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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Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: Hospitalized Ridgewood Doctor Had Wife Write Prescriptions Authorities: Hospitalized Ridgewood Doctor Had Wife Write Prescriptions Authorities: Hospitalized Ridgewood Doctor Had Wife Write Prescriptions
Authorities: Hospitalized Ridgewood Doctor Had Wife Write Prescriptions RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- A 72-year-old Ridgewood psychiatrist who worked from a home office had his since-deceased wife write prescriptions for "highly addictive" drugs whle he was confined to a hospital and then a nursing home, authorities said. James Cowan, Jr. had his license temporarily suspended by the state Board of Medical Examiners last year for indiscriminately prescribing drugs to patients without examinations, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. Cowan was among a record 31 physicians in New Jersey accused last year of over-prescribing pain killer and other drugs t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
Weschester Motorist, 17, Rescued After Driving Into West Milford Lake Weschester Motorist, 17, Rescued After Driving Into West Milford Lake Weschester Motorist, 17, Rescued After Driving Into West Milford Lake
Weschester Motorist, 17, Rescued After Driving Into West Milford Lake WEST MILFORD, N.J. – West Milford police and firefighters rescued a 17-year-old motorist from Chappaqua, N.Y., who drove her car through the driveway of a home and off a cliff into a West Milford lake Wednesday morning, authorities said. The driver’s 2016 Volkwagen Jetta “became partially submerged and remained upright” in upper Mount Laurel Lake in the Upper Greenwood section of town, Lt. Stephen Singerline said. She was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center for treatment of minor injuries, he said. Singerline singled out the “cooperation and professionalism” of the responders, wh…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Tractor-Trailer Tips, Closing Route 21 Ramp In Clifton Tractor-Trailer Tips, Closing Route 21 Ramp In Clifton Tractor-Trailer Tips, Closing Route 21 Ramp In Clifton
Tractor-Trailer Tips, Closing Route 21 Ramp In Clifton CLIFTON, N.J. -- A tractor-trailer that tipped over closed the entrance ramp to southbound Route 21 in Clifton Wednesday afternoon. The ramp remained closed for several hours, readers told Daily Voice.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Your Community
NJ Democratic Lawmakers To Education Chief: Protect Transgender Students NJ Democratic Lawmakers To Education Chief: Protect Transgender Students NJ Democratic Lawmakers To Education Chief: Protect Transgender Students
NJ Democratic Lawmakers To Education Chief: Protect Transgender Students HACKENSACK, N.J. – New Jersey Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg and other Democratic state lawmakers from Bergen and Passaic county on Wednesday called on the acting state education commissioner to immediately issue a directive protecting transgender students. Last week, the Trump Administration rescinded a directive that the Obama Administration put in place that “made clear that the federal government supported transgender students and wanted to do everything it could to ensure their success in school,” the state Democratic lawmakers wrote in a letter to Acting Education Commissioner…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Worker At Wayne Site Killed In Cement Mixer Worker At Wayne Site Killed In Cement Mixer Worker At Wayne Site Killed In Cement Mixer
Worker At Wayne Site Killed In Cement Mixer WAYNE, N.J. -- A worker was killed in Wayne on Wednesday when he got wedged between a rotating drum on a cement mixer and the back of the truck, authorities said. Sub-contractor workers at the SBI Materials company on Dey Road flagged down a motorist who called police just before 10 a.m., Capt. Laurence Martin said. Police Officers Brian Bradford and Bruce Conklin and Sgt. Colin Tarpey found the 34-year-old victim and summoned the Wayne Emergency Volunteer Memorial First Aid Squad, along with Advanced Life Support from St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center, Martin said. Wayne firefighters f…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood Woman Charged With Aiding Fugitive In Route 17 Burglary Ring Englewood Woman Charged With Aiding Fugitive In Route 17 Burglary Ring Englewood Woman Charged With Aiding Fugitive In Route 17 Burglary Ring
Englewood Woman Charged With Aiding Fugitive In Route 17 Burglary Ring ENGLEWOOD, N.J. – An Englewood woman helped a fugitive avoid law enforcement agencies who were pursuing him, said authorities who charged her with hindering arrest and obstruction of justice. Jazmine C. Cole, 28, of William Street, was with Jamar Travis when he was taken into custody in New York City early last month by a task force of law enforcement officers from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, the FBI, and the Englewood, Paramus and Saddle River police departments, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Wednesday. Travis was wanted for what Grewal said was his participatio…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Street Sweeper Who Toppled Fair Lawn Utility Pole Surrenders Street Sweeper Who Toppled Fair Lawn Utility Pole Surrenders Street Sweeper Who Toppled Fair Lawn Utility Pole Surrenders
Street Sweeper Who Toppled Fair Lawn Utility Pole Surrenders FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- The hit-and-run driver of a street sweeper that knocked down a Fair Lawn utility pole -- cutting power to parts of town -- surrendered to police on Wednesday. Manuel Ludizaca, 53, of Hackensack was driving a 2004 GMC street sweeper owned by Christie Cleaning Service that crashed into the pole on Lincoln Avenue just before 1:30 a.m., Sgt. Sean Macys told Daily Voice. The toppled pole yanked down high voltage power lines and fiber-optic cables, knocking out power to various homes and businesses overnight, the sergeant said. Both Verizon and PSE&G responded. Summonses …

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by Jerry DeMarco & Cecilia Levine
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Hit-Run Street Sweeper Driver Who Toppled Fair Lawn Utility Pole Surrenders Hit-Run Street Sweeper Driver Who Toppled Fair Lawn Utility Pole Surrenders Hit-Run Street Sweeper Driver Who Toppled Fair Lawn Utility Pole Surrenders
Hit-Run Street Sweeper Driver Who Toppled Fair Lawn Utility Pole Surrenders FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- The hit-and-run driver of a street sweeper that knocked down a Fair Lawn utility pole -- cutting power to parts of town -- surrendered to police on Wednesday. Manuel Ludizaca, 53, of Hackensack was driving a 2004 GMC street sweeper owned by Christie Cleaning Service that crashed into the pole on Lincoln Avenue just before 1:30 a.m., Sgt. Sean Macys told Daily Voice. The toppled pole yanked down high voltage power lines and fiber-optic cables, knocking out power to various homes and businesses overnight, the sergeant said. Both Verizon and PSE&G responded. Summonses …

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by Jerry DeMarco & Cecilia Levine
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Good Samaritan Returns Sheep Fleeced From Ridgewood Mattress Store Good Samaritan Returns Sheep Fleeced From Ridgewood Mattress Store Good Samaritan Returns Sheep Fleeced From Ridgewood Mattress Store
Good Samaritan Returns Sheep Fleeced From Ridgewood Mattress Store RIDGEWOOD, N.J. – She's baaack. Police were on the lookout after Betsy -- a life-sized fiberglass sheep -- went missing from in front of Healthy Choice Organic Mattresses in Ridgewood on Monday. Daily Voice published a story about the disappearance, in the hopes someone would return her. Store Manager Dave Stadt said he'd left Betsy outside overnight. It turns out a fellow merchant "spotted her in front of the store around midnight and brought her to her salon," he told Daily Voice on Wednesday."You know that belongs around the corner," a customer who saw Betsy in the s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
New Jersey L.E.A.D. Officer Of Year: Paramus Detective Sgt. James Teehan New Jersey L.E.A.D. Officer Of Year: Paramus Detective Sgt. James Teehan New Jersey L.E.A.D. Officer Of Year: Paramus Detective Sgt. James Teehan
New Jersey L.E.A.D. Officer Of Year: Paramus Detective Sgt. James Teehan PARAMUS, N.J. -- Paramus Police Detective Sgt. James Teehan received the 2017 LEAD Officer of the Year Award at the annual L.E.A.D. conference held in Atlantic City. The coveted award is given to an officer with the drug prevention and education program who is selected by his or her peers and the L.E.A.D. (Law Enforcement Against Drugs) advisory boards. "Detective Sgt. Teehan and the Paramus Police L.E.A.D. program is one of the very best in our state," Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler, chairman of the L.E.A.D. Board of Directors, told Daily Voice. "The detective ser…

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