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
Closter Police Revive OD Victim With Narcan Closter Police Revive OD Victim With Narcan Closter Police Revive OD Victim With Narcan
Closter Police Revive OD Victim With Narcan CLOSTER, N.J. -- Closter police on Wednesday used Narcan to revive an overdose victim. The 36-year-old victim regained consciousness and was taken to HackensackUMC at Pascack Valley after Officers Luis Ruiz, Aldo Guerino, Keith Dombkowski, responding to the 3:16 p.m. call, administered the drug, Police Chief Dennis Kaine said. 

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah Target Of IRS Phone Scam Fears Others Could Be Fooled Mahwah Target Of IRS Phone Scam Fears Others Could Be Fooled Mahwah Target Of IRS Phone Scam Fears Others Could Be Fooled
Mahwah Target Of IRS Phone Scam Fears Others Could Be Fooled MAHWAH, N.J. -- Pamela Stetson of Mahwah wasn't fooled by an automated phone call Wednesday that purported to come from the IRS. But with tax season in full swing, she fears others might be. "My biggest concern is the elderly," the Daily Voice community advisor said. "When hear 'tax lien' or 'IRS,' they might be liable to call back right away." Residents from throughout Bergen County -- from Dumont to Franklin Lakes -- reported similar calls Tuesday and Wednesday. So did people in Rockland. "I know a half-dozen people in the Mahwah area who got them," Stetson …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Armonk, NY
Breaking News
Area Boy, 6, Violently Attacked By Raccoon On Way To School Area Boy, 6, Violently Attacked By Raccoon On Way To School Area Boy, 6, Violently Attacked By Raccoon On Way To School
Area Boy, 6, Violently Attacked By Raccoon On Way To School It may be the last thing a parent would expect to happen when walking a child to school.  But in Bergen County, N.J., early Wednesday morning, a 6-year-old boy from Elmwood Park was injured after being attacked by a raccoon on the way to school, authorities confirmed. "His mother was walking the youngster to Sixteenth Avenue Elementary School when a large raccoon came running across the street, jumped on the child's back and began biting and scratching his face," Police Chief Michael Foligno told Daily Voice. A neighbor, hearing the mother's screams, ran out, grabbed a fiberglas …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Raccoon Attacks Elmwood Park Boy, 6, Walking To School Raccoon Attacks Elmwood Park Boy, 6, Walking To School Raccoon Attacks Elmwood Park Boy, 6, Walking To School
Raccoon Attacks Elmwood Park Boy, 6, Walking To School ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- A 6-year-old Elmwood Park boy was attacked by a raccoon on the way to school early Wednesday, authorities confirmed. "His mother was walking the youngster to Sixteenth Avenue Elementary School when a large raccoon came running across the street, jumped on the child's back and began biting and scratching his face," Police Chief Michael Foligno told Daily Voice. A neighbor, hearing the mother's screams, ran out, grabbed a painter's pole and knocked the raccoon off the child, Foligno said. "He then proceeded to beat it to death," he said. The boy was…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
1st 'Brian Beutel Battle Of Blue' For Tomorrows Children Tips In Hackensack 1st 'Brian Beutel Battle Of Blue' For Tomorrows Children Tips In Hackensack 1st 'Brian Beutel Battle Of Blue' For Tomorrows Children Tips In Hackensack
1st 'Brian Beutel Battle Of Blue' For Tomorrows Children Tips In Hackensack HACKENSACK, N.J. -- This year's 17th annual Battle of the Blue police basketball tournament at FDU in Hackensack this March will have extra meaning for the Tomorrows Children's Fund and the participiants. It will be called by its new name: "Brian Beutel Battle of the Blue," in memory of the popular Bergen County Sheriff's lieutenant who collapsed during last year's tourney and later died. "Brian was the epitome of a true TCF Angel and we acknowledge all of his hard work and dedication, throughout his many years as the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office’s Battle of the Blue team r…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgefield Police: Homeless Man Found Beneath Car In Resident's Garage Ridgefield Police: Homeless Man Found Beneath Car In Resident's Garage Ridgefield Police: Homeless Man Found Beneath Car In Resident's Garage
Ridgefield Police: Homeless Man Found Beneath Car In Resident's Garage RIDGEFIELD, N.J. -- A homeless man taking shelter in a Ridgefield garage got a trespassing summons after the homeowner pulled his car in on top of him, authorities said. A neighbor heard the man's screams and called police, who found the 44-year-old Hispanic man "lying on his back in the right rear corner of the darkened detached garage wearing dark clothing," Deputy Police Chief Robert Meurer told Daily Voice. The man indicated that "the top of his right foot was stuck under the front right passenger tire of the sedan and he was unable to pull his foot out," he said. T…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Investigators Bust Paterson Man With Heroin At Rochelle Park Hotel Investigators Bust Paterson Man With Heroin At Rochelle Park Hotel Investigators Bust Paterson Man With Heroin At Rochelle Park Hotel
Investigators Bust Paterson Man With Heroin At Rochelle Park Hotel ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. -- Investigators arrested a Paterson man after they said he showed up at a Rochelle Park hotel with 250 small bags of heroin for sale. Trimell L. Dunbar, 21, was being held on $20,000 bail, charged with drug possession. Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said investigators approached him as he sat in a car in the parking lot of the Ramada Hotel on West Passaic Street on Monday and found the drugs. The arrest was made possible by work by the prosecutor's Narcotic Task Force and the Rochelle Park Police Department.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Police: 'Superman' Found Drunk In Ridgewood Business Lobby Police: 'Superman' Found Drunk In Ridgewood Business Lobby Police: 'Superman' Found Drunk In Ridgewood Business Lobby
Police: 'Superman' Found Drunk In Ridgewood Business Lobby RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- First he was Captain America running across Ridgewood rooftops, village police said -- and now they say a Hackensack man who rents himself as a costumed superhero at parties caused a bit of a ruckus as Superman. "He's not a bad kid -- not at all," a family member told Daily Voice. "He doesn't mean any harm." Officers responding to an East Ridgewood Avenue business last Thursday said they found the 29-year-old man sitting in the lobby dressed as the Man of Steel. He was taken to The Valley Hospital for intoxication treatment, with no charges filed, the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
The (Truly) Late Abe Vigoda Of Passaic Would Have Enjoyed This One The (Truly) Late Abe Vigoda Of Passaic Would Have Enjoyed This One The (Truly) Late Abe Vigoda Of Passaic Would Have Enjoyed This One
The (Truly) Late Abe Vigoda Of Passaic Would Have Enjoyed This One PASSAIC, N.J. -- Before he passed away in Woodland Park at the age of 94 on Tuesday, actor Abe Vigoda of Passaic was one of American popular culture's most featured "dead or alive?" game subjects -- for more than three decades.So forgive anyone for thinking the news could be an online hoax. It began in 1982, when People magazine referred to him as "the late Abe Vigoda." Vigoda often told stories himself about people surprised to run into him after that -- sometimes during jogs around Central Park's reservoir in his mid-70s (SEE: "Are They Dead Yet? Well Yes And No,&…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Live Power Lines Topple Onto Ridgewood Snow-Removal Truck Live Power Lines Topple Onto Ridgewood Snow-Removal Truck Live Power Lines Topple Onto Ridgewood Snow-Removal Truck
Live Power Lines Topple Onto Ridgewood Snow-Removal Truck RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- A dump truck being used to remove snow from Ridgewood streets snagged overhead electrical wires and snapped a utility pole in half overnight Tuesday. A PSE&G crew responded to the Graydon pool parking lot after the wires ended up on the truck after the 12:30 a.m. incident, police said. DPW crews have been dumping the snow from Winter Storm Jonas at the pool.

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