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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Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: Speeding Driver Charged With Killing Lodi Husband, Wife In Crash Outside Their Home UPDATE: Speeding Driver Charged With Killing Lodi Husband, Wife In Crash Outside Their Home UPDATE: Speeding Driver Charged With Killing Lodi Husband, Wife In Crash Outside Their Home
Update: Speeding Driver Charged With Killing Lodi Husband, Wife In Crash Outside Their Home A Nutley man was jailed Wednesday in the deaths of a retired Albanian police chief and a Garfield Walmart manager in an early-morning crash outside the immigrant couple’s Lodi home last month. Donald Kumar Davis, 29, was charged with two counts of vehicular homicide – also known as death by auto. Davis was driving a 2015 Dodge Charger that slammed into a 2005 Toyota Corolla that was emerging from the driveway of a Harrison Avenue garden apartment complex and pushed it nearly 20 feet shortly before 7 a.m. June 29, authorities said. The Corolla was found on its side near 481 Harrison Avenue…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE (PHOTOS): Driver 79, Plows Sedan Into Fair Lawn Bakery UPDATE (PHOTOS): Driver 79, Plows Sedan Into Fair Lawn Bakery UPDATE (PHOTOS): Driver 79, Plows Sedan Into Fair Lawn Bakery
Update (Photos): Driver 79, Plows Sedan Into Fair Lawn Bakery No one was seriously injured when a sedan plowed into a Fair Lawn bakery late Thursday morning, authorities said. The Lexus -- driven by a 79-year-old Fair Lawn woman -- slammed through the front of Zadies Kosher Bake Shop in a strip mall on Fair Lawn Avenue (Route 208) at Chandler Drive around 11 a.m. The driver "was pulling into a parking spot and hit the gas instead of the brake, crashing through the pillar in front of her and then through the storefront," Sgt.Sean Macys said. She and her 90-year-old male passenger weren't injured, the sergeant said. A 63-year-old male customer from Q…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
SEE ANYTHING? Tires Slashed On 15 Vehicles In Fairview, Police Seek Surveillance Video SEE ANYTHING? Tires Slashed On 15 Vehicles In Fairview, Police Seek Surveillance Video SEE ANYTHING? Tires Slashed On 15 Vehicles In Fairview, Police Seek Surveillance Video
SEE Anything? Tires Slashed On 15 Vehicles In Fairview, Police Seek Surveillance Video Fairview police asked residents and merchants to check their surveillance systems after someone slashed the tires on 15 vehicles before dawn Wednesday. “It didn’t appear to be isolated or targeted to any specific residence or apartment complex,” Police Chief Martin Kahn said. “Several vehicles were in private driveways of private homes and others were parked on the street.” The vandalism spree ran from around 3 a.m. to 6 a.m. on Shaler, Hamilton and Wilson avenues, Kahn said. “We’re asking for cooperation from area residents who may have surveillance that we can review,” the chief said. “E…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
Breaking News
Law Enforcement Sends Love To Ailing Daughter Of Port Authority 'Brothers Before Others' Member Law Enforcement Sends Love To Ailing Daughter Of Port Authority 'Brothers Before Others' Member Law Enforcement Sends Love To Ailing Daughter Of Port Authority 'Brothers Before Others' Member
Law Enforcement Sends Love To Ailing Daughter Of Port Authority 'Brothers Before Others' Member A Port Authority police officer’s daughter who was given a 10% chance to live after she wasn’t supposed to even survive childbirth has gotten lots of love from law enforcement as she enters a series of difficult and delicate surgeries. Emerson Oliveri, 11, hopes to be an officer herself someday, just like her dad, Joshua, who works at the Holland Tunnel. Emerson was born with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), which required medical procedures to keep her liver, stomach, spleen and intestines out of her chest and turn her heart in the right direction. She’s undergone many surgeries o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Monroe, NY
Breaking News
Wayne Man Who Brought Dead Dog To Animal Hospital Charged With Cruelty Wayne Man Who Brought Dead Dog To Animal Hospital Charged With Cruelty Wayne Man Who Brought Dead Dog To Animal Hospital Charged With Cruelty
Wayne Man Who Brought Dead Dog To Animal Hospital Charged With Cruelty A Wayne man who brought a dead dog to an animal hospital was arrested Tuesday on cruelty charges, authorities announced. Wayne police responding to Knox Terrace on May 31 were told that Craig J. Lam, 37, took the dog to the Fairfield Animal Emergency Hospital. The officers “were advised by the staff of the Fairfield Animal Emergency Hospital that the dog had arrived deceased,” Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Wayne Police Chief James Clarke said in a release. Lam, formerly of Staten Island and more recently of Kinnelon, was charged with animal cruelty following an investigat…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Bicyclist Struck By SUV Outside FDU Teaneck Campus Bicyclist Struck By SUV Outside FDU Teaneck Campus Bicyclist Struck By SUV Outside FDU Teaneck Campus
Bicyclist Struck By SUV Outside FDU Teaneck Campus A bicyclist was struck and seriously injured by an SUV outside Fairleigh Dickinson University's Teaneck campus late Tuesday afternoon. A black Hyundai hit the victim at River Road and Cornwall Avenue shortly after 3:30 p.m. She was conscious when the Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps took her to Hackensack University Medical Center. The driver remained at the scene. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS The Teaneck VAC tended to the victim and took her to Holy Name Medical Center.Yaniv Besterman for DAILY VOICE PHOTOS: Yaniv Besterman for DAILY VOICE

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Bergenfield Dad Gets 5 Years In Fed Pen For Trafficking Child Porn Bergenfield Dad Gets 5 Years In Fed Pen For Trafficking Child Porn Bergenfield Dad Gets 5 Years In Fed Pen For Trafficking Child Porn
Bergenfield Dad Gets 5 Years In Fed Pen For Trafficking Child Porn A married Bergenfield father who shared images of child sex abuse with what he didn't know was an undercover ICE agent must spend the next five years in federal prison. As part of a plea deal, Barry Goldstein, 46, previously admitted having “explicit conversations” with the undercover agent about “the sexual abuse of children” while also sharing “images depicting child abuse,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. In return for Goldstein's plea, a U.S. District Court judge in Newark sentenced him Tuesday to a government-approved 60-month sentence, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito annou…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Montvale Crash: Oradell Driver Airlifted To HUMC, Borough Driver Taken To Valley Montvale Crash: Oradell Driver Airlifted To HUMC, Borough Driver Taken To Valley Montvale Crash: Oradell Driver Airlifted To HUMC, Borough Driver Taken To Valley
Montvale Crash: Oradell Driver Airlifted To Humc, Borough Driver Taken To Valley A 43-year-old Oradell driver was airlifted to the hospital with a serious head injury following a noontime crash Tuesday in Montvale. A 61-year-old Montvale woman whose Mazda collided with his 2008 Mercedes Benz SUV at the intersection of West Grand Avenue and Mercedes Drive was taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood with hand and chest injuries, Police Chief Joseph Sanfillipo said. “The cause of the crash is being investigated, and no summonses have been issued at this time,” Sanfillipo said Tuesday afternoon. “Both vehicles sustained extensive damage and had to be towed from the scene…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Driver In Oakland Roadblock Crash Was Under Heroin Influence Police: Driver In Oakland Roadblock Crash Was Under Heroin Influence Police: Driver In Oakland Roadblock Crash Was Under Heroin Influence
Police: Driver In Oakland Roadblock Crash Was Under Heroin Influence A heroin user was under the influence when he slammed his car into a road-closure barricade on Skyline Drive in Oakland, police said. John Milazzo, 34, of North Arlington was carrying six heroin folds and a plastic straw when his 2005 Saturn Vue hit the barricades near West Oakland Avenue last Friday night, Lt. Christian Eldridge said. The roadblocks were set up after a truck overturned on Skyline Drive earlier. Milazzo was charged with drug possession, driving under the influence of drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia, the lieutenant said. He was released to a family member pendin…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson Shooting Victims Show Up At Hackensack University Medical Center Paterson Shooting Victims Show Up At Hackensack University Medical Center Paterson Shooting Victims Show Up At Hackensack University Medical Center
Paterson Shooting Victims Show Up At Hackensack University Medical Center The ER at Hackensack University Medical Center had a pair of unusual walk-ins Sunday night: two men who'd apparently been shot in Paterson. Shooting victims in Paterson often don't wait for ambulances. They ordinarily get rides or drive themselves to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center on Main Street. These two, however – one 25 and the other 19 – traveled nearly 20 minutes in an undisclosed type of vehicle to Bergen County, showing up around 7:30 p.m., authorities said. “Based on the initial investigation it is believed the shooting occurred in the area of 17th Avenue and East 24th Str…

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