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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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
All-You-Can-Eat Pasta Night Will Help Bogota FOP Help Others All-You-Can-Eat Pasta Night Will Help Bogota FOP Help Others All-You-Can-Eat Pasta Night Will Help Bogota FOP Help Others
All-You-Can-Eat Pasta Night Will Help Bogota FOP Help Others BOGOTA, N.J. -- All the pasta, meatballs, bread, soda and dessert you can eat for $10 will help the Bogota Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 161 help others. Pasta Night on Friday, Sept. 16 runs from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the borough VFW Hall, 241 West Shore Avenue. Bogota's FOP Lodge 161 -- a non-profit union compromised of retired and active law enforcement officers -- "relies on these fundraisers in order to keep funds up to support community projects and requests for assistance," Sgt. Geoffrey Cole said. "In the years since its inception, the FOP has donated money to communit…

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Good Samaritans Help Passaic Sheriff's Officer Subdue Heroin User Good Samaritans Help Passaic Sheriff's Officer Subdue Heroin User Good Samaritans Help Passaic Sheriff's Officer Subdue Heroin User
Good Samaritans Help Passaic Sheriff's Officer Subdue Heroin User PATERSON, N.J. -- Two civilians helped a Passaic County sheriff's officer subdue a 25-year-old Atlantic City man he found using heroin Saturday night in a Paterson Dunkin Donuts bathroom, authorities said. Tipped off by an employee, K-9 Officer Scott Philips found 25-year-old Nicholas Bosna with a syringe in his pocket and drug paraphernalia on the floor next to him Saturday night in the bathroom of the shop at Market Street and Memorial Drive, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. Bosna resisted arrest, but the two good Samaritans jumped in and ended the struggle, he said. It took several hour…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Passaic County Men Charged Federally In Hawthorne Bank Robbery Passaic County Men Charged Federally In Hawthorne Bank Robbery Passaic County Men Charged Federally In Hawthorne Bank Robbery
Passaic County Men Charged Federally In Hawthorne Bank Robbery HAWTHORNE, N.J. – Two Passaic County men who were charged federally in the February holdup of a Hawthorne bank had court appearances over the past week and a half. Alejandro Ortiz, 20, of Haskell, who was brought to U.S. District Court in Newark on Friday, is accused of being the getaway driver in the Feb. 17 TD Bank branch robbery, which federal authorities said was committed by Robert Somers, 44, of Little Falls. Somers, who was brought before a judge on Aug. 26, was wearing a hooded sweatshirt, gloves, dark pants and a hat with a red stripe while holding a newspaper over the bottom half …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Five Charged After Chase Up PIP Into Alpine, 2 Officers Injured Five Charged After Chase Up PIP Into Alpine, 2 Officers Injured Five Charged After Chase Up PIP Into Alpine, 2 Officers Injured
Five Charged After Chase Up PIP Into Alpine, 2 Officers Injured ALPINE, N.J. (UPDATE) -- A high-speed police chase up the Palisades Interstate Parkway to Alpine ended overnight with five suspects in custody and two police officers treated for minor injuries. PIP police got a call around 9:30 p.m. of a hit-and-run on the northbound parkway north of the Rockefeller Lookout in Englewood Cliffs, Parkway Police Chief Michael Coppola said. As they were responding, a call from NYPD's 46th Precinct in the Bronx came in of a pursuit across the George Washington Bridge of a vehicle possibly involved in a shooting, he said. Officer Timothy Conboy spotted the whit…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Young Woman Killed After Jumping Into Train's Path In Ramsey Young Woman Killed After Jumping Into Train's Path In Ramsey Young Woman Killed After Jumping Into Train's Path In Ramsey
Young Woman Killed After Jumping Into Train's Path In Ramsey RAMSEY, N.J. -- A young woman was killed Friday afternoon after she jumped into the path of an NJ Transit train in Ramsey, witnesses and authorities said. "She just jumped on the tracks and boom!" a witness told Daily Voice just after the 3:25 p.m. incident between Morano's Market and Brady's At the Station restaurant on East Main Street. Buses were on the way to transport the 500 passengers who were on the No. 99 express train that left Hoboken for Port Jervis at 2:41 p.m. before striking the woman, who walked into the train's path, NJ Transit's Jim Smith said. The Main, Bergen …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Handgun Ammo Found Stashed At Garfield Walmart For 2nd Day In Row Handgun Ammo Found Stashed At Garfield Walmart For 2nd Day In Row Handgun Ammo Found Stashed At Garfield Walmart For 2nd Day In Row
Handgun Ammo Found Stashed At Garfield Walmart For 2nd Day In Row GARFIELD, N.J. -- For a second day in a row, a loaded handgun magazine was found hidden among merchandise at the Garfield Walmart -- forcing an evacuation and bringing an enhanced police response Friday, authorities told Daily Voice. Security personnel found the first magazine "stashed on the racks between the goods" on Thursday and turned it over to police, law enforcement source with direct knowledge of the incident told Daily Voice. "Another was found today and left in place," the source said. The store was cleared for a search by a K-9 unit from the Bergen County Sh…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Lodi Retiree, 70, Was Downloading Child Porn, Authorities Charge Lodi Retiree, 70, Was Downloading Child Porn, Authorities Charge Lodi Retiree, 70, Was Downloading Child Porn, Authorities Charge
Lodi Retiree, 70, Was Downloading Child Porn, Authorities Charge LODI, N.J. – A 70-year-old Lodi retiree had child pornography downloaded onto on his computer when detectives raided his apartment Friday and arrested him, authorities said. A judge ordered Jose Vega held on $50,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail pending a Sept. 21 arraignment in Central Municipal Court in Hackensack, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said shortly after the Wisse Street raid. Vega was charged with child endangerment “for the possession of images and/or videos depicting child exploitation,” Grewal said. The arrest followed an investigation by the prosecutor’s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen Prosecutor: Web Editor Hacked Woman's Social Media, Took Lewd Pics Bergen Prosecutor: Web Editor Hacked Woman's Social Media, Took Lewd Pics Bergen Prosecutor: Web Editor Hacked Woman's Social Media, Took Lewd Pics
Bergen Prosecutor: Web Editor Hacked Woman's Social Media, Took Lewd Pics HACKENSACK, N.J. – A multimedia online editor from Pompton Plains tried taking photos up a Bergen County woman’s skirt and down her blouse and also hacked her social media accounts, authorities said Friday. Tyler C. Mudhenk, 25, was released without bail pending a Sept 14 arraignment in Central Municipal Court in Hackensack, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. Detectives from Grewal’s Computer Crimes Unit found that Mudhenk had accessed the woman’s Facebook, OK Cupid and Feftlife accounts while also trying to take lewd photos of her, the prosecutor said. Mudhenk, who is …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Weather
Hermine's Biggest Holiday Weekend Threat: Tidal Flooding Along NJ Seaboard Hermine's Biggest Holiday Weekend Threat: Tidal Flooding Along NJ Seaboard Hermine's Biggest Holiday Weekend Threat: Tidal Flooding Along NJ Seaboard
Hermine's Biggest Holiday Weekend Threat: Tidal Flooding Along NJ Seaboard Retaining walls built along New Jersey's entire eastern shoreline after Hurricane Sandy will get their biggest test so far when Hermine produces surges of up to three feet during the expected Labor Day weekend washout, forecasters warned. New York City already ordered its beaches closed for Sunday -- with the possibility of Monday and Tuesday, as well. The biggest concern in New Jersey, by far, was coastal flooding -- followed on the priority list by wind gusts could kick up to 40 mph or so in or around Bergen and Passaic counties, meteorologist Joe Cioff said Friday. "All the models …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Your Community
Rock Band Yes Wishes Hackensack Newlyweds Best Rock Band Yes Wishes Hackensack Newlyweds Best Rock Band Yes Wishes Hackensack Newlyweds Best
Rock Band Yes Wishes Hackensack Newlyweds Best HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Love of music not only united Hackensack newlyweds Gloria Newman and Michael Morshuk: It delivered a sweet honeymoon treat when they got backstage passes for the classic rock band Yes. "We both have been fans for years, going to shows together and separately before we got married," said Newman, a legal nurse consultant who grew up in Hackensack. "This is going back to 1977 and 1980." Morshuk, a Rochelle Park native, "had been trying to get a guitar pick from [guitarist] Steve Howe since he was a teenager," she said. As baby boomers who wer…

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