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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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
West Milford Native From Fair Lawn Killed In Paterson Party Bus Crash West Milford Native From Fair Lawn Killed In Paterson Party Bus Crash West Milford Native From Fair Lawn Killed In Paterson Party Bus Crash
West Milford Native From Fair Lawn Killed In Paterson Party Bus Crash PATERSON, N.J. -- An overnight crash with a party bus on northbound Route 20 in Paterson on Saturday killed a 27-year-old Fair Lawn man, authorities said. Brian Rolando was behind the wheel of a Hummer that rear-ended the bus between the Route 4/Broadway overpass and Edward Avenue around 3:15 a.m., city Police Director Jerry Speziale said. A graduate of West Milford High School, Rolando was a junior studying biology and pre-med at Montclair State University.

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Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Upper Saddle River Police Charge Woman In 'Multi-Layered' Car Fraud Upper Saddle River Police Charge Woman In 'Multi-Layered' Car Fraud Upper Saddle River Police Charge Woman In 'Multi-Layered' Car Fraud
Upper Saddle River Police Charge Woman In 'Multi-Layered' Car Fraud UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J. -- Upper Saddle River police cracked a "multi-layered" scam in which they said a former car dealership employee bought and operated a $50,000 car in someone else's name -- then convinced another victim to give her $27,000 for a bogus detailing business. After losing her job at a New York dealership, Dana Wagner, 47, stole an elderly customer's ID, got a job at a New Jersey dealership and used the information to buy a car and obtain insurance for it, Detective Lt. Edward Kane said. Wagner then "purported to be the manager of local car dealerships"…

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Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Morning Bomb Scare Clears Becton High School In East Rutherford Morning Bomb Scare Clears Becton High School In East Rutherford Morning Bomb Scare Clears Becton High School In East Rutherford
Morning Bomb Scare Clears Becton High School In East Rutherford EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- A Saturday morning bomb scare brought emergency responders to Bection Regional High School in East Rutherford. The school was cleared around 10 a.m. A dance competition was being held there.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Cresskill Police Seize Suspected Car Burglar Overnight Cresskill Police Seize Suspected Car Burglar Overnight Cresskill Police Seize Suspected Car Burglar Overnight
Cresskill Police Seize Suspected Car Burglar Overnight CRESSKILL, N.J. -- Cresskill police grabbed a Jersey City man before dawn after a resident alerted them to a car burglay. Sgt. Raymond Coleman and Officer Matthew Banta spotted George Estevez getting out of another car parked in an Adams Drive driveway around 5 a.m. Friday, authorities said. They grabbed him as he tried to flee on Jackson Drive. A search turned up various items apparently taken in car break-ins, police said. Estevez was being held on $15,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with burglary, theft, resisting arrest and receiving stolen property.

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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Bergenfield Woman, Haledon Man Caught In Fort Lee Crack Bust Bergenfield Woman, Haledon Man Caught In Fort Lee Crack Bust Bergenfield Woman, Haledon Man Caught In Fort Lee Crack Bust
Bergenfield Woman, Haledon Man Caught In Fort Lee Crack Bust FORT LEE, N.J. -- Detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotic Task Force arrested a Bergenfield woman and a Haledon man after they said they watched her sell him crack in Fort Lee. Investigators and Fort Lee police seized 11 grams of crack cocaine while arresting Jenna L. Defuria, 24, and Waled Elfki, 25, in the Washington Bridge Plaza shopping center after she'd sold before to undercover detectives, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Saturday. Both Defuria, whom Grewal described as a technician, and Elfki, a contractor, were charged with various drug o…

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Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
300-Pound Bear Wanders Through Washington Township Backyards 300-Pound Bear Wanders Through Washington Township Backyards 300-Pound Bear Wanders Through Washington Township Backyards
300-Pound Bear Wanders Through Washington Township Backyards WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- A 300-pound bear scavenging for food traipsed through several Washington Township backyards Friday night -- going as far as a backyard deck on one street -- before vanishing back into the woods. "He was first spotted by Cleveland Avenue and then made his way to Stratford Court and across Woodfield to Devon Road," one responder told Daily Voice. "Looks like he just came out of hibernation," the responder said. "He's hungry." After mounting a deck on Woodfield Road, he circled back on Stratford Court toward Schlegel Lake., A game wa…

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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Fort Lee Police Seize $667,278, Six Cars, Boat After Traffic Stop Fort Lee Police Seize $667,278, Six Cars, Boat After Traffic Stop Fort Lee Police Seize $667,278, Six Cars, Boat After Traffic Stop
Fort Lee Police Seize $667,278, Six Cars, Boat After Traffic Stop FORT LEE, N.J. -- Fort Lee detectives seized $667,278 in alleged drug money -- along with six vehicles and a fishing boat -- from a 46-year-old Bergenfield man whom they arrested after finding an hidden electronic compartment in the ceiling of his van, authorities said. Detective T.J. Cullen pulled over the Chevy conversion van on westbound Route 4 at 10:25 p.m. Tuesday, Capt. Patrick Kissane said. Cullen became suspicious of why Pedro Vicioso-Lima had gone to the Jerome Avenue area over the Bronx, Kissane said Friday. Soon after, Officer Rick Hernandez brought K-9 Greener, who responded t…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Glen Rock Woman, 52, Plunges To Death From Hackensack Office Building Glen Rock Woman, 52, Plunges To Death From Hackensack Office Building Glen Rock Woman, 52, Plunges To Death From Hackensack Office Building
Glen Rock Woman, 52, Plunges To Death From Hackensack Office Building HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A 52-year-old Glen Rock woman plunged 11 stories to her death from a Hackensack building that houses the local Social Security offices, police confirmed. "It appears to be a suicide," Capt. Franceco Aqulia, the officer-in-charge of Hackensack police told Daily Voice following the 3 p.m. incident.. "We don't know that there's any connection, but she was going to the Social Security office when she walked off the roof." The building is located in the Continental Office Plaza Complex at 401 Hackensack Avenue, next to the T.G.I. Fridays restaurant across …

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Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Lyndhurst Police: Thief Stole $1,500 In Liquor While Clerk Slept Lyndhurst Police: Thief Stole $1,500 In Liquor While Clerk Slept Lyndhurst Police: Thief Stole $1,500 In Liquor While Clerk Slept
Lyndhurst Police: Thief Stole $1,500 In Liquor While Clerk Slept LYNDHURST, N.J. -- Lyndhurst police are hoping the public can help identify a man who they said shoplifted $1,500 worth of liquor -- running in and out of the store six times -- while the clerk slept. He "returned a seventh time, but the clerk was awake at that point," Detective Vincent Auteri said. The Riverside Liquors owner didn't realize the loss until days after the March 19 thefts -- after which detectives reviewed surveillance video. The thief is white, between 40 to 50 and at the time was wearing a grey jacket, grey button-down shirt and blue jeans, Auteri said. The shir…

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Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Fingerprints Lead To ID Theft Arrest From Englewood, Cresskill Banks Fingerprints Lead To ID Theft Arrest From Englewood, Cresskill Banks Fingerprints Lead To ID Theft Arrest From Englewood, Cresskill Banks
Fingerprints Lead To ID Theft Arrest From Englewood, Cresskill Banks CRESSKILL, N.J. -- A Bronx ex-con being held in the Westchester County Jail swiped $9,000 from an Englewood bank using a stolen identity and then tried to do the same in Cresskill -- but left his fingerprints behind. Detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office obtained a detainer for Michael M. Grayson, 53, so that he can be returned to New Jersey once he is released from the New York jail. A second suspect was also being sought, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Friday. Both had stolen the victim's identification, which Grayson used to produce a forged driver…

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