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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Fort Lee, NJ
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Happy Birthday To Leonia's Alan Alda Happy Birthday To Leonia's Alan Alda Happy Birthday To Leonia's Alan Alda
Happy Birthday To Leonia's Alan Alda LEONIA, N.J. — Happy birthday to Alan Alda, a former longtime resident of Leonia who turns 80 on Saturday.Born Alphonso Joseph D’Abruzzo on Jan. 28, 1936 in New York City, Alda was the son of an traveled the country with his parents as a child. He was graduated from Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains and Fordham University in the Bronx. He was in the ROTC in college and served in the U.S. Army Reserves. He and his wife, Arlene, have been married since 1957 and lived for many years in Leonia. Alda frequented Sol & Sol Deli on Palisade Avenue in Englewood, which was used in h…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Paramus PD: Edgewater Woman Swiped Singer's Purse During Gig Paramus PD: Edgewater Woman Swiped Singer's Purse During Gig Paramus PD: Edgewater Woman Swiped Singer's Purse During Gig
Paramus PD: Edgewater Woman Swiped Singer's Purse During Gig PARAMUS, N.J. -- Persistence by a Paramus police detective led to the arrest of an Edgewater woman charged with taking a singer's purse as the victim performed at a local nightspot. Judith Randazzo, 48, was captured on surveillance cameras reaching behind the counter at the Orange Lantern just before 12:30 in the morning on Aug. 28, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said Friday. Detective Nicholas Luciano "worked tirelessly" to identify the thief, including posting images on social media, the chief said. ****** The victim, Kayla Lael of the Selma Blair Witch Project, posted a video…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: Dash Cam Shows Start Of Paramus Police Chase Down Route 17 VIDEO: Dash Cam Shows Start Of Paramus Police Chase Down Route 17 VIDEO: Dash Cam Shows Start Of Paramus Police Chase Down Route 17
Video: Dash Cam Shows Start Of Paramus Police Chase Down Route 17 PARAMUS, N.J. -- Paramus police on Friday released dash-cam video of the start of a wild chase down Route 17 in which the ex-con behind the wheel struck several vehicles. It was the second of two chases involving Paramus police on Wednesday. ****** ALSO SEE: Paramus police arrested two men on illegal prescription drugs possession charges after the first of a pair of chases Wednesday that both included crashes into cruisers. READ MORE.... ****** The search for the black 2011 Volkswagen Jetta began in Oakland, after a suspicious incident at a Walgreens prompted police to issue a Be-On-the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Garfield, Paterson Pair Charged In Killing Of Fair Lawn Gas Attendant Garfield, Paterson Pair Charged In Killing Of Fair Lawn Gas Attendant Garfield, Paterson Pair Charged In Killing Of Fair Lawn Gas Attendant
Garfield, Paterson Pair Charged In Killing Of Fair Lawn Gas Attendant PATERSON, N.J. – Authorities have charged two 21-year-olds – one from Garfield, the other from Paterson – with participating in a robbery that became a cold-blooded killing of a Silk City gas station attendant from Fair Lawn. Dennis Barrett of Paterson and George Martinez of Garfield were due for a first appearance Friday afternoon in Superior Court in Paterson, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Deputy Chief Troy Oswald said. They were arrested Thursday through what Valdes and Oswald called “the joint and intensive efforts of the detectives of the Major Crimes …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Barricaded Hackensack Ex-Con Coaxed Out By Mom Barricaded Hackensack Ex-Con Coaxed Out By Mom Barricaded Hackensack Ex-Con Coaxed Out By Mom
Barricaded Hackensack Ex-Con Coaxed Out By Mom HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A career criminal wanted for robbery barricaded himself in a Hackensack garden apartment -- threatening to stab himself and begging to be shot by police -- before his mother helped coax him out, authorities told Dailiy Voice. Alec Parker, 31, was being held without bail in the Bergen County Jail pending a hearing Friday morning after the brief Thursday afternoon standoff. Parker, whose rap sheet stretches back more than a dozen years, surrendered after about a half-hour when police brought his mother to the scene in the 200 block of Second Avenue, said Capt. Francesco Aq…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
GWB Porsche Driver Owed $108,000+, Port Authority Police Charge GWB Porsche Driver Owed $108,000+, Port Authority Police Charge GWB Porsche Driver Owed $108,000+, Port Authority Police Charge
GWB Porsche Driver Owed $108,000+, Port Authority Police Charge FORT LEE, N.J. -- A Porsche driver who police said blew through an E-ZPass lane at the George Washington Bridge owed more than $108,200 in tolls and fees, authorities said. Alfonso M. Ordde, 42, of Staten Island was pulled over Thursday morning by Port Authority Police Officer Lionel Gonzalez, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. His black sedan had gone through a toll lane marked "E-ZPass Only" and didn't have a front license plate, he said. According to records, Ordde was associated with more than 1,564 violations. He was released pending a court hearing and his…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Passaic County Authorities Bust Teen 'Revenge Porn' Ring Passaic County Authorities Bust Teen 'Revenge Porn' Ring Passaic County Authorities Bust Teen 'Revenge Porn' Ring
Passaic County Authorities Bust Teen 'Revenge Porn' Ring PASSAIC COUNTY, N.J. – They weren’t your usual providers of kiddie porn: Six people accused of posting nude photos of 13- and 15-year-old Passaic County youngsters are kids themselves, authorities said. Three underage “hosts” -- a 14- year old boy and two 15-year-old girls -- created social media accounts seeking nude photographs of other underage "Purge" users, authorities said. Three boys – ages 14 and 15 --  “provided nude photographs of other juvenile individuals who had not consented to their images being utilized on the social media accounts,” they said. The viral victimiza…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Vacant Jeep Used For Paterson Drug Deal Had Sheriff's Detectives' Attention Vacant Jeep Used For Paterson Drug Deal Had Sheriff's Detectives' Attention Vacant Jeep Used For Paterson Drug Deal Had Sheriff's Detectives' Attention
Vacant Jeep Used For Paterson Drug Deal Had Sheriff's Detectives' Attention PATERSON, N.J. -- A heroin buyer and seller who used an unoccupied Jeep in a Paterson neighborhood as an exchange point were arrested by Passaic County sheriff's detectives who'd been watching them the entire time, authorities said Thursday. Working a tip from a concerned citizen about drug dealing in the area of Wayne Avenue and James Street, investigators set up near the vehicle around 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. Another Jeep pulled up and remained idling while the driver -- identified as Joshua Quistgaard, 39, of East Stroudsburg, PA -- worked his cellphone, the sh…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
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Harrington Park Police: Van Left By DWI Driver Struck By Train Harrington Park Police: Van Left By DWI Driver Struck By Train Harrington Park Police: Van Left By DWI Driver Struck By Train
Harrington Park Police: Van Left By DWI Driver Struck By Train HARRINGTON PARK, N.J. -- A drunk driver left his van on the tracks in Harrington Park, where it was struck and knocked partially into a creek Wednesday night by a freight train, authorities said. The 44-year-old Paterson driver's car got stuck on the tracks on Lafayette Road just after 11:30 p.m., Police Chief Albert Maalouf told Daily Voice. "He realized a [CSX River Line] train was approaching and vacated his vehicle prior to the collision," the chief said. Responding officers found the driver walking away from area, Maalouf said, adding that he then didn't cooperate with the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Indictment: Drug-Dealing Edgewater Duo Had Designer Opiod, $732,124 Cash Indictment: Drug-Dealing Edgewater Duo Had Designer Opiod, $732,124 Cash Indictment: Drug-Dealing Edgewater Duo Had Designer Opiod, $732,124 Cash
Indictment: Drug-Dealing Edgewater Duo Had Designer Opiod, $732,124 Cash EDGEWATER, N.J. -- A pair of Edgewater drug dealers had $732,124 in cash in their apartment along with more than 10 ounces of the designer opioid furanyl fentanyl, an indictment returned Thursday charges. Jose Colon-Lora, 33, and Jorge Rivera, 26, "were making huge profits by peddling a highly addictive and deadly analog of fentanyl,” Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino said. That stopped after members of the New Jersey State Police Violent and Organized Crime Control North Bureau, Trafficking North Unit, raided their Alexander Way residence last July, he said. With the help of …

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