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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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Seen Them? FBI Says Men Left Explosives Night Of NYC Bombing Seen Them? FBI Says Men Left Explosives Night Of NYC Bombing Seen Them? FBI Says Men Left Explosives Night Of NYC Bombing
Seen Them? FBI Says Men Left Explosives Night Of NYC Bombing The FBI on Tuesday released a clearer surveillance photo of two men who they said left an explosive device a few blocks from where one detonated on Sept. 17 in Manhattan's Chelsea section. The bureau also produced a surveillance camera image of a bag from which the pair "removed an improvised explosive device." Both men "then left the vicinity leaving the device behind but taking the luggage," the FBI said. A resident found the device, which didn't detonate, the bureau said. The first image -- released last Wednesday -- was taken on West 27th Street between 6th and 7th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Bergen Detectives, DEA Bust Wood-Ridge Couple With $540G In Heroin Bergen Detectives, DEA Bust Wood-Ridge Couple With $540G In Heroin Bergen Detectives, DEA Bust Wood-Ridge Couple With $540G In Heroin
Bergen Detectives, DEA Bust Wood-Ridge Couple With $540G In Heroin HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N.J. – A judge ordered an unemployed Wood-Ridge couple held on $250,000 bail each after investigators said they caught them with nearly 20 pounds of heroin worth roughly $540,000 outside a Hasbrouck Heights pharmacy. Drug investigators moved in on Luis Lopez, 21, and Alida Aguilera, 22, after they parked at the Rite Aid on Boulevard, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Tuesday night. Inside the vehicle, detectives four kilograms of heroin, Grewal said. A search of their Westmont Drive home turned up five more kilos, he said. Both were charged with vari…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Exercise (Or Not) To Help Fairview Boy With Rare Aging Disease Exercise (Or Not) To Help Fairview Boy With Rare Aging Disease Exercise (Or Not) To Help Fairview Boy With Rare Aging Disease
Exercise (Or Not) To Help Fairview Boy With Rare Aging Disease FAIRVIEW, N.J. – You can help a 6-year-old Fairview boy with a rare premature aging disorder by selecting a specific exercise to complete in just 60 seconds during a special fundraising event this Saturday at VIP Fitness in Cliffside Park. You choose the exercise and have friends, family or businesses sponsor you – or even sponsor yourself – to help young Diego Estrada, whose Progeria makes his body age rapidly. The choice of exercises: pushups, burpees, or squats. Pledges are $1 per rep. Do 50 reps in a minute and it’s a $50 donation. GO TO: https://www.gofundme.com/CureForDiego There …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Wyckoff Police Chief: Officials 'Set Bar High' With Thin Blue Line Wyckoff Police Chief: Officials 'Set Bar High' With Thin Blue Line Wyckoff Police Chief: Officials 'Set Bar High' With Thin Blue Line
Wyckoff Police Chief: Officials 'Set Bar High' With Thin Blue Line WYCKOFF, N.J. – Wyckoff officials “once again have set the bar high” by painting a thin blue line Franklin Avenue in support of law enforcement, Acting Police Chief David Murphy said Tuesday. “We continue to appreciate their unfailing attention to law enforcement,” Murphy said after the line was painted between Wyckoff and Godwin avenues. Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco granted permission to paint the thin blue line on a county road, which runs through the main section of town, Mayor Kevin J. Rooney said. “Wyckoff is honored to have such a dedicated group of police officers that work t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Tenafly Police Crack Park Ridge Burglary, Arrest Driver After Foot Chase Tenafly Police Crack Park Ridge Burglary, Arrest Driver After Foot Chase Tenafly Police Crack Park Ridge Burglary, Arrest Driver After Foot Chase
Tenafly Police Crack Park Ridge Burglary, Arrest Driver After Foot Chase TENAFLY, N.J. – A Tenafly police officer chased and caught a driver who bolted on foot moments after he and two accomplices swiped a safe, jewelry, camera and other valuables during a Park Ridge home burglary that same night, authorities said. Officer Louis Smaragdakis was on patrol on Knickerbocker Road when he pulled over a dark-colored Honda Accord near Floral Terrace for tailgating around 8:45 p.m. Saturday, Capt. Michael deMoncada said Tuesday. The officer smelled marijuana and spotted “gloves, masks, and other items commonly associated with criminal activity” in the car, he said. Lt.…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Bogota Man, 70, Agrees To Four Years For Trafficking Child Rape Videos Bogota Man, 70, Agrees To Four Years For Trafficking Child Rape Videos Bogota Man, 70, Agrees To Four Years For Trafficking Child Rape Videos
Bogota Man, 70, Agrees To Four Years For Trafficking Child Rape Videos BOGOTA, N.J. -- A 70-year-old Spanish national living in Bogota will be sentenced to four years in state prison – 20 months of which he must serve before he’s eligible for parole – after admitting in a Hackensack courtroom on Tuesday that he trafficked in online child pornography. Rafael Andreu, 70, remained free without bail pending sentencing on Dec. 2. He admitted Tuesday that he “used file-sharing software to make files containing child pornography readily available for any other user to download from a designated ‘shared folder’ on his computer,” Attorney General Christopher Porrino sa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Boy, 10, Tells Tenafly Police Elderly Driver Offered Ride, Questioned Him Boy, 10, Tells Tenafly Police Elderly Driver Offered Ride, Questioned Him Boy, 10, Tells Tenafly Police Elderly Driver Offered Ride, Questioned Him
Boy, 10, Tells Tenafly Police Elderly Driver Offered Ride, Questioned Him TENAFLY, N.J. – Tenafly police were investigating a 10-year-old boy’s report that an elderly driver asked if he needed a ride and then questioned him about flags posted around the business district. The boy told police the 70-something man pulled up in a black sedan near the rear of the municipal complex on Tenafly Road just before 1 p.m. Saturday, Capt. Michael deMoncada said Tuesday. The driver, who had gray and white hair and was smoking a cigarette, began talking with him, so he ran off, the youngster told police. The sedan headed north on Tenafly Road, he said. Patrol officers checke…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Device Scare At Closter Supermarket: Discarded Party Popper Device Scare At Closter Supermarket: Discarded Party Popper Device Scare At Closter Supermarket: Discarded Party Popper
Device Scare At Closter Supermarket: Discarded Party Popper CLOSTER, N.J. -- A used party popper left in a shopping cart in the middle of the Closter Stop & Shop parking lot cleared the supermarket Tuesday afternoon. "It's nothing serious," Detective Sgt. Vincent Aiello told Daily Voice. "It was considered very suspicious because of its location in the middle of a busy parking lot. "It also had been partially used, which "made it appear at first that it had been modified somehow," Aiello said. A store employee who found it moved the cart to the west side of the store, away from the other cars, the sergeant said. R…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
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Discarded Party Popper Clears Closter Stop & Shop Discarded Party Popper Clears Closter Stop & Shop Discarded Party Popper Clears Closter Stop & Shop
Discarded Party Popper Clears Closter Stop & Shop CLOSTER, N.J. -- A used party popper left in a shopping cart in the middle of the Closter Stop & Shop parking lot cleared the supermarket Tuesday afternoon. "It's nothing serious," Detective Sgt. Vincent Aiello told Daily Voice. "It was considered very suspicious because of its location in the middle of a busy parking lot. "It also had been partially used, which "made it appear at first that it had been modified somehow," Aiello said. A store employee who found it moved the cart to the west side of the store, away from the other cars, the sergeant said. R…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Wallington Paints Thin Blue Line To Support Law Enforcement Wallington Paints Thin Blue Line To Support Law Enforcement Wallington Paints Thin Blue Line To Support Law Enforcement
Wallington Paints Thin Blue Line To Support Law Enforcement WALLINGTON, N.J. -- Wallington joined the growing trend of communities painting blue lines to support law enforcement. The thin blue line shows that "we as a town care and support the men and women in blue," said Councilman Christopher Sinisi, who proposed the move. Wallington's line runs down Maple Avenue from Locust to Main. Dating back decades, the "thin blue line" is used throughout the U.S. and Canada to symbolize the thin line between chaos and order. It is used, as well, to commemorate fallen law enforcement officers and to represent the shared commitment of all…

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