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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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah PBA's Successful 'Movember' Helps Boost Prostate Cancer Awareness Mahwah PBA's Successful 'Movember' Helps Boost Prostate Cancer Awareness Mahwah PBA's Successful 'Movember' Helps Boost Prostate Cancer Awareness
Mahwah PBA's Successful 'Movember' Helps Boost Prostate Cancer Awareness MAHWAH, N.J. -- Members of Mahwah PBA Local 143 raised $3,800 during "Movember" to help raise awareness in the fight against prostate cancer. The money raised by the officers last month was donated to Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in memory of David F. Hayes and Pedro J. Vega, PBA President Rosario Zito told Daily Voice. Also honored in memory of the donation is Dr. Micheal Morris, a doctor at Sloan Kettering who "has dedicated his life towards fighting prostate cancer," Zito said. "Each member wore their beards proudly in hope that one day a cure is found,&qu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Leonia Man Becomes GWB's 12th Suicide Of 2016 Leonia Man Becomes GWB's 12th Suicide Of 2016 Leonia Man Becomes GWB's 12th Suicide Of 2016
Leonia Man Becomes GWB's 12th Suicide Of 2016 FORT LEE, N.J. -- Authorities retrieved the body of a 41-year-old Leonia man who jumped from the George Washington Bridge Sunday morning -- the 12th confirmed suicide from the span in 2016. There were 18 GWB suicides both last year and the year before. "At 9:26 a.m., there was a reported jumper from the south walk," the Port Authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. "Officers on the bridge observed a body floating northbound in the Hudson River." A harbor unit brought the body to the Englewood boat basin, he said. The man was pronounced dead at 10:26 a.m., Penta…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Obituaries
Donated Organs Of Pascack Valley High School Student Help Others Live Donated Organs Of Pascack Valley High School Student Help Others Live Donated Organs Of Pascack Valley High School Student Help Others Live
Donated Organs Of Pascack Valley High School Student Help Others Live HILLSDALE, N.J. -- "This is Jack's heart beating in Jack's body," wrote the mother of a 17-year-old Pascack Valley High School senior who committed suicide last Sunday. "This heart, Jack's heart, is now beating in a 68-year-old man. "His left lung is now helping a 56-year-old man breathe," Jennifer Gonzales wrote in a Facebook video post about the organs donated by her son, Jack Gonzales Farrell. "His left kidney and pancreas are functioning in a 36-year-old male. His right kidney is in a 60-year-old woman. "And his liver has gone to a 1-year-old girl. &…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Leonia Firefighters Rescue Worker From Roof After Ladder Falls Leonia Firefighters Rescue Worker From Roof After Ladder Falls Leonia Firefighters Rescue Worker From Roof After Ladder Falls
Leonia Firefighters Rescue Worker From Roof After Ladder Falls LEONIA, N.J. -- Leonia firefighters rescued a worker from the roof of a tea shop Friday after his ladder fell. The worker was on the roof of the Green Cura Tea Cafe on Broad Avenue for nearly an hour before firefighters were called at 2:40 p.m., responders said. He was fine after being brought down, they said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Driver, 69, Ticketed In Crash That Left Cresskill Boy, 9, Critical Driver, 69, Ticketed In Crash That Left Cresskill Boy, 9, Critical Driver, 69, Ticketed In Crash That Left Cresskill Boy, 9, Critical
Driver, 69, Ticketed In Crash That Left Cresskill Boy, 9, Critical CRESSKILL, N.J. -- Cresskill police issued a careless driving summons to a 69-year-old River Vale woman whose SUV struck a 9-year-old borough boy who remained hospitalized in critical condition Friday. The boy was crossing from the east to west side of Rose Street near Margie Avenue when the vehicle, headed north on Rose, struck him just before 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sgt. Jason Lanzilotti told Daily Voice. "He's still listed as critical -- no change," Lanzilotti said Friday afternoon.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor's Detectives Seize Coke, Arrest 2 In Hackensack Livery Stop Prosecutor's Detectives Seize Coke, Arrest 2 In Hackensack Livery Stop Prosecutor's Detectives Seize Coke, Arrest 2 In Hackensack Livery Stop
Prosecutor's Detectives Seize Coke, Arrest 2 In Hackensack Livery Stop HACKENSACK, N.J. – Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives busted two Bronx men in the middle of a nearly five-pound cocaine deal in a livery cab that they stopped in Hackensack, authorities said Friday. Investigators acting on a tip stopped the car and arrested Juan Pache Cedeno, 52, and Angel Hernandez Nunez, 42, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. Grewal credited the federal Homeland Security Investigations agency and Hackensack police for their roles in the Thursday bust. A judge ordered both men held on $175,000 bail each in the Bergen County Jail on drug possession charges.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
How Paramus Police Caught Paterson Carjacker Who Took Off With 3 Kids How Paramus Police Caught Paterson Carjacker Who Took Off With 3 Kids How Paramus Police Caught Paterson Carjacker Who Took Off With 3 Kids
How Paramus Police Caught Paterson Carjacker Who Took Off With 3 Kids PATERSON, N.J. -- A frantic mother desperately tried to hold onto the steering wheel as a Paterson carjacker drove off with her three children -- ages 2, 4 and 5 -- in the back seat Friday morning, authorities said. A little over 90 minutes later, the youngsters were reunited with their mother and the accused carjacker was arrested by Paramus police on a parking deck at the Garden State Plaza. Ex-con Frank Saggese, 43, of East Hanover took the car from the horrified mother in the Wendy's parking lot on Broadway just after 8 a.m., Paterson Police Director Jerry Speziale told Daily Voice. F…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Prospect Park Detective Disarms Robber With Loaded Gun At ATM Prospect Park Detective Disarms Robber With Loaded Gun At ATM Prospect Park Detective Disarms Robber With Loaded Gun At ATM
Prospect Park Detective Disarms Robber With Loaded Gun At ATM PROSPECT PARK, N.J. – A Prospect Park detective subdued a Paterson man armed with a loaded handgun who forced a woman to a local ATM machine to get money to buy back a laptop that he stole from her, authorities said Friday. Detective Walter Richmond was at the Chase Bank ATM on Haledon Avenue when 19-year-old Zameir Reed walked the victim there, Capt. Ammen Matari said. Reed arranged to meet the victim a day after the theft, then got into her car, pulled the gun on her and forced her to go to the bank, Matari said. What he didn’t count on, the captain said, was Richmond. The detective sei…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Your Community
Get Your Christmas Tree From Dumont Boy Scouts Get Your Christmas Tree From Dumont Boy Scouts Get Your Christmas Tree From Dumont Boy Scouts
Get Your Christmas Tree From Dumont Boy Scouts DUMONT, N.J. -- Get this year's Christmas tree this Friday night through Sunday from the Dumont Boy Scouts. Choose from freshly cut Fraser Fir and Balsam Fir at Calvary United Methodist Church at the corner of West Madison Avenue and Cooper Street. (Cash and checks only, please.) Hours: Fri., Dec. 2: 6 to 9 p.m. Sat., Dec. 3: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sun., Dec. 4: Noon to 6 p.m. Troop 1345 was founded in 2008 and currently has close to 50 active Scouts, guided by a group of dedicated adults. Fifteen members have earned the prestigious rank of Eagle. Proceeds from the tree sale help provide …

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
Bloomingdale Man Trafficked In Child Porn, Passaic County Sheriff Charges Bloomingdale Man Trafficked In Child Porn, Passaic County Sheriff Charges Bloomingdale Man Trafficked In Child Porn, Passaic County Sheriff Charges
Bloomingdale Man Trafficked In Child Porn, Passaic County Sheriff Charges BLOOMINGDALE, N.J. -- Passaic County sheriff's investigators tipped off by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children arrested a Bloomingdale man on Thursday who they said was trafficking in online child pornography. A judge ordered Christian Smith, 45, held on $200,000 bail, charged with possessing and distributing kiddie porn. Investigators seized a computer and other electronic equipment from Smith's Riverside Square apartment and located more than 100 illegal files, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. The Passaic County Prosecutor's Sexual Investigations Unit as…

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