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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Jersey City, NJ
Breaking News
Fugitive Captured After Walking Out Of JC Medical Center: Authorities Fugitive Captured After Walking Out Of JC Medical Center: Authorities Fugitive Captured After Walking Out Of JC Medical Center: Authorities
Fugitive Captured After Walking Out Of JC Medical Center: Authorities A fugitive who walked out of Jersey City Medical Center was captured by U.S. Marshals and Port Authority police, authorities said. Shatora Franklin, 27, of Brooklyn was originally seized at the Holland Tunnel on a warrant out of Essex County on April 14 after she skipped a court date following an arrest in late March, law enforcement sources said. She needed to go to the hospital for an undetermined condition, however, and was taken to the medical center, they said. Franklin then walked out -- apparently shoeless -- and was gone before authorities determined which agency was responsible f…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
SEE ANYTHING? Bicyclist, 65, Seriously Injured In New Milford, Police Seek Hit-Run Driver SEE ANYTHING? Bicyclist, 65, Seriously Injured In New Milford, Police Seek Hit-Run Driver SEE ANYTHING? Bicyclist, 65, Seriously Injured In New Milford, Police Seek Hit-Run Driver
SEE Anything? Bicyclist, 65, Seriously Injured In New Milford, Police Seek Hit-Run Driver Police in New Milford turned to the public for help finding a pickup truck driver who fled after hitting and seriously injuring a 65-year-old bicyclist. The victim was struck by a white newer-model Ford pickup at the intersection of Boulevard and Hoffman Avenue around 11:30 p.m. Thursday, April 14, Capt. Kevin Van Saders said. “The bicyclist sustained significant injuries and was immediately rushed to Hackensack University Medical Center, where he is recovering in the trauma unit,” Van Saders said on Monday, April 24. The truck took off south on Boulevard towards New Bridge Road, he said…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Firefighters Battle New Milford House Blaze Firefighters Battle New Milford House Blaze Firefighters Battle New Milford House Blaze
Firefighters Battle New Milford House Blaze Firefighters battled a Saturday night blaze that ravaged a New Milford home. Everyone got out OK after the fire ignited in the 2½-story wood-frame home on Holly Street off Graphic Boulevard and blew through the roof shortly before 6:30 p.m., responders said. A possible cause wasn't immediately given, although some speculated that a lightning strike from a sudden thunderstorm may have been responsible. Solar panels ignited in the Holly Street fire in New Milford.Jo Fehl for DAILY VOICE The fire also burned the side of a neighboring house. Firefighters were 15 minutes or so into the job …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Obituaries
'Everyone Needs A Billy Hansen In Their Lives': Loved Ones Mourn Bergen Man's Accidental Death 'Everyone Needs A Billy Hansen In Their Lives': Loved Ones Mourn Bergen Man's Accidental Death 'Everyone Needs A Billy Hansen In Their Lives': Loved Ones Mourn Bergen Man's Accidental Death
'Everyone Needs A Billy Hansen In Their Lives': Loved Ones Mourn Bergen Man's Accidental Death He loved music, especially Motley Crüe and Kiss, as well as his motorcycles, the Knicks and Yankees and his many friends -- including the best of all: his wife, Cindy. A funeral service is scheduled this Monday for William "Billy" Hansen, 61, a popular and beloved Fair Lawn native who succumbed this week to severe injuries he suffered in an accident at Tanis Concrete last week. Hansen, of Elmwood Park, drove a mixer for Tanis for 17 years. He was at the company yard on River Road on April 11 when police said a truck went into gear and rolled over him. Hansen was hospitalized with a broken…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood Officers Injured While Arresting Unruly Driver: Police Englewood Officers Injured While Arresting Unruly Driver: Police Englewood Officers Injured While Arresting Unruly Driver: Police
Englewood Officers Injured While Arresting Unruly Driver: Police A driver was in custody after an incident on Saturday that sent two Englewood police officers to the hospital. Officers responding to a call of a parked driver who appeared unconscious found Alpha Diallo, 28, of Englewood in a BMW sedan with New York license plates on West Englewood Avenue near Humphrey Street a little after 11 a.m. on April 22, Lt. Fred Pulice said. Officers Michael McCue and Michael Holland banged on the driver's side window but had trouble waking him, the lieutenant said. Once he came to, Diallo ignored the officers, put the car in gear and tried to maneuver out of a ti…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Busy Dealer Nabbed With Coke, Smack, Cash: Passaic County Sheriff Busy Dealer Nabbed With Coke, Smack, Cash: Passaic County Sheriff Busy Dealer Nabbed With Coke, Smack, Cash: Passaic County Sheriff
Busy Dealer Nabbed With Coke, Smack, Cash: Passaic County Sheriff A dealer from Woodland Park was nabbed with nearly a quarter pound of cocaine, a dozen bundles of heroin and more after detectives watched him in action, Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik said. The sheriff's narcotics detectives stopped Edwin Olmedo, 34, as he drove on Route 23 in Wayne mid-afternoon Friday, April 21. Warranted searches turned up nearly four ounces of coke, the bundles of heroin, Xanax and Oxycodone pills and $1,391 in suspected drug cash, the sheriff said on Saturday. The detectives also arrested two Little Falls men whom Berdnik said Olmedo was seen selling to in se…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Discarded Fire Pit Embers Blamed For Glen Rock Garage Fire Discarded Fire Pit Embers Blamed For Glen Rock Garage Fire Discarded Fire Pit Embers Blamed For Glen Rock Garage Fire
Discarded Fire Pit Embers Blamed For Glen Rock Garage Fire UPDATE: Discarded embers from an outdoor fire pit ignited a detached garage fire in Glen Rock earlier this month, authorities said. The embers “had been placed in a bucket directly next to the garage,” sparking the April 12 fire at a Beech Road residence, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said earlier this week. Responding police and firefighters found the homeowner trying to douse the blaze with a garden hose, the chief said. Firefighters from Fair Lawn and Hawthorne provided mutual aid. No injuries were reported.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bi-State Bust: 32 Pounds Of Pot Plus Hash, 'Shrooms Seized By Bergen Narcs Bi-State Bust: 32 Pounds Of Pot Plus Hash, 'Shrooms Seized By Bergen Narcs Bi-State Bust: 32 Pounds Of Pot Plus Hash, 'Shrooms Seized By Bergen Narcs
Bi-State Bust: 32 Pounds Of Pot Plus Hash, 'Shrooms Seized By Bergen Narcs A Bergen County duo -- one from Lodi and the other Saddle Brook -- were busted along with an associate from Queens with 32 pounds of pot, more than a pound of hash and some psilocybin mushrooms for sale, authorities said. Anthony Nunez, 32, of Richmond Hill was arrested by members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Narcotic Task Force after a search of his vehicle in Fort Lee turned up 14 pounds of marijuana and some mushrooms, Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Jose A. Castro-Lopez, 34, of Lodi was arrested after a search of his vehicle in Saddle Brook produced three pounds of pot, the prosecuto…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Brutal Murderer Of Bergen County Woman Sent To Prison For 55 Years Brutal Murderer Of Bergen County Woman Sent To Prison For 55 Years Brutal Murderer Of Bergen County Woman Sent To Prison For 55 Years
Brutal Murderer Of Bergen County Woman Sent To Prison For 55 Years UPDATE:  An East Rutherford man was sentenced to 55 years in state prison for brutally kidnapping, stabbing and strangling a female neighbor. Francis "Frank" Tattoli, 30, won't be eligible for parole for nearly 48 years for the Christmastime 2016 slaying of Mone’t Thomas, 25, in the Summer Street apartment building where both lived. Thomas, who was born in Teaneck, worked as a manager of group sales for the Holiday Inn in Secaucus. She lived in the building with her boyfriend and bulldog. She'd just taken the dog for a walk when she was attacked in the hallway. Surveillance…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Drunken, Bloodied Bus Passenger From Hawthorne Taken Into Custody In Glen Rock Drunken, Bloodied Bus Passenger From Hawthorne Taken Into Custody In Glen Rock Drunken, Bloodied Bus Passenger From Hawthorne Taken Into Custody In Glen Rock
Drunken, Bloodied Bus Passenger From Hawthorne Taken Into Custody In Glen Rock A blood-soaked drunken bus passenger from Hawthorne who’d been cutting herself was taken into protective custody by Glen Rock police, authorities said. Officers found the 29-year-old woman when they responded to the Harding Plaza station on a report of a disturbance onboard an NJ TRANSIT bus, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. She was “in a highly intoxicated state, covered with blood, with apparent self-inflicted knife wounds on her arms,” the chief said, adding that she “could not care for herself.” An ambulance took her to Bergen New Bridge Medical Center for detox and medical care, he s…

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