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
Breaking News
Teterboro Dealer's Employee Gets 4 Years In Torched Bentley Insurance Scam Teterboro Dealer's Employee Gets 4 Years In Torched Bentley Insurance Scam Teterboro Dealer's Employee Gets 4 Years In Torched Bentley Insurance Scam
Teterboro Dealer's Employee Gets 4 Years In Torched Bentley Insurance Scam TETERBORO, N.J. -- A former employee of a now-defunct Teterboro used car dealership that scammed banks out of $1.4 million in luxury car loans got four years in prison Tuesday for his role in torching a $139,000 Bentley that he reported stolen. John Jarzabek, 27, of Harrison in Hudson County, agreed to the sentence handed down by Presiding Superior Court Judge Susan Steele in Hackensack in a plea deal with prosecutors. Jarzabek and his parents Chester Jarzabek, 64, and Anna Jarzabek, 62, were accused of conspiracy, insurance fraud, and other offenses by authorities who said they falsified a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Cresskill Police Urge Common Sense After Mercedes Theft, Separate Break-In Cresskill Police Urge Common Sense After Mercedes Theft, Separate Break-In Cresskill Police Urge Common Sense After Mercedes Theft, Separate Break-In
Cresskill Police Urge Common Sense After Mercedes Theft, Separate Break-In CRESSKILL, N.J. -- Cresskill police again urged citizens to lock their vehicles and not leave their keys or valuables inside after a black 2015 Mercedes Benz was swiped from the tony East Hill section of town. The theft early Friday was accompanied by another report of a car burglary in the center of town, Detective Sgt. Jason Lanzilotti told Daily Voice. Anyone who saw anything or has information that could help the investigation is asked to call Cresskill police: (201) 568-1400.

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Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Pair Charged After Walking Into Wrong New Milford House Pair Charged After Walking Into Wrong New Milford House Pair Charged After Walking Into Wrong New Milford House
Pair Charged After Walking Into Wrong New Milford House NEW MILFORD, N.J. -- Two men returning home after a late night out walked into the wrong New Milford house, triggering a burglary-in-progress alert that brought police, authorities said Tuesday. The woman who lives in the Leonard Drive home told officers who responded to the 4:35 a.m. call Monday that she confronted both men, who left, Detectives Sgt. Kevin Van Saders told Daily Voice. Police moments later arrested Marcela Garcia-Gomez, 27, of New Milford, and Cristian Marin-Henao, 26, of Englewood, Van Saders said. Both were released on summonses for a court hearing in Central Judiciary P…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Hit-Run Driver ODs In Saddle Brook, Revived By Police Hit-Run Driver ODs In Saddle Brook, Revived By Police Hit-Run Driver ODs In Saddle Brook, Revived By Police
Hit-Run Driver ODs In Saddle Brook, Revived By Police SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- Saddle Brook police revived a borough hit-and-driver after he overdosed on heroin behind the wheel at a Route 80 exit ramp, authorities said. Responding to a New Jersey State Police alert, Officers Marc Buchak and Joe Scrafani pulled the unconscious 43-year-old driver from his banged-up 2011 Hyundai Sonata around 9:40 a.m. Sunday, Police Chief Robert Kugler said. "They administered a dose of Narcan and he began to come around," the chief said, adding that the driver was known to police. The Saddle Brook Ambulance Corps then took him to Hackensack University …

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah Police Credit Secret Tipster For Quick Arrest In Jeep Parts Theft Mahwah Police Credit Secret Tipster For Quick Arrest In Jeep Parts Theft Mahwah Police Credit Secret Tipster For Quick Arrest In Jeep Parts Theft
Mahwah Police Credit Secret Tipster For Quick Arrest In Jeep Parts Theft MAHWAH, N.J. -- An anonymous caller tipped off Mahwah police to a local heroin user who they said had jsut removed the driver and front seat passenger's seats, along with carpeting, from a 2017 Jeep Wrangler on a car dealer's lot. The caller directed officers around 8 p.m. Monday to a vehicle storage lot on Ramapo Valley Road, where Detective Eric Larsen spotted an illegally parked 2001 Chevrolet Impala on Church Street, Police Chief James Batelli told Daily Voice. He then saw 42-year-old John J. Yager, "dressed all in black with a hoodie covering his face," walking on Avenue A, t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn Police: Fingerprints On Tape Link Ex-Con To Swastika Drawings Fair Lawn Police: Fingerprints On Tape Link Ex-Con To Swastika Drawings Fair Lawn Police: Fingerprints On Tape Link Ex-Con To Swastika Drawings
Fair Lawn Police: Fingerprints On Tape Link Ex-Con To Swastika Drawings FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- Fingerprints found on tape that attached drawings of swastikas to the wall of a Fair Lawn apartment building led to charges against an ex-con who police said had a beef with a neighbor. Eric M. Mayo, 32 -- whose criminal history stretches back to his teens -- was already being held in the Bergen County Jail for an unrelated incident when fingerprints lifted from the tape by the Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification linked him to the crime. "He had an argument with one of his neighbors and put the notes up," Sgt. Brian Metzler told Daily Voice…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
'Jay C. Penny,' Passenger Had Ecstasy, Crack, Heroin, More, Wayne PD Says 'Jay C. Penny,' Passenger Had Ecstasy, Crack, Heroin, More, Wayne PD Says 'Jay C. Penny,' Passenger Had Ecstasy, Crack, Heroin, More, Wayne PD Says
'Jay C. Penny,' Passenger Had Ecstasy, Crack, Heroin, More, Wayne PD Says WAYNE, N.J. -- A Wayne police officer found heroin, crack, Ecstasy, prescription drugs and "Jungle Juice" poppers after stopping an unlicensed Lyndhurst driver who identified himself as "Jay C. Penny," authorities said Monday. Officer Adrian Sulejmani stopped the 2000 Nissan Maxima on Preakness Avenue for equipment violations around 6:45 p.m. Saturday, Capt. Laurence Martin said. The driver was "very nervous," Martin said. "Specifically, his hands were shaking and his voice cracked as he spoke." The passenger -- Tracey L. Kyle, 39, of Roxbury Townshi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Have You Seen Him? Little Ferry PD: Robber Grabbed Teller, Fled With Cash Have You Seen Him? Little Ferry PD: Robber Grabbed Teller, Fled With Cash Have You Seen Him? Little Ferry PD: Robber Grabbed Teller, Fled With Cash
Have You Seen Him? Little Ferry PD: Robber Grabbed Teller, Fled With Cash LITTLE FERRY, N.J. -- Little Ferry police on Monday released a surveillance photo of a man who they said grabbed a bank teller by the blouse, ripped nearly $4,000 from her hands and fled to what likely was a waiting car Sunday afternoon.  A Bergen County Sheriff's K-9 unit traced the robber to the area behind Segovia Restaurant on Main Street after the TD Bank holdup. "He probably had a car there," Police Chief Ralph Verdi told Daily Voice. Moments earlier, the robber walked up to the teller with his hand in the pocket of his hoodie "as if he had a gun" and demanded mon…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Anybody Home? Drunken Glen Rock 'Burglar' Enters Wrong House Anybody Home? Drunken Glen Rock 'Burglar' Enters Wrong House Anybody Home? Drunken Glen Rock 'Burglar' Enters Wrong House
Anybody Home? Drunken Glen Rock 'Burglar' Enters Wrong House GLEN ROCK, N.J. -- The 911 burglary-in-progress call quickly brought Glen Rock police, who found a "highly" intoxicated guest of a neighbor who'd entered the wrong house, authorities said Monday. Officers who took the Upper Saddle River man into custody after the call to Highwood Avenue released him after the resident said he didn't want to pursue the matter with them, Police Chief Dean Ackerman said. He said "would resolve the issue of any damages with his neighbor and their guest," the chief said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Wayne PD: Lord & Taylor Shoplifting Quartet Included NYC Fugitive Wayne PD: Lord & Taylor Shoplifting Quartet Included NYC Fugitive Wayne PD: Lord & Taylor Shoplifting Quartet Included NYC Fugitive
Wayne PD: Lord & Taylor Shoplifting Quartet Included NYC Fugitive WAYNE, N.J. -- Four women arrested by Wayne police for shopifting at Lord & Taylor included a fugitive wanted for a New York City robbery, authorities said Monday. Quanisha T Jackson, 23, of Irvington was accompanied by, among others, 19-year-old Zjanet Ramgeet of Newark, who was wanted on a warrant out of Jersey City, Capt. Laurence Martin said. Security officers turned the quartet over to Officers Robert Fernandez and Skylar Cauceglia, who found one of them carrying pot and several stolen credit cards, Martin said. Another, 22-year-old Moszena R. Ward, tried pretending to be someone …

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