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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Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
DWI Lodi Teacher Seeks To Block Evidence In Cop Crash DWI Lodi Teacher Seeks To Block Evidence In Cop Crash DWI Lodi Teacher Seeks To Block Evidence In Cop Crash
DWI Lodi Teacher Seeks To Block Evidence In Cop Crash LODI, N.J. -- A defense attorney told a judge in Hackensack today that he is trying to suppress statements made by a high school math teacher whose car slammed into a police cruiser, critically injuring Bergen County Police Officer Daniel Breslin on Route 46 in Lodi in April 2014. Brian Neary said he'll also try to stop prosecutors from presenting blood and urine evidence at what he expects will be a trial for Michael Ettz. Neary has filed a motion to dismiss an indictment charging Ettz with aggravated assault and leaving the scene. He's also said his client "absolutely won't" tak…

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Elmwood Park Duo Charged in $230,000 Superstorm Sandy Scam Elmwood Park Duo Charged in $230,000 Superstorm Sandy Scam Elmwood Park Duo Charged in $230,000 Superstorm Sandy Scam
Elmwood Park Duo Charged in $230,000 Superstorm Sandy Scam ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- An Elmwood Park couple scammed insurance companies out of $230,000 with bogus claims of Superstorm Sandy damage to their apartment, the woman's son's dorm room and property she stored at her brother's Jersey Shore home, a state grand jury has charged. Katreecea Cline, 46, and her husband Stevie Mitchell, 44, also filed a false bankruptcy application, acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman said this afternoon. A seven-count indictment returned in Trenton today charges Cline with insurance fraud, theft and forgery and both of them with fraud and unsworn falsification, h…

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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Retired Officer Commits Suicide Outside Cliffside Park Home Retired Officer Commits Suicide Outside Cliffside Park Home Retired Officer Commits Suicide Outside Cliffside Park Home
Retired Officer Commits Suicide Outside Cliffside Park Home CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. -- A retired Guttenberg police sergeant killed himself with a single gunshot outside his Cliffside Park home last night, authorities confirmed this afternoon. A relative found Michael Dannunzio, 48, in his car outside the Highridge Avenue home around 10:40 p.m. and dialed 911, Police Chief Richard Gaito told Daily Voice.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Elmwood Park Police Arrest 4, Seize Cocaine, Cash, Pit Bull Elmwood Park Police Arrest 4, Seize Cocaine, Cash, Pit Bull Elmwood Park Police Arrest 4, Seize Cocaine, Cash, Pit Bull
Elmwood Park Police Arrest 4, Seize Cocaine, Cash, Pit Bull ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- Elmwood Park police raided a ramshackle home and arrested four people, three of whom they said were involved in selling cocaine there, following a two-month investigation that included several undercover buys. Animal control officers were summoned to take custody of a pit bull found in the home, raising the possibility of cruelty charges, Police Chief Michael Foligno told Daily Voice this afternoon. A strike force of detectives and officers hit the Boulevard home near Linden Avenue around 9:30 p.m. Friday, Foligno said. They seized an ounce of cocaine, $738, several b…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn Police Officer Nabs Borough Man After Break-In Fair Lawn Police Officer Nabs Borough Man After Break-In Fair Lawn Police Officer Nabs Borough Man After Break-In
Fair Lawn Police Officer Nabs Borough Man After Break-In FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- A Fair Lawn patrol officer responding to a burglary call this afternoon arrested a 28-year-old borough man who authorities said was fleeing a local apartment complex with game controllers, rubber gloves and a chisel. Alerted by a resident, Officer Brian Rypkema stopped Steven Sabatino as he left the Wagaraw Road complex around 12:30 p.m., Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Besides what Sabatino was carrying, officers found a PlayStation 4 game console and nine PS4 games on the front steps of a Pomona Avenue residence across the street, Metzler said. They also found a door forced o…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Bentley Rolls On Route 208 In Fair Lawn, DWI Driver Charged Bentley Rolls On Route 208 In Fair Lawn, DWI Driver Charged Bentley Rolls On Route 208 In Fair Lawn, DWI Driver Charged
Bentley Rolls On Route 208 In Fair Lawn, DWI Driver Charged FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- A 51-year-old Franklin Lakes man was intoxicated when his luxury car went up a Route 208 embankment and rolled back onto the shoulder of the highway over the weekend, Fair Lawn police said this morning. Cesar Shapiama told police he swerved to avoid an animal in the northbound roadway as he approached Fair Lawn Avenue around 4:20 a.m. Saturday, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. The 2006 Bentley Flying Spur "rode up the embankment between the highway and the ramp and into a guiderail, then rolled down the embankment onto the shoulder of the highway," he said. Shapiama, w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Your Community
Popular Performer's Cancer Fight Sparks Englewood Fundraiser Popular Performer's Cancer Fight Sparks Englewood Fundraiser Popular Performer's Cancer Fight Sparks Englewood Fundraiser
Popular Performer's Cancer Fight Sparks Englewood Fundraiser ENGLEWOOD -- The Gipsy Kings are among the featured performers scheduled at "Pretty in Pink: A Celebration of Life," an Oct. 22 fundraiser in Englewood to raise money for entertainer Olivia Summer Hutcherson's battle with breast cancer. Organizers have asked attendees to dress in pink to help raise awareness of breast cancer in young women. There will also be deejay music, dinner, cocktails, a live auction and more. Hutcherson, a former San Francisco 49er "Gold Rush" cheerleader who directs sales and marketing at New York City's Encore Events, is a versatile entertainer…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Lawyers: Leonia Man Not Competent In Child Sex, Luring Cases Lawyers: Leonia Man Not Competent In Child Sex, Luring Cases Lawyers: Leonia Man Not Competent In Child Sex, Luring Cases
Lawyers: Leonia Man Not Competent In Child Sex, Luring Cases LEONIA, N.J. -- A former Leonia per diem employee charged with having sex with a 13-year-old girl and luring a 6-year-old boy from a park to his home has significant mental issues and probably isn;t competent to stand trial, his lawyers said yesterday. William Slaughter, 23, was working as a part-time camp counselor in July 2014 when he took a 6-year old boy to his home on Broad Avenue, violating a court order that prohibited unsupervised contact with minors, authorities said. The boy’s sister and a group of her friends followed the two, and the sister called her mother before Slaughter cou…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
State Authorities Investigate Oakland Bear Report By Boy, 7 State Authorities Investigate Oakland Bear Report By Boy, 7 State Authorities Investigate Oakland Bear Report By Boy, 7
State Authorities Investigate Oakland Bear Report By Boy, 7 OAKLAND, N.J. -- State wildlife officials said they were trying to determine whether a 7-year-old boy with scratches came into direct contact with a bear in Ramapo Mountain State Forest in Oakland over the weekend. The state Department of Environmental Protection was investigating the boy's report, along with marks on his body that could have been caused by thorns, the DEP's Caryn Shinske said. Authorities set a trap containing a bait bag, Nj.com reports. The boy, who described the bear as being about 200 pounds, was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center Saturday for evaluation, th…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Smirking Bond gang member who plotted to kill associate could be freed in 30 months Smirking Bond gang member who plotted to kill associate could be freed in 30 months Smirking Bond gang member who plotted to kill associate could be freed in 30 months
Smirking Bond gang member who plotted to kill associate could be freed in 30 months Despite his tenth felony conviction, an original member of the James Bond Gang burglary crew from Teaneck sentenced yesterday for plotting from jail to have an associate killed could be out of prison in 2½ years. “I apologize to my victims for the trauma they experienced, and I apologize to my own family for what I’m going through — again,” said William Collins, gesturing to relatives sitting behind him in the Hackensack courtroom. “It’s hard.” Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor David Calviello (STORY / PHOTOS: Mary K. Miraglia) Collins told Superior Court Judge Margaret M. Foti that hi…

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