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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North Hunterdon, NJ
Breaking News
HERO: Park Ranger Carries Dehydrated Dog To Safety Down Treacherous Water Gap Mountain HERO: Park Ranger Carries Dehydrated Dog To Safety Down Treacherous Water Gap Mountain HERO: Park Ranger Carries Dehydrated Dog To Safety Down Treacherous Water Gap Mountain
Hero: Park Ranger Carries Dehydrated Dog To Safety Down Treacherous Water Gap Mountain Supervisory Park Ranger Kris Salapek wasn’t about to leave a worried owner and his dehydrated dog alone on a mountain at the Delaware Water Gap National Recreational Area. Lexie Daniel of Randolph said she and fellow hikers on Mount Tammany in Warren County gave their water to the owner, “but we were afraid that would be little help with how much the dog was already struggling [in the intense heat].” Salapek then lifted the huge dog onto his shoulders and carried him down “an incredibly rocky hill all the way down to the stream – it was a LONG distance -- and laid him in the water as he kn…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Bergen Sheriff Leads 'Rededication' To 'Good, Just Policing' Bergen Sheriff Leads 'Rededication' To 'Good, Just Policing' Bergen Sheriff Leads 'Rededication' To 'Good, Just Policing'
Bergen Sheriff Leads 'Rededication' To 'Good, Just Policing' A group of sheriff's and corrections officers accepted Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton's offer to join him in rededicating themselves to their oaths of office. “Today we come together unified, as law enforcement officers to rededicate ourselves to the principles of our oath," Cureton said during a ceremony Wednesday on the Bergen County Courthouse steps in Hackensack. "We recognize at this time, due to social injustices, society is taking a hard look at our proud profession," the sheriff said. "We are here to show the community that the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office is committed to s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson Councilman, Councilman-Elect, Two Others Charged With Election Fraud Paterson Councilman, Councilman-Elect, Two Others Charged With Election Fraud Paterson Councilman, Councilman-Elect, Two Others Charged With Election Fraud
Paterson Councilman, Councilman-Elect, Two Others Charged With Election Fraud State authorities on Thursday charged a sitting Paterson councilman, a councilman-elect and two other men with rigging a May 12 special election. Paterson City Councilman Michael Jackson and Councilman-Elect Alex Mendez conspired with Shelim Khalique of Wayne, and Abu Razyen of Prospect Park to play fast and loose with mail-in ballots made necessary for all voting in the special election due to the coronavirus pandemic, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. It began, he said, when the U.S. Postal Inspection Service alerted the Attorney General’s Office that hundreds of mail-in ballots wer…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
Breaking News
HEROES: Watch As Secaucus Police Catch Boy, 4, Thrown From Window In Fire HEROES: Watch As Secaucus Police Catch Boy, 4, Thrown From Window In Fire HEROES: Watch As Secaucus Police Catch Boy, 4, Thrown From Window In Fire
Heroes: Watch As Secaucus Police Catch Boy, 4, Thrown From Window In Fire Video shows Secaucus police officers catching a 4-year-old boy tossed to them from the window of a burning building. They also carried an unconscious, badly burned woman out the front door. Officer Nicholas Spangenberg forced his way into a first-floor apartment in the the smoky Radio Avenue building and found the 56-year-old woman unconscious on the floor. He, Officer Jason Mitchell, and Detective Aniello Schaffer carried out the woman, who police said suffered 2nd- and 3rd-degree burns. Another mother, seeing other officers below, tossed her son to them out the second-floor window of a …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Bergen Drug Detectives Nab Out-Of-State Pair With 35 Pounds Of Synth Pot Prosecutor: Bergen Drug Detectives Nab Out-Of-State Pair With 35 Pounds Of Synth Pot Prosecutor: Bergen Drug Detectives Nab Out-Of-State Pair With 35 Pounds Of Synth Pot
Prosecutor: Bergen Drug Detectives Nab Out-Of-State Pair With 35 Pounds Of Synth Pot Two Massachusetts mechanics stopped by Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives on Route 95 in Englewood were toting 35 pounds of synthetic pot, authorities said. Harry E. Cartagena, 30, and Jose C. Marrero-Santiago, 28, both of Dorchester were in a Honda Accord stopped Wednesday for multiple traffic violations on the northbound highway, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. A Bergen County Sheriff’s Office K-9 trained in drug detection led the prosecutor’s Narcotic Task Force detectives to the trunk, where they found two suitcases filled with the psychoactive substance. Synthetic canna…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
Breaking News
Registered Rockland Sex Offender Gets House Arrest For Violating Federal Release With Minor Registered Rockland Sex Offender Gets House Arrest For Violating Federal Release With Minor Registered Rockland Sex Offender Gets House Arrest For Violating Federal Release With Minor
Registered Rockland Sex Offender Gets House Arrest For Violating Federal Release With Minor A registered sex offender from Rockland County who spent a year in federal prison for assaulting a woman on a flight from Israel to Newark Liberty International Airport was sentenced Thursday to time served for sexually abusing a minor after his release, authorities said. Yoel Oberlander, 39, of Monsey had served a plea-bargained year behind bars for the airborne May 2016 assault when he was arrested by Ramapo police in June 2019. Oberlander later admitted that he’d picked up an underage victim for sex in his car during what was three years of federal supervised release, U.S. Attorney Craig…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Mobile Crane Goes Up In Flames On Route 80, Fire Truck Involved In Crash Mobile Crane Goes Up In Flames On Route 80, Fire Truck Involved In Crash Mobile Crane Goes Up In Flames On Route 80, Fire Truck Involved In Crash
Mobile Crane Goes Up In Flames On Route 80, Fire Truck Involved In Crash Flames destroyed a mobile crane Thursday afternoon off Route 80 in Totowa, while a Wayne fire truck headed to the scene was involved in a minor crash. The westbound highway just before Minnisink Road was closed as firefighters from Wayne and Totowa and members of the West Paterson Fire Department doused the flames, which spread to nearby brush, shortly before 3 p.m. People nearby reported hearing an explosion. A large hydraulic fuel spill required attention. A New Jersey State Police trooper required medical attention for a minor injury from tire debris, responders said. The driver…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lakewood, NJ
Breaking News
FBI: Drone Leads Divers To Devices Jersey Shore Child Porn Collector, 52, Tossed Into Water FBI: Drone Leads Divers To Devices Jersey Shore Child Porn Collector, 52, Tossed Into Water FBI: Drone Leads Divers To Devices Jersey Shore Child Porn Collector, 52, Tossed Into Water
FBI: Drone Leads Divers To Devices Jersey Shore Child Porn Collector, 52, Tossed Into Water A law enforcement drone helped the FBI find an iPad and iPhone containing child pornography that a collector under investigation tossed into a Jersey Shore creek, authorities said. Federal authorities on Thursday charged Charles F. Browne, 52, currently of South River, with uploading images of child sexual abuse to a Dropbox account and “concealing objects to impede the FBI’s investigation,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Officials at Dropbox Inc. alerted them to the images, uploaded to an account with the screen name “Charles Browne” and an email address containing the term “cbrowne,”…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
SEEN THEM? Pair Sought In Connection With Garfield Burglary SEEN THEM? Pair Sought In Connection With Garfield Burglary SEEN THEM? Pair Sought In Connection With Garfield Burglary
Seen Them? Pair Sought In Connection With Garfield Burglary Garfield police turned to the public for help Thursday in finding two men wanted for questioning in connection with $11,000 in cash, jewelry and electronics during a home burglary. No one was home when the burglars entered through a side window of the Farnham Avenue residence shortly before 5:30 p.m. June 6, Detective Capt. Richard Uram said. Uram described the men in the photos not as suspects but as "people of interest." He asked that anyone who sees or knows them contact Garfield Police Detective Sgt. Marc Amos or Detective Robert Meehan: (973) 478-8500. ****** ALSO SEE: A Garfield m…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Carlstadt PD: Hackensack Driver In Route 17 Chase Had Heroin, Coke, Crystal Meth, More Carlstadt PD: Hackensack Driver In Route 17 Chase Had Heroin, Coke, Crystal Meth, More Carlstadt PD: Hackensack Driver In Route 17 Chase Had Heroin, Coke, Crystal Meth, More
Carlstadt PD: Hackensack Driver In Route 17 Chase Had Heroin, Coke, Crystal Meth, More A Hackensack driver carrying a variety of illegal drugs raced along Route 17, cutting across three lanes several times, before surrendering to a pursuing Carlstadt police officer in Moonachie, authorities said. Officer Matthew Bartlett tried pulling over the Honda Civic after driver Shavar Ingram, 34, improperly passed two vehicles and made an illegal left turn onto Paterson Avenue from Enoch Street, Police Chief Thomas Berta said. Ingram kept going, speeding onto Route 17, before the pursuit finally ended on Berger Street, the chief said. Berta said a search turned up various amounts of: …

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