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
Suit: Ex-Con In South Hackensack Strip Club Brawl Kept Dying Dog From Vet Suit: Ex-Con In South Hackensack Strip Club Brawl Kept Dying Dog From Vet Suit: Ex-Con In South Hackensack Strip Club Brawl Kept Dying Dog From Vet
Suit: Ex-Con In South Hackensack Strip Club Brawl Kept Dying Dog From Vet SOUTH HACKENSACK, N.J. -- An ex-con awaiting sentencing for attacking two men with a hammer during a brawl at a South Hackensack strip club was working a construction job while free on bail when he kept a Manhattan couple from getting their dying dog to a vet, court papers charge. Jair Freire and his wife say Anthony Pate and co-worker Bienvenido Rodriguez, 55, of Long Island wouldn't let them drive around their work site, trashed their BMW and then lied to police to get Freire arrested. Pate is being sentenced in two weeks in Superior Court in Hackensack for aggravated assault for his role…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority: No Evidence Of Shots Fired At JFK Port Authority: No Evidence Of Shots Fired At JFK Port Authority: No Evidence Of Shots Fired At JFK
Port Authority: No Evidence Of Shots Fired At JFK No shots were fired at JFK International Airport in Queens late Sunday, despite reports to the contrary, a Port Authority police spokesman told Daily Voice. "There were no firearm rounds or shell casings or other evidence of shots fired,"" the authority's Joseph Pentangelo. "There are no injuries." Two terminals were evacuated as a precaution, he said. A second call of shots fired forced the Port Authority to evacuate Terminal 1 at 10:15 p.m., about an hour and 15 minutes after they cleared Terminal 8, Pentangelo told Daily Voice. The Van Wyck Expressway near the a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Passaic Sheriff: All In Day's Work For Partners In Drug, Gun Seizures Passaic Sheriff: All In Day's Work For Partners In Drug, Gun Seizures Passaic Sheriff: All In Day's Work For Partners In Drug, Gun Seizures
Passaic Sheriff: All In Day's Work For Partners In Drug, Gun Seizures PATERSON, N.J. -- Two Passaic County sheriff's partners seized seven bricks of heroin from a Lodi man, found a stolen gun behind an abandoned house and arrested a drugged driver slumped over the steering wheel of her car -- all during the same shift in Paterson on Sunday. Detective Americo Escobar and Officer Joseph Royce were patrolling the area of the Riverside Terrace development off 5th Avenue Sunday morning when they saw Melvin York, 46, selling heroin to two women, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. The women ran as the pair grabbed York, who Berdnik said was carrying $1,500 worth of he…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Daughter: Passaic Man, 67, Missing Two Days Found In Montclair Daughter: Passaic Man, 67, Missing Two Days Found In Montclair Daughter: Passaic Man, 67, Missing Two Days Found In Montclair
Daughter: Passaic Man, 67, Missing Two Days Found In Montclair PASSAIC, N.J. -- A 67-year-old Passaic man who'd been missing since Friday was found Sunday in Montclair, his daughter said. Andres Casiano, who suffers from dementia, was "dehydrated but doing good" in HackensackUMC Mountainside, where he was found, Lisa Casiano Nazario reported around 1:30 p.m. He apparently forgot his way home but was wearing an ID tag around his neck wit contat information, Nazario said. "I want to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart for help[ing] share my post," she wrote on Facebook. "[W]ords can not describe the emotions I'm going thr…

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Hackensack, NJ
Weather
Risk Of Another Ferocious Storm Raised For Bergen, Passaic Risk Of Another Ferocious Storm Raised For Bergen, Passaic Risk Of Another Ferocious Storm Raised For Bergen, Passaic
Risk Of Another Ferocious Storm Raised For Bergen, Passaic The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center on Sunday afternoon raised the risk of another fierce storm like Saturday's hitting North Jersey before dark. The area of "severe risk" stretches from eastern Pennsylvania out to Long Island and up through New England, meteorologist Joe Cioffi said. "I think the main threat time will be after 3 or 4 p.m. for any thunderstorms," Cioffi said. "We saw much of the severe weather yesterday took place after 7 p.m. and lasted almost until midnight. "There will be some improvement on Monday with slightly less heat…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
4 Moonachie First Aid Members Hospitalized After Head-On Crash 4 Moonachie First Aid Members Hospitalized After Head-On Crash 4 Moonachie First Aid Members Hospitalized After Head-On Crash
4 Moonachie First Aid Members Hospitalized After Head-On Crash CARLSTADT, N.J. -- Four members of the Moonachie First Aid & Rescue Squad were hospitalized with various broken bones Friday night after their rig was sent head-on into a car and tractor-trailer in Carlstadt near MetLife Stadium. Responders had to cut the driver and front-seat passenger out of the rig ambulance the crash on Washington Avenue outside Redd's restaurant around 7:45 p.m. The quartet was headed to a mutual aid call moments before a preseason football game between the Giants and Dolphins was beginning up the road when a minivan cab suddenly turned to enter a service station …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: Carlstadt Transformer Fire Put Down VIDEO: Carlstadt Transformer Fire Put Down VIDEO: Carlstadt Transformer Fire Put Down
Video: Carlstadt Transformer Fire Put Down CARLSTADT, N.J. -- Firefighters put down a Carlstadt transformer fire Friday afternoon that also damaged the exterior of a Broad Street factory building.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Ramsey Police Urge Cellphone Caution Amid Street Robberies Ramsey Police Urge Cellphone Caution Amid Street Robberies Ramsey Police Urge Cellphone Caution Amid Street Robberies
Ramsey Police Urge Cellphone Caution Amid Street Robberies RAMSEY, N.J. -- Ramsey police urged citizens not to openly use their cellphones or tablets while walking or sitting in their cars after dark following a series of street robberies and attempts the past two weeks. The first occurred when two robbers swiped a cellphone from a woman at the corner of Island Avenue and Washington Drive around 11-11:30 p.m. on July 25, Police Chief Bryan Gurney said Friday. They took off in a dark-colored sedan – and may be responsible for a similar robbery in Fair Lawn that same night, he said. The second victim was struck several times in the face and head wit…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Leonia Used Car Dealer Fined, Agrees To Arbitration With Defrauded Buyers Leonia Used Car Dealer Fined, Agrees To Arbitration With Defrauded Buyers Leonia Used Car Dealer Fined, Agrees To Arbitration With Defrauded Buyers
Leonia Used Car Dealer Fined, Agrees To Arbitration With Defrauded Buyers LEONIA, N.J. -- A Leonia used car dealer agreed Friday to change its practices, pay $20,000 in civil penalties and enter binding arbitration with consumers who say the dealership defrauded them through what the state attorney general called "chicanery." Luxury Haus agreed to the terms to settle an investigation by the state Division of Consumer Affairs into dozens of consumer complaints over the past three years, state Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino said. The plaintiffs said Luxury Haus -- located at the corner of Grand Avenue and Fort Lee Road -- refused to honor adverti…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Weather
Tedesco: Three Bergen Cooling Centers Opened To Beat Heat Tedesco: Three Bergen Cooling Centers Opened To Beat Heat Tedesco: Three Bergen Cooling Centers Opened To Beat Heat
Tedesco: Three Bergen Cooling Centers Opened To Beat Heat Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco ordered a trio of county cooling centers opened on Friday. One of them -- at the county administration building in Hackensack – will remain open through the weekend, Tedesco said (CALL: 201-336-7300). Hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. there and at: The Northwest Bergen Senior Activity Center at 46-50 Center St., Midland Park (201-445-5690) The Southwest Bergen Senior Activity Center at 147 Hackensack St., East Rutherford (201-935-8920). Temperatures were expected to climb over 90 degrees, with accompanying humidity that will make it feel closer to 100. …

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