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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Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood Doctor Gets 3+ Years In Federal Prison For Health Care Fraud Englewood Doctor Gets 3+ Years In Federal Prison For Health Care Fraud Englewood Doctor Gets 3+ Years In Federal Prison For Health Care Fraud
Englewood Doctor Gets 3+ Years In Federal Prison For Health Care Fraud ENGLEWOOD, N.J. -- An Englewood family doctor with offices in Cresskill and Little Falls was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison Monday for defrauding Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance companies out $280,000 by billing them for non-existent office visits. Albert Ades, 61, pleaded guilty U.S. District Court in Newark last August to a single count of health care fraud. In exchange, federal prosecutors dropped 35 counts of making false statements. Ades admitted that he altered patients’ medical charts by inserting fabricated blood pressure readings, other vitals and cl…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Tractor-Trailer Tips On Southbound Route 17 In Paramus Tractor-Trailer Tips On Southbound Route 17 In Paramus Tractor-Trailer Tips On Southbound Route 17 In Paramus
Tractor-Trailer Tips On Southbound Route 17 In Paramus PARAMUS, N.J. -- The driver got out safely after a tractor-trailer overturned on southbound Route 17 just north of A&S Drive in Paramus early Monday afternoon. A hazardous materials unit responded with firefighters to assist police due to a fuel spill following the mishap just before 1 p.m. The northbound side of the highway was backed up, as well.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Sal Luppino, 40, Of Fort Lee Mourned Sal Luppino, 40, Of Fort Lee Mourned Sal Luppino, 40, Of Fort Lee Mourned
Sal Luppino, 40, Of Fort Lee Mourned FORT LEE, N.J. -- A funeral Mass was held Monday morning for Sal Luppino of Fort Lee, a father of three who coached sports in town and in Englewood Cliffs and was president of the annual St. Rocco Society feast. Luppino, 40, who died last Wednesday, battled throat cancer the past three years with widespread support from loved ones, friends and even strangers around the world. "Through his courageous battle with cancer, he took the time to speak to the entire 2014 study body two years ago sharing a very powerful and inspiring message to our entire school that we will never forget,"…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
7 Cars Involved In Crash Outside Cliffside Park Funeral Home 7 Cars Involved In Crash Outside Cliffside Park Funeral Home 7 Cars Involved In Crash Outside Cliffside Park Funeral Home
7 Cars Involved In Crash Outside Cliffside Park Funeral Home CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. -- No serious injuries were reported in a seven-car collision that included a Fort Lee fire chief's vehicle outside a Cliffside Park funeral home Monday morning, police told Daily Voice. One vehicle struck another, sparking the chain-reaction crash, outside Macagna Funeral Home around 9:20 a.m., police said. A funeral procession was to begin for Sal Luppino, a self-employed contractor who coached sports in Fort Lee and Englewood Cliffs and was the annual feast president of the St. Rocco Society in Fort Lee. Luppino, 40, died last Wednesday of cancer. The driver of the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Two Hospitalized, Two Arrested In Cliffside Park Brawl Two Hospitalized, Two Arrested In Cliffside Park Brawl Two Hospitalized, Two Arrested In Cliffside Park Brawl
Two Hospitalized, Two Arrested In Cliffside Park Brawl CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. -- On overnight brawl in Cliffside Park sent a Ridgefield Park man and a Little Ferry woman to the hospital and produced charges against two others. Borough police were assisted by their colleagues from Edgewater, Fort Lee, and North Bergen at the 3 a.m. fight at Cecelia Avenue and Oncrest Terrace, Police Chief Richard Gaito said Monday morning. Both the 25-year-old Ridgefield Park victim and the 23-year-old Little Ferry woman sustained facial injuries, Gaito said, adding that the man's were more severe. Arrested were two 18-year-old men. Ryan Ruiz of North Bergen rem…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Overnight Fairview Fire Quickly Knocked Overnight Fairview Fire Quickly Knocked Overnight Fairview Fire Quickly Knocked
Overnight Fairview Fire Quickly Knocked FAIRVIEW, N.J. -- Firefighters made quick work of a Fairview apartment fire before dawn Monday. Fairview firefighters were assisted by a Cliffside Park FAST unit at the 4:12 a.m. blaze on Edgewater Road just west of the reservoir.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Leonia Man, 18, Charged With Edgewater Sex Assault Leonia Man, 18, Charged With Edgewater Sex Assault Leonia Man, 18, Charged With Edgewater Sex Assault
Leonia Man, 18, Charged With Edgewater Sex Assault EDGEWATER, N.J. -- An 18-year-old technical school student from Leonia was being held on $100,000 bail after Edgewater police arrested him on sexual assault charges. A borough officer learned of the incident after he found Justin Nikoloski in a fight with another man on Edgewater Place before dawn Friday, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Sunday evening. After arresting Nikoloski, police went to a nearby residence, where a woman he knew "informed the officers that she had been sexually assaulted by [him]," Grewal said. Borough police notified his Special Victi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Bone Marrow Drive For Fort Lee Girl, 11, Draws Hundreds, Dinner Next Bone Marrow Drive For Fort Lee Girl, 11, Draws Hundreds, Dinner Next Bone Marrow Drive For Fort Lee Girl, 11, Draws Hundreds, Dinner Next
Bone Marrow Drive For Fort Lee Girl, 11, Draws Hundreds, Dinner Next FORT LEE, N.J. -- Organizers of a bone marrow drive for 11-year-old Briana Lopez of Fort Lee got more than they expected. "It was a great turnout," Anthony Ventrella told Daily Voice after Saturday's drive at the Fort Lee Recreation Center. "We ran out of swabs halfway through the event, but luckily we got more. "We easily went through more then 300 swabs in just four hours." Briana, a 6th-grader at School No. 3, was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) in January. She has undergone two rounds of chemotherapy and will need a bone marrow transplant to help be…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Haworth Police: Hallucinating Vandal Trashes School Haworth Police: Hallucinating Vandal Trashes School Haworth Police: Hallucinating Vandal Trashes School
Haworth Police: Hallucinating Vandal Trashes School HAWORTH — Days after moving from Palisades Park, a 20-year-old Haworth man high on an LSD-like drug broke in and trashed the borough public school overnight before responding police officers grabbed him, authorities told Daily Voice. Officers Gianluca Ragone and James Morgan responded to a 3:39 a.m. fire alarm, along with firefighters, and spotted Sehyun K. Lee through a rear window, Sgt. Justin Fox said. "He was incoherent and hallucinating" when the officers took him into custody, Fox said. In just under 10 minutes, Lee had smashed glass trophy cases, rifled through lockers and…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Chemical Worker Burned At Saddle Brook Cosmetics Lab Chemical Worker Burned At Saddle Brook Cosmetics Lab Chemical Worker Burned At Saddle Brook Cosmetics Lab
Chemical Worker Burned At Saddle Brook Cosmetics Lab SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- A flash fire burned the face and hands of a worker mixing fragrance chemicals at a Saddle Brook lab, authorities said. The worker was taken to St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston by Saddle Brook EMS after the chemical reaction Friday night at Chem Aid Laboratories on Mayhill Street, Police Chief Robert Kugler told Daily Voice. The flash fire was immediately extinguished, he said. "A Garfield Hazardous Materials Unit responded and determined no cause for hazmat concerns," the chief said. The building was occupied by a dozen or so people, he added. C…

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