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
PHOTOS: Route 80 Tied Up For Hours By Multi-Vehicle Crash, Fuel Spill PHOTOS: Route 80 Tied Up For Hours By Multi-Vehicle Crash, Fuel Spill PHOTOS: Route 80 Tied Up For Hours By Multi-Vehicle Crash, Fuel Spill
Photos: Route 80 Tied Up For Hours By Multi-Vehicle Crash, Fuel Spill UPDATE: Westbound Route 80 traffic was snarled for several hours in Bergen County on Tuesday following a crash involving a tractor-trailer, a sedan and a heavy fuel spill. Ridgefield Park firefighters extricated the driver of a BMW that was involved in the crash  at mile marker 67.7 in the local lanes approaching Hackensack in Bogota around 2:30 p.m. No serious injuries were reported, however. Ridgefield Park firefighters extricated the BMW driver.ABC Towing for DAILY VOICE A Bergen County Hazardous Materials Unit joined firefighters in cleaning up fuel that leaked from the jack-knifed…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: Passaic County Boy, 17, Held After Abducting, Raping, Beating Girl, 16 Authorities: Passaic County Boy, 17, Held After Abducting, Raping, Beating Girl, 16 Authorities: Passaic County Boy, 17, Held After Abducting, Raping, Beating Girl, 16
Authorities: Passaic County Boy, 17, Held After Abducting, Raping, Beating Girl, 16 A 17-year-old Passaic County boy held a 16-year-old girl against her will while raping and assaulting her, authorities said. Detectives from Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes’s Special Victims Unit interviewed the girl, among others, hours after the attack occurred at a Pompton Lakes home last Thursday, they said. The boy was taken into custody the next day and has remained held in the Essex County Juvenile Detention Facility in Newark since then. A delinquency complaint charges him with kidnapping, five counts of aggravated sexual assault, three counts of child endangerment and …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Off-Duty Fort Lee Motorcycle Officer Injured In Route 208 Crash Off-Duty Fort Lee Motorcycle Officer Injured In Route 208 Crash Off-Duty Fort Lee Motorcycle Officer Injured In Route 208 Crash
Off-Duty Fort Lee Motorcycle Officer Injured In Route 208 Crash UPDATE: An award-winning Fort Lee police motorcycle officer was released from the hospital after being injured in an off-duty crash Tuesday afternoon in Franklin Lakes. Officer Alejandro Lorenzo was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center following the crash on southbound Route 208 near Summit Avenue shortly after 4:30 p.m. Lorenzo, who's been with the department nearly 20 years, underwent a CT scan after initially complaining of hip pain. The hips wasn't broken, as a law enforcement source initially reported. "They're gonna need an MRI to make sure there are only soft-tissue issues…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson Man Charged With Setting Fire Outside Bank Paterson Man Charged With Setting Fire Outside Bank Paterson Man Charged With Setting Fire Outside Bank
Paterson Man Charged With Setting Fire Outside Bank A Paterson man was charged with setting a garbage can fire in the vestibule of a Main Street bank. Reshawn Evans, 27, was charged with aggravated assault following his arrest Monday in connection with the April 26 Bank of America branch fire, authorities said. The fire did not affect any adjoining structures, and there were no injuries, they said. The charges followed an investigation by the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Arson Unit and Paterson police and fire departments.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
GRANDPARENT SCAM: Elderly Hillsdale Resident Loses $9,000, Police Make Arrest GRANDPARENT SCAM: Elderly Hillsdale Resident Loses $9,000, Police Make Arrest GRANDPARENT SCAM: Elderly Hillsdale Resident Loses $9,000, Police Make Arrest
Grandparent Scam: Elderly Hillsdale Resident Loses $9,000, Police Make Arrest A Hillsdale woman lost $9,000 in a “grandparent scam” to a Paterson thief who was identified and arrested by borough detectives, authorities said. Elvis Guzman-Silia, 44, was nailed following a two-month investigation, Police Chief Chief Robert Francaviglia said Tuesday. The victim told police a caller convinced her that her grandnephew had been arrested following a traffic accident and that she had to pony up $9,000 to bail him out, Francaviglia said. A courier posing as a bail bonds worker then came to the victim’s house and collected the cash, the chief said. Guzman-Silia was identifie…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Multi-Vehicle Crash Closes Route 80 Multi-Vehicle Crash Closes Route 80 Multi-Vehicle Crash Closes Route 80
Multi-Vehicle Crash Closes Route 80 A multi-vehicle crash involving a jackknifed tractor-trailer backed up westbound Route 80 in Bergen County for miles Tuesday afternoon. There was no immediate word on injuries following the crash at mile marker 67.7 in the local lanes approaching Hackensack around 2:30 p.m. Ridgefield Park firefighters extricated an occupant. The view from the Teaneck Road bridge.Charisse Viscomi Santos for DAILY VOICE

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Crimestoppers Pays: Family Who Helped Police In Hackensack Robbery Rewarded Crimestoppers Pays: Family Who Helped Police In Hackensack Robbery Rewarded Crimestoppers Pays: Family Who Helped Police In Hackensack Robbery Rewarded
Crimestoppers Pays: Family Who Helped Police In Hackensack Robbery Rewarded Cash fell from his pockets as a robber ran from a Hackensack 7-Eleven before dawn one recent morning. Police caught him in the McDonald’s parking lot across the street with help from some civilians. Crimestoppers awarded a $500 check to a city couple and their young son for assisting. Pierre Zuniga, Paola Silva and their son, Samuel, collected the check during a visit to police headquarters with city Detective Capt. Darrin DeWitt and Detective Michael Koenig, who handled the case. Crimestopppers of Bergenfield, Bogota, Englewood, Teaneck, Hackensack and South Hackensack offers rewards of…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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'Attack On NYC': Lodi Used Car Salesman Made Bogus Threats, Authorities Charge 'Attack On NYC': Lodi Used Car Salesman Made Bogus Threats, Authorities Charge 'Attack On NYC': Lodi Used Car Salesman Made Bogus Threats, Authorities Charge
'Attack On NYC': Lodi Used Car Salesman Made Bogus Threats, Authorities Charge A used-car salesman from Lodi sent texts to police of an attack that he said was “set to take place” in New York City, said authorities who charged him with causing a false public alarm. Authorities zeroed in on Miguel Baez, 43, after police received a text from a caller using an ID anonymizer, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Working with police from Franklin Lakes, Little Ferry and Lodi, members of Musella’s Cyber Crimes Unit “quickly determined that several such messages were sent but they were all false and there was no such threat,” the prosecutor said. Baez was arrested Mo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
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Feds, Locals Smash Burglary Crew That Targeted Asians In NJ, PA Feds, Locals Smash Burglary Crew That Targeted Asians In NJ, PA Feds, Locals Smash Burglary Crew That Targeted Asians In NJ, PA
Feds, Locals Smash Burglary Crew That Targeted Asians In NJ, PA A second-story burglary crew whose methods were based on “stereotype and opportunity” worked from a hit list of more than 50 homes owned by Asians in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, federal authorities charged Tuesday. Local, state and federal law enforcement authorities who teamed up to smash the ring found notes in the defendants’ cars “containing the home addresses of individuals of Asian descent with derogatory descriptive terms to identify the ethnicity of the homeowners,” Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Rachael A. Honig said. Crew members got those addresses by breaking into the vict…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Scooter Rider Critically Injured In Passaic Crash Scooter Rider Critically Injured In Passaic Crash Scooter Rider Critically Injured In Passaic Crash
Scooter Rider Critically Injured In Passaic Crash An electric scooter rider was clinging to life Tuesday morning after being struck in Passaic, responders said. Witnesses said the late-30s victim ran a red light and was struck by a minivan at the intersection of President and Parker Streets shortly after 10:30 a.m. He was unconscious when taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center, responders said. The driver, meanwhile, remained at the scene and cooperated with police, who notified the Passaic County prosecutor's fatal accident team. City firefighters and EMS also responded.

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