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 Target Of Bomb Threat Again Tenafly JCC Target Of Bomb Threat Again Tenafly JCC Target Of Bomb Threat Again
Tenafly JCC Target Of Bomb Threat Again TENAFLY, N.J. – For the second time this month, Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly was among several Jewish centers in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut that received suspicious phone calls Tuesday morning, in what has become a recurring trend, authorities confirmed. “An unidentified caller spoke with a [Kaplen JCC] staff member and stated a ‘bomb’ was in the building” just before 10:50 a.m., Police Capt. Michael deMoncada said. “JCC staff and security personnel immediately initiated emergency action plans and officers from the Tenafly Police Department responded to provide additiona…

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Man Tells Clifton Police He Was Mugged Overnight Man Tells Clifton Police He Was Mugged Overnight Man Tells Clifton Police He Was Mugged Overnight
Man Tells Clifton Police He Was Mugged Overnight CLIFTON, N.J. -- A 38-year-old Clifton man told police two muggers forced him to the ground, took his cash and other personal items and fled before dawn Monday. The victim told police he was walking on the 100 block of East 5th Street around 4 a.m. when he was accosted, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. Both robbers were black and wearing facial coverings, he said, adding that one was about 6-foot-2 and the other 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-8. They threatened to have a gun, he said -- although none was shown, Bracken noted. Anyone who saw something or has information that can help the investigat…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Glen Rock PD: 'Ashamed' Driver Bought Crack With Infant Son In Car Glen Rock PD: 'Ashamed' Driver Bought Crack With Infant Son In Car Glen Rock PD: 'Ashamed' Driver Bought Crack With Infant Son In Car
Glen Rock PD: 'Ashamed' Driver Bought Crack With Infant Son In Car GLEN ROCK, N.J. -- A 34-year-old West Milford driver who took his 16-month-old son with him to buy crack in Paterson told Glen Rock police who stopped him moments later that he was ashamed of himself, authorities said Monday. Police summoned the child's mother and a member of the NJ Division of Child Protection and Permanency after bringing Timothy Jacobsen and the boy to headquarters, Chief Dean Ackermann said. Sgt. Frank Riggio and Detective Mike Trover tried pulling Jacobsen over on Lincoln Avenue near Princeton Place Saturday afternoon after seeing Jacobsen take his eyes off the road to…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Prospect Park Police Find 2½ Ounces Pot, Packing Items, $4,500 Cash In Stop Prospect Park Police Find 2½ Ounces Pot, Packing Items, $4,500 Cash In Stop Prospect Park Police Find 2½ Ounces Pot, Packing Items, $4,500 Cash In Stop
Prospect Park Police Find 2½ Ounces Pot, Packing Items, $4,500 Cash In Stop PROSPECT PARK, N.J. -- A driver who told Prospect Park police that he was carrying a few small bags of marijuana had 2½ ounces of the drug, along with packaging materials and nearly $4,500 in cash, in his SUV, authorities said Monday. Officer Javier Vega stopped the 2008 Lexus RX for blowing a stop sign just after 10:15 p.m. Friday at North 6th Street and Brown Avenue, Detective Walter Richmond told Daily Voice. The driver, an “extremely nervous” Jonathan Vasquez, 28, told backup Officer Brian Koppenal that he smelled of marijuana because he was carrying three small baggies of the drug, Ric…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Clifton Man Gets 18 Federal Years For Illegally Operating Ambulance Company Clifton Man Gets 18 Federal Years For Illegally Operating Ambulance Company Clifton Man Gets 18 Federal Years For Illegally Operating Ambulance Company
Clifton Man Gets 18 Federal Years For Illegally Operating Ambulance Company CLIFTON, N.J. – A Clifton man was sentenced Monday to 18 years in federal prison for illegally operating an ambulance company after a prior conviction got him banned from participating in federal health care programs. A U.S. District judge last August convicted Imadeldin Awad Khair, 57, – also known as “Nadr Awad” – of 17 counts of an indictment that charged him with health care fraud, obstructing a federal audit, tax evasion and money laundering following a nine-day bench trial in Newark. Khair was excluded from participating in any capacity in Medicare, Medicaid, or other federal health c…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority PD: Bronx Pair Taped Plate To Duck GWB Toll Port Authority PD: Bronx Pair Taped Plate To Duck GWB Toll Port Authority PD: Bronx Pair Taped Plate To Duck GWB Toll
Port Authority PD: Bronx Pair Taped Plate To Duck GWB Toll FORT LEE, N.J. -- Two 22-year-old Bronx men stopped at the George Washington Bridge tolls and covered their license plate in an effort to beat E-ZPass, said police who arrested them. One of the men got out after the 2012 Audi sedan stopped on the entrance to the GWB roadway around 9 p.m. Sunday, the Port Authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. He then taped a piece of paper over the plate and got back in, Pentangelo said. Authority police stopped the car after it rolled through the toll, he said. The driver, Jose M. Hernandez gave police an interim license but didn't have a regis…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgefield Park Officer Finds 26 Pounds Of Heroin Worth $1M At Hotel Ridgefield Park Officer Finds 26 Pounds Of Heroin Worth $1M At Hotel Ridgefield Park Officer Finds 26 Pounds Of Heroin Worth $1M At Hotel
Ridgefield Park Officer Finds 26 Pounds Of Heroin Worth $1M At Hotel RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J. – A California man had 26 pounds of heroin worth more than $1 million stashed in a secret compartment of a minivan parked in a Ridgefield Park hotel lot, authorities said Monday. Officer Steven Fernandez spotted the Saturn – with no visible registration or license plates – outside the Hampton Inn on Route 46 around 3 p.m. Sunday, Lt. Joseph Rella said. Looking close, he spotted “an aftermarket trap under the vehicle,” he said. Village police organized a surveillance details, obtained a search warrant and impounded the vehicle, Rella said. Besides the heroin, Detectiv…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Seen Him? Fairview Police Seek Help Nabbing Cigarette Bandit Seen Him? Fairview Police Seek Help Nabbing Cigarette Bandit Seen Him? Fairview Police Seek Help Nabbing Cigarette Bandit
Seen Him? Fairview Police Seek Help Nabbing Cigarette Bandit FAIRVIEW, N.J. -- Fairview police turned to the public for help finding a man who they said held up a local convenience store -- for nothing more than a pack of cigarettes. The bandit seen in the surveillance photo above threatened a clerk at the Broad Avenue Quik Chek around 2 a.m. Saturday, claiming that he had had a gun, borough police said. Then he "walked behind the counter and helped himself" to the smokes, they said. Anyone with information that can help the investigation is asked to contact Fairview police: (201) 943-2100. All calls will be kept confidential, authoritie…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Crash Closes Westwood Road Crash Closes Westwood Road Crash Closes Westwood Road
Crash Closes Westwood Road WESTWOOD, N.J. -- A stretch of Harrington Avenue in Westwood was temporarily closed after a Sunday afternoon crash. No serious injuries were immediately reported in the crash at Berkeley Avenue around 4:30 p.m. River Vale BLS was dispatched for the victims and a towing company for both vehicles. Harrington was closed from Lexington to Berkeley.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: Paterson Jitney Driver Caught $31,000 Short Authorities: Paterson Jitney Driver Caught $31,000 Short Authorities: Paterson Jitney Driver Caught $31,000 Short
Authorities: Paterson Jitney Driver Caught $31,000 Short PATERSON, N.J. -- A Paterson driver became the latest jitney operator nabbed by Port Authority police for not paying his fare share to cross the Hudson River. Carlos M. Rojas, 53, had racked up $31,000 in tolls and fees from 351 known violations when officers stopped his white jitney as it approached the Lincoln Tunnel toll plaza in Weehawken Thursday afternoon, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo said Saturday. Rojas was arrested and the jitney bus impounded. Port Authority police have collared some serious debtors at the Hudson crossing in recent days. In one instance, they arrested a Tea…

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