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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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Fire Levels Saddle Brook Shed, Spreads To Neighbor's Property Fire Levels Saddle Brook Shed, Spreads To Neighbor's Property Fire Levels Saddle Brook Shed, Spreads To Neighbor's Property
Fire Levels Saddle Brook Shed, Spreads To Neighbor's Property A propane-fueled fire burned a shed to the ground in Saddle Brook while spreading to another shed and a house. A huge column of smoke loomed over the nearby Garden State Parkway after the fire broke out on dead-ended Birk Street around noontime Saturday, Sept. 24. A propane tank in the shed vented as flames extended to the rear of a neighboring home. VIDEO by Tony Greco: The fire was officially declared under control shortly after 12:30 p.m., about 40 minutes after it began. The flames extended to the rear of a neighboring home on Birk Street in Saddle Brook.Damien Danis for DAILY VOI…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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UPDATE: Englewood Woman Re-Arrested After Stabbing Partially Blinds Edgewater Woman UPDATE: Englewood Woman Re-Arrested After Stabbing Partially Blinds Edgewater Woman UPDATE: Englewood Woman Re-Arrested After Stabbing Partially Blinds Edgewater Woman
Update: Englewood Woman Re-Arrested After Stabbing Partially Blinds Edgewater Woman UPDATE: Police re-arrested an Englewood resident after learning that an Edgewater woman was permanently blinded in one eye when she was stabbed with a comb knife on a city street. Kristen Bell, 36, remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Monday, Sept. 26, after authorities upgraded charges against her to second-degree aggravated assault, Englewood Police Lt. Fred Pulice said. The 32-year-old victim, whose identity is being protected by Daily Voice, lives in Edgewater but sometimes stays with her sister in Englewood, the lieutenant said. The woman told Daily Voice that she was attacked b…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Franklin Township, NJ
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Major Trafficker Gets 14 Years, No Parole, For Shipping 40 Pounds Of Heroin From Cali To NJ Major Trafficker Gets 14 Years, No Parole, For Shipping 40 Pounds Of Heroin From Cali To NJ Major Trafficker Gets 14 Years, No Parole, For Shipping 40 Pounds Of Heroin From Cali To NJ
Major Trafficker Gets 14 Years, No Parole, For Shipping 40 Pounds Of Heroin From Cali To NJ UPDATE: A major drug trafficker from Somerset County who flooded the New Jersey streets with major quantities of heroin -- some of it laced with deadly fentanyl -- must spend a plea-bargained 14 years in federal prison. William T. Bouza, 45, of Watchung, must serve out the entire term handed down by U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton in Newark because there's no parole in the federal prison system. The judge also sentenced him to five years of supervised release and ordered him to pay a $25,000 fine. Authorities targeted Bouza in early 2019 after intercepting 33 pounds of heroin stashed…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
WATCH: Ex-Husband Caught On Video Urinating On Bergen County Native's Grave WATCH: Ex-Husband Caught On Video Urinating On Bergen County Native's Grave WATCH: Ex-Husband Caught On Video Urinating On Bergen County Native's Grave
Watch: Ex-Husband Caught On Video Urinating On Bergen County Native's Grave For months now, a Bergen County man has routinely visited a cemetery just across the New York state line and urinated on the grave of a woman he was briefly married to nearly 50 years ago, her survivors say. They have proof. Video secretly recorded by the late Linda Torello’s son shows a man identified as Dean Eichler, 68, of Bergenfield pulling into the Tappan Reformed Church Cemetery off Old Tappan Road in an SUV. The vehicle is left running as he approaches Torello’s grave while unzipping his fly. He looks around, then does his business. Then he ambles back to the SUV. Not only did …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
'65 Porsche, Minivan Collide In Ridgewood '65 Porsche, Minivan Collide In Ridgewood '65 Porsche, Minivan Collide In Ridgewood
'65 Porsche, Minivan Collide In Ridgewood The driver of a 1965 Porsche and a minivan that collided in Ridgewood were both hospitalized with injuries that responders said they didn't consider life-threatening. The antique Irish green Porsche 356 coupe got the worst of the crash at the intersection of Franklin Turnpike and Nagle Street around 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23. Both drivers were taken by ambulance to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood. The steering wheel on the Irish green Porsche 356 snapped in the crash at the intersection of Franklin Turnpike and Nagle Street in Ridgewood on Friday, Sept. 23.Boyd A. Loving Village police …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: Renowned Photographer From NJ Survives Severe State Line Motorcycle Crash, Family Says UPDATE: Renowned Photographer From NJ Survives Severe State Line Motorcycle Crash, Family Says UPDATE: Renowned Photographer From NJ Survives Severe State Line Motorcycle Crash, Family Says
Update: Renowned Photographer From NJ Survives Severe State Line Motorcycle Crash, Family Says UPDATE: An accomplished international photographer from Englewood who was critically injured in a motorcycle crash on the Palisades Interstate Parkway "still has lots of healing to do" but is "doing very well, all things considered," a loved one reported. David Zimand was airlifted to Hackensack University Medical Center following the mid-afternoon crash just north of the State Line Lookout in Alpine shortly before 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21. Several witnesses told PIP police that a BMW sedan hit the motorcycle when the driver switched from the left to the right lanes on the northbound …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: Englewood Resident Re-Arrested After Stabbing Partially Blinds Edgewater Woman UPDATE: Englewood Resident Re-Arrested After Stabbing Partially Blinds Edgewater Woman UPDATE: Englewood Resident Re-Arrested After Stabbing Partially Blinds Edgewater Woman
Update: Englewood Resident Re-Arrested After Stabbing Partially Blinds Edgewater Woman UPDATE: Police re-arrested an Englewood resident after learning that an Edgewater woman was permanently blinded in one eye when she was stabbed with a comb knife on a city street. Kristen Bell, 36, remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Monday, Sept. 26, after authorities upgraded charges against her to second-degree aggravated assault, Englewood Police Lt. Fred Pulice said. The 32-year-old victim, whose identity is being protected by Daily Voice, lives in Edgewater but sometimes stays with her sister in Englewood, the lieutenant said. The woman told Daily Voice that she was attacked b…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Four Hospitalized In Hackensack Bus Crash Four Hospitalized In Hackensack Bus Crash Four Hospitalized In Hackensack Bus Crash
Four Hospitalized In Hackensack Bus Crash Four passengers were hospitalized and seven refused medical attention following a commuter bus crash in Hackensack, authorities said. The NJ TRANSIT bus had just picked up passengers and was headed north on South Summit Avenue when it collided near West Pleasantview Avenue with a Toyota Prius driven in the same direction by a 22-year-old Hasbrouck Heights man around 7:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 23, said Police Capt. Michael Antista, the officer in charge of the department. The Prius driver wasn't injured, no significant traffic delays were reported and the scene was quickly cleared, the captain …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Highland Lakes-Vernon, NJ
Breaking News
Tri-State Tour Company Founder Gets 7 Years, No Parole, In Child Porn Case Tri-State Tour Company Founder Gets 7 Years, No Parole, In Child Porn Case Tri-State Tour Company Founder Gets 7 Years, No Parole, In Child Porn Case
Tri-State Tour Company Founder Gets 7 Years, No Parole, In Child Porn Case A tri-state nature tour company founder from North Jersey was sentenced to a plea-bargained seven years in federal prison for collecting hundreds of child porn images. Vaughn Tiedeman -- whose Living Adventure Tours operates in the Garden State, New York and Pennsylvania -- must serve out the entire term because there's no parole in the federal prison system. He'll also remain under supervised release for 10 years under the sentence imposed by U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton in Newark on Thursday, Sept. 21. Special agents of the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Inv…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Homeless Ex-Con Charged With Assaulting McDonald's Worker In Englewood Over A Soda Homeless Ex-Con Charged With Assaulting McDonald's Worker In Englewood Over A Soda Homeless Ex-Con Charged With Assaulting McDonald's Worker In Englewood Over A Soda
Homeless Ex-Con Charged With Assaulting McDonald's Worker In Englewood Over A Soda A homeless ex-con grabbed a counter worker at a McDonald's in Englewood around the neck when she wouldn't give him a free soda, authorities said. Walter Alston, 33, walked behind the counter of the West Palisade Avenue fast-food joint and demanded the drink, then assaulted the mid-30s employee when she refused, poured one for himself and left, Police Lt. Fred Pulice said. The employee wasn't seriously injured, he said. Alston, formerly of Lodi, has been known to police for just about all of his adult life, mostly for arrests involving assaults, thefts and other offenses from a decade or so…

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