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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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
PalPark, Leonia, Ridgefield Responders Honored For Saving Autistic Boy, 8 PalPark, Leonia, Ridgefield Responders Honored For Saving Autistic Boy, 8 PalPark, Leonia, Ridgefield Responders Honored For Saving Autistic Boy, 8
PalPark, Leonia, Ridgefield Responders Honored For Saving Autistic Boy, 8 PALISADES PARK, N.J. -- A group of first responders received commendations Tuesday night from the Palisades Park governing body for rescuing an 8-year-old autistic boy from Overpeck Creek after he wandered off. Honored with life-saving awards were Palisades Park Firefighter Charles Stark and Police Lt. Matthew Finck and Sgt. Christopher Beck, Ridgefield Police Officer Daniel Berger and Leonia Police Officer John Longo. Joseph Cassese finally came home earlier this month -- and received a hero's welcome -- after spending several weeks in rehab following a lengthy hospital stay after the Nov.…

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Englewood, NJ
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Firm: Tenafly Attorney Killed In Crash Was As Kind As He Was Accomplished Firm: Tenafly Attorney Killed In Crash Was As Kind As He Was Accomplished Firm: Tenafly Attorney Killed In Crash Was As Kind As He Was Accomplished
Firm: Tenafly Attorney Killed In Crash Was As Kind As He Was Accomplished TENAFLY, N.J. -- He was an adept and accomplished dealmaker, but attorney Andrew Thompson of Tenafly also had a kind and generous heart, those who knew him said after learning of his death in a weekend car crash in the Catskills. Thompson, 43, was killed when a Dodge Ram with an unlicensed driver at the wheel crossed the double-yellow line on a highway on Bear Spring Mountain in Walton, N.Y. Saturday afternoon and slammed head-on into his SUV, Delaware County authorities said. Thompson's wife, attorney Wendy Hoeben, was released after being treated, but their 6-year-old son was taken to Wes…

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Police Shooting Victim Charged With Robbing Elmwood Park Walgreens Police Shooting Victim Charged With Robbing Elmwood Park Walgreens Police Shooting Victim Charged With Robbing Elmwood Park Walgreens
Police Shooting Victim Charged With Robbing Elmwood Park Walgreens ELMWOOD, N.J. -- A Wanaque man robbed a Walgreens in Elmwood Park at gunpoint nearly a year to the day that he was grazed by bullet fragments in a Paterson police shooting, said authorities who arrested him after posting a surveillance photo. Police arrested 35-year-old Travis Mann of Haskell "with the assistance of Haledon police and several anonymous callers who recognized him from the surveillance photo," Police Chief Michael Foligno told Daily Voice. Mann remained held in the Bergen County Jail -- charged with armed robbery, among other counts -- pending a bail hearing. Mann …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Career Lodi Drug Dealer Busted For Selling Cocaine To Cop Prosecutor: Career Lodi Drug Dealer Busted For Selling Cocaine To Cop Prosecutor: Career Lodi Drug Dealer Busted For Selling Cocaine To Cop
Prosecutor: Career Lodi Drug Dealer Busted For Selling Cocaine To Cop LODI, N.J. – A career drug dealer from Lodi was behind bars again after authorities said he sold cocaine to an undercover detective. Jasin Penn, 46, remained held in the Bergen County Jail pending a bail hearing following his arrest Monday, records show. Penn, whose mostly drug-related rap sheet in Bergen County stretches back more than a decade, was charged with drug possession and distribution after a raid on his Stokes Avenue apartment turned up cocaine, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. Grewal thanked Lodi and Elmwood Park police for their roles in the case.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Driver, 70, OK After SUV Crashes Through Fort Lee Restaurant Driver, 70, OK After SUV Crashes Through Fort Lee Restaurant Driver, 70, OK After SUV Crashes Through Fort Lee Restaurant
Driver, 70, OK After SUV Crashes Through Fort Lee Restaurant FORT LEE, N.J. (UPDATE)  -- What had been a 24-hour restaurant that was up for sale in Fort Lee was severely damaged Tuesday afternoon when an SUV plowed through the entrance. The 70-year-old Fort Lee driver was pulling her Honda SUV into a handicapped parking space “but mistakenly accelerated right into” Gam Mee Ok, at the corner of Main Street and Edwin Avenue, just before 2:45 p.m., Police Capt. Patrick Kissane said. She complained of lower-body pain but was released from the scene, Kissane said. Borough building officials deemed the 800-square-foot building unsafe and cut off all utili…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Convicted Paramus Child Molester Charged With Having Kiddie Porn Convicted Paramus Child Molester Charged With Having Kiddie Porn Convicted Paramus Child Molester Charged With Having Kiddie Porn
Convicted Paramus Child Molester Charged With Having Kiddie Porn PARAMUS, N.J. – A former deejay from Paramus who violated his parole after he was convicted of molesting a 5-year-old girl was charged with downloading kiddie porn, authorities said Tuesday. Anthony Yachouh, 26, has been in state custody in Trenton on a parole violation since Jan. 18 – the day that members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Cyber Crimes Unit searched his home and found the images of child pornography on his computer, Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. Squad members charged Yachouh with child endangerment. He was scheduled for a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
DWI Driver Totals Tenafly Police Car DWI Driver Totals Tenafly Police Car DWI Driver Totals Tenafly Police Car
DWI Driver Totals Tenafly Police Car TENAFLY, N.J. – A drunk driver from Lodi plowed his car into the back of a Tenafly police cruiser, rendering it a total loss, authorities said Tuesday. An officer had the Dodge Charger parked along the southbound shoulder of Knickerbocker Road near Greentree Terrace, with its emergency lights on, as he spoke with a motorist he’d stopped just before 10 p.m. Sunday, Capt. Michael deMoncada said. Suddenly, the cruiser was struck from behind by a 2008 Honda Civic driven by 27-year-old Natanael Otero, deMoncada said Police filed DWI charges against Otero, who was taken to Englewood Hospital Med…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Mutton To Laugh About: Sheep Stolen From Ridgewood Mattress Store Mutton To Laugh About: Sheep Stolen From Ridgewood Mattress Store Mutton To Laugh About: Sheep Stolen From Ridgewood Mattress Store
Mutton To Laugh About: Sheep Stolen From Ridgewood Mattress Store RIDGEWOOD, N.J. – Someone did a baaaaad thing: They stole the life-sized fiberglass sheep from in front of Healthy Choice Organic Mattresses in Ridgewood, police said Tuesday. Village detectives were trying to recover the iconic animal, valued at $750, and determine who had the shear nerve to take it. Anyone with information that could help them is asked to call Ridgewood police: (201) 652-3900.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
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Prosecutor: Death Of Harrington Park Man, 62, Not Suspicious Prosecutor: Death Of Harrington Park Man, 62, Not Suspicious Prosecutor: Death Of Harrington Park Man, 62, Not Suspicious
Prosecutor: Death Of Harrington Park Man, 62, Not Suspicious HARRINGTON PARK, N.J. -- The death of a 62-year-old Harrington Park man whose body was found in a backyard fire pit wasn't suspicious, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Tuesday. The body of Michael Murtaugh was found early Monday afternoon in the backyard of his Harriot Avenue home, the prosecutor said. "The cause of death is presently being determined by the medical examiner, but it is not deemed suspicious at this time," Grewal said just before noon Tuesday.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Clifton Police Nab Teens In Vicious Beating, Robbery Of Boy, 14 Clifton Police Nab Teens In Vicious Beating, Robbery Of Boy, 14 Clifton Police Nab Teens In Vicious Beating, Robbery Of Boy, 14
Clifton Police Nab Teens In Vicious Beating, Robbery Of Boy, 14 CLIFTON, N.J. -- Clifton police charged two juveniles with beating a 14-year-old city boy so badly during a robbery that he lost consciousness. The juveniles -- both 16, from Clifton and Rutherford -- were sent to the Essex County Juvenile Detention Center, where they were held pending a Family Division hearing on charges of robbery and aggravated assault, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said Tuesday. Both attacked the victim in an alleyway in the 1200 block of Main Avenue around 3 p.m. Friday. He was taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center.

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