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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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Driver Critically Injured When Mustang Rolls, Hits Tree, Catches Fire On Route 208 In Fair Lawn Driver Critically Injured When Mustang Rolls, Hits Tree, Catches Fire On Route 208 In Fair Lawn Driver Critically Injured When Mustang Rolls, Hits Tree, Catches Fire On Route 208 In Fair Lawn
Driver Critically Injured When Mustang Rolls, Hits Tree, Catches Fire On Route 208 In Fair Lawn A 28-year-old Englewood driver was hospitalized with severe head and chest injuries after firefighters cut him from an overturned Mustang that struck another vehicle and a tree and caught fire on Route 208 in Fair Lawn. The driver apparently was speeding when he lost control of the 2015 Mustang, which struck a 2010 Ford Fusion driven by a 34-year-old Newark man who wasn't injured, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. The speeding car then left the southbound highway, rolled over and hit the tree just pasts Fair Lawn Avenue around 11:40 p.m. Sunday, Metzler said. Borough firefighters doused a fire in th…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
ALERT: Bogus 'Terminally Ill Child' Fundraiser Takes Scamming To New Low ALERT: Bogus 'Terminally Ill Child' Fundraiser Takes Scamming To New Low ALERT: Bogus 'Terminally Ill Child' Fundraiser Takes Scamming To New Low
ALERT: Bogus 'Terminally Ill Child' Fundraiser Takes Scamming To New Low A heartless thief cooked up a phony email with Glen Rock Little League baseball logos to try and collect money for a child supposedly battling a terminal illness, authorities said. One of the targeted victims received an email with the logos from [email protected] seeking donations, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said Monday. After donating $25 through his PayPal account, the man received an email about the scam from the Little League, Ackermann said. PayPal’s Fraud Department was notified, the chief said. "This is just a new twist on similar frauds that play on people's compassion to ta…

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Hackensack, NJ
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Rochelle Park PD: Bandit Captured After Burglary, Vandalism Spree At Several Businesses Rochelle Park PD: Bandit Captured After Burglary, Vandalism Spree At Several Businesses Rochelle Park PD: Bandit Captured After Burglary, Vandalism Spree At Several Businesses
Rochelle Park PD: Bandit Captured After Burglary, Vandalism Spree At Several Businesses Surveillance video shows a Queens man whom Rochelle Park police caught shortly after he went on a burglary spree at a local business complex, authorities said. Using three crowbars he stole from the closed office complex on West Passaic Street, 24-year-old Mused Hauter of Jackson Heights swiped medication, damaged a an elevator and a vacuum cleaner, unplugged an ATM machine and tried breaking into several vehicles in the parking lot before dawn Thursday, Detective Sgt. James DePreta said. Responding to a call of someone roaming the building hallways, Officers Ryan Burke, Jorge Orihuela, and…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
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Port Authority Police Officers Rescue One Of Their Own Port Authority Police Officers Rescue One Of Their Own Port Authority Police Officers Rescue One Of Their Own
Port Authority Police Officers Rescue One Of Their Own A group of Port Authority Police Command Staff members at Newark Airport rescued a brother-in-arms after he suffered a heart attack. Officer Steve Castro found fellow Officer Scott Czarkowski of the Aircraft Rescue Firefighting Unit in cardiac arrest in the Police Reserve Room in the airport’s Administration Building, Port Authority spokesman Lenis Rodrigues said Friday. Castro immediately summoned help from Sgts. Lenny Colonna and Rich Kuncken, Rodrigues said. Colonna notified the police desk to call for an ambulance and Kuncken ran to help Castro. Officer Mike Pace retrieved oxygen and…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
SEE ANYTHING? 2 Whacked With Baseball Bats In Passaic Nightclub Brawl SEE ANYTHING? 2 Whacked With Baseball Bats In Passaic Nightclub Brawl SEE ANYTHING? 2 Whacked With Baseball Bats In Passaic Nightclub Brawl
SEE Anything? 2 Whacked With Baseball Bats In Passaic Nightclub Brawl Two men were struck with bats in an overnight brawl involving several people Friday outside a Passaic nightclub. City police were seeking witnesses. Several units responded to a call of a large crowd fighting at the Fiesta nightclub and restaurant on President Street shortly before 1 a.m., Capt. Jonathan Schaer said. The assailants had fled, leaving two victims with facial injuries that weren't considered life-threatening, he said. Anyone who might have seen what happened, or has area surveillance video that could help Passaic police detectives find those responsible is asked to contact th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Stony Point, NY
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Rockland Men Charged With Stalking, Posting Personal Info Of Police Officers Rockland Men Charged With Stalking, Posting Personal Info Of Police Officers Rockland Men Charged With Stalking, Posting Personal Info Of Police Officers
Rockland Men Charged With Stalking, Posting Personal Info Of Police Officers Two Rockland men waged a harassment campaign against dozens of police officers in New Jersey, researching and posting personal information about them online through what’s known as “doxing,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Wednesday. Evan V. Koulikov, 21, of Spring Valley “unlawfully accessed a secure database of a New Jersey medical services company and unlawfully copied the personal identifying information of approximately 50 public employees,” most of them police officers, Musella said. Koulikov got help from Eric Williams, 24, of New City in choosing targets, the prosecutor a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Park Ridge Con Man Admits Cooking Up $300,000 Mortgage Scam With Upper Saddle River Son Park Ridge Con Man Admits Cooking Up $300,000 Mortgage Scam With Upper Saddle River Son Park Ridge Con Man Admits Cooking Up $300,000 Mortgage Scam With Upper Saddle River Son
Park Ridge Con Man Admits Cooking Up $300,000 Mortgage Scam With Upper Saddle River Son A Park Ridge con man already facing state prison time admitted in federal court on Wednesday that he and his son defrauded mortgage lenders out of more than $300,000, using most of the money to buy high-end luxury vehicles. George Bussanich Sr., 60, cut a deal with the government through which he pleaded guilty to bank fraud conspiracy and tax evasion in exchange for consideration at his Sept. 25 sentencing in U.S. District Court in Newark. His son George Bussanich Jr., 39, of Upper Saddle River, is scheduled to be sentenced the same day for his October 2017 guilty plea to tax evasion. For…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Rockland Men Charged With Stalking, Posting Personal Info Of North Jersey Police Officers Rockland Men Charged With Stalking, Posting Personal Info Of North Jersey Police Officers Rockland Men Charged With Stalking, Posting Personal Info Of North Jersey Police Officers
Rockland Men Charged With Stalking, Posting Personal Info Of North Jersey Police Officers Two Rockland men waged a harassment campaign against dozens of North Jersey police officers, researching and posting personal information about them online through what’s known as “doxing,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Wednesday. Evan V. Koulikov, 21, of Spring Valley “unlawfully accessed a secure database of a New Jersey medical services company and unlawfully copied the personal identifying information of approximately 50 public employees,” most of them police officers, Musella said. Koulikov got help from Eric Williams, 24, of New City in choosing targets, the prosecutor ad…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
Breaking News
'Death Is Life Lived': Union City HS Security Guard Left Final Facebook Post Before Suicide 'Death Is Life Lived': Union City HS Security Guard Left Final Facebook Post Before Suicide 'Death Is Life Lived': Union City HS Security Guard Left Final Facebook Post Before Suicide
'Death Is Life Lived': Union City HS Security Guard Left Final Facebook Post Before Suicide The body of a security guard was found hanged in an apparent suicide at Union City High School on Wednesday -- a day before the fall semester was to begin, authorities said. Maura Diaz, 58, changed her profile photo early Wednesday to a meme about death a short time before a law enforcement source told Daily Voice that her body was found in a closet. “La muerte es una vida vivida," reads a quote from legendary Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges in the meme. "La vida es una muerte que viene.”  Translated into English: “Death is a life lived. Life is a death that comes." Diaz, who'd been…

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Pascack Valley, NJ
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80-Year-Old Westwood Man Pulled From Pool Dies 80-Year-Old Westwood Man Pulled From Pool Dies 80-Year-Old Westwood Man Pulled From Pool Dies
80-Year-Old Westwood Man Pulled From Pool Dies A drowning 80-year-old Westwood man who was pulled from a pool late Tuesday morning succumbed to his injuries, authorities said. Arthur William Stark was found unresponsive in the pool at the end of a Mountain Avenue cul-de-sac, Police Chief Michael Pontillo said. Responding police conducted CPR, then turned him over to Westwood Volunteer Ambulance Corps, which took him to HackensackUMC@Pascack Valley. ARRANGEMENTS: Becker Funeral Home ****** UPDATE: A sedan collided with an SUV, struck a telephone pole and rolled over, losing its roof, in a Tuesday afternoon Washington Township crash th…

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