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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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
AUTOPSY: Paranoid Paterson Man Died In Police Custody From Bath Salts, Medical Condition AUTOPSY: Paranoid Paterson Man Died In Police Custody From Bath Salts, Medical Condition AUTOPSY: Paranoid Paterson Man Died In Police Custody From Bath Salts, Medical Condition
Autopsy: Paranoid Paterson Man Died In Police Custody From Bath Salts, Medical Condition UPDATE: An autopsy found that a Paterson man died from a medical episode while in police custody that was triggered by bath salts that he'd ingested earlier combined with a previous condition, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said Tuesday. The State of New Jersey Northern Regional Medical Examiner’s Office determined that use of the bath salts by 27-year-old Jameek Lowery, coupled with pre-existing medical conditions, "triggered an adverse physical reaction including multiple organ failure and cardiac arrest that ultimately led to his death," Valdes said. "This rea…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Clifton Buildings Evacuated After Partial Collapse At Former Longtime Tavern Clifton Buildings Evacuated After Partial Collapse At Former Longtime Tavern Clifton Buildings Evacuated After Partial Collapse At Former Longtime Tavern
Clifton Buildings Evacuated After Partial Collapse At Former Longtime Tavern A wall buckled Monday in a Clifton building that until last summer had been a tavern for 72 years -- raising concerns that a complete collapse could follow. No injuries were reported after the 40-foot load-bearing wall buckled on the left side of the Dayton Avenue building that once housed Rossi's Tavern shortly before noon, responders told Daily Voice. The gutted building was being completely renovated. Although it didn't collapse, surrounding buildings in the Botany Village section were temporarily evacuated as a precaution. City firefighters, police and the DPW and Building Department …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: NY State Man, 36, Struck Twice On Route 4 After Fight With Girlfriend Dies UPDATE: NY State Man, 36, Struck Twice On Route 4 After Fight With Girlfriend Dies UPDATE: NY State Man, 36, Struck Twice On Route 4 After Fight With Girlfriend Dies
Update: NY State Man, 36, Struck Twice On Route 4 After Fight With Girlfriend Dies UPDATE: A Dutchess County, NY man who was killed when he was struck by two vehicles on Route 4 in Paramus deliberately walked into traffic, witnesses said. One witness was getting gas at the BP station next to the McDonald's on the highway's westbound side moments before 9 p.m. Saturday. "My husband was inside the [gas station] store when the man walked over from McDonald's with a blank stare on this face," she told Daily Voice. Ryan O’Keefe, 36, of Wappingers Falls, NY man had been fighting with his girlfriend both inside and outside the McDonald's, near the highway's Forest Avenue exit, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: NY State Man, 36, Struck Twice On Route 4 After Fight With Girlfriend Dies UPDATE: NY State Man, 36, Struck Twice On Route 4 After Fight With Girlfriend Dies UPDATE: NY State Man, 36, Struck Twice On Route 4 After Fight With Girlfriend Dies
Update: NY State Man, 36, Struck Twice On Route 4 After Fight With Girlfriend Dies UPDATE: A Dutchess County, NY man who was killed when he was struck by two vehicles on Route 4 in Paramus deliberately walked into traffic, witnesses said. One witness was getting gas at the BP station next to the McDonald's on the highway's westbound side moments before 9 p.m. Saturday. "My husband was inside the [gas station] store when the man walked over from McDonald's with a blank stare on this face," she told Daily Voice. Ryan O’Keefe, 36, of Wappingers Falls, NY man had been fighting with his girlfriend both inside and outside the McDonald's, near the highway's Forest Avenue e…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Motorcyclist, 31, Killed In PIP Crash Motorcyclist, 31, Killed In PIP Crash Motorcyclist, 31, Killed In PIP Crash
Motorcyclist, 31, Killed In PIP Crash UPDATE: A 31-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a Saturday afternoon crash on the Palisades Interstate Parkway in Alpine, authorities said. Civilians at the scene began first aid and CPR on the Brooklyn victim after his motorcycle struck a railing on the southbound Exit 4 ramp shortly before 3 p.m., PIP Police Lt. Jock Watkins Jr. said. PIP police officers used a defibrillator before responding paramedics from Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, Rockland County, Closter Volunteer Ambulance and Rescue Corps and the South Orangetown Ambulance Corps took over patient care, he said. The vi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Judge Frees Ex-Con In Four-Town Bergen Burglary Spree Judge Frees Ex-Con In Four-Town Bergen Burglary Spree Judge Frees Ex-Con In Four-Town Bergen Burglary Spree
Judge Frees Ex-Con In Four-Town Bergen Burglary Spree An ex-con who authorities said burglarized a string of real estate and doctors’ office in Bergen and Middlesex counties was ordered released by a judge barely 24 hours after he was captured, records show. Nicolas Torres, 37, of Passaic was charged with commercial burglaries in Maywood, Fort Lee, Oradell, Westwood and Edison and faces additional counts in Middlesex, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Torres, who records show has a criminal history in New Jersey stretching back more than a decade, became a suspect during an investigation by Musella’s Special Investigations Squad, t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Passaic Sheriff: Paterson Liquor Store Loiterer Caught With 34 Bags Of Heroin, Knife Passaic Sheriff: Paterson Liquor Store Loiterer Caught With 34 Bags Of Heroin, Knife Passaic Sheriff: Paterson Liquor Store Loiterer Caught With 34 Bags Of Heroin, Knife
Passaic Sheriff: Paterson Liquor Store Loiterer Caught With 34 Bags Of Heroin, Knife A Passaic County sheriff’s officer found a Paterson man carrying nearly three dozen bags of cocaine while loitering with a group of others outside a city liquor store, authorities said. Ignacio Ortiz, 24, tried concealing a folding knife in his pocket when Officer Timothy Convery approached the group near the corner of Park Avenue and East 18th Street early Friday night and asked them all to show ID, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. Besides the knife, Ortiz had 16 small, clear pink bags of heroin in his pocket, along with a lip balm container that held another 18, the sheriff said. He also…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Witness: NY State Man Killed On Route 4 After Fight With Girlfriend Walked Into Traffic Witness: NY State Man Killed On Route 4 After Fight With Girlfriend Walked Into Traffic Witness: NY State Man Killed On Route 4 After Fight With Girlfriend Walked Into Traffic
Witness: NY State Man Killed On Route 4 After Fight With Girlfriend Walked Into Traffic UPDATE: A Dutchess County, NY man who was killed when he was struck by two vehicles on Route 4 in Paramus deliberately walked into traffic, witnesses said. One witness was getting gas at the BP station next to the McDonald's on the highway's westbound side moments before 9 p.m. Saturday. "My husband was inside the [gas station] store when the man walked over from McDonald's with a blank stare on this face," she told Daily Voice. Ryan O’Keefe, 36, of Wappingers Falls, NY man had been fighting with his girlfriend both inside and outside the McDonald's, near the highway's Forest Avenue e…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Motorcyclist Killed In PIP Crash Motorcyclist Killed In PIP Crash Motorcyclist Killed In PIP Crash
Motorcyclist Killed In PIP Crash UPDATE: A 31-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a Saturday afternoon crash on the Palisades Interstate Parkway in Alpine, authorities said. Responders said the Brooklyn victim was impaled on a sign on the southbound Exit 4 ramp shortly before 3 p.m. Officers used a defibrillator to try and revive the victim after civilians at the scene began first aid and CPR, PIP Police Lt. Jock Watkins Jr. said. Paramedics from Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, Rockland County, Closter Volunteer Ambulance and Rescue Corps and the South Orangetown Ambulance Corps responded and took over patient care…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Jeep Crashes Into Cliffside Park 7-Eleven, Two Employees Injured Jeep Crashes Into Cliffside Park 7-Eleven, Two Employees Injured Jeep Crashes Into Cliffside Park 7-Eleven, Two Employees Injured
Jeep Crashes Into Cliffside Park 7-Eleven, Two Employees Injured Two employees were treated for minor injuries after a Jeep crashed through the front of a Cliffside Park 7-Eleven. The 30-year-old driver from Brooklyn "basically drove into a parking spot thinking that she was pressing on the brake when she hit the gas pedal" shortly before 7 p.m. Friday, Detective Capt. Vincent Capano said. The Jeep went right into the store, taking out the front counter of the Palisade Avenue store. The employees were taken to HUMC Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, Capano said. No summonses were immediately issued, the captain said, adding that an investigatio…

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