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.

Jerry DeMarco's Contributions

Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Richard Donald Allen, Pillar Of Cliffside Park Community, Dies At 85 Richard Donald Allen, Pillar Of Cliffside Park Community, Dies At 85 Richard Donald Allen, Pillar Of Cliffside Park Community, Dies At 85
Richard Donald Allen, Pillar Of Cliffside Park Community, Dies At 85 CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. -- Richard Donald Allen was known for decades around his native Cliffside Park as an ever-smiling Korean War veteran and former school board president whose love for family and community was second to none. "His trademark was a distinctive whistle that called his children home for dinner," longtime family friend Richard Criscione told Daily Voice following Allen's death on Friday. He was 85. A lifelong borough resident, Allen served four years in the U.S. Marine Corps, rising to sergeant. He was a member of the Brotherhood of the Frozen Chosin, a 17-day bat…

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Saddle Brook Police Chase Ends When Car Crashes Into Paramus House Saddle Brook Police Chase Ends When Car Crashes Into Paramus House Saddle Brook Police Chase Ends When Car Crashes Into Paramus House
Saddle Brook Police Chase Ends When Car Crashes Into Paramus House SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- A Brooklyn driver led Saddle Brook police on a pre-dawn chase Saturday before crashing a rented car into a house in Paramus, authorities said. Sgt. Leigh Cadigan stopped the black Nissan Altima at Outwater Lane and Main Street after 25-year-old Marlon Vancooten ran a red light around 4:30 a.m., Police Chief Robert Kugler told Daily Voice. "As Cadigan exited the police car, the driver sped north on Main Street," he said. The pursuit continued through Rochelle Park before Vancooten lost control of the car and it crashed into a home on Spring Valley Avenue at F…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah Police Tie Sports Club Suspect From Midland Park To Other Thefts Mahwah Police Tie Sports Club Suspect From Midland Park To Other Thefts Mahwah Police Tie Sports Club Suspect From Midland Park To Other Thefts
Mahwah Police Tie Sports Club Suspect From Midland Park To Other Thefts MAHWAH, N.J. -- Mahwah police detectives got assists from an officer and a dispatcher in nabbing a Midland Park woman who they said was swiping cash and credit cards from jackets and lockers at a local New York Sports Club and shoplifting from stores in various Bergen County towns. Officer Chris Fasulo got the probe rolling when he determined that the person who used cards reported stolen from the Edison Road gym was a woman 45 to 50 years old, Police Chief James Batelli told Daily Voice. Fasulo, Detective Sgt. Kevin Hebert and Detective Michael Grassi tracked common days and timelines of t…

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Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Deer Jumps Through North Arlington School Window Deer Jumps Through North Arlington School Window Deer Jumps Through North Arlington School Window
Deer Jumps Through North Arlington School Window NORTH ARLINGTON - A deer jumped through a window and into the main office at North Arlington Middle School on Friday afternoon, authorities said. The one-year-old buck got excited as youngsters gathered near it around dismissal and forced his way through the closed window of the Beech Street school just after 3:30 p.m., they said. The window didn't break. "It went through the office and definitely shocked our staff in the office," Schools Supt. Oliver W. Stringham told reporters. "They acted remarkably." The schools dean of students closed and locked his office door wh…

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Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Teaneck Police Charge 5 In Pot Raid Teaneck Police Charge 5 In Pot Raid Teaneck Police Charge 5 In Pot Raid
Teaneck Police Charge 5 In Pot Raid TEANECK, N.J. -- Teaneck police busted five people during a drug raid that turned up some pot and paraphernalia at a local home. A Bergen County Sheriff's K-9 unit assisted in the Prince Street raid on Thursday, Police Chief Robert A. Carney said Friday. Two residents and six other people were in the house during the warranted raid, which followed a months-long investigation, the chief said. Police found a small amount of marijuana, along with scales and bags used to sell pot, he said. Released on charges of possessing a small amount of marijuana and paraphernalia with the intent to distr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
12 Busted As Bergen Task Force Raids Massage Parlors Countywide 12 Busted As Bergen Task Force Raids Massage Parlors Countywide 12 Busted As Bergen Task Force Raids Massage Parlors Countywide
12 Busted As Bergen Task Force Raids Massage Parlors Countywide A series of raids at massage parlors throughout Bergen County netted detecitves a dozen people charged with prostitution-related offenses and the seizure of more than $20,000 in alleged illicit proceeds. A week-long undercover investigation led to raids of shops four shops in Edgewater, two in Fairview and one each in Little Ferry, River Edge, South Hackensack, Tenafly and Wyckoff, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Friday afternoon. Participating in the Quality of Life/Human Trafficking task force led by Grewal's Special Investigations Squad were Bergen County Sheriff's …

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West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
Ringwood Man Who Brought Illegally Killed Bear Into NY Gets Probation Ringwood Man Who Brought Illegally Killed Bear Into NY Gets Probation Ringwood Man Who Brought Illegally Killed Bear Into NY Gets Probation
Ringwood Man Who Brought Illegally Killed Bear Into NY Gets Probation RINGWOOD, N.J. -- A federal judge in Newark Friday gave three years probation to a Ringwood man who admitted transporting an American black bear that he illegally killed across state lines to New York and then covering up the crime by staging a fake kill site using the animal's insides. Under terms of a plea deal, Martin Kaszycki previously must pay a fine of $5,000 to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Lacey Act Reward Fund. He must also forfeit the skull and hide and pay $1,250 to the Woodlands Wildlife Refuge for the care and release of orphaned and injured American black bears in New Jer…

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Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Everything OK After Bomb Threat Robocalls To 5 Bergen School Districts Everything OK After Bomb Threat Robocalls To 5 Bergen School Districts Everything OK After Bomb Threat Robocalls To 5 Bergen School Districts
Everything OK After Bomb Threat Robocalls To 5 Bergen School Districts BERGENFIELD, N.J. -- A bomb threat Friday morning cleared several area high schools -- including Bergenfield, Hackensack, Teaneck and Waldwick -- in yet another apparent swatting incident. Teaneck was the first of the schools to be checked and deemed fine just before 9:30 a.m., Anthony Cureton of the Bergen County Sheriff's Office told Daily Voice. Students who'd been relocated to the Rodda Center returned. Students at other schools that were evacuated would be returning shortly, he said, after the sheriff's Bomb Squad swept them with bomb-sniffing dogs. Mahwah and Waldwick did shelter in…

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
4 Bail From Stalled Car Moments Before Elmwood Park Train Crash 4 Bail From Stalled Car Moments Before Elmwood Park Train Crash 4 Bail From Stalled Car Moments Before Elmwood Park Train Crash
4 Bail From Stalled Car Moments Before Elmwood Park Train Crash ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- A driver from Garfield desperately tried to restart his stalled car when the bells sounded and the warning gates began to come down around him and his three passengers -- including a 4-year-old child -- at an Elmwood Park grade crossing Friday morning. They bailed out just in time, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. The 2004 Volkwagen Jetta "appeared to be a total loss" after it was struck by a New Jersey Transit commuter train at the Midland Avenue crossing at Erie Avenue at 8:24 a.m., the chief said. No one was injured, he said. Elmwood Park, Saddle Broo…

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Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
New Milford Woman's Killer Up For Parole Yet Again, Opponents Rally New Milford Woman's Killer Up For Parole Yet Again, Opponents Rally New Milford Woman's Killer Up For Parole Yet Again, Opponents Rally
New Milford Woman's Killer Up For Parole Yet Again, Opponents Rally NEW MILFORD, N.J. -- A nightmare has returned for the family of a New Milford honors student abducted, raped and killed nearly four decades ago by a state prisoner up once again for parole. It's the third time in seven years that the mother and brother of Kim Montelaro have to make the trip to New Jersey from their Florida home and relieve the horror of her killing. Her father, Tony, died last November. Lisa Yakomin of Woodcliff Lake is handling outreach for the family in advance of the state Parole Board hearing for Christopher Righetti later this year. After getting news of the upcoming …

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