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
Attempted murder trial: North Arlington woman says boyfriend wrapped strap around her neck Attempted murder trial: North Arlington woman says boyfriend wrapped strap around her neck Attempted murder trial: North Arlington woman says boyfriend wrapped strap around her neck
Attempted murder trial: North Arlington woman says boyfriend wrapped strap around her neck EXCLUSIVE: A North Arlington woman testified in the attempted murder trial of her former boyfriend in Hackensack today that he threatened to kill her, then wrapped a duffel bag strap around her neck and pulled it until she “felt my tongue fall out of my mouth.” The woman said Thomas Cieslik “took the strap off the bag and held it in front of my face.  He snapped …. I’ll never forget the sound.” Then he shoved her into a corner and tightened the strap around her throat before she eventually fled to a nearby police station, she told Superior Court Judge Donald R. Venezia. Defense attorney…

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Former Middlesex sheriff facing nine years for taking bribes for jobs, promotions Former Middlesex sheriff facing nine years for taking bribes for jobs, promotions Former Middlesex sheriff facing nine years for taking bribes for jobs, promotions
Former Middlesex sheriff facing nine years for taking bribes for jobs, promotions BEYOND BERGEN: Former longtime Middlesex County Sheriff Joseph C. Spicuzzo and two men who worked under him admitted their roles today in a jobs-for-cash scheme in which Spicuzzo collected about $112,000 in bribes from people seeking positions or promotions over a dozen-year stretch. Spicuzzo, 67, of Helmetta, pleaded guilty today to a second-degree bribery charge in Monmouth County that exposes him to a nine-year state prison sentence — two years of which must be served before he’s eligible for parole. Spicuzzo must also forfeit his entire state pension and will be permanently barred fro…

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Pascack Valley, NJ
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Park Ridge police look to avoid mob scene at Gandolfini’s wake Park Ridge police look to avoid mob scene at Gandolfini’s wake Park Ridge police look to avoid mob scene at Gandolfini’s wake
Park Ridge police look to avoid mob scene at Gandolfini’s wake PUBLIC SAFETY: Park Ridge police are asking people to be respectful and not create a mob scene at or near the funeral home where actor James Gandolfini is being waked tomorrow. “We ask that the public refrain from showing up at the Spearing Funeral Home on Kinderkamack Road [tomorrow] between the hours of 3 p.m. and 9 p.m.,” Police Capt. Joseph Rampolla said this afternoon. Citizens may pay their respects at the public funeral service scheduled for Thursday at the massive Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan — on Amsterdam Avenue at the…

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Ridgewood, NJ
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Ridgewood police rush to school where drivers get into fight Ridgewood police rush to school where drivers get into fight Ridgewood police rush to school where drivers get into fight
Ridgewood police rush to school where drivers get into fight YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A heated argument between a charter bus driver and the owner of a pickup truck that had become boxed into a parking space at a Ridgewood school brought several police officers out of concern for the children there. No arrests were made after the officers — including Ridgewood Police Chief John Ward — rushed to the Benjamin Franklin Middle School parking lot on North Van Dien Avenue. The DeCamp Bus Lines driver told police he was assaulted by the owner of a silver pickup truck that his bus had inadvertently blocked into a space. The pickup driver said it was he wh…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Killer serving life sentence in officer’s Lyndhurst murder admits witness tampering Killer serving life sentence in officer’s Lyndhurst murder admits witness tampering Killer serving life sentence in officer’s Lyndhurst murder admits witness tampering
Killer serving life sentence in officer’s Lyndhurst murder admits witness tampering EXCLSUSIVE: A remorseless baby-faced killer sentenced to life in prison for gunning down an aspiring police officer in Lyndhurst accepted a deal that allows his sister to enter a program that will spare her jail time for conspiring to intimidate prosecutors’ key witness. In pleading guilty to witness tampering, Fernando Carrero Jr. accepted seven years atop the 75-year, no-parole sentence he’s already serving for killing Jose Hall in the kitchen of his girlfriend’s parents’ home. In exchange, Marlene Ortiz will be accepted into a Pre-Trial Intervention that will clear her record of any cr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Fort Lee wrong-way driver crashes, kills husband, 84 Fort Lee wrong-way driver crashes, kills husband, 84 Fort Lee wrong-way driver crashes, kills husband, 84
Fort Lee wrong-way driver crashes, kills husband, 84 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 71-year-old wrong-way driver caused a head-on collision in Fort Lee that killed her 84-year-old husband, police said this morning. Jennifer Park was driving her 2006 Hyundai Sonata south on northbound Inwood Tearrace, after heading the wrong way at the split after Central Boulevard, during yesterday morning’s rush hour when it rammed into a 2012 BMW X5 driven by 32-year-old Melissa Magyar, also of Fort Lee, Deputy Police Chief Timothy Ford said. Officers from the Patrol Division, Detective Bureau and members of the Fort Lee Accident Investigation Unit immediately…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Judge clears Englewood man on rape charges after year in jail Judge clears Englewood man on rape charges after year in jail Judge clears Englewood man on rape charges after year in jail
Judge clears Englewood man on rape charges after year in jail ONLY ON THE PILOT: Two days short of a year behind bars, an Englewood man walked free today after a judge in Hackensack found him not guilty of raping the same woman twice in the span of five weeks. Superior Court Judge Donald R. Venezia pointed to a night between the alleged assaults when, he said, the woman went to a club where William Alston was working and asked him to play requests for her birthday. “[N]obody normal would do what she claims to have done in this case,” Venezia said in his ruling. “That she would be subjected to forceful rape, and the go to a club and ask the defendant…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
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Ridgewood boy, 10, finds live round of buckshot on way to school Ridgewood boy, 10, finds live round of buckshot on way to school Ridgewood boy, 10, finds live round of buckshot on way to school
Ridgewood boy, 10, finds live round of buckshot on way to school YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 10-year-old Ridgewood boy’s mother summoned police today after her son came home with a round of buckshot that he said he found while walking to school this morning. Ridgewood Officer Patrick Elwood went to their Oxford Court home, recovered the round and spoke with the boy, who said he found it on the 400 block of nearby Bogert Avenue. The home’s owner moved away over the weekend and it is  believed the ammunition may have fallen out of a packing box or carton. The incident remains under investigation.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Rapper Fat Joe gets four months federal prison, fine for tax evasion Rapper Fat Joe gets four months federal prison, fine for tax evasion Rapper Fat Joe gets four months federal prison, fine for tax evasion
Rapper Fat Joe gets four months federal prison, fine for tax evasion YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The rap artist and entrepreneur “Fat Joe” was sentenced today to four months in federal prison, a $15,000 fine, and one year of supervised release for failing to pay taxes on nearly $3 million in income over two years. The platinum-selling rapper, whose real name is Joseph Cartagena, apologized to his family, friends and fans before U.S. Magistrate Judge Cathy Waldor handed down the sentence. Cartagena, 42, admitted last December that he stiffed the government and later blamed his problems on “fancy guys in bow ties” who were supposed to keep watch over his fina…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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New date for police band’s popular ‘Icebreaker’ event: Aug. 16 New date for police band’s popular ‘Icebreaker’ event: Aug. 16 New date for police band’s popular ‘Icebreaker’ event: Aug. 16
New date for police band’s popular ‘Icebreaker’ event: Aug. 16 SHOUT OUT: The popular Icebreaker gathering at Ross Dock along the Hudson River at the foot of the Palisades in Englewood Cliffs has been rescheduled for Aug. 16 after it was postponed earlier this month by a tropical storm. Last year’s “Icebreaker” drew several hundred people as part of a weekend-long celebration of the Police Pipes and Drums of Bergen County’s 20th anniversary, capped by a massive concert at bergenPAC. Pipe and drum bands came from Chicago, Boston and other cities, as did first responders from throughout the tri-state area and beyond. The weather was outstanding. …

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