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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Pascack Valley, NJ
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Hillsdale Bans Parking, Non-Resident Traffic For 'Pick Your Own' Season Hillsdale Bans Parking, Non-Resident Traffic For 'Pick Your Own' Season Hillsdale Bans Parking, Non-Resident Traffic For 'Pick Your Own' Season
Hillsdale Bans Parking, Non-Resident Traffic For 'Pick Your Own' Season HILLSDALE, N.J. -- Out-of-towners will have trouble navigating certain Hillsdale streets until "pick your own season" ends at the extremely popular Demarest Farms. Hillsdale's governing body has prohibited parking on half the borough's streets and ordered other measures to control -- and ban -- non-resident traffic during the next three weekends. The borough's 10,000 or so residents will be required to show their driver's licenses or "suitable ID" with their addresses to be able to pass certain barricades, said Mayor Doug Frank. "The safety of both our residents an…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Port Authority Police Intercept Woman, 26, Bound For GWB Jump Port Authority Police Intercept Woman, 26, Bound For GWB Jump Port Authority Police Intercept Woman, 26, Bound For GWB Jump
Port Authority Police Intercept Woman, 26, Bound For GWB Jump FORT LEE, N.J. -- Port Authority police Wednesday afternoon once again kept a suicidal person from jumping from the George Washington Bridge -- one of more than five dozen so far this year, authorities said. A relative called the PAPD just after 2 p.m. saying that the 26-year-old Cedar Grove woman intended to kill herself, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. An authority police officer reached the woman on her cellphone, and she agreed to meet at Fort Lee Historic Park, which overlooks the bridge, he said.. She was taken to Bergen Country Regional Medical Center in Paramus …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Have You Seen This Truck? Passaic Pedestrian Injured Seriously In Paterson Have You Seen This Truck? Passaic Pedestrian Injured Seriously In Paterson Have You Seen This Truck? Passaic Pedestrian Injured Seriously In Paterson
Have You Seen This Truck? Passaic Pedestrian Injured Seriously In Paterson PATERSON, N.J. – Authorities were seeking the public’s help finding a hit-and-run pickup that struck a female pedestrian last month in Paterson, sending her to the hospital with serious injuries. The 27-year-old Passaic woman was struck on 16th Avenue near Madison Avenue at 3:28 p.m. Sept. 27, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief William Fraher announced together. She was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center. The “vehicle of interest” is a Ford F-150 blue pickup truck with stickers on the rear cab window, authorities said. Anyone with additional i…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
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Ocktoberfest In Memory Of Ridgewood Girl, 7, Supports Special Needs Parents Ocktoberfest In Memory Of Ridgewood Girl, 7, Supports Special Needs Parents Ocktoberfest In Memory Of Ridgewood Girl, 7, Supports Special Needs Parents
Ocktoberfest In Memory Of Ridgewood Girl, 7, Supports Special Needs Parents RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- An Oktoberfest fundraiser named for a Ridgewood triplet who was 7 when she died of a rare lung disease two autumns ago is set for Saturday. The 1 p.m. event at the Stable in Ridgewood will benefit the Taylor C Aguilar Memorial Scholarship Fund, established to help parents of special needs children who are enduring the same hardships as Taylor's have. "Whether that means helping someone with their medical funding, helping someone receive the treatments or therapies needed, or sending a child to a camp for the summer, they would like to use the funds raised to help oth…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
PD: Saddle Brook Woman Wanted Out Of Carlstadt Ducked $7,100 In Tolls PD: Saddle Brook Woman Wanted Out Of Carlstadt Ducked $7,100 In Tolls PD: Saddle Brook Woman Wanted Out Of Carlstadt Ducked $7,100 In Tolls
PD: Saddle Brook Woman Wanted Out Of Carlstadt Ducked $7,100 In Tolls SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- A Saddle Brook woman who owed more than $7,000 in unpaid E-ZPass tolls -- and was wanted on a warrant out of Carlstadt -- was arrested after Port Authority police stopped her box truck for rolling through the toll booth without paying at the Holland Tunnel. Luz A. Waldstein, 38, was in a yellow GMC truck without an E-ZPass transponder after it cleared the toll plaza on Tuesday, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. The truck was impounded until its owner could retrieve it and get proper registration for it, he said. Waldestein, meanwhile, had several E-Z…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Haledon Man Charged With Hit-Run Paterson Crash That Injured Woman Haledon Man Charged With Hit-Run Paterson Crash That Injured Woman Haledon Man Charged With Hit-Run Paterson Crash That Injured Woman
Haledon Man Charged With Hit-Run Paterson Crash That Injured Woman PATERSON, N.J.. – Authorities charged a 58-year-old Haledon motorist without a driver’s license with a hit-and-run crash in Paterson that left a victim hospitalized, authorities said. Juan Caraballo was charged with knowingly leaving the scene of a crash resulting in serious bodily injury and of causing serious bodily injury to a victim while driving on the suspended list, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief William Fraher. Detectives hunted down Caraballo after the Friday night crash around 9:30 p.m. at the intersection of Curtis Place and Ellison Street, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Clifton Detectives Bust Local Man In Drug Raid Clifton Detectives Bust Local Man In Drug Raid Clifton Detectives Bust Local Man In Drug Raid
Clifton Detectives Bust Local Man In Drug Raid CLIFTON, N.J. -- Clifton detectives armed with a search warrant seized crack and cash from a man they said was dealing out of his home. Members of the department's Narcotics Division executed a search warrant on the Highland Avenue residence and arrested Brian Valencia, 31, after an investigation that lasted several weeks, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said Wednesday morning. Valencia remained held on $150,000 bail in the Passaic County jail on vaious drug charges.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Clifton Police Seek Public's Help Finding Bank Robber Clifton Police Seek Public's Help Finding Bank Robber Clifton Police Seek Public's Help Finding Bank Robber
Clifton Police Seek Public's Help Finding Bank Robber CLIFTON, N.J. -- Clifton police on Wednesday released surveillance images of a man who they said held up the Valley National Bank Saturday morning. The dark-skinned robber approached a teller at the Getty Avenue bank at 10:#0 a.m. and "presented a threatening note demanding money," Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. "The teller complied and handed over cash (not disclosing amount at this time) and the suspect then fled the scene on foot," Bracken added. "Unknown direction." Anyone who knows him, saw something helpful that day or has information that could help…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Wayne Police Release Video Of Burglar Interrupted By Boy, 11 Wayne Police Release Video Of Burglar Interrupted By Boy, 11 Wayne Police Release Video Of Burglar Interrupted By Boy, 11
Wayne Police Release Video Of Burglar Interrupted By Boy, 11 WAYNE, N.J. -- Wayne police who arrested and charged a Pompton Lakes man with a residential burglary that was interrupted when an 11-year-old boy who lives there came home released a surveillance video Tuesday. CLICK ON THE VIDEO ABOVE Thomas J. Coughlin, 23, of Pompton Lakes, was charged with burglary and theft, Capt. Laurence Martin said Tuesday afternoon. Bail was set at $50,000 after Wayne detectives arrested Coughlin at his home Turesday morning, Martin said. READ MORE: https://southpassaic.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/wayne-police-charge-pompton-lakes-man-in-burglary-interrupted-by-bo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Four Charged In Off-Duty Officer Shooting In Paterson Four Charged In Off-Duty Officer Shooting In Paterson Four Charged In Off-Duty Officer Shooting In Paterson
Four Charged In Off-Duty Officer Shooting In Paterson UPDATE: A 19-year-old Paterson man wanted on attempted murder charges involving an off-duty police officer shot at in the city last week was behind bars, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik confirmed Thursday. MORE: https://southpassaic.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/fugitive-behind-bars-in-paterson-off-duty-police-officer-shooting/686366/ ****** PATERSON, N.J. – Four people in all -- one of whom remained at large Tuesday -- have been charged with attempted murder after authorities said they shot at an off-duty police officer before crashing their car Friday night in Paterson. Passaic C…

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