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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Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Lodi Police Grab Paterson Man In NJ Transit Bus Driver Assault Lodi Police Grab Paterson Man In NJ Transit Bus Driver Assault Lodi Police Grab Paterson Man In NJ Transit Bus Driver Assault
Lodi Police Grab Paterson Man In NJ Transit Bus Driver Assault LODI, N.J. -- Lodi police said they nabbed a 28-year-old Paterson man who assaulted an NJ Transit bus driver overnight Tuesday. Rosiland Grace, 28, attacked the driver "after he was told to leave the bus, as he was being disruptive, as well as verbally abusing the driver and passengers," Lt. Robert Salerno said. Moments later, Sgt. Jorge Tronza and Officers Javier Hernandez and Andrew Mikhail grabbed Grace in North Savoie Street backyard. Grace was being held on $2,500 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with aggravated assault.

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn Police Invite Public To 'Sushi With A Cop' Fair Lawn Police Invite Public To 'Sushi With A Cop' Fair Lawn Police Invite Public To 'Sushi With A Cop'
Fair Lawn Police Invite Public To 'Sushi With A Cop' Following the success of the "Coffee With a Cop" program, Fair Lawn police have scheduled "Sushi With a Cop." The Jan. 12 event at Green Dragon on Fair Lawn Avenue will run from noon to 2 p.m. Department members "will be available for you to ask questions, voice concerns and to get to know the officers in your neighborhood," Sgt. Brian Metzler said. "Sushi samples and green tea will be available free-of-charge during the event," he added. MORE INFO: Contact Metzler at (201) 794-5365 or [email protected].

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Harrington Park PD: Northvale Man Gets Out, Walks Home After Car Hits House Harrington Park PD: Northvale Man Gets Out, Walks Home After Car Hits House Harrington Park PD: Northvale Man Gets Out, Walks Home After Car Hits House
Harrington Park PD: Northvale Man Gets Out, Walks Home After Car Hits House HARRINGTON PARK, N.J. -- A Northvale man whose car slid on ice and hit four other vehicles, pushing one of them into the garage of a Harrington Park private home -- where it struck another car -- got out and walked home before police arrived, authorities said Tuesday. The driver then went to HackensackUMC at Pascack Valley for treatment after his car slid down Lohs Place into the First Street driveway around 3 a.m., Police Chief Albert Maalouf told Daily Voice. Detectives were applying for a warrant to obtain blood to determine his intoxication level, the chief said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Lodi Man Charged In $200 Street Robbery, Assault Lodi Man Charged In $200 Street Robbery, Assault Lodi Man Charged In $200 Street Robbery, Assault
Lodi Man Charged In $200 Street Robbery, Assault LODI, N.J. -- Lodi police arrested a 44-year-old ex-con who they said hit another borough man in the mouth while robbing him of $200. Officers responding to Church Street just before 9:30 p.m. Monday found the victim bleeding from the mouth, Lt. Robert Salerno said Tuesday afternoon. After he told them what happened, he pointed them to the Saint Joseph Boulevard residence of 44-year-old Michael Acevedo. The officers then arrested Acevedo there. He was being held on $50,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with robbery and possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Oradell Bank Robber Flees With $8,300 Oradell Bank Robber Flees With $8,300 Oradell Bank Robber Flees With $8,300
Oradell Bank Robber Flees With $8,300 ORADELL, N.J. -- A black man in a black knit hat and gold scarf robbed the Hudson City Savings Bank on Kinderkamack Road in Oradell of a reported $8,600 around 10:10 a.m. Tuesday, authorities said. He claimed to have a gun but didn't show it, they said. He was described as about 30 years old, 5-foot-8 and 175 or so pounds with a black goatee. Borough police responded and notified the FBI. It was the fifth robbery of a Hudson City branch in Bergen County in the past four and a half months. A man who robbed the New Milford branch of about $4,800 on Oct. 23, was described as black, about 5-f…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Maywood Pedestrian, 58, Struck Maywood Pedestrian, 58, Struck Maywood Pedestrian, 58, Struck
Maywood Pedestrian, 58, Struck MAYWOOD, N.J. -- A 53-year-old Maywood woman struck by a car Monday night was hospitalized with injuries that police said weren't considered life-threatening. The woman was in the crosswalk on West Spring Valley Avenue when she was struck by a vehicle turning left from Maywood Avenue with the green light just before 9 p.m., Police Chief David Pegg told Daily Voice. Maywood EMS took her to Hackensack University Medical Center. The incident was still under investigation, Pegg said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
PIP Police Find Pickup With Drugs, Stolen Plates In Tenafly PIP Police Find Pickup With Drugs, Stolen Plates In Tenafly PIP Police Find Pickup With Drugs, Stolen Plates In Tenafly
PIP Police Find Pickup With Drugs, Stolen Plates In Tenafly TENAFLY, N.J. -- A Staten Island man stopped by Palisades Interstate Parkway police in Tenafly was carrying anabolic steroids, heroin, cocaine and assorted drug paraphernalia -- including a modified Red Bull can used to hide some of the contraband -- in his pickup truck, authorities said Tuesday. Officer David Moscaritolo stopped the southbound truck, which had its headlights off, at 10:45 p.m. Saturday, Police Chief Michael Coppola said. A rear license plate was mounted over another one and the registration didn't match, he said. Backups arrived as the plate came back stolen, Coppola sai…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
2 Deaths, One Save In Busy Christmas For Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps 2 Deaths, One Save In Busy Christmas For Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps 2 Deaths, One Save In Busy Christmas For Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps
2 Deaths, One Save In Busy Christmas For Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps TEANECK, N.J. -- While media attention in Teaneck on Christmas night focused on a pedestrian killed by a hit-and-run driver, members of the township Volunteer Ambulance Corps were engaged in two other serious calls, as well -- one of them fatal. A crew responding to a 6:22 p.m. call of a 33-year-old man having seizures in a home on Larch Avenue found him in cardiac arrest four minutes later, with a family member conducting CPR, said Larry Robertson, the TVAC public information officer. Crew members continued CPR until hospital personnel arrived and pronounced him dead, Robertson said. At 6…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Your Community
'Runners' Ready For Glen Rock New Year's Eve Midnight Run 'Runners' Ready For Glen Rock New Year's Eve Midnight Run 'Runners' Ready For Glen Rock New Year's Eve Midnight Run
'Runners' Ready For Glen Rock New Year's Eve Midnight Run GLEN ROCK, N.J. -- For the 21st year in a row, Glen Rock residents will set off for a 4K midnight run around town on New Year's Eve. The 11:45 p.m. run begins at the Rock and ends at Glen Rock High School, regardless of the weather, Banana Tree News reports. "With your free entry, you will not receive a shirt, a plastic water bottle, a bag filled with a bunch of junk, race number or chip," the report says. "But you will receive the satisfaction of starting 2016 with a great run and fun time." There's no registration. Anyone of any age can run, walk, bike, roller-blade o…

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Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Cadaver Dog 'Hit' Prompts Digging In Emerson Woods Cadaver Dog 'Hit' Prompts Digging In Emerson Woods Cadaver Dog 'Hit' Prompts Digging In Emerson Woods
Cadaver Dog 'Hit' Prompts Digging In Emerson Woods EMERSON, N.J. -- Investigators were digging in a wooded area of United Water property Monday morning in Emerson. A law enforcement source with direct knowledge of the investigation told Daily Voice that a cadaver dog "hit on a spot in the woods," bringing the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office and the county sheriff's Crime Scene Unit. They wouldn't say what, if anything, they found -- or whether the search was connected to the sudden disappearance of Liza Murphy of Emerson in 2007. Two weeks ago, her husband -- whose real name is Paschal Delahunty -- admitted that he used his dea…

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