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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Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Missing North Arlington Resident, 81, Found Missing North Arlington Resident, 81, Found Missing North Arlington Resident, 81, Found
Missing North Arlington Resident, 81, Found NORTH ARLINGTON, N.J. -- A missing 81-year-old North Arlington man with dementia was found Saturday night. Robert T. Bindewald was last seen driving a gray 2009 Suzuki Sx4 with the license plate B56-FKE, police said earlier. Bindewald retired in 1996 after working for Bergen Community College the previous 12 years.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
New Milford Brothers Charged In Paramus Gym Scam While One Was Free On Bail New Milford Brothers Charged In Paramus Gym Scam While One Was Free On Bail New Milford Brothers Charged In Paramus Gym Scam While One Was Free On Bail
New Milford Brothers Charged In Paramus Gym Scam While One Was Free On Bail PARAMUS, N.J. -- A New Milford man already facing various computer-related theft charges used stolen credit card information while out on bail to pay for gym memberships for himself and his brother, among other illegal online purchases, authorities charged. Francis Montecillo, 24, was originally released in October after being arrested by members of the Bergen County Prosecutor's White Collar Crimes Unit and police in New Milford and Glen Rock, records show. Last month, detectives in Paramus and New Milford discovered the new crimes, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Sat…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Park Ridge Man, Wife Charged With Tampering In Child Sex Assault Case Park Ridge Man, Wife Charged With Tampering In Child Sex Assault Case Park Ridge Man, Wife Charged With Tampering In Child Sex Assault Case
Park Ridge Man, Wife Charged With Tampering In Child Sex Assault Case PARK RIDGE, N.J. -- A Park Ridge man accused of sexually assaulting a grade-school girl sent her messages, in violation of a no-contact order, and his wife tried to keep investigators from finding out, authorities said Saturday. A judge ordered both Karl M. Weckstrom, 46, and Michele Weckstrom, 44, of Emerson held without bail in the Bergen County Jail after Special Victims Unit investigators and local police arrested them at their homes Friday. Both had been free on bail. This came after the girl "reported receiving communications from [Karl Weckstrom] in violation of a court order of…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Ramsey: Downed Power Lines Close East Oak Avenue Ramsey: Downed Power Lines Close East Oak Avenue Ramsey: Downed Power Lines Close East Oak Avenue
Ramsey: Downed Power Lines Close East Oak Avenue RAMSEY, N.J. -- Downed power lines Saturday morning closed East Oak Street in Ramsey between Aspen Place and Wyckoff Avenue, police said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Notorious Con Man Nabbed After Scamming Palisades Park Woman, 87 Police: Notorious Con Man Nabbed After Scamming Palisades Park Woman, 87 Police: Notorious Con Man Nabbed After Scamming Palisades Park Woman, 87
Police: Notorious Con Man Nabbed After Scamming Palisades Park Woman, 87 PALISADES PARK, N.J. -- Palisades Park police arrested a notorious con man with a history of scamming the elderly across the United States after they said he convinced an 87-year-old supermarket shopper on Friday that her car's door locks were broken and he could fix them. Anthony Quick, who was once featured on "America's Most Wanted," was charged with scamming two other Palisades Park victims, as well -- one of them 87 and the other 86. Quick, 51, was wanted in connection with similar scams in California, Georgia and Pennsylvania. One of the victims, a 90-year-old Pasadena man,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Police grab final suspect in Ridgewood cabbie kidnapping robbery Police grab final suspect in Ridgewood cabbie kidnapping robbery Police grab final suspect in Ridgewood cabbie kidnapping robbery
Police grab final suspect in Ridgewood cabbie kidnapping robbery A purported gang member from Suffern became the last of four adults taken into custody in connection with the kidnapping and robbery of a local cab driver carjacked in Ridgewood. Juan Chileseo-Vega, 19, was arrested around 9:45 p.m. Thursday when members of the Rockland County SWAT team, along with FBI agents and police from Suffern and Ridgewood, found him hiding in a closet during the “no-knock” execution of a warrant, authorities told Daily Voice. Vega — who purportedly belongs to the Central American “18th Street Gang” — was “the last piece of the puzzle,” an officer said. The third…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Combined 8 pounds of marijuana, cocaine seized in Paramus arrest Combined 8 pounds of marijuana, cocaine seized in Paramus arrest Combined 8 pounds of marijuana, cocaine seized in Paramus arrest
Combined 8 pounds of marijuana, cocaine seized in Paramus arrest PARAMUS, N.J. -- A judge ordered a Paramus man held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County after authorities said they found 6½ pounds of marijuana, 1½ pounds of cocaine and various steriods in his home. They also seized nearly $14,000 in alleged drug money, cutting agents and packaging materials from the Green Valley Road home of Alex Autieri, 27, during the Thursday raid, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Friday. Grewal estimated the strreet value of the drugs at $35,000. The prosecutor thanked police from Paramus, Dumont and Tenafly, as well as the Bergen County Sheri…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Final Suspect In Ridgewood Cabbie Kidnapping Caught In Rockland Final Suspect In Ridgewood Cabbie Kidnapping Caught In Rockland Final Suspect In Ridgewood Cabbie Kidnapping Caught In Rockland
Final Suspect In Ridgewood Cabbie Kidnapping Caught In Rockland RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- A purported gang member from Suffern became the last of four adults taken into custody in connection with the kidnapping and robbery of a local cab driver carjacked in Ridgewood when a SWAT team burst in and found him hiding in a closet. Juan Chileseo-Vega, 19, was arrested around 9:45 p.m. Thursday after members of the Rockland County SWAT team, along with FBI agents and police from Suffern and Ridgewood, battered down a front door and found him in an upstairs apartment, Suffern Police Chief Clarke Osborn said. Vega -- who purportedly belongs to the Central American &quo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Taking No Chances, Police Escort Students From Cliffside Park HS Fire Taking No Chances, Police Escort Students From Cliffside Park HS Fire Taking No Chances, Police Escort Students From Cliffside Park HS Fire
Taking No Chances, Police Escort Students From Cliffside Park HS Fire UPDATE (Feb. 16): Boy, 15, Accused In Cliffside Park High School FireCLIFFSIDE PARK, NJ -- Taking no chances of a possible trap, police escorted Cliffside Park High School students to a local grammar school while firefighters doused a radiator fire in the auditorium. The blaze was declared under control less than a half hour after the call came in at 12:10 p.m. "Those radiators are 45, 50 years old or more," Mayor Thomas Calabrese told Daily Voice. Calabrese commended everyone involved -- from police and firefighters to Office of Emergency Management personnel to school administ…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Beekman-Poughquag, NY
Breaking News
Man jumps to death from GWB Man jumps to death from GWB Man jumps to death from GWB
Man jumps to death from GWB A man in his mid-20s stopped his Volkswagen on the George Washington Bridge just before 2 a.m. Friday, got out and jumped to his death from the north walkway. His body was recovered from the rocks at the base of the New York tower, Port Authority police told Daily Voice.

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