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
Bergen Jail Gets New Warden Amid County Sheriff's Promotions Bergen Jail Gets New Warden Amid County Sheriff's Promotions Bergen Jail Gets New Warden Amid County Sheriff's Promotions
Bergen Jail Gets New Warden Amid County Sheriff's Promotions Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton on Friday officially promoted a corrections captain to warden, a corrections lieutenant to captain, a sheriff's sergeant and a corrections sergeant to lieutenant and three sheriff's officers to sergeant. "These promotions showcase the future leaders of this great agency and their commitment to serving Bergen County with honor,” Cureton said during a sun-drenched ceremony attended by family members, friends and colleagues on the steps of the Bergen County Courthouse in Hackensack. The new Bergen County Sheriff sergeants are Christian Zambrano, Robert Man…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Ramsey Police Get Body Cams Ramsey Police Get Body Cams Ramsey Police Get Body Cams
Ramsey Police Get Body Cams Ramsey police will become the latest New Jersey crime fighters to don body cameras beginning on Labor Day. The move follows directives from the state attorney general and Bergen prosecutor’s offices. Officer will wear the Motorola Si500 cameras on their uniforms or “outermost garment…during criminal investigations, motor vehicle stops, witness interviews in criminal investigations, searches, civil disorder, use of force and constructive authority, transporting prisoners, making arrests and conducting protective searches for weapons,” Police Chief Bryan Gurney said Thursday.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hamilton Township, NJ
Breaking News
Major Dealer In Violent Trenton Drug Crew Headed To Fed Pen For Plea-Bargained 13 Years Major Dealer In Violent Trenton Drug Crew Headed To Fed Pen For Plea-Bargained 13 Years Major Dealer In Violent Trenton Drug Crew Headed To Fed Pen For Plea-Bargained 13 Years
Major Dealer In Violent Trenton Drug Crew Headed To Fed Pen For Plea-Bargained 13 Years A confessed member of a violent "war ready" Trenton drug-dealing crew must spend more than 13 years in federal prison for his role in a massive heroin trafficking operation. Omar “Stacks” Council, 41, is the latest of 23 defendants to take guilty pleas in exchange for leniency when he admitted participating in a trafficking network that flooded the streets of the state capital with heroin and other drugs amid shootouts with rival gang members Council -- also known as "Snow" and "Y-O" -- must serve out the entire 160-month plea-bargained sentence because there’s no parole in the federal pris…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Wayne Police Bust Trio Following Alleged Knifepoint Robbery At Route 23 Motel Wayne Police Bust Trio Following Alleged Knifepoint Robbery At Route 23 Motel Wayne Police Bust Trio Following Alleged Knifepoint Robbery At Route 23 Motel
Wayne Police Bust Trio Following Alleged Knifepoint Robbery At Route 23 Motel Wayne police arrested three transients following an alleged knifepoint robbery at a local motel. Officer Joseph Cobianchi was on patrol when he saw a woman and two men who “appeared to be shouting” and were “visibly upset” in the parking lot of the Days Inn on Route 23, Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. As Cobianchi approached, one of the men quickly ducked into the motel, the captain said. The woman “was crying and had dried blood on her lip,” Daly said. She told the officer that she was in a room with another woman who “robbed her at knifepoint and struck her in the face with a glass bottl…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
NJ: Cliffside Park Lawyer Created Fake Companies, Got $9 Million In COVID Loans, Bought Mansion NJ: Cliffside Park Lawyer Created Fake Companies, Got $9 Million In COVID Loans, Bought Mansion NJ: Cliffside Park Lawyer Created Fake Companies, Got $9 Million In COVID Loans, Bought Mansion
NJ: Cliffside Park Lawyer Created Fake Companies, Got $9 Million In COVID Loans, Bought Mansion A Cliffside Park lawyer scammed lenders out of $9M in COVID-relief loans by creating records for bogus businesses he claimed to control, then spent the money on a $1 million home in Cresskill and millions more in stock market investments, authorities charged. Jae H. Choi, 48, “fabricated the existence of hundreds of employees, manipulated bank and tax records, and falsified a driver’s license on the applications,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Choi told the lenders that he paid $3 million in monthly wages to hundreds of employees in the non-existent companies, Carpenito said. Lenders…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
SEEN HIM? Elmwood Park Bank Robbed By Bandit Dressed In White SEEN HIM? Elmwood Park Bank Robbed By Bandit Dressed In White SEEN HIM? Elmwood Park Bank Robbed By Bandit Dressed In White
Seen HIM? Elmwood Park Bank Robbed By Bandit Dressed In White An Elmwood Park bank robber threatened to kill a teller three times Thursday morning before fleeing with -- get this -- $61, authorities said. That's not a typo. Sixty-one bucks. The 5-foot-7-inch African-American robber was wearing dressed all in white, with gloves, a facemask and sunglasses, when he entered the Chase Bank branch in the Elmwood Park Center on Broadway around 10 a.m., Police Chief Michael Foligno said. He passed a note demanding money and didn't show a weapon but repeatedly "threatened to shoot the teller if she didn't comply," Foligno said following the holdup at  S…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Violent Hackensack Home Invaders Rob Couple Of $20,000 Watch, Jewelry While Child, 3, Sleeps Violent Hackensack Home Invaders Rob Couple Of $20,000 Watch, Jewelry While Child, 3, Sleeps Violent Hackensack Home Invaders Rob Couple Of $20,000 Watch, Jewelry While Child, 3, Sleeps
Violent Hackensack Home Invaders Rob Couple Of $20,000 Watch, Jewelry While Child, 3, Sleeps Two home invaders, one armed with a handgun, smashed their way into a Hackensack apartment overnight Thursday and robbed a couple of $53,000 worth of jewelry while their 3-year-old daughter slept in another room, authorities said. The robbers broke the door frame, a lock and glass when they crashed into the Tracy Place apartment around midnight, Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. One of them pointed a revolver at a female tenant’s head, ordering her to sit in a chair, DeWitt said. The gunman then forced the male tenant to the ground and “demanded to know where the money is,” DeWitt said. When the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
SEEN HIM? Elmwood Park Bank Robbed By Bandit Dressed In White SEEN HIM? Elmwood Park Bank Robbed By Bandit Dressed In White SEEN HIM? Elmwood Park Bank Robbed By Bandit Dressed In White
Seen HIM? Elmwood Park Bank Robbed By Bandit Dressed In White An Elmwood Park bank robber threatened to kill a teller three times before fleeing with cash Thursday morning, police confirmed. The 5-foot-7-inch African-American robber was wearing dressed all in white, with gloves, a facemask and sunglasses, when he entered the Chase Bank branch in the Elmwood Park Center on Broadway around 10 a.m., Police Chief Michael Foligno said. He passed a note demanding money and didn't show a weapon but repeatedly "threatened to shoot the teller if she didn't comply," Foligno said following the holdup at  She gave him all the cash in the drawer, "which wasn…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
GOTCHA! Daily Voice Story Shared In NY Leads To Arrest In Hit-Run That Killed Paramus Woman GOTCHA! Daily Voice Story Shared In NY Leads To Arrest In Hit-Run That Killed Paramus Woman GOTCHA! Daily Voice Story Shared In NY Leads To Arrest In Hit-Run That Killed Paramus Woman
Gotcha! Daily Voice Story Shared In NY Leads To Arrest In Hit-Run That Killed Paramus Woman UPDATE: Sharing stories really does make a difference. A Daily Voice reader who saw a story shared in a Facebook group about the search for a hit-and-run vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Paramus provided the tip that led to the capture of the accused driver. The tipster said he suspected the damaged Ford brought into an auto body shop in Congers was the same one mentioned in a Daily Voice story about the search for the fleeing driver who killed the 58-year-old woman as she walked along a local road early Thursday. So he notified authorities. Detectives from the Bergen County …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Mishap At Fair Lawn Auto Dealership Sends Driver To Hospital Mishap At Fair Lawn Auto Dealership Sends Driver To Hospital Mishap At Fair Lawn Auto Dealership Sends Driver To Hospital
Mishap At Fair Lawn Auto Dealership Sends Driver To Hospital A brand-new hatchback sustained serious damage after it crashed in a service garage at a Fair Lawn dealership Wednesday afternoon. A male driver walked to a Hackensack University Medical Center ambulance under his own power following the mishap at the Jack Daniels Kia dealership on Broadway. His injury wasn't considered serious, responders said. The 2020 Kia Rio was driven from the area of the crash and parked in an exterior lot. It wasn't immediately clear whether any other vehicles were damaged.Boyd A. Loving

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