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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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority Police Bust NYC Quartet At GWB With $11G In Stolen Items Port Authority Police Bust NYC Quartet At GWB With $11G In Stolen Items Port Authority Police Bust NYC Quartet At GWB With $11G In Stolen Items
Port Authority Police Bust NYC Quartet At GWB With $11G In Stolen Items FORT LEE, N.J. -- Failing to signal a lane change at the lower level toll plaza of the George Washington Bridge led to the discovery of nearly $11,000 worth of shoplifting items and two metal tape-lined "booster" bags used by a four members of an organized shoplifting crew from New York City, Port Authority police charged. After an authority officer stopped their 2005 Honda Pilot Saturdday night, the driver, Reinier F. Noriega, 24, of the Bronx, couldn't produced any paperwork, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. Noriega also said he didn't know the name of the veh…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Passaic Sheriff's Officers, NJSP Seize $750G In Pot, THC In Paramus Stops Passaic Sheriff's Officers, NJSP Seize $750G In Pot, THC In Paramus Stops Passaic Sheriff's Officers, NJSP Seize $750G In Pot, THC In Paramus Stops
Passaic Sheriff's Officers, Njsp Seize $750G In Pot, THC In Paramus Stops PARAMUS, N.J. -- Investigators with the Passaic County sheriff's office and State Police seized nearly 250 pounds of marijuana and 88 vials of liquid THC concealed in a trio of vintage vending machines after following two suspects through several Bergen County towns and stopping them in Paramus. Tipped off to a large shipment of pot being delivered to a Clifton storage facility, members of the strike force began following a box truck and 2016 Mercedes SUV on Thursday, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said Saturday. While on Route 17, the SUV "accelerated and began to weave in …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Hackensack Police: Felon Caught Using 'No Parking' Sign For Target Practice Hackensack Police: Felon Caught Using 'No Parking' Sign For Target Practice Hackensack Police: Felon Caught Using 'No Parking' Sign For Target Practice
Hackensack Police: Felon Caught Using 'No Parking' Sign For Target Practice HACKENSACK, N.J. -- An ex-con with a BB gun used a Hackensack street sign for target practice from his apartment window, said city police, who arrested him. Authorities said police said were watching on Friday as Shepherd Starbuck Haight, 44, shot the small-caliaber rounds at the "No Parking" sign in the 400 block of Hudson Street. They arrested him and seized the gun, along with an ounce or so of pot, they said. Haight -- who records show has an extensive criminal record, mostly in Delaware -- was being held on $50,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail. He was was charged with we…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Car Backs Into Carlstadt Bakery Car Backs Into Carlstadt Bakery Car Backs Into Carlstadt Bakery
Car Backs Into Carlstadt Bakery CARLSTADT, N.J. -- The driver was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with undetermined injuries after a Hyundai sedan backed into a bakery in Carlstadt Friday night. The crash occurred around 7:30 p.m. on Hackensack Avenue.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Investigators Seize 46 Pounds Of Heroin, Bust Pair, In Bergen-Hudson Raids Investigators Seize 46 Pounds Of Heroin, Bust Pair, In Bergen-Hudson Raids Investigators Seize 46 Pounds Of Heroin, Bust Pair, In Bergen-Hudson Raids
Investigators Seize 46 Pounds Of Heroin, Bust Pair, In Bergen-Hudson Raids PALISADES PARK, N.J. – Authorities seized 46 pounds of heroin Friday from three locations – including a Palisades Park basement apartment – during a series of strikes against what they said is a major heroin network in Bergen and Hudson counties. A judged ordered Juan Garcia-Martinez, 46, of Palisades Park, and Rafael Garcia-Reyes, 47, of Bayonne, held on $250,000 bail each pending a Nov. 9 first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack on drug charges. Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Friday that his investigators got a tip in September about large…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Ridgefield Park Gang Leader, Associates Arrested, Guns, Drugs Seized Ridgefield Park Gang Leader, Associates Arrested, Guns, Drugs Seized Ridgefield Park Gang Leader, Associates Arrested, Guns, Drugs Seized
Ridgefield Park Gang Leader, Associates Arrested, Guns, Drugs Seized RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J. -- Authorities in Ridgefield Park arrested an accused street gang leader and three associates while seizing two handguns, knives, ammunition, body armor, pot and more, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Friday afternoon. A tip that drugs were being sold there by Jean C. Carmona, a 25-year-old confirmed member of the Mafia Street Gang, and an associate, Jose Plasencia, an 18-year-old construction worker, led to a warranted raid Thursday of their second-floor Grove Street apartment, Grewal said. Along with the guns, members of the county prosecutor’s a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Video Shows Police Saving Shirtless Man Who Climbed GWB Tower Video Shows Police Saving Shirtless Man Who Climbed GWB Tower Video Shows Police Saving Shirtless Man Who Climbed GWB Tower
Video Shows Police Saving Shirtless Man Who Climbed GWB Tower FORT LEE, N.J. --- A video shows police taking a shirtless, emotionally troubled man into custody after he climbed to the top of the George Washington Bridge tower on the New Jersey side -- apparently intent on committing suicide -- during Friday's morning rush. Identified as 54-year-old Alberto Hernandez of East Stroudsburg, PA, he was later taken by ambulance to Bergen Regional Medical Center in Paramus, the Port Authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. Hernandez was charged with interference with transportation, defiant trespass and disorderly conduct. The commotion 800 feet abov…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Seemed A Suicide -- But Was Murder, Paterson Police Charge Seemed A Suicide -- But Was Murder, Paterson Police Charge Seemed A Suicide -- But Was Murder, Paterson Police Charge
Seemed A Suicide -- But Was Murder, Paterson Police Charge PATERSON, N.J. – What at first seemed a suicide by a Paterson man led to murder charges against another, authorities said. Mickel Morgan, 23, shot the 22-year-old victim in the head in an apartment in the 100 block of East 31st Street where Morgan lives around 9:20 p.m. Sept. 18, Police Director Jerry Speziale said Friday. Paterson authorities didn't have to look far: Morgan already was being held in the Bergen County Jail on weapons possession charges following his arrest later that month. City investigators additionally charged him with murder and weapons offenses. Detectives Jack DeSal…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Clifton Lawyer Gets 4 Years In State Prison For $800,000 Mortgage Fraud Clifton Lawyer Gets 4 Years In State Prison For $800,000 Mortgage Fraud Clifton Lawyer Gets 4 Years In State Prison For $800,000 Mortgage Fraud
Clifton Lawyer Gets 4 Years In State Prison For $800,000 Mortgage Fraud CLIFTON, N.J. -- A Clifton attorney was sentenced to four years in state prison Friday for conspiring to steal just over $800,000 from lenders by using stolen or bogus IDs to file fraudulent mortgage loan applications. Michael Palmer, 57, admitted in March that he falsified settlement statements and diverted loan proceeds, among other crimes. A state judge in Union County who sentenced him to prison also required Palmer to pay full restitution for any losses not previously recovered by the victim lenders. Palmer, who formerly had a law office on Hoover Avenue in Passaic, also must forfeit …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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Bergenfield PD Boosts Number Of Bergen Medicine Drop Boxes To State-Best 35 Bergenfield PD Boosts Number Of Bergen Medicine Drop Boxes To State-Best 35 Bergenfield PD Boosts Number Of Bergen Medicine Drop Boxes To State-Best 35
Bergenfield PD Boosts Number Of Bergen Medicine Drop Boxes To State-Best 35 BERGENFIELD, N.J. -- Bergenfield this week gave Bergen County a state-leading 35 police departments offering a round-the-clock, no-questions-asked "Project Medicine Drop" box for citizens to dump the type of prescription painkillers that help feed the opiate epidemic. SEE FULL BERGEN COUNTY LOCATION LIST BELOW The second-highest number of drop boxes in New Jersey is in Ocean County -- 19. Passaic County has a dozen locations, including three provided by County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik -- two in Paterson, one in Wayne. Project Medicine Drop helps improve public safety and a tow…

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