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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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Passaic County trio charged with rigging inspection emissions tests Passaic County trio charged with rigging inspection emissions tests Passaic County trio charged with rigging inspection emissions tests
Passaic County trio charged with rigging inspection emissions tests YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Three men who operate an automobile inspection business in Paterson were charged today with rigging machines to pass vehicles that had failed emissions inspections, at up to $150 a pop. The vehicles were then taken to central inspection facilities — including those in Lodi, Paramus and Wayne — where they passed, state authorities said. Detectives with the state Division of Criminal Justice this morning arrested Christopher Alcantara, 28, of Paterson (above, left), who owns Five Stars Auto Inspection on First Avenue in Paterson, along with his uncle, 51-year-old Mar…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Paramus restaurant worker from Lodi charged with molesting woman, 19 Paramus restaurant worker from Lodi charged with molesting woman, 19 Paramus restaurant worker from Lodi charged with molesting woman, 19
Paramus restaurant worker from Lodi charged with molesting woman, 19 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Lodi man is charged with molesting a 19-year-old woman in her car in a lot near the Paramus restaurant where he works. Akram G. Tadros, 39, was arrested yesterday by members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit and Paramus police after the woman told police that he “forcibly engaged her in sexual activity in [her] vehicle” on Jan. 2, county Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon. The car was parked behind a Route 17 business, he said. Tadros, who is  married, is charged with sexual assault, criminal sexual contact and criminal…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
FBI arrests Hudson County jail deputy director in illegal wiretapping case FBI arrests Hudson County jail deputy director in illegal wiretapping case FBI arrests Hudson County jail deputy director in illegal wiretapping case
FBI arrests Hudson County jail deputy director in illegal wiretapping case BEYOND BERGEN: The deputy director of the Hudson County Correctional Center surrendered today to federal authorities today on charges of illegally wiretapping jail employees. Kirk Eady, 45, used a website to call four employees from the Kearny facility while concealing his own number, making it appear as though they, and not he, placed the call, the FBI says in a complaint on file in U.S. District Court in Newark. Eady, of East Brunswick, also recorded the conversations between March and July of 2012, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said. He revealed what he’d allegedly done to a federal …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Cliffside Park Driver Accused Of Trying To Run Down Churchgoers Gets Probation Cliffside Park Driver Accused Of Trying To Run Down Churchgoers Gets Probation Cliffside Park Driver Accused Of Trying To Run Down Churchgoers Gets Probation
Cliffside Park Driver Accused Of Trying To Run Down Churchgoers Gets Probation YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Cliffside Park man who police said tried to run over two people who chased him into a Norwood church parking lot was given five years probation with mandatory mental health treatment, records show. Behrang Darian, 34, pleaded guilty to a third-degree charge of attempted aggravated assault, records show. Darian said the crowd chased him from the ChoDae Church on Rockland Avenue in January 2014. "I don't know why they were so angry," he told Daily Voice.  Police said the crowd was incensed because he punched a woman. "I never punched a woman, nor h…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Gun goes off, bullet goes through Lyndhurst man’s arm Gun goes off, bullet goes through Lyndhurst man’s arm Gun goes off, bullet goes through Lyndhurst man’s arm
Gun goes off, bullet goes through Lyndhurst man’s arm EXCLUSIVE: A Lyndhurst man was cleaning his legally registered handgun last night when it went off, sending a bullet through both his arm and the couch he was sitting on before smashing a glass display case and lodging in a basement wall. The 27-year-old man was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, Police Chief James O’Connor told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “He’s fortunate it wasn’t worse than it is,” O’Connor said. The Chase Avenue man apparently had removed the magazine and forgotten that a bullet remained in the chamber as he was cleaning the Glock 23 just before midnight last night,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Tree outside Hillsdale mayor’s house crashes into neighbor’s home Tree outside Hillsdale mayor’s house crashes into neighbor’s home Tree outside Hillsdale mayor’s house crashes into neighbor’s home
Tree outside Hillsdale mayor’s house crashes into neighbor’s home EXCLUSIVE: A large tree outside Hillsdale Mayor Max Arnowitz house fell across the road last night, smashing into the home of a 57-year-old neighbor — who didn’t hear it. Nancy Kovar was asleep in a first-floor bedroom on the other side of her house when the 70-foot tree came crashing across Trinity Place — breaking a basement window, putting holes in the roof and a second-floor bedroom and downing power lines to her Washington Avenue home — around 11:15 p.m. It was her generator kicking on that then woke her, Kovar said. The first emergency service call that came in, in fact, was for a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Car hits Fair Lawn Raquet Club building Car hits Fair Lawn Raquet Club building Car hits Fair Lawn Raquet Club building
Car hits Fair Lawn Raquet Club building YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A small sedan slammed head-on into an exterior brick wall of the Fair Lawn Racquet Club before midnight. The driver was taken by ambulance to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood after complaining of chest pain following the low-speed crash just before 11:45 p.m. The vehicle was removed by flatbed tow truck. It’s believed the driver was headed eastbound on Berdan Avenue and might not have realized the road ends when it reaches Saddle River Road. STORY / PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Train hits car in Elmwood Park Train hits car in Elmwood Park Train hits car in Elmwood Park
Train hits car in Elmwood Park YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: No one was injured when an NJ Transit train struck a vehicle at an Elmwood Park grade crossing tonight, a spokesman said. Investigators have yet to determine why the 54-year-old motorist from Iselin drove his 2008 Mercedes sedan onto the tracks at the Midland Avenue crossing around 5:45 p.m., NJ Transit’s William Smith told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Eight hundred people were aboard the train, Smith said. Although the trin struck the driver’s side, he wasn’t injured, he said. He refused medical attention from EMS and was issued summonses for careless driving and interferen…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Monsey, NY
Breaking News
NJ federal prosecutor’s office produced $120.2M for U.S. in fiscal 2013 NJ federal prosecutor’s office produced $120.2M for U.S. in fiscal 2013 NJ federal prosecutor’s office produced $120.2M for U.S. in fiscal 2013
NJ federal prosecutor’s office produced $120.2M for U.S. in fiscal 2013 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today that the District of New Jersey collected $120.2 million in Fiscal 2013, which includes $57.8 million in criminal and civil actions and $62.4 million in asset forfeitures. The breakdown: $45,157,311.66 in criminal actions; $12,635,359.78 in civil actions; $62,436,347 in forfeited assets. The New Jersey U.S. Attorney’s Office also participated in the collection of an additional $401.3 million in cases worked by other agencies. The forfeited assets brought in by the U.S. Attorney’s Office and its partners ar…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Edgewater high-rise home invasion robbery: Who is Alexander Suarez? Edgewater high-rise home invasion robbery: Who is Alexander Suarez? Edgewater high-rise home invasion robbery: Who is Alexander Suarez?
Edgewater high-rise home invasion robbery: Who is Alexander Suarez? YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A picture has finally begun emerging of a 20-year-old Bronx man quietly arrested and charged in the luxury high-rise home invasion robbery of developer Fred Dabies. Alexander Suarez is the stepbrother of Adonis Sepulveda, 31, who, along with 26-year-old Ramona Mercado Vasquez, were first arrested a day after the Nov. 26 overnight robbery at the St. Moritz, which Daibes built and lives in. The bandits broke Daibes’ ribs while taking $2 million in cash, gold and jewelry — all of which was recovered — during what became a nearly three-hour ordeal. Authorities who br…

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