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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Paterson, NJ
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NJ Congressmen Call For Federal Investigation Of Ticket Industry NJ Congressmen Call For Federal Investigation Of Ticket Industry NJ Congressmen Call For Federal Investigation Of Ticket Industry
NJ Congressmen Call For Federal Investigation Of Ticket Industry PATERSON, N.J. -- Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. of Paterson wants a federal investigation of the ticket industry to make sure that real fans -- and not scalper-run automated programs run or others given special preference -- are getting the first crack at seeing their favorite performers. Pascreel (D-NJ) -- along with fellow Congressmen Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ) and Fred Upton (R-MI) -- has requested a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) review focusing on transparency regarding sales, public information, secondary markets and the use of bots. "We all stood in line for tickets …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Obituaries
Ridgewood Architect Who Fell 47 Stories To Death Strove To Help Others Ridgewood Architect Who Fell 47 Stories To Death Strove To Help Others Ridgewood Architect Who Fell 47 Stories To Death Strove To Help Others
Ridgewood Architect Who Fell 47 Stories To Death Strove To Help Others RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- Shock turned to grief as word spread that a Ridgewood architect fell 47 stories from a midtown Manhattan high-rise to his death on Friday. Bruno Travalja, 52, stood after kneeling to take a safety measure on the roof of a West 52nd Street office and residential condominium conversion project known as the Flatotel when he fell over a foot-and-a-half safety barrier, city officials said. Investigators believe he might have become dizzy or got his foot tangled in something, according to The Gothamist. He was wearing a safety harness, but it wasn't connected to anything, the r…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Fallen Hackensack Firefighter Memorialized At National Ceremony Fallen Hackensack Firefighter Memorialized At National Ceremony Fallen Hackensack Firefighter Memorialized At National Ceremony
Fallen Hackensack Firefighter Memorialized At National Ceremony HACKENSACK, N.J. -- With tremendous pride, a group of Hackensack firefighters and loved ones of Dennis Walker gathered Saturday as his name was added to the International Association of Firefighters Fallen Fighters Memorial in Colorado Springs. Although Walker died of bladder cancer in 2001, it wasn't until this year that it was linked to his heroic work at Ground Zero on 9/11. So his name was added to the memorial along with 122 of the U.S. and Canada's bravest during the IAFF's 30th annual memorial ceremony. His nephew, Firefighter James Walker Jr., also presented Dennis's widow, Beth, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: No 2nd Device Found After Jersey Shore Trash Can Bomb At 5K Authorities: No 2nd Device Found After Jersey Shore Trash Can Bomb At 5K Authorities: No 2nd Device Found After Jersey Shore Trash Can Bomb At 5K
Authorities: No 2nd Device Found After Jersey Shore Trash Can Bomb At 5K Federal and state authorities stopped short of calling an explosion in a trash can near the Seaside Park boardwalk as a charity 5K race was about to begin Saturday morning an act of terrorism. Reports of a second device found in another trash can were unfounded, state Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino said just after 2:30 p.m. No one was injured in the 9:30 a.m. blast, which was being investigated by the New Jersey State Police, FBI, U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office, Ocean County Sheriff’s Department and Seaside Park Police D…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Passaic Sheriff's Detectives Find Fugitive In Bergenfield Court Passaic Sheriff's Detectives Find Fugitive In Bergenfield Court Passaic Sheriff's Detectives Find Fugitive In Bergenfield Court
Passaic Sheriff's Detectives Find Fugitive In Bergenfield Court PATERSON, N.J. -- Passaic County sheriff's detectives tipped off by a colleague arrested a city woman wanted on a fugitive warrant out of New York City at Bergenfield Municipal Court. Tracy Raysor, who has a history of burglary, theft and other charges out of Bergen County, was ordered held without bail in the Passaic County Jail pending extradition proceedings after being arrested Thursday by Warrant Detectives Luis Pagan and Joel Familia, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. The pair acted on a tip from PCSO Community Policing Detective Liram Kaba that Raysor was there to pay o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority Officers Rescue Dog Struck By Truck On GWB Port Authority Officers Rescue Dog Struck By Truck On GWB Port Authority Officers Rescue Dog Struck By Truck On GWB
Port Authority Officers Rescue Dog Struck By Truck On GWB FORT LEE, N.J. -- Port Authority police rescued a 6-month-old runaway pup who was struck by a truck on the George Washngton Bridge. Ronin apparently "wriggled out of his collar during a walk and fled, making his way to an upper level eastbound lane of the bridge," where he was struck, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. Ronin was bleeding heavily from his injured right front paw and leg when Port Authority Police Officers Fred Corrubia and Jonathan Harder found him, Pentangelo said. They sped the shepherd/hound mix to Oradell Animal Hospital in Paramus for emergen…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Recognize Him? Maywood Businesses Burglarized Recognize Him? Maywood Businesses Burglarized Recognize Him? Maywood Businesses Burglarized
Recognize Him? Maywood Businesses Burglarized MAYWOOD, N.J. -- Hoping someone recognizes him, Maywood police on Friday released a surveillance photo of a cigarette-smoking man who they said burglarized two West Pleasant Avenue businesses and tried to break into several others just after midnight Tuesday. The cap-wearing bandit got into the Dance Center and Union Tax Inc., removing cash and electronics, then tried and failed to force open the rear doors of Kathie’s Gifts, Coronet Variety Store and Mario’s Pizza, Police Chief David T. Pegg told Daily Voice. He was also wearing sneakers, shorts, a polo short with a stripe and gloves, Peg…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Gas Odor Clears Paramus Target Gas Odor Clears Paramus Target Gas Odor Clears Paramus Target
Gas Odor Clears Paramus Target PARAMUS, N.J. -- A gas odor early Friday afternoon cleared the Target at Bergen Town Center in Paramus. No injuries were reported. Employees and customers were allowed to return once the store was ventilated less than an hour later, responders said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEOS: Lyndhurst Fire Consumes House VIDEOS: Lyndhurst Fire Consumes House VIDEOS: Lyndhurst Fire Consumes House
Videos: Lyndhurst Fire Consumes House LYNDHURST, N.J. -- A ball of flames flashed over firefighters in a Thursday night blaze that blew through the roof and windows of a Lyndhurst home, authorities said. No injuries were reported in the three-alarm Pennsylvania Avenue blaze, which drew more than three dozen firefighters and gutted the house, Deputy Fire Commissioner Paul F. Haggerty said. Firefighters and police were met with intense flames when they arrived just after 10:15 a.m. The fire was "deep-seated and consuming the entire first and second floor, as well as attic space," Haggerty said. Crews had to be evacuat…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Do You Know Them? Pair Robs Lyndhurst Gas Station At Gunpoint Do You Know Them? Pair Robs Lyndhurst Gas Station At Gunpoint Do You Know Them? Pair Robs Lyndhurst Gas Station At Gunpoint
Do You Know Them? Pair Robs Lyndhurst Gas Station At Gunpoint LYNDHURST, N.J. -- Seeking the public's help, Lyndhurst police released surveillance photos Thursday of a robbery trio who took what could be as much as $1,000 from a local gas station at gunpoint. Two station employees at Bridge Exxon on Riverside Avenue -- one of them 32 and the other 27 -- told police the robber pulled up in a newer-model black Mercedes just after 4 a.m. Wednesday, Capt. John Valente said. After the car stopped between the two pump islands, a passenger in a hooded sweatshirt and ski mask got out brandishing a gun, he said. The pump jockey said he tried to run, but the r…

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