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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Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen Homeowner Finds Burglar Downstairs Bergen Homeowner Finds Burglar Downstairs Bergen Homeowner Finds Burglar Downstairs
Bergen Homeowner Finds Burglar Downstairs A startled Woodcliff Lake homeowner was unharmed after finding a burglar downstairs, authorities said. Borough police rushed to the residence off Werimus Road -- near the entrance to the southbound Garden State Parkway -- after the homeowner called them shortly before 9:30 p.m. Monday, Lt. Chad Malloy said. The intruder apparently was wearing a mask and carrying a flashlight when he was discovered, the lieutenant said. He ran out and was picked up by a waiting vehicle that sped off, he said. Police from neighboring towns and a Bergen County Sheriff's K-9 unit helped establish a perimeter …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
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Former Bergen Man Gets Federal Prison Time For Assisting Massage Parlor Prostitution Former Bergen Man Gets Federal Prison Time For Assisting Massage Parlor Prostitution Former Bergen Man Gets Federal Prison Time For Assisting Massage Parlor Prostitution
Former Bergen Man Gets Federal Prison Time For Assisting Massage Parlor Prostitution A former Bergen County resident must spend nearly three years in federal prison for producing bogus training certificates for massage parlors that sold sex. Naresh Rane, 68, gave 10 of those certificates to a former local councilman who was later found dead of suicide along with his wife, authorities said. Rane, formerly of Closter, owned and operated the now-defunct Axiom Healthcare Academy on Kennedy Boulevard in North Bergen, which touted itself as a provider of massage therapy training. Anyone who didn't want to go through the training could pay Rane anywhere from $1,000 to $2,600 for …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Passaic Man Charged In Clifton Stabbing Passaic Man Charged In Clifton Stabbing Passaic Man Charged In Clifton Stabbing
Passaic Man Charged In Clifton Stabbing UPDATE: A Passaic resident was charged with attempted murder for stabbing a man two weeks ago in Clifton, authorities said. Paul Ramirez, 42, stabbed the 24-year-old victim near the corner of Ackerman and Randolph avenues shortly before 11:30 p.m. June 26, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Clifton Police Chief Thomas Rinaldi said in a joint release. They didn’t offer a possible motive, nor did they say what type of weapon was used -- or whether it had been recovered. Valdes and Rinaldi did say that the victim, who's also from Passaic, was treated at St. Joseph’s University Me…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
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Fugitive Dubbed 'Real-Life Tony Soprano' Couldn't Hide From The Law, Even In Death Fugitive Dubbed 'Real-Life Tony Soprano' Couldn't Hide From The Law, Even In Death Fugitive Dubbed 'Real-Life Tony Soprano' Couldn't Hide From The Law, Even In Death
Fugitive Dubbed 'Real-Life Tony Soprano' Couldn't Hide From The Law, Even In Death He was considered one of the last of the old-time mobsters, a "real-life Tony Soprano" listed as one of New Jersey's most wanted fugitives. Even six feet under, though, Tony Mota couldn't evade his pursuers. After eluding capture for nearly 25 years for a gruesome murder committed in Hudson County, Anthony Mota was found buried in the country where he was born, the Dominican Republic. Mota had been collecting debts for high-level Colombian drug dealers in New York City when he and a group of accomplices abducted a Queens man on Dec. 13, 1997, authorities said. The victim, 38-year-old …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
GOTCHA! Garfield Man Nabbed After Series Of ‘Swatting’ Threats To Hackensack High School, PD GOTCHA! Garfield Man Nabbed After Series Of ‘Swatting’ Threats To Hackensack High School, PD GOTCHA! Garfield Man Nabbed After Series Of ‘Swatting’ Threats To Hackensack High School, PD
Gotcha! Garfield Man Nabbed After Series Of ‘Swatting’ Threats To Hackensack High School, PD What seemed like an unending series of phone threats that plagued Hackensack High School and city police for nearly three months led to the arrest of a stock clerk from Garfield, authorities announced. Christopher Vitone, 38, was seized at his job after Hackensack Police Detectives Chris Lara-Nunez and Felix Katsaroans identified him as the "swatter" responsible for one of the calls, which was made to Hackensack police on June 16, Detective Capt. Michael Antista said Monday. An investigation was continuing into more than a dozen other bomb threats and false alarms to both the city Boar…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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UPDATE: Driver, 78, Killed When Backhoe Veers Into Path Of His Pickup In Paramus UPDATE: Driver, 78, Killed When Backhoe Veers Into Path Of His Pickup In Paramus UPDATE: Driver, 78, Killed When Backhoe Veers Into Path Of His Pickup In Paramus
Update: Driver, 78, Killed When Backhoe Veers Into Path Of His Pickup In Paramus A 78-year-old motorist from Englewood was killed when his pickup truck collided with an oncoming backhoe that had swerved into his path in Paramus, authorities confirmed. The victim was headed north on Forest Avenue in a 2020 Ford Ranger when the crash occurred near Filippe Court around 5 a.m. Saturday, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. The Suez Water backhoe driver, 40, from Elmwood Park, told police he'd swerved to avoid a deer who darted across the road, Ehrenberg said. Responding officers removed the unresponsive victim from the Ford and conducted CPR, among other life-saving measur…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Drowning Bergen County Boy, 3, Pulled From Pool Drowning Bergen County Boy, 3, Pulled From Pool Drowning Bergen County Boy, 3, Pulled From Pool
Drowning Bergen County Boy, 3, Pulled From Pool A drowning 3-year-old boy was pulled from a backyard pool and rushed to Hackensack University Medical Center early Monday afternoon. Hospital staff tried to resuscitate the child, who was in cardiac arrest as police escorted the ambulance from the home on Forest Avenue in Rochelle Park shortly after 1:30 p.m. Hackensack and Maywood police assisted in clearing a path. The Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification responded to collect evidence and the county prosecutor's office was notified. It was another in a tragic string of accidents this summer not just in Bergen County …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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Long Island Man Charged After Carlstadt Residents Find Wheels Gone, Vehicles On Wood Blocks Long Island Man Charged After Carlstadt Residents Find Wheels Gone, Vehicles On Wood Blocks Long Island Man Charged After Carlstadt Residents Find Wheels Gone, Vehicles On Wood Blocks
Long Island Man Charged After Carlstadt Residents Find Wheels Gone, Vehicles On Wood Blocks Three different residents in one Bergen County neighborhood found their cars on wood blocks, said authorities who charged a Long Island man with jacking up the vehicles and stealing all the wheels. Gilberto Grullon, 26, of the Suffolk County town of Brentwood, NY, surrendered to Carlstadt police late last week, Sgt. John Cleary said. Detectives had identified him in the late-April thefts of $12,000 worth of tires and rims from vehicles in the area of Marsan Drive and 8th Street, Cleary said. Police charged Grullon with theft, then released him pending a first appearance in Central Judicial…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Late-Night Hackensack Taco Bell Fire Doused Late-Night Hackensack Taco Bell Fire Doused Late-Night Hackensack Taco Bell Fire Doused
Late-Night Hackensack Taco Bell Fire Doused Hackensack firefighters doused a late-night blaze at a local Taco Bell. Companies opened an exterior wall and section of roof to extinguish the cockloft flames at the South River Street eatery shortly before 11:30 p.m. Sunday. They had the fire under control within 45 minutes. No injuries were reported. Hackensack firefighters had the blaze under control within 45 minutes.Damien Danis for DAILY VOICE The cause was being investigated. Mutual aid responders included firefighters from Englewood, Teaneck and Bogota. No injuries were reported in the Taco Bell fire on South River Street…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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SEE ANYTHING? Woman Shot In Englewood, Police Seek Witnesses SEE ANYTHING? Woman Shot In Englewood, Police Seek Witnesses SEE ANYTHING? Woman Shot In Englewood, Police Seek Witnesses
SEE Anything? Woman Shot In Englewood, Police Seek Witnesses Detectives in Englewood were trying to determine who shot a woman at a city public housing project. The 30-year-old victim showed up at Hackensack University Medical Center following the overnight shooting Monday on Parkview Terrace, Englewood Police Lt. Fred Pulice said. HUMC staff contacted Hackensack police, who called their Englewood colleagues around 4 a.m., the lieutenant said. The woman was released from the hospital after being treated for a relatively minor gunshot wound, Pulice said. Detectives were doing a follow-up interview with her later on Monday. They are also seeking…

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