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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Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Trucking Company Owner, 2 Others, Charged With Closter Insurance Arson Trucking Company Owner, 2 Others, Charged With Closter Insurance Arson Trucking Company Owner, 2 Others, Charged With Closter Insurance Arson
Trucking Company Owner, 2 Others, Charged With Closter Insurance Arson CLOSTER, N.J. -- Authorities charged a Hasbrouck Heights trucking company owner and two alleged accomplices with torching a vacant Closter home in October for the insurance money. Daily Voice reported earlier that Terence Philippi, 67, a trucking company operator who owns the Closter Dock Road home, was taken into custody. Also arrested were Sean Halvorsen, 24, of Wallington and Zachary Rosario, 20, of Ridgefield Park, acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir Grewal announced Thursday afternoon. All were ordered held on $250,000 bail, charged with aggravated arson, insurance fraud and causin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen Prosecutor: Accused Dealers Busted In New Milford With Pot, Fake Gun Bergen Prosecutor: Accused Dealers Busted In New Milford With Pot, Fake Gun Bergen Prosecutor: Accused Dealers Busted In New Milford With Pot, Fake Gun
Bergen Prosecutor: Accused Dealers Busted In New Milford With Pot, Fake Gun NEW MILFORD, N.J. -- A raid on a New Milford home produced up pot, scales and an imitation handgun, along with the arrests of the tenant and an associate from Westwood who authorities said were selling drugs in Bergen County. Gerlando Lamanaca, 18, and Jordan Covo, who turned 19 on Monday, were being held on $35,000 bail each in the Bergen County Jail. Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said members of his Narcotic Task Force -- joined by a Bergen County Sheriff's K-9 Unit and New Milford police -- arrested the pair after executing a search warrant at the Concors Place home. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Lodi Special Education Teacher Charged With DWI After Dispute Lodi Special Education Teacher Charged With DWI After Dispute Lodi Special Education Teacher Charged With DWI After Dispute
Lodi Special Education Teacher Charged With DWI After Dispute LODI, N.J. -- A Lodi High School special education teacher was arrested after police said they found her drunk behind the wheel of her car outside a local home. Police said they found Melissa Grant-Terhune, 40, having some type of problem with a local resident the night of Jan. 13. They spoke with the other woman -- who captured a partial video of the incident -- as well as with a school employee who was in the area, sources with direct knowledge of the incident told Daily Voice. Grant-Terhune, who was sitting in a white Buick truck stopped in the middle of the street was under the influen…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Bomb Threat Investigated At Teaneck Charter School Bomb Threat Investigated At Teaneck Charter School Bomb Threat Investigated At Teaneck Charter School
Bomb Threat Investigated At Teaneck Charter School TEANECK, N.J. -- The second bomb threat in 10 days forced the lockdown Thursday afternoon of the Teaneck Community Charter School, authorities told Daily Voice. The Bergen County Sheriff's Bomb Squad and K-9 Unit were dispatched to the Chestnut Avenue school after a note was found, the sheriff's Anthony Cureton said. Teaneck Community had a scare on Jan. 18 when a threat was found scrawled on a bathroom wall, Cureton said. A day later, nine schools were locked down after phoned threats came in overnight on Jan. 19.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Washington Township Man Charged In DWI Crashes With Police, Civilian Washington Township Man Charged In DWI Crashes With Police, Civilian Washington Township Man Charged In DWI Crashes With Police, Civilian
Washington Township Man Charged In DWI Crashes With Police, Civilian WESTWOOD, N.J. -- Authorities said a 60-year-old Washington Township man with a federal tax fraud conviction on his record was drunk Wednesday night when he crashed his mini-Cooper into a township police car, kept going and got into another accident in Westwood. Stephen Chiolis was brought to HUMC at Pascack Valley, where blood was taken, Westwood Police Chief Frank Regino told Daily Voice. Authorities were awaiting results. Based on his condition, Chiolis was issued a summons for DWI pending those results, he said. Chiolis in 2011 received probation after admitting in federal court that h…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Witnesses: GWB Driver Stops, Gets Out, Jumps Witnesses: GWB Driver Stops, Gets Out, Jumps Witnesses: GWB Driver Stops, Gets Out, Jumps
Witnesses: GWB Driver Stops, Gets Out, Jumps FORT LEE, N.J. -- A 48-year-old Brooklyn man stopped his car on the upper level of the George Washington Bridge, got out and went over the side Thursday morning, authorities told Daily Voice. His was the third suicide of the year from the span. There were 18 last year. An FDNY boat pulled the man from the Hudson River and brought him to Dykcman Marina at 10:22 a.m., Joseph Pentangelo of the Port Authority Police said. He was then taken to Columbia University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. No note was left, Pentangelo said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Faulty Heating Unit Prompts Allendale Office Building Evacuation Faulty Heating Unit Prompts Allendale Office Building Evacuation Faulty Heating Unit Prompts Allendale Office Building Evacuation
Faulty Heating Unit Prompts Allendale Office Building Evacuation ALLENDALE, N.J. -- A faulty heating unit led to the evacuation Wednesday of a business in an Allendale industrial park. Two employees apparently affected by the carbon monoxide release had headaches but refused medical attention after the incident at 80 Commerce Drive, Police Chief George Scherb said. The Allendale Ambulance Corps responded with police and Ramsey and Waldwick firefighters, he said. PSE&G shut down the heater until it could be repaired, Scherb said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
River Vale Boy, 17, Hospitalized In Rollover, Utility Pole Crash River Vale Boy, 17, Hospitalized In Rollover, Utility Pole Crash River Vale Boy, 17, Hospitalized In Rollover, Utility Pole Crash
River Vale Boy, 17, Hospitalized In Rollover, Utility Pole Crash RIVER VALE, N.J. -- A 17-year-old River Vale boy was hospitalized Wednesday night after a rollover and utility pole crash. A good Samaritan got the boy out of the 2010 Scion, which came to rest on its passenger side after the crash on Westwood Avenue around 10:20 p.m., Detective Sgt. John DeVoe said overnight. The utility pole "was sheared off near the base and utility wires were perches precariously" above it, he said. Police "removed the juvenile victim to a safe location and rendered aid until emergency medical personnel arrived and assumed care," the sergeant said. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgewood Cyclist Hit In Paramus Ridgewood Cyclist Hit In Paramus Ridgewood Cyclist Hit In Paramus
Ridgewood Cyclist Hit In Paramus PARAMUS, N.J. -- A 48-year-old bicyclist from Ridgewood was taken to The Valley Hospital with leg pain after being struck in Paramus, police told Daily Voice. No summonses were immediately issued to the sedan driver, also 48, from Washington Township, following the crash just before 6:30 p.m. at Linwood and Highland avenues. An investigation was continuing.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson Couple Questioned After Girl, 3, Dies Of Injuries Paterson Couple Questioned After Girl, 3, Dies Of Injuries Paterson Couple Questioned After Girl, 3, Dies Of Injuries
Paterson Couple Questioned After Girl, 3, Dies Of Injuries UPDATE (Feb. 1) — Authorities confirmed Monday that they a Paterson man with murder and sexual assault and a mother with manslaughter in the death of her 3-year-old daughter. READ MORE.... PATERSON, N.J. -- A Paterson couple was being questioned by Passaic County Prosecutor's detectives and an autopsy was scheduled for a 3-year-old girl who died Wednesday afternoon after possibly being beaten, law enforcement sources told Daily Voice. The mother and her boyfriend brought the child to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center on Sunday with severe head trauma, one said. "They both stated th…

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