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.

Jerry DeMarco's Contributions

Stony Point, NY
Breaking News
Stony Point PD: Local Man Made Harassing Calls, Damaged Victim's Tire Stony Point PD: Local Man Made Harassing Calls, Damaged Victim's Tire Stony Point PD: Local Man Made Harassing Calls, Damaged Victim's Tire
Stony Point PD: Local Man Made Harassing Calls, Damaged Victim's Tire STONY POINT, N.Y. – A Tomkins Cove man was jailed after Stony Point police said he harassed two people. Austin E. Parks, 45, damaged one target’s tire and called the other several times despite warnings by police not to do so, Police Chief Brian J. Moore said Monday. On December 5, 2016, the Stony Point Police Department arrested the above individual on the above listed charges. Parks was “processed, arraigned and remanded to the Rockland County Correctional Facility in lieu of cash bail” on charges of aggravated harassment and criminal mischief, the chief said.

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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority Police: Two More Arrested In GWB Kidnapping Drama Port Authority Police: Two More Arrested In GWB Kidnapping Drama Port Authority Police: Two More Arrested In GWB Kidnapping Drama
Port Authority Police: Two More Arrested In GWB Kidnapping Drama FORT LEE, N.J. -- Authorities have arrested two more suspects who they said are connected to a kidnapping that ended when Port Authority police stopped a car on the George Washington Bridge last week. Both were seized in Franklin County, GA, about an hour outside of Atlanta, the Port Authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice early Monday afternoon. "A silver revolver was also over recovered, with one spent shell casing, and a large knife," Pentangelo said. "Also recovered was marijuana and an ounce of suspected cocaine. "It is believed these two acted in concert w…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn Special Officers Graduate Fair Lawn Special Officers Graduate Fair Lawn Special Officers Graduate
Fair Lawn Special Officers Graduate FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- Fifteen Fair Lawn Special Class 1 Police Officers graduated from the Special Law Enforcement Class of 2016 last week. The officers, all former Fair Lawn auxiliary officers, attended classes at the Bergen County Law & Public Safety Institute in Mahwah. Their instruction ended with the borough "having better trained special officers, who all serve voluntarily and assist with patrol, traffic, court and community policing, Sgt. Brian Metzler said.PHOTO ABOVE (Front): Nicholas Magarelli, Michael Moore, Michael Friedman, Nicholas Magarelli, Howard Schlesinger, Benjam…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn Police Find Repeat Offender Hiding Under Deck After Car Break-Ins Fair Lawn Police Find Repeat Offender Hiding Under Deck After Car Break-Ins Fair Lawn Police Find Repeat Offender Hiding Under Deck After Car Break-Ins
Fair Lawn Police Find Repeat Offender Hiding Under Deck After Car Break-Ins FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- Fair Lawn police said they found a Dominican national who'd been arrested several times over the past year hiding beneath a backyard deck thanks to an alert call and quick response to a Saturday night car burglary spree. Assisted by a Bergen County sheriff's K-9 unit, Officers Justin DiGuglielmo, Brian Goodson, Robert Belbol, Brian Rypkema and Timothy Ammann responded to the 10:40 p.m. Saturday call of a man entering unlocked vehicles in the area of Rosalie and 30th streets, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. They found 24-year-old Georgy Estevez hiding under a deck on 29th Street …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Home Invaders With Guns Smash Way Into Lodi House Home Invaders With Guns Smash Way Into Lodi House Home Invaders With Guns Smash Way Into Lodi House
Home Invaders With Guns Smash Way Into Lodi House LODI, N.J. – Two robbers smashed their way in through the rear window of a Lodi home and rummaged through the place with guns pointed just after midnight Monday, authorities said. Video surveillance shows four to five people, three of whom walked to the rear of the Westminster Place house while two others stayed in front as possible lookouts, Deputy Chief Donald Scorzetti said. The residents “were awakened by a loud noise coming from the rear window and then came face to face with intruders who had broken in and were brandishing handguns,” he said. One was wearing dark pants, a red hooded…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Monsey, NY
Breaking News
Morning Ramapo Crash Caps 30+ Weekend Accident Spree Morning Ramapo Crash Caps 30+ Weekend Accident Spree Morning Ramapo Crash Caps 30+ Weekend Accident Spree
Morning Ramapo Crash Caps 30+ Weekend Accident Spree RAMAPO, N.Y. -- Ramapo police handled more than 30 crashes over the weekend throughout town, including one early Monday. Ramapo Valley Ambulance took one of the drivers in the Sterling Mine Road crash just after 7 a.m. to the hospital with minor injuries, police said. The crash occurred when one of the drivers lost control and the vehicle spun out into the oncoming lane, they said. For real-time news in your Facebook news feed, be sure to "Like" Daily Voice's Rockland County Forum by clicking here.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Weather
Icy Conditions Will Ease In Bergen -- But Frigid Week's End Blast Won't Icy Conditions Will Ease In Bergen -- But Frigid Week's End Blast Won't Icy Conditions Will Ease In Bergen -- But Frigid Week's End Blast Won't
Icy Conditions Will Ease In Bergen -- But Frigid Week's End Blast Won't Temperatures in Bergen and Passaic counties were beginning to rise Monday morning and the rain that slickened the roads was tapering -- but that's just a respite before two days of bitter cold later this week, meteorologist Joe Cioffi said. "Temperatures will be no higher than the 20s [on Thursday and Friday] and we will be down in the single digits and low teens by Friday morning, with some record low temperatures possible in some areas," Cioffi said Monday morning. But first, "with the arrival of the Arctic air beginning anytime from Wednesday night into Friday morning, the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: Three Paterson Firefighters Hospitalized In House Blaze VIDEO: Three Paterson Firefighters Hospitalized In House Blaze VIDEO: Three Paterson Firefighters Hospitalized In House Blaze
Video: Three Paterson Firefighters Hospitalized In House Blaze PATERSON, N.J. – Three Paterson firefighters were taken to St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston with injuries that included burns to their heads from a three-story house fire, authorities said Sunday. None of the injuries sustained in 11:30 p.m. Saturday blaze at 74 East 18th Street was considered life-threatening, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Fire Chief Michael Postorino said in a joint release. None of the seven tenants who were displaced was injured, they added. The cause of the fire wasn’t immediately determined, authorities said. An investigation was c…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Elmwood Park Police Revive Three OD Victims In Less Than 3 Hours Elmwood Park Police Revive Three OD Victims In Less Than 3 Hours Elmwood Park Police Revive Three OD Victims In Less Than 3 Hours
Elmwood Park Police Revive Three OD Victims In Less Than 3 Hours ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- Elmwood Park police using Narcan revived three drug overdose victims in less than three hours -- one of whom collapsed on the floor of a 7-Eleven -- boosting the year's total to 20. The first, a 25-year-old Wyckoff woman, was unconscious with shallow breathing when officers found her in the living room of a Chestnut Street house around 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Police Chief Michael Foligno told Daily Voice. She was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center after the officers revived her, he said. The second call came in five minutes later from a woman who said her boyfr…

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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Fairview Police Make Special Contribution To PBA Holiday Toy Drive Fairview Police Make Special Contribution To PBA Holiday Toy Drive Fairview Police Make Special Contribution To PBA Holiday Toy Drive
Fairview Police Make Special Contribution To PBA Holiday Toy Drive FAIRVIEW, N.J. -- There's a special place for Fairview police in the hearts of the organizers of this year's Bergen County PBA Toy Drive Drive to help ill, sick and needy children. "There are some big-ticket items that have been requested that some departments can't provide," said Donald Nicoletti, a retired Closter police sergeant who helped launch the drive in 1988. Members of PBA Local 45 "have taken it and run with it," he said. Besides arranging dropoff points for toy collections , the eastern Bergen department had collected nearly $30,000 from area businesses by t…

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