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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Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Highly Respected Upper Saddle River Sergeant Retires Highly Respected Upper Saddle River Sergeant Retires Highly Respected Upper Saddle River Sergeant Retires
Highly Respected Upper Saddle River Sergeant Retires UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J. -- A career police officer and U.S. Air Force reservist who improved the Upper Saddle River department's radio system and emergency medical training has retired after 25 years. Enhancement in those areas by Sgt. Emmett McDowell "have helped to save many lives and keep our officers safe while in the field," Police Chief Patrick Rotella said Friday. McDowell, who was hired in 1991 and promoted to sergeant in 2007, was known as "a highly productive and proactive officer who was involved in many notable arrests," Rotella said. "These arrests wou…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Coke, Pot, More Found In Fairview Home Of Accused Drug Dealer Prosecutor: Coke, Pot, More Found In Fairview Home Of Accused Drug Dealer Prosecutor: Coke, Pot, More Found In Fairview Home Of Accused Drug Dealer
Prosecutor: Coke, Pot, More Found In Fairview Home Of Accused Drug Dealer FAIRVIEW, N.J. – Detectives found a pound of pot, 3½ ounces of cocaine and anabolic steroids, among other contraband, during the raid of an accused drug dealer’s Fairview apartment, authorities said Friday. Nearly $6,500 in alleged proceeds was seized during Wednesday’s arrest of Vittorio “Victor” Rizzo, 36, on various drugs charges at his Kamena Street home, acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. The raid followed by a joint investigation of the prosecutor’s Narcotic Task Force and police from Fairview and Cliffside Park, he said. Rizzo was released on $10,000 bail pendin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
National Group Names Passaic Prosecutor Valdes 'Latina Attorney Of Year' National Group Names Passaic Prosecutor Valdes 'Latina Attorney Of Year' National Group Names Passaic Prosecutor Valdes 'Latina Attorney Of Year'
National Group Names Passaic Prosecutor Valdes 'Latina Attorney Of Year' PATERSON, N.J. -- Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes will receive a "Latina Attorney of the Year" award from the Hispanic National Bar Association at its annual convention in Chicago next month. This year's convention, from Sept. 7-10, "promises to be the largest gathering of Latino lawyers, judges, law students, and legal professionals from throughout the United States," the HNBA said. The Bronx-born and Newark-raised Valdes became New Jersey's first Latina county prosecutor in 2009 -- and the first lead prosecutor of Dominican ancestry in the United States --…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Have You Seen Them? Ramsey Police Hope Sketches Help Solve Street Robberies Have You Seen Them? Ramsey Police Hope Sketches Help Solve Street Robberies Have You Seen Them? Ramsey Police Hope Sketches Help Solve Street Robberies
Have You Seen Them? Ramsey Police Hope Sketches Help Solve Street Robberies RAMSEY, N.J. -- Ramsey police on Friday issued two sketches that they hope will help crack a pair of street robberies. The first was on July 25, just before midnight, when a pedestrian was strong-armed by two robbers -- one white, the other black -- on North Island Avenue and Washington Drive. The victim described the black bandit (sketch, above left) as 5-foot-8, about 160 pounds, with a thin build. The white one was described as 5-foot-8 to 5-foot-10, 160 to 170 pounds and slenderly built. The second holdup, around the same time on Aug. 2 involved two black men, one of whom had a gun, th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson Man Convicted Of Kidnapping, Sexually Abusing Woman In Empty House Paterson Man Convicted Of Kidnapping, Sexually Abusing Woman In Empty House Paterson Man Convicted Of Kidnapping, Sexually Abusing Woman In Empty House
Paterson Man Convicted Of Kidnapping, Sexually Abusing Woman In Empty House PATERSON, N.J. -- Jurors in Paterson convicted a city man of kidnapping and repeatedly sexually assaulting a woman in an abandoned house with help from another man. Juan Cruz-Pena, 31, was found guilty Thursday of kidnapping, aggravated criminal sexual contact and aggravated assault. Cruz-Pena kept the 35-year-old city woman confined on the porch of the abandoned Van Houten Avenue home for hours on May 22, 2014, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes said Friday. His co-defendant, Daniel Ortiz, 33, of Passaic, will be tried at a later date, Valdes said. A judge set sentencing for Cruz-P…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
NJ Prosecutor's Challenge: Can You Tell Real Gun From Fake? NJ Prosecutor's Challenge: Can You Tell Real Gun From Fake? NJ Prosecutor's Challenge: Can You Tell Real Gun From Fake?
NJ Prosecutor's Challenge: Can You Tell Real Gun From Fake? The danger of police-involved shootings involving suspects carrying fake guns prompted one New Jersey prosecutor to issue a challenge Friday: Can YOU tell the difference? UPDATE (Monday, Aug. 8): Half of the people who took a quiz posted by a New Jersey prosecutor couldn't tell the difference between a real gun and a fake one. How did YOU do? https://hackensack.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/half-fail-nj-prosecutors-fake-or-real-gun-test/676194/ "You’re a police officer on patrol by yourself. It’s just after midnight when you receive a call of a suspicious individual in poorly lit local p…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Your Community
Win Big: Take Home A Pet From St. Rocco's Feast In Fort Lee (PHOTOS) Win Big: Take Home A Pet From St. Rocco's Feast In Fort Lee (PHOTOS) Win Big: Take Home A Pet From St. Rocco's Feast In Fort Lee (PHOTOS)
Win Big: Take Home A Pet From St. Rocco's Feast In Fort Lee (Photos) FORT LEE, N.J. -- Visitors to the St. Rocco's Feast in Fort Lee this weekend can go home with more than plushed toys and zeppole-powdered fingers: Dog and cats are being offered for adoption at Firehouse No. 1 by the Bergen County Protect & Rescue Foundation, based in neighboring Cliffside Park. "There are plenty of cuties who need good homes," said EMT Werner Ennesser from Fort Lee. Ennesser and girlfriend Jacqueline N. Calkins took home one of their own -- an 8-week-old coon hound named Scrappy. "Poor thing was so tired from the fair that he couldn't keep his eyes op…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen Prosecutor: Hackensack Police Officer Justified In Fatal Shooting Bergen Prosecutor: Hackensack Police Officer Justified In Fatal Shooting Bergen Prosecutor: Hackensack Police Officer Justified In Fatal Shooting
Bergen Prosecutor: Hackensack Police Officer Justified In Fatal Shooting HACKENSACK, N.J. – The shooting death of a knife-wielding man by a Hackensack police officer was legally justified and didn’t require a grand jury review, acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Thursday night. Minutes after announcing that a grand jury cleared two other city officers in the May 2015 shooting death of an ex-con who charged at them with a meat cleaver, Grewal said there “were no material fact in dispute” in the shooting death of 22-year-old Raymond Peralta-Lantigua a month later. The state Attorney General’s Office “agreed that it was not necessary to present t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack Officers Cleared In Shooting Of Ex-Con Wielding Meat Cleaver Hackensack Officers Cleared In Shooting Of Ex-Con Wielding Meat Cleaver Hackensack Officers Cleared In Shooting Of Ex-Con Wielding Meat Cleaver
Hackensack Officers Cleared In Shooting Of Ex-Con Wielding Meat Cleaver HACKENSACK, N.J. – A grand jury in Hackensack cleared two city police officers in the shooting death of an ex-con with a lengthy criminal history who charged at them with a large knife, threatening to kill him, acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal announced Thursday evening. ****** ALSO SEE: The shooting death of a knife-wielding man by a Hackensack police officer was legally justified and didn’t require a grand jury review, acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Thursday night.****** Elvin Jesus Diaz, 24, was pronounced dead at Hackensack University Medical Cent…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: NJSP Says Plan Other Routes After Route 287 Truck Fire In Oakland VIDEO: NJSP Says Plan Other Routes After Route 287 Truck Fire In Oakland VIDEO: NJSP Says Plan Other Routes After Route 287 Truck Fire In Oakland
Video: Njsp Says Plan Other Routes After Route 287 Truck Fire In Oakland MAHWAH, N.J. -- A massive tractor-trailer fire closed southbound Route 287 in Oakland just before 4 p.m. Thursday. "Truck driver is safely out of the cab and fortunately no one was injured," New Jersey State Police said in a statement. However, "traffic is currently being diverted off exit 58 [in Oakland]," they said just before 5 p.m. "Expect extended delays and plan alternate routes. Passersby posted videos and photos said as the tractor pulling the Target trailer leaked fuel onto the highway. Motorists and nearby residents reported hearing explosions. Several …

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