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 Mom Knocked Out By Rolling SUV With Son, 10, Inside Mahwah Mom Knocked Out By Rolling SUV With Son, 10, Inside Mahwah Mom Knocked Out By Rolling SUV With Son, 10, Inside
Mahwah Mom Knocked Out By Rolling SUV With Son, 10, Inside MAHWAH, N.J. -- A 45-year-old Mahwah woman was knocked unconscious late Sunday morning after she desperately tried to stop her SUV from rolling down a driveway with her 10-year-old son inside, authorities said. The woman eventually came to after losing her balance and hitting her head on the ground when she tried to climb into the driver's side of the moving vehicle, Lt. Michael Blondin told Daily Voice. Her condition was improving Sunday afternoon at Hackensack Unviersity Medical Center, he said. Her son wasn't injured. "We don't exactly know yet why the car started rolling,"…

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Elmwood Park Police Seek Public's Help In Gas Station Holdup Elmwood Park Police Seek Public's Help In Gas Station Holdup Elmwood Park Police Seek Public's Help In Gas Station Holdup
Elmwood Park Police Seek Public's Help In Gas Station Holdup ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- The third armed robbery in Elmwood Park in a week -- this one of a local gas station on Saturday night -- had police turning to the public for help. The robber pulled up to the Gulf station at 551 River Drive in a grey, four-door Cadillac just after 5 p.m., Police Chief Michael Foligno told Daily Voice. The attendant told police he "pointed a black handgun at him and demanded money, and he handed over about $300 in cash," the chief said. The Cadillac then sped off on River Drive, he said. Available officers searched the surrounding area and neighboring depa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: Shot Garfield Robber Held Up Same Elmwood Park Store Twice Authorities: Shot Garfield Robber Held Up Same Elmwood Park Store Twice Authorities: Shot Garfield Robber Held Up Same Elmwood Park Store Twice
Authorities: Shot Garfield Robber Held Up Same Elmwood Park Store Twice ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- Two armed robberies of an Elmwood Park convenience store in less than a week were committed by a Hasbrouck Heights sex offender shot in the groin by a retired NYPD detective during a Garfield tobacco store holdup, authorities have charged. Louis Pizzi, 27, was transferred Friday from Hackensack University Medical Center to the Bergen County Jail, where he remained held on $750,000 combined bail. He's charged with one count of robbery by Garfield police and two counts of robbery by Elmwood Park police, as well as various weapons offenses -- including being a felon in po…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah High School Student, 17, Killed, Other Injured In Crash Mahwah High School Student, 17, Killed, Other Injured In Crash Mahwah High School Student, 17, Killed, Other Injured In Crash
Mahwah High School Student, 17, Killed, Other Injured In Crash MAHWAH, N.J. -- A 17-year-old Mahwah High School student was killed after a car he was a passenger in slammed into a tree Saturday night, authorities confirmed Sunday morning. Another 17-year-old passenger was injured, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal told Daily Voice. ****** Friends of Nicholas Laurewald are raising funds to purchase bracelets and T-shirts that will keep the teen's memory alive. CLICK HERE. ****** Six boys in all were in the 2006 Toyota 4Runner, with a car containing three girls following, when the crash occurred around 10:30 p.m. on Bellgrove Drive at N…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah High School Student, 17, Killed In Crash Mahwah High School Student, 17, Killed In Crash Mahwah High School Student, 17, Killed In Crash
Mahwah High School Student, 17, Killed In Crash MAHWAH, N.J. -- A 17-year-old Mahwah High School student was killed after a car he was a passenger in slammed into a tree Saturday night, authorities confirmed Sunday morning. Another 17-year-old passenger was injured, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal told Daily Voice. ****** Friends of Nicholas Laurewald are raising funds to purchase bracelets and T-shirts that will keep the teen's memory alive. CLICK HERE. ****** Six boys in all were in the a 2006 Toyota 4Runner, with a car containing three girls following, when the crash occurred around 10:30 p.m. on Bellgrove Drive at…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Cliffside Park EMTs, Police Officer Honored For Saving Stroke Victim, 66 Cliffside Park EMTs, Police Officer Honored For Saving Stroke Victim, 66 Cliffside Park EMTs, Police Officer Honored For Saving Stroke Victim, 66
Cliffside Park EMTs, Police Officer Honored For Saving Stroke Victim, 66 CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. -- Three members of the Cliffside Park Emergency Medical Service and a borough police officer were honored for saving a 66-year-old stroke victim. The woman was reunited during the life-saving awards presentation at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center with Kim DeSouza, Belal Moustafa, Luciano Tarabocchia of the EMS and Officer Matt Zoklu. They got her safely to the hospital's emergency room after the May 7 stroke, authorities said. The hospital honored EMTs, paramedics and police officers from several towns.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Tipster Turns In Suspect In Paterson Pedestrian Hit-Run Tipster Turns In Suspect In Paterson Pedestrian Hit-Run Tipster Turns In Suspect In Paterson Pedestrian Hit-Run
Tipster Turns In Suspect In Paterson Pedestrian Hit-Run PATERSON, N.J. – A tipster led police to a driver who they said took off after his pickup truck hit a woman crossing a Paterson street, authorities said Friday. News accounts published in Daily Voice and elsewhere sought the public’s help identifying the blue Ford F-150 with stickers on the cab that struck the 29-year-old Passaic woman near Madison and 16th avenues on Sept. 27. These led to the arrest of 46-year-old Robert Sciubba of Randolph, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief William Fraher announced. “An anonymous call was made to the TIPS line, provid…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Your Community
Distraught Deer Briefly Trapped In Franklin Lakes School Lobby Distraught Deer Briefly Trapped In Franklin Lakes School Lobby Distraught Deer Briefly Trapped In Franklin Lakes School Lobby
Distraught Deer Briefly Trapped In Franklin Lakes School Lobby FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. -- A disoriented deer who was briefly trapped Friday morning in the lobby of Ramapo Indian Hills High School got out safely, although a bit bloodied, authorities said. A video posted on Twitter by Melanie@artsyandnerdy shows the deer awkwardly falling backwards before momentarily stopping: https://twitter.com/artsyandnerdy/status/789454752077717504 The deer eventually found an escape route and fled, she said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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One Of Longest-Serving U.S. Mayors, Elmwood Park's Richard Mola Dies At 80 One Of Longest-Serving U.S. Mayors, Elmwood Park's Richard Mola Dies At 80 One Of Longest-Serving U.S. Mayors, Elmwood Park's Richard Mola Dies At 80
One Of Longest-Serving U.S. Mayors, Elmwood Park's Richard Mola Dies At 80 ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- It is a measure of the man that so many political opponents expressed grief and bestowed praise Friday after learning that Elmwood Park Mayor Richard Mola -- who held the office for 45 years -- died Thursday night. A Trump delegate at this year's National Republican Convention, the 80-year-old Mola was one of the nation's longest-serving mayors. The retired Westwood history teacher and Ridgefield Park guidance counselor -- who last November won his 12th straight four-year term -- suffered a stroke last week, friends told Daily Voice. ****** ARRANGEMENTS: A Funeral Ma…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Accused Garfield Robber Shot By Retired Cop: Hasbrouck Heights Sex Offender Accused Garfield Robber Shot By Retired Cop: Hasbrouck Heights Sex Offender Accused Garfield Robber Shot By Retired Cop: Hasbrouck Heights Sex Offender
Accused Garfield Robber Shot By Retired Cop: Hasbrouck Heights Sex Offender GARFIELD, N.J. (UPDATE) -- A masked gunman who was shot in the groin by a retired NYPD detective working at a Garfield tobacco store Thursday night was identified Friday as a registered sex offender from Hasbrouck Heights. Louis Pizzi, 27, remained at Hackensack University Medical Center under guard by the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office pending a Monday Superior Court appearance in Hackensack. His bail is $500,000. (Daily Voice broke the story last night. SEE BELOW.) Pizzi entered Tobacco Road on River Drive across from the Monroe Street bridge to Passaic just after 7 p.m. wearing a mask …

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