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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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Saddle Brook Man Had 2 Pounds Of Pot, 2 Ounces of Cocaine Prosecutor: Saddle Brook Man Had 2 Pounds Of Pot, 2 Ounces of Cocaine Prosecutor: Saddle Brook Man Had 2 Pounds Of Pot, 2 Ounces of Cocaine
Prosecutor: Saddle Brook Man Had 2 Pounds Of Pot, 2 Ounces of Cocaine SADDLE BROOK, N.J. – Detectives busted a Saddle Brook man who they said had two pounds of pot and more than two ounces of cocaine at his home. A judge ordered Peter J. Stuart, 29, held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with drug-related offenses, records show. Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said the search was conducted, and arrest made on Wednesday, after an investigation by members of his Narcotic Task Force and those from Saddle Brook and New Milford police. An Oct. 5 initial appearance was schedule in Central Municipal Court in Hackensack.

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Cresskill-Closter, NJ
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Accused Closter Burglar ID'd Year Later From Cigarette Butt Accused Closter Burglar ID'd Year Later From Cigarette Butt Accused Closter Burglar ID'd Year Later From Cigarette Butt
Accused Closter Burglar ID'd Year Later From Cigarette Butt CLOSTER, N.J. -- A burglar who couldn't kick the habit was identified a year later after DNA taken from a cigarette butt he left behind during a Closter break-in matched his, authorities told Daily Voice. The owners weren't home when several thousand dollars worth of items were stolen, including designer bags and iPods, on July 29, 2015, Detective Sgt. Vincent Aiello said. Responding offices found the cigarette filter, which they gave to the Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification, Aiello said. The BCI forwarded it to the State Police lab for DNA analysis. Six days short…

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Hackensack, NJ
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PSE&G Warns: Watch Out For New Sophisticated Phone Scams PSE&G Warns: Watch Out For New Sophisticated Phone Scams PSE&G Warns: Watch Out For New Sophisticated Phone Scams
PSE&G Warns: Watch Out For New Sophisticated Phone Scams PSE&G phone scammers have gotten more sophisticated -- using interactive voice prompts that imitate those of the utility's customer service line, officials warned Thursday. "Recently, we’ve seen an uptick in the number of phone scams being reported," the utility said. In the latest, a caller pretending to be a PSE&G employee threatens to shut off a customer's service without immediate payment via a pre-paid card, then provides a callback number. After the victim buys the card and calls, he or she gets voice-response prompts similar to PSE&G's. A phony representative …

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Fair Lawn PD: Off-Duty 42-Year Veteran Officer Scuffles With CVS Shoplifter Fair Lawn PD: Off-Duty 42-Year Veteran Officer Scuffles With CVS Shoplifter Fair Lawn PD: Off-Duty 42-Year Veteran Officer Scuffles With CVS Shoplifter
Fair Lawn PD: Off-Duty 42-Year Veteran Officer Scuffles With CVS Shoplifter FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- A career criminal from Paterson fought for nearly five minutes with an off-duty Fair Lawn police veteran who interrupted a shoplifting. Capt. Robert Kneer -- a 42-year police veteran -- stopped Richard Cosme, 47, who bit Kneer's finger and tore ligaments in his left hand before dashing to a 2014 Nissan Juke parked outside the CVS on Fair Lawn Avenue just after midnight on Aug. 25, Sgt. Brian Metzler said Thursday. Officer responding to a call of a fight in the CVS parking lot helped arrest Cosme and the driver, 43-year-old Francisco Aguilera of Clifton, Metzler said. Ins…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Special Night Planned For Fair Lawn Girl Who Needs Mobility Van Special Night Planned For Fair Lawn Girl Who Needs Mobility Van Special Night Planned For Fair Lawn Girl Who Needs Mobility Van
Special Night Planned For Fair Lawn Girl Who Needs Mobility Van FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- A group of Fair Lawn entrepreneurs have united with the mayor and police union to stage a special night for a very special girl with severe birth defects. Makayla Visbal, 7, who has microcephaly (commonly called a "small head"), lissencephaly (small brain) and cerebral palsy, needs a wheelchair-accessible mobility van -- but these cost roughly $60,000 each. A GoFundMe account has raised a little over a third of that over the past year. So Mayor John Cosgrove got together with the Fair Lawn PBA Local 67 and United Real Estate of North Jersey's Agents Benefitting…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah Police Add Stolen Handgun Charges Against Oakland Man Mahwah Police Add Stolen Handgun Charges Against Oakland Man Mahwah Police Add Stolen Handgun Charges Against Oakland Man
Mahwah Police Add Stolen Handgun Charges Against Oakland Man MAHWAH, N.J. -- A firearm found in the car of an Oakland man who Mahwah police said was stopped while headed to a local restaurant to settle a dispute on Labor Day was reported stolen from a gun range in Florida, authorities said. A tipster led police to stop 32-year-old Michael Debiasi -- who had the Glock 23 .40-caliber handgun behind the driver’s seat of his silver Mercury -- at the Mason Jar, Police Chief James Batelli said. Three other occupants of the car were brought to headquarters along with Dibiasi, who was initially charged with possession of a firearm without a permit. “It is b…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Passaic Sheriff: Scam Got Clifton Woman, Associate Prescription Drugs Passaic Sheriff: Scam Got Clifton Woman, Associate Prescription Drugs Passaic Sheriff: Scam Got Clifton Woman, Associate Prescription Drugs
Passaic Sheriff: Scam Got Clifton Woman, Associate Prescription Drugs PATERSON, N.J. -- A former patient of a Paterson pain management clinic pretended to be an employee there to obtain prescription pain killers for herself and another woman, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. Detectives from Berdnik's Criminal Investigation Division arrested Amaal Abuhabdeh, 32, of Clifton and Melanie Madigan, 19, of North Brunswick at the Stop & Shop on Kingsland Avenue in Clifton after they filed a bogus prescription for Tramadol, the sheriff said. Surveillance footage from several pharmacies showed them doing the same there, he said. Using the first name…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Englewood, Bergen Detectives Bust 'Skin Therapy' Worker For Prostitution Englewood, Bergen Detectives Bust 'Skin Therapy' Worker For Prostitution Englewood, Bergen Detectives Bust 'Skin Therapy' Worker For Prostitution
Englewood, Bergen Detectives Bust 'Skin Therapy' Worker For Prostitution ENGLEWOOD, N.J. -- Acting on a tip, Englewood detectives went undercover to arrest a woman who they said was engaged in prostitution out of a storefront on the city's south side. Working with investigators from the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, they arrested 30-year-old Tatiana Ivanovna Mahoney of Woodbridge on Tuesday after she "solicited money for sexual acts to an undercover officer posing as a customer," Detective Capt. Timothy Torell told Daily Voice. The tip about the Dermocode Skin Therapy store at 566-A Grand Avenue came through the Bergenfield-Englewood-Teaneck-Hack…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Warning: Moonachie Seniors Lose $3,000 In Separate Phone Scams Warning: Moonachie Seniors Lose $3,000 In Separate Phone Scams Warning: Moonachie Seniors Lose $3,000 In Separate Phone Scams
Warning: Moonachie Seniors Lose $3,000 In Separate Phone Scams MOONACHIE, N.J. -- Two Moonachie seniors who police say may have been victimized by the same thieves lost nearly $3,000 in telephone scams -- prompting authorities to once again urge citizens to not be fooled. A 79-year-old woman got a call Tuesday night from a man pretending to be her grandson, Detective Sgt. Anthony Fugnitti told Daily Voice. He told her he'd been busted for pot and needed bail money, the sergeant said. He then put someone on the phone who claimed to be a police officer. She was to buy $1,800 worth of iTunes cards, call him back and then read him the numbers -- which sh…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Port Authority: GWB Anti-Suicide Fence At Least Three Years Away Port Authority: GWB Anti-Suicide Fence At Least Three Years Away Port Authority: GWB Anti-Suicide Fence At Least Three Years Away
Port Authority: GWB Anti-Suicide Fence At Least Three Years Away FORT LEE, N.J. -- It will be a little over three years before a suicide fence is built on the George Washington Bridge, despite efforts by local municipalities to get one sooner, authorities told Daily Voice. Some have said that's too long to wait: 18 people have jumped to their deaths from the span each of the past two years, they note. Hundreds of others have either been rescued from the railing -- or in some cases the other side of it -- or been stopped before they could kill themselves. A Port Authority police officer tackled a suicidal 17-year-old girl Wednesday morning as she ran to…

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