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

Ridgewood, NJ

Breaking News

Ridgewood Firefighters Free Crash Victim Firefighters used the Jaws of Life to free the driver of an SUV that collided with another vehicle in Ridgewood Friday night. Village EMS took two victims of the crash at South Monroe Street and West Ridgewood Avenue to The Valley Hospital. None of the injuries was considered life-threatening, responders said. Village police also responded. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this account.

by Jerry DeMarco

11/02/2018

Bergenfield, NJ

Breaking News

Ex-News Director From Dumont Charged With Downloading 500 Child Porn Images A former news director who grew up in Emerson was arrested Friday and charged with downloading 500 kiddie porn images following a raid at his Dumont home. A judge freed Sean Western, 37, hours after he was booked into the Bergen County Jail. Western "used the Internet to view, possess, and store to distribute approximately 500 digital files depicting nude or sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children," Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. Western, on his LinkedIn page, says he worked for nearly six years for the MSG Network, serving as associate director on the TV v…

by Jerry DeMarco

11/02/2018

Pascack Valley, NJ

Breaking News

Woodcliff Lake Construction Firm Agrees To Pay US $1.87M For Violating RR Bridge Contract A Woodcliff Lake-based contractor will pay $1.87 million to the U.S. government to resolve charges that it cut corners on a federally-funded contract to build a railroad bridge connecting Queens and Brooklyn. Kiewit Constructors Inc. signed a deal with the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) for work on the mile-and-a-half Atlantic Avenue Viaduct in 2009, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said Friday. Federal funds that were dedicated to “furnishing and installing new steel girders and spans, along with related steelwork,” required the LIRR to mandate that its contractors hire subcontractors certified…

by Jerry DeMarco

11/02/2018

Fort Lee, NJ

Breaking News

Alec Baldwin Cold-Cocks Driver Over Greenwich Village Parking Spot, Reports Say Actor Alec Baldwin was busted again -- this time for cold-cocking a driver over a parking space Friday afternoon in the West Village of Manhattan, according to multiple reports. "Shut the f--k up!" Baldwin, 60, reportedly shouted at a construction worker who tried to stop him from punching the driver during the incident on East 10th Street. Baldwin -- who hosts a Sunday talk show and often portrays President Trump on "Saturday Night Live" -- lives in the neighborhood with his Hilaria Baldwin, 34, and their four children. He apparently had someone stand in an empty parking space t…

by Jerry DeMarco

11/02/2018

Hackensack, NJ

Breaking News

Veteran NJ Government Employee, 66, Admits Downloading 100+ Child Porn Images At Work A 66-year-old state government veteran will be sentenced to four years in state prison after admitting Friday that he downloaded child pornography at work. Kevin Smith, who worked for the state for over 30 years, had more than 100 kiddie porn files “stored on optical disks and a thumb drive found in his cubicle” at the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development office in Trenton, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. “Anyone who views and downloads child pornography online participates in the cruel exploitation of children,” Grewal said, “but Smith’s case is especially egreg…

by Jerry DeMarco

11/02/2018

Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ

Breaking News

Wyckoff PD: Arrests Made In Casino Winner Car-Bump Robbery On Route 208 Two men were in custody after authorities said they robbed a casino gambler by bumping his car from behind on Route 208 in Wyckoff and claiming they were police officers. The driver told police he’d left the Empire City Casino in Yonkers around 5:30 a.m. Sept. 2 and was headed north on the highway when his vehicle was struck from behind near Cedar Hill Avenue. One of two men who got out of the other car “identified himself as a law enforcement officer and instructed him to place his hands on the trunk of his vehicle,” Wyckoff Police Chief David Murphy said. “They then held him while they r…

by Jerry DeMarco

11/02/2018

Fort Lee, NJ

Breaking News

NYC Man Rescued After Tumble Down Palisades Cliffs In Fort Lee A rescue team plucked a New York City man from a ledge after he tumbled down the Palisades in Fort Lee late Thursday. Erick Sanes, 23, was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with injuries that responders said didn’t appear life-threatening following the 11:19 p.m. call. Palisades Interstate Parkway Police said officers “met with witnesses who were in phone contact with the victim,” who was “injured but alert and conscious” as he remained trapped on a ledge about 30 feet above Henry Hudson Drive, which runs along the Hudson River. Using a Fort Lee Fire Department ladder, rescuers…

by Jerry DeMarco

11/02/2018

Hackensack, NJ

Breaking News

NJ Bail Reform Beneficiary: Convicted Armed Robber Caught With Drug Trove, Hackensack PD Says A paroled armed robber who Hackensack police said they found with a variety of drugs -- including crack and heroin -- after he resisted arrest was freed by a judge on Friday. Drug officers approached Domique Giddings, 30, of Paterson as he sat in the 2000 Honda Accord near the corner of Mary Street and Polifly Road at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Capt. Frank Aquila said. The officers ordered Giddings out of the car after they spotted a vial of cocaine in the driver's side door handle and smelled pot, Aquila said. As he got out, the captain said, Giddings grabbed the crack vial and stuck it in his left …

by Jerry DeMarco

11/02/2018

Hackensack, NJ

Breaking News

Deported Child Sex Abuser Caught In NJ Returned To Prison A Salvadoran national who served 10 years for sexually abusing a 7-year-old victim snuck back into the U.S. after being deported – and was sent back to prison after authorities caught him in New Jersey. Samuel De Jesus Corvera-Mata, 43, was sentenced earlier this week to an 18-month federal prison sentence after admitting that he illegally re-entered the country and violated the requirement that he register as a sex offender. Corvera-Mata must serve the entire sentence: There's no parole in the federal prison system. The national Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA)…

by Jerry DeMarco

11/02/2018

Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ

Breaking News

Franklin Lakes Police Nab Accused Stop & Shop Armed Robber 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. https://wyckoff.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/caught-franklin-lakes-stop-shop-armed-robber-in-custody-police-announce/744245/ ****** ORIGINAL STORY: Franklin Lakes police released photos Friday of a robber who jumped the counter at a local Stop & Shop and pointed a pistol at a pharmacist. The robber – who was described as white, in his early 20…

by Jerry DeMarco

11/02/2018

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