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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Tappan-Blauvelt, NY
Breaking News
Bullet Fires After Bergen Police Officer Drops It Bullet Fires After Bergen Police Officer Drops It Bullet Fires After Bergen Police Officer Drops It
Bullet Fires After Bergen Police Officer Drops It SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- A bullet fired from its casing when a Saddle Brook police officer dropped it while getting out of his car at headquarters Monday morning. No one was struck by the .40-caliber Smith and Wesson bullet, Police Chief Robert Kugler said. "It was a one-in-a-million shot," he said. The rookie officer was on a call when the magazine to his service weapon came apart, the chief said. "The bottom clip fell off and then the spring, and the rounds fell out," he said. The officer collected the pieces, along with the rounds, and put them in his car, then return…

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Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Case Postponed For Northvale Woman Charged With Leaving Dog To Die Case Postponed For Northvale Woman Charged With Leaving Dog To Die Case Postponed For Northvale Woman Charged With Leaving Dog To Die
Case Postponed For Northvale Woman Charged With Leaving Dog To Die NORTHVALE, N.J. -- A judge in Hackensack on Tuesday postponed the case against a Norwood woman charged with leaving her dog alone to die after she moved out of her Northvale home to April 19. A small crowd showed up at Central Municipal Court seeking justice for "Sully," who police said ate sofa cushions before dying. Daily Voice broke the news on Friday that 36-year-old Jennifer Caruso -- formerly Jennifer Cook -- was charged with abandoning a domestic animal and failing to provide food, water, shelter and vet care. Caruso left her ex-husband's Greater Swiss Mountain Dog behind …

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Bullet Fires After Saddle Brook Police Officer Drops It Bullet Fires After Saddle Brook Police Officer Drops It Bullet Fires After Saddle Brook Police Officer Drops It
Bullet Fires After Saddle Brook Police Officer Drops It SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- A bullet fired from its casing when a Saddle Brook police officer dropped it while getting out of his car at headquarters Monday morning. No one was struck by the .40-caliber Smith and Wesson bullet, Police Chief Robert Kugler said. "It was a one-in-a-million shot," he said. The rookie officer was on a call when the magazine to his service weapon came apart, the chief said. "The bottom clip fell off and then the spring, and the rounds fell out," he said. The officer collected the pieces, along with the rounds, and put them in his car, then return…

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Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Haworth Police: Cabbie Shuttled Brooklyn Fraud Crew To Bergen Banks Haworth Police: Cabbie Shuttled Brooklyn Fraud Crew To Bergen Banks Haworth Police: Cabbie Shuttled Brooklyn Fraud Crew To Bergen Banks
Haworth Police: Cabbie Shuttled Brooklyn Fraud Crew To Bergen Banks HAWORTH, N.J. -- A large, sophisticated credit card fraud ring from Brooklyn employed a taxi driver to shuttle crew members from bank to bank in Bergen County to steal cash from ATMs, Haworth police told Daily Voice. Borough officers on Monday arrested the driver and another man, who was released from the Bergen County Jail just days ago on similar charges out of Franklin Lakes. Sgt. Thomas Smith spotted their SUV, with New York license plates, outside the Chase Bank on Terrace Street around 4:30 p.m. Emerging from the bank moments later was 20-year-old Khalid Brown of Brooklyn -- the epi…

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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities Probe Wyckoff Police Racial Profiling Memo Authorities Probe Wyckoff Police Racial Profiling Memo Authorities Probe Wyckoff Police Racial Profiling Memo
Authorities Probe Wyckoff Police Racial Profiling Memo WYCKOFF, N.J. -- Authorities today confirmed that they are investigating a Wyckoff Police Department email that "on its face" appears to advocate racial profiling. “Profiling, racial or otherwise, has it’s (sic) place in law enforcement," the email from Police Chief Benjamin Fox says, according to the ACLU-NJ. "Don’t ask police to ignore what we know," says the email, apparently sent to the entire department. "Black gang members from Teaneck commit burglaries in Wyckoff. That’s why we check out suspicious black people in white neighborhoods.” Acting New Jersey…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Police Cars Struck During Route 17 Chase, Ramsey Chief Says Police Cars Struck During Route 17 Chase, Ramsey Chief Says Police Cars Struck During Route 17 Chase, Ramsey Chief Says
Police Cars Struck During Route 17 Chase, Ramsey Chief Says RAMSEY, N.J. -- A fleeing driver wanted for credit card fraud deliberately rammed two Ramsey police cars following a high-speed chase on Route 17 that ended with him and his passenger's arrests, authorities said Tuesday. Brandon Young, 23, and his passenger, 21-year-old Kimaley Barrett, both of Brooklyn, were cutting up stolen credit cards and tossing them out the window during the Monday afternoon chase, which responders told Daily Voice reached speeds of up to 80 miles an hour. In what has become an exploding crime -- primarily involving rings from Brooklyn -- the pair previously tried us…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Maywood Police Seek Hit-And-Run Van That Struck Signs, Pole, Fence Maywood Police Seek Hit-And-Run Van That Struck Signs, Pole, Fence Maywood Police Seek Hit-And-Run Van That Struck Signs, Pole, Fence
Maywood Police Seek Hit-And-Run Van That Struck Signs, Pole, Fence MAYWOOD, N.J. -- Maywood police were seeking the public's help finding the driver of a van that struck three traffic signs, a utility pole and a fence and kept going Tuesday morning. The white vehicle left the roadway on southbound Maywood Avenue near Lenox around 9 a.m., police said. After a series of crashes "it continued southbound without stopping," they said. Anyone with information that could help the investigation was asked to call Maywood PD: (201) 845-8800. Officer Brian Rubio was investigating.

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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack Suicide Jumper, 37, Leaves Car In Middle Of GWB Hackensack Suicide Jumper, 37, Leaves Car In Middle Of GWB Hackensack Suicide Jumper, 37, Leaves Car In Middle Of GWB
Hackensack Suicide Jumper, 37, Leaves Car In Middle Of GWB FORT LEE, N.J. -- A 37-year-old Hackensack man drove his car to the middle of the George Washington Bridge, climbed over a railing and jumped to his death Monday evening, Port Authority police said. A witness told police she saw him stop his silver Honda midspan, get out and go over the south walkway railing around 5:10 p.m., the Port Authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. An NYPD Harbor Patrol unit pulled the body from the Hudson River a short time later and brought it to the 125th Street pier, Pentangelo said. It was the bridge's fourth suicide this year.

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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Traffic Police In Bergen, Passaic Gear Up For Anti-Texting Campaign Traffic Police In Bergen, Passaic Gear Up For Anti-Texting Campaign Traffic Police In Bergen, Passaic Gear Up For Anti-Texting Campaign
Traffic Police In Bergen, Passaic Gear Up For Anti-Texting Campaign FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. -- Police in Bergen and Passaic were gearing up for another campaign aimed at distracted drivers beginning next month. Franklin Lakes police said they will be among the departments who, from April 8-13, will use "a combination of traditional and innovative strategies to crack down on motorists who text while driving." A quarter of teens respond to a text message once or more every time they drive, and 20 percent of teens and 10 percent of parents admit that they have extended, multi-message text conversations while driving, according to a 2012 study by the Uni…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Fair Lawn School Bus Driver, 74, Can't Recall Crash, Police Say Fair Lawn School Bus Driver, 74, Can't Recall Crash, Police Say Fair Lawn School Bus Driver, 74, Can't Recall Crash, Police Say
Fair Lawn School Bus Driver, 74, Can't Recall Crash, Police Say FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- The 74-year-old driver of an empty school bus that slammed into a utility pole in Fair Lawn early Tuesday was "disoriented and did not recall the crash," police said. The crash occurred at Fair Lawn Avenue and Saddle River Road just before 8 a.m. An ambulance took the driver to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood for evaluation, while Fair Lawn Fire Company #4 tended to a power line downed by the crash a block away, at Kuiken Terrace, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. PSE&G was tending to the damaged pole, he said. Delays and closures of both roads at the intersectio…

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