Jerry DeMarco

Senior Reporter

[email protected]

FOLLOW ON

Facebook Twitter Linkedin

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

Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Lodi Man Charged With Assaulting Police Officers After Breaking Brother's Wrist Lodi Man Charged With Assaulting Police Officers After Breaking Brother's Wrist Lodi Man Charged With Assaulting Police Officers After Breaking Brother's Wrist
Lodi Man Charged With Assaulting Police Officers After Breaking Brother's Wrist A Lodi man assaulted two police officers who responded to a call of a fight he had with his brother, authorities said. Officers found the injured brother with a broken wrist Thursday in the driveway of the Westminster Place home, Chief Donald Scorzetti said. The day before, the brother told police, 35-year-old Amado Romero assaulted their father. While talking with him, the officer noticed Romero trying to leave. They “approached him to obtain his version of the events, at which time [Romero] became further agitated and combative and assaulted two of the three officers on scene,” Scorzett…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
SWAT Team Seizes Ridgefield Park Hotel Couple With Gun, Hollowpoint Ammo, Police Say SWAT Team Seizes Ridgefield Park Hotel Couple With Gun, Hollowpoint Ammo, Police Say SWAT Team Seizes Ridgefield Park Hotel Couple With Gun, Hollowpoint Ammo, Police Say
SWAT Team Seizes Ridgefield Park Hotel Couple With Gun, Hollowpoint Ammo, Police Say A Bergen County Regional SWAT team played a major role in the arrest of two Ridgefield Park hotel guests who police said had a gun with hollowpoint bullets in their room. Village police alerted the SWAT team afternoon after an employee at the Hampton Inn on Route 46 reported spotting the gun and drugs just before 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Lt. Joseph Rella said. Adjacent rooms were evacuated before the SWAT team eventually seized James Douglas Ray, 55, and Evelyn Christine Solomon, 46, he said. "It couldn't have been more seamless," Rella said, praising the tactical unit professionalism…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Chase Ends With Paramus Police Car Crash Outside Route 17 Starbucks Chase Ends With Paramus Police Car Crash Outside Route 17 Starbucks Chase Ends With Paramus Police Car Crash Outside Route 17 Starbucks
Chase Ends With Paramus Police Car Crash Outside Route 17 Starbucks A pursuit that began in Ridgewood ended with the driver's arrest outside a Route 17 Starbucks in Paramus after a crash with a police car, authorities said. Joseph Dunsay, 40, of Hackensack was speeding while approaching a construction zone Thursday when a village officer tried to stop him, Ridgewood Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke said. Dunsay made his way onto southbound Route 17 during what Luthcke said became a low-speed pursuit. His Toyota Camry struck a Paramus police cruiser moments later, causing minor damage, and Dunsay was taken into custody, responders said. Dunsay remained held…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn PD: Hackensack Man Looking Into Cars Outside Bank Had Heroin, Crack, Airsoft Gun Fair Lawn PD: Hackensack Man Looking Into Cars Outside Bank Had Heroin, Crack, Airsoft Gun Fair Lawn PD: Hackensack Man Looking Into Cars Outside Bank Had Heroin, Crack, Airsoft Gun
Fair Lawn PD: Hackensack Man Looking Into Cars Outside Bank Had Heroin, Crack, Airsoft Gun Fair Lawn police investigating a report of a man looking into car windows found a Hackensack man carrying heroin, crack and an airsoft gun, authorities said. Officers Anthony Burgos and Peter Federico found 43-year-old David Merritt in the parking lot of the Chase Bank on River Road just after 3 p.m. Thursday, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. They found the drugs and weapon inside a backpack he was carrying, Metzler said. Merritt, it turned out, was wanted on warrants out of Clifton, Paterson, Ledgewood. Records show other prior arrests just this year in Elmwood Park, Paramus, Little Ferry, Roche…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Report: Westwood Pastor In Sexual Misconduct Probe Part Of 'Gay Subculture,' Priests Claim Report: Westwood Pastor In Sexual Misconduct Probe Part Of 'Gay Subculture,' Priests Claim Report: Westwood Pastor In Sexual Misconduct Probe Part Of 'Gay Subculture,' Priests Claim
Report: Westwood Pastor In Sexual Misconduct Probe Part Of 'Gay Subculture,' Priests Claim The Rev. Jim Weiner of St. Andrew's Church in Westwood hosted cocktail parties attended by known homosexual priests from the Archiocese of Newark, several priests claim in a published report. Weiner -- who has taken a leave of absence as pastor amid a renewed sexual misconduct investigation -- “has a reputation among the clergy, dating back to his time in the seminary, for active homosexuality,” the priests reportedly told Catholic News Agency (CNA). It was all part of a subculture that existed while former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was the archdiocese’s archbishop, as well as under his s…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Juvenile Graffiti Duo Nabbed By Washington Township Police Juvenile Graffiti Duo Nabbed By Washington Township Police Juvenile Graffiti Duo Nabbed By Washington Township Police
Juvenile Graffiti Duo Nabbed By Washington Township Police Police nabbed a pair of local juveniles who they said set out to "decorate" Washington Township with graffiti this summer. Township juvenile officers had help from surveillance video and their colleagues from Westwood in ending a series of vandalism that began at the Clark Field clubhouse. Detective Lt. John Calamari, who heads the township Detective Bureau and supervises the Juvenile Division, called it "disheartening that our children would do this to the place they call home." Over the past weekend, Calamari said, a patrol officer caught a pair of juveniles vandalizi…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Hawthorne Police Stop: Pound+ Of Heroin, Half-Pound Pot, $1,310 Drug Money, 2 Arrests Hawthorne Police Stop: Pound+ Of Heroin, Half-Pound Pot, $1,310 Drug Money, 2 Arrests Hawthorne Police Stop: Pound+ Of Heroin, Half-Pound Pot, $1,310 Drug Money, 2 Arrests
Hawthorne Police Stop: Pound+ Of Heroin, Half-Pound Pot, $1,310 Drug Money, 2 Arrests Sometimes all it takes for a police officer who’s just stopped a car to spot is a driver with track marks on his arm and a passenger with rubber bands commonly used to package heroin on his wrist – which is what Hawthorne authorities said led to the discovery of more than a pound of heroin, more than a half-pound of pot, $1,310 in suspected proceeds and an assortment of drug-packaging material. Two upstate New York men were taken into custody after borough police stopped their 2014 Ford Fusion on northbound Route 208 near Utter Avenue just before 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. Both gave conflicting s…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Career Bank Robber Gets 12½ Years For Paterson, Clifton Holdups Career Bank Robber Gets 12½ Years For Paterson, Clifton Holdups Career Bank Robber Gets 12½ Years For Paterson, Clifton Holdups
Career Bank Robber Gets 12½ Years For Paterson, Clifton Holdups An ex-con who served separate prison sentences for robbing banks eight years apart is headed back after being sentenced Wednesday to 12½ years for holding up banks in Paterson and Clifton last summer. There's no parole in the federal prison system, meaning that 63-year-old James Maurice Chestnut will have to serve just about all of the sentence before he can be released. Chestnut, of Paterson, admitted in federal court last December that he robbed a TD Bank branch in Paterson on June 30, 2017 and then an Investors Bank in Clifton less than a week later. FBI agents trailing Chestnut took hi…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Ex-Con Just Out Of Prison Charged With Bergen Gas Station Burglary Spree Ex-Con Just Out Of Prison Charged With Bergen Gas Station Burglary Spree Ex-Con Just Out Of Prison Charged With Bergen Gas Station Burglary Spree
Ex-Con Just Out Of Prison Charged With Bergen Gas Station Burglary Spree An ex-con with a rap sheet that stretches back more than a decade was charged with a series of gas station break-ins in Bergen County and elsewhere that began a little over a month after he was released from state prison. Yorghi Turkmany, 30, of Newark remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Thursday pending a detention hearing this Friday in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. From July 21 to Aug. 18, Turkmany burglarized gas stations in Franklin Lakes, Montvale, New Milford, Oradell, Ramsey, Ridgewood and Washington Township, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo sai…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
New Milford PD: Irate Teaneck Driver Slams Car Into Police Cruiser, Knocks Down Officer New Milford PD: Irate Teaneck Driver Slams Car Into Police Cruiser, Knocks Down Officer New Milford PD: Irate Teaneck Driver Slams Car Into Police Cruiser, Knocks Down Officer
New Milford PD: Irate Teaneck Driver Slams Car Into Police Cruiser, Knocks Down Officer A probationary Teaneck motorist stopped by a New Milford police officer for talking on her cellphone -- among other violations -- deliberately slammed her car into his cruiser, then knocked him down while speeding off, authorities said. Responding officers from Teaneck helped their colleagues capture 26-year-old Shanice Dicks on Northumberland Street in Teaneck soon after, Detective Lt. Kevin Van Saders said Thursday Officer Vincent Siekierski was OK after Monday's 11:19 p.m. incident. The police car sustained minor damage. Dicks, meanwhile, was charged with aggravated assault by auto whil…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Prev Page 1195 of 2958 1,193 1,194 1,195 1,196 1,197 Next
11,941 - 11,950 of 29,573 articles