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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Hackensack, NJ
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Self-Respect, Teamwork: Apply For Free Bergen Youth Police Academy Self-Respect, Teamwork: Apply For Free Bergen Youth Police Academy Self-Respect, Teamwork: Apply For Free Bergen Youth Police Academy
Self-Respect, Teamwork: Apply For Free Bergen Youth Police Academy HACKENSACK, N.J. -- It seemed a pie-in-the-sky idea when its creators first pitched it more than a dozen years ago, but a free Bergen County youth police academy at which teens can learn honor, respect and commitment is accepting applications for its 13th class. Paid for with funds forfeited by criminals, the free two-week “day camp” is open to qualified Bergen County high school students entering the 9th, 10th , 11th and 12th grades. It will run Monday through Friday from June 26 through July 7. “This is a unique opportunity for young people to focus on strengthening their life skills of …

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Paramus, NJ
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Here's How Tractor-Trailer Crash Closed Route 17 In Paramus Here's How Tractor-Trailer Crash Closed Route 17 In Paramus Here's How Tractor-Trailer Crash Closed Route 17 In Paramus
Here's How Tractor-Trailer Crash Closed Route 17 In Paramus PARAMUS, N.J. -- A disabled tractor-trailer was struck by another on northbound Route 17 in Paramus before dawn Wednesday, flinging steel beams into two cars on the other side of the highway, seriously injuring one of the driver, authorities said. A 63-year-old Jersey City driver was carrying home tiles when his rig broke down in the center lane of the northbound highway just after 5:45 a.m., Deputy Police Chief Robert Guidetti said. "The driver reported he was slowing for traffic when the trailers brakes locked up," Guidetti said, so he "activated his four-way flashers and …

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Rutherford, NJ
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Carlstadt Worker Pinned Beneath 3,500 Pounds Of Steel Expected To Survive Carlstadt Worker Pinned Beneath 3,500 Pounds Of Steel Expected To Survive Carlstadt Worker Pinned Beneath 3,500 Pounds Of Steel Expected To Survive
Carlstadt Worker Pinned Beneath 3,500 Pounds Of Steel Expected To Survive CARLSTADT, N.J. – A Carlstadt factory worker was expected to survive -- although possibly with the loss of at least one leg -- after a pile of steel plates weighing a ton and a half fell on him Wednesday morning, Daily Voice has learned. Responders worked swiftly and steadily for more than an hour to free the worker, whose legs were pinned beneath the 3,500-pound pile in the 9:20 a.m. mishap at the Knickerbocker Bed Company on Commercial Avenue. After sedating him, they hooked the worker to a heart monitor out of concern that he might go into shock once the plates were lifted. A trauma sur…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Bergen Chiefs Oppose Edgewater Plan For Police Director Bergen Chiefs Oppose Edgewater Plan For Police Director Bergen Chiefs Oppose Edgewater Plan For Police Director
Bergen Chiefs Oppose Edgewater Plan For Police Director EDGEWATER, N.J. -- Nine members of the Bergen County Police Chiefs Association attended a meeting Tuesday night in Edgewater, where council members took the first steps toward hiring a civilian police director. The Edgewater force already has an experienced leader in Police Chief William Skidmore, association members said. The chiefs attended "to show our support in retaining the chief's position," said Oakland Police Chief Edward Kasper, the county association's president. The association has stood united when other municipalities have tried giving a civilian leadership of polic…

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Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Carlstadt Factory Worker Pinned Beneath Steel Pile Carlstadt Factory Worker Pinned Beneath Steel Pile Carlstadt Factory Worker Pinned Beneath Steel Pile
Carlstadt Factory Worker Pinned Beneath Steel Pile CARLSTADT, N.J. – A Carlstadt factory was expected to survive, possibly with the loss of at least one leg, after a pile of steel plates weighing nearly 1 tons fell on him Wednesday morning, Daily Voice has learned. Responders worked steadily for more than an hour to free the worker after the 9:20 a.m. mishap at the Knickerbocker Bed Company on Commercial Avenue. After sedating him, they hooked the worker to a heart monitor out of concern that he might go into shock once the pile was lifted. A trauma surgeon also was summoned as a precaution. The worker apparently was beneath a crane when …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Tractor-Trailer Crash Closes Northbound Route 17 In Paramus Tractor-Trailer Crash Closes Northbound Route 17 In Paramus Tractor-Trailer Crash Closes Northbound Route 17 In Paramus
Tractor-Trailer Crash Closes Northbound Route 17 In Paramus PARAMUS, N.J. -- A disabled tractor-trailer was struck by another on northbound Route 17 in Paramus before dawn Wednesday, flinging steel beams into two cars on the other side of the highway, seriously injuring one of the driver, authorities said. A 63-year-old Jersey City driver was carrying home tiles when his rig broke down in the center lane of the northbound highway just after 5:45 a.m., Deputy Police Chief Robert Guidetti said. "The driver reported he was slowing for traffic when the trailers brakes locked up," Guidetti said, so he "activated his four-way flashers and p…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Hillsdale, Westwood Responders Rescue Injured Man From Creek Hillsdale, Westwood Responders Rescue Injured Man From Creek Hillsdale, Westwood Responders Rescue Injured Man From Creek
Hillsdale, Westwood Responders Rescue Injured Man From Creek HILLSDALE, N.J. -- A man who'd fallen down an embankment and into a creek overnight in Hillsdale, hurting his head, was rescued by firefighters and police before being rushed to a waiting medical chopper. Authorities all around credited teamwork of emergency service workers from in town and Westwood. Borough Sgt. Dan McLaughlin and Officer Brian Considine, responding to a call of a man screaming at the end of dead-ended Magnolia Avenue just before 1:30 a.m. Saturday, found the 24-year-old Wayne resident face down in the water. Westwood police officers joined their colleagues in making thei…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Rochelle Park Police Lieutenant Saves OD Victim Outside County Building Rochelle Park Police Lieutenant Saves OD Victim Outside County Building Rochelle Park Police Lieutenant Saves OD Victim Outside County Building
Rochelle Park Police Lieutenant Saves OD Victim Outside County Building ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. -- A Rochelle Park police lieutenant revived a woman who’d overdosed on prescription pills Monday morning in front of the Bergen County Board of Social Services building on northbound Route 17. Lt. Dean Pinto found the 43-year-old woman on her back, halfway into the parking lot, just after 9:30 a.m., Chief Robert Flannelly said. “She was unresponsive with shallow breathing and a weak pulse, [her] eyes rolled back with pupil constriction, and pale,” the chief said. Unable to rouse her, Pinto gave her oxygen. He then found several pill bottles of opioid medication – and …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Port Authority Police Rappel Team Plucks Fugitive From Fort Lee Cliffs Port Authority Police Rappel Team Plucks Fugitive From Fort Lee Cliffs Port Authority Police Rappel Team Plucks Fugitive From Fort Lee Cliffs
Port Authority Police Rappel Team Plucks Fugitive From Fort Lee Cliffs FORT LEE, N.J. -- A Port Authority Police rappel team corralled a Bronx man wanted for armed robbery from the Palisades in Fort Lee following an undercover drug buy Monday night, authorities said. Anthony Lora, 22, was "clinging dangerously" to a tree about 50 feet above the Hudson River when a PAPD Emergency Services Unit (photo above) got to him, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice early Tuesday. He threatened to jump from the cliffs, but PAPD rescue officers talked with Lora for 20 minutes, "eventually gaining his trust and getting him to comply -- all while…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Glen Rock Firefighters Rescue Ridgewood Colleagues In House Blaze Glen Rock Firefighters Rescue Ridgewood Colleagues In House Blaze Glen Rock Firefighters Rescue Ridgewood Colleagues In House Blaze
Glen Rock Firefighters Rescue Ridgewood Colleagues In House Blaze GLEN ROCK, N.J. — Two Ridgewood firefighters were injured Monday night when the floor of a Glen Rock ranch house gave way and they fell through while battling a blaze. Glen Rock firefighters pulled out their colleagues, who were taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood with injuries that Police Chief Dean Ackermann said weren't life-threatening. Glen Rock Fire Chief Tom Jennings credited the two borough firefighters with saving their village colleagues' lives. The home was heavily damaged and was deemed uninhabitable, he said.  The resident had already evacuated the home in the 500 block…

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