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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Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Tenafly JCC Gets 3rd Bomb Threat This Year, Overall Total Hits 90 Tenafly JCC Gets 3rd Bomb Threat This Year, Overall Total Hits 90 Tenafly JCC Gets 3rd Bomb Threat This Year, Overall Total Hits 90
Tenafly JCC Gets 3rd Bomb Threat This Year, Overall Total Hits 90 TENAFLY, N.J. – In what has become a relentless campaign of terror, Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly for the third time this year was among several Jewish centers in North America that received phoned bomb threats Monday morning. Altogether, 21 threats were called in on Monday to 13 JCCs and eight Jewish day schools in Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Virginia, authorities said. That brought the January-February total to 90 incidents at 73 locations -- including JCCs and Jewish day schools -- …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Body Of Harrington Park Man, 62, Found In Backyard Fire Pit Body Of Harrington Park Man, 62, Found In Backyard Fire Pit Body Of Harrington Park Man, 62, Found In Backyard Fire Pit
Body Of Harrington Park Man, 62, Found In Backyard Fire Pit HARRINGTON PARK, N.J. (UPDATE): 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. READ HERE: https://northernvalley.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/death-of-harrington-park-man-62-found-in-backyard-fire-pit-not-suspicious/701555/ MONDAY's STORY: HARRINGTON PARK, N.J. -- The body of a 62-year-old Harrington Park man was discovered Monday afternoon in a backyard fire pit. Detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office joined local police and the county Medical Examiner at the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
2 Hurt When Thrown Chairs Cause 'Shots Fired' Stampede At Wayne Mall 2 Hurt When Thrown Chairs Cause 'Shots Fired' Stampede At Wayne Mall 2 Hurt When Thrown Chairs Cause 'Shots Fired' Stampede At Wayne Mall
2 Hurt When Thrown Chairs Cause 'Shots Fired' Stampede At Wayne Mall WAYNE, N.J. -- Two people were injured in a stampede at the Willowbrook Mall on Sunday after banging noises from people throwing chairs during a fight created the impression that shots were fired, police said. Nearly two dozen people came running out of the Cheesecake Factory as police responding to a call of a food court fight in progress pulled up just after 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Capt. Laurence W. Martin said Monday. One woman banged on a police cruiser and shouted: "There’s guys shooting each other inside the mall!” What really happened, according to Martin: Two men and a boy got int…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: $385,000 In Drug Cash Leads To Cocaine Haul In Palisades Park Prosecutor: $385,000 In Drug Cash Leads To Cocaine Haul In Palisades Park Prosecutor: $385,000 In Drug Cash Leads To Cocaine Haul In Palisades Park
Prosecutor: $385,000 In Drug Cash Leads To Cocaine Haul In Palisades Park PALISADES PARK, N.J. – An unemployed Palisades Park man who was carrying more than $65,000 in drug proceeds in his car when police stopped it in Fort Lee had nearly $320,000 more in his apartment – along with almost nine pounds of cocaine, authorities charged. Jose Baez, 44, drew attention from the DEA after detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office made the stop on Friday, county Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Monday. They found $63,500 in electronically-controlled compartment in the vehicle, in addition to $2,358 that he was carrying, Grewal said. Detectives then obtained s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Surveillance Shot Leads To Arrest In Elmwood Park Walgreens Holdup Surveillance Shot Leads To Arrest In Elmwood Park Walgreens Holdup Surveillance Shot Leads To Arrest In Elmwood Park Walgreens Holdup
Surveillance Shot Leads To Arrest In Elmwood Park Walgreens Holdup 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
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Would-Be Clifton Robber Fires Shot, Victims Peel Out Would-Be Clifton Robber Fires Shot, Victims Peel Out Would-Be Clifton Robber Fires Shot, Victims Peel Out
Would-Be Clifton Robber Fires Shot, Victims Peel Out CLIFTON, N.J. -- Clifton police were searching for a would-be weekend robber who fired a shot into a car stopped at a local intersection. Both victims said the gunman approached them at 1:30 a.m. Sunday at Main and Harding avenues and demanded "certain property," Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. Moments later, he fired a shot and the driver sped off, he said. No one was injured, Bracken said. The victims described him only as black and in his 20s.  Anyone who saw anything or has information that could help the investigation is asked to call Clifton police at (973) 470-4911 or…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Cry For Help: Bergenfield Woman Says Prescription Drugs Led To Heroin Abuse Cry For Help: Bergenfield Woman Says Prescription Drugs Led To Heroin Abuse Cry For Help: Bergenfield Woman Says Prescription Drugs Led To Heroin Abuse
Cry For Help: Bergenfield Woman Says Prescription Drugs Led To Heroin Abuse BERGENFIELD, N.J. -- A Bergenfield woman arrested with nearly four dozen bags of heroin during a traffic stop said she fell into a spiral that she wants to pull out of so she can "get back to her life and the people and things she loves." "I didn't just wake up one day and decide to ruin my life," said Angel Hruska, 29. "I was prescribed prescription pills that I got addicted to and when they stopped prescribing them the withdrawals were unbearable and I made some bad choices," she wrote on a Daily Voice Facebook page. "But unless you've been there in that…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Police Hunt Driver Who Smashed Through Wyckoff Church Cemetery Gate Police Hunt Driver Who Smashed Through Wyckoff Church Cemetery Gate Police Hunt Driver Who Smashed Through Wyckoff Church Cemetery Gate
Police Hunt Driver Who Smashed Through Wyckoff Church Cemetery Gate WYCKOFF, N.J. -- Wyckoff police were searching for what witnesses said was a white Audi that smashed through a church cemetery gate overnight and kept going. The gate at Wyckoff Reformed Church blocks an access road through a cemetery parking lot and adjoining Everett Avenue. "On occasion, the gate is open and cars use it as a cut through," Wyckoff Police Chief David Murphy told Daily Voice. The Audi plowed through the gate around 2:30 p.m. Thursday, damaging it and causing damage to the car. It continued into the lot and left onto westbound Wyckoff Avenue toward Route 208, a w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Sheriff: Paterson Cabbie With Open Cognac Bottle Registers 2x Limit Sheriff: Paterson Cabbie With Open Cognac Bottle Registers 2x Limit Sheriff: Paterson Cabbie With Open Cognac Bottle Registers 2x Limit
Sheriff: Paterson Cabbie With Open Cognac Bottle Registers 2x Limit PATERSON, N.J. -- A swerving taxi stopped by a Passaic County sheriff's officer on a Paterson street was driven by a cabbie who had an open bottle of cognac on the seat next to him -- then registered more than twice the legal alcohol limit on a breath test, authorities said Sunday. Officer Carlos Aymat stopped the cab as it headed south on Madison Avenue toward 21st Avenue just before 4:30 a.m. Sunday, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. Aymat "detected a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage" on the driver, identified as Jose Moya-Garcia of Paterson, Berdnik said. The officer then s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
West Milford Schoolboy Finds Burglar At Home West Milford Schoolboy Finds Burglar At Home West Milford Schoolboy Finds Burglar At Home
West Milford Schoolboy Finds Burglar At Home WEST MILFORD, N.J. – A West Milford boy came home from school to find a burglar in his house, say police who arrested the accused intruder soon after. Austin Demarest, 21, of Hewitt had taken jewelry, collectible coins and loose change from the unlocked Riverside Road home when the youngster interrupted him on Tuesday, police said. Demarest is also “the primary and only suspect in two other burglaries in the same area,” West Milford police said. He remained held on $500 bail Sunday in the Passaic County Jail. Meanwhile, an investigation was continuing.

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