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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West Milford, NJ
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Firefighters Douse Haledon Duplex Blaze Firefighters Douse Haledon Duplex Blaze Firefighters Douse Haledon Duplex Blaze
Firefighters Douse Haledon Duplex Blaze Firefighters doused a destructive Haledon duplex blaze on Monday. The fire in the 2½-story wood-frame home on Belmont Avenue at Hodges Place ignited in the attic around 3:30 p.m. April 10. It went to three alarms for coverage, with firefighters from Wyckoff and Prospect Park among the mutual aid responders, and was knocked down in under a half-hour. Everyone reportedly got out OK, including a dog and multiple cats. The house sustained severe fire damage to the attic and roof and smoke and water damage elsewhere.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Rochelle Park Officer, Other Driver Both OK After Crash Rochelle Park Officer, Other Driver Both OK After Crash Rochelle Park Officer, Other Driver Both OK After Crash
Rochelle Park Officer, Other Driver Both OK After Crash Both drivers escaped serious injury when a vehicle driven by a Rochelle Park police officer headed to a call and an SUV collided at a borough intersection on Monday. The officer was treated at Hackensack University Medical Center and released soon after following the late-morning April 10 crash at Rochelle Avenue and Passaic Street, responders said. A Garfield woman who was driving the other vehicle, a Chevy Trax, declined medical attention, they said. The Bergen County Sheriff's Office is investigating the circumstances of the crash, under the routine procedure followed when a municipal …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Bergen County Woman, 63, Struck By Sedan Driven By Sister Bergen County Woman, 63, Struck By Sedan Driven By Sister Bergen County Woman, 63, Struck By Sedan Driven By Sister
Bergen County Woman, 63, Struck By Sedan Driven By Sister A 63-year-old Bergen County woman was hospitalized after her sister accidentally hit her with a sedan on Easter Sunday. The victim complained of leg pain after being struck by the 2005 Nissan Altima on private property near the Hasbrouck Heights football field just off southbound Route 17 shortly after 12:30 p.m. April 9, police said. She was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, they said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Cash Seized, Passaic County Massage Parlor Pair Charged In Multi-Agency Raid Cash Seized, Passaic County Massage Parlor Pair Charged In Multi-Agency Raid Cash Seized, Passaic County Massage Parlor Pair Charged In Multi-Agency Raid
Cash Seized, Passaic County Massage Parlor Pair Charged In Multi-Agency Raid Two women were arrested and $11,652 in alleged profits seized in a multi-agency raid on a Woodland Park massage parlor that authorities said was really a cathouse. Detectives from the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit, police from Woodland Park and federal agents with Homeland Security Investigations teamed up for the bust late last week at Tokyo Foot Spa on Great Notch Road right off Route 46. The agencies had “received information that [the spa] was offering commercial sexual services while operating under the pretense of being a massage therapy business,” Passaic County Pr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Fleeing Domestic Violence Suspect Seized In Paramus Parking Lot, Sought Suicide-By-Cop: Police Fleeing Domestic Violence Suspect Seized In Paramus Parking Lot, Sought Suicide-By-Cop: Police Fleeing Domestic Violence Suspect Seized In Paramus Parking Lot, Sought Suicide-By-Cop: Police
Fleeing Domestic Violence Suspect Seized In Paramus Parking Lot, Sought Suicide-By-Cop: Police UPDATE: A knife-wielding Ridgewood man who'd just fled a domestic violence assault was bent on suicide-by-cop when officers seized him during a tense Easter Sunday night standoff in a Paramus parking lot, authorities said. Keith Hanlon, 41, had been arrested on a domestic violence charge this past Christmas and was almost immediately released by a judge in Hackensack under New Jersey's bail reform law, records show. Hanlon again assaulted a woman, choking her, at a garden apartment complex on Oak Street in Ridgewood around 8 p.m. Easter Sunday, authorities said. He then apparently stabbed…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
TENSE MOMENT: Post Office Burglar From Teaneck Grabs Bogota Officer's Gun: Police TENSE MOMENT: Post Office Burglar From Teaneck Grabs Bogota Officer's Gun: Police TENSE MOMENT: Post Office Burglar From Teaneck Grabs Bogota Officer's Gun: Police
Tense Moment: Post Office Burglar From Teaneck Grabs Bogota Officer's Gun: Police A burglar from Teaneck found by police moments after he broke into the Bogota post office tried grabbing an officer’s gun while resisting arrest, authorities said. Calvin Torres-Vaughan, 33, already had a plastic bin of mail in his car when Officers Lewis Duenãs and Michael Torres responded to a burglar alarm at the West Main Street post office shortly after midnight Saturday, April 8, Sgt. Geoffrey Cole said. They found a front window pried open and Torres-Vaughan inside, the sergeant said. Torres-Vaughan, who was carrying a flashlight and a crowbar, “resisted by kicking and punchin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Garbage Truck Goes Up In Flames, Driver Trying To Save SUV Crashes In Wayne Garbage Truck Goes Up In Flames, Driver Trying To Save SUV Crashes In Wayne Garbage Truck Goes Up In Flames, Driver Trying To Save SUV Crashes In Wayne
Garbage Truck Goes Up In Flames, Driver Trying To Save SUV Crashes In Wayne No injuries were reported after a garbage truck caught fire and a driver trying to move his SUV away from it crashed in Wayne late Monday morning. The fire, which ignited on Robin Hood Way near Longell Avenue shortly before 11 a.m. April 10, not only destroyed the truck's cab, witnesses said. It caused a crash when a driver tried to move a white Explorer that was parked nearby, they said. Garbage truck goes up in flames in Wayne.DAILY VOICE The driver had to go in through the passenger side of the Explorer because of the extreme heat, witnesses said. "In doing so as he reversed the t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Local Dealer Nabbed Near Hackensack School With 1,330 Heroin Folds, 440 Crack Vials, More: PD Local Dealer Nabbed Near Hackensack School With 1,330 Heroin Folds, 440 Crack Vials, More: PD Local Dealer Nabbed Near Hackensack School With 1,330 Heroin Folds, 440 Crack Vials, More: PD
Local Dealer Nabbed Near Hackensack School With 1,330 Heroin Folds, 440 Crack Vials, More: PD A Hackensack resident who ran a street-level drug operation around the block from a middle school was seized by city police with 1,330 heroin folds, 440 crack vials, meth and more, authorities said. Detective Sergio Raneli began an investigation that led to the arrest of Everett Cline, 46, at his Union Street apartment during the execution of a court-approved search warrant late last week, Capt. Michael Antista said on Monday, April 10. Along with the coke and smack, police seized an ounce of methamphetamine, more than six ounces of pot, more than two dozen unknown pills, packaging material…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Worshippers Seize Attacker Who Stabbed Imam During Prayer Service At Paterson Mosque (w/VIDEO) Worshippers Seize Attacker Who Stabbed Imam During Prayer Service At Paterson Mosque (w/VIDEO) Worshippers Seize Attacker Who Stabbed Imam During Prayer Service At Paterson Mosque (w/VIDEO)
Worshippers Seize Attacker Who Stabbed Imam During Prayer Service At Paterson Mosque (w/Video) Sayed Elnakib was leading an early morning prayer service at the Omar Mosque in Paterson on Sunday when a man among the worshippers suddenly rushed forward and stabbed the beloved imam, surveillance video shows. The assailant, 32-year-old Serif Zorba, turned and bolted for the door, but the worshippers -- without regard for their own safety -- quickly converged on the assailant and held him for police. Elnakib, 65, sustained liver damage, a mosque spokesperson said, but he was expected to survive after being rushed into surgery at nearby St. Joseph's University Medical Center following the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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MOSQUE ATTACK: Prayer Leader Stabbed, Suspect Seized In Paterson MOSQUE ATTACK: Prayer Leader Stabbed, Suspect Seized In Paterson MOSQUE ATTACK: Prayer Leader Stabbed, Suspect Seized In Paterson
Mosque Attack: Prayer Leader Stabbed, Suspect Seized In Paterson Sayed Elnakib was leading an early morning prayer service at the Omar Mosque in Paterson on Sunday when a man among the worshippers suddenly rushed forward and stabbed the beloved imam, surveillance video shows. The assailant, 32-year-old Serif Zorba, turned and bolted for the door, but the worshippers -- without regard for their own safety -- quickly converged on the assailant and held him for police. Elnakib, 65, sustained liver damage, a mosque spokesperson said, but he was expected to survive after being rushed into surgery at nearby St. Joseph's University Medical Center following the…

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