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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Rutherford, NJ
Your Community
East Rutherford Police Chief Reads Story To Children East Rutherford Police Chief Reads Story To Children East Rutherford Police Chief Reads Story To Children
East Rutherford Police Chief Reads Story To Children EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.– East Rutherford Police Chief Larry Minda returns to the borough library to read to children on May 23, as part of the monthly story time.The 10:30 a.m. event is open to children up to 5 years old. Registration is required.  To sign up, click here or contact children’s librarian Maria Russo by phone at (201) 939-3930, or by email at [email protected]. Participants are asked to arrive five minutes early to the session to claim their reserved spot. Priority is given to East Rutherford residents. The East Rutherford Library is located at 143 Boiling …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Your Community
2nd Ward Battle Rages, Paterson Voters Return Most Council Incumbents 2nd Ward Battle Rages, Paterson Voters Return Most Council Incumbents 2nd Ward Battle Rages, Paterson Voters Return Most Council Incumbents
2nd Ward Battle Rages, Paterson Voters Return Most Council Incumbents PATERSON, N.J. -- Six of 19 candidates running in Paterson's City Council election on Tuesday won seats, but it won't be known who all of them are until mail-in votes are counted and verified this week. 2nd Ward challenger Shahin Khalique was leading Mohammed Akhtaruzzaman by a little over three dozen votes of nearly 4,000 cast -- leaving the final outcome to be determined. Far behind were Aslon Goow and Eddie Gonzalez. 6th Ward incumbent Andre Sayegh took the only one-and-one contest, defeating Al Abdelaziz by nearly 500 votes. Meanwhile, incumbent Michael Jackson had a significant-enough…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: Gunman Robs Wayne Gas Station VIDEO: Gunman Robs Wayne Gas Station VIDEO: Gunman Robs Wayne Gas Station
Video: Gunman Robs Wayne Gas Station WAYNE, N.J. -- An armed robber points a gun at a Route 23 service station attendant in a surveillance video released Tuesday by Wayne police in the hopes that the public can help them find the bandit. The Valero attendant told police a while man with a mask covering all but his eyes confronted him in his booth while "brandishing a black handgun with a silver tip” around 2:50 a.m. May 3. The robber "demanded all the money," so the attendant gave him all he had, Capt. Laurence W. Martin said. “Don’t look at me," the attendant said the robber told him while chambering a ro…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Trio Breaks Into Sleeping Palisades Park Family's Home Police: Trio Breaks Into Sleeping Palisades Park Family's Home Police: Trio Breaks Into Sleeping Palisades Park Family's Home
Police: Trio Breaks Into Sleeping Palisades Park Family's Home PALISADES PARK, N.J. -- A Palisades Park homeowner fell down a flight of stairs fighting off a trio of teens who police said broke into his sleeping family's house before dawn after burglarizing a half-dozen neighborhood vehicles. The husband wasn't seriously injured, nor was his wife or their 8-year-old daughter injured. Officers responding to the Glen Avenue call around 5 a.m. Monday caught one of the three a block away. He wasn't wearing shoes, they said -- the intruders had taken them off while sneaking into the home. A Bergen County Sheriff's K-9 unit caught a second suspect nearly t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Rochelle Park Detectives, Police Chief Grab Alleged Gunman Rochelle Park Detectives, Police Chief Grab Alleged Gunman Rochelle Park Detectives, Police Chief Grab Alleged Gunman
Rochelle Park Detectives, Police Chief Grab Alleged Gunman ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. -- Assisted by their police chief, Rochelle Park detectives on Tuesday captured a man who they said pulled a gun and fled during an argument last week. Jermin Fordyce, 26, of Hackensack, was wearing the same "00" jersey sweatshirt he had on in a photo distributed by police last week when a team of officers grabbed him as he walked on Colling Avenue, Detective Sgt. James DePreta told Daily Voice. A judg ordered Fordyce held on $60,000 bail on charge of aggravated assault and weapons counts. Police Chief Robert Flannelly joined DePreta in the surveillance -- alo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Fort Lee Police Catch Con Artists Who Mugged Fairview Man, Authorities Say Fort Lee Police Catch Con Artists Who Mugged Fairview Man, Authorities Say Fort Lee Police Catch Con Artists Who Mugged Fairview Man, Authorities Say
Fort Lee Police Catch Con Artists Who Mugged Fairview Man, Authorities Say FAIRVIEW, N.J. -- A pair of Colombian con artists were caught after giving a Fairview man a bogus tale that one of them was lost and then assaulting him while taking his cellphone, a gold chain and cash, borough police said Tuesday. The victim told police that Nancy Duitama Pinzon, 44, approached him on Anderson Avenue near Desoto Place at 11:45 a.m. Monday, claiming she was lost, Capt. Vincent M Bellucci said. He said he couldn't help -- after which 57-year-old Victor Cediel "walked up and convinced him to help her," Belluci said. All three got into the couple's car and drove to…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Cliffside Park Police Charge Four In Combined $55,000 Gas Station Theft Cliffside Park Police Charge Four In Combined $55,000 Gas Station Theft Cliffside Park Police Charge Four In Combined $55,000 Gas Station Theft
Cliffside Park Police Charge Four In Combined $55,000 Gas Station Theft CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. -- Cliffside Park police charged two former gas station employees -- one of them a deportee who snuck back into the country -- in connection with the theft last month of $30,000 in cash, $21,500 in cigarettes and a damaged security system worth $4,500 from the business. Detectives investigating the April 25 theft at the BP station on Gorge Road quickly zeroed in on former employee Turkay Gelir, 35, who knew where to find the key to the safe, Police Chief Richard Gaito told Daily Voice. Gelir "was also familiar with the day-today operations of the business and had a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
On Your Side
Google Partners With Passaic Small Businesses Google Partners With Passaic Small Businesses Google Partners With Passaic Small Businesses
Google Partners With Passaic Small Businesses PASSAIC, N.J. -- U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell on Tuesday announced a partnership with Google’s "Let’s Put our Cities on the Map" program in Passaic. Google is providing an easy-to-build website, a customized domain name and a year of web hosting for free to participating Passaic businesses -- which Pascrell said will help them grow. “We need to make sure our small businesses have the resources they need to be competitive in the 21st century marketplace – a marketplace that is increasingly online," he said. "Online access is essential to connect with customers, and often the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Woodland Park Woman Admits Scamming Bergen Watch Manufacturer Woodland Park Woman Admits Scamming Bergen Watch Manufacturer Woodland Park Woman Admits Scamming Bergen Watch Manufacturer
Woodland Park Woman Admits Scamming Bergen Watch Manufacturer WOODLAND PARK, N.J. -- A Woodland Park woman admitted Monday in federal court in Trenton that she scammed a Bergen County watch manufacturer out of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of watches and parts. Lissette Delarosa, 37, said she doctored corporate records to pull off the thefts with Cynthia “Cynthia Espejo" Alvarez  50, of Kissimmee, Florida, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said. Alvarez pleaded guilty to the same offense last September and awaits sentencing. Espejo and Delarosa worked in the customer service department when they conducted the fraud for seven years, beginn…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
SWAT Team Caravan Returns Clifton Escaped Convict After Capture SWAT Team Caravan Returns Clifton Escaped Convict After Capture SWAT Team Caravan Returns Clifton Escaped Convict After Capture
SWAT Team Caravan Returns Clifton Escaped Convict After Capture CLIFTON, N.J. -- A Clifton man who was less than three weeks away from parole eligibility when he escaped from a South Jersey minimum security prison last Tuesday was captured Monday morning on the northbound Garden State Parkway in Lacey Township, authorities told Daily Voice. Arthur Buckel, 38, was seized by a Lacey Township police officer and state Department of Corrections officer at milepost 76.6, a law enforcement source with direct knowledge of the arrest said. "A Department of Corrections van was on scene," the source told Daily Voice. "He was immediately loaded into …

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