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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Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Woman Injured Avoiding Car That Rolled Into Paramus Post Office Woman Injured Avoiding Car That Rolled Into Paramus Post Office Woman Injured Avoiding Car That Rolled Into Paramus Post Office
Woman Injured Avoiding Car That Rolled Into Paramus Post Office A passing off-duty police officer aided a woman who struck her head after she dove to get out of the path of a car that rolled into the front door of the Paramus post office on Saturday. Paramus EMS responded and took care of the woman, who also injured her hip in the Midland Avenue mishap. The post office building wasn't damaged and the 60-something male driver was OK, witnesses said. What exactly caused the incident wasn't immediately known.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Pair Charged With Killing Prospect Park Man Who Was Beaten, Thrown In Passaic River To Drown Pair Charged With Killing Prospect Park Man Who Was Beaten, Thrown In Passaic River To Drown Pair Charged With Killing Prospect Park Man Who Was Beaten, Thrown In Passaic River To Drown
Pair Charged With Killing Prospect Park Man Who Was Beaten, Thrown In Passaic River To Drown Two Prospect Park men were charged with the murder of another man whom authorities said they beat and threw into the Passaic River to drown. Jorge Alcalde-Alfaro, 26, "was beaten up pretty good, but he was still technically alive when he got tossed in the river," an investigative source with direct knowledge of the homicide told Daily Voice at the time. On Saturday, authorities announced that they'd charged Luis Salas, 27, and Jonathan Cristobal, 23, with the May 1 killing in Westside Park in Paterson. Paterson and Prospect Park police handled the arrests following an investigati…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack PD: Couple Shooting Heroin Had Two Toddlers In Car Hackensack PD: Couple Shooting Heroin Had Two Toddlers In Car Hackensack PD: Couple Shooting Heroin Had Two Toddlers In Car
Hackensack PD: Couple Shooting Heroin Had Two Toddlers In Car A Washington Township father and mother had their two 3-year-olds in the backseat when Hackensack police said they caught them shooting heroin in their car. Narcotics Division detectives were checking a report that the couple was using drugs in a car Thursday night when they found Joseph Corcoran and Suzanne Laliberte, both 35, and the youngsters in a 2005 Nissan on Blauvelt Place near Hoboken Road, Capt. Peter Busciglio said. They also noticed several empty glassine envelopes of heroin which stamped "CAPTAIN AMERICA" on the ground outside the passenger door, as well as a hypoderm…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Embattled Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Chief Bought Cocaine Online Prosecutor: Embattled Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Chief Bought Cocaine Online Prosecutor: Embattled Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Chief Bought Cocaine Online
Prosecutor: Embattled Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Chief Bought Cocaine Online The embattled chief of the Palisades Interstate Parkway Police was arrested when he showed up to collect a package that he thought was online-purchased cocaine, authorities said. Investigators placed the imitation cocaine in the post office box of 43-year-old Michael Coppola, then stopped his car on Route 80 in Ridgefield Park and arrested him after he picked it up, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. Calo suspended Coppola for 90 days last month after a review turned up a host of violations, many that fell just short of being criminal. SEE: Prosecutor Finds Rampant Violation…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Three-Hour SWAT Standoff With Emotionally Troubled Englewood Man Ends Peacefully Three-Hour SWAT Standoff With Emotionally Troubled Englewood Man Ends Peacefully Three-Hour SWAT Standoff With Emotionally Troubled Englewood Man Ends Peacefully
Three-Hour SWAT Standoff With Emotionally Troubled Englewood Man Ends Peacefully No charges will be filed against an emotionally troubled 37-year-old Englewood man armed with scissors who kept police at bay for more than three hours, insisting they commit "suicide by cop" by shooting him, authorities said. Responding officers to a 1:30 p.m. call in the Forest Gardens apartment complex on East Forest Avenue found him inside "armed with the scissors, acting irrationally, telling the officers to shoot him and that he was going to harm himself and others," Capt. Timothy Torell told Daily Voice. The officers summoned their department's Emergency Services …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Flood Of Water, Mud, Rocks Pour Into Fairview Residents' Homes Flood Of Water, Mud, Rocks Pour Into Fairview Residents' Homes Flood Of Water, Mud, Rocks Pour Into Fairview Residents' Homes
Flood Of Water, Mud, Rocks Pour Into Fairview Residents' Homes The Red Cross temporarily relocated nearly three dozen Fairview residents after a river of rocks, mud and water flooded their garden apartments before dawn Thursday. The 13 or so families had until Friday to figure out what was next, given that the Red Cross, having deemed it a natural disaster, subsidized them for a day. There was no telling when they'd be permitted to live in their homes again. No one was hurt, Police Capt. Vincent M Bellucci said. The heavy rain "came rushing down" and broke through the storm line between Bergen Boulevard and Fairview Avenue below around 2:20…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Restaurant Kitchen Fire Clears Hillsdale Shopping Center Restaurant Kitchen Fire Clears Hillsdale Shopping Center Restaurant Kitchen Fire Clears Hillsdale Shopping Center
Restaurant Kitchen Fire Clears Hillsdale Shopping Center A fire in a restaurant kitchen hood forced the brief evacuation of a Hillsdale shopping center Thursday morning. Firefighters quickly doused the blaze, which broke out just before 11 a.m. at Domani of Hillsdale at the Plaza at Hillsdale on on Washington Avenue. Firefighters from Park Ridge, River Vale, Westwood and Woodcliff Lake also responded, along with the Westwood Volunteer Ambulance Corps. A borough Health Department inspector and a PSE&G crew were requested. The all-clear was issued at 11:45 a.m.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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PHOTOS: No One Hurt In Hawthorne Sedan Explosion PHOTOS: No One Hurt In Hawthorne Sedan Explosion PHOTOS: No One Hurt In Hawthorne Sedan Explosion
Photos: No One Hurt In Hawthorne Sedan Explosion Authorities were trying to determine why an unoccupied Mercedes sedan exploded Thursday morning in Hawthorne. No one was injured in the 10:45 a.m. blast and fire on Lafayette Avenue, which was quickly doused by township firefighters. The blast damaged a sign at a nearby business. Area businesses and apartments were briefly evacuated. The street was temporarily closed between Utter and Vreeland avenues.  Michael Jannicelli contributed to this account.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Tractor-Trailer Tips At Treacherous Stretch Of Route 17 Near NY Border In Mahwah Tractor-Trailer Tips At Treacherous Stretch Of Route 17 Near NY Border In Mahwah Tractor-Trailer Tips At Treacherous Stretch Of Route 17 Near NY Border In Mahwah
Tractor-Trailer Tips At Treacherous Stretch Of Route 17 Near NY Border In Mahwah UPDATE: Three lanes of northbound Route 17 near the Route 287 ramp at the New York border in Mahwah were closed Thursday morning after a tractor-trailer tipped. Detours were being set up following the mishap, which occurred just after 10 a.m., Police Chief James N. Batelli said. The driver escaped unharmed, he said. The site eventually was cleared and normal traffic resumed after noon.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Boy, 14, Among Four People Shot In Paterson Bloods Neighborhood Boy, 14, Among Four People Shot In Paterson Bloods Neighborhood Boy, 14, Among Four People Shot In Paterson Bloods Neighborhood
Boy, 14, Among Four People Shot In Paterson Bloods Neighborhood A 14-year-old boy was among four young people shot late Wednesday in a Paterson neighborhood that authorities say is controlled by the Bloods street gang. All four got themselves to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center after the 11:40 p.m. shooting near the corner of Mercer and Franklin streets – among them, a man and woman, both 20, and a 17-year-old boy, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Troy Oswald said in a join release. None of their injuries was considered life-threatening, authorities said. Valdes asked that anyone who saw anything or has informat…

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