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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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Fort Lee Man Charged With Trafficking Child Pornography Fort Lee Man Charged With Trafficking Child Pornography Fort Lee Man Charged With Trafficking Child Pornography
Fort Lee Man Charged With Trafficking Child Pornography A Fort Lee man was arrested Thursday and charged with trafficking child porn, authorities said. Andrew Freedman, 52, was ordered held in the Bergen County Jail pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack on charges of possessing and distributing the illegal images. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said detectives from his Cyber Crimes Unit arrested Freedman after executing a search warrant at his condominium in the Charlton high-rise on 15th Street. Freedman, who is divorced and unemployed, “used the Internet to view, download, possess and distribute …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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RESCUE: Police Heroes Free Trapped Driver Knocked Cold In Crash Between 9W And PIP RESCUE: Police Heroes Free Trapped Driver Knocked Cold In Crash Between 9W And PIP RESCUE: Police Heroes Free Trapped Driver Knocked Cold In Crash Between 9W And PIP
Rescue: Police Heroes Free Trapped Driver Knocked Cold In Crash Between 9W And PIP A team of police officers rescued a trapped driver who’d been knocked unconscious Thursday when her car barreled down an embankment and into a wooded area between Route 9W and the Palisades Interstate Parkway. The 63-year-old Cliffside Park motorist’s 2011 Toyota Corolla was in a precarious position after veering across the shoulder of northbound 9W, hitting a rock wall, vaulting into a tree and then careening down the embankment shortly before 9 a.m., Tenafly Police Capt. Michael deMoncada said. Tenafly police were joined at the scene by fellow officers from Englewood Cliffs and the Palisa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
Breaking News
Teen Charged With Bias Attempted Murder For Savage Beating In North Hudson Park Teen Charged With Bias Attempted Murder For Savage Beating In North Hudson Park Teen Charged With Bias Attempted Murder For Savage Beating In North Hudson Park
Teen Charged With Bias Attempted Murder For Savage Beating In North Hudson Park A grand jury has indicted a Baltimore teen on bias attempted murder charges for savagely beating a learning-disabled man in a Hudson County park because he thought he was gay. José Tobias Carranza Serrano, 18, was captured by police in Bayonne who found him and his clothes covered in blood while arresting him on a trespassing charge hours after the June 21 attack in James J. Braddock Park in North Bergen, authorities said. The indictment returned Wednesday charges Carranza Serrano with attempted murder, bias intimidation, aggravated assault and robbery. The 37-year-old victim from West New…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
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Jersey City Police Officer Admits Going To AC To Have Sex With Young Girls Found On Incest App Jersey City Police Officer Admits Going To AC To Have Sex With Young Girls Found On Incest App Jersey City Police Officer Admits Going To AC To Have Sex With Young Girls Found On Incest App
Jersey City Police Officer Admits Going To AC To Have Sex With Young Girls Found On Incest App A disgraced Jersey City police officer admitted Thursday that he drove to Atlantic City expecting to have sex with two girls – one 8, the other 10 -- for $200. Stephen Wilson, 34, of Bayonne will be sentenced to eight years in state prison in exchange for his guilty plea before a Superior Court judge in Mays Landing on Thursday to attempted aggravated sexual assault, Acting New Jersey Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck said. Wilson was carrying condoms and $500 in cash when State Police and federal Homeland Security agents arrested him this past February, Bruck said. He’d agre…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Ridgewood Bicyclist Struck By Harrington Park Driver On Route 9W In Alpine Police: Ridgewood Bicyclist Struck By Harrington Park Driver On Route 9W In Alpine Police: Ridgewood Bicyclist Struck By Harrington Park Driver On Route 9W In Alpine
Police: Ridgewood Bicyclist Struck By Harrington Park Driver On Route 9W In Alpine A bicyclist from Ridgewood was hospitalized after he was struck on Route 9W in Alpine by a car driven by a Harrington Park woman, authorities said. The 52-year-old bicyclist was headed north when the southbound driver, 22, turned her 2018 Volkswagen Jetta left at the entrance to the Palisades Interstate Parkway entrance shortly after 6 p.m. Wednesday, Alpine Police Chief Christopher J. Belcolle said. He was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center for treatment, the chief said. An investigation was continuing, Belcolle said. Members of the Closter Ambulance Corps and paramedics …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Pedestrian Struck, Killed Outside Paterson Religious Store Pedestrian Struck, Killed Outside Paterson Religious Store Pedestrian Struck, Killed Outside Paterson Religious Store
Pedestrian Struck, Killed Outside Paterson Religious Store A 56-year-old pedestrian was struck and killed as she crossed the street in front of a Paterson religious goods store, authorities said. Susie Maluya was pronounced dead at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center moments shortly after she was struck by a 2013 Honda in the middle of the block on Straight Street off Park Avenue around 8 p.m. Wednesday, they said. The 24-year-old Hackensack driver remained at the scene and didn’t immediately receive any summonses, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said. An investigation was continuing, they sai…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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COLD CASE: Ex-Cons Charged With Robbing Ridgefield Park Man COLD CASE: Ex-Cons Charged With Robbing Ridgefield Park Man COLD CASE: Ex-Cons Charged With Robbing Ridgefield Park Man
Cold CASE: Ex-Cons Charged With Robbing Ridgefield Park Man Two ex-cons were charged with pistol-whipping a Ridgefield Park during a robbery outside his home last year. Thomas Parker Sr., 47, was arrested Wednesday following a raid of of his East Harlem, NY, apartment, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Parker remained held in the city pending extradition to New Jersey, where he was expected to join Arrin Barber, 53, of Irvington in the Bergen County Jail. Parker had been arrested outside his home this past June and has remained jailed since then, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Barber struck the 54-year-old victim several tim…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Three Caught, One Sought: Passaic Sheriff's Detectives Seize More Than 16,000 Heroin Folds Three Caught, One Sought: Passaic Sheriff's Detectives Seize More Than 16,000 Heroin Folds Three Caught, One Sought: Passaic Sheriff's Detectives Seize More Than 16,000 Heroin Folds
Three Caught, One Sought: Passaic Sheriff's Detectives Seize More Than 16,000 Heroin Folds A manhunt was underway for a 20-year-old drug defendant from Paterson who nearly struck a Passaic County sheriff’s detective with his vehicle and then tossed bricks of heroin out the window as he fled before crashing in Hawthorne, authorities said. The wanted man, Jahmahli Carnegie, was one of three defendants who bought heroin for distribution from Kasheem Smith, 28, near his North 7th Street home, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. In Carnegie's car police found some more heroin, $1,231 in proceeds and his NJ Motor Vehicle Commission ID card, the sheriff said. A search of S…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Tappan-Blauvelt, NY
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Nanny, Baby Stroller Struck By Hit-Run Van, Fleeing Rockland Driver Caught, Police Say Nanny, Baby Stroller Struck By Hit-Run Van, Fleeing Rockland Driver Caught, Police Say Nanny, Baby Stroller Struck By Hit-Run Van, Fleeing Rockland Driver Caught, Police Say
Nanny, Baby Stroller Struck By Hit-Run Van, Fleeing Rockland Driver Caught, Police Say A nanny and an infant she was pushing in a stroller were struck Wednesday, Sept. 15 by a van driven by a FedEx worker from Rockland who fled the scene, authorities said. A police sergeant in neighboring Demarest, New Jersey stopped David Gutfeld, age 56, of Airmont a short time later, Haworth, New Jersey Police Chief Michael Gracey said. The child was OK, but the 55-year-old nanny had to be hospitalized, Gracey said, adding that the entire incident was captured on a home security video. “Lucky thing the child was strapped in securely,” he said. Video shows the white Enterprise rental van …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
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Lyndhurst PD: Dirt Bike Pursuit Leads To Arrest Of Speeding Out-Of-State Rider Lyndhurst PD: Dirt Bike Pursuit Leads To Arrest Of Speeding Out-Of-State Rider Lyndhurst PD: Dirt Bike Pursuit Leads To Arrest Of Speeding Out-Of-State Rider
Lyndhurst PD: Dirt Bike Pursuit Leads To Arrest Of Speeding Out-Of-State Rider An out-of-state dirt bike rider led Lyndhurst police on a chase around a borough block before he was taken into custody. Officer Michael Carrino was on Post Avenue approaching Riverside Avenue when he spotted the dirt bike speeding toward him Tuesday afternoon, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. The bike had no visible registration and the rider, Omar Valentin 31, of Portage, MI, wasn’t wearing a helmet, Auteri said. Carrino chased Valentin, who turned right onto Fern Avenue, sped down the block and turned right onto Stuyvesant Avenue and then right again back to the original area on Post,…

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