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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Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Upper Saddle River PD: Mahwah Heroin Addict Had Disguises, Mask, Fake Gun Upper Saddle River PD: Mahwah Heroin Addict Had Disguises, Mask, Fake Gun Upper Saddle River PD: Mahwah Heroin Addict Had Disguises, Mask, Fake Gun
Upper Saddle River PD: Mahwah Heroin Addict Had Disguises, Mask, Fake Gun UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J. – A Mahwah man awaiting trial on burglary and theft charges was carrying disguises, a ski mask and a plastic replica handgun covered in black marker ink when Upper Saddle River police caught him with 20 bags of heroin during a traffic stop, authorities said Thursday. John Yager, 42, had the ink all over his hands when he was stopped on northbound Route 17 on Wednesday, Detective Lt. Edward Kane told Daily Voice. Along with the heroin he had several hypodermic needles – as well as the collection of items that could be used in a robbery, Kane said. Yager was released…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Rochelle Park Police Bust Hotel Drug Crew, Seize Heroin, Gun, $22K Rochelle Park Police Bust Hotel Drug Crew, Seize Heroin, Gun, $22K Rochelle Park Police Bust Hotel Drug Crew, Seize Heroin, Gun, $22K
Rochelle Park Police Bust Hotel Drug Crew, Seize Heroin, Gun, $22K ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. -- Rochelle Park police smashed a drug crew operating from a local hotel, arresting four men and seizing nearly six pounds of black tar heroin, $22,000 in cash, a loaded gun and two sedans with electronically controlled stash traps. A fifth crew member was still at large (see photo above), authorities said. As Lt. Dean Pinto and Officer Jared Shatkin watched, several men transported bags to and from what a source with knowledge of the investigation said was the Ramada Inn on West Passaic Street on Wednesday. They approached two men in the lot -- identified as Alejandro …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
School Bus Rear-Ends Car On Route 17 In Maywood School Bus Rear-Ends Car On Route 17 In Maywood School Bus Rear-Ends Car On Route 17 In Maywood
School Bus Rear-Ends Car On Route 17 In Maywood MAYWOOD, N.J. -- A school bus occupied by only the driver and an aide rear-ended a car on Route 17 in Maywood Thursday afternoon, police said. The driver of the struck car sustained a head injury but declined immediate medical attention after the 1:25 p.m. crash on the northbound highway just north of Essex Street, Police Chief David Pegg told Daily Voice. The bus driver and aide didn't immediately complain of injuries, he said. The school bus had to be towed from the scene, Pegg said. ****** ANYONE with a photo from the incident will get full credit (or not, if you prefer) if you text i…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Driver, 17, Accidentally Rams Car Into Ridgewood Ben & Jerry's Driver, 17, Accidentally Rams Car Into Ridgewood Ben & Jerry's Driver, 17, Accidentally Rams Car Into Ridgewood Ben & Jerry's
Driver, 17, Accidentally Rams Car Into Ridgewood Ben & Jerry's RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- A 17-year-old River Edge girl parking her car Thursday afternoon inadvertently hit the gas instead of the brake, crashing it into the Ben & Jerry's on Franklin Avenue in Ridgewood, police said. No one was injured in the 1:30 p.m. mishap, which damaged the car and the building, Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke told Daily Voice. ****** ANYONE with a photo from the scene, please text it to Jerry DeMarco at (201) 943-2794 or email: [email protected]. You'll receive full credit.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Paramus Businessman Gets Probation For Steering $80,000 To Obama Campaign Paramus Businessman Gets Probation For Steering $80,000 To Obama Campaign Paramus Businessman Gets Probation For Steering $80,000 To Obama Campaign
Paramus Businessman Gets Probation For Steering $80,000 To Obama Campaign PARAMUS, N.J. -- A federal judge in Newark sentenced a Paramus man Thursday to a year's probation for illegally funneling $80,000 in campaign contributions to President Obama's re-election committee in 2012. Bilal Shehu, 48, pleaded guilty in June in exchange for the sentence, telling a U.S. District Court judge that he had the money wired from a foreign source into his New Jersey-based bank account. He said he then provided it to a joint fundraising committee – including the authorized campaign committee of the president -- so that a foreign national could attend a campaign event on Oct. 8…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Finance Company Fetches Dozens Of Unpaid Cars From South Hackensack Dealer Finance Company Fetches Dozens Of Unpaid Cars From South Hackensack Dealer Finance Company Fetches Dozens Of Unpaid Cars From South Hackensack Dealer
Finance Company Fetches Dozens Of Unpaid Cars From South Hackensack Dealer SOUTH HACKENSACK, N.J. -- One by one, tow trucks removed vehicles from a South Hackensack used car dealer's lot on Thursday after his finance company repossessed them. Westlake Financial Services of Los Angeles, CA provided Bergen County sheriff's officers and borough police with a list of 90 cars -- among them, BMWs, Lexuses and Cadillacs. Then its inspectors began combing the vehicles at Sunrise Motors near Teterboro Airport. "They're looking to find how many of them are here, then removing them," a source with direct knowledge of the hours-long operation told Daily Voice. The…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: 87 Opioid Deaths In Bergen Last Year A 'Somber Statistic' Prosecutor: 87 Opioid Deaths In Bergen Last Year A 'Somber Statistic' Prosecutor: 87 Opioid Deaths In Bergen Last Year A 'Somber Statistic'
Prosecutor: 87 Opioid Deaths In Bergen Last Year A 'Somber Statistic' HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Bergen County had 87 opioid deaths last year, which county Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal on Thursday called a "somber statistic." At the same time, he said, local police made 180 Narcan saves. "We must all join in the effort to #StopTheODs," the prosecutor tweeted. Grewal has made fighting opioide abuse -- specifically, heroin -- a cornerstone of his administration. "Opioids have always been an issue, but what has changed is the scope and severity of their danger," hesaid last year. "It affects young and old, rich and poor, and educated…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Unique Maywood Police Dog Gets Body Armor Unique Maywood Police Dog Gets Body Armor Unique Maywood Police Dog Gets Body Armor
Unique Maywood Police Dog Gets Body Armor MAYWOOD, N.J. -- A Maywood police dog whose extraordinary ability to trace human scent helps find missing children and adults will be protected by a vest donated by a national non-profit organization. Vested Interest in K9s, Inc expects delivery of the vest to Zoey -- a 6-year-old bloodhound handled by K-9 Officer Chris Nichols -- to take eight to 10 weeks, Police Chief David Pegg said. The vest will help protect her from shootings and stabbings, he said. The first and only bloodhound in the history of Bergen County law enforcement, Zoey isn't like most police dogs in other ways. "As…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Seven Busted In Lodi Drug Raid Seven Busted In Lodi Drug Raid Seven Busted In Lodi Drug Raid
Seven Busted In Lodi Drug Raid LODI, N.J. – Lodi police busted seven people – six of them locals – during a drug raid at a local home. Detectives investigated for two months before hitting the Westervelt Place home Tuesday night, Lt. Robert Salerno said Thursday. They seized an undisclosed amount of cash and drugs while making the arrests. Some of the defendants were released on summonses while others were taken to the Bergen County Jail pending bail hearings. Charged with manufacturing/distributing drugs, among other drug-related offenses were Lodi residents Kyle Grecco and Victor Gomez, both 22, and Dayshawn A. Cunni…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Fugitive Who Beat, Poured Bleach On East Rutherford Ex Captured, Police Say Fugitive Who Beat, Poured Bleach On East Rutherford Ex Captured, Police Say Fugitive Who Beat, Poured Bleach On East Rutherford Ex Captured, Police Say
Fugitive Who Beat, Poured Bleach On East Rutherford Ex Captured, Police Say EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- A man who East Rutherford police said urinated on an ex-girlfriend's floor and then punched and poured bleach on her nearly five months ago was finally in custody, authorities told Daily Voice on Thursday. Passaic police arrested 28-year-old Andrew Kazmierzak on Wednesday, East Rutherford Police Chief Larry Minda said. He remained held in the Bergen County Jail pending a bail hearing. Kazmierzak -- who had various home addresses -- went to the 26-year-old victim's house in the Monarch Apartments on Schindler Court on Sept. 13 "to talk" but got into an arg…

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