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
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Stop & Shop Helps Hackensack-Based Bergen Obesity Prevention Program Stop & Shop Helps Hackensack-Based Bergen Obesity Prevention Program Stop & Shop Helps Hackensack-Based Bergen Obesity Prevention Program
Stop & Shop Helps Hackensack-Based Bergen Obesity Prevention Program HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Stop & Shop has donated 150 gift cards to help the Bergen Volunteer Medical Initiative with its new obesity-prevention program, BVMI officials said. With nearly half of the agency's patients are overweight or obese -- compared to about 70% of U.S. adults -- the initiative hopes its "Paso a Paso" program will encourage their to lose weight through consistent care, healthy eating, and regular exercise. “Fruits and vegetables can be expensive, but they’re an important part of a healthy diet,” said Dr. Art DeSimone, BVMI’s medical director.”We are very gratefu…

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Paramus, NJ
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Cops Like Us: Paramus National Night Out Features Springsteen Tribute Band Cops Like Us: Paramus National Night Out Features Springsteen Tribute Band Cops Like Us: Paramus National Night Out Features Springsteen Tribute Band
Cops Like Us: Paramus National Night Out Features Springsteen Tribute Band PARAMUS, N.J. -- Paramus police will be among the emergency responders participating Tuesday in the popular National Night Out at the public library on Century Road -- followed by a free concert by a Bruce Springsteen tribute band. There will be police cars, fire and rescue trucks -- along with a helicopter landing, ball throw, bounce houses, hot dogs, sodas and snacks -- and more. The police-sponsored event runs from 5 to 7 p.m., followed by a free performance by the band Tramps Like Us. Parking is available across the street at Paramus High School. Transportation will be available from …

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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'Oliver!': Fair Lawn Cast, Crew Consider Themselves Part Of Community 'Oliver!': Fair Lawn Cast, Crew Consider Themselves Part Of Community 'Oliver!': Fair Lawn Cast, Crew Consider Themselves Part Of Community
'Oliver!': Fair Lawn Cast, Crew Consider Themselves Part Of Community FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- The cast and crew at Fair Lawn's Old Library Theatre want their production of "Oliver!" to be more than a feast for the eyes and food for the soul: They've been collecting "Food, Glorious Food" donations for The Center for Food Action in Hackensack during their shows. Anyone who contributes at the donation station located in the lobby for each of the remaining three performances at the George Frey Center for Arts and Recreation (10-10 20th St.) will receive a coupon for a free refreshment. Shows times are 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Aug. 5 and 6, and 2…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
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Haworth Scouts Collect Clothes, Toys, Bikes For Needy Youngsters Haworth Scouts Collect Clothes, Toys, Bikes For Needy Youngsters Haworth Scouts Collect Clothes, Toys, Bikes For Needy Youngsters
Haworth Scouts Collect Clothes, Toys, Bikes For Needy Youngsters HAWORTH, N.J. -- Haworth Boy Scout Troop 73 is having its biannual clothing, toy and bike drive on Saturday, Aug. 6. The troop will be collecting all types of clothing (please pack in plastic bags with shoes separately), as well as a variety of other items, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Terrace St. parking lot. Along with clothing, shoes and bicycles, they're hoping to get: Stuffed animals / soft toys – any size; Hard toys, such as minifigures; All kinds of dolls, blocks, loose Legos, small cars, beach toys, dolls strollers, Play Dough sets, etc. "We mean all toys around house [that]…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Ex-Officer ID'd In Wife's Death, Turnpike Chase To Ridgefield Park Ex-Officer ID'd In Wife's Death, Turnpike Chase To Ridgefield Park Ex-Officer ID'd In Wife's Death, Turnpike Chase To Ridgefield Park
Ex-Officer ID'd In Wife's Death, Turnpike Chase To Ridgefield Park RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J. (UPDATE): State Police on Sunday confirmed that they found a retired police office from Rhode Island with a self-inflicted gunshot wound -- and his slain wife in the trunk of his car -- after a brief chase and crash Saturday night on the northbound New Jersey Turnpike in Ridgefield Park. Franklin Osgood, 61, was pronounced dead at Hackensack University Medical Center just after 11:30 p.m., about two hours after the crash, the NJSP said in a release. Authorities in Rhode Island said Osgood left the Providence force in 2007 and began receiving accidental disability payme…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Wayne Police Seek Hit-Run Driver Who Hospitalized Totowa Pedestrian Wayne Police Seek Hit-Run Driver Who Hospitalized Totowa Pedestrian Wayne Police Seek Hit-Run Driver Who Hospitalized Totowa Pedestrian
Wayne Police Seek Hit-Run Driver Who Hospitalized Totowa Pedestrian WAYNE, N.J. -- Wayne police are hoping the public can help find the driver of a car that struck a pedestrian before dawn Saturday, leaving him hospitalized in critical but stable condition. Mirko Oldja, 36, of Totowa, sustained serious head injuries after he was struck just before 4:30 a.m. in the 300 block of Parish Drive, Sfc. Peter Pohludka said. Wayne First Aid Squad members and paramedics from St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center treated Oldja at the scene before he was taken to St. Joe's, Pohludka said. Anyone who may have witnessed this crash or has information that could help find …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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Wood-Ridge High School Teacher Charged With Sexually Assaulting Student Wood-Ridge High School Teacher Charged With Sexually Assaulting Student Wood-Ridge High School Teacher Charged With Sexually Assaulting Student
Wood-Ridge High School Teacher Charged With Sexually Assaulting Student EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- A Wood-Ridge High School math teacher from East Rutherford had sex with a student from when she was 13 until she was 16, authorities said Friday. A judge ordered Gary Minervini, 37, held on $300,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with aggravated sexual assault and sexual assault. He's due for a first appearance Aug. 10 in Central Municipal Court in Hackensack. The Bergen County prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit and East Rutherford police investigated, acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. Minervini was graduated from Becton Regional High S…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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PHOTOS: Families Relocated From Leonia Building In Danger Of Collapse PHOTOS: Families Relocated From Leonia Building In Danger Of Collapse PHOTOS: Families Relocated From Leonia Building In Danger Of Collapse
Photos: Families Relocated From Leonia Building In Danger Of Collapse LEONIA, N.J. -- Nine families were relocated Saturday after a rear brick wall of a Leonia condo development bowed about six inches. "This has been going on for some time," Mayor Judah Zeigler told Daily Voice. "The condo association got a report a couple of weeks ago saying remediation was immediately required." "They were in the process of getting bids for the work" when police got a call this morning of the conditions at the building off the corner of Grand Avenue and Christie Heights Street, the mayor said. Firefighters responded with police and the borough…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Virginia Man Who Forced Bergen Youth To Send Him Sex Photos Gets 4 Years Virginia Man Who Forced Bergen Youth To Send Him Sex Photos Gets 4 Years Virginia Man Who Forced Bergen Youth To Send Him Sex Photos Gets 4 Years
Virginia Man Who Forced Bergen Youth To Send Him Sex Photos Gets 4 Years A judge in Hackensack sentenced a Virginia man who admitted forcing a 13-year-old Bergen County girl to send him sexually explicit images to four years in state custody -- nearly 3½ of which he must serve before becoming eligible for parole. Brian Pettenger, 46, who was married and unemployed at the time, was arrested at his Riner, VA home last August during a search there by detectives from the Virginia State Police and the Bergen County Prosecutor's Computer Crimes Unit. Pettenger contacted the youngster on social media pretending to be another teen, authorities said at the time. The pair…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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AG: State Troopers Shoot Shotgun-Toting Resident AG: State Troopers Shoot Shotgun-Toting Resident AG: State Troopers Shoot Shotgun-Toting Resident
AG: State Troopers Shoot Shotgun-Toting Resident UPDATE (12:30 p.m.): New Jersey State Police troopers exchanged gunfire with a 76-year-old South Jersey man while responding to a hangup 911 call, sending him to the hospital, authorities said Saturday. The hangup cellphone call brought police to the rural neighborhood around 11:30 p.m., Attorney General Christopher Porrino said. "An attempt was made to trace the cell phone so that officers could check on the well-being of the caller," he said, adding that "the call appeared to have been placed from the address where the shooting occurred in the 300 block of Centerton Road in…

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