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
Elmwood Park Police: Four Heroin Buyers Busted In Half Hour Elmwood Park Police: Four Heroin Buyers Busted In Half Hour Elmwood Park Police: Four Heroin Buyers Busted In Half Hour
Elmwood Park Police: Four Heroin Buyers Busted In Half Hour ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- It took barely a half-hour for Elmwood Park police to make arrests in three separate stops of Bergen County travelers passing through town after buying heroin in Paterson, authorities said Friday. These included two brothers from Mahwah -- Keith Jennings, 35, and 32-year-old Joel Jenningsv-- who were carrying 15 bags when they were stopped at 4 p.m. Thursday on East 54th Street, Police Chief Michael Foligno told Daily Voice. Keith Jennings was processed and released pending a court hearing on charges of drug and paraphernalia possession and hindering, Foligno said. Th…

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Moonachie PD: Walmart Red Bull Shoplifter 43rd Teterboro Arrest For 2016 Moonachie PD: Walmart Red Bull Shoplifter 43rd Teterboro Arrest For 2016 Moonachie PD: Walmart Red Bull Shoplifter 43rd Teterboro Arrest For 2016
Moonachie PD: Walmart Red Bull Shoplifter 43rd Teterboro Arrest For 2016 TETERBORO, N.J. -- A Wallington man apparently in need of a boost boosted 14 twelve-packs of Red Bull from the Walmart in Teterboro, Moonachie police said. John Veccia, 28, was released on a court summons following his arrest on shoplifting charges just before 5 p.m., Detective Anthony Fugnitti said. It was the department's 43rd arrest in Teterboro this year, he said. Moonachie police made 45 Teterboro arrests all of last year. Before Walmart and Costco opened in Teterboro, Moonachie police averaged seven to 14 arrests a year out of the southern end of the tiny borough. Staffing is a huge…

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Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Outta Here: North Arlington Man Charged With Swiping Ex-Boss' Van Outta Here: North Arlington Man Charged With Swiping Ex-Boss' Van Outta Here: North Arlington Man Charged With Swiping Ex-Boss' Van
Outta Here: North Arlington Man Charged With Swiping Ex-Boss' Van NORTH ARLINGTON, N.J. -- His former boss told Eduardo Huaman of North Arlington that he could retrieve some of his belongings from the company van -- but he took the van instead, State Police said Thursday. The Holmdel-based owner called the NJSP last Friday afternoon and said that Huaman was possibly headed north on the Garden State Parkway near the business, State Police said. Less than a half-hour later, troopers spotted the van about eight miles north, in Hazlet and pulled it over, they said. Huaman, 47, was processed and released pending a court appearance on a receiving stolen proper…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Rutherford Police Chief Welcomes Debut Of Body Cameras Rutherford Police Chief Welcomes Debut Of Body Cameras Rutherford Police Chief Welcomes Debut Of Body Cameras
Rutherford Police Chief Welcomes Debut Of Body Cameras RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Rutherford police this week became the latest North Jersey department to deploy body cameras -- and Chief John Russo was pleased. "It's a great asset," Russo told Daily Voice. "It's going to help us train and see what we're doing out on the street." The state Attorney General's Office picked up nearly a third of the $33,000+ cost of the 20 cameras with grants to local police departments. "We got them a couple of months ago, worked out the kinks in setting it all up and went live [Wednesday]," Russo said. The department has a bank of 10 cam…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgewood Man Loses $4,600 In Summer Rental Scam Ridgewood Man Loses $4,600 In Summer Rental Scam Ridgewood Man Loses $4,600 In Summer Rental Scam
Ridgewood Man Loses $4,600 In Summer Rental Scam RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- A Ridgewood man lost $4,600 in a Craiglist Jersey Shore rental scam, said village police who urged residents to be cautious in their online dealings. After asking about the Beach Haven property on Long Beach Island, the South Maple Avenue resident said he got an email from someone claiming to represent the Brant Beach House Rental Agency, Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke said. The purported representative had him complete a rental agreement by email and deposit 50% of the total cost into a Bank of America account in February, Luthcke said. Five months later, the victim sa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Lyndhurst Warehouse Worker Charged With Sexually Abusing Girl, 13 Lyndhurst Warehouse Worker Charged With Sexually Abusing Girl, 13 Lyndhurst Warehouse Worker Charged With Sexually Abusing Girl, 13
Lyndhurst Warehouse Worker Charged With Sexually Abusing Girl, 13 LYNDHURST, N.J. – Authorities charged a married warehouse worker from Lyndhurst with groping a 13-year-old girl. Angel Argueta-Diaz, 35, was arrested after a joint investigation by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit and Lyndhurst police, Acting Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Thursday. Argueta-Diaz remained held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail pending an Aug. 31 arraignment in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack on charges of aggravated sexual contact and child endangerment.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Passaic Sheriff's Officers Chase Stolen Jeep From Paterson To Hawthorne Passaic Sheriff's Officers Chase Stolen Jeep From Paterson To Hawthorne Passaic Sheriff's Officers Chase Stolen Jeep From Paterson To Hawthorne
Passaic Sheriff's Officers Chase Stolen Jeep From Paterson To Hawthorne PATERSON, N.J. -- A mobile license plate reader alerted Passaic County sheriff's officers to a stolen Jeep whose driver led them on a chase into Hawthorne, authorities said Thursday The reader alerted Officers Eric Blesing and Michael Spadafora to the 2016 Grand Cherokee just before 10 p.m. Wednesday, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. Spadafora tried to pull it over, but the Jeep kept going, running lights, he said. The pursuit ended at Mohawk Avenue and North 8th Street, the sheriff said. The driver, identified as 20-year-old Alex Mejia Abreu, fled but was caught and charged with eluding,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Passaic Sheriff: Manager Sold Drugs From Paterson Auto Shop Passaic Sheriff: Manager Sold Drugs From Paterson Auto Shop Passaic Sheriff: Manager Sold Drugs From Paterson Auto Shop
Passaic Sheriff: Manager Sold Drugs From Paterson Auto Shop PATERSON, N.J. -- A Paterson auto repair manager was selling drugs from his shop before narcotics detectives arrested him and an accused buyer following a deal, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said Thursday. Berdnik's detectives were watching 47-year-old Alejandro Nieves on Monday as he sold 100 small envelopes of heroin to Albert Waring, 50, also of Paterson, outside Pike Motors on Montgomery Street, the sheriff said. They followed Wang, seized the heroin and $7,700 in cash that they said he was carrying and arrested him on various drug-related charges, he said. Nieves and his c…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Paroled James Bond Gang Associate, Alleged Accomplice Back Behind Bars Paroled James Bond Gang Associate, Alleged Accomplice Back Behind Bars Paroled James Bond Gang Associate, Alleged Accomplice Back Behind Bars
Paroled James Bond Gang Associate, Alleged Accomplice Back Behind Bars TEANECK, N.J. – Just months out of prison, a pair of ex-cons -- one with ties to the infamous James Bond Gang -- were arrested by a Bergen County task force in connection with a string of home burglaries throughout the state. Jerry Montgomery, 35, of Hackensack had been out on parole since October after serving nearly three years for burglary when authorities arrested him and 37-year-old Darrius Brown in Teaneck on Tuesday, hours after they burglarized a Middlesex County residence, acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir Grewal said. Brown was released from state prison in December after ser…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Northbound Route 17 Tractor-Trailer Accident In Mahwah Cleared Northbound Route 17 Tractor-Trailer Accident In Mahwah Cleared Northbound Route 17 Tractor-Trailer Accident In Mahwah Cleared
Northbound Route 17 Tractor-Trailer Accident In Mahwah Cleared MAHWAH, N.J. -- A tractor-trailer accident that at first blocked two lanes of northbound Route 17 in Mahwah was quickly cleared Thursday morning.

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