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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Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
DNA Helps Teaneck Police Bring More Charges Against Convict DNA Helps Teaneck Police Bring More Charges Against Convict DNA Helps Teaneck Police Bring More Charges Against Convict
DNA Helps Teaneck Police Bring More Charges Against Convict TEANECK, N.J. -- DNA and other evidence produced new burglary and theft charges by Teaneck police against a North Carolina man already serving time in state prison for several area break-ins. Teaneck detectives working an undercover operation nabbed Antonio Singletary, 43, last Oct. 20 after they said he broke into five homes in Teaneck and Englewood, then fenced what he stole from them. They recovered several items, including a 60-inch flat-screen TV that they said was wedged in the rear passenger compartment of the car he was driving, Police Chief Robert A. Carney said. Singletary, of Ra…

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Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgewood schools locked down after student mistakes cellphone for gun Ridgewood schools locked down after student mistakes cellphone for gun Ridgewood schools locked down after student mistakes cellphone for gun
Ridgewood schools locked down after student mistakes cellphone for gun A Ridgewood student mistakenly thought he saw a man carrying a gun outside the Travell School Thursday afternoon, prompting precautionary lockdowns there and at the Benjamin Franklin Middle School, police told Daily Voice. “A dad was dropping off his kid. A student was looking out the window and saw what he thought was a gun,” Police Chief John Ward said.Both schools were immediately locked down as a precaution, he said. “We were able to see on video what the child was talking about — the parent had a cellphone in his hand,” added Capt. Jacqueline Luthcke. “There was no threat.”

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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen SVU Charges Man With Sexually Assaulting Fort Lee Girl, 14 Bergen SVU Charges Man With Sexually Assaulting Fort Lee Girl, 14 Bergen SVU Charges Man With Sexually Assaulting Fort Lee Girl, 14
Bergen SVU Charges Man With Sexually Assaulting Fort Lee Girl, 14 FORT LEE, N.J. -- A divorced chef from Union County was being held on $250,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with sexually assauling a 14-year-old Fort Lee girl. Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said members of his Special Victims Unit arrested Jose D. Fernandez, 50, of Garwood on Oct. 8. He was charged with aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and child endangerment. Fort Lee police "learned of what had occurred between [Fernandez] and the victim and notified the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit," Molinelli said.

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Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
New Milford Police Make Arrest In Tire Slashing Spree New Milford Police Make Arrest In Tire Slashing Spree New Milford Police Make Arrest In Tire Slashing Spree
New Milford Police Make Arrest In Tire Slashing Spree NEW MILFORD, N.J. -- New Milford police ended a two-month search Thursday with the arrest of a man who they said slashed nearly 80 tires on more than three dozen vehicles during a pair of pre-dawn vandalism sprees, Daily Voice has learned. A caller brought Sgt.Nicholas DiGenio and Officers Kevin Morris and Christopher Bores to McKinley Avenue, where they spotted Matthew DeStafano, 23, of New Milford. He was carrying a driver's side mirror and a pair of scissors, Police Chief Frank Ramaci told Daily Voice. A canvass of the area revealed 15 vehicles with 41 slashed tires, which Ramaci said c…

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson Man Nabbed In $35,000 Fragrances Theft Paterson Man Nabbed In $35,000 Fragrances Theft Paterson Man Nabbed In $35,000 Fragrances Theft
Paterson Man Nabbed In $35,000 Fragrances Theft FAIRVIEW, N.J. -- Fairview detectives tracked $15,000 in stolen women's perfume and men's cologne to a Paterson man who they arrested on possession of stolen property charges. Police Chief Thomas Juliano said Isa Ahmad broke into a Cliff Street business and took the fragrances on Sept. 18. Investigators armed with search warrants hit several locations, recovering most of the stolen items, which Juliano said were returned to the business owner. "Additional merchandise also believed to be stolen was recovered as well," he said. Ahmad remained held on $35,000 bail in the Bergen Cou…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Fairview Detectives Nab Paterson Man In $35,000 Fragrances Theft Fairview Detectives Nab Paterson Man In $35,000 Fragrances Theft Fairview Detectives Nab Paterson Man In $35,000 Fragrances Theft
Fairview Detectives Nab Paterson Man In $35,000 Fragrances Theft FAIRVIEW, N.J. -- Fairview detectives tracked $15,000 in stolen women's perfume and men's cologne to a Paterson man who they arrested on possession of stolen property charges. Police Chief Thomas Juliano said Isa Ahmad broke into a Cliff Street business and took the fragrances on Sept. 18. Investigators armed with search warrants hit several locations, recovering most of the stolen items, which Juliano said were returned to the business owner. "Additional merchandise also believed to be stolen was recovered as well," he said. Ahmad remained held on $35,000 bail in the Bergen Cou…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgewood Schools Locked Down After Student Mistakes Phone For Gun Ridgewood Schools Locked Down After Student Mistakes Phone For Gun Ridgewood Schools Locked Down After Student Mistakes Phone For Gun
Ridgewood Schools Locked Down After Student Mistakes Phone For Gun RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- A Ridgewood student mistakenly thought he saw a man carrying a gun outside the Travell School Thursday afternoon, prompting precautionary lockdowns there and at the Benjamin Franklin Middle School, police told Daily Voice. "A dad was dropping off his kid. A student was looking out the window and saw what he thought was a gun," Police Chief John Ward said.Both schools were immediately locked down as a precaution, he said. "We were able to see on video what the child was talking about -- the parent had a cellphone in his hand," added Capt. Jacqueline Lut…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Saddle Brook Police Chief, Others, Fly To DR To Foster Relations Saddle Brook Police Chief, Others, Fly To DR To Foster Relations Saddle Brook Police Chief, Others, Fly To DR To Foster Relations
Saddle Brook Police Chief, Others, Fly To DR To Foster Relations SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- A law enforcement delegation from New Jersey left the country before dawn this morning for Santo Domingo for what Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler and said is "an official visit to forge ties and build a networking relationship with the Dominican Republic National Police and the Dominican community in our area." Others on the five-day trip sponsored by the United States Asian American Law Enforcement Foundation are Al Della Fave, a retired New Jersey State Police major who is the public information officer for the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office. Della…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Alert Leonia Police Sergeant Busts Three Out-Of-Staters With Heroin Alert Leonia Police Sergeant Busts Three Out-Of-Staters With Heroin Alert Leonia Police Sergeant Busts Three Out-Of-Staters With Heroin
Alert Leonia Police Sergeant Busts Three Out-Of-Staters With Heroin LEONIA, N.J -- A Leonia police officer who checked out an illegally parked car overnight on Broad Avenue arrested three people from out of state who Police Chief Thomas Rowe said were carrying more than a pound of uncut heroin for sale. Sgt. Robert Kennedy spotted a small bag of marijuana in plain view in the black Dodge Charger -- which bore a temporary Virginia license plate -- as he spoke to the three occupants around 2 a.m. Oct. 7, Rowe said. Reponding officers included Officers Erik Goodell and Sihoon Chung and a Bergen County Sheriff’s K-9 unit. Seized after a search was heroin worth…

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Teaneck, NJ
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Springsteen Drummer Headlining Teaneck Hospital Ball Springsteen Drummer Headlining Teaneck Hospital Ball Springsteen Drummer Headlining Teaneck Hospital Ball
Springsteen Drummer Headlining Teaneck Hospital Ball TEANECK, N.J. -- "Mighty Max" Weinberg of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band is playing the Annual Founders Ball benefit for Teaneck's Holy Name Medical Center on Saturday, Oct. 10, at Manhattan's Chelsea Piers. Tickets are $750 each. The night's honoree is Angelica Berrie, president of the philanthropic Russ Berrie Foundation, which supports diabetes research and humanism in medicine, among other causes. Berrie has given the medical center a $5 million grant for its Institute for Simulation Learning, where budding ER staffers learn how to handle emergencies using mannequins. Wei…

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