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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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Police: East Rutherford Woman Was DWI In Rochelle Park Route 17 Rollover Police: East Rutherford Woman Was DWI In Rochelle Park Route 17 Rollover Police: East Rutherford Woman Was DWI In Rochelle Park Route 17 Rollover
Police: East Rutherford Woman Was DWI In Rochelle Park Route 17 Rollover ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. -- A 61-year-old East Rutherford woman who police said was intoxicated escaped serious injury after she rolled her car on northbound Route 17 Sunday morning. The driver was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with minor injuries after her Toyota Camry hit a guardrail and the median and overturned at 8:19 a.m., Sgt. Ed Kukalski told Daily Voice. Rochelle Park firefighters and ambulance workers responded, along with an HUMC unit. The northbound highway was reopened a little after 9 a.m.

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Ridgewood, NJ
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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Sheriff: Body Of Missing Passaic Woman, 22, Pulled From River Sheriff: Body Of Missing Passaic Woman, 22, Pulled From River Sheriff: Body Of Missing Passaic Woman, 22, Pulled From River
Sheriff: Body Of Missing Passaic Woman, 22, Pulled From River WALLINGTON, N.J. -- A car pulled from the Passaic River late Saturday afternoon contained the body of Devorah Stubin, 22, of Passaic, Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino confirmed. "The license plate matched hers," Saudino told Daily Voice just after 6:30 p.m. "The family was notified," the sheriff said, adding, "It's been an awful two days." Dive teams went into the Passaic River behind Wozniak Funeral Home on Midland Avenue after being summoned by emergency responders, the sheriff said. They found Stubin's silver sedan submerged in 10 feet of water, he tol…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
PHOTOS: Brooklyn Squad, NJ Police Chopper Join Search For Passaic Woman PHOTOS: Brooklyn Squad, NJ Police Chopper Join Search For Passaic Woman PHOTOS: Brooklyn Squad, NJ Police Chopper Join Search For Passaic Woman
Photos: Brooklyn Squad, NJ Police Chopper Join Search For Passaic Woman UPDATE: A car pulled from the Passaic River on Saturday afternoon contained Devorah Stubin, 22, of Passaic, Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino confirmed. READ MORE....MAYWOOD, N.J. -- A New Jersey State Police helicopter on Saturday afternoon joined the search for a 22-year-old Passaic woman with epilepsy who authorities said went missing late Thursday. Volunteers from the Brooklyn South Safety Patrol unit also flooded area streets in and around Maywood in the search for Devorah Stubin, which was being coordinated from a command post at a vacant retail center at Essex Street and Maywood A…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Fatal Victim Ejected In Overnight Route 4 Crash In Englewood Fatal Victim Ejected In Overnight Route 4 Crash In Englewood Fatal Victim Ejected In Overnight Route 4 Crash In Englewood
Fatal Victim Ejected In Overnight Route 4 Crash In Englewood ENGLEWOOD, N.J. -- An overnight crash on westbound Route 4 in Englewood killed a 21-year-old Teaneck driver and sent his passenger to the hospital, authorities said. The Acura Integra hit the center divider just west of Grand Avenue just after 3 a.m., Anthony Cureton of the Bergen County Sheriff's Office said. The driver Bevan Senior Jr., was ejected and then hit by another vehicle, whose operator "may or may not have known they struck the victim," he said. The other was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with minor injuries, Cureton said. The Bergen County Prosecutor…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
SUVs Land On Their Sides On Route 21 In Passaic SUVs Land On Their Sides On Route 21 In Passaic SUVs Land On Their Sides On Route 21 In Passaic
SUVs Land On Their Sides On Route 21 In Passaic PASSAIC, N.J. -- Two large SUVs fell from a vehicle carrier and landed on their sides, closing northbound Route 21 in Passaic just before 1:30 p.m. Saturday. CHECK BACK FOR DETAILS

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Police Confirm Missing Passaic Woman Was Stopped In Maywood Police Confirm Missing Passaic Woman Was Stopped In Maywood Police Confirm Missing Passaic Woman Was Stopped In Maywood
Police Confirm Missing Passaic Woman Was Stopped In Maywood PASSAIC, N.J. -- Passaic police confirmed Friday that a city woman with epilepsy went missing after getting lost in Bergen County the night before. Devorah Stubin, 22, left her home around 8:30 p.m Thursday to pick up her brother from a rest stop on the Garden State Parkway near Exit 151, Passaic Detective Andy White told Daily Voice. A few minutes later Stubin called her father and said she was lost in Maywood, White said. Family members said Stubin was stopped by police in Maywood and given directions to the Garden State Parkway around 8:45 p.m. Thursday. Maywood Police Chief David Pegg…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Moonachie Pedestrian Struck Running Across Route 46 In Teterboro Moonachie Pedestrian Struck Running Across Route 46 In Teterboro Moonachie Pedestrian Struck Running Across Route 46 In Teterboro
Moonachie Pedestrian Struck Running Across Route 46 In Teterboro TETERBORO, N.J. -- No summonses were issued to a Union County driver who hit a 20-year-old pedestrian from Moonachie who police said dashed across Route 46 in Teterboro early Thursday. "I never expected someone to to run across the median," the driver, who was on his way to work, told police. The pedestrian was in the surgical intensive care unitat Hackensack University Medical Center with a spinal injury and broken hip after the 5:50 a.m. crash on the eastbound highway near Industrial Avenue, Detective Sgt. Anthony Fugnitti told Daily Voice. Detectives were investigating, Fugnit…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen GOP Sheriff Saudino Switching To Democrat For Re-Election Run Bergen GOP Sheriff Saudino Switching To Democrat For Re-Election Run Bergen GOP Sheriff Saudino Switching To Democrat For Re-Election Run
Bergen GOP Sheriff Saudino Switching To Democrat For Re-Election Run HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Republican Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino will formally announce Friday that he's switching to the Democratic Party to run for a third term this fall, a law enforcement source close to the sheriff told Daily Voice. Saudino, who is in his second term as sheriff, "works well with the Democrats," the source said. "He can't say the same about all Republicans." Representatives of the Bergen County Conference of the Policemen’s Benevolent Association were planning to attend a 3 p.m. news conference was tentatively planned for the steps of the Bergen …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Your Community
Popular PIX 11 Show Host Learned Life Lessons In Leonia, Reports Says Popular PIX 11 Show Host Learned Life Lessons In Leonia, Reports Says Popular PIX 11 Show Host Learned Life Lessons In Leonia, Reports Says
Popular PIX 11 Show Host Learned Life Lessons In Leonia, Reports Says LEONIA, N.J. -- Lisa Mateo tells blogger Steve Sacco that she went from being a quiet Brooklyn girl who grew up in Leonia to writing, producing, reporting, doing traffic and weather, anchoring and hosting her own show, "Celebrity Taste Makers,” on PIX 11. Mateo's family moved to Bergen County from Bay Ridge when she was in fourth grade, Sacco reports. "Many of my childhood memories…learning how to ride a bike, taking my Big Wheel for rides down the sidewalk, watching the NY marathon and my accent are all New York," Mateo tells Sacco. "But my life lessons are New Jersey,…

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