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
Breaking News
Indictment returned against Lodi man accused of killing estranged wife, taking kids Indictment returned against Lodi man accused of killing estranged wife, taking kids Indictment returned against Lodi man accused of killing estranged wife, taking kids
Indictment returned against Lodi man accused of killing estranged wife, taking kids YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Lodi man charged with stabbing his estranged wife to death and fleeing to South Carolina with their two sons was indicted today on murder, kidnapping and weapons charges. John “Rob” Jordan, who turns 48 this coming Sunday, was arrested last May 10 when he arrived in Greenville, S.C., with the boys, hours after the body of 39-year-old Saddle Brook native Tracey Jordan was found at her Cynthia Gardens apartments on Garibaldi Avenue. Tracey Jordan and sons She’d been stabbed several times in the chest. Jordan remained held on $3 million bail in the Bergen County…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
South Hackensack police who rescued girl, 16, help smash human trafficking prostitution ring South Hackensack police who rescued girl, 16, help smash human trafficking prostitution ring South Hackensack police who rescued girl, 16, help smash human trafficking prostitution ring
South Hackensack police who rescued girl, 16, help smash human trafficking prostitution ring YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Thanks to South Hackensack police, five people are charged with prostituting a 16-year-old girl they trafficked from New York to New Jersey as part of a prostitution ring that they advertised on Backpage.com, authorities said today. Two remained fugitives this afternoon, authorities said. “These defendants cruelly exploited a runaway who was only 16, trapping her in a wretched life of prostitution,” Acting New Jersey Attorney General John J. Hoffman said this afternoon. “[T]hey ruthlessly did what human traffickers always do to turn an illicit profit, which is to t…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Maywood police sergeant helps stop vehicle break-in spree after interrupting car burglary Maywood police sergeant helps stop vehicle break-in spree after interrupting car burglary Maywood police sergeant helps stop vehicle break-in spree after interrupting car burglary
Maywood police sergeant helps stop vehicle break-in spree after interrupting car burglary YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Maywood police sergeant on the lookout for car burglars stopped a vehicle break-in spree after he caught one suspect and responding officers another before dawn this morning. Craig Herbert, 20 (above, left), and 24-year-old Vincent Delatorre (right), both of Hackensack, admitted committing nine overnight borough car break-ins, as well as previous vehicle burglaries in town, Police Chief David Pegg said. They were also suspected in car burglaries on Byrne Street in Hackensack overnight, he said. Sgt. Timothy Moran was checking the area of Golf Avenue on foot aro…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Carlstadt police find East Rutherford burglary suspect, recover stolen gun Carlstadt police find East Rutherford burglary suspect, recover stolen gun Carlstadt police find East Rutherford burglary suspect, recover stolen gun
Carlstadt police find East Rutherford burglary suspect, recover stolen gun YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Police arrested an East Rutherford man and recovered a handgun stolen during a break-in at one of two stores that they said he burglarized last week. East Rutherford detectives pegged Tyler Maxamillian Lusardi-Paz, 24, as their primary suspect after the Gerstenberger EMG .32-caliber weapon, $200 in cash and wrapped rolls of coins were stolen in the 10:50 p.m. break-in Friday at Caffe Capri on Park Avenue, Police Chief Larry Minda said this morning. He got in by prying open a rear door using a wood-handled ice scraper, then forced open and office door and cash regis…

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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Locals busted by Elmwood Park police for drugs Locals busted by Elmwood Park police for drugs Locals busted by Elmwood Park police for drugs
Locals busted by Elmwood Park police for drugs YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An ongoing campaign by Elmwood Park police to nab people passing through town with drugs also netted two borough men when both were found with pot during a traffic stop, authorities said this morning. James Nyman, 23, also was carrying 44 Vicodin pills without a prescription in addition to the marijuana that authorities said he and 25-year-old Paul Nahra had when they were stopped on 16th Avenue Friday night, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. Yesterday afternoon, Foligno’s officers arrested 45-year-old Matthew Cox of Cliffside Park on charges of having four bags o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood man serving 28 years for raping ex rejects plea, headed to trial for assaulting son Englewood man serving 28 years for raping ex rejects plea, headed to trial for assaulting son Englewood man serving 28 years for raping ex rejects plea, headed to trial for assaulting son
Englewood man serving 28 years for raping ex rejects plea, headed to trial for assaulting son ONLY ON CVP: An Englewood hair products entrepreneur who was sentenced last month to 28 years without parole for raping his former girlfriend rejected a plea deal and is headed to trial on charges of choking his son and slashing him with a knife — even though prosecutors said he could serve a flat five-year sentence at the same time. If convicted of assaulting his then-16-year-old son in November 2013, James McDowell could be get 20 years — “in essence, based on your age, a life sentence,” Presiding Superior Court Liliana DeAvila-Silebi told him Friday. “Do you still want to go to trial?”…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Fort Lee police charge 2 in car burglaries Fort Lee police charge 2 in car burglaries Fort Lee police charge 2 in car burglaries
Fort Lee police charge 2 in car burglaries An 18-year-old Fort Lee man posted $15,000 bail and a 17-year-old boy was released to his parents after Fort Lee police charged both with a rash of car burglaries last week. David Jung was charged with, and the juvenile received delinquency complaints, for: burglary, theft and receiving stolen property. One of the victims called police Tuesday night saying he saw the pair with flashlights get into his 2015 Toyota Sienna, parked on Forest Road. Officer Christopher Valacer found the pair walking in the area of Oleri Terrace, a block from the scene. Valacer, noticing “unusual bulges” in …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
ATF impersonator busted by PIP police with Xanax, pot, hash, MDMA, machete, more ATF impersonator busted by PIP police with Xanax, pot, hash, MDMA, machete, more ATF impersonator busted by PIP police with Xanax, pot, hash, MDMA, machete, more
ATF impersonator busted by PIP police with Xanax, pot, hash, MDMA, machete, more YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Long Island man who claimed to be a federal ATF agent was carrying nearly 300 Xanax pills, 58 Hydrocodone pills, a pound of marijuana and nearly an ounce of cocaine, along with marijuana candy, MDMA, a machete and assorted knives, pills and drug packaging material, Palisades Interstate Parkway police said this afternoon. Steven Greytak, 41, of Patchogue, was being held on $356,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail on a host of drug and police impersonation charges. Officers Michael Griffin and Joseph Villone were “conducting routine patrol operations on the Palisade…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Accused Bond gang burglar, girlfriend charged with dealing morphine Accused Bond gang burglar, girlfriend charged with dealing morphine Accused Bond gang burglar, girlfriend charged with dealing morphine
Accused Bond gang burglar, girlfriend charged with dealing morphine ANOTHER CVP EXCLUSIVE: A former Englewood schools lunch aide already facing charges for having her 6-year-old child in the room while packaging cocaine for sale is accused along with her boyfriend of dealing morphine in Bergenfield. Janay Cole, 28 (inset, above) has been free since posting $100,000 bail the day after last Christmas — six weeks after she was jailed on charges of helping a burglary crew that police said was run by Jamelle Singletary target homes for break-ins (SEE: Steep bail reduction for girlfriend accused of supplying burglary addresses to Teaneck Bond Gang heirs). She w…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
9 years for ex-con who led police on stolen-car chase out of Ramsey 9 years for ex-con who led police on stolen-car chase out of Ramsey 9 years for ex-con who led police on stolen-car chase out of Ramsey
9 years for ex-con who led police on stolen-car chase out of Ramsey EXCLUSIVE REPORT: An ex-con who led police on a high-speed chase in an SUV stolen out of Ramsey was sentenced Friday in Hackensack to nine years in state prison. Malik Teel, 36, must serve at least six years — and possibly eight — before he’ll be eligible for parole. Presiding Superior Court Judge Liliana DeAvila-Silebi said she felt for his family. “I can tell they really love you,” she told Teel. “But you are not complying with the law, and that has certain consequences. “You have seven priors,” the judge added, noting that Teel was on parole for smuggling cellphones into Northern S…

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