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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Lyndhurst, NJ
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Vocal Group The Cameos Cap Successful Lyndhurst Summer Concert Series Vocal Group The Cameos Cap Successful Lyndhurst Summer Concert Series Vocal Group The Cameos Cap Successful Lyndhurst Summer Concert Series
Vocal Group The Cameos Cap Successful Lyndhurst Summer Concert Series LYNDHURST, N.J. -- Excellent weather is expected Wednesday night when a successful "Music Under the Stars" summer concert series in Lyndhurst comes to a nostalgic end with one of New Jersey's most popular vocal groups, the Cameos. The Fair Lawn-based band counts among its repertoire classics by the Duprees, the Four Seasons, Little Anthony and the Imperials, The Drifters, Larry Chance & The Earls, Dion, The Flamingos and Eugene Pitt & The Jive Five. Backed by a quintet of musicians, the four diverse vocalists honed their act in dinner clubs and weddings -- but have also be…

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Man Thrown By Train Onto Beam Hanging Over Elmwood Park Road Man Thrown By Train Onto Beam Hanging Over Elmwood Park Road Man Thrown By Train Onto Beam Hanging Over Elmwood Park Road
Man Thrown By Train Onto Beam Hanging Over Elmwood Park Road ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- Authorities early Wednesday were still trying to identify a man who was struck by a freight train on an Elmwood Park trestle over the Passaic River bridge and knocked onto a steel girder hanging 25 feet over River Road. A rescue operation was needed to get to the man, who remained in critical condition at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center the morning after being struck by the The New York Susquehanna Western Railroad train around 7:10 p.m. Tuesday, Elmwood Park Police Chief Michael Foligno told Daily Voice. The man was "walking over the Passaic River bridge tha…

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Hackensack, NJ
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Police Storm South Hackensack Motel Room, Rescue Suicidal Fort Lee Woman Police Storm South Hackensack Motel Room, Rescue Suicidal Fort Lee Woman Police Storm South Hackensack Motel Room, Rescue Suicidal Fort Lee Woman
Police Storm South Hackensack Motel Room, Rescue Suicidal Fort Lee Woman SOUTH HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A suicidal 19-year-old Fort Lee woman barricaded herself in a South Hackensack motel room Tuesday night before police forced their way in and got her out. Fort Lee police issued a missing persons report and were checking the motels along Route 46 when they found her car around 11:45 p.m. outside the Knights Inn, South Hackensack Police Capt. Robert Kaiser told Daily Voice. They forced their way in and found her with injuries that Kaiser said weren't life-threatening. She was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, he said.

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Englewood, NJ
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Divorce Final After 20 Years For Alpine's Chris Rock, Malaak Compton Divorce Final After 20 Years For Alpine's Chris Rock, Malaak Compton Divorce Final After 20 Years For Alpine's Chris Rock, Malaak Compton
Divorce Final After 20 Years For Alpine's Chris Rock, Malaak Compton ALPINE, N.J. -- Separated since 2014, longtime Alpine couple Chris Rock and his wife of 20 years, Malaak Compton, were divorced on Monday. A judge in the Family Division of Superior Court in Hackensack sealed the agreement after finalizing it, according to multiple reports. However, E!News claimed that Rock, 51, in his divorce filing accused Compton of keeping him from their two daughters -- Lola, 14, and Zahra, 12 -- away from him. Compton, 47, through her lawyer, called the comedian's claim untrue and "easily disproved." The couple also have had an 8-year-old girl from South A…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Rochelle Park Police: Paramus Driver Had Pot, Fake Pistol Rochelle Park Police: Paramus Driver Had Pot, Fake Pistol Rochelle Park Police: Paramus Driver Had Pot, Fake Pistol
Rochelle Park Police: Paramus Driver Had Pot, Fake Pistol ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. -- A 20-year-old Paramus man was carrying an ounce of pot and an imitation handgun when a Rochelle Park police officer stopped his car for an equipment violation, authorities said. Officer Ryan Burke pulled over Nicolas Datz at 10:30 p.m. Saturday on Rochelle Avenue, Detective Sgt. James DePreta said Tuesday. While speaking with Datz, the officer "detected the odor of unburnt marijuana," leading to a search, he said. Besides the pot, Burke found "a large amount of empty baggies commonly used to package narcotics and an imitation Colt 1911 [model] handgun,…

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Fort Lee, NJ
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No Bail For Unlicensed Driver Who Left Injured Passenger In Fort Lee Crash No Bail For Unlicensed Driver Who Left Injured Passenger In Fort Lee Crash No Bail For Unlicensed Driver Who Left Injured Passenger In Fort Lee Crash
No Bail For Unlicensed Driver Who Left Injured Passenger In Fort Lee Crash FORT LEE, N.J. – An unlicensed 19-year-old Bronx driver was released without bail after he drove into oncoming traffic in Fort Lee to pass a driver stopped at a red light, crashed his vehicle into another – sending his passenger to the hospital -- and then took off on foot. Police found Jordaniel Ortega a short distance from the scene and took him into custody after Sunday’s 2 p.m. crash, acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Monday. He’s charged with aggravated assault by auto, leaving the scene of a crash involving serious bodily injury, endangering an injured victim and b…

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Fort Lee, NJ
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Disabled Leonia Theft Victim Gets State-Of-The-Art Wheelchair Disabled Leonia Theft Victim Gets State-Of-The-Art Wheelchair Disabled Leonia Theft Victim Gets State-Of-The-Art Wheelchair
Disabled Leonia Theft Victim Gets State-Of-The-Art Wheelchair LEONIA, N.J. — A disabled Leonia teen who had his motorized wheelchair stolen last month will get a specialized replacement on Tuesday morning that will allow him to do daily activities "at the speed of life," Police Chief Thomas Rowe said Monday. An official from Quantum Rehab of Exeter, PA will present the EDGE power chair to Courtney Machiri at the borough American Legion Hall (399 Broad Avenue) at 11 a.m. The chair positions the rider at eye level, allowing Courtney, who has cerebral palsy, to "interact with people and his environment in an elevated rather than seated pos…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Wayne Police: Wallington Driver Escapes Rollover But Not Arrest Wayne Police: Wallington Driver Escapes Rollover But Not Arrest Wayne Police: Wallington Driver Escapes Rollover But Not Arrest
Wayne Police: Wallington Driver Escapes Rollover But Not Arrest CLIFTON, N.J. -- An unlicensed Wallington driver who climbed from an overturned car in Wayne Sunday night was evaluated at the hospital -- and then charged with driving a stolen vehicle. Xavier Viera, 33, was first taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center and then brought to townshp police headquarter after the 8 p.m. crash on Hamburg Turnpike, Capt. Laurence Martin said Monday. The car had been reported stolen out of Passaic, Martin said. Viera was released on summonses charging him with receiving stolen property, careless driving and not having a license, the captain said.

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Hackensack, NJ
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Port Authority: Arriving Traveler Had 4½ Pounds Of Heroin At Newark Airport Port Authority: Arriving Traveler Had 4½ Pounds Of Heroin At Newark Airport Port Authority: Arriving Traveler Had 4½ Pounds Of Heroin At Newark Airport
Port Authority: Arriving Traveler Had 4½ Pounds Of Heroin At Newark Airport NEWARK, N.J. -- A Hudson County man was carrying 4½ pounds of heroin concealed in packages labeled “Café” & “Nestle Recacao” when he flew in to Newark Airport from Ecuador, authorities said Monday. Port Authority police took 39-year-old David E. Molina-Haro of West 54th Street in West New York into custody on drug possession charges after finding the heroin during a routine inspection, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice.

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Hackensack, NJ
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Enroll Now For Bergen Sheriff's Citizens Police Academy Enroll Now For Bergen Sheriff's Citizens Police Academy Enroll Now For Bergen Sheriff's Citizens Police Academy
Enroll Now For Bergen Sheriff's Citizens Police Academy HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Enrollment is open for the 19th class of Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino’s Citizens Police Academy, a 10-week course designed to give residents a working knowledge of law enforcement policies and tactics. The free academy uses a classroom-style format to demonstrate the types of equipment and tactics used by law enforcement in a wide range of areas — including motor vehicle stops, the Medical Examiner’s Office, gang violence awareness, homicide investigations, K-9 patrol and detection, criminal investigations and ballistics. Bergen County residents 18 and older are…

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