahwah police were seeking the public’s help finding whomever painted a swastika on a boarded-up building that was once home to the Apple Ridge Country Club. The “symbol of hate” was painted in red paint on the building’s east side on a sheet of plywood being used to cover up windows, Police Chief James N. Batelli told Daily Voice. It wasn’t visible from East Crescent Avenue. Clergy from throughout Mahwah joined Mayor William Laforet at a town hall news conference Tuesday to denounce the act. “Our collective mission is to stand up against hateful acts in our community and a…

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by Jerry DeMarco & Lauren Kidd Ferguson
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Spring Valley Dad Charged With Exposing Himself At Mahwah Hotel Pool Spring Valley Dad Charged With Exposing Himself At Mahwah Hotel Pool Spring Valley Dad Charged With Exposing Himself At Mahwah Hotel Pool
Spring Valley Dad Charged With Exposing Himself At Mahwah Hotel Pool MAHWAH, N.J. -- A 34-year-old Spring Valley father was accused of exposing himself to a 7-year-old boy at a Mahwah hotel pool over the weekend. The boy's father told police Sunday that David Kupperman exposed himself to his son "while changing his clothes in a common area of the pool," Police Chief James Batelli said. ****** ALSO SEE: Mahwah police were seeking the public’s help finding whomever painted a swastika on a boarded-up building that was once home to the Apple Ridge Country Club. CLICK HERE.... ******  The father also said that he confronted Kupperman after he "c…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Former Port Authority Chairman Gets Year's House Arrest For Bribery Former Port Authority Chairman Gets Year's House Arrest For Bribery Former Port Authority Chairman Gets Year's House Arrest For Bribery
Former Port Authority Chairman Gets Year's House Arrest For Bribery FORT LEE, N.J. -- David Samson, the former chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, was sentenced Monday to 12 months of home confinement for pressing the parent company of United Airlines Inc. to institute a non-stop flight from Newark to South Carolina for his personal benefit. Samson, 77, also must serve four years of probation under the sentence imposed by U.S. District Judge Jose L. Linares in Newark. Samson, who now lives in Aiken, South Carolina, was New Jersey's state attorney general from 2002 to 2003 and was the founding member and c…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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Hackensack Motorist, 85, Plows Into New Milford Dunkin Donuts Hackensack Motorist, 85, Plows Into New Milford Dunkin Donuts Hackensack Motorist, 85, Plows Into New Milford Dunkin Donuts
Hackensack Motorist, 85, Plows Into New Milford Dunkin Donuts NEW MILFORD, N.J. -- An 85-year-old driver from Hackensack escaped without injury after he plowed his 2004 Honda Civic into a New Milford Dunkin Donuts Monday afternoon, police said. No summonses were issued in the 1:17 p.m crash on River Road, which didn't cause extensive damage to the building, Detective Sgt. Kevin Van Saders said. Borough firefighters and building inspectors responded and cleared the business to reopen, Van Saders said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
SUV Driver Freed With Broken Arm In GWB Double Tractor-Trailer Crash SUV Driver Freed With Broken Arm In GWB Double Tractor-Trailer Crash SUV Driver Freed With Broken Arm In GWB Double Tractor-Trailer Crash
SUV Driver Freed With Broken Arm In GWB Double Tractor-Trailer Crash FORT LEE, N.J. -- A driver sustained a broken arm and had to be cut from an SUV after a crash with two tractor trailers on the eastbound George Washington Bridge late Monday morning. Members of the Port Authority Police Emergency Services unit and authority tunnel and bridge agents freed the driver from his Mercedes after the 11:30 a.m. crash, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo said. The driver as then taken to Harlem Hospital. There were significant delays. No summonses were issued.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Teddy Bear Donation Will Brighten Kids' Faces, Fair Lawn Police Say Teddy Bear Donation Will Brighten Kids' Faces, Fair Lawn Police Say Teddy Bear Donation Will Brighten Kids' Faces, Fair Lawn Police Say
Teddy Bear Donation Will Brighten Kids' Faces, Fair Lawn Police Say FAIR LAWN, N.J. – Fair Lawn police were beginning to run out of teddy bears that they give to children involved involved in incidents when a Wayne couple stepped up. Having seen a story about police in Pennsylvania seeking teddy bears, township native Rishi Ramchandani and his wife, Nehal, gave 20 to Fair Lawn’s finest on Monday. It will “help put a smile on a child’s face,” said Officer Luis Vasquez, the PBA Local #67 president and a former classmate of Ramchandani’s. Ramchandani, who grew up in Fair Lawn, donated to the cause in the Poconos, where he first saw the story, then helped his …

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