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
Wayne Public Servants Cheer Historic U.S. Flag At Championship Game Wayne Public Servants Cheer Historic U.S. Flag At Championship Game Wayne Public Servants Cheer Historic U.S. Flag At Championship Game
Wayne Public Servants Cheer Historic U.S. Flag At Championship Game WAYNE, N.J. -- The championship game between Wayne Hills and Wayne Valley high schools may be over, but law enforcement officers and other public servants in town continued cheering this week. As the teams emerged from the MetLife tunnel on Sunday, Wayne Valley Co-Captain Jake Pluta carried an American flag that was flown in the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan and at Ground Zero. It was Pluta who at the beginning of this season carried a "Thin Blue Line" flag onto the field against Lakeland High School as a tribute to law enforcement officers and other first responders. On Sund…

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Pascack Valley, NJ
Your Community
Your Child Can Make A Solar Night Light, With Help From Pascack Pi-oneers Your Child Can Make A Solar Night Light, With Help From Pascack Pi-oneers Your Child Can Make A Solar Night Light, With Help From Pascack Pi-oneers
Your Child Can Make A Solar Night Light, With Help From Pascack Pi-oneers MONTVALE, N.J. -- Children in grades 3 to 8 can make their own solar-powered night light with guidance from the Pascack Pi-oneers during the group's first annual STEM Night Out on Thursday, Dec. 8. The event runs from 5 to 8:30 p.m. at Pascack Hills High School, 225 W. Grand Ave., Montvale. Youngsters can learn how to solder electronic components while discovering why solar energy is an important and safe energy solution. The $30-per-child cost of a ticket will help pay for the team's very first robotics cometition at Sakhikamva in Cape Town, South Africa. Parents are welcome to stay duri…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn PD: House-To-House Package Thief Didn't See Detective Behind Him Fair Lawn PD: House-To-House Package Thief Didn't See Detective Behind Him Fair Lawn PD: House-To-House Package Thief Didn't See Detective Behind Him
Fair Lawn PD: House-To-House Package Thief Didn't See Detective Behind Him FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- A thief who went from one Fair Lawn house to another swiping packages Wednesday didn't know that a borough police detective was right behind him, authorities said. Joshua Pacheco, 23, of Fair Lawn was being held at headquarters Wednesday afternoon following his arrest a little over an hour earlier, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Detective Mark Wyka was driving an unmarked police car on 17th Street at Morlot Avenue when he saw Pacheco swipe a package from the front steps of a residence just after 12:30 p.m., Metzler said. Pacheco heaed south, "taking three additional packa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Narcan OD Saves In Wayne, Clifton Boost Passaic County 2016 Total To 83 Narcan OD Saves In Wayne, Clifton Boost Passaic County 2016 Total To 83 Narcan OD Saves In Wayne, Clifton Boost Passaic County 2016 Total To 83
Narcan OD Saves In Wayne, Clifton Boost Passaic County 2016 Total To 83 PASSAIC COUNTY, N.J. – A man from Wayne and another from Clifton were both revived with Narcan after overdosing on drugs a little over a day apart -- bringing the Passaic County total for the year to 83, authorities said Wednesday. Little Falls police found the 24-year-old Clifton victim “unresponsive, breathing slowly and displaying a slow pulse” just after 11 p.m. Tuesday, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Little Falls Police Chief Steven Post said in a joint release Wednesday. They administered two doses, and he “became responsive and alert,” Valdes and Post said. An EMS u…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Have You Seen Them? Tenafly Police Hunt Downtown Armed Robbers Have You Seen Them? Tenafly Police Hunt Downtown Armed Robbers Have You Seen Them? Tenafly Police Hunt Downtown Armed Robbers
Have You Seen Them? Tenafly Police Hunt Downtown Armed Robbers TENAFLY, N.J. – Tenafly police were looking for two men who a local man said robbed him at gunpoint on a downtown street. The 37-year-old victim said he was walking south on George Street near West Clinton Avenue around 7 p.m. Monday when the robbers approached him from behind. Both were black, about 5’10” to 6’0” and in their late teens or early 20s,  Detective Capt. Michael deMoncada said. One was wearing a black “puffy” or quilted jacket, he said, and the other a brown canvas “Carhartt”-type jacket, the man told police. Both “had their heads partially obscured by some type of hat or h…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: New Milford Mover Surrenders After Drugs, $7G In Proceeds Found Prosecutor: New Milford Mover Surrenders After Drugs, $7G In Proceeds Found Prosecutor: New Milford Mover Surrenders After Drugs, $7G In Proceeds Found
Prosecutor: New Milford Mover Surrenders After Drugs, $7G In Proceeds Found NEW MILFORD, N.J. -- A self-employed mover from New Milford surrendered to authorities on Tuesday after narcotics detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office said they found cocaine, marijuana, drug paraphernalia and $6,865 in alleged drug proceeds in his home during a raid last week. Patruck LaCorte, 24, was ordered held on $25,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail pending a Dec. 28 first appearance on drug charges in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. Detectives hit the Asbury Street house between River Road and Boulevard last Thursday, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
GWB Driver Had No E-ZPass -- Or Plates, Port Authority Police Charge GWB Driver Had No E-ZPass -- Or Plates, Port Authority Police Charge GWB Driver Had No E-ZPass -- Or Plates, Port Authority Police Charge
GWB Driver Had No E-zpass -- Or Plates, Port Authority Police Charge FORT LEE, N.J. -- Port Authority police grabbed a Washington Heights motorist who they said drove through the E-ZPass lane on the George Washington Bridge's upper level without a transponder -- or license plates. Officers stopped the 2006 Kia driven by Nelson Rozon at 11:25 a.m. today, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. They found a New York license plate on the back floor and arrested him, Pentangelo said. Rozon, who had a prior arrest on his record, was later released pending court action on charges of toll evasion and not having license plates.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Haworth Firefighters Quickly Douse Attic Blaze Haworth Firefighters Quickly Douse Attic Blaze Haworth Firefighters Quickly Douse Attic Blaze
Haworth Firefighters Quickly Douse Attic Blaze HAWORTH, N.J. -- No one was injured in an accidental attic fire Tuesday afternoon in Haworth, responders said. All of the residents got out OK as firefighters quickly doused the two-alarm blaze in the 300 block of Harrison Street, they said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Lyndhurst Police: Report Of Teen Gunman At High School False Lyndhurst Police: Report Of Teen Gunman At High School False Lyndhurst Police: Report Of Teen Gunman At High School False
Lyndhurst Police: Report Of Teen Gunman At High School False LYNDHURST, N.J. -- Reports of a teenager entering Lyndhurst High School with a gun Tuesday afternoon were unfounded, police told Daily Voice. A sophomore from another school "came here to have lunch with other students," Police Chief James O'Connor said. "Suddenly there was a report of someone entering the school with a gun, and social media went wild with it." "He came here to have lunch with his friends. He wasn't armed," the chief said just after 2 p.m., following a lockdown of more than an hour. "He left the building almost immediately. No one was eve…

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Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Park Ridge Man Nabbed In Bogus Auto Emission 'Simulator' Scheme Park Ridge Man Nabbed In Bogus Auto Emission 'Simulator' Scheme Park Ridge Man Nabbed In Bogus Auto Emission 'Simulator' Scheme
Park Ridge Man Nabbed In Bogus Auto Emission 'Simulator' Scheme PARK RIDGE, N.J. -- A Park Ridge man participated in a scheme to produce positive readings for 127 vehicles that failed previous emissions tests at inspection stations in Lodi and elsewhere, authorities said Tuesday. Francesco Calabresi, 22, was among the car owners who paid from $150 to $200 to a former motor vehicle inspector and two current inspectors to have a simulator replace the on-board diagnostic (OBD) system that monitors vehicle’s emissions system, Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino said. Named along with Calabresi in a state grand jury handed up Monday in Trenton was 38-yea…

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