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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Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Bronx Man Brought Heroin For Sale To Paramus, Bergen Detectives Charge Bronx Man Brought Heroin For Sale To Paramus, Bergen Detectives Charge Bronx Man Brought Heroin For Sale To Paramus, Bergen Detectives Charge
Bronx Man Brought Heroin For Sale To Paramus, Bergen Detectives Charge PARAMUS, N.J. -- Detectives said they grabbed a 28-year-old Bronx man as he headed to an undercover sale in Paramus carrying nearly six ounces of heroin. Jonathan Cordero-Cano was being held on $50,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail pending a July 6 arraignment on drug possession charges in Central Municipal Court in Hackensack. An undercover detective with the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Narcotic Task Force arranged the sale that led to Wednesday's arrest, Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said.

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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Woman, 28, Latest Suicide Off GWB, Port Authority Police Say Woman, 28, Latest Suicide Off GWB, Port Authority Police Say Woman, 28, Latest Suicide Off GWB, Port Authority Police Say
Woman, 28, Latest Suicide Off GWB, Port Authority Police Say FORT LEE, N.J. -- Port Authority police on Tuesday identified a George Washington Bridge suicide victim as a 28-year-old Orthodox woman from Brooklyn. A motorist reported seeing Rebecca S. Wasserstrum go over the railing of the southside walkway around 4:15 p.m. Sunday, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo said. The driver said he got out of his car, looked over the railing and saw her body in the water, he said. The NYPD Harbor Unit retrieved it. Wasserstrum's car was found at 178th Street and Broadway, two blocks from the bridge. Hers was the 7th suicide from the bridge in 2016, Pentangelo…

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Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Surveillance Photo Leads To Arrest In Garfield Store Robberies Surveillance Photo Leads To Arrest In Garfield Store Robberies Surveillance Photo Leads To Arrest In Garfield Store Robberies
Surveillance Photo Leads To Arrest In Garfield Store Robberies GARFIELD, N.J. -- Garfield police arrested a Newark man who they said robbed a convenience store in early June after holding up a tavern around the corner a week earlier. Detectives investigating the June 7 robbery of $2,500 from the Corner Store on Jewell Street by a man who threatened to have a gun discovred a similar holdup of $1,500 from Bogie's Bar and Liquor Store on May 30, Lt. Richard Uram said Tuesday. The release of a surveillance photo produced tips that led to an arrest warrant for 33-year-old Matthew A. Garcia, who Uram said turned himself in at plice headquarters on Monday. G…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah Route 287 Crash Victims Were Bosco Graduate Athletes Mahwah Route 287 Crash Victims Were Bosco Graduate Athletes Mahwah Route 287 Crash Victims Were Bosco Graduate Athletes
Mahwah Route 287 Crash Victims Were Bosco Graduate Athletes MAHWAH, N.J. -- Shock waves continued to spread Monday afternoon with word that two 19-year-old men killed in an overnight crash on Route 287 in Mahwah were former Don Bosco Prep graduate athletes. CLICK HERE for funeral arrangements for Sam Cali and Leo Vagias. Sam Cali, who was attending Rutgers University, was a standout wrestler at the Ramsey high school. Cali went 89-28 career, winning two district championships and placing third at the NJSIAA State Championships at 132 pounds as a senior, Everpiedia reports. He also had a 3.5 GPA at Bosco and was an honors student, the site reports (…

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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Former Midland Park Doggie Day Care Worker Gets 5 Years For Child Porn Former Midland Park Doggie Day Care Worker Gets 5 Years For Child Porn Former Midland Park Doggie Day Care Worker Gets 5 Years For Child Porn
Former Midland Park Doggie Day Care Worker Gets 5 Years For Child Porn WEST MILFORD, N.J. -- A West Milford man who worked for a Midland Park dog daycare and boarding facility was sentenced to five years in federal prison MOnday for trafficking child pornography. Thomas Bachalis, 32, pleaded guilty in March to receiving the images through a peer-to-peer online file sharing network. U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman credited special agents of the FBI, the Passaic County Sheriff’s Office and the West Milford Police Department for the arrest and investigation. Detectives from the sheriff's Internet Crime Task Force arrested Bachalis at his La Rue Road home, assisted…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Both Victims Ejected In Fatal Crash Into Trees Off Route 287 In Mahwah Both Victims Ejected In Fatal Crash Into Trees Off Route 287 In Mahwah Both Victims Ejected In Fatal Crash Into Trees Off Route 287 In Mahwah
Both Victims Ejected In Fatal Crash Into Trees Off Route 287 In Mahwah UDPATE: Shock waves continued to spread Monday afternoon with word that two men killed in an overnight crash on Route 287 in Mahwah were former Don Bosco Prep graduate athletes. READ MORE ....MAHWAH, N.J. -- A Lexus barreled off Route 287 in Mahwah in the middle of the night, hitting several trees, overturning and killing its two occupants, authorities told Daily Voice. Both men were ejected from the car, New Jersey State Police said. One of them ended up pinned beneath the vehicle, a witness told Daily Voice. DOT workers found the vehicle Monday morning about 15-20 yards off the highway a…

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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Fort Lee Vehicle Clash Leaves Two Stabbed, One Charged Fort Lee Vehicle Clash Leaves Two Stabbed, One Charged Fort Lee Vehicle Clash Leaves Two Stabbed, One Charged
Fort Lee Vehicle Clash Leaves Two Stabbed, One Charged FORT LEE, N.J. -- An argument among a trio of car occupants ended when one of them injured the others with an X-Acto knife, Fort Lee police said. Brian Guerrero, 23, of Paramus was released on a summonses after being charged with aggravated assault and weapons possession Sunday night, Sgt. Cory Horton. Guerrero attacked both the knife, which was in his silver Volkswagen Golf, while they were traveling near Palisades Boulevard and 16th Street around 2 p.m. Sunday, Horton said. Both victims got out and walked to police headquarters while Guerrero drove off, he said. One victim had a cut on…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
One dead, one injured in Park Ridge pedestrian crash One dead, one injured in Park Ridge pedestrian crash One dead, one injured in Park Ridge pedestrian crash
One dead, one injured in Park Ridge pedestrian crash PARK RIDGE, N.J. -- One pedestrian was killed and another injured in Park Ridge late Sunday, police confirmed. The Bergen County Prosecutor's Office Fatal Accident Investigations Unit was summoned after the Park Avenue crash near Borough Hall around 8 p.m., Capt. Joseph Rampolla said. TriBoro Ambulance was among the responders. Hillsdale and Westwood police were among those who cleared the intersections for the ambulance on its way to HackensackUMC at Pascack Valley. The driver refused medical attention. Park Avenue was closed for the subsequent investigation. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAI…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Fort Lee Acupuncturist From Englewood Cliffs Charged With Fondling Patient Fort Lee Acupuncturist From Englewood Cliffs Charged With Fondling Patient Fort Lee Acupuncturist From Englewood Cliffs Charged With Fondling Patient
Fort Lee Acupuncturist From Englewood Cliffs Charged With Fondling Patient FORT LEE, N.J. -- An unlicensed 70-year-old Fort Lee acupuncturist from Englewood Cliffs fondled a female patient, said authorities who arrested him. Myung Ho Lee was ordered held on $10,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with criminal sexual contact and unlicensed practice of acupuncture. The woman told Fort Lee police in early May that the married Lee "inappropriately touched" her during a treatment, acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Saturday. They and members of Grewal's Special Victims Unit investigated, then raided Lee's Fort Lee Acupuncture and …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Obituaries
Bergen Dispatch's Paul Nichols Of Hackensack Dies At 49 Bergen Dispatch's Paul Nichols Of Hackensack Dies At 49 Bergen Dispatch's Paul Nichols Of Hackensack Dies At 49
Bergen Dispatch's Paul Nichols Of Hackensack Dies At 49 HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Services were scheduled Monday for Paul Nichols, a U.S. Army veteran, publisher of the Bergen Dispatch and tireless homeless advocate who died suddenly on Thursday in Hackensack. He was 49. Nichols's final story on Wednesday was about two Lyndhurst police officers who were cleared by a grand jury in Hackensack in the shooting death of a man who authorities said charged at them with a knife. Around 3 a.m. Thursday, police on patrol found Nichols' body next to his white Dodge caravan with the door open. He'd died of an aortic dissection, family members said. Nichols was …

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