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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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Hasbrouck Heights PD: DWI Driver Who Crashed Car Into Airport Fence Threatens To Shoot Officers Hasbrouck Heights PD: DWI Driver Who Crashed Car Into Airport Fence Threatens To Shoot Officers Hasbrouck Heights PD: DWI Driver Who Crashed Car Into Airport Fence Threatens To Shoot Officers
Hasbrouck Heights PD: DWI Driver Who Crashed Car Into Airport Fence Threatens To Shoot Officers A drunk Moonachie driver whose sedan slammed into a fence at Teterboro Airport in the middle of the night threatened to “take your guns and shoot you with them,” said Hasbrouck Heights police who arrested him. Officers found the 2008 BMW against an airport fence off Industrial Road around 3:40 a.m. Sunday, Police Lt. Michael Colaneri Jr. said. They tried to administer a field test to Gazmend Kaba, 37, but he “became irate, yelling and screaming, trying to provoke a fight and saying, ‘I’m gonna take your guns and shoot you with them,” Colaneri said. Officers arrested Kaba, who also was driv…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Ex Charged With Attempted Murder In Stabbing That Left Elmwood Park Woman's Boyfriend Critical Ex Charged With Attempted Murder In Stabbing That Left Elmwood Park Woman's Boyfriend Critical Ex Charged With Attempted Murder In Stabbing That Left Elmwood Park Woman's Boyfriend Critical
Ex Charged With Attempted Murder In Stabbing That Left Elmwood Park Woman's Boyfriend Critical An Elmwood Park woman’s ex-boyfriend forced his way into her apartment and repeatedly stabbed her current boyfriend Sunday night, said authorities who charged him with attempted murder. Responding to the woman's frantic 911 call, officers found the 40-year-old victim unresponsive and bleeding profusely just before 10 p.m. Sunday, according to a police report. He’d been stabbed six times in the chest, back and side by Jason Gardner, 31, who'd forced his way into the 29-year-old Donor Avenue woman's apartment at knifepoint, the report says. While his colleagues tended to the victim, Officer …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Dust Unit Fire Damages Medical Manufacturing Machinery At Stryker Complex In Mahwah Dust Unit Fire Damages Medical Manufacturing Machinery At Stryker Complex In Mahwah Dust Unit Fire Damages Medical Manufacturing Machinery At Stryker Complex In Mahwah
Dust Unit Fire Damages Medical Manufacturing Machinery At Stryker Complex In Mahwah UPDATE: Mahwah firefighters doused a stubborn blaze that broke out early Sunday afternoon in a pair of dust collection bins at the Stryker complex off Route 17. Township firefighters were quickly at the scene of the 12:30 p.m. blaze.  They had it knocked down within 20 minutes, but it continued to burn for another 20 minutes or so before it was out. Some machinery used to make hip and knee replacements was severely damaged. This follows a fire that broke out Thursday in a dust collection unit at the Triangle Manufacturing Co. a few miles away in Upper Saddle River. SEE: Firefighters use…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Wayne Moms Share Passion For Helping Adults, Kids With Speech, Language, Other Difficulties Wayne Moms Share Passion For Helping Adults, Kids With Speech, Language, Other Difficulties Wayne Moms Share Passion For Helping Adults, Kids With Speech, Language, Other Difficulties
Wayne Moms Share Passion For Helping Adults, Kids With Speech, Language, Other Difficulties Wayne moms Ashley Tress and Jean Marie Lucarelli share a love for helping children and adults having trouble with speech, language and swallowing, among other difficulties. They also share a 10-year friendship, tons of support from their significant others and – after several years of seeing clients in their homes – a new office in a popular township shopping center. “We met after graduate school when we were hired at an acute rehab facility within days of each other and found out we would be sharing an office,” Tress said. “We quickly went from strangers to supportive co-workers to very g…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
'Prank-Calling Entire World': Paterson Woman Admits Phoning Bomb Threats To Federal Buildings 'Prank-Calling Entire World': Paterson Woman Admits Phoning Bomb Threats To Federal Buildings 'Prank-Calling Entire World': Paterson Woman Admits Phoning Bomb Threats To Federal Buildings
'Prank-Calling Entire World': Paterson Woman Admits Phoning Bomb Threats To Federal Buildings A Paterson woman admitted Friday that she phoned in bomb threats to two federal buildings -- while claiming that she's “prank-calling the entire world" -- in retaliation against a judge who was hearing a lawsuit she’d filed. The employee who answered the phone at the U.S. District Court Clerk’s Office in Camden the morning of Jan. 12, 2018 recognized the voice of 40-year-old Amdije Toska, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Toska, who claimed there was a bomb in the building, had a civil case in the court of a judge who’d ordered her to stop calling the clerk’s office – and allowed the cler…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood Detectives Nab City Man In Shooting, Charge With Him 4 Counts Of Attempted Murder Englewood Detectives Nab City Man In Shooting, Charge With Him 4 Counts Of Attempted Murder Englewood Detectives Nab City Man In Shooting, Charge With Him 4 Counts Of Attempted Murder
Englewood Detectives Nab City Man In Shooting, Charge With Him 4 Counts Of Attempted Murder Englewood police detectives identified and charged a 20-year-old city man with several attempted murder counts, among other offenses, for shooting another man in the arm and sending a stray bullet through a resident's window. Several shots were fired at a group of people in the 200 block of West Palisade Avenue around 11 p.m. Feb. 13, authorities initially said. One them struck a 47-year-old man in the arm and another smashed through the window of an innocent resident’s home, they said. The victim was taken by ambulance to Hackensack University Medical Center with injuries t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Truck Crashes Across Median At Rockland/Jersey Border, Jams Thruway, Route 17 Truck Crashes Across Median At Rockland/Jersey Border, Jams Thruway, Route 17 Truck Crashes Across Median At Rockland/Jersey Border, Jams Thruway, Route 17
Truck Crashes Across Median At Rockland/Jersey Border, Jams Thruway, Route 17 A large rental truck crashed on the northbound New York State Thruway in Suffern near the New Jersey exit for southbound Route 17 Friday afternoon, jamming traffic in both directions. A heavy-duty wrecker was needed to right the truck, which fell across the divider with its rear wheels facing north and cab facing south a quarter-mile from the Route 17 flyover just before 2 p.m. All lanes eventually were reopened. Traffic in New Jersey had backed up to Route 202. The crash was barely a quarter-mile from the New Jersey exit for Route 17 (in distance).Jerry DeMarco PHOTOS BELOW: Courtesy…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Dumont Web Designer Had 1,000+ Child Porn Images, Trafficked More Than 400 Prosecutor: Dumont Web Designer Had 1,000+ Child Porn Images, Trafficked More Than 400 Prosecutor: Dumont Web Designer Had 1,000+ Child Porn Images, Trafficked More Than 400
Prosecutor: Dumont Web Designer Had 1,000+ Child Porn Images, Trafficked More Than 400 A web designer from Dumont had more than 1,000 child pornography images – over 400 of which he’d shared – when detectives raided his home Friday morning, authorities said. William G. Gallagher, 30, had a trove of file “depicting nude or sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. A month-long investigation led to his arrest Friday by Calo’s Cyber Crimes Unit, the prosecutor said. Gallagher, who’s single and lives with his mother, remained held Friday in the Bergen County Jail pending an April 24 first appearance in Central Judi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: Woman Pulled From Passaic River After Boat Capsizes, Son Found With Aunt UPDATE: Woman Pulled From Passaic River After Boat Capsizes, Son Found With Aunt UPDATE: Woman Pulled From Passaic River After Boat Capsizes, Son Found With Aunt
Update: Woman Pulled From Passaic River After Boat Capsizes, Son Found With Aunt UPDATE: A boy who was at first believed to be in a capsized boat with his mother was found safe and sound with his aunt after responders pulled the woman from the Passaic River mid-Friday afternoon. A 911 caller alerted police of a woman in the water while motioning her to swim to shore, Wallington Police Capt. Shawn Kudlacik said. "She was swimming toward the bank, half-in and half-out, when officers got there," Kudlacik said. "She seemed a little distraught and mentioned something about a child." Spotting two purses, a towel and some shoes atop the capsized boat, police requested di…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Fairview Registered Sex Offender, 54, Charged With Sexually Assaulting Pre-Teen Over Two Years Fairview Registered Sex Offender, 54, Charged With Sexually Assaulting Pre-Teen Over Two Years Fairview Registered Sex Offender, 54, Charged With Sexually Assaulting Pre-Teen Over Two Years
Fairview Registered Sex Offender, 54, Charged With Sexually Assaulting Pre-Teen Over Two Years Thanks to Nutley police, authorities in Bergen County arrested a Fairview man accused of sexually assaulting a borough girl repeatedly nearly a decade ago, beginning when she was 10. Robert Moser, a 54-year-old registered sex offender, remained held Friday in the Bergen County Jail following his arrest the day before. Nutley police were investigating a separate case when they learned of the alleged assaults, which continued until the girl was 12, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. They contacted their colleagues in Fairview, who alerted Calo's Special Victims Unit. Moser is…

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