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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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
SEE ANYTHING? Burglars Make Off With Expensive Jewelry From Saddle Brook Home SEE ANYTHING? Burglars Make Off With Expensive Jewelry From Saddle Brook Home SEE ANYTHING? Burglars Make Off With Expensive Jewelry From Saddle Brook Home
SEE Anything? Burglars Make Off With Expensive Jewelry From Saddle Brook Home Two burglars caught on surveillance video fled a Saddle Brook home with pricey jewelry after breaking a rear window Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. Police, sheriff's officers and a canine rushed to the Graham Terrace home near Fair Lawn Parkway around noon after a home security system alerted the owners, who weren't home, Police Chief Robert Kugler said. "The initial belief was that the two suspects were still inside," but they'd fled, Kugler said. The police dog lost the scent on Nedellec Drive near Fair Lawn Parkway, he said. "They probably had a getaway car in the area," the chi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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SAFETY CHECK: Hackensack Police Inspecting, Installing Child Safety Seats For Parents SAFETY CHECK: Hackensack Police Inspecting, Installing Child Safety Seats For Parents SAFETY CHECK: Hackensack Police Inspecting, Installing Child Safety Seats For Parents
SAFETY Check: Hackensack Police Inspecting, Installing Child Safety Seats For Parents Because installing child safety seats -- and using them -- is so extremely important, Hackensack police this Saturday will check and/or install seats for free. A staggering 80% of child safety seats are improperly installed, studies show. Officers will be in the rear parking lot of the Hackensack Police Department at 225 State Street from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. They will answer questions and help you keep your children safe. The timing is coincidental yet fortunate: Earlier this month, a 4-week-old boy who authorities said was sitting on his mother's lap was killed in a car crash in Hackensack.…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Pair Nabbed With 130 Stolen Postal Service Money Orders On Route 17, Rochelle Park Police Say Pair Nabbed With 130 Stolen Postal Service Money Orders On Route 17, Rochelle Park Police Say Pair Nabbed With 130 Stolen Postal Service Money Orders On Route 17, Rochelle Park Police Say
Pair Nabbed With 130 Stolen Postal Service Money Orders On Route 17, Rochelle Park Police Say Rochelle Park police nabbed two men carrying 130 blank money orders stolen from the U.S. Postal Service, along with devices used to forge them and merchandise stolen from Home Depot, authorities said. Officer Jared Shatkin stopped their a Nissan Maxima carelessly pulling onto northbound Route 17 from a business entrance, Detective Sgt. James M. DePreta said Wednesday. He stopped the pair, who had several pieces of Home Depot merchandise scattered throughout the sedan, he said. "No forms of payment could be provided to verify these items, which were later found to be purchased with bar code…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
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Lyndhurst PD: Ecstasy-Fueled Elmwood Park Man With Claw Hammer Arrested After Rampage Lyndhurst PD: Ecstasy-Fueled Elmwood Park Man With Claw Hammer Arrested After Rampage Lyndhurst PD: Ecstasy-Fueled Elmwood Park Man With Claw Hammer Arrested After Rampage
Lyndhurst PD: Ecstasy-Fueled Elmwood Park Man With Claw Hammer Arrested After Rampage An Elmwood Park man high on Ecstasy damaged several cars with a claw hammer before walking into a Lyndhurst hotel, snatching a cellphone from a desk clerk's hand and fleeing, said police who arrested him before dawn Wednesday. Pablo Perez, 41, who'd rented a room at a neighboring hotel, was taken into custody without incident by Lt. Anthony Ricigliano and Officers Matt Giunta and Anthony Calabro in the area of Orient Way and Rutherford avenues shortly after 3 a.m., authorities said. Officers were responding to a report of a loud disturbance in the area when a 911 call came in from the Court…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Suicide Try: Man Found In Hackensack River Jumped From Route 46 Bridge, Little Ferry Police Say Suicide Try: Man Found In Hackensack River Jumped From Route 46 Bridge, Little Ferry Police Say Suicide Try: Man Found In Hackensack River Jumped From Route 46 Bridge, Little Ferry Police Say
Suicide Try: Man Found In Hackensack River Jumped From Route 46 Bridge, Little Ferry Police Say UPDATE: A 47-year-old Palisades Park man pulled from the Hackensack River in Little Ferry Wednesday morning had jumped from the nearby Route 46 bridge moments earlier in an attempted suicide, authorities said. "He's expected to live," Detective Lt. Ronald Klein Jr. said. "He's just a little out of it." Two workers in a Ridgefield Park warehouse spotted the man, who was wearing a t-shirt, underwear, socks and sneakers, Klein said. He wasn't carrying any ID, the lieutenant said. A Ridgefield Park Fire Department boat pulled the man toward the shore at Gates Road, Klein said.  Little F…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Fugitive Wanted In 2017 Paterson Street Slaying Nabbed Trying To Re-Enter US From DR Fugitive Wanted In 2017 Paterson Street Slaying Nabbed Trying To Re-Enter US From DR Fugitive Wanted In 2017 Paterson Street Slaying Nabbed Trying To Re-Enter US From DR
Fugitive Wanted In 2017 Paterson Street Slaying Nabbed Trying To Re-Enter US From DR Federal agents were waiting at an Atlanta airport when a fugitive accused of gunning down a man on a Paterson street nearly two years ago tried to slip back into the country from the Dominican Republic, authorities said Tuesday. Elisaul Marte, 29, was seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents after getting off a plane at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Saturday, they said. He was being held pending extradition to New Jersey to face charges of murder and weapons possession in the slaying of 28 year-old Ramon Mosquea, whose was found slumped over the hood of his…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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‘Go Back To Mexico’: Boy, 13, Charged With Knocking Out Passaic Mom, Beating Son ‘Go Back To Mexico’: Boy, 13, Charged With Knocking Out Passaic Mom, Beating Son ‘Go Back To Mexico’: Boy, 13, Charged With Knocking Out Passaic Mom, Beating Son
‘Go Back To Mexico’: Boy, 13, Charged With Knocking Out Passaic Mom, Beating Son Authorities confirmed Tuesday that they’d seized a 13-year-old Passaic boy who they said knocked out a mother with a punch, leaving her with serious injuries, after bullying her son and telling him to “go back to Mexico.” The information was released following a news report in which Beronica Ruiz described being attacked after picking up her 12-year-old son from The Gifted and Talented Academy on Monroe Street in Passaic around 5 p.m. last Wednesday. The 7th-grader was also punched by the older boy in the Lexington Avenue attack, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Passaic Polic…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Passaic Police Bust 4, Summons Others In Outdoor Overnight Bash, Mayor Vows Continued Crackdown Passaic Police Bust 4, Summons Others In Outdoor Overnight Bash, Mayor Vows Continued Crackdown Passaic Police Bust 4, Summons Others In Outdoor Overnight Bash, Mayor Vows Continued Crackdown
Passaic Police Bust 4, Summons Others In Outdoor Overnight Bash, Mayor Vows Continued Crackdown A large and rowdy crowd didn’t like Passaic police breaking up their party in the middle of the night, leading to four arrests and a host of summonses at a city public housing complex, authorities said. It also prompted a stern warning from Mayor Hector Lora, who said that such quality-of-life offenses “will not be tolerated” and that police will continue to make arrests and issue summonses to violators. Possibly as many as 100 people were gathered on Aspen Place in the Speer Village complex when police who received several reports of loud music and drug and alcohol use arrived around 12:30…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Construction Worker Collapses On 4th-Floor Scaffold Outside HUMC Construction Worker Collapses On 4th-Floor Scaffold Outside HUMC Construction Worker Collapses On 4th-Floor Scaffold Outside HUMC
Construction Worker Collapses On 4th-Floor Scaffold Outside Humc Firefighters, construction workers and staff at Hackensack University Medical Center teamed up to get a worker who’d suffered a medical episode on a scaffold 50 feet above the street inside the building Tuesday morning, responders said. The 30-something worker had been doing heating and ventilation work on the Second Street side of HUMC around 11 a.m. when a co-worker “saw him slouched over, not breathing, and began CPR,” Police Detective Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. Hackensack Volunteer Ambulance Corps who climbed the scaffolding with firefighters continued resuscitation efforts, ci…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Gas-Fed Paterson Blaze Destroys Several Buildings, Displaces 51 Residents Gas-Fed Paterson Blaze Destroys Several Buildings, Displaces 51 Residents Gas-Fed Paterson Blaze Destroys Several Buildings, Displaces 51 Residents
Gas-Fed Paterson Blaze Destroys Several Buildings, Displaces 51 Residents Thirteen families -- 51 people in all -- were burned out of their homes in a gas-fed overnight Paterson blaze that injured six firefighters. Rain poured down as firefighters continued to douse pockets of flame well past dawn Tuesday in the three destroyed homes and damaged another on Summer Street. The Red Cross said its disaster team provided temporary lodging, food and clothing as needed. There was no immediate word on a possible cause of the five-alarm fire, which broke out around 1:30 a.m. and quickly spread. The Passaic County prosecutor's arson unit responded to investigate, given…

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