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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Ridgewood, NJ
Weather
Four Major Atlantic Hurricanes Possible, Officials Say Four Major Atlantic Hurricanes Possible, Officials Say Four Major Atlantic Hurricanes Possible, Officials Say
Four Major Atlantic Hurricanes Possible, Officials Say As many as four major hurricanes could form over the Atlantic over the next six months, in what could nonetheless mark the end of a high-activity period that began more than 20 years ago, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Friday. The 2016 Atlantic hurricane season, from June 1 through Nov. 30, "will most likely be near-normal," NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center reported. But that could change. “It’s difficult to determine whether there will be reinforcing or competing climate influences on tropical storm development,” said Gerry Bell, the prediction cen…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Cabbie Stopped In Cliffside Park Had 2½ Pounds Of Cocaine Prosecutor: Cabbie Stopped In Cliffside Park Had 2½ Pounds Of Cocaine Prosecutor: Cabbie Stopped In Cliffside Park Had 2½ Pounds Of Cocaine
Prosecutor: Cabbie Stopped In Cliffside Park Had 2½ Pounds Of Cocaine CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. -- Detectives seized 2½ pounds of cocaine from a North Bergen cab driver stopped by in Cliffside Park, authorities said. Elvis A. Nunez-Jerez, 30, was being held on $150,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail on charges of having the drug with the intent to sell it. Narcotic Task Force members and Cliffside Park police stopped Nunez-Jerez's car on Monday and found a kilogram of cocaine, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Friday afternoon. Later that day, they found nearly 1½ ounces and $10,700 in cash at his Cottage Avenue home, the prosecutor said. The…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Buckle Up In Back, Bergen Police Warn In Memorial Weekend Crackdown Buckle Up In Back, Bergen Police Warn In Memorial Weekend Crackdown Buckle Up In Back, Bergen Police Warn In Memorial Weekend Crackdown
Buckle Up In Back, Bergen Police Warn In Memorial Weekend Crackdown Police and sheriff's officers throughout Bergen and Passaic counties ramped up this year's national "Click It or Ticket" crackdown heading into the Memorial Day weekend. The campaign, which runs through June 5, combines seat belt checkpoints and saturation patrols with increased publicity, to reiterate the life-saving value of seat belts. "Using a seat belt is the simplest way for a driver and his or her passengers to protect themselves when traveling,” said Gary Poedubicky, acting director of the New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety. An estimated 21,000 people in t…

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Fort Lee, NJ
Your Community
Fort Lee's 'Rosie The Riveter' Leads Borough Memorial Day Parade Fort Lee's 'Rosie The Riveter' Leads Borough Memorial Day Parade Fort Lee's 'Rosie The Riveter' Leads Borough Memorial Day Parade
Fort Lee's 'Rosie The Riveter' Leads Borough Memorial Day Parade FORT LEE, N.J. -- Fort Lee's own version of the World War II-era fictional Rosie the Riveter character will be co-grand marshal of Monday's Memorial Day parade. Borough native Maureen Ford -- who was featured in the 1980 documentary "The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter" -- was one of more than 6 million women who took up tools during World War II. Then Maureen Walsh, she worked in a World War II defense plant in Hudson County. The full involvement of the United States in WWII after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941 depleted the male work force -- at a time …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Your Community
Edgewater Mayor Rails Against 'Pathetic' Media Goose Gassing Coverage Edgewater Mayor Rails Against 'Pathetic' Media Goose Gassing Coverage Edgewater Mayor Rails Against 'Pathetic' Media Goose Gassing Coverage
Edgewater Mayor Rails Against 'Pathetic' Media Goose Gassing Coverage EDGEWATER, N.J. -- Edgewater Mayor Michael McPartland on Friday called media coverage of protests against the borough's gassing of Canada geese "pathetic." Daily Voice phoned McPartland after a representative of the Animal Protection League of New Jersey brought a letter to Borough Hall offering to buy out Edgewater's geese population-control contract with the federal government. "I have no interest and no comment," the mayor said. "I'm in the middle of something right now. I'm not interested. "I've been through this all week," McPartland added. "Yo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Prevent Barbecue Disasters By Knowing Grill Safety Prevent Barbecue Disasters By Knowing Grill Safety Prevent Barbecue Disasters By Knowing Grill Safety
Prevent Barbecue Disasters By Knowing Grill Safety More tasty meals on the grill beginning this Memorial Day weekend also brings an increased risk of home fires, says the National Fire Protection Association -- which released a video with some safety tips. "Each year an average of 8,900 home fires are caused by grilling, and close to half of all injuries involving grills are due to thermal burns," the NFPA says. In 2014, 16,600 patients went to emergency rooms because of injuries involving grills, the association says. ESPN's Hannah Storm was badly burned while making dinner for her children at their Greenwich, CT home in 2012. W…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgefield Park Eighth-Grader Involved In Sexting Case Ridgefield Park Eighth-Grader Involved In Sexting Case Ridgefield Park Eighth-Grader Involved In Sexting Case
Ridgefield Park Eighth-Grader Involved In Sexting Case RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J. -- Ridgefield Park police confirmed Thursday that an eighth-grade student at the junior-senior high school "sent a suggestive photograph" to another student via cellphone text. School officials provided counseling for the juveniles involved as part of a 5-point action plan recommended by the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, said Lt. Joseph Rella, who was to speak with students during an assembly at the school. Rella was explaining "the law and its consequences" at the closed session, Ridgefield Park Jr. /Sr. High School​ Principal James Donohue s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Tow Truck Operator Charged With Dumping Oil-Drenched Kitten In Fort Lee Tow Truck Operator Charged With Dumping Oil-Drenched Kitten In Fort Lee Tow Truck Operator Charged With Dumping Oil-Drenched Kitten In Fort Lee
Tow Truck Operator Charged With Dumping Oil-Drenched Kitten In Fort Lee FORT LEE, N.J. -- A Fort Lee tow truck operator was charged with drenching a kitten in diesel fuel, cramming her into a box sealed with cable ties and leaving her in the bushes outside a borough high rise, authorities confirmed Thursday night. Kazem Shirinzad was charged with abandoning a domestic animal, inflicting unnecessary cruelty upon a living animal, failing to provide an animal with necessary food and water, and carrying an animal in an inhumane manner, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. Shrinzad, a 35-year-old Iranian immigrant, was released on a summons. "…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Wallington Police: Carlstadt Man Posed As Brother In Traffic Stop Wallington Police: Carlstadt Man Posed As Brother In Traffic Stop Wallington Police: Carlstadt Man Posed As Brother In Traffic Stop
Wallington Police: Carlstadt Man Posed As Brother In Traffic Stop WALLINGTON, N.J. -- A Carlstadt man with a criminal history stretching back nearly two decades tried using his brother's identification when he was stopped in Wallington, police said. Officer Kasper Zielinski stopped Ford E-150 van driven by 47-year-old Craig Marotta for a busted tail light, Lt. Shawn Kudlacik said. Marotta didn't provide any documents but gave the officer his brother's name, date of birth and address, he said. Earlier this week, Marotta went to police headquarters with a batch of tickets Zielinski gave him. That's when the officer discovered the Marotta had used the bogu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Girl With Knife Committed To Bergen Regional, Authorities Say Girl With Knife Committed To Bergen Regional, Authorities Say Girl With Knife Committed To Bergen Regional, Authorities Say
Girl With Knife Committed To Bergen Regional, Authorities Say PARAMUS, N.J. -- A girl was found carrying a knife after she began arguing with her mother in the parking lot of Bergen Regional Medical Center, authorities said. The knife "was not used in a menacing way," Anthony Cureton of the Bergen County Sheriff's Office said after the incident Wednesday morning in the Paramus hospital's parking lot. No delinquency complaints were filed against the girl, who was involuntarily committed to the psychiatric hospital.

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