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.

Jerry DeMarco's Contributions

Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Youth Sports Coach Caught With Heroin, Pot After Closter Car Crash, Authorities Say Youth Sports Coach Caught With Heroin, Pot After Closter Car Crash, Authorities Say Youth Sports Coach Caught With Heroin, Pot After Closter Car Crash, Authorities Say
Youth Sports Coach Caught With Heroin, Pot After Closter Car Crash, Authorities Say A youth sports coach from Northvale was carrying 14 bags of heroin, some loose pot and more when he was involved in a car crash in Closter's downtown shopping district, authorities confirmed. Tyler Gallo, a 28-year-old apprentice electrician who works for a company based in Paterson, was behind the wheel of a leased 2017 Honda Accord that collided with another vehicle at the corner of Piermont and Ruckman roads just before 12:30 p.m. Friday, authorities reported. Responding officers said they found him and the other driver standing next to their vehicles. Neither was seriously injured. Gal…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Search Continues For Swimmer, 39, Believed Drowned In Hackensack River Search Continues For Swimmer, 39, Believed Drowned In Hackensack River Search Continues For Swimmer, 39, Believed Drowned In Hackensack River
Search Continues For Swimmer, 39, Believed Drowned In Hackensack River Authorities continued to search the Hackensack River Monday afternoon for the body of a 39-year-old man whose friends told police drowned while trying to swim across to Bogota. The man "began struggling to remain above water [but] disappeared below the surface" around 3 p.m. Sunday, Capt. Frank Aquila said. His friends searched with no luck, Aquila said. Police were finally notified by the man's nephew after he failed to return home, the captain said. Hackensack police and firefighters were joined in a subsequent search by Bogota police, a Maywood police bloodhound, a Ridgefield Park…

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by Jerry DeMarco & Cecilia Levine
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
SUV Slams Into Route 17 Furrier In Paramus, Two Seriously Injured SUV Slams Into Route 17 Furrier In Paramus, Two Seriously Injured SUV Slams Into Route 17 Furrier In Paramus, Two Seriously Injured
SUV Slams Into Route 17 Furrier In Paramus, Two Seriously Injured Two occupants sustained serious injuries and a third relatively minor ones Monday morning when an SUV crashed into the rear of a Route 17 furrier in Paramus. Another vehicle sustained minor damage when the RAV-4 barreled into Steven Corn Furs on the northbound highway near Powers Drive. Two rigs from the Paramus Volunteer Ambulance Corps responded, along with one from The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood and paramedics from Hackensack University Medical. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this account.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
CAUGHT! Franklin Lakes Stop & Shop Armed Robber In Custody, Police Announce CAUGHT! Franklin Lakes Stop & Shop Armed Robber In Custody, Police Announce CAUGHT! Franklin Lakes Stop & Shop Armed Robber In Custody, Police Announce
Caught! Franklin Lakes Stop & Shop Armed Robber In Custody, Police Announce CAUGHT! Thanks to surveillance photos shared online, Franklin Lakes police said Monday that they caught the robber who jumped the counter at a local Stop & Shop and pointed a pistol at a pharmacist last week -- all for a bottle of cough syrup. Shane Mullis, 18, of Franklin Lakes remained held Monday in the Bergen County Jail following his arrest Friday. He was charged with robbery, theft and weapons possession in connection with last Wednesday's robbery at the Franklin Avenue supermarket. "The department received a number of fruitful, investigative leads from the publication of ph…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn Shooting: Borough Woman, Not Home Invaders, Pulled Trigger, Prosecutor Says Fair Lawn Shooting: Borough Woman, Not Home Invaders, Pulled Trigger, Prosecutor Says Fair Lawn Shooting: Borough Woman, Not Home Invaders, Pulled Trigger, Prosecutor Says
Fair Lawn Shooting: Borough Woman, Not Home Invaders, Pulled Trigger, Prosecutor Says UPDATE: A couple was caught and a fugitive sought after a man was shot in the face in what authorities said was an attempted killing in an apartment above a Fair Lawn craft beer bar. Sharese Peeples, 32, was charged with attempted murder after she and two accomplices claimed the victim was shot during a home invasion by two others, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Monday. Peeples also was charged with weapons offenses and lying to investigators, Calo said. Also charged with filing a false report was Steven Mitchell, a 31-year-old bus cleaner who lives with Peeples, the pros…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Who Shot And Killed Paterson's Patrick Brown, 25? Who Shot And Killed Paterson's Patrick Brown, 25? Who Shot And Killed Paterson's Patrick Brown, 25?
Who Shot And Killed Paterson's Patrick Brown, 25? Authorities continued to investigate the overnight shooting death last week of a Paterson man outside his car during a nearly week-long stretch of city gunfire. A bullet-riddled Patrick Brown, 25, was found outside his parked car on East 28th Street near 17th Avenue just after 1 a.m. last Tuesday, authorities said. Brown was pronounced dead eight minutes later at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Troy Oswald said in a joint announcement. They asked that anyone who saw something or has information that could help inve…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Glen Rock PD: Separate Route 208 Arrests Involve Ex-Con With Ecstasy, DWI Crash Driver With THC Glen Rock PD: Separate Route 208 Arrests Involve Ex-Con With Ecstasy, DWI Crash Driver With THC Glen Rock PD: Separate Route 208 Arrests Involve Ex-Con With Ecstasy, DWI Crash Driver With THC
Glen Rock PD: Separate Route 208 Arrests Involve Ex-Con With Ecstasy, DWI Crash Driver With THC Separate incidents on Route 208 in Glen Rock led to arrests – one of a wanted Paterson ex-con who police said was carrying Ecstasy and the other of an Englewood driver who they said was under the influence when he crashed his car. Police arrested 29-year-old Rashad B. Daniels on DWI and drug charges after Officer John Tarantino found him carrying a vape filled with THC oil following the Oct. 21 crash at the highway’s northbound off-ramp to Harristown Road, authorities said. Daniels, who wasn’t injured, was processed at headquarters and released to a responsible adult under John’s Law, Polic…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
CAUGHT! Authorities Capture Ex-Con Wanted In Paterson Shooting In Brooklyn CAUGHT! Authorities Capture Ex-Con Wanted In Paterson Shooting In Brooklyn CAUGHT! Authorities Capture Ex-Con Wanted In Paterson Shooting In Brooklyn
Caught! Authorities Capture Ex-Con Wanted In Paterson Shooting In Brooklyn Qualil “Kupz” Moore ducked police for four months after he shot another man in the head as he sat in a parked car in Paterson this past summer, but they eventually captured him in Brooklyn, authorities said. Prosecutors were working to extradite Moore, 25, following his arrest late last month. The 40-year-old victim was found just before 7 a.m. June 22 in the driver's seat of a Nissan Altima parked next to a Power Gas service station on Park Avenue near East 22nd Street, authorities said. He was taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in critical condition but survived, they said. M…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Armored Car Crashes In Ridgewood Armored Car Crashes In Ridgewood Armored Car Crashes In Ridgewood
Armored Car Crashes In Ridgewood An armored car driver was hospitalized with a leg injury Saturday after the rig clipped two utility poles and struck a tree in Ridgewood. Several armed security guards and uniformed police officers stood by as currency the rig was carrying was transferred to another after the incident in the 300 block of South Maple Avenue.  Village police, firefighters and EMS responded. The driver was taken to The Valley Hospital. A heavy-duty wrecker removed the demolished vehicle as traffic was detoured from the scene. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this account.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Passaic Sheriff's Officer Injured In Hit-Run Crash: Driver Found, Charged Passaic Sheriff's Officer Injured In Hit-Run Crash: Driver Found, Charged Passaic Sheriff's Officer Injured In Hit-Run Crash: Driver Found, Charged
Passaic Sheriff's Officer Injured In Hit-Run Crash: Driver Found, Charged A Passaic County sheriff's officer escaped serious injury after his cruiser was rammed from behind in Paterson by a driver who then took off, authorities said. Officer Jason Michaels chased the hit-and-run driver, but a damaged tire disabled his patrol car. His colleagues, however, found the other car and charged the driver. The Volkswagen Beetle had struck the officer's car after 41-year-old Juan Carlos Carrillo Ruiz ran a red light at the intersection of Broadway and Rosa Parks Boulevard around 3 p.m., Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. "Michaels’ unit went up on the sidewa…

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