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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Bergenfield, NJ
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Bail Reform: Accused Bergenfield Porch Pirate Released, Returns, Re-Arrested Bail Reform: Accused Bergenfield Porch Pirate Released, Returns, Re-Arrested Bail Reform: Accused Bergenfield Porch Pirate Released, Returns, Re-Arrested
Bail Reform: Accused Bergenfield Porch Pirate Released, Returns, Re-Arrested An accused porch pirate who Bergenfield police caught in the act went right back to the same neighborhood and began casing vehicles for burglaries hours after being released, authorities said. Police responding to a call of someone swiping packages from a Hillside Avenue porch discovered thefts from three other homes, as well, Detective Lt. William Duran said Friday. Officer found Dalton Cardone, 21, of Mantua in Gloucester County soon after, Duran said. Cadone had “stolen the packages, opened them and discarded several of them on the street,” he said. The total value: $420. Police charg…

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Northern Valley, NJ
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Haworth Traffic Stop Produces Third Recent Arrest In Different Town For Bergenfield Man Haworth Traffic Stop Produces Third Recent Arrest In Different Town For Bergenfield Man Haworth Traffic Stop Produces Third Recent Arrest In Different Town For Bergenfield Man
Haworth Traffic Stop Produces Third Recent Arrest In Different Town For Bergenfield Man A 19-year-old Bergenfield man was busted for the third time in the past nine months after Haworth police said they found bags of pot in his pocket and a knife in his waistband during a traffic stop. Henry H. Hernandez, 19, gave Officer Andrew Soltes and Sgt. Gialuca Ragone a false name after the Thursday night traffic stop on Schraalenburgh Road, Detective Sergeant Justin Fox said. Hernandez is still awaiting the outcome of charges of harassment, assault, trespassing from last May in Dumont of criminal restraint last December in New Milford, records show. Both times he was sent to the Ber…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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RECOGNIZE HIM? If You're Police Or Probation Officer In Bergen County, You Probably Do RECOGNIZE HIM? If You're Police Or Probation Officer In Bergen County, You Probably Do RECOGNIZE HIM? If You're Police Or Probation Officer In Bergen County, You Probably Do
Recognize HIM? If You're Police Or Probation Officer In Bergen County, You Probably Do A career criminal with a 15-year rap sheet in a slew of Bergen County towns made it easy for Elmwood Park detectives to identify him as the burglar who threw a brick through the front window of a local Friendly’s the night before, authorities said. Responding to a Thursday night call of an unruly patron at the Banana King fast food restaurant on Route 46, Detectives Keith Hartmann and Thomas Giammanco found Ryan Patrick Morgan sitting at the bar, drinking a beer, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. Both immediately recognized Morgan from surveillance video of Wednesday night’s break-in at th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Edison, NJ
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Middlesex Child Molester Gets 5 Years For Trying To Hook Up With ‘Boy,’ 14 Middlesex Child Molester Gets 5 Years For Trying To Hook Up With ‘Boy,’ 14 Middlesex Child Molester Gets 5 Years For Trying To Hook Up With ‘Boy,’ 14
Middlesex Child Molester Gets 5 Years For Trying To Hook Up With ‘Boy,’ 14 A convicted child molester from Middlesex County was sentenced to five years in state prison Friday for trying to lure a 14-year-old “boy” – actually an undercover detective -- to a local park for sex. Harold Gordner, 42, of Highland Park, admitted last September that he had sexually explicit chats and sent naked photos of himself, along with links to porn videos, to what turned out to be a New Jersey State Police investigator trolling social media for predators. Gordner, who already was registered as a Megan’s Law sex offender, “asked several times whether he could send a car service to pi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Becton Regional Locked Down As Police Capture Fleeing Car Thieves Becton Regional Locked Down As Police Capture Fleeing Car Thieves Becton Regional Locked Down As Police Capture Fleeing Car Thieves
Becton Regional Locked Down As Police Capture Fleeing Car Thieves Becton Regional High School in East Rutherford temporarily went into lockdown Friday morning as borough police chased down three young suspects riding in a stolen car. All three bailed out in the area of Hackensack and Ann street and tried to run after police spotted them but were quickly captured, Deputy Police Chief Phillip Taormina said. Although all three were seized on school property, “there was never any attempt to go towards the school building itself,” Taormina said. The school nonetheless was placed on lockdown out of an abundance of caution, the deputy chief said. It was lifted…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives Seize 2 Loaded Guns, Drugs, $50K In Ridgefield Park Stop Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives Seize 2 Loaded Guns, Drugs, $50K In Ridgefield Park Stop Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives Seize 2 Loaded Guns, Drugs, $50K In Ridgefield Park Stop
Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives Seize 2 Loaded Guns, Drugs, $50K In Ridgefield Park Stop A secret compartment in an SUV stopped by Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives contained nearly $50,000 in cash, two loaded handguns and some drugs, authorities said. Ttwo Massachusetts men arrested in the Ridgefield Park stop were identified as driver Carlos Cabellero, 47, and passenger Luis Pena, a 29-year-old ex-con, who live together in a Worcester, MA home, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Friday. Members of Musella’s Narcotic Task Force found the secret stash – in an electronically-operated compartment -- after stopping the pair’s 2004 Honda Pilot on Wednesday, the prosecut…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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VIDEO: See Firefighters Battle Furious Clifton Blaze That Killed Animals, Displaced 21 People VIDEO: See Firefighters Battle Furious Clifton Blaze That Killed Animals, Displaced 21 People VIDEO: See Firefighters Battle Furious Clifton Blaze That Killed Animals, Displaced 21 People
Video: See Firefighters Battle Furious Clifton Blaze That Killed Animals, Displaced 21 People UPDATE: A videographer captured vivid images of firefighters battling an intense blaze that consumed a large Clifton multi-family building, killing a dog and a cat, among other animals, and driving 21 people from their homes. The six-alarm blaze broke out on the upper floor of a three-apartment Lexington Avenue home next to a Clifton Avenue gas station around 2:30 p.m. Thursday. It quickly went to two alarms as firefighters who arrived within moments climbed portable ladders looking for occupants and thick black smoke poured into the sky. They rescued one woman who apparently was preparin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Paterson PD: Fleeing Suspect Apparently Lived In Car With Pot Plants Paterson PD: Fleeing Suspect Apparently Lived In Car With Pot Plants Paterson PD: Fleeing Suspect Apparently Lived In Car With Pot Plants
Paterson PD: Fleeing Suspect Apparently Lived In Car With Pot Plants Police arrested a man who’d apparently spent at least two days living in his car on an industrial Paterson street with a collection of marijuana plants, authorities said. Sgt. Joel Santiago responded with two officers to the call along a stretch of Madison Avenue between Park Avenue and 16th Street on Thursday. In the driver’s seat of a Hyundai Sonata parked on the south side of the street was 39-year-old Racheen Harris, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. Seeing Santiago, Harris got out of the car, Speziale said. It was then that the sergeant smelled raw pot, he said. Santiago ordered …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Cold Case Unit Cracks 1985 Killing Of Man Dumped In Meadowlands Cold Case Unit Cracks 1985 Killing Of Man Dumped In Meadowlands Cold Case Unit Cracks 1985 Killing Of Man Dumped In Meadowlands
Cold Case Unit Cracks 1985 Killing Of Man Dumped In Meadowlands Detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, State Police and the NYPD cracked a 35-year-old cold-case murder with the arrest of a Manhattan man accused of killing a Venezuelan national. David Garrido, 66, is charged with murder in the June 1985 slaying of 27-year-old Ricardo Brown, whose body was found dumped in the marshes in the Meadowlands. Brown had been shot in the head and strangled, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Thursday. His body had been “wrapped in sheets of plastic inside a wicker steamer trunk stuffed into a storage trunk,” the prosecutor said. It was f…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Firefighters Battle Furious Clifton Blaze Firefighters Battle Furious Clifton Blaze Firefighters Battle Furious Clifton Blaze
Firefighters Battle Furious Clifton Blaze UPDATE: Firefighters rescued a woman while others fled from danger during an intense blaze that consumed a large Clifton multi-family building, killing a dog and a cat and driving 21 people from their homes. The six-alarm blaze broke out on the upper floor of a three-apartment Lexington Avenue home next to a Clifton Avenue gas station around 2:30 p.m. It quickly went to two alarms as firefighters who arrived within moments climbed portable ladders looking for occupants and thick black smoke poured into the sky. They rescued one woman who apparently was preparing to jump from a second floo…

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