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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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Repeat Offender Who Crashed Stolen Truck Nabbed In Fair Lawn Car Burglaries Repeat Offender Who Crashed Stolen Truck Nabbed In Fair Lawn Car Burglaries Repeat Offender Who Crashed Stolen Truck Nabbed In Fair Lawn Car Burglaries
Repeat Offender Who Crashed Stolen Truck Nabbed In Fair Lawn Car Burglaries FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- Fair Lawn police arrested a repeat offender who crashed a stolen truck during a chase last year and a female associate after a resident spotted them breaking into cars, authorities confirmed Friday. Officers and detectives called to 3rd Street near Morlot Avenue tracked down Jesse McCallum, 28, of Rutherford, and Shira Lazar, 25, of Teaneck, Wednesday afternoon in Paterson, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. McCallum was carrying stolen credit and gift cards, compact discs and cash taken in the car burglaries, he said. They were being held on $15,000 bail each in the Bergen Count…

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Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Retired NYPD Officer Shoots Garfield Tobacco Store Robber Retired NYPD Officer Shoots Garfield Tobacco Store Robber Retired NYPD Officer Shoots Garfield Tobacco Store Robber
Retired Nypd Officer Shoots Garfield Tobacco Store Robber 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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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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17 Years For Paterson Man Who Shot Victim Dead Outside Pizzeria 17 Years For Paterson Man Who Shot Victim Dead Outside Pizzeria 17 Years For Paterson Man Who Shot Victim Dead Outside Pizzeria
17 Years For Paterson Man Who Shot Victim Dead Outside Pizzeria PATERSON, N.J. – A Paterson man must spend 17 years in state prison before he’ll be eligible for parole under the terms of a plea deal for shooting and killing another man during an argument at a city pizzeria. Joseph Borges, 27, got into the dispute at Big Chris’s Pizzeria on Park Avenue, where 24-year-old Raymond Torres worked, in September 2014, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said. After Torres punched him in the face, Borges left, then returned several hours later with a .380-caliber handgun and shot him six times as Torres left the business, Valdes said. A gunshot wound i…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
New Milford Police: Dumont Driver 4+ Times Legal Limit In School Bus Crash New Milford Police: Dumont Driver 4+ Times Legal Limit In School Bus Crash New Milford Police: Dumont Driver 4+ Times Legal Limit In School Bus Crash
New Milford Police: Dumont Driver 4+ Times Legal Limit In School Bus Crash NEW MILFORD, N.J. -- A 42-year-old Dumont woman registered a .34% blood-alcohol content level -- more than four times the legal limit in New Jersey -- after her SUV struck a parked school bus Thursday morning, authorities said. Although no New Milford High School students were on the bus, others were waiting to cross Madison Avenue to the athletic fields when the Honda CRV driven by Heather Dolinsky hit the bus near the corner of Milford Avenue (Cecchino Drive) at 9:15 a.m., Detective Sgt. Kevin Van Saders told Daily Voice. Officers found Dolinsky behind the wheel, drunk, Van Saders said. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
NYPD Retiree Shoots Garfield Tobacco Shop Robber NYPD Retiree Shoots Garfield Tobacco Shop Robber NYPD Retiree Shoots Garfield Tobacco Shop Robber
Nypd Retiree Shoots Garfield Tobacco Shop Robber 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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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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New Milford Police: Bat-Wielding Driver Smashes Car Window, Windshield New Milford Police: Bat-Wielding Driver Smashes Car Window, Windshield New Milford Police: Bat-Wielding Driver Smashes Car Window, Windshield
New Milford Police: Bat-Wielding Driver Smashes Car Window, Windshield NEW MILFORD, N.J. -- An enraged driver who caused a collision in New Milford smashed the other motorist's window with a baseball bat, then cracked the windshield before fleeing, authorities said. Borough detectives arrested Felix Urgiles, 28, of New York City after the victim got his license plate number and a witness snapped a cellphone photo of him during the Oct. 12 incident at River Road and Linden Place, Detective Sgt. Kevin Van Saders told Daily Voice. Urgiles passed the victim on the left and cut him off, causing the crash, witnesses told police. Urgiles then stopped his car and got…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Police Seek Help Finding Hit-Run Driver In Bergenfield Pedestrian Crash Police Seek Help Finding Hit-Run Driver In Bergenfield Pedestrian Crash Police Seek Help Finding Hit-Run Driver In Bergenfield Pedestrian Crash
Police Seek Help Finding Hit-Run Driver In Bergenfield Pedestrian Crash BERGENFIELD, N.J. – Authorities asked the public’s help finding a small- to mid-size, dark colored passenger vehicle with possible damage to the front and driver’s side of the vehicle, caused when it struck a 66-year-old pedestrian Wednesday night in Bergenfield. Elizabeth Velez, 66, was expected to recover from serious internal injuries, as Daily Voice reported Wednesday night, authorities said Thursday. Velez was struck by the northbound vehicle near the intersection of South Prospect Avenue and West Broad Street at 7:13 p.m., Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. “It a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Woodland Park Woman Gets 1 Year For Scamming Bergen Watch Manufacturer Woodland Park Woman Gets 1 Year For Scamming Bergen Watch Manufacturer Woodland Park Woman Gets 1 Year For Scamming Bergen Watch Manufacturer
Woodland Park Woman Gets 1 Year For Scamming Bergen Watch Manufacturer WOODLAND PARK, N.J. -- A former Bergen County watch company employee from Woodland Park was sentenced to a year in federal prison Thursday for scamming the company out of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of watches and parts. Lissette Delarosa, 37, pleaded in May to mail fraud conspiracy, admitting that she doctored corporate records to pull off the thefts with Cynthia “Cynthia Espejo" Alvarez  50, of Kissimmee, Florida, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said. Alvarez pleaded guilty to the same offense and was sentenced on July 8 to two years probation. Espejo and Delarosa worked …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah Police Make 11 Arrests During National Family Violence Sweep Mahwah Police Make 11 Arrests During National Family Violence Sweep Mahwah Police Make 11 Arrests During National Family Violence Sweep
Mahwah Police Make 11 Arrests During National Family Violence Sweep MAHWAH, N.J. – Law enforcement authorities in Bergen and Passaic counties and nationwide arrested what was estimated to be more than 1,500 people wanted on warrants Wednesday -- 11 of them by Mahwah police --during the 14th annual National Family Violence Apprehension Sweep. Township police made one arrest on a child-neglect and drug-related warrant and 10 others for failing to appear in court to answer charges that range from theft to contempt. The objective of the daylong annual event is “to send a message to offenders in Mahwah and throughout the United States that they will be located a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
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Lyndhurst Police: Driver Knocks Down Motorist After Crash, Flees Lyndhurst Police: Driver Knocks Down Motorist After Crash, Flees Lyndhurst Police: Driver Knocks Down Motorist After Crash, Flees
Lyndhurst Police: Driver Knocks Down Motorist After Crash, Flees LYNDHURST, N.J. -- Lyndhurst detectives arrested and charged a Newark woman Thursday with running over a 59-year-old Nutley driver after hitting his car and then taking off. Jessica L. Sotomayer, 28, said she fled last Saturday's night's crash at the intersection of Valley Brook and Park avenues "because she lacked a valid driver’s license and motor vehicle insurance," Capt. John Valente told Daily Voice. The victim was in his car, stopped at the light, when it was struck from behind, Valente said. When he got out to see what had happened, the other car knocked him down and kept go…

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