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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Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Palisades Parkway PD: Fleeing Newark Car Thieves Captured After Calling Uber To Cliffs Palisades Parkway PD: Fleeing Newark Car Thieves Captured After Calling Uber To Cliffs Palisades Parkway PD: Fleeing Newark Car Thieves Captured After Calling Uber To Cliffs
Palisades Parkway PD: Fleeing Newark Car Thieves Captured After Calling Uber To Cliffs Palisades Interstate Parkway police waited out a pair of teenage thieves from Newark who bailed from a stolen vehicle, hid in the woods along the cliffs above the Hudson River, then called an Uber to pick them up. An officer tried stopping the Audi A5, reported stolen out of Livingston, on the northbound parkway in Alpine early Monday afternoon, Sgt. First Class Raymond Walter said. The same vehicle had been chased by police in Madison before dawn that same day, he noted. The parkway driver hit the gas before quickly exiting onto Henry Hudson Drive and heading down the hill into the Alpine…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Worker Struck By Steel Beam Rescued From Fourth Floor Of HackensackUMC Construction Site Worker Struck By Steel Beam Rescued From Fourth Floor Of HackensackUMC Construction Site Worker Struck By Steel Beam Rescued From Fourth Floor Of HackensackUMC Construction Site
Worker Struck By Steel Beam Rescued From Fourth Floor Of HackensackUMC Construction Site HEROES: A worker was rescued after he was struck and pinned beneath a steel beam on the fourth floor of a Hackensack University Medical Center construction site on Thursday. With help from the construction company, the victim was secured into a basket by city firefighters and HUMC paramedics and then lowered by a crane after he was struck in the lower extremities by the I-beam at the Atlantic Street construction site shortly after 11 a.m., Hackensack Fire Capt. Justin Derevyanik said. Members of the third platoon Rescue 1, Ladder 1, Engine 2, Deputy 3 Car 2, police and HUMC BLS and ALS…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Woman Rescued From Rape Attempt On Busy Paramus Street Woman Rescued From Rape Attempt On Busy Paramus Street Woman Rescued From Rape Attempt On Busy Paramus Street
Woman Rescued From Rape Attempt On Busy Paramus Street A good Samaritan rescued a Paramus woman who was tackled and pulled into the bushes on a local street in broad daylight by a would-be rapist carrying a knife, authorities said. The 35-year-old victim told police she was walking on Oradell Avenue near Wilsey Court and the Garden State Parkway when Hector W. Alameda, 34, of Paterson approached her shortly before 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. Alameda asked her where the bus stop is, then demanded she kiss him, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. The woman said she yelled and tried to get away, but Alameda knocked her down, groped her and “attempted …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: Paterson Police, Federal Agents Bust Drug-Dealing Couple With 1,000 Heroin Folds Authorities: Paterson Police, Federal Agents Bust Drug-Dealing Couple With 1,000 Heroin Folds Authorities: Paterson Police, Federal Agents Bust Drug-Dealing Couple With 1,000 Heroin Folds
Authorities: Paterson Police, Federal Agents Bust Drug-Dealing Couple With 1,000 Heroin Folds Paterson detectives working with federal Homeland Security agents nabbed a drug-dealing couple with nearly 1,000 heroin folds, along with fentanyl, pot and $2,892 in suspected proceeds, authorities said. Investigators were watching as Carlos Gomez walked out of his East 29th Street basement apartment Wednesday night with several heroin bricks in his hand, city Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Gomez got into a car and drove away before they stopped and arrested him near the corner of 17th Avenue and East 31st Street. Detectives made another stop an hour later, arresting the mothe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn PD: Man Seized For Violating Order Of Protection Fights With, Spits On Officers Fair Lawn PD: Man Seized For Violating Order Of Protection Fights With, Spits On Officers Fair Lawn PD: Man Seized For Violating Order Of Protection Fights With, Spits On Officers
Fair Lawn PD: Man Seized For Violating Order Of Protection Fights With, Spits On Officers A Fair Lawn man led borough police on a brief foot chase, then spit on and fought with officers after violating an order of protection, authorities said. Brandon Hernandez, 25, ran from officers who responded to a call to a 1st Street residence Wednesday afternoon, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. When they finally grabbed him, Hernandez fought with and spit on the officers before being subdued, Metzler said. Members of the Fair Lawn Volunteer Ambulance Corps took him under police guard to Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus for an evaluation. He was later transferred to the Bergen County …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Police: Peeping-Tom Contractor Hid Video Camera In Paramus, Wayne Family Bathrooms Police: Peeping-Tom Contractor Hid Video Camera In Paramus, Wayne Family Bathrooms Police: Peeping-Tom Contractor Hid Video Camera In Paramus, Wayne Family Bathrooms
Police: Peeping-Tom Contractor Hid Video Camera In Paramus, Wayne Family Bathrooms A contractor hid a micro camera that recorded video in bathrooms at homes in Paramus and Wayne, authorities said. The Paramus victim went to local police after finding the camera, with a micro-SD memory card, hidden in a bathroom wall, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said Wednesday. Detectives learned that the homeowner had hired Romeo Sanchez, 47, of West New York to replace a window, Ehrenberg said. Sanchez "had not finished the job and reported that he would return at a later date and time," the chief said. Detective Mark Pinajian examined the device's memory card and found "several vid…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Englewood Cook Charged With Sexually Assaulting Underage Waldwick Girl In Allendale Englewood Cook Charged With Sexually Assaulting Underage Waldwick Girl In Allendale Englewood Cook Charged With Sexually Assaulting Underage Waldwick Girl In Allendale
Englewood Cook Charged With Sexually Assaulting Underage Waldwick Girl In Allendale A cook from Englewood was charged with having sex with an underage Waldwick girl he apparently met on a dating app, authorities said. Police searching for the girl after she’d been reported missing found her Sunday night in Allendale with Seti Tonge, 22, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Tonge was taken to Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus before he was booked into the Bergen County Jail early Monday. A judge soon after ordered him released pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. Tonge is charged with sexual assault and child enda…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen Prosecutor: Feds Capture Parolee In $500,000 Ponzi Scheme Bergen Prosecutor: Feds Capture Parolee In $500,000 Ponzi Scheme Bergen Prosecutor: Feds Capture Parolee In $500,000 Ponzi Scheme
Bergen Prosecutor: Feds Capture Parolee In $500,000 Ponzi Scheme U.S. Marshals captured an ex-con who ran a Ponzi scheme while on federal probation that swindled a Fort Lee investor, among others, out of more than $500,000, authorities said. Giuseppe Valentino, 52, “solicited multiple investors in his company, Rhineau LLC, by representing that he had developed a proprietary algorithm for the execution of binary options,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Wednesday. A judge issued a warrant for Valentino’s arrest in March after Financial Crimes Unit detectives found that he’d collected a half-million dollars that he used for himself without inves…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Palisades Park Warehouse Worker, 19, Charged With Statutory Rape Palisades Park Warehouse Worker, 19, Charged With Statutory Rape Palisades Park Warehouse Worker, 19, Charged With Statutory Rape
Palisades Park Warehouse Worker, 19, Charged With Statutory Rape A warehouse worker from Palisades Park was charged with statutory rape. Edison Moreno Teletor, 19, was charged with sexual assault of a child between 13 and 16 and child endangerment on Saturday, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Members of Musella’s Special Victims Unit took Teletor, of Broad Avenue, into custody following an investigation with borough police, who’d fielded the initial complaint last Wednesday, he sad. Teletor was ordered freed by a judge in Hackensack within hours of being booked into the Bergen County Jail. Statutory rape occurs in New Jersey when one of the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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Troubled Woman Barricaded In Bergenfield Home Troubled Woman Barricaded In Bergenfield Home Troubled Woman Barricaded In Bergenfield Home
Troubled Woman Barricaded In Bergenfield Home A troubled woman barricaded herself for several hours inside a Bergenfield home before she was taken into custody. Area streets remained closed as members of Bergen County SWAT and Regional Crisis Negotiation teams joined borough police at the Maiden Lane home after the standoff began around 12:30 p.m. It continued for more than five hours before the SWAT team forced its way in and seized the woman without further incident. She was taken to Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus for an evaluation.

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