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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Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Rutherford PBA Raises Record $11,000 For Special Olympics Torch Run Rutherford PBA Raises Record $11,000 For Special Olympics Torch Run Rutherford PBA Raises Record $11,000 For Special Olympics Torch Run
Rutherford PBA Raises Record $11,000 For Special Olympics Torch Run RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Members of the Rutherford Police Benevolent Association raised more than $11,000 during a silent auction to benefit Special Olympics of New Jersey. More than 160 people at the Fiesta in Wood-Ridge attended what was one of the union’s most successful Law Enforcement Torch Run fundraisers ever. The PBA was setting up a donation site.

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson Police: Cat Burglar Who Struck While Victims Slept Caught Paterson Police: Cat Burglar Who Struck While Victims Slept Caught Paterson Police: Cat Burglar Who Struck While Victims Slept Caught
Paterson Police: Cat Burglar Who Struck While Victims Slept Caught PATERSON, N.J. -- A cat burglar who broke into several Paterson homes while residents were sleeping overnight was arrested by city detectives assigned to capture him, authorities said Monday. "Due to the dangerous nature of an intruder entering a home while the occupants were sleeping the Paterson Police Department assigned a team of detectives to investigate, identify and arrest [him]," Police Director Jerry Spezlale said. Detective Al Bermudez headed a team that conducted interviews, reviewed other burglaries and generally canvassed the area -- leading to the arrest of 23-year-o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Cliffside Park Shoemaker's Got Sole Cliffside Park Shoemaker's Got Sole Cliffside Park Shoemaker's Got Sole
Cliffside Park Shoemaker's Got Sole CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. — Ilia Kolosov of Cliffside Park was only 15 when his father said to him in a thick, Russian accent: "I need rent. Go get it." The 29-year-old has delivered hotel room service to celebrities, worked in a pharmacy and as a paper boy just to turn a profit for dear ol' dad. But it wasn't until Kolosov risked it all in 2012 and launched his customized dance shoe company, AIDA Dance USA, that things started coming together. "I am a millennial," Kolosov said. "I disprove the stereotype that we are lazy, Facebook-browsing nobodies. There are exception…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Detectives Find Truck With 30 Stashed Pounds Of Pot On Ridgefield Street Detectives Find Truck With 30 Stashed Pounds Of Pot On Ridgefield Street Detectives Find Truck With 30 Stashed Pounds Of Pot On Ridgefield Street
Detectives Find Truck With 30 Stashed Pounds Of Pot On Ridgefield Street RIDGEFIELD, N.J. – A tip led members of the Bergen County prosecutor’s Narcotics Task Force to a pickup truck parked on a Ridgefield street that had 30 pounds of pot stashed inside a secret compartment, authorities said. Registered in Oklahoma, the white Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck didn’t have license plates, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. Narcotics detectives from Grewal’s office along with Homeland Security investigators spotted the truck’s “trap” and summoned a K9 unit from the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office to sniff around the exterior. The dog made a positive ind…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
PHOTOS: Wallington Firefighters Douse Apartment, Garage Blaze PHOTOS: Wallington Firefighters Douse Apartment, Garage Blaze PHOTOS: Wallington Firefighters Douse Apartment, Garage Blaze
Photos: Wallington Firefighters Douse Apartment, Garage Blaze WALLINGTON, N.J. -- A dog died, but no other injuries were reported after flames swept through the rear of a Wallington florist. Firefighters who arrived at the Paterson Avenue location on the corner Mt. Pleasant Avenue just after 9:30 p.m. Saturday found a rear apartment fully involved, borough fire officials said. Flames also engulfed a pickup truck and garage, they said. It took 30 minutes to bring the two-alarm blaze under control and keep it from damaging the business, fire officials said. Joining their Wallington colleagues were firefighters from Wood Ridge, Carlstadt, and Garfield.…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgefield Drug Probationer Charged In Fairview, North Bergen Break-Ins Ridgefield Drug Probationer Charged In Fairview, North Bergen Break-Ins Ridgefield Drug Probationer Charged In Fairview, North Bergen Break-Ins
Ridgefield Drug Probationer Charged In Fairview, North Bergen Break-Ins FAIRVIEW, N.J. -- A 20-year-old Ridgefield man on probation for taking tools and equipment during a burglary used a pickup truck that he stole out of North Bergen to commit break-ins in Fairview and the township, authorities said. Anthony Cinque was caught driving the truck on video surevillance from a Feb. 26 burglary in Fairview and a Thursday break-in on Broad Avenue in North Bergen near the border of both towns, Police Chief Martin Kahn said. The white utility pickup was stolen on Feb. 19 but not reported until Feb. 28, Kahn noted. Detective Sgt. Joselito Rivas and North Bergen Detecti…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen Team Nabs 4, Nets 30 Pounds of Pot, 6 of Cocaine, More In Edgewater Bergen Team Nabs 4, Nets 30 Pounds of Pot, 6 of Cocaine, More In Edgewater Bergen Team Nabs 4, Nets 30 Pounds of Pot, 6 of Cocaine, More In Edgewater
Bergen Team Nabs 4, Nets 30 Pounds of Pot, 6 of Cocaine, More In Edgewater EDGEWATER, N.J. -- Bergen County prosecutor’s Narcotic Task Squad detectives raided an Edgewater drug mill, seizing more than six pounds of cocaine, 30 pounds of marijuana, an ounce of heroin, a handgun and drug-packaging tools, as well as $181,885 in cash, while arresting four men from different parts of the country. Those busted: Darnell Miller, 34, of Edgewater; Gary Mertil, a 32-year-old Uber driver from West New York; Allen Statum, 55, of Miramar, Florida; Juan Norzagaray, 33, of Tucson Arizona. Hackensack police officers who responded to a call Thursday of two suspicious men in the p…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Dumont Good Samaritan Rushes Struck Dog To Animal Hospital Dumont Good Samaritan Rushes Struck Dog To Animal Hospital Dumont Good Samaritan Rushes Struck Dog To Animal Hospital
Dumont Good Samaritan Rushes Struck Dog To Animal Hospital DUMONT, N.J. -- A good Samaritan rushed a dog who was struck and dragged by a car in Dumont to an animal hospital, local responders told Daily Voice. Both the pedestrian and the dog were in serious condition -- the 48-year-old man with head trauma -- after the 9 p.m. crash Thursday in a crosswalk at the corner of Washington & Virginia Avenues, they said. The Dumont Volunteer Ambulance Corps took the man to Hackensack University Medical Center. Englewood Hospital and Medical Center ALS also responded. Meanwhile, a Dumont resident took the chocolate Labrador to the Oradell Animal Hospita…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Feds: Jilted BF In JCC Bomb Threats Was Copycat, Not Charged In Tenafly Feds: Jilted BF In JCC Bomb Threats Was Copycat, Not Charged In Tenafly Feds: Jilted BF In JCC Bomb Threats Was Copycat, Not Charged In Tenafly
Feds: Jilted BF In JCC Bomb Threats Was Copycat, Not Charged In Tenafly TENAFLY, N.J. -- A radical leftist journalist accused in a terror plot against Jewish community centers in what authorities said was an attempt to frame his ex-girlfriend wasn't charged with any of three threats bomb threats made to Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, according to a federal complaint. Juan Thompson, 31, arrested by the FBI in his St. Louis hometown, is considered a copycat who tried to make the woman seem responsible for widespread anti-Semitic threats being reported in the news, according to a complaint filed by the FBI in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. The woman e…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Westwood Man, 18, Charged With Having Kiddie Porn, Young Boy Videos Westwood Man, 18, Charged With Having Kiddie Porn, Young Boy Videos Westwood Man, 18, Charged With Having Kiddie Porn, Young Boy Videos
Westwood Man, 18, Charged With Having Kiddie Porn, Young Boy Videos WESTWOOD, N.J. – An unemployed 18-year-old Westwood man had images of child pornography and videos of young boys on his laptop when detectives arrested him Friday, authorities said. Charles E. Schwab was released without bail pending a March 22 initial appearance in Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. Members of Grewal’s Cyber Crimes Unit charged Schwab with child endangerment by possessing and distributing child pornography, he said. The prosecutor thanked Hillsdale and River Vale police for their roles in the investigation.

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