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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Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Train In Norwood Pushes Driverless Van Into Harrington Park Train In Norwood Pushes Driverless Van Into Harrington Park Train In Norwood Pushes Driverless Van Into Harrington Park
Train In Norwood Pushes Driverless Van Into Harrington Park NORWOOD, N.J. -- A freight train pushed a driverless mini-van a mile and a quarter down the tracks from Norwood into Harrington Park on Tuesday evening. The driver got lost heading down Broadway and inadvertently turned onto the tracks around 7:30 p.m., Police Chief Jeffrey Krapels told Daily Voice. He got out after getting stuck and called police, who showed up just as the CSX train slammed into the vehicle, Krapels said. No cars derailed, no fuel was spilled and no injuries were reported after the train continued on before coming to a full stop, the chief said.

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Moonachie Police Nab Accused Thief Picking Up Walmart TV Moonachie Police Nab Accused Thief Picking Up Walmart TV Moonachie Police Nab Accused Thief Picking Up Walmart TV
Moonachie Police Nab Accused Thief Picking Up Walmart TV MOONACHIE, N.J. -- A Bronx man who used an Ohio woman's credit card to order a 60-inch HDTV at the Teterboro Walmart was surprised to find Moonachie police waiting for him, authorities said. The victim called borough detectives on Monday to report the nearly $700 purchase, Detective Anthony Fugnitti told Daily Voice. She provided an order number and possible time for pickup, he said. Around 9:30 p.m., security at the Route 46 store notified police that their suspect had arrived. Moonachie police cover all of Teterboro. Moments later, Sgt. James McNeice, Detective Robert Pezzillo and Offic…

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Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
River Vale Middle School Bomb Threat Investigated River Vale Middle School Bomb Threat Investigated River Vale Middle School Bomb Threat Investigated
River Vale Middle School Bomb Threat Investigated RIVER VALE, N.J. -- River Vale police said they were aggressively investigating a telephone bomb threat Tuesday morning that prompted the evacuation of the Holdrum Middle School. "The facility and surrounding area was secured by police personnel and all occupants were evacuated to predetermined safe locations under police escort" just before 10 a.m., Detective Sgt. John DeVoe said Tuesday afternoon. The Bergen County Sheriff’s Bomb Squad responded to the school, while Old Tappan and Westwood police helped secure the perimeter and borough firefighters and the Volunteer Ambulance C…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Cresskill DWI Hit-And-Run Driver Chased To Alpine After GWB Crash Cresskill DWI Hit-And-Run Driver Chased To Alpine After GWB Crash Cresskill DWI Hit-And-Run Driver Chased To Alpine After GWB Crash
Cresskill DWI Hit-And-Run Driver Chased To Alpine After GWB Crash FORT LEE, N.J. -- A Cresskill driver whose Jeep slammed into a sweeper truck on the George Washington Bridge, sending the operator to the hospital, registered nearly 2½ times above the legal limit after he was chased down in Alpine, Port Authority police said. Vaughn Preston, 34, pulled onto the northbound Palisades Interstate Parkway, then took the Englewood Cliffs exit onto 9W while being chased by a good Samaritan, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. Moments earlier, his 2013 Jeep Wrangler struck the sweeper on the bridge's upper level, Pentangelo said. The operator was …

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Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
New Milford Police Revive Victim Of Prescription Pill OD New Milford Police Revive Victim Of Prescription Pill OD New Milford Police Revive Victim Of Prescription Pill OD
New Milford Police Revive Victim Of Prescription Pill OD NEW MILFORD, N.J. -- New Milford police revived a 26-year-old borough man who apparently overdosed on prescription pills Monday night. Lt. Brian Clancy, Detective Scott Petrie and Officers Adam Conboy and Vincent Siekierski responded to the 6 p.m. call and found "numerous Oxycodone and Xanax pills surrounding the [unconscious] patient," Detective Kevin Van Saders said Tuesday. They "immediately administered a Narcan dose and conducted rescue breathing on the patient," he said. "A second dose of Narcan was administered after the patient showed little reaction to the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Haledon Man Bit, Punched Woman At Carlstadt Motel, Police Charge Haledon Man Bit, Punched Woman At Carlstadt Motel, Police Charge Haledon Man Bit, Punched Woman At Carlstadt Motel, Police Charge
Haledon Man Bit, Punched Woman At Carlstadt Motel, Police Charge CARLSTADT, N.J. -- A Passaic County laborer bit a woman on the face and punched her in the head at a Carlstadt motel, authorities charged. Nadim Dulal, 28, of Haledon posted $1,000 bail and was released shortly after his arrest last Thursday, records show. Officers James Winand and Steven Ondrof took him into custody after responding to a domestic dispute call at the EconoLodge on Washington Avenue, Police Chief Thomas Nielsen said Tuesday. Dulal and the victim "were arguing inside their room when the defendant bit the victim upon her face and punched her on the left side of her head …

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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Son Of Former NYC Mayor's Aide Charged In Edgewater Teen Killing Son Of Former NYC Mayor's Aide Charged In Edgewater Teen Killing Son Of Former NYC Mayor's Aide Charged In Edgewater Teen Killing
Son Of Former NYC Mayor's Aide Charged In Edgewater Teen Killing EDGEWATER, N.J. -- The son of the former chief of staff to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's wife was charged Monday with the stabbing death in Edgewater of a Rockland County teenager who authorities said was trying to rob him. The 16-year-old victim was one of five people -- all from Rockland County -- who accosted Khari E. Noerdlinger, 19, of Edgewater on Old River Road around 10:30 p.m.Sunday, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. "An altercation ensued" in which the victim was stabbed in the femoral artery in his leg, Grewal said. The boy -- identified by …

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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Palisades Park Police Issue Suspect Sketch In Groping Case Palisades Park Police Issue Suspect Sketch In Groping Case Palisades Park Police Issue Suspect Sketch In Groping Case
Palisades Park Police Issue Suspect Sketch In Groping Case PALISADES PARK, N.J. -- Palisades Park police issued a composite sketch Monday night of a man who a borough woman said grabbed her from twice from behind in her apartment building over the weekend. The 36-year-old victim said she was approached from behind as she entered the Broad Avenue building vestibule just before 4 p.m. Saturday, Police Chief Benjamin Ramos told Daily Voice. "As she climbed the stairs and got to the landing to ring the door bell, she said, she was groped by a man approximately in his 30s or 40s, 150 to 170 pounds, with black hair and black eyes and light-skinned,&…

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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Wyckoff PBA Renames Scholarship For Detective Sgt. Michael Musto Wyckoff PBA Renames Scholarship For Detective Sgt. Michael Musto Wyckoff PBA Renames Scholarship For Detective Sgt. Michael Musto
Wyckoff PBA Renames Scholarship For Detective Sgt. Michael Musto WYCKOFF, N.J. -- Wyckoff PBA Local 261 announced Monday that it has renamed its annual educational scholarship after Detective Sgt. Michael Musto, who died this past October. The local each year offers two $1,000 college scholarships to high school seniors from Wyckoff who've been accepted to a junior college, college or university for the following academic year. Union members review each application and select recipients who "have shown a strong commitment to community service and are pursuing a career in criminal justice, law, or a social science," the local said. The scholars…

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Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen Prosecutor: North Arlington Wife Killed By Blows To Head Bergen Prosecutor: North Arlington Wife Killed By Blows To Head Bergen Prosecutor: North Arlington Wife Killed By Blows To Head
Bergen Prosecutor: North Arlington Wife Killed By Blows To Head NORTH ARLINGTON, N.J. -- Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal on Monday confirmed a Daily Voice report that a North Arlington woman killed in her home was struck several times in the head. "A blunt object was used as a weapon during the killing and was recovered during a search of the scene," Grewal said. Eric Pleger, 45, was brought Monday morning before a judge in Hackensack who continued his bail at $2 million in the death of his wife. Luisa (Olavarria) Pleger, 46, had been dead nearly a day before borough officers called by management at the Riverview Gardens apa…

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