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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Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood car arsonist could be freed next month following guilty plea Englewood car arsonist could be freed next month following guilty plea Englewood car arsonist could be freed next month following guilty plea
Englewood car arsonist could be freed next month following guilty plea EXCLUSIVE: An undocumented day laborer from Guatemala who set an Englewood neighborhood on edge could be paroled at the same time that he is sentenced after pleading guilty today to torching cars. Although the plea-bargained state prison term will be four years, 25-year-old Marco Antonio Rene will be eligible for parole at the Jan. 24 sentencing because he already has spent a year and a half in the Bergen County Jail, Superior Court Judge Edward A. Jerejian said this afternoon. Had he been convicted during a trial of the nine total arsons he was charged with, Rene could have faced at leas…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
NJ authorities: TD Bank theft crew used drug addicts, homeless NJ authorities: TD Bank theft crew used drug addicts, homeless NJ authorities: TD Bank theft crew used drug addicts, homeless
NJ authorities: TD Bank theft crew used drug addicts, homeless YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Cliffside Park woman and a Jersey City man were among eight people arrested on charges of participating in a ring that used drug addicts and the homeless to make $150,000 worth of bogus withdrawals from New Jersey TD Bank branches, state authorities said this afternoon. The crew used “an old-school approach” by enlisting people to pose as account holders, sending them into the banks to make withdrawls using identification information that a former teller stole from customers, Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman said. The fake account holders included drug add…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Pot defendant arrested outside Fort Lee court — for toking up, Port Authority police say Pot defendant arrested outside Fort Lee court — for toking up, Port Authority police say Pot defendant arrested outside Fort Lee court — for toking up, Port Authority police say
Pot defendant arrested outside Fort Lee court — for toking up, Port Authority police say YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A defendant answering a marijuana possession charge in Fort Lee Municipal Court this morning stepped outside for a few tokes and was arrested moments later, Port Authority police said. The odor was hard for Officer George Kwiecinski to miss as 23-year-old Jose Guzman of Union City returned to court, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Kwiecinski, who was there on another case, patted down Guzman and found him carrying a joint in his jacket pocket, Pentangelo said. Guzman then admitted “he left the building to smoke marijuana and had jsut retur…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Rochelle Park police stop leads to Route 17 pot seizure Rochelle Park police stop leads to Route 17 pot seizure Rochelle Park police stop leads to Route 17 pot seizure
Rochelle Park police stop leads to Route 17 pot seizure EXCLUSIVE: Rochelle Park police seized two ounces of pot and arrested two local men following a routine traffic stop last night. It was just before 9:15 p.m. when Officers Christopher Rios and Jared Shatkin pulled over a black 1999 Nissan Maxima with New York plates after the driver made an unsafe, unsignaled lane change on northbound Route 17. As both approached the car, “they could detect a strong odor of raw marijuana,” Detective James DePreta said. The driver, Victor V. Garcia, 23, of Westwood agreed to a search of the car. Both he and his passenger, 22-year-old Xavier Ampro, were…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Super Bowl committee to East Rutherford: Drop dead Super Bowl committee to East Rutherford: Drop dead Super Bowl committee to East Rutherford: Drop dead
Super Bowl committee to East Rutherford: Drop dead EDITOR’S NOTE: New Jerseyans have heard all the jokes about the Garden State, from “What exit?” to cracks about a new slogan (“One state, under indictment,” for instance). Now comes a remark from the president of the Super Bowl host committee that’s giving East Rutherford Mayor Jim Casella agita. From NJ.com: East Rutherford Mayor Jim Cassella was already aware that the National Football League officials planning the Super Bowl did not have a high opinion of the people who live in his town. But he didn’t think it was this bad: “There is not a single solitary…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Missing Cliffside Park chihuahua mix, Drama, found Missing Cliffside Park chihuahua mix, Drama, found Missing Cliffside Park chihuahua mix, Drama, found
Missing Cliffside Park chihuahua mix, Drama, found UPDATE: A missing Cliffside Park chihuahua mix named Drama was found, safe and sound, thanks to a woman who operates an increasingly popular Facebook page that searches for lost pets. Drama’s owner was overseas when he bolted from his Lafayette Avenue backyard, which backs on a baseball field near Bergen Boulevard, on Saturday. He was wearing a tag and a microchip, although those searching for him were uncertain whether it was active. He could have gone anywhere: Fort Lee, Palisades Park and Ridgefield are all within blocks of where Drama went missing. From the original story Unable…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Wyckoff police: Would-be female burglar foiled, blames someone else Wyckoff police: Would-be female burglar foiled, blames someone else Wyckoff police: Would-be female burglar foiled, blames someone else
Wyckoff police: Would-be female burglar foiled, blames someone else A woman already facing criminal charges damaged doors and lights trying to break into a Wyckoff house, then pointed the finger at an innocent acquaintance when she was arrested, police said. A relative watching the Ravine Avenue house while the homeowners were on vacation called police after the failed Oct. 27 attempt, Chief Benjamin Fox said. “Doors and lights at the home were damaged in what were several unsuccessful attempts to enter the house,” Fox said. Detective Sgts. Joseph Soto and Michael Musto investigated and arrested Gina Graziano, 43, of North Haledon. They already were f…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Four men charged in $60,000 robbery, beating of Mahwah service station courier Four men charged in $60,000 robbery, beating of Mahwah service station courier Four men charged in $60,000 robbery, beating of Mahwah service station courier
Four men charged in $60,000 robbery, beating of Mahwah service station courier Four Elizabeth men have been charged by Mahwah detectives with beating and robbing a service station courier of $60,000 in cash, while a fifth was still being sought. After following the courier through several collections along his 12-stop route in Elizabeth, the thugs punched him in the face and chest, then ripped the cash bag from his hands at the corporate offices of ADPP Enterprises on Route 17 South  on Jan. 22, Police Chief James Batelli said. The company, founded in 1985, operates Valero service stations and convenience stores throughout New Jersey and distributes gas and diesel p…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Lyndhurst woman gets 10 years in federal prison for ordering hit on ex’s new gal Lyndhurst woman gets 10 years in federal prison for ordering hit on ex’s new gal Lyndhurst woman gets 10 years in federal prison for ordering hit on ex’s new gal
Lyndhurst woman gets 10 years in federal prison for ordering hit on ex’s new gal YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Lyndhurst woman was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison today for trying to hire a hitman to shoot her ex-boyfriend’s new lover in the head and send her “gone, gone to the moon.” Nicole Faccenda, 44, sobbed in the Newark courtroom as U.S. District Judge Faith S. Hochberg also ordered her to pay $19,292 in restitution and remain under supervised released for three years after serving her prison term. Because it’s federal court, Faccenda will have to serve nearly all of the prison sentence. Faccenda pleaded guilty to the crime in October 2012 and had remained…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Wyckoff police: Scammed grandma, 87, wires $6,400 cash Wyckoff police: Scammed grandma, 87, wires $6,400 cash Wyckoff police: Scammed grandma, 87, wires $6,400 cash
Wyckoff police: Scammed grandma, 87, wires $6,400 cash PUBLIC SAFETY ALERT:  In another fraud that is becoming extremely common, an 87-year-old Wyckoff woman was swindled out of $6,400 by a man pretending to be a grandson in trouble. The thieves followed the “Grandparent Scam” script to the letter, Police Chief Benjamin Fox said today: The caller immediately put a man claiming to be a lawyer on the phone who told the woman that her grandson needed bail money. She then went to the bank and mailed $6,400 in cash to an address in Philadelphia, the chief said. This comes a week after another Wyckoff woman wired $4,100 to a purported landlord wh…

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