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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Northern Valley, NJ
Your Community
Works By Picasso, Max, Lichtenstein Up For Sunday Auction In Haworth Works By Picasso, Max, Lichtenstein Up For Sunday Auction In Haworth Works By Picasso, Max, Lichtenstein Up For Sunday Auction In Haworth
Works By Picasso, Max, Lichtenstein Up For Sunday Auction In Haworth HAWORTH, N.J. -- An auction company on Sunday in Haworth is selling nearly $3 million worth of items seized from criminals -- including works by Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein, Peter Max and Jasper Johns. Westfield Ltd., which isn't affiliated with any law enforcement agency, is conducting the auction at the Haworth Country Club at 1:45 p.m. Preview is 1 p.m. The items include a signed and framed Eli Manning jersey and various high-end watches, earrings and other jewelry. All were obtained at previous government auctions and consignments, Westfield said. The California-based company takes cash…

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Drivers Decline Treatment In Little Ferry Crash Drivers Decline Treatment In Little Ferry Crash Drivers Decline Treatment In Little Ferry Crash
Drivers Decline Treatment In Little Ferry Crash LITTLE FERRY, N.J. -- Both drivers refused medical attention in a crash just after the evening rush hour Friday at the Little Ferry circle on Route 46 and Bergen Turnpike.

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Hackensack, NJ
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Armful Of Stolen Maywood Electronics Lands Rochelle Park Man In Jail Armful Of Stolen Maywood Electronics Lands Rochelle Park Man In Jail Armful Of Stolen Maywood Electronics Lands Rochelle Park Man In Jail
Armful Of Stolen Maywood Electronics Lands Rochelle Park Man In Jail MAYWOOD, N.J. -- Maywood police arrested a Rochelle Park man after they found him walking down the street with more than an armful of what turned out to be stolen electronics in broad daylight Friday. Matthew C. Szucs, 29, was carrying three Optimum cable boxes and a backpack full of stolen property taken moments earlier from an East Pleasant Avenue residence when he was stopped near Thelma Avenue around 3:30 p.m., Police Chief David Pegg told Daily Voice. Szucs was being held on $10,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with burglary, theft and disorderly conduct.

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Bergenfield, NJ
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Bergenfield Firefighters Quickly Knock Blaze Bergenfield Firefighters Quickly Knock Blaze Bergenfield Firefighters Quickly Knock Blaze
Bergenfield Firefighters Quickly Knock Blaze BERGENFIELD, N.J. -- Bergenfield authorities were trying to determine what sparked a series of spot fires in a combined commercial and residential building Friday night. Several callers reported a fire on the roof of the Chapala Grill at 52 South Washington Avenue just before 7:30 pm., Police Chief Cathy Madalone said. Everyone in the business was evacuated, along with the tenants living above, she said. Washington Avenue was closed in both directions while the roof was vented and several upstairs windows broken to help extinguish the blaze, the chief said. The restaurant wasn't damaged a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Bergen Sheriff's Crew Trots Out Record 600 Turkeys For Needy Bergen Sheriff's Crew Trots Out Record 600 Turkeys For Needy Bergen Sheriff's Crew Trots Out Record 600 Turkeys For Needy
Bergen Sheriff's Crew Trots Out Record 600 Turkeys For Needy HACKENSACK, N.J. -- They expected to top last year's donation of 380 Thanksgiving turkeys for the needy, but by the time members of Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino's Community Outreach Unit were done on Friday, a record-shattering 600 were delivered to the Center for Food Action in Saddle Brook. The delivery crew included Saudino, Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco, PBA Local 134 President Marcelo Hagopian and BCSO Officer Aret Yesilepe, who organized the first the drive seven years ago. The crew bought half the haul at the Walmart in Teterboro. They also matched $3,300 in donations …

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Paterson, NJ
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Unicorns Abound At Memorial Dedication For Wayne Girl, 6 Unicorns Abound At Memorial Dedication For Wayne Girl, 6 Unicorns Abound At Memorial Dedication For Wayne Girl, 6
Unicorns Abound At Memorial Dedication For Wayne Girl, 6 WAYNE, N.J. -- In a private ceremony at her favorite place, loved ones of a bubbly Wayne girl who won countless hearts before dying of an inoperable brain tumor this past spring attended the unveiling Friday of a memorial bench. Ryerson Elementary School students sported unicorns at a garden planned in memory of Lily LaRue Anderson, 6. "Her second grade class sang Rent's 'Seasons of Love' and the entire school joined in with the most perfect 'All of Me' by John Legend and 'Somewhere over the Rainbow' mashup," wrote her mother, Barbara Anderson. She called it "the sweetest re…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Paramus Police Use Taser To Stop Disturbed Pedestrian With Box Cutter Paramus Police Use Taser To Stop Disturbed Pedestrian With Box Cutter Paramus Police Use Taser To Stop Disturbed Pedestrian With Box Cutter
Paramus Police Use Taser To Stop Disturbed Pedestrian With Box Cutter PARAMUS, N.J. -- A tense standoff with a suicidal psychiatric patient who sliced his arms with a box cutter and then threatened to use it on Paramus police ended when one of the officers incapacitated him with a Taser, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said Friday. The 43-year-old Bloomfield man had just been released from Bergen Regional Medical Center when bystanders called officers to Pascack Road near Highview Terrace just before 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Ehrenberg said. The 6-foot-tall, 200-plus-pound man was bleeding from his arms, the chief said. "While speaking to the officers, [he] p…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Task Force Takes Down Accused Paterson Dealer In Drug Death of NY Man Task Force Takes Down Accused Paterson Dealer In Drug Death of NY Man Task Force Takes Down Accused Paterson Dealer In Drug Death of NY Man
Task Force Takes Down Accused Paterson Dealer In Drug Death of NY Man PATERSON, N.J. -- Moving swiftly and decisively, investigators with the state Attorney General's Office and the Passaic County Sheriff's Office arrested an accused Paterson drug dealer in connection with the fentanyl-laced heroin death of a Warwick, N.Y. man. New York authorities sought assistance from sheriff's detectives who were already familiar with Shawn Flemmings, 33, acting state Attorney General John J. Hoffman said late Friday afternoon after strike force members stopped his car and took Flemmings into custody. They had arrested Flemmings -- who goes by the name "S" -- on…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Motorcyclist Collared In Paramus After Brief Route 17 Chase Motorcyclist Collared In Paramus After Brief Route 17 Chase Motorcyclist Collared In Paramus After Brief Route 17 Chase
Motorcyclist Collared In Paramus After Brief Route 17 Chase PARAMUS, N.J. -- Paramus police had a motorcyclist in custody after a brief chase down southbound Route 17 Friday afternoon, responders reported. The arrest was made n front of the Wells Fargo Bank branch near Century Road around 3:45 p.m. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Tenafly Pilates Employee Embezzled $25G, Authorities Charge Tenafly Pilates Employee Embezzled $25G, Authorities Charge Tenafly Pilates Employee Embezzled $25G, Authorities Charge
Tenafly Pilates Employee Embezzled $25G, Authorities Charge TENAFLY, N.J. -- Authorities Friday charged an assistant manager at a Tenafly Pilates studio with embezzling more than $25,000 by hacking into the payroll system. Investigators found that Shameek Ellis, 31, was "altering checks received by the business, manipulating the business’ computerized accounting system and using a computerized payroll system to falsely inflate his income," Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said. They charged him with theft by deception and computer-related theft charges. The investigation began in September 2015, when members of Molinelli's White…

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