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
Breaking News
Man Accused Of Posing As Brother Busted On Bike In Wallington Man Accused Of Posing As Brother Busted On Bike In Wallington Man Accused Of Posing As Brother Busted On Bike In Wallington
Man Accused Of Posing As Brother Busted On Bike In Wallington WALLINGTON, N.J. -- A career criminal from Carlstadt recently charged with using his brother's identification following a traffic stop was again arrested by Wallington police -- this time as he rode a bicycle outside headquarters. Craig Marotta was wanted on an outstanding warrant out of Garfield when Officer Kasper Zielinski spotted him around 2:30 a.m. July 23, Lt. Shawn Kudlacik said Tuesday. Zielinski had arrested Marotta in May after he tried to pay a batch of traffic tickets using his brother's name because his license was suspended when he was stopped driving a Ford van with a broken…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Prosecutor: Wyckoff Police Chief's Racial Profiling Email Violated Order Prosecutor: Wyckoff Police Chief's Racial Profiling Email Violated Order Prosecutor: Wyckoff Police Chief's Racial Profiling Email Violated Order
Prosecutor: Wyckoff Police Chief's Racial Profiling Email Violated Order WYCKOFF, N.J. – Suspended Wyckoff Police Chief Benjamin Fox “explicitly” violated a state Attorney General directive with an email to his department that appeared to advocate racial profiling, acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Tuesday. ****** UPDATE (Wed., Aug. 3): Calling it an "isolated incident," Wyckoff officials busted former Police Chief Benjamin Fox to patrolman for sending an email to his department that advocated racial profiling. Fox also was suspended for 180 days without pay by the Township Committee following a 90-minute closed-door session Tuesday…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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FBI Seeks Help Finding Clifton Bank Robbery Suspect, $5K Reward Offered FBI Seeks Help Finding Clifton Bank Robbery Suspect, $5K Reward Offered FBI Seeks Help Finding Clifton Bank Robbery Suspect, $5K Reward Offered
FBI Seeks Help Finding Clifton Bank Robbery Suspect, $5K Reward Offered CLIFTON, N.J. -- Have you seen him? The FBI on Tuesday turned to the public for help catching a man who they said robbed a Clifton bank last month and several others over the past six weeks. A reward of up to $5,000 was being offered. Quentin Morales, 25, has a tattoo on his upper left arm, another (with the letter "q") on the same arm, and the words "Margarita" and "Trust No One" on the other arm, federal authorities said. Morales is Hispanic, has green eyes and is about 5-foot-4 to 5-foot-8 and 120 to 180 pounds, they said. Morales "is known to wear a …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Federal Judge: Clifton Man Illegally Operated Ambulance Company Federal Judge: Clifton Man Illegally Operated Ambulance Company Federal Judge: Clifton Man Illegally Operated Ambulance Company
Federal Judge: Clifton Man Illegally Operated Ambulance Company CLIFTON, N.J. – A federal judge on Tuesday convicted a Clifton man of illegally operating an ambulance company after a prior conviction got him banned from participating in federal health care programs. U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton convicted 56-year-old Imadeldin Awad Khair – also known as “Nadr Awad” – of 17 counts of an indictment charged him with health care fraud, obstructing a federal audit, tax evasion and money laundering following a nine-day bench trial in Newark. Khair was excluded from participating in any capacity in Medicare, Medicaid, or other federal health care progr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Clifton Police Charge Girl, 13, With Throwing Rock That Hit Officer In Head Clifton Police Charge Girl, 13, With Throwing Rock That Hit Officer In Head Clifton Police Charge Girl, 13, With Throwing Rock That Hit Officer In Head
Clifton Police Charge Girl, 13, With Throwing Rock That Hit Officer In Head CLIFTON, N.J. -- A 13-year-old Passaic girl threw a rock that hit a Clifton police officer in the head during a June arrest, said detectives who took her into custody. A juvenile delinquency complaint charges the teen with aggravated assault, inciting a riot and weapons offenses, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said Tuesday. Police who responded to a Highland Avenue dispute were trying to arrest a belligerent man on June 25 when someone from the crowd flung the rock, Bracken said. The 19-year-old man had stood on top of a car and refused to cooperate -- aggravating the situation by inciting p…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority Police Rescue Escaped Dog at Newark Airport Port Authority Police Rescue Escaped Dog at Newark Airport Port Authority Police Rescue Escaped Dog at Newark Airport
Port Authority Police Rescue Escaped Dog at Newark Airport Port Authority police rescued an Asia-bound dog who escaped from a Newark Airport terminal and got stuck in a ditch Tuesday morning. The collie, named "Dart," got free from the United Airlines Pet Safe at Terminal C around 8 a.m., the authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. Park Ridge's Frank Calabrese, who was driving his mother to the airport, pulled over his Ford Explorer to try and snag the precocious pooch. "The dog was so damn fast and athletic, it was insane," Calabrese said. "He jumped right through the square markers that divide each post on the gu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
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Heroic Northvale Dog Credited With Saving Owner's Life Heroic Northvale Dog Credited With Saving Owner's Life Heroic Northvale Dog Credited With Saving Owner's Life
Heroic Northvale Dog Credited With Saving Owner's Life NORTHVALE, N.J. -- A Northvale dog owner who suffered a medical emergency and lay unconscious in her home was saved when the precocious pooch smashed a window and barked loudly enough to draw attention, police said. Passerby heard the commotion while walking past the house Friday night and dialed 911, Police Chief William Essmann said. "Our officers observed the broken pane of glass next to the front door with the dog inside the home," Essmann said. "They were unable to make verbal contact with anyone inside the home. "The officers were able to make entry into the home,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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North Arlington Man Jumps To Death From Car On Route 3 In East Rutherford North Arlington Man Jumps To Death From Car On Route 3 In East Rutherford North Arlington Man Jumps To Death From Car On Route 3 In East Rutherford
North Arlington Man Jumps To Death From Car On Route 3 In East Rutherford EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – A North Arlington jumped to his death from a moving vehicle Tuesday morning on westbound Route 3 near MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, authorities said. Jorge J. Torres, 27, committed suicide by jumping from the car just east of the Route 120 turnoff just after 5 a.m., Police Chief Larry Minda said. Minda’s officers tried CPR, but Torres was already dead, he said. No charges were filed against the 24-year-old male driver from North Arlington, Minda said. The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Fatal Accident Investigation Unit, the county sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Ide…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
9 Hospitalized After Gas Leak At Cliffside Park Day Care Center 9 Hospitalized After Gas Leak At Cliffside Park Day Care Center 9 Hospitalized After Gas Leak At Cliffside Park Day Care Center
9 Hospitalized After Gas Leak At Cliffside Park Day Care Center CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. -- Five children and four adults from a Cliffside Park pre-school and day care center were taken to a local hospital as a precaution Monday due to a Freon leak in a faulty air conditioning unit, Police Chief Richard Gaito told Daily Voice. "They were working on the unit earlier this morning [at the Apple Montessori School on Gorge Road], and now the oxygen levels are low," Gaito said around 6 p.m. "We got everyone out of the building," he said. The nine were taken to Palisades Medical Center "just as a precaution," the chief said. The scho…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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NJ Supreme Court Eases Way For Police To Get Cellphone Records NJ Supreme Court Eases Way For Police To Get Cellphone Records NJ Supreme Court Eases Way For Police To Get Cellphone Records
NJ Supreme Court Eases Way For Police To Get Cellphone Records New Jersey is "more in line with federal law and the vast majority of state jurisdictions" following the state Supreme Court's decision to ease the way for authorities to get phone records in criminal investigations, Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino said. “This is an important win for law enforcement and public safety across New Jersey,” Porrino said of the 4-2 ruling. Instead of having to show probably cause to obtain a warrant -- which had been the New Jersey standard for nearly 35 years -- police must only convince a judge that phone records are important to an investiga…

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