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
TRIBUTE: Last Alarm Call To Sound For Veteran Totowa Firefighter Neil Colella, 80 TRIBUTE: Last Alarm Call To Sound For Veteran Totowa Firefighter Neil Colella, 80 TRIBUTE: Last Alarm Call To Sound For Veteran Totowa Firefighter Neil Colella, 80
Tribute: Last Alarm Call To Sound For Veteran Totowa Firefighter Neil Colella, 80 A chair with his gear will be placed outside Totowa Fire Rescue 4 when the last alarm call is sounded Friday for veteran firefighter Neil J. Colella. A volunteer firefighter for more than 45 years, Colella died Tuesday. He was 80. His funeral Mass is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Friday at St. James of the Marches Church, followed by entombment at Laurel Grove Cemetery, both in Totowa. Born in Paterson on April 11, 1939 – one of 10 children -- Colella retired as a mail handler for the USPS in the Silk City. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus Post #6574 in Totowa and of the Totowa Happy …

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
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#JusticeForJenny: Morris County Woman Charged With Dumping 10-Week-Old Puppy In Lake #JusticeForJenny: Morris County Woman Charged With Dumping 10-Week-Old Puppy In Lake #JusticeForJenny: Morris County Woman Charged With Dumping 10-Week-Old Puppy In Lake
#JusticeForJenny: Morris County Woman Charged With Dumping 10-Week-Old Puppy In Lake UPDATE: A Morris County woman was arrested Tuesday and charged with drowning a caged 10-week-old Golden Retriever puppy in a West Milford lake. Tonya Fea, 47, of Jefferson Township "reportedly confessed," The Last Resort Animal Rescue announced Tuesday. "But, much to our horror, our worst fears were confirmed: The official [necropsy] report confirms that drowning was the cause of death," officials with the non-profit organization wrote. The dog "was intentionally drowned," they said. The Last Resort, which named the dog Jenny, had posted a reward that quickly ballooned to $12,000, thanks…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Bergen Sheriff Meets With County Leaders, Local Law Enforcement To Review Ramadan Security Bergen Sheriff Meets With County Leaders, Local Law Enforcement To Review Ramadan Security Bergen Sheriff Meets With County Leaders, Local Law Enforcement To Review Ramadan Security
Bergen Sheriff Meets With County Leaders, Local Law Enforcement To Review Ramadan Security In preparation for Ramadan, Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton coordinated a briefing to discuss public safety precautions. Attending were Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco, Freeholder Vice-Chair Mary Amoroso, Acting Prosecutor Dennis Calo, faith leaders from Bergen County mosques and local law enforcement personnel. Ramadan,  the most sacred month of the year in Islamic culture, begins at sundown this Sunday evening, May 5.  Although there was no current or specific threat, Cureton said he will deploy additional patrols to mosques and other potentially sensitive locations during the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Authorities: Paterson Ex-Con Who Showed Up At Hospital Shot Himself With Kids In Home Authorities: Paterson Ex-Con Who Showed Up At Hospital Shot Himself With Kids In Home Authorities: Paterson Ex-Con Who Showed Up At Hospital Shot Himself With Kids In Home
Authorities: Paterson Ex-Con Who Showed Up At Hospital Shot Himself With Kids In Home A Paterson ex-con who showed up at the hospital with a gunshot wound last week was arrested by authorities who said he shot himself with an illegal firearm while two children were present. Prosecutors said they were going to ask a judge to order that 26-year-old Denzel Shepperson, who was taken into custody Tuesday, remain held in the Passaic County Jail in connection with the April 25 shooting. They didn't say what made the gun discharge. Shepperson was charged with three weapons offenses – including being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm -- as well as hindering, drug possessi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
#JusticeForJenny: Woman Charged With Dumping 10-Week-Old Puppy In West Milford Lake #JusticeForJenny: Woman Charged With Dumping 10-Week-Old Puppy In West Milford Lake #JusticeForJenny: Woman Charged With Dumping 10-Week-Old Puppy In West Milford Lake
#JusticeForJenny: Woman Charged With Dumping 10-Week-Old Puppy In West Milford Lake UPDATE: A Morris County woman was arrested Tuesday and charged with drowning a caged 10-week-old Golden Retriever puppy in a West Milford lake. Tonya Fea, 47, of Jefferson Township "reportedly confessed," The Last Resort Animal Rescue announced Tuesday. "But, much to our horror, our worst fears were confirmed: The official [necropsy] report confirms that drowning was the cause of death," officials with the non-profit organization wrote. The dog "was intentionally drowned," they said. The Last Resort, which named the dog Jenny, had posted a reward that quickly ballooned to $12,000, thanks…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Englewood PD: Student Told To Stay Home Ignites High School Brawl, Criminal Charges Planned Englewood PD: Student Told To Stay Home Ignites High School Brawl, Criminal Charges Planned Englewood PD: Student Told To Stay Home Ignites High School Brawl, Criminal Charges Planned
Englewood PD: Student Told To Stay Home Ignites High School Brawl, Criminal Charges Planned A Dwight Morrow High School student who was told to stay home from school Tuesday returned and instigated a brawl that’s expected to produce criminal charges, Englewood police said. “There are between five to 10 students involved [in Tuesday’s melee], most of them 18 years old,” Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said Wednesday. “As we move forward, aggressors who have been positively identified will be charged in all likelihood with disorderly conduct,” he said. “We are looking at charging at least one with defiant trespass, as he was told the previous day not to return to the school fo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Driver From Cliffside Park, Pizzeria In Fort Lee OK After Crash Driver From Cliffside Park, Pizzeria In Fort Lee OK After Crash Driver From Cliffside Park, Pizzeria In Fort Lee OK After Crash
Driver From Cliffside Park, Pizzeria In Fort Lee OK After Crash A 60-year-old driver was OK -- and so was the shopping center that holds the Fort Lee pizzeria that her car plowed into Wednesday morning, authorities said. Nova Pizza on Lemoine Avenue will remain closed "until it is cleaned and inspected and has a properly secured door," Police Chief Matthew Hintze said. No summonses were issued to the 2012 Honda Civic driver following the mishap just before 10 a.m., Hintze said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Monsey, NY
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Spring Valley Stalker's Bogus 'Active Shooter' Call Brings SWAT Team, Prosecutor Says Spring Valley Stalker's Bogus 'Active Shooter' Call Brings SWAT Team, Prosecutor Says Spring Valley Stalker's Bogus 'Active Shooter' Call Brings SWAT Team, Prosecutor Says
Spring Valley Stalker's Bogus 'Active Shooter' Call Brings SWAT Team, Prosecutor Says An unemployed Spring Valley man called in a bogus report of an active shooter at a Bergen County home, bringing a SWAT team, among other responders, said authorities who took him into custody. Austin Parks, 48, was already in the Rockland County Jail in connection with another arrest when investigators identified him, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Wednesday. Parks used technology to block his number when he made the April 17 call, claiming there was an active shooter at a residence in Park Ridge, Calo said. Detectives from the prosecutor’s Cyber Crimes Unit and Park Ridg…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Bergen Prosecutor: Rockland Stalker's Bogus 'Active Shooter' Call Brings SWAT To Park Ridge Bergen Prosecutor: Rockland Stalker's Bogus 'Active Shooter' Call Brings SWAT To Park Ridge Bergen Prosecutor: Rockland Stalker's Bogus 'Active Shooter' Call Brings SWAT To Park Ridge
Bergen Prosecutor: Rockland Stalker's Bogus 'Active Shooter' Call Brings SWAT To Park Ridge UPDATE (MAY 8, 2019): As coincidences go, it's odd: A bogus 911 "active shooter" call that brought a SWAT team and swarms of other responders to a Park Ridge home had nothing to do with a bank robbery across town that occurred at almost the same time, authorities said. Questions of a possible connection arose after authorities last week announced that Austin Parks, 48, of Spring Valley had been charged with making the April 17 call. However, a senior law enforcement official told Daily Voice that the call was "unrelated...oddly" to the robbery at nearly the same time of an Oritani Bank bran…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
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Teaneck Pedestrian Hit-Run: Harlem Man Turns Himself In Teaneck Pedestrian Hit-Run: Harlem Man Turns Himself In Teaneck Pedestrian Hit-Run: Harlem Man Turns Himself In
Teaneck Pedestrian Hit-Run: Harlem Man Turns Himself In A Harlem driver surrendered to police after leaving the scene of a Teaneck crash that sent a pedestrian to the hospital with severe injuries, authorities said Wednesday. Barrett Lewis, 55, came to police headquarters about a half-hour after the 11:13 p.m. crash Tuesday and said he was the driver whose SUV hit the 48-year-old victim on Teaneck Road near Bedford Avenue and then sped off, Police Chief Glenn O’Reilly said. The Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps took the unconscious man to Hackensack University Medical Center with injuries so severe that the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Fatal Accid…

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