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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Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
WILD RIDE: Hackensack Man With Arrest Record Goes For Officer's Gun In Ambo, Garfield PD Says WILD RIDE: Hackensack Man With Arrest Record Goes For Officer's Gun In Ambo, Garfield PD Says WILD RIDE: Hackensack Man With Arrest Record Goes For Officer's Gun In Ambo, Garfield PD Says
Wild Ride: Hackensack Man With Arrest Record Goes For Officer's Gun In Ambo, Garfield PD Says A Hackensack man with a history of fighting with police tried to disarm a Garfield officer during a struggle in an ambulance, authorities said. Michael Rufrano, 45, was acting irrational when officers responding to a 911 call found him outside a home on Garwood Court North, Capt. Richard Uram said Friday. Rufrano agreed to be taken to a hospital for an evaluation but then went for an officer's gun and tried to flee during what became a struggle, Uram said. He was unsuccessful and was immediately placed into custody for the ride to Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus, the captain sa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Son Of Infamous Bergen County Burglar Charged With ID Theft, Unemployment Fraud Son Of Infamous Bergen County Burglar Charged With ID Theft, Unemployment Fraud Son Of Infamous Bergen County Burglar Charged With ID Theft, Unemployment Fraud
Son Of Infamous Bergen County Burglar Charged With ID Theft, Unemployment Fraud The son of an infamous Bergen County burglar was charged with unemployment fraud after a shoplifting bust in Virginia, authorities said. A judge ordered Daniel Gatson Jr., 24, of Ridgefield released this week after he was booked into the Bergen County Jail hours earlier, records show. Gatson assumed another identity to open bank accounts, then applied for and received unemployment benefits from the state of New Jersey, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said, without specifying the amount. Detectives in Fairfax County, VA discovered this while investigating a shoplifting, the prose…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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STILL MISSING: Search Intensifies For Young Passaic Couple Swept Away In Ida's Floodwaters STILL MISSING: Search Intensifies For Young Passaic Couple Swept Away In Ida's Floodwaters STILL MISSING: Search Intensifies For Young Passaic Couple Swept Away In Ida's Floodwaters
Still Missing: Search Intensifies For Young Passaic Couple Swept Away In Ida's Floodwaters UPDATE (SEPT. 10): The New Jersey Medical Examiner's Office on Friday positively identified two bodies pulled from the Passaic River over the previous two days as a former high school prom king and queen swept away in Hurricane Ida's floodwaters last week. CLICK HERE FOR THE STORY.... ****** UPDATE (SATURDAY): With the Passaic River tide the lowest its been since before Tropical Storm Ida struck, authorities resumed their search for a former prom king and queen swept away in floodwaters. The Passaic couple, Nidhi Rana, 18, and Ayush Rana, 21, apparently were swept into a storm drain that …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Bogota PD: Traffic Stop Turns Up Loaded Gun Bogota PD: Traffic Stop Turns Up Loaded Gun Bogota PD: Traffic Stop Turns Up Loaded Gun
Bogota PD: Traffic Stop Turns Up Loaded Gun A traffic stop produced an illegal handgun and the arrests of two men, Bogota police said. Officer Lewis Duenas stopped their Honda SUV on Elm Avenue around 9 p.m. Wednesday as part of a “Drive Sober Get Pulled Over, Sgt. Geoffrey Cole said. The driver, Deondrey Ogletree, 26, reached for his paperwork, when backup Officer Matthew Luciano spotted the 9mm Taurus handgun in the glove compartment, the sergeant said. Both were joined by Officers George Hondros, Kevin Geraghty and Michael Ferrara in arresting Ogletree and his passenger, Ryan Gray, 27, both recently of Bogota and neither of whom …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Former Star Athlete Charged With Raping Woman At 2019 Wanaque House Party Former Star Athlete Charged With Raping Woman At 2019 Wanaque House Party Former Star Athlete Charged With Raping Woman At 2019 Wanaque House Party
Former Star Athlete Charged With Raping Woman At 2019 Wanaque House Party A former star high school athlete was arrested Friday and charged with raping an incapacitated woman during a party in Wanaque 2½ years ago, authorities announced. Zariq T. Hewitt, 25, of Paterson was identified after the woman told detectives that “she was unconscious and was then awakened by the nonconsensual act of penetration” during the large March 24, 2019 house party on Greenwood Avenue, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Wanaque Police Chief Robert Kronyak said in a joint announcement. Hewitt, who starred in track and played football at Pompton Lakes High School, was b…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack Detectives Nab Repeat Offender In $4,500 Restaurant, Deli Burglaries Hackensack Detectives Nab Repeat Offender In $4,500 Restaurant, Deli Burglaries Hackensack Detectives Nab Repeat Offender In $4,500 Restaurant, Deli Burglaries
Hackensack Detectives Nab Repeat Offender In $4,500 Restaurant, Deli Burglaries Hackensack detectives investigating a pair of smash-in burglaries at two local businesses didn’t have to go far to identify a suspect. Surveillance video made it easy after $4,500 in cash was taken from a register and safe at El Pautinito Restaurant on Kansas Street and $37 was stolen from Eileen Grocery on Lodi Street two days later, they said. Shajee Jackson remained held Friday in the Bergen County Jail pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. Detective Lt. Michael Antista and Detective Sgts Francesco Tripodi and Ioannis Papanikolaou nabbed th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Stony Point, NY
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Rockland Scooter Driver Airlifted, Passenger Taken By Ambulance After Crash Rockland Scooter Driver Airlifted, Passenger Taken By Ambulance After Crash Rockland Scooter Driver Airlifted, Passenger Taken By Ambulance After Crash
Rockland Scooter Driver Airlifted, Passenger Taken By Ambulance After Crash A Rockland man was airlifted to the hospital after he and a female passenger were struck riding a scooter in Northvale, New Jersey. The 48-year-old victim from Piermont was heading north on Livingston Street around 10:30 p.m. when the driver of a sedan made a left into the Citgo gas station and hit the Vespa, Borough of Northvale Police Chief Howard J. Ostrow said. Air Med 1 flew him to Hackensack University Medical Center with traumatic injuries after landing at John L. Hogan Memorial Park. His female passenger was taken to the hospital by ambulance, Ostrow said. The sedan driver, a 40-y…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
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Woman Struck, Killed By Out-Of-Service Commuter Train In Garfield Woman Struck, Killed By Out-Of-Service Commuter Train In Garfield Woman Struck, Killed By Out-Of-Service Commuter Train In Garfield
Woman Struck, Killed By Out-Of-Service Commuter Train In Garfield A woman was struck and killed by a out-of-service passenger train Friday morning in Garfield, authorities confirmed. There were no customers aboard the NJ Transit train when the woman was struck at Van Winkle Avenue off Chestnut Street at 9:39 a.m., NJ Transit Senior Public Information Officer Everett Merrill said. None of the eight crew members were injured, he said. Service on the Main-Bergen County Line was indefinitely suspended in both directions as NJ Transit police conducted an investigation into identifying the woman and determining the circumstances. It resumed three hours later.…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
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Rockland Scooter Driver Airlifted, Passenger Taken By Ambulance Following Northvale Crash Rockland Scooter Driver Airlifted, Passenger Taken By Ambulance Following Northvale Crash Rockland Scooter Driver Airlifted, Passenger Taken By Ambulance Following Northvale Crash
Rockland Scooter Driver Airlifted, Passenger Taken By Ambulance Following Northvale Crash A Rockland man was airlifted to the hospital after he and a female passenger were struck riding a scooter in Northvale. The 48-year-old victim from Piermont was heading north on Livingston Street around 10:30 p.m. when the driver of a sedan made a left into the Citgo gas station and hit the Vespa, Police Chief Howard J. Ostrow said. Air Med 1 flew him to Hackensack University Medical Center with traumatic injuries after landing at John L. Hogan Memorial Park. His female passenger was taken to the hospital by ambulance, Ostrow said. The sedan driver, a 40-year-old Orangeburg man, was relea…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Bergenfield Family Routed By Fire Bergenfield Family Routed By Fire Bergenfield Family Routed By Fire
Bergenfield Family Routed By Fire Everyone got out OK but a Bergenfield family lost everything in an early-morning fire on Friday, authorities said. The two-alarm blaze broke out on the second floor of the 2½-story home at North Prospect and Central avenues shortly before 6 a.m. It was knocked down within 45 minutes. Firefighters from Teaneck, Englewood, Dumont, New Milford, Demarest and Ridgefield Park provided mutual aid either at the scene or in coverage. The cause wasn't immediately determined. "The house is uninhabitable," Mayor Arvin Amatorio said. "No one was injured, but dealing with that type of disaster is ver…

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