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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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah Police: Rockland Man Sold Heroin Near Kids Mahwah Police: Rockland Man Sold Heroin Near Kids Mahwah Police: Rockland Man Sold Heroin Near Kids
Mahwah Police: Rockland Man Sold Heroin Near Kids MAHWAH, N.J. -- Mahwah police, tipped off by neighbors, arrested a Rockland County man who they said was selling heroin in a school zone near a store frequented by families and young children. Detectives Michael Grassi and Eric Larsen on a stakeout moved in Friday afternoon after seeing Benjamin Smalls III, 31, of Valley Cottage sell to several people on Wanamaker Avenue, Police Chief James Batelli told Daily Voice. While they grabbed the suspected buyers -- who were carrying 15 folds of heroin -- Detective Lt. Guido Bussinelli and Detective Sgt. Kevin Hebert seized Small, the chief said. …

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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority PD: GWB Driver Ducks $3,000 In Tolls With Rental Car E-ZPass Port Authority PD: GWB Driver Ducks $3,000 In Tolls With Rental Car E-ZPass Port Authority PD: GWB Driver Ducks $3,000 In Tolls With Rental Car E-ZPass
Port Authority PD: GWB Driver Ducks $3,000 In Tolls With Rental Car E-zpass FORT LEE, N.J. -- Port Authority police nabbed an accused deadbeat driver from Manhattan who they said amassed nearly $3,000 in unpaid George Washington Bridge tolls using an E-ZPass transponder stolen from a rental car. Officers pulled over a 2014 Nissan driven by 27-year-old Kamal M. Alzanam on the bridge's upper-level toll plaza Sunday morning because it had a bogus license plate on the back and none in front, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. Alzanam gave them a fake name and the transponder, which was reported stolen in December 2015, he said. It has "incurred …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Eat At Bergen Blue Moon Cafes To Benefit Law Enforcement Torch Run Eat At Bergen Blue Moon Cafes To Benefit Law Enforcement Torch Run Eat At Bergen Blue Moon Cafes To Benefit Law Enforcement Torch Run
Eat At Bergen Blue Moon Cafes To Benefit Law Enforcement Torch Run Patrons at four Blue Moon Mexican restaurants can have 20% of their meal donated to the Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics NJ on Tuesday and Wednesday. You can also go to BlueMoonMexicanCafe.com before the end of the day Monday and obtain gift cards that will also donate 20%. Blue Moon has cafes in Englewood, Norwood, Woodcliff Lake and Wyckoff. The Law Enforcement Torch Run sets off from 26 different locations throughout New Jersey early Friday -- some as early as 5:30 a.m. and most beginning at 7 a.m. The run will finish with the lighting of the Special Olympics Summer Game…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgefield Park Police Corner Accused Burglar Ridgefield Park Police Corner Accused Burglar Ridgefield Park Police Corner Accused Burglar
Ridgefield Park Police Corner Accused Burglar RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J. -- A Ridgefield Park police officer cut off an accused burglar carrying a baseball bat and a bottle of booze during a brief chase that ended in a courtyard behind an apartment complex. Officer Brian Lyons took Bruce Knapp Jr., 27, of the village into custody Saturday on Teaneck Road, Lt. Joseph Rella said Monday morning. Knapp had just committed a burglary at RP Liquor & Deli down the street, Rella said. He was being held on $25,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with burglary, resisting arrest, weapons possession, theft, trespassing, criminal mischief a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Police Stop PATH Station Sex Assault, Charge Hackensack Man Police Stop PATH Station Sex Assault, Charge Hackensack Man Police Stop PATH Station Sex Assault, Charge Hackensack Man
Police Stop PATH Station Sex Assault, Charge Hackensack Man HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Port Authority police stopped a Hackensack man who was sexually assaulting a woman at a downtown Manhattan PATH station before dawn Sunday, authorities said. A guard at the PATH Security Operations Center (SOC) saw what was happening on the Christopher Street station platform via a surveillance camera around 4:45 a.m. and warned Andres Rodriguez, 33, of Prospect Avenue to stop, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. Port Authority officers came running and grabbed him, Pentangelo said. The 31-year-old female was taken to a local hospital and was later relea…

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Moonachie Police Arrest Pair In Shoplifting-Turned-Knifepoint-Robbery Moonachie Police Arrest Pair In Shoplifting-Turned-Knifepoint-Robbery Moonachie Police Arrest Pair In Shoplifting-Turned-Knifepoint-Robbery
Moonachie Police Arrest Pair In Shoplifting-Turned-Knifepoint-Robbery MOONACHIE, N.J. -- One of two shoplifters trying to bolt the Teterboro Costco with a television pulled a knife on a security guard who tried to stop them, said Moonachie police who arrested both. Tuan Vo and Nicole Ripoli escaped through an emergency fire door and fled using a hired car service after Thursday's shoplifting-turned-robbery, Detective Sgt. Anthony Fugnitti told Daily Voice. Security got the license plate number and gave it to police, Fugnitti said. Detectives then tracked the Little Ferry couple down, he said. Vo remained held on $150,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, char…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Two OK After Small Plane Crash-Lands At Fairfield's Essex Airport Two OK After Small Plane Crash-Lands At Fairfield's Essex Airport Two OK After Small Plane Crash-Lands At Fairfield's Essex Airport
Two OK After Small Plane Crash-Lands At Fairfield's Essex Airport Two occupants refused medical treatment after a small plane crashed on landing Sunday morning on the far runway at Essex County Airport in Fairfield, responders said. The airport was temporarily shut down while emergency units checked the area for any downed wires or other damage. Local police and federal officials were investigating.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Old Tappan Police Bike Rodeo Delights Youngsters Old Tappan Police Bike Rodeo Delights Youngsters Old Tappan Police Bike Rodeo Delights Youngsters
Old Tappan Police Bike Rodeo Delights Youngsters OLD TAPPAN, N.J. -- Children of all ages learned about bicycle safety and gained confidence executing different maneuvers during a bike rodeo held Saturday by Old Tappan police. The youngsters rode their bikes through five obstacles requiring different skills between the T. Baldwin Demarest Elementary School and Charles DeWolf Middle School. One boy "needed the confidence to do it on his own -- and by the end of the rodeo he was," Officer Katie Weaver said. "We also had several kids who just had their training wheels taken off their bikes within the last week flourish and ta…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood Detectives Investigate Gunshot Incidents Englewood Detectives Investigate Gunshot Incidents Englewood Detectives Investigate Gunshot Incidents
Englewood Detectives Investigate Gunshot Incidents ENGLWOOD, N.J. -- Englewood detectives were trying to determine whether two gunshot incidents late Thursday and overnight Saturday were related. No one was believed struck in either, authorities said. The first occurred around 11:30 p.m. Thursday outside a multi-family building in the 100 block of Lafayette Place, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell said. The second occurred around 3:35 a.m. Saturday outside a residence on West Palisade Avenue near the Mattlage Place and Cleveland Street intersections, he said. Shell casings and slugs were recovered from the surrounding streets and the façade …

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Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Friend: Teen In Crash That Killed Wallington Firefighter Needs To Think Friend: Teen In Crash That Killed Wallington Firefighter Needs To Think Friend: Teen In Crash That Killed Wallington Firefighter Needs To Think
Friend: Teen In Crash That Killed Wallington Firefighter Needs To Think WALLINGTON, N.J. -- A Facebook post by a Woodcliff Lake teenager who police said was drunk when his van was involved in a motorcycle crash on the Garden State Parkway that killed a Wallington firefighter last weekend stirred intense, painful emotions among many. One of them, Joanne Eckert, put those feelings into words in a post of her own: "Young man, you have much to think about. A day or two ago, I read yet another article about the ongoing investigation around the accident you caused last weekend. The accident that took the life of Wallington firefighter, Frank Stetz. "You w…

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