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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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn Police: Officer Nabs Paterson Bicyclist In Christmas Gift Thefts Fair Lawn Police: Officer Nabs Paterson Bicyclist In Christmas Gift Thefts Fair Lawn Police: Officer Nabs Paterson Bicyclist In Christmas Gift Thefts
Fair Lawn Police: Officer Nabs Paterson Bicyclist In Christmas Gift Thefts FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- A Fair Lawn police officer chased down a Paterson man on a bicycle who authorities said swiped presents from porches on Christmas Eve. Carmito Lugo, 34, dropped packages containing a teddy bear and mattress top taken in separate thefts but still had four pair of denim jeans worth $184 shoplifted from the KMart on Broadway in a backpack, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Officer Michael Franco -- who was among a group of officers who raced to Hartley Place and Rosalie Street -- nabbed Lugo on Broadway at 26th Street after he ran from police three blocks away, Metzler said. Police …

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by Jerry DeMarco
New City, NY
Breaking News
Driver Hits Teen With Pipe, Gets Shiner Over Garden State Plaza Spot Driver Hits Teen With Pipe, Gets Shiner Over Garden State Plaza Spot Driver Hits Teen With Pipe, Gets Shiner Over Garden State Plaza Spot
Driver Hits Teen With Pipe, Gets Shiner Over Garden State Plaza Spot PARAMUS, N.J. -- A 48-year-old Teaneck, N.J., woman was charged with aggravated assault with a weapon after police said she whacked a Paterson teen in the head with a pipe in a fight over a parking spot at the Garden State Plaza. Kenia E. Nicolas-King "intentionally cut off" the 18-year-old Paterson driver who'd been waiting for the spot in the underground parking garage by the AMC Theaters around 5 p.m. Sunday, Deputy Police Chief Robert Guidetti told Daily Voice. Both got out of their cars and began arguing before Nicolas-King returned to hers and fetched a 15-inch metal pipe, h…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Elmwood Park Subway Cashier: Masked Gunman Took $515 Elmwood Park Subway Cashier: Masked Gunman Took $515 Elmwood Park Subway Cashier: Masked Gunman Took $515
Elmwood Park Subway Cashier: Masked Gunman Took $515 ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- A cashier at a Subway in Elmwood Park told police a man armed with a gun and wearing a ski mask, hoodie and gloves robbed the shop of $515 on Christmas Eve. "The cashier was very visibly shaken up" when officers responded to the Boulevard sandwich shop just after 8 p.m. Thursday, Police Chief Michael Foligno told Daily Voice. The 21-year-old cashier told police that the robber -- described as about 5-foot-11 and holding a black semiautomatic handgun -- "demanded that she give him all the money in the register," Foligno said the cashier told police. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Chance Encounter Leads To Arrest Of Hackensack Ex-Con In Sex Assault Chance Encounter Leads To Arrest Of Hackensack Ex-Con In Sex Assault Chance Encounter Leads To Arrest Of Hackensack Ex-Con In Sex Assault
Chance Encounter Leads To Arrest Of Hackensack Ex-Con In Sex Assault HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A chance encounter in a 7-Eleven led to the Christmas Eve arrest of a 30-year-old ex-con from Hackensack who city police said confessed to sexually assaulting and robbing a woman a month ago on a local street. Willie Banks was taken into custody after the woman saw him at the Main Street convenience store and contacted the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, Capt. Timothy Lloyd told Daily Voice Thursday night. Detectives responded and identified Banks from video surveillance, said Lloyd, the department's commanding officer in charge. They found him soon after at his Popl…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Armonk, NY
Breaking News
Check List Of Holiday Driving Hazards More Than Twice Check List Of Holiday Driving Hazards More Than Twice Check List Of Holiday Driving Hazards More Than Twice
Check List Of Holiday Driving Hazards More Than Twice Driving when you’re tired, impaired or distracted is always dangerous – but add fog (given the unseasonably warm weather) and the pressures that come with the holiday season and December just might be one of the most dangerous months to be on the road. Police are urging motorists to beware of the four most dangerous holiday driving hazards. 1. Distracted Driving. “This includes driving while using cell phones for both talking and texting holiday messages to friends, coworkers and family,” said driver safety expert Doug Horn. “It also includes driving while checking out store hours and loc…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Upper Saddle River Man Critical After Setting Himself On Fire Upper Saddle River Man Critical After Setting Himself On Fire Upper Saddle River Man Critical After Setting Himself On Fire
Upper Saddle River Man Critical After Setting Himself On Fire UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J. -- A 55-year-old Upper Saddle River man poured an accelerant on himself and then set himself ablaze in his backyard Thursday afternoon -- then called 911, authorities said. AirMed One from Hackensack University Medical Center flew the man to St. Barnabas Hospital in Livingston (UPDATE: He died there on Tuesday, Dec. 29, authorities said). "It was an intentional act," Detective Lt. Edward Kane told Daily Voice. Officers who responded the northeastern part of town just after 3 p.m. found "his condition deteroriorating" before their eyes, the lieut…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Your Community
Saddle Brook Couple Victimized By TV Thief Gets Christmas Surprise Saddle Brook Couple Victimized By TV Thief Gets Christmas Surprise Saddle Brook Couple Victimized By TV Thief Gets Christmas Surprise
Saddle Brook Couple Victimized By TV Thief Gets Christmas Surprise SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- A Saddle Brook couple whose new television was stolen from their home while it was still in the box got a Christmas Eve surprise when a Hackensack contractor who read their story in Daily Voice bought them an even bigger one. "They've been through a lot, with their home broken into and all, so I had to upgrade them," the good Samaritan said Thursday afternoon, after he and Police Chief Robert Kugler delivered the 50-inch smart TV to the Kuhn Drive couple. The contractor said he'd been reading Daily Voice stories posted by a friend on social media about a rash…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Back-To-Back Unfounded Reports Send Bergen Bomb Squad To Maywood Back-To-Back Unfounded Reports Send Bergen Bomb Squad To Maywood Back-To-Back Unfounded Reports Send Bergen Bomb Squad To Maywood
Back-To-Back Unfounded Reports Send Bergen Bomb Squad To Maywood MAYWOOD, N.J. -- Essex Street in Maywood was briefly shut down Thursday afternoon after an unattended cooler on a bus startled a driver. The driver, "not wanting to take any chances," notified police after finding the item, Police Chief David Pegg told Daily Voice. The Bergen County Bomb Squad responded to the call just before 3 p.m. and determined it was harmless, he said. As that call came in, another report of a suspicious duffel bag at a nearby bus stop near the Hackensack border proved unfounded. Essex street was briefly shut between Maywood Avenue and the Hackensack border…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Toy drive brings joy to children in Hackensack, North Bergen Toy drive brings joy to children in Hackensack, North Bergen Toy drive brings joy to children in Hackensack, North Bergen
Toy drive brings joy to children in Hackensack, North Bergen SHOUT OUTS: Teamwork produced a toy drive the brought joy to youngsters at the Audrey Hepburn Children’s House at Hackensack University Medical Center and Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, among other locations. North Bergen Emergency Medical Services teamed up with Jersey City Ford, Atax North Bergen (a tax preparation company) and the Army National Guard Readiness Group for the drive. A division of the Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital, the Audrey Hepburn Children’s House is a state-designated regional diagnostic center for abused and neglected children.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Peruvian National In Emerson Charged With Assaulting Girl, 9 Peruvian National In Emerson Charged With Assaulting Girl, 9 Peruvian National In Emerson Charged With Assaulting Girl, 9
Peruvian National In Emerson Charged With Assaulting Girl, 9 EMERSON, N.J. -- A Peruvian national living in Emerson was charged with the aggravated assault of a 9-year-old girl. Rafael Salvador-Jauregui, 39, was being held on $50,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail following his arrest Wednesday. Should he make bail, he is prohibited from returning home or having contact with the child, under a judge's order. Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said members of his Special Victims Unit arrested Salvador-Jauregui following an investigation with Emerson police. They charged him with aggravated assault and child endangerment. Molinelli didn't sp…

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