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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New City, NY
Breaking News
New City Driver Arrested After NJ Police Find 2 Pounds Of Pot New City Driver Arrested After NJ Police Find 2 Pounds Of Pot New City Driver Arrested After NJ Police Find 2 Pounds Of Pot
New City Driver Arrested After NJ Police Find 2 Pounds Of Pot NEW CITY, N.Y. -- Detectives from the gang unit in Paterson, N.J., who stopped to check out an idling car blocking traffic found two pounds of pot inside and arrested both occupants -- one of them from New City, authorities said. Driver Steven Baker, 22, of Lodi, and passenger Keith Chandler, 26, were charged with having the drug with the intent to sell it following the 11:30 p.m. stop Friday at North 10th and Temple Streets, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. The detectives were checking out crime hot spots in the city's First Ward when they approached the silver vehicle with out-of-stat…

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Paterson, NJ
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Paterson Detectives Arrest Lodi Driver After Finding 2 Pounds Of Pot Paterson Detectives Arrest Lodi Driver After Finding 2 Pounds Of Pot Paterson Detectives Arrest Lodi Driver After Finding 2 Pounds Of Pot
Paterson Detectives Arrest Lodi Driver After Finding 2 Pounds Of Pot PATERSON, N.J. -- Detectives from Paterson's gang unit who stopped to check out an idling car blocking traffic found two pounds of pot inside and arrested both occupants -- one from Lodi and the other from Rockland County, authorities said. Driver Steven Baker, 22, of Lodi, and passenger Keith Chandler, 26, of New City were charged with having the drug with the intent to sell it following the 11:30 p.m. stop Friday at North 10th and Temple Streets, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. The detectives were checking out crime hot spots in the city's First Ward when they approached the silver v…

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Paterson, NJ
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Haledon PD Cracks Delivery Robberies After Suspect Calls Locales From HQ Haledon PD Cracks Delivery Robberies After Suspect Calls Locales From HQ Haledon PD Cracks Delivery Robberies After Suspect Calls Locales From HQ
Haledon PD Cracks Delivery Robberies After Suspect Calls Locales From HQ HALEDON, N.J. -- An 18-year-old Haledon man suspected in three late-night food delivery robberies cinched his arrest when he made a phone call from headquarters to the number used to place two of the orders, authorities said Tuesday night. Several Haledon officers and detectives worked together to seize borough resident Richard Hobson, Jr. and three juveniles -- one of them a 17-year-old runaway from Paterson. The first robbery victim, who worked for a Fair Lawn restaurant, told police a man suddenly emerged from a dark driveway in the 400 block of Roe Street while another lurked in the bac…

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Hackensack, NJ
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Hackensack PD: Tow-Truck Chase Driver Was Freed In Car, Tomahawk Thefts Hackensack PD: Tow-Truck Chase Driver Was Freed In Car, Tomahawk Thefts Hackensack PD: Tow-Truck Chase Driver Was Freed In Car, Tomahawk Thefts
Hackensack PD: Tow-Truck Chase Driver Was Freed In Car, Tomahawk Thefts HACKENSACK, N.J. -- An ex-con arrested after damaging three police cars in a stolen tow truck during a chase up Route 17 early Monday had been freed after Hackensack police said he stole a car on New Year's Eve and a tomahawk from a famed statue at the public library nine days earlier, Daily Voice has learned. Barely a day and a half after a judge freed 50-year-old Paul T. Gudanowski without bail in the car theft, police Monday morning chased a stolen tow truck he was driving from East Rutherford across the New York state line. Gudanowski, who has a criminal record stretching back more than…

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Ridgefield Park Police Officer Finds $294K Sealed Cash Stashed In SUV Ridgefield Park Police Officer Finds $294K Sealed Cash Stashed In SUV Ridgefield Park Police Officer Finds $294K Sealed Cash Stashed In SUV
Ridgefield Park Police Officer Finds $294K Sealed Cash Stashed In SUV RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J. – A motorist stopped by a Ridgefield Park patrol officer had nearly $300,000 wrapped in vacuum-sealed bags stashed inside an electronically-controlled hidden compartment of an SUV, authorities told Daily Voice. Officer Brad Gilmore followed the Ford Escape after it came off the I-95 exit ramp near Overpeck Creek “straddling the lane divider and switching lanes without signaling” just after 4 a.m. Dec. 28, Lt. Joseph Rella told Daily Voice. The vehicle “continued to straddle the designated lane markings” before Gilmore finally stopped it on Route 46 in Ridgefield, Rella…

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Yonkers, NY
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NJ Police Officer Finds $294K Stashed Cash In Yonkers Driver's SUV NJ Police Officer Finds $294K Stashed Cash In Yonkers Driver's SUV NJ Police Officer Finds $294K Stashed Cash In Yonkers Driver's SUV
NJ Police Officer Finds $294K Stashed Cash In Yonkers Driver's SUV YONKERS, N.Y. – A Yonkers motorist stopped by a New Jersey patrol officer had nearly $300,000 wrapped in vacuum-sealed bags stashed inside an electronically-controlled hidden compartment of an SUV, authorities told Daily Voice. Officer Brad Gilmore followed the Ford Escape after it came off the I-95 exit ramp near Overpeck Creek “straddling the lane divider and switching lanes without signaling” just after 4 a.m. Dec. 28, Lt. Joseph Rella told Daily Voice. The vehicle “continued to straddle the designated lane markings” before Gilmore finally stopped it on Route 46 in Ridgefield, Rella said…

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Rutherford, NJ
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VIDEO: Charges Mount Against Bergen Ex-Con In Stolen Tow Truck Chase VIDEO: Charges Mount Against Bergen Ex-Con In Stolen Tow Truck Chase VIDEO: Charges Mount Against Bergen Ex-Con In Stolen Tow Truck Chase
Video: Charges Mount Against Bergen Ex-Con In Stolen Tow Truck Chase PARAMUS, N.J. -- A brief video shows a stolen flatbed tow truck being pursued by police up Route 17 through Paramus Monday morning on its way to Rockland, where it hit three of their vehicles before authorities said they seized the intoxicated driver -- an ex-con who'd been arrested no fewer than four times last year. Paul T. Gudanowski, a 50-year-old transient who listed recent addresses as Wood-Ridge and Hackensack, was being held pending extradition to New Jersey. Gudanowski, who sources told Daily Voice has in the past resided at the Bergen County homeless shelter on South River Street …

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Rutherford, NJ
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$5M Bail Set For East Rutherford Man After Attacked Woman Dies $5M Bail Set For East Rutherford Man After Attacked Woman Dies $5M Bail Set For East Rutherford Man After Attacked Woman Dies
$5M Bail Set For East Rutherford Man After Attacked Woman Dies EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Bail for an East Rutherford man accused of attacking a woman in the apartment complex where he lives was boosted to $5 million after she died of her injuries. Francis Tattoli, 24, at first was charged with attempted murder and weapons possession after East Rutherford police arrested him following the attack the night of Dec. 17. Charges were upgraded to murder after 25-year-old Monet Thomas of Kearny died last Thursday, records show. She'd been choked and died of brain damage, authorities said. She also had stab wounds on her hands. Thomas was visiting her boyfrie…

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Fort Lee, NJ
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Port Authority PD: Suspended Driver Nabbed At GWB With Stolen E-ZPass Port Authority PD: Suspended Driver Nabbed At GWB With Stolen E-ZPass Port Authority PD: Suspended Driver Nabbed At GWB With Stolen E-ZPass
Port Authority PD: Suspended Driver Nabbed At GWB With Stolen E-zpass FORT LEE, N.J. -- A driver with a suspended license was nabbed at the George Washington Bridge after he tried using a stolen E-ZPass transponder for a commercial vehicle on his sedan, Port Authority police said. Officers arrested Kwabena A. Daub, 31, of Roselle after stopping his 2008 Pontiac G6 around noon Tuesday and discovering that his license was suspended in New Jersey and the transponder was reported stolen from a North Bergen company, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. Daub was charged with possession of stolen property, theft of services, driving while suspended an…

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Bergenfield, NJ
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Bergenfield Man Says Home Intruder Beat, Bound Him Bergenfield Man Says Home Intruder Beat, Bound Him Bergenfield Man Says Home Intruder Beat, Bound Him
Bergenfield Man Says Home Intruder Beat, Bound Him BERGENFIELD, N.J. -- A 71-year-old Bergenfield resident said an intruder beat him, tied his hands and fled with $10 and a debit card Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. The victim was treated at a local hospital for a gash on his head and released, Capt. Mustafa Rabboh said. He told police he walking upstairs to his bedroom around 3 p.m. when the intruder -- tall, thin and white, wearing a gray sweater with black winter cap -- came down the steps. After being assaulted and bound, the victim said he rushed out. "The poor man came to my house all bloodied looking for help," Sunse…

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