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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Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Bergenfield Police Find Dozens Of Heroin Bags, Arrest Driver Bergenfield Police Find Dozens Of Heroin Bags, Arrest Driver Bergenfield Police Find Dozens Of Heroin Bags, Arrest Driver
Bergenfield Police Find Dozens Of Heroin Bags, Arrest Driver BERGENFIELD, N.J. – Police aren't busting drivers with dozens of bags of heroin only in the towns that border Paterson, say police in Bergenfield who found nearly four dozen envelopes of the drug during a traffic stop. Officer Gregory Slater stopped a 2013 silver Volkswagen that was speeding on North Prospect Avenue late Thursday and spotted empty glassine envelopes and rubber bands in the car, Capt. Mustafa Rabboh said. A search turned up 45 envelopes of heroin and a dozen empties, he said. Slater arrested the driver, 29-year-old borough resident, Angel L. Hruska, on drug and paraphernali…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Don't Be Dumb, Authorities Warn After Thieves Swipe Mahwah Mercedes Don't Be Dumb, Authorities Warn After Thieves Swipe Mahwah Mercedes Don't Be Dumb, Authorities Warn After Thieves Swipe Mahwah Mercedes
Don't Be Dumb, Authorities Warn After Thieves Swipe Mahwah Mercedes MAHWAH, N.J. – You have no one to blame but yourself if you leave your car door unlocked with a key fob inside and it’s stolen, authorities said after a car thief went to the trouble of maneuvering a 2016 Mercedes Benz S550 from the driveway of a Mahwah home. “It was parked in front of another vehicle, and the thieves had to maneuver the car from between the garage door and the vehicle it was parked in front of,” Police Chief James N. Batelli said. The Fardale neighborhood homeowner “does not recall if the key fob was left in the vehicle at the time,” Batelli said. However, the chief said,…

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Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Bergenfield Man Gets 3 Years For Trafficking Child Rape Videos Bergenfield Man Gets 3 Years For Trafficking Child Rape Videos Bergenfield Man Gets 3 Years For Trafficking Child Rape Videos
Bergenfield Man Gets 3 Years For Trafficking Child Rape Videos BERGENFIELD, N.J. -- A 30-year-old Bergenfield man was sentenced in Hackensack on Friday to three years in state prison for distributing child pornography online. Joseph Lorz was one of five Bergen County men among two dozen state residents arrested as part of “Operation Ever Vigilant,” headed by the New Jersey State Police, which smashed a child pornography network that distributed videos of youngsters being raped, necrophilia and bestiality, among other acts. An examination of his computer equipment “revealed numerous images and videos of child pornography, including images of prepubescen…

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Police: NJ Bail Reform Freed Repeat Church Burglar In Saddle Brook, Clifton Police: NJ Bail Reform Freed Repeat Church Burglar In Saddle Brook, Clifton Police: NJ Bail Reform Freed Repeat Church Burglar In Saddle Brook, Clifton
Police: NJ Bail Reform Freed Repeat Church Burglar In Saddle Brook, Clifton SADDLE BROOK, N.J. – New Jersey’s new bail reform law enabled a career burglar to break into his second North Jersey church in less than two months – this one in Clifton after another in Saddle Brook, authorities said Saturday. Ex-con Peter Heitmann, a 26-year-old transient repeat offender, already was charged with stealing a $15,000 chalice and donation box cash from a Clifton church when Saddle Brook police said he looted poor boxes at a local church after breaking a stained glass window worth more than $4,100. Heitmann was released last November after spending more than two years in stat…

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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Missing Bogota Marine Identified Through DNA After Almost 50 Years Missing Bogota Marine Identified Through DNA After Almost 50 Years Missing Bogota Marine Identified Through DNA After Almost 50 Years
Missing Bogota Marine Identified Through DNA After Almost 50 Years BOGOTA, N.J. — A U.S. Marine from Bogota who was missing since the Vietnam War has been accounted for, The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said. Marine Corps Reserve 1st Lt. William C. Ryan was identified earlier this month through DNA found at the scene of a military plane crash. "On May 11, 1969, Ryan was the radar intercept officer of an F-4B aircraft, for the Marine Fighter Attack Force 115, Marine Aircraft Group 13, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, Fleet Marine Force Pacific, on a combat mission over Savannakhet Province, Laos," the agency said. "While pulling out of a bombi…

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Poughkeepsie, NY
Breaking News
Serial Bank Robber Who Struck In Hudson Valley Nabbed Serial Bank Robber Who Struck In Hudson Valley Nabbed Serial Bank Robber Who Struck In Hudson Valley Nabbed
Serial Bank Robber Who Struck In Hudson Valley Nabbed A serial bank robber from the Bronx who struck in Scarsdale and New Jersey this month and earlier in Mount Kisco was about to hit an Englewood, N.J., bank on Friday when police arrested him, authorities said Saturday. Members of a special Robbery Task Force who’d been watching him moved in as Eddy Cruz parked his red 2017 Mitsubishi Mirage near the Demarest Avenue TD Bank just before noon, Fort Lee, N.J. Police Chief Keith Bendul said. Cruz, 41, was later taken to Bergen Regional Medical Center for a medical screening before being committed to the Bergen County Jail pending a first court ap…

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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Fort Lee, Hasbrouck Heights, Scarsdale Bank Robber Nabbed Police: Fort Lee, Hasbrouck Heights, Scarsdale Bank Robber Nabbed Police: Fort Lee, Hasbrouck Heights, Scarsdale Bank Robber Nabbed
Police: Fort Lee, Hasbrouck Heights, Scarsdale Bank Robber Nabbed FORT LEE, N.J. – A serial bank robber from the Bronx who struck in Fort Lee, Hasbrouck Heights and Scarsdale earlier this month was about to hit an Englewood bank on Friday when police arrested him, authorities said Saturday. Members of a special Robbery Task Force who’d been watching him moved in as Eddy Cruz parked his red 2017 Mitsubishi Mirage near the Demarest Avenue TD Bank just before noon, Fort Lee Police Chief Keith Bendul said. Cruz, 41, was later taken to Bergen Regional Medical Center for a medical screening before being committed to the Bergen County Jail pending a first court …

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Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Motorcyclist Critically Hurt In Montvale Crash With Minivan Motorcyclist Critically Hurt In Montvale Crash With Minivan Motorcyclist Critically Hurt In Montvale Crash With Minivan
Motorcyclist Critically Hurt In Montvale Crash With Minivan MONTVALE, N.J. -- A 47-year-old motorcyclist was critically injured and his wife also hospitalized in a crash with a minivan driven by a 74-year-old woman in Montvale early Friday evening. Glenn Hoskins of Park Ridge was flown with traumatic injuries by AirMed one to Hackensack University Medical Center. He had two collapsed lungs, numerous broken ribs and a fractured hip, according to a GoFundMe page. His passenger, a 46-year-old Stacey Seablade Hoskins, was taken there by ambulance following the crash, which occurred just after 6 p.m. at West Grand and Summit Avenues off Chestnut Ridge Ro…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Tractor-Trailer Driver Injured When Rig Tips On Route 17 Flyover In Mahwah Tractor-Trailer Driver Injured When Rig Tips On Route 17 Flyover In Mahwah Tractor-Trailer Driver Injured When Rig Tips On Route 17 Flyover In Mahwah
Tractor-Trailer Driver Injured When Rig Tips On Route 17 Flyover In Mahwah MAHWAH, N.J. -- A tractor-trailer driver toting Coca-Cola products was hospitalized with minor injuries Friday afternoon after his rig tipped at the Route 17 flyover in Mahwah. "Nothing spilled," Police Chief James Batelli told Daily Voice. Police officers who were first on the scene began trying to free the driver after the crash, which didn't involve any other vehicles and caused significant traffic delays on Route 17 and nearby Route 287.

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson Barbership Owner Had Drug-Dealing Sideline, Police Charge Paterson Barbership Owner Had Drug-Dealing Sideline, Police Charge Paterson Barbership Owner Had Drug-Dealing Sideline, Police Charge
Paterson Barbership Owner Had Drug-Dealing Sideline, Police Charge PATERSON, N.J. -- A Paterson barber ran a side business selling drugs from his shop -- until city police raided it, authorities said Friday. Narcotics detectives hit Jonny Blades Barber Shop at McBride Avenue early Thursday night after watching a drug deal go down, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. Arrested were owner Jonny Muro, 43, along with 45-year-old Richard Espinal and Nilmary Stevens, 37, all of Paterson. Detectives seized 10 ounces of marijuana, three dozen baggies of cocaine and cash from all three totaling nearly $1,050, Speziale said. They charged the trio with possession w…

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