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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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Seen Them? Clifton PD Seeks Help Finding Car Thieves Seen Them? Clifton PD Seeks Help Finding Car Thieves Seen Them? Clifton PD Seeks Help Finding Car Thieves
Seen Them? Clifton PD Seeks Help Finding Car Thieves CLIFTON, N.J. -- Turning to the public for help, Clifton police on Wednesday released a surveillance image of two suspects who they said stole a car off a local street. The pair swiped a beige 2000 Volvo wagon from the area of Lakeview and Piaget avenues around 4 p.m. Dec. 27, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. The vehicle hadn't been recovered as of Wedesday, he said. Anyone who knows the suspects, or sees them, is asked to contact the Clifton Police Department Juvenile Division at (973) 470-5882 or the Clifton Police Communications Center at (973) 470-5911. Callers can remain anonymous…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
FBI: Powder-Stained Envelope Sent To Alpine's Kellyanne Conway Not A Threat FBI: Powder-Stained Envelope Sent To Alpine's Kellyanne Conway Not A Threat FBI: Powder-Stained Envelope Sent To Alpine's Kellyanne Conway Not A Threat
FBI: Powder-Stained Envelope Sent To Alpine's Kellyanne Conway Not A Threat ALPINE, N.J. -- Preliminary tests on a suspicious envelope sent to the Alpine home of Kellyanne Conway, a top adviser to President Trump, "indicated no threat to public safety," an FBI spokesman told Daily Voice early Wednesday. The FBI, as per protocol, didn't identify Conway as the recipient. However, Conway told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday night that she'd been assigned Secret Service protection after receiving the suspicious delivery -- which she blamed on negative press coverage of the president. “We have packages delivered to my house with white substances," …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Edgewater Man Slain Execution-Style On Staten Island Edgewater Man Slain Execution-Style On Staten Island Edgewater Man Slain Execution-Style On Staten Island
Edgewater Man Slain Execution-Style On Staten Island EDGEWATER, N.J. -- One of two men killed by a masked gunman with a shot to the back of the head on Staten Island was from Edgewater, the NYPD confirmed early Wednesday. Michael Genovese, 57, was in a back office of a cash advance business in the Dongan Hills neighborhood of the island's East Shore when he and a 52-year-old colleague were slain execution-style around 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said. Nothing was stolen, they said. FOR FULL DETAILS: http://www.silive.com/news/

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Probe Continues Into Westwood Crash That Severely Injured Pedestrian, 77 Probe Continues Into Westwood Crash That Severely Injured Pedestrian, 77 Probe Continues Into Westwood Crash That Severely Injured Pedestrian, 77
Probe Continues Into Westwood Crash That Severely Injured Pedestrian, 77 WESTWOOD, N.J. -- No action had been taken yet Tuesday following a crash the night before in Westwood that sent a 77-year-old pedestrian through the windshield of a sedan driven by a 32-year-old Hillsdale man, authorities said. The victim sustained a serious head injury, among others, Police Chief Frank Regino said. "He just got off the train and was trying to cross Third Avenue at Park Avenue [in front of Flynn's Deli] when he was hit" just after 6:30 p.m., Regino said. "The driver apparently didn't see him." Police reserves assisted with traffic as the Hillsdale Volun…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Pot-Dealing Teaneck RR Worker Had Guns, $5,200+ Cash Prosecutor: Pot-Dealing Teaneck RR Worker Had Guns, $5,200+ Cash Prosecutor: Pot-Dealing Teaneck RR Worker Had Guns, $5,200+ Cash
Prosecutor: Pot-Dealing Teaneck RR Worker Had Guns, $5,200+ Cash TEANECK, N.J. – Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives and Teaneck police seized a handgun loaded with hollow-point ammo, a stun gun, pot and more than $5,200 in cash and arrested a railroad maintenance worker after a raid of his township home. Pedro Russo, 45, was released without bail pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Tuesday. Charges include: Two counts of possession with the intent to distribute more than an ounce of marijuana; Possession of a firearm while committing a drug crime; Possession …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Police In Haledon, Wayne, West Milford Boost 2017 County Narcan Total Police In Haledon, Wayne, West Milford Boost 2017 County Narcan Total Police In Haledon, Wayne, West Milford Boost 2017 County Narcan Total
Police In Haledon, Wayne, West Milford Boost 2017 County Narcan Total PASSAIC COUNTY, N.J. -- Narcan saves of overdosing heroin users in Passaic County continued to climb into the fourth week of January, authorities said -- with rescues reported in Haledon, Wayne and West Milford bringing the year-to-date total to eight. Haledon police officers revived a 26-year-old man with two doses of Narcan after they found him “unresponsive and displaying blue lips and a slow pulse” on Sunday afternoon, said Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Haledon Deputy Police Chief Angelo Daniele, the department’s officer in charge. The officers also seized several empt…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Help Sought Finding Killer Of Paterson Gas Attendant From Fair Lawn, 57 Help Sought Finding Killer Of Paterson Gas Attendant From Fair Lawn, 57 Help Sought Finding Killer Of Paterson Gas Attendant From Fair Lawn, 57
Help Sought Finding Killer Of Paterson Gas Attendant From Fair Lawn, 57 PATERSON, N.J. -- Authorities Tuesday sought the public's help finding the gunman responsible for the cold-blooded killing of a Paterson gas station attendant from Fair Lawn the night before. Ruskin Magamedov, 57, was pronounced dead after being brought in to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center following the 6 p.m. shooting at 1st Ave Gas on Route 20. City and Hawthorne police who responded rendered aid, Police Director Jerry Speziale told Daily Voice. Speziale and Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes asked that anyone with information that could help catch the killer contact either: …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
'Can I Say You're Hot?' Teen Sues Glen Rock Police Over Text Messages 'Can I Say You're Hot?' Teen Sues Glen Rock Police Over Text Messages 'Can I Say You're Hot?' Teen Sues Glen Rock Police Over Text Messages
'Can I Say You're Hot?' Teen Sues Glen Rock Police Over Text Messages GLEN ROCK, N.J. — A 17-year-old girl is suing Glen Rock, its police department and a former detective who she says sent her 189 mostly sexually suggestive texts after she was arrested in 2015, NJ.com reports. Following her May 2015 arrest, the 17-year-old was assigned to be supervised by Former police officer and juvenile detective Eric Reamy, and claims in the suit he texted her messages like "Can I say you're hot?", NJ.com says.  Reamy in 2015 pleaded guilty to sending sexually explicit texts from his work cell phone to 14 and 17-year-old girls. CLICK HERE for the full story fr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Jurors Convict Paterson Pot Dealer Jurors Convict Paterson Pot Dealer Jurors Convict Paterson Pot Dealer
Jurors Convict Paterson Pot Dealer PATERSON, N.J. – A Paterson man was looking at a maximum prison sentence of up to 10 years, authorities said, after jurors convicted him of selling pot on the street. It will likely be less -- possibly significantly -- under New Jersey sentencing guidelines. Tyian Edwards, 32, was being watched by detectives when he sold a woman drugs on Rosa Parks Boulevard the afternoon of April 3, 2014. After moving in, the investigators found Edwards carrying 15 baggies of marijuana stamped with a black 8-ball and $175, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said. They also arrested the woman, wh…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority Police: Jitney Driver Busted For $50,900+ in Tolls, Fees Port Authority Police: Jitney Driver Busted For $50,900+ in Tolls, Fees Port Authority Police: Jitney Driver Busted For $50,900+ in Tolls, Fees
Port Authority Police: Jitney Driver Busted For $50,900+ in Tolls, Fees FORT LEE, N.J. -- Port Authority police officers based in New Jersey busted a jitney driver at the Lincoln Tunnel who they said owed more than $50,990 in tolls and fees. Officer Nick D'Agostino recognized the 1991 driver -- 62-year-old Bertha D. Moreno of West New York -- as a "known toll evader" after the bus emerged from a tunnel tube in Weehawken, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo said Tuesday. After stopping Moreno, the officer found 653 violations, he said. It wasn't that she wasn't paying anything, Pentangelo said: Moreno was using an EZPass transponder designated for passe…

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