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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Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: Englewood Police Academy Recruits Learn Respect, Discipline, Positive Habits VIDEO: Englewood Police Academy Recruits Learn Respect, Discipline, Positive Habits VIDEO: Englewood Police Academy Recruits Learn Respect, Discipline, Positive Habits
Video: Englewood Police Academy Recruits Learn Respect, Discipline, Positive Habits They stood tall each morning – neatly dressed, perfectly groomed and punctual – and had to do pushups or lay flat when they didn’t. By the end of the week, the 25 recruits of this year's Englewood Junior Police Academy learned something about respect and positive habits. Detective Lt. Thomas Greeley beamed with pride as the 2019 group were graduated on Saturday. The boys and girls embarked on a rigorous training and instructional routine led by Greely last Monday. Over the next six days, they became familiar with the basic tenets and principles of respect, both for themselves and one anot…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
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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 UPDATE: 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 Harriso…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Four Wounded In Paterson Shooting Four Wounded In Paterson Shooting Four Wounded In Paterson Shooting
Four Wounded In Paterson Shooting Four people were wounded in a shooting in Paterson late Friday, authorities said. City police found three of the victims – a 42-year-old woman and two men, 25 and 46, all from Paterson – following the 10:50 p.m. shooting near the corner of North Main and Jefferson streets, authorities said. The fourth victim, a 53-year-old Paterson man, had already gone to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, they said. None of the wounds was considered life-threatening, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Troy Oswald said in a joint announcement Saturday. They didn’t sa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Interstate Parkway Police Watch Helplessly As Suicidal Man, 55, Plunges To Death On Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Watch Helplessly As Suicidal Man, 55, Plunges To Death On Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Watch Helplessly As Suicidal Man, 55, Plunges To Death On Palisades
Interstate Parkway Police Watch Helplessly As Suicidal Man, 55, Plunges To Death On Palisades UPDATE: Police watched helplessly as a suicidal man stepped from a ledge atop the Palisades near the New Jersey/New York state line and fell more than 400 feet to his death Friday morning, authorities said. The 55-year-old Lodi man was standing at the edge of the cliffs at the State Line Lookout in Alpine when officers responding to a call approached him around 9 a.m., Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Chief Steven Shallop said. He then "abruptly stepped from the edge of the cliff as officers attempted to bring him to safety," Shallop said.  Marine units initially were summoned…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Two Motorcyclists Downed In Route 80 Pileup Two Motorcyclists Downed In Route 80 Pileup Two Motorcyclists Downed In Route 80 Pileup
Two Motorcyclists Downed In Route 80 Pileup One motorcyclist sat in the middle of westbound Route 80 while the other lay nearby holding his head after their rides were toppled in a multi-vehicle crash early Friday evening at the borders of Lodi, Rochelle Park and Hackensack. Already-thick traffic quickly jammed up after the pileup around 5:15 p.m. in the right local lane of what's known as Christopher Columbus Highway just before the exit for Rochelle Park and Riverview Avenue. Neither riders sustained life-threatening injuries, responders said. Moments before the crash, a driver reported the two "cutting in and out and riding betwe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Interstate Parkway Police Watch Helplessly As Suicidal Man, 55, Plunges To Death On Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Watch Helplessly As Suicidal Man, 55, Plunges To Death On Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Watch Helplessly As Suicidal Man, 55, Plunges To Death On Palisades
Interstate Parkway Police Watch Helplessly As Suicidal Man, 55, Plunges To Death On Palisades UPDATE: Police watched helplessly as a suicidal man stepped from a ledge atop the Palisades near the New Jersey/New York state line and fell more than 400 feet to his death Friday morning, authorities said. The 55-year-old Lodi man was standing at the edge of the cliffs at the State Line Lookout in Alpine when officers responding to a call approached him around 9 a.m., Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Chief Steven Shallop said. He then "abruptly stepped from the edge of the cliff as officers attempted to bring him to safety," Shallop said. Marine units initially were summoned but were l…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Prosecutor: Career Criminal Poured Accelerant, Ignited Arson Fire At Franklin Lakes Home Prosecutor: Career Criminal Poured Accelerant, Ignited Arson Fire At Franklin Lakes Home Prosecutor: Career Criminal Poured Accelerant, Ignited Arson Fire At Franklin Lakes Home
Prosecutor: Career Criminal Poured Accelerant, Ignited Arson Fire At Franklin Lakes Home A North Jersey ex-con working as a car salesman poured accelerant on the rear deck of a Franklin Lakes home before setting it ablaze, authorities said Friday. Daily Voice on Thursday reported the arrest of Keith Koeppel, a 61-year-old North Bergen native who authorities said currently lives in Ridgefield, on charges of aggravated arson with the potential to cause death or serious injury and criminal mischief. Firefighters needed about a half-hour to douse the two-alarm blaze at the single family home on southbound Route 208 late Wednesday. An arson-investigating K-9 unit was then summoned. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Teaneck Fugitive Wanted In Fort Lee Domestic Violence Attempted Murder Takes Himself To Jail Teaneck Fugitive Wanted In Fort Lee Domestic Violence Attempted Murder Takes Himself To Jail Teaneck Fugitive Wanted In Fort Lee Domestic Violence Attempted Murder Takes Himself To Jail
Teaneck Fugitive Wanted In Fort Lee Domestic Violence Attempted Murder Takes Himself To Jail With a posse on his tail, a Teaneck man accused of stabbing his roommate in Fort Lee turned himself in, authorities said. Asim B. Ouhuru, 33, was taken to Bergen New Bridge Medical Center after surrendering at the Bergen County Jail on River Street in Hackensack, Capt. Daniel Zusi said. Ouhuru was headed directly back to the jail Friday afternoon after an evaluation, he said. A man whom Ouhuru lived with was hospitalized with stab wounds in what the captain said was a domestic assault at 1 Executive Drive at 6:50 a.m. Thursday. Ouhuru ran off, sparking a search across New Jersey and into …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
NJ Appeals Court Overturns Murder Conviction Of NYC Man In Teaneck Love Triangle NJ Appeals Court Overturns Murder Conviction Of NYC Man In Teaneck Love Triangle NJ Appeals Court Overturns Murder Conviction Of NYC Man In Teaneck Love Triangle
NJ Appeals Court Overturns Murder Conviction Of NYC Man In Teaneck Love Triangle In a rare move, a state appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction of a Manhattan man for murdering popular software engineer Robert Cantor in his Teaneck home, ordering a new trial. The appeals judges focused, in large part, on what they considered inappropriate testimony by a detective in the prosecution of Sui Kam “Tony” Tung, who prosecutors said shot Cantor – who was his estranged wife’s lover – and then set his body and house on fire. The panel also said prosecutors erred in making “repeated references” during the trial to Tung saying that he wanted a lawyer and refusing to all…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Hackensack, Garfield PDs, Prosecutor's Detectives Derail Ex-Cons' Drug Delivery Service Hackensack, Garfield PDs, Prosecutor's Detectives Derail Ex-Cons' Drug Delivery Service Hackensack, Garfield PDs, Prosecutor's Detectives Derail Ex-Cons' Drug Delivery Service
Hackensack, Garfield PDs, Prosecutor's Detectives Derail Ex-Cons' Drug Delivery Service Two repeat offenders – one of whom had been busted and soon after released from jail twice in the past month -- ran a drug delivery service to a “vast clientele” throughout Bergen County, said authorities who arrested them. City narcotics detectives teamed up with their colleagues at the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and the Garfield Police Department to nab Adebola O. Bamisile, 32, of Hackensack, and Joseph G. Williams, 30, of Garfield, Capt. Peter Busciglio said Friday. They found both heroin and crack, along with drug paraphernalia, and seized a BMW 750i, jewelry and an undisclosed a…

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