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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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson Man Tells Elmwood Park Police Ex-Friend Stabbed Him Over Money Paterson Man Tells Elmwood Park Police Ex-Friend Stabbed Him Over Money Paterson Man Tells Elmwood Park Police Ex-Friend Stabbed Him Over Money
Paterson Man Tells Elmwood Park Police Ex-Friend Stabbed Him Over Money ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- What a Paterson man said was an argument over money left him with a puncture wound on his temple and a slash on his thumb, said Elmwood Park police, who were seeking the public's help finding his assailant. The 23-year-old victim told officers responding to a call at the Parkway Lanes bowling alley Sunday night that he was attacked by a former friend whom he identified only as Waleed and four other Arabic males, Police Chief Michael Foligno said Monday morning. Waleed attacked him with a black folding knife and fled east with the others in an older model Toyota Corolla…

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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Teenager Stabbed In Edgewater Dies At Hospital, Homicide Probe Underway Teenager Stabbed In Edgewater Dies At Hospital, Homicide Probe Underway Teenager Stabbed In Edgewater Dies At Hospital, Homicide Probe Underway
Teenager Stabbed In Edgewater Dies At Hospital, Homicide Probe Underway UPDATE (7 p.m.): The son of the former chief of staff to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's wife was charged Monday with aggravated manslaughter, weapons possession and hindering apprehension in the overnight stabbing death of a teenager in Edgewater. READ MORE.... ****** EDGEWATER, N.J. -- A teenage boy who was stabbed overnight in Edgewater later died at the hospital, authorities who were investigating the homicide told Daily Voice. The victim -- who sources said was 16 -- was stabbed on Old River Road and was pronounced dead at Palisades General Medical Center around 3 a.m., they said…

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Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Teaneck Firefighters Quickly Put Down Laundry Room Blaze Teaneck Firefighters Quickly Put Down Laundry Room Blaze Teaneck Firefighters Quickly Put Down Laundry Room Blaze
Teaneck Firefighters Quickly Put Down Laundry Room Blaze TEANECK, N.J. -- Teaneck firefighters quickly doused a laundry room blaze in a local home Sunday night. Mutual aid squads remained at the firehouse during the 7:15 p.m. call.

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Indictment: Woman Spit In Little Ferry Police Officer's Mouth Indictment: Woman Spit In Little Ferry Police Officer's Mouth Indictment: Woman Spit In Little Ferry Police Officer's Mouth
Indictment: Woman Spit In Little Ferry Police Officer's Mouth LITTLE FERRY, N.J. -- A former Hackensack woman who was found to have acted in self-defense when she stabbed a former friend was indicted by a grand jury on charges of hitting and spitting at Little Ferry police when they tried to stop her from soliciting on the street without a permit. Nilajah Sumter, who was soliciting for an alternative energy company, had to be pepper-sprayed after she spit in an officer's mouth while wrestling with police during the Aug. 16 incident, authorities said. She'd also been "extremely violent” in the radio car, damaging the front seat partition by kickin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Mahwah Police Find Driver Convulsing On Rt. 287 After Jeep Flips Into River Mahwah Police Find Driver Convulsing On Rt. 287 After Jeep Flips Into River Mahwah Police Find Driver Convulsing On Rt. 287 After Jeep Flips Into River
Mahwah Police Find Driver Convulsing On Rt. 287 After Jeep Flips Into River MAHWAH, N.J. -- A Saddle River man whose Jeep flipped into the Ramapo River and sunk overnight was having convulsions and suffering from hypothermia when a Mahwah police sergeant found him on the side of Route 287 and got him help. Now Mahwah and Suffern police are conducting a joint investigation. Sgt. Michael Blondin got the driver to his car and administered first aid after finding him in a snow bank around 4 a.m. Saturday near the Exit 66 ramp, Police Chief James Batelli said. "He was in convulsions, unable to feel his leg and [turning blue]," Batelli said. New York authorit…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Regino Of Westwood Takes Helm Of Bergen County Police Chiefs Association Regino Of Westwood Takes Helm Of Bergen County Police Chiefs Association Regino Of Westwood Takes Helm Of Bergen County Police Chiefs Association
Regino Of Westwood Takes Helm Of Bergen County Police Chiefs Association WESTWOOD, N.J. -- Westwood Police Chief Frank Regino was installed Saturday night as this year's president of the Bergen County Police Chiefs Association during a dinner attended by several hundred people at the Rockleigh Country Club in Demarest. Frank Regino began his career with the Westwood Police Department on March 17, 1974. Upon graduation from the police academy that year, he received the Herbert H. Allmers Memorial Award as the class' Outstanding Student. Regino was a patrol officer for more than 16 years and attended various service courses, earning various certificates. He was pr…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah Police Rush Newark Pair In Route 17 Gas Station Robbery Mahwah Police Rush Newark Pair In Route 17 Gas Station Robbery Mahwah Police Rush Newark Pair In Route 17 Gas Station Robbery
Mahwah Police Rush Newark Pair In Route 17 Gas Station Robbery MAHWAH, N.J. -- Mahwah police officers using ballistic shields rushed two Newark men in the middle of an armed robbery of a Route 17 Quick Stop and took them into custody early Saturday authorities said. A 911 holdup call from the gas station deli just south of the New York state line came in just after 5:30 a.m., Police Chief James Batelli said. "The caller stated he was about to be robbed," he said, "and as the dispatcher asked for additional information the phone line went dead." Sgt. Michael Blondin and Officers John Rodriguez, David Sinisi and John Lange saw two me…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Woman Found OD'ing With Needle In Arm At Bergen Courthouse Woman Found OD'ing With Needle In Arm At Bergen Courthouse Woman Found OD'ing With Needle In Arm At Bergen Courthouse
Woman Found OD'ing With Needle In Arm At Bergen Courthouse HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A 33-year-old woman with a criminal history was charged with heroin possession after she was found in a Bergen County Courthouse bathroom on Friday with a needle in her arm, authorities told Daily Voice. County sheriff's officers were preparing to use Narcan to revive Carly Fletcher of Vernon Township when "she came around," Anthony Cureton of the sheriff's office said. A former Hawthorne resident, Fletcher was at the courthouse as a visitor and not a defendant, law enforcement sources said. "She went in, worked herself up and went down," one said. &…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
North Arlington Man Held On $2M Bail In Wife's Killing North Arlington Man Held On $2M Bail In Wife's Killing North Arlington Man Held On $2M Bail In Wife's Killing
North Arlington Man Held On $2M Bail In Wife's Killing UPDATE: 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. READ MORE....NORTH ARLINGTON, N.J. -- A 45-year-old North Arlington man was ordered held on $2 million bail after authorities charged him with killing his wife, who authorities said had been dead for at least day when she was found early Friday afternoon. Eric Pleger was taken into custody and questioned after police conducting a welfare check following a call from management found him in the Riverview Gardens …

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack Firefighters Revive OD Victim Hackensack Firefighters Revive OD Victim Hackensack Firefighters Revive OD Victim
Hackensack Firefighters Revive OD Victim HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Hackensack firefighters made a Narcan save on Friday. Members of Rescue 1 responded to the 300 block of Main Street and found a unresponsive 31-year-old overdose victim, Fire Capt. Justin Derevyanik told Daily Voice. They administered Narcan and he "became more response," Derevyanik said. They continued to maintain an airway until EMTS arrived and took over, he said.

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