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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Fort Lee, NJ
Your Community
Leonia Police Hiring School Crossing Guards, With Benefits Leonia Police Hiring School Crossing Guards, With Benefits Leonia Police Hiring School Crossing Guards, With Benefits
Leonia Police Hiring School Crossing Guards, With Benefits LEONIA, N.J. -- The Leonia Police Department seeks school crossing guards. Guards escort the street in designated school crossing zones Monday through Friday from: • 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m.• 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.• 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Starting salary is $15 an hour. Top pay: $21.42 per hour. Additional benefits are paid vacation, holiday and sick days. Applicants must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes fingerprinting. Interested individuals must submit a completed application to Police Chief Thomas Rowe. Applications may be obtained at the Leonia Police Department…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Two Killed In Fair Lawn Group Home Fire Two Killed In Fair Lawn Group Home Fire Two Killed In Fair Lawn Group Home Fire
Two Killed In Fair Lawn Group Home Fire FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- Two women died and three people were hospitalized, including a police officer who sustained a knee injury when he fell from a roof while rescuing a resident during a fire at a Fair Lawn assisted living home for disabled adults late Monday. The officer was hurt after he caught his leg in a gutter as he got down from the roof, responders said. "He said he could see two other victims in a room but he couldn't get back in because of the intensity of the fire," one of them told Daily Voice.ALSO SEE: A fire in a Fair Lawn independent living facility that killed two wo…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Mahwah PBA Tradition Continues, 150 Thanksgiving Turkeys Donated Mahwah PBA Tradition Continues, 150 Thanksgiving Turkeys Donated Mahwah PBA Tradition Continues, 150 Thanksgiving Turkeys Donated
Mahwah PBA Tradition Continues, 150 Thanksgiving Turkeys Donated MAHWAH, N.J. -- Keeping an annual traditon of more than a decade, Mahwah PBA Local 143 donated 150 Thanksgiving turkeys for families in need. The donation was to the Center for Food Action on Saturday thanks, in part, to Shop Rite of Ramsey and Blackman Plumbing Supply in Mahwah, which helped with the transportation. "We are proud to have this as a holiday tradition," PBA Vice-President Rosario Zito said. "After all, that's what Thanksgiving is all about."

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Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Haworth Police Sergeant Nabs 2 With Heroin, One With Warrant Haworth Police Sergeant Nabs 2 With Heroin, One With Warrant Haworth Police Sergeant Nabs 2 With Heroin, One With Warrant
Haworth Police Sergeant Nabs 2 With Heroin, One With Warrant HAWORTH, N.J. -- A Haworth police sergeant who pulled over a commercial van for an obstructed license plate on Monday found its two Sussex County occupants carrying 30 bags of heroin and a hypodermic needle, authorities told Daily Voice. Sgt. Thomas Smith stopped the vehicle on Sunset Avenue around 10:30 a.m., Lt. Michael Gracey said. A quick check found that the driver -- identified as 27-year-old Shawn Buckley -- was on the suspended list and wanted on a warrant out of Union County, Gracey said. A Bergen County Sheriff's K-9 unit was summoned and indicated drugs in the van, the lieutenan…

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Cresskill-Closter, NJ
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Closter Junior Footballers Cap Perfect Season With Championship Closter Junior Footballers Cap Perfect Season With Championship Closter Junior Footballers Cap Perfect Season With Championship
Closter Junior Footballers Cap Perfect Season With Championship CLOSTER, N.J. -- The Closter Cobras Junior Football team capped a perfect season by beating previously unbeaten Park Ridge in their Super Bowl, played at Park Ridge High School on Saturday. The Cobras team consists of 5th- and 6th-grade boys from Closter, Demarest and Haworth. It's led by Head Coach Joseph Argenziano and Assistant Coaches John Williams, Craig Miller, Derek Short and Pete Vadis. They topped Northern Valley to get to big game.

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Elmwood Park Police Make Heroin, Pot, Prostitution Arrests In Quick Time Elmwood Park Police Make Heroin, Pot, Prostitution Arrests In Quick Time Elmwood Park Police Make Heroin, Pot, Prostitution Arrests In Quick Time
Elmwood Park Police Make Heroin, Pot, Prostitution Arrests In Quick Time ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- Elmwood Park police continued their campaign against quality of life crimes, making a trio of arrests for marijuana and heroin possession and prostitution in barely 24 hours. Officers released 30-year-old borough resident Edwin Lopez on a court summons for marijuana possession after arresting him Friday on Donor Avenue, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. A day earlier, they arrested a 35-year-old Lodi man on charges of having 50 bags of heroin and paraphernalia when he was stopped on Route 46 at Mill Street, the chief said. He, too, was released on a court summons. An…

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Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Murder Suspect In Chase Drives Wrong Way Down PIP In Englewood Cliffs Murder Suspect In Chase Drives Wrong Way Down PIP In Englewood Cliffs Murder Suspect In Chase Drives Wrong Way Down PIP In Englewood Cliffs
Murder Suspect In Chase Drives Wrong Way Down PIP In Englewood Cliffs ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. -- An upstate New York man accused of stabbing his former live-in girlfriend to death drove his car through oncoming traffic and the gas station on the Palisades Interstate Parkway in Englewood Cliffs during a Monday morning chase that ended on the New Jersey Turnpike in Secaucus. An alert was issued for David Campos after one of the victim's three children called police around 5:45 a.m., Troy Police Capt. Daniel DeWolf said. Four hours or so later, New York State Police began chasing a black Chrysler 200 with Campos behind the wheel. Palisades Interstate Parkway pol…

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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Bogota Police Seek 2 In Street Robbery Bogota Police Seek 2 In Street Robbery Bogota Police Seek 2 In Street Robbery
Bogota Police Seek 2 In Street Robbery BOGOTA, N.J. -- Bogota police were searching for two men, one of them armed, who they said robbed a 21-year-old man of $1,000 worth of electronics on a local street. The pair apparently "were loitering in the area prior to the robbery" in the 100 block of Gray Street at 8 p.m. Friday, Detective Capt. James Sepp told Daily Voice.

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn Police Bust 6 In Pot Sale Robbery Fair Lawn Police Bust 6 In Pot Sale Robbery Fair Lawn Police Bust 6 In Pot Sale Robbery
Fair Lawn Police Bust 6 In Pot Sale Robbery FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- Six Fair Lawn men jumped another after arranging to meet him for a marijuana sale in a Home Depot parking lot, authorities said. Detectives broke the case after the 18-year-old was assaulted in the McLean Avenue lot and had $368 in cash, credit cards, a phone charger, a hat and the marijuana taken on Nov. 9, Sgt. Brian Metzler said Monday morning. He had planned to meet two of them for a pot sale when the others showed up, he said. They then ran off, Metzler said. Ordered held on $65,000 bail were Malik Contee, 20, and Zachary Lous, 18. Ordered held on $50,000 bail were …

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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Franklin Lakes Police Chief Nabs Accused Shoplifter Franklin Lakes Police Chief Nabs Accused Shoplifter Franklin Lakes Police Chief Nabs Accused Shoplifter
Franklin Lakes Police Chief Nabs Accused Shoplifter FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. -- Franklin Lakes Police Chief Carmine Pezzuti was off duty when he nabbed a North Haledon man who he said shoplifted a case of Red Bull from the Stop & Shop on Franklin Avenue. Roy Schmtt, 32, was ordered held on $5,000 bail after Pezzuto grabbed him in the supermarket parking lot with the $150 case of energy drink on Sunday, Lt. John Bakelaar said. He was charged with shoplifting and resisting arrest.

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