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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Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Tipster Leads Carlstadt Police To Fair Lawn Car Burglar Tipster Leads Carlstadt Police To Fair Lawn Car Burglar Tipster Leads Carlstadt Police To Fair Lawn Car Burglar
Tipster Leads Carlstadt Police To Fair Lawn Car Burglar CARLSTADT, N.J. – A tipster led Carlstadt police to an East Rutherford man who they said stole electronics, purses and wallets and other valuables from vehicles in Fair Lawn and elsewhere. The call of a man “dumping the contents of several purses onto the ground in the area of Division Avenue near Route 17 South” came in to police at 9:40 a.m. Friday, Police Chief Thomas Nielsen said. The caller led police to a red Nissan Altima with Pennsylvania license plates stopped moments later by Lt. Thomas Negro, along with Officers James Ross and Jonathan Rood, Nielsen said. In addition to the purs…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Little Ferry Bank Robber Grabs Teller, Flees With Cash Little Ferry Bank Robber Grabs Teller, Flees With Cash Little Ferry Bank Robber Grabs Teller, Flees With Cash
Little Ferry Bank Robber Grabs Teller, Flees With Cash LITTLE FERRY, N.J. -- A robber grabbed a Little Ferry bank teller by the blouse, demanded money, then fled with an undetermined amount of cash Sunday afternoon, authorities told Daily Voice.  The Main Street TD Bank branch robber "walked up to the teller with his hand in his pocket as if he had a gun and demanded money," Police Chief Ralph Verdi said following the holdup, which occurred just before 1 p.m. "Then he reached over the counter and grabbed her by the shirt." The initial description was only that he was white and had a scruffy face. The Bergen County Sheriff's…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Missing Woodland Park Man, 85, ID'd As Body Found In Canal Missing Woodland Park Man, 85, ID'd As Body Found In Canal Missing Woodland Park Man, 85, ID'd As Body Found In Canal
Missing Woodland Park Man, 85, ID'd As Body Found In Canal WOODLAND PARK, N.J. -- The man whose body was found in a Morris Canal stream in Woodland Park was an 85-year-old borough resident reported missing the night before, authorities confirmed. Loved ones reported Thomas Kozell missing around 7 p.m. Thursday, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Woodland Park Police Chief Anthony Galietti said. His body was spotted in the water near a walking path between Browertown Road and Mt. Pleasant Avenue around 8:30 a.m. Friday, they said. Kozell, who had dementia, apparently fell down a steep ravine behind the American Legion Hall on Mount Ple…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority Police Corral Completely Camouflaged GWB Jumper Port Authority Police Corral Completely Camouflaged GWB Jumper Port Authority Police Corral Completely Camouflaged GWB Jumper
Port Authority Police Corral Completely Camouflaged GWB Jumper FORT LEE, N.J. -- A Jersey Shore dressed entirely in camouflage had climbed over a George Washington Bridge railing, set to jump to his death, when two Port Authority police officers convinced him it wasn't worth it. Officers Ronald King and Brian Ahern received a report just after 9 a.m. Thursday of a man who'd parked his 2016 Ford Escape on upper level of the bridge and gotten out, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. The 6-foot-2-inch, 220-pound Little Egg Harbor man was "standing poised" on the other side of the rail, he said. "He told the officers he was …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Little Ferry Trucking Company Owner Busted For $1M In Unpaid Tolls Little Ferry Trucking Company Owner Busted For $1M In Unpaid Tolls Little Ferry Trucking Company Owner Busted For $1M In Unpaid Tolls
Little Ferry Trucking Company Owner Busted For $1M In Unpaid Tolls LITTLE FERRY, N.J. -- A trucking company owner from Little Ferry who racked up more than $1 million in unpaid tolls and fees was arrested at Newark Airport as he was about to board a flight to Aruba, State Police said. Detectives from the Troop “D” Criminal Investigations Office arrested Lester Morales, 34, after discovering that roughly 100 trucks from his Jersey City company blew through tolls more than 100 times a day, the NJSP said. Morales, owner of EAB Transport LLC/ Do it Right Trucking, "conducted operations with a delinquent E-Z Pass account," troopers said in a release. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Rochelle Park Police: ID Thieves Had Phones, Bogus Cards, $57,000 Cash Rochelle Park Police: ID Thieves Had Phones, Bogus Cards, $57,000 Cash Rochelle Park Police: ID Thieves Had Phones, Bogus Cards, $57,000 Cash
Rochelle Park Police: ID Thieves Had Phones, Bogus Cards, $57,000 Cash ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. -- Rochelle Park police early Friday raided a local hotel room and busted a trio of accused identity thieves who they said had more than a dozen iPhones, bogus credit cards and driver's licenses -- and $57,000 in cash. Patrol officers tipped Detective Sgt. James DePreta and Detective Chris Bermudez off to the crew, who were taken into custody at the Ramada Hotel on West Passaic Street around 1 a.m. Friday by Officers Franklin LaBoy, Brendan Stapleton and Chris Saldivia, assisted by Sgt. Edward Kukalski, Lt. Dean Pinto said. Seized were 13 iPhone 7s, an iPad Mini, several…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Red Shoes Could Tie Pair To Lyndhurst, Clifton Gas Station Robberies Red Shoes Could Tie Pair To Lyndhurst, Clifton Gas Station Robberies Red Shoes Could Tie Pair To Lyndhurst, Clifton Gas Station Robberies
Red Shoes Could Tie Pair To Lyndhurst, Clifton Gas Station Robberies ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. -- A pair of red sneakers may be the link between two men arrested for an armed robbery in Newark and a pair of gunpoint gas station holdups in Lyndhurst and Clifton, authorities said Friday. Lyndhurst detectives were in Newark interviewing the suspects Friday afternoon, Police Chief Jim O'Connor told Daily Voice. No charges had been filed, he emphasized. It all began just before 11 p.m. Wednesday, when a clerk at the Ramada Inn on West Passaic Street in Rochelle Park who was away from the front desk spotted two men in ski masks walk in (surveillance photo, above left)…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah PD: Ex-Con Blocking Handicapped Space Packed Loaded Gun Mahwah PD: Ex-Con Blocking Handicapped Space Packed Loaded Gun Mahwah PD: Ex-Con Blocking Handicapped Space Packed Loaded Gun
Mahwah PD: Ex-Con Blocking Handicapped Space Packed Loaded Gun MAHWAH, N.J. – A car with a bogus license plate that was blocking a handicapped parking space at a Mahwah gas station turned out to be driven by an ex-con carrying a handgun loaded with hollow-point bullets, authorities said Friday. Detectives Eric Larsen and Detective Michael Grassi were on patrol Thursday when they spotted the car in the Valero Gas Station on southbound Route 17, Police Chief James N. Batelli told Daily Voice. The vehicle “was blocking the entrance to two parking spaces one of which being a handicapped space” and “displayed a fictitious license plate,” he said. The drive…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
PHOTOS: Basement Fire Blows Through Clifton House PHOTOS: Basement Fire Blows Through Clifton House PHOTOS: Basement Fire Blows Through Clifton House
Photos: Basement Fire Blows Through Clifton House CLIFTON, N.J. -- A two-alarm basement fire blew through the upper floors of a Clifton home Friday. No injuries were reported in the blaze, which broke out at Hilton Street and Getty Avenue before 4 p.m.

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Monsey, NY
Breaking News
Fire Destroys Spring Valley Home Fire Destroys Spring Valley Home Fire Destroys Spring Valley Home
Fire Destroys Spring Valley Home SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. -- Fire destroyed a home Friday morning in the Hillcrest section of Spring Valley. Ramapo police responding to a 10:27 a.m. call on Slinn Avenue found "a large volume of fire going up the northwest corner of the house," Sgt. Kenneth Joyce said. Spring Valley firefighters battled the blaze with assistance from their Hillcrest and Nanuet colleagues. "All the residents got out safely and have made arrangements to stay with family for the time being," Joyce said. Ramapo detectives, a Rockland County BCI team and Ramapo fire inspectors were looking …

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