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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Rochelle Park Police Bust Trio With Shoplifted Goods, Gun Rochelle Park Police Bust Trio With Shoplifted Goods, Gun Rochelle Park Police Bust Trio With Shoplifted Goods, Gun
Rochelle Park Police Bust Trio With Shoplifted Goods, Gun ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. -- A shoplifting call led Rochelle Park to a trio of arrests. Responding Officer Jared Shatkin and Sgt. Doug Arendacs had just released 19-year-old Matthew Talbot of West Orange after giving him a summons at the Shop Rite when they saw him get into a car that was traveling slowly through the parking lot with two alleged accomplices inside. They stopped the car and spotted several items that has just been stolen from the nearby Target in the back seat, Detective Sgt. James DePreta said. These included Lifeproof Iphone cases, a Webcam, Xbox 360 controller, a Brita water f…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Freed After Wyckoff Incident, Man Caught By Ramsey Police In Stolen Car Freed After Wyckoff Incident, Man Caught By Ramsey Police In Stolen Car Freed After Wyckoff Incident, Man Caught By Ramsey Police In Stolen Car
Freed After Wyckoff Incident, Man Caught By Ramsey Police In Stolen Car RAMSEY, N.J. -- No sooner had a Pennsylvania man been released after a heroin-related incident in Wyckoff than Ramsey police collared him in a stolen car that had been left running at a Paramus gas station. The owner left the black 2012 black Mitsubishi Lancer idling outside the Route 17 Exxon mini mart when 49-year-old Bruce T. Winn got behind the wheel just before 10 p.m. Monday night and took off, Ramsey Police Sgt. Mike Parise told Daily Voice on Tuesday. Paramus police issued an alert for the car and the driver, who was described as having long dark hair. Parise was monitoring traffic…

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Garfield-Lodi, NJ
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SUV Lands Upside-Down In Garfield Brook SUV Lands Upside-Down In Garfield Brook SUV Lands Upside-Down In Garfield Brook
SUV Lands Upside-Down In Garfield Brook GARFIELD, N.J. -- A man who drove his SUV into a brook that feeds into the Saddle River in Garfield late Tuesday afternoon was being taken to an area hospital with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening, authorities said. The SUV "went straight over the embankment" in the parking lot of the Quick Chek complex at 99 River Drive around 3:40 p.m., Capt. Darren Sucorowski told Daily Voice. It left the vehicle upside down in the water, he said. Firefighters and the Wallington Dive Team quickly extricated the driver, Sucorowski said.

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Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Grand Jury Clears Trucker In Rt. 17 Crash Death Of Waldwick Police Officer Grand Jury Clears Trucker In Rt. 17 Crash Death Of Waldwick Police Officer Grand Jury Clears Trucker In Rt. 17 Crash Death Of Waldwick Police Officer
Grand Jury Clears Trucker In Rt. 17 Crash Death Of Waldwick Police Officer WALDWICK, N.J. -- A grand jury in Hackensack on Tuesday refused to bring vehicular manslaughter charges against a long-haul trucker whose rig slammed into a Waldwick police officer’s car, killing him, on Route 17 in July 2014. The grand jurors' decision not to indict Ryon Cumberbatch on the charges in the death of Officer Christopher Goodell was "a disappointing outcome," Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said. Molinelli thanked the grand jurors, who he said "serve a critical function in our judicial process. He also expressed "deepest sympathies to the Goodell…

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Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Bergenfield Handyman Charged With Sexually Assaulting Girl, 8 Bergenfield Handyman Charged With Sexually Assaulting Girl, 8 Bergenfield Handyman Charged With Sexually Assaulting Girl, 8
Bergenfield Handyman Charged With Sexually Assaulting Girl, 8 BERGENFIELD, N.J. -- A self-employed Bergenfield handyman was being held on $400,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl. Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said Bergenfield police and detectives from his Special Victims Unit arrested Martin Alonso Lopez, 47, at borough police headquarters on Sunday. Lopez, who Molinelli said is married, is charged with aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and child endangerment. "The Bergenfield Police Department learned of what occurred between Lopez and the victim and notified the Special Victims Unit,…

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Paterson, NJ
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Paterson Postal Worker Busted In $50G Unemployment Scam Paterson Postal Worker Busted In $50G Unemployment Scam Paterson Postal Worker Busted In $50G Unemployment Scam
Paterson Postal Worker Busted In $50G Unemployment Scam PATERSON, N.J. -- A former Elmwood Park postal carrier from Paterson was one of nine current and former U.S. Postal Service employees indicted on charges of pocketing thousands of dollars in unemployment while still on the job. Diana Rivera, 34, "filed fraudulent unemployment insurance claims for 10 consecutive weeks between March 10 and May 18, 2012 to receive unemployment benefits in the amount of $6,792 to which she was not entitled," acting state Attorney General John J. Hoffman said Tuesday. Also charged was Siobhan Austin, 40, of Irvington, a carrier technician who worked ou…

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Hasbrouck Heights Single-Car Crash Driver Has Heart Attack, Responders Say Hasbrouck Heights Single-Car Crash Driver Has Heart Attack, Responders Say Hasbrouck Heights Single-Car Crash Driver Has Heart Attack, Responders Say
Hasbrouck Heights Single-Car Crash Driver Has Heart Attack, Responders Say HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N.J. -- Responders reported the driver of a car that crashed Tuesday afternoon into a utility pole in Hasbrouck Heights in full cardiac arrest when they arrived. The driver was taken by ambulance after the noon crash at the corner of Boulevard and Williams Avenue. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS

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Teaneck, NJ
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Ethnomusicologist Presents Holocaust Lecture Recital In Teaneck Ethnomusicologist Presents Holocaust Lecture Recital In Teaneck Ethnomusicologist Presents Holocaust Lecture Recital In Teaneck
Ethnomusicologist Presents Holocaust Lecture Recital In Teaneck TEANECK, N.J. -- Focusing on the courage and resistance of the Jewish people through their poetry and melodies, former longtime Ridgewood music teacher Dr. Tamara Freeman presented a combined lecture/recital at Temple Emeth in Teaneck on Sunday, Nov. 15. Freeman played a 1935 Joseph Bausch viola that was rescued from the Shoah. A concert violinist, violist and Holocaust ethnomusicologist, Freeman taught in the Ridgewood public school system from 1982-2012. She conducted choirs, orchestras, and bands and composed ensemble repertoire for young ensembles in her mission to infuse students with…

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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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First Wyckoff HS Lacrosse Team Makes It To Semis In PA First Wyckoff HS Lacrosse Team Makes It To Semis In PA First Wyckoff HS Lacrosse Team Makes It To Semis In PA
First Wyckoff HS Lacrosse Team Makes It To Semis In PA WYCKOFF, N.J. -- Wyckoff's first-ever high school fall lacrosse team completed its season by making it to the semifinals of the Lehigh University King of the Mountain Fall Tournament in Bethlehem, PA the weekend of Nov. 14-15. The season included a similar 3-0 run at Fall Brawl in Mercer County against Bergen Catholic, among other teams from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and elsewhere. "We could not be more pleased with the level of play from the boys all season," co-director Jeff Eischen said. "Many of these players have been with TRIBE since the beginning and it's grea…

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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Wyckoff Police Say Driver Was Drugged, Threatening Wyckoff Police Say Driver Was Drugged, Threatening Wyckoff Police Say Driver Was Drugged, Threatening
Wyckoff Police Say Driver Was Drugged, Threatening WYCKOFF, N.J. -- A Pennsylvania driver found by Wyckoff police in a parking lot after his disabled car had apparently struck something was under the influence of drugs, had heroin in the car and threatened officers, authorities said. Sgt. Michael Ragucci spotted the Ford Mustang straddling two parking stalls on Everett Avenue on Sunday, Nov. 15, Police Chief Benjamin Fox said Tuesday. "A tire on the car had been shredded as if the vehicle has struck something," he said. A passenger was passed out in the back seat, while 49-year-old driver Bruce T. Winn of Thompson, PA was incoher…

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