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
Breaking News
Pickup Truck Tips In Maywood Crash Pickup Truck Tips In Maywood Crash Pickup Truck Tips In Maywood Crash
Pickup Truck Tips In Maywood Crash MAYWOOD, N.J. -- Two drivers were hospitalized with what Maywood police said weren't serious injuries after a pickup truck collided with a compact car and overturned Tuesday morning. The driver of the compact car apparently continued through a stop sign and didn't see the pickup at the corner of Elm and East Pleasant avenues, Police Chief David Pegg told Daily Voice. So "you ended up with two vehicles trying to occupy the same space," he said. The pickup driver climbed out after Hackensack and Maywood firefighters popped the door.

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Maywood Pizza Delivery Robbers Get $50, Food Maywood Pizza Delivery Robbers Get $50, Food Maywood Pizza Delivery Robbers Get $50, Food
Maywood Pizza Delivery Robbers Get $50, Food MAYWOOD, N.J. -- Two robbers in hoodies, one of them armed with a handgun, made off with nearly $50 -- as well as a pizza and soda -- after robbing a deliveryman Monday night in Maywood, authorities told Daily Voice. "They called in a phony order, then robbed him," Police Chief David Pegg said. The victim rang the bell of the home in the 400 block of Bergen Avenue around 10 p.m., Pegg said. When he didn't get an answer, he turned and headed back to his car -- at which point one bandit emerged from behind the house and the other from across the street holding a gun, he said. &quo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Your Community
NJ Considers Child Abuse Background Checks For School Employees NJ Considers Child Abuse Background Checks For School Employees NJ Considers Child Abuse Background Checks For School Employees
NJ Considers Child Abuse Background Checks For School Employees Public school teachers, bus drivers and camp counselors in New Jersey would have to undergo a child abuse background check under a measure advanced by a legislative committee in Trenton. Those employees and job candidates currently undergo a criminal background check that doesn't show substantiated claims of child abuse. The state Senate Education Committee on Monday unanimously approved a measure that would have them joining all daycare workers and private preschool employees in undergoing a Child Abuse Record Information check. “How many teachers, camp counselors, bus drivers and school …

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn Pizzeria Boosts Special Olympics NJ Law Enforcement Torch Run Fair Lawn Pizzeria Boosts Special Olympics NJ Law Enforcement Torch Run Fair Lawn Pizzeria Boosts Special Olympics NJ Law Enforcement Torch Run
Fair Lawn Pizzeria Boosts Special Olympics NJ Law Enforcement Torch Run FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- Anthony's Coal-Fired Pizza joins the fundraising effort for Special Olympics New Jersey's Law Enforcement Torch run with a fundraising special on consecutive Tuesdays. Twenty percent of tracked dine-in and carry-out sales on May 24 and May 31 will be donated. The Law Enforcement Torch Run will take place Friday, June 10, starting from 26 different locations throughout New Jersey. It ends with the lighting of the Special Olympics Summer Games flame for the opening ceremonies at the College of New Jersey in Ewing Township. The games continue at the school through June 12.…

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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Fort Lee Motel Peeping Tom Took Pics Of Naked Couples Police: Fort Lee Motel Peeping Tom Took Pics Of Naked Couples Police: Fort Lee Motel Peeping Tom Took Pics Of Naked Couples
Police: Fort Lee Motel Peeping Tom Took Pics Of Naked Couples FORT LEE, N.J. -- A Spring Valley beverage driver opened Fort Lee hotel room windows and took cellphone photos of naked couples having sex, said authorities -- who believe he's done it elsewhere in Bergen and Rockland counties. Fort Lee police responding to complaints from the Skyview Motel on Bergen Boulevard identified the getaway SUV as belonging to 54-year-old Nachman Breier, Detective Capt. Patrick Kissane said. The vehicle had a New York Volunteer Ambulance Service license plate, he said. One guest told police that Breier "opened the window of his room and took pictures with a …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen County Adds Mass Casualty EMS Special Ops Unit Bergen County Adds Mass Casualty EMS Special Ops Unit Bergen County Adds Mass Casualty EMS Special Ops Unit
Bergen County Adds Mass Casualty EMS Special Ops Unit PARAMUS, N.J. -- Using resources it already has, Bergen County on Monday officially established a highly trained, well-equipped Medical Services Special Operation Group to respond to large-scale incidents involving dozens of victims. "You hope you never need it, but this combines skilled manpower and equipment in case we do," Michael Tarantino, director of the Bergen County EMS Training Center, told Daily Voice. County Executive Jim Tedesco, who was officially announcing the move Monday night at the training center in Paramus, brought the center and the county Office of Emergency …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Franklin Lakes Police Catch Nine Juveniles Drinking In Van Franklin Lakes Police Catch Nine Juveniles Drinking In Van Franklin Lakes Police Catch Nine Juveniles Drinking In Van
Franklin Lakes Police Catch Nine Juveniles Drinking In Van FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. -- Franklin Lakes police responding to a report of a suspicious van seized nine juveniles who they said were drinking alcohol. The minors were released to their parents after police found them parked on Delaware Lane just before 8 p.m. Saturday, Capt. John Bakelaar said. Delinquency complaints against each were to be heard in the Family Division of Superior Court.

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Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
River Vale Neighborhood Evacuated In Overnight SWAT Team Standoff River Vale Neighborhood Evacuated In Overnight SWAT Team Standoff River Vale Neighborhood Evacuated In Overnight SWAT Team Standoff
River Vale Neighborhood Evacuated In Overnight SWAT Team Standoff RIVER VALE, N.J. -- A River Vale neighborhood was evacuated and a SWAT team brought in overnight Sunday during a nearly 2½-hour standoff with an emotionally disturbed new borough resident who authorities said screamed: "River Vale police, I'm gonna get you!" A caller just after 10:30 p.m. Saturday told police her 23-year-old neighbor was shouting threats from his balcony. "She said it had been going on nearly every night for several weeks since he moved in," Detective Sgt. John DeVoe told Daily Voice. One of those times, the woman said, he vomited off the balcony in the…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority Police: Lincoln Tunnel Bus Rider With Box Cutter Resists Port Authority Police: Lincoln Tunnel Bus Rider With Box Cutter Resists Port Authority Police: Lincoln Tunnel Bus Rider With Box Cutter Resists
Port Authority Police: Lincoln Tunnel Bus Rider With Box Cutter Resists Tense moments aboard a bus in the toll lanes outside the Lincoln Tunnel ended when Port Authority police subdued and arrested a man threatening others with a box cutter, authorities said. Officers alerted to the trouble Friday boarded the bus and found the man standing behind the driver, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. They tried to remove him, but the man refused then "assumed an aggressive fighting position and pulled his arms free in an attempt to resist and fight with the officers," he said. After subduing him, they found the box cutter in his backpack, P…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
None Injured In Cresskill Crash None Injured In Cresskill Crash None Injured In Cresskill Crash
None Injured In Cresskill Crash CRESSKILL, N.J. -- No one was injured when two sedans collied Saturday afternoon at a busy Cresskill intersection. Both the Audi and BMW were removed by flatbed tow truck from the intersection of Piermont Road and East Madison Avenue after the crash, which occurred just after 3 p.m. Borough police, firefighters and EMS responded.

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