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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Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Paramus Police: Driver Hits Teen With Pipe, Gets Shiner Over Mall Spot Paramus Police: Driver Hits Teen With Pipe, Gets Shiner Over Mall Spot Paramus Police: Driver Hits Teen With Pipe, Gets Shiner Over Mall Spot
Paramus Police: Driver Hits Teen With Pipe, Gets Shiner Over Mall Spot PARAMUS, N.J. -- A 48-year-old Teaneck 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, he said.…

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Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Teaneck Police Release Images Of Drug Store Oxycodone, Cough Syrup Robbers Teaneck Police Release Images Of Drug Store Oxycodone, Cough Syrup Robbers Teaneck Police Release Images Of Drug Store Oxycodone, Cough Syrup Robbers
Teaneck Police Release Images Of Drug Store Oxycodone, Cough Syrup Robbers TEANECK, N.J. -- Teaneck police released surveillance images of two men who robbed a local drug store Sunday morning of Oxycodone and cough syrup. One of them pointed a silver handgun while his accomplice went behind the counter to steal two dozen or so bottles of Oxycodone and two or three cough syrup bottled from Alvin’s Pharmacy on Cedar around 10:40 a.m., Police Chier Robert A. Carney said. Both were wearing bandanas partially covering their faces, the chief said. They ran west on Cedar Lane, he said. The gunman was described as a "dark-complexioned black male, 25-30 years of age,…

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgefield Park Police Chase Down Suspected Industrial Yard Burglar Ridgefield Park Police Chase Down Suspected Industrial Yard Burglar Ridgefield Park Police Chase Down Suspected Industrial Yard Burglar
Ridgefield Park Police Chase Down Suspected Industrial Yard Burglar RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J. -- Ridgefield Park police said they found a 43-year-old village ex-con hinding beneath a trailer after workers caught him burglarizing a construction yard on Sunday. Michael Pelissier bolted toward the Hudson River when officers arrived at the Industrial Avenue yard around noon, Capt. Daniel Hippe said. Pelissier was being held on $20,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with burglary, resisting arrest, trespassing and possession of burglary tools and a hypodermic needle. He was also wanted on several warrants.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen Sheriff, Local Police Get Grants For Body Cameras Bergen Sheriff, Local Police Get Grants For Body Cameras Bergen Sheriff, Local Police Get Grants For Body Cameras
Bergen Sheriff, Local Police Get Grants For Body Cameras The Bergen County Sheriff's Office and nine local police departments the county will divide $125,500 in funding for body cameras for their officers, as part of $2.5 million in grants to 176 law enforcement agencies statewide, acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced Monday morning. Teaneck police will receive the largest grant, $35,000, followed by the sheriff's office at $25,000, Hoffman said during a news conference on the Busch campus of Rutgers University in Piscataway. The funding will come from money seized in criminal cases, he said. Also receiving grants: East Rutherford …

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Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Hillsdale High-Schoolers Donate Gift Cards To Vets Hillsdale High-Schoolers Donate Gift Cards To Vets Hillsdale High-Schoolers Donate Gift Cards To Vets
Hillsdale High-Schoolers Donate Gift Cards To Vets HILLSDALE, N.J. -- Students from Pascack Valley High School helped American Legion Post 162 of Hillsdale, Woodcliff Lake, Old Tappan supply homeless veterans with new backpacks, winter clothing and food gift cards. The high school sophomores collected and donated nearly $900 in gift certificate cards in support of the Bergen County Tracers Program of the Division of Veteran Services in Hackensack. "The school, teachers and parents deserve to be very proud of these great girls," the American Legion's Zoltan Horvath said. On any given night there are anywhere from 125 to 150 homele…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah PBA Thanks Public For Successful Toy Drive Mahwah PBA Thanks Public For Successful Toy Drive Mahwah PBA Thanks Public For Successful Toy Drive
Mahwah PBA Thanks Public For Successful Toy Drive MAHWAH, N.J. -- After participating in the largest Bergen County PBA Toy Drive ever, members of the Mahwah PBA gave credit to local residents and businesses. "It's because of your generosity that children in need will have toys this Christmas," PBA Local 143 Vice-President Rosario Zito said. On behalf of the union and the entire department, Zito wished everyone "Happy Holidays!" ALSO SEE: Bergen PBA Toy Drive Brings Joy To Young Cancer Patients, Tears To Officers Mahwah, Ramsey Police Boost Bergen County PBA Toy Drive

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Texas Man Charged With Swapping Sex Videos With Girl Brought To Hackensack Texas Man Charged With Swapping Sex Videos With Girl Brought To Hackensack Texas Man Charged With Swapping Sex Videos With Girl Brought To Hackensack
Texas Man Charged With Swapping Sex Videos With Girl Brought To Hackensack HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A 20-year-old temp worker from Texas was brought to New Jersey on Sunday to face cyber-sex charges for what authorities said were explicit chats and videos with a 12-year-old Bergen County youngster. Robert Doverspike of Grand Prarie was being held on $150,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with aggravated sexual assault and two counts of child endangerment. Doverspike "used the screen names 'rsquared2013' and 'randomrobbie2013' to contact his victim utilizing the social media applications ooVoo and Kik," Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Teaneck Registered Sex Offender Charged With Assaulting 5 Children Teaneck Registered Sex Offender Charged With Assaulting 5 Children Teaneck Registered Sex Offender Charged With Assaulting 5 Children
Teaneck Registered Sex Offender Charged With Assaulting 5 Children TEANECK, N.J. -- A registered sex offender from Teaneck abused five different children from three to nine years old -- and even videotaped some of them in the act -- over the course of nearly 2½ years, a sweeping indictment returned by a grand jury in Bergen County alleges. William Romero Kooney, a 42-year-old software engineer, has remained free since posting $900,000 bail on March 23, more than two weeks after his arrest. Kooney was registered in 2009 as a Megan’s Law offender for sexually assaulting a Passaic County girl under 13 and possessing child pornography. After he was arrested a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Westwood Police: Paramus DWI Driver Texting Before Crash Splits Pole Westwood Police: Paramus DWI Driver Texting Before Crash Splits Pole Westwood Police: Paramus DWI Driver Texting Before Crash Splits Pole
Westwood Police: Paramus DWI Driver Texting Before Crash Splits Pole WESTWOOD, N.J. -- A 36-year-old drunk driver from Paramus admitted that she'd been texting before her car slammed into a utility pole -- splitting it -- and then rolled and landed on its side, authorities told Daily Voice. Westwood police officers responding to the Lafayette Avenue crash just north of Washington Avenue found her "confused, disoriented and bleeding from the face and hands" just after 12:30 a.m. Sunday, Sgt. Scott McNiff said. There were no skid marks and the utility pole was split in half and dangling, he added. Concerned that the power lines "could come down…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Obituaries
Daughter Of Popular Montvale Bartender, 57: 'Death Did Not Become Him' Daughter Of Popular Montvale Bartender, 57: 'Death Did Not Become Him' Daughter Of Popular Montvale Bartender, 57: 'Death Did Not Become Him'
Daughter Of Popular Montvale Bartender, 57: 'Death Did Not Become Him' MONTVALE, N.J. -- As funeral arrangements were finalized for Mark Rahl, a bartender from Davey's Irish Pub & Restaurant in Montvale who was extremely popular among emergency service workers -- and others -- his daughter opened her heart in a tribute early Sunday: The night before my dad died (this past Thursday) I hadn’t slept in days. Fearing that if I just *blinked* I would miss something..his last word, his last breath, his last anything. Nothing really seems to make sense right now. People keep saying how strong I am. They keep telling me I will break. But, I am his daughter..and qu…

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