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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Hackensack, NJ
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Hackensack's Fillet Of Soul Returns To Maywood's Twin Door Tavern Hackensack's Fillet Of Soul Returns To Maywood's Twin Door Tavern Hackensack's Fillet Of Soul Returns To Maywood's Twin Door Tavern
Hackensack's Fillet Of Soul Returns To Maywood's Twin Door Tavern MAYWOOD, N.J. – Hackensack legends Fillet of Soul -- a 12-piece Motown and soul band -- returns to the Maywood Inn’s Twin Door Tavern on Saturday, Dec. 12. The last time Fillet of Soul played the Twin Door, the show sold out quickly. The cover is $10 and dinner reservations are suggested. ALSO SEE: Maywood Inn’s Twin Door Tavern Celebrates 60 Years Fillet of Soul began in 1967 as a five-man a cappella group. A drummer, guitarist and bassist were added, followed by horn players -- and now numbers a dozen. The band has opened for Sly and the Family Stone at Hinchcliff Stadium in Paterson,…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Fair Lawn PBA Shows True Blue Side In Toy Drive Fair Lawn PBA Shows True Blue Side In Toy Drive Fair Lawn PBA Shows True Blue Side In Toy Drive
Fair Lawn PBA Shows True Blue Side In Toy Drive FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- Members of Fair Lawn PBA Local 67 are once again gearing up for one of the Northeast's largest and most fulfilling missions of mercy -- the Bergen County PBA Toy Drive. "Last year, we partnered with Dan Sewall, the owner of Radburn Exxon, and he set up a 24-hour toy drop, and provided a storage facility and trailer for all of the toys collected, " said Fair Lawn Police Officer Michael O'Brien. "Danny donated his own time and funds to purchase large banners that he posted at the intersection to bring attention to the drive." A box for unwrapped toys an…

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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: Guatemalan National Molested Palisades Park Girl 8 Years Ago Authorities: Guatemalan National Molested Palisades Park Girl 8 Years Ago Authorities: Guatemalan National Molested Palisades Park Girl 8 Years Ago
Authorities: Guatemalan National Molested Palisades Park Girl 8 Years Ago PALISADES PARK, N.J. -- A Guatemalan national living in Palisades Park was charged with molesting a borough girl nearly eight years ago. Detectives from the borough and the Bergen County Prosecutor's Special Victims Unit took 38-year-old Elmar Tomas Amira of Hillside Avenue into custody Wednesday on sexual assault and child endangerment charges. This came after the girl, now 14, described the alleged assault, which she said happened in November 2007, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said. The 5-foot-4-inch Amira, who Molinelli said is married and works as a landscaper, was being …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Bridge, Tunnel Agents Douse GWB Fire In Fort Lee Bridge, Tunnel Agents Douse GWB Fire In Fort Lee Bridge, Tunnel Agents Douse GWB Fire In Fort Lee
Bridge, Tunnel Agents Douse GWB Fire In Fort Lee FORT LEE, N.J. -- Tunnel and bridge agents at the George Washington Bridge extinguished a car fire that jammed evening rush-hour traffic into New Jersey on Wednesday. The driver got out safely after the 5 p.m. blaze broke out in the engine compartment of the sedan on the bridge's upper level, the Port Authority's Joseph Pentangelo said.

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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Fort Lee Supplement Maker Used Health-Risk Ingredients, Feds Charge Fort Lee Supplement Maker Used Health-Risk Ingredients, Feds Charge Fort Lee Supplement Maker Used Health-Risk Ingredients, Feds Charge
Fort Lee Supplement Maker Used Health-Risk Ingredients, Feds Charge FORT LEE, N.J. -- A dietary supplement maker with a facility in Fort Lee used an ingredient the government removed from the market five years ago because of its association with heart attacks and strokes, federal authorities said. Bethel Nutritional Consulting also used an ingredient that posed "a potential carcinogenic risk," U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said. Neither ingredient was listed on the labels of Slim-K and B-Lipo, both of which claimed to be fat burners, he said. As part of a nationwide sweep involving more than 100 supplement makers and marketers, the Justice Depart…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Nine Charged, 11 Sought, In Massive Bergen ID Theft Ring Nine Charged, 11 Sought, In Massive Bergen ID Theft Ring Nine Charged, 11 Sought, In Massive Bergen ID Theft Ring
Nine Charged, 11 Sought, In Massive Bergen ID Theft Ring FAIRVIEW, N.J. -- Nine defendants were in custody and 11 more were being sought in connection with a massive identity theft and fraud ring that stretched from Bergen County to Philadelphia, authorities announced Wednesday. It began when Fairview police joined the Bergen County Prosecutor's White Collar Crimes Unit, the FBI and several other law enforcement agencies in arresting the accused ringleader, Liberian national Miokar B. Wehye, in February of this year after an 11-month investigation into complaints by various Bergen County small business owners of ID theft and fraud, Prosecutor John…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Undocumented Bangladeshi Quartet Nabbed In Englewood Fast-Food Raid Undocumented Bangladeshi Quartet Nabbed In Englewood Fast-Food Raid Undocumented Bangladeshi Quartet Nabbed In Englewood Fast-Food Raid
Undocumented Bangladeshi Quartet Nabbed In Englewood Fast-Food Raid ENGLEWOOD, N.J. -- What began as a routine bust of an Englewood fast food restaurant that investigators said sold cigarettes to a 16-year-old led to the arrests of four undocumented Bangladeshi nationals and the seizure of marijuana, 16,000 untaxed cigarettes and other contraband. Englewood police began investigating tips about employees dealing drugs, fencing stolen property and selling cigarettes to minors out of the Crown Chicken & Fish takeout restaurant on West Englewood Avenue, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell told Daily Voice on Wednesday. A pack of cigarettes sold to the teenager …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Paramus Police Catch Route 4 Shoplifter Who Can't Catch Breath Paramus Police Catch Route 4 Shoplifter Who Can't Catch Breath Paramus Police Catch Route 4 Shoplifter Who Can't Catch Breath
Paramus Police Catch Route 4 Shoplifter Who Can't Catch Breath PARAMUS, N.J. -- An accused shoplifter chased by Paramus police across Route 4 early Wednesday afternoon required medical attention after he had difficulty breathing. Officers chased the suspect from the Saks on Fifth store in the Bergen Town Center to just behind the Poggenpohl Kitchen Design Studio on the highway's northbound side, then called for an ambulance. "It was a drug-related episode," Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg told Daily Voice. "Medical personnel had to administer Narcan." The suspect was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, he said. CHECK BAC…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Lodi Police Seek Public's Help Finding Gunman In $3,000 Store Holdup Lodi Police Seek Public's Help Finding Gunman In $3,000 Store Holdup Lodi Police Seek Public's Help Finding Gunman In $3,000 Store Holdup
Lodi Police Seek Public's Help Finding Gunman In $3,000 Store Holdup LODI, N.J. -- Lodi police were seeking the public's help finding a gunman who robbed a Main Street store of $3,000 Tuesday night. The robber entered the store in the 300 block around 11 p.m. and pulled a silver and black handgun from a Jansport backpack, Lt. Robert Salerno said. Then he went behind the counter and "ordered the victim to empty the cash register and place the money in his backpack," the lieutenant said. The victim described the robber as black, about 5-foot-8 with a thin build and wearing a Navy-blue hooded sweatshirt, black pants and a ski mask. Salerno asked tha…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn Police Officer Charged With Stealing Ambulance Supplies Fair Lawn Police Officer Charged With Stealing Ambulance Supplies Fair Lawn Police Officer Charged With Stealing Ambulance Supplies
Fair Lawn Police Officer Charged With Stealing Ambulance Supplies FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- A Fair Lawn police veteran stole blankets, pillow cases, sanitary wipes and other items worth $821 from the borough ambulance corps, authorities charged. Donald MacIsaac of Ringwood turned himself in to his department to be charged with theft on Tuesday after a two-month investigation by the Internal Affairs Unit and the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, Police Chief Glen Cauwels said Wednesday. MacIsaac was released on a summons pending a court hearing and suspended without pay, the chief said. "Officers of the Fair Lawn Police Department strive to conduct themsel…

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