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
Prosecutor: Paramus Bust Follows Undercover Cocaine Buys Prosecutor: Paramus Bust Follows Undercover Cocaine Buys Prosecutor: Paramus Bust Follows Undercover Cocaine Buys
Prosecutor: Paramus Bust Follows Undercover Cocaine Buys A Paterson man had already made several cocaine sales to an undercover Bergen County prosecutor’s detective when investigators and officers moved in an arrested him in Paramus, authorities said. Samuel Rodriguez, 45, spent a day in the Bergen County Jail before a judge ordered him released following his arrest Thursday, records show. Investigators made quick work of the case after Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said they received a tip earlier this month that Rodriguez was dealing. “During the course of an investigation, [Rodriguez] distributed cocaine to an undercover detecti…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Paramus PD Nabs Englewood Man Who Tweeted Video Of Himself Urinating On Police Car Paramus PD Nabs Englewood Man Who Tweeted Video Of Himself Urinating On Police Car Paramus PD Nabs Englewood Man Who Tweeted Video Of Himself Urinating On Police Car
Paramus PD Nabs Englewood Man Who Tweeted Video Of Himself Urinating On Police Car Paramus police busted an Englewood man who tweeted a video of himself urinating on a borough police car while it was parked at a local mall. Samuel Trusty, 20, posted the 13-second video on July 21. "F--k 12," he repeats several times as he urinates on the driver's side door of the marked unit Emergency Services vehicle. "Ah-ha-ha." By Friday, police had Trusty in custody. They charged him with throwing bodily fluids at a law enforcement vehicle, lewdness and criminal mischief. A day later, a judge ordered him released from the Bergen County Jail under New Jersey's 201…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Prosecutor: Englewood Ex-Con With Guns Tries To Disarm Officer In Drug Den Raid Prosecutor: Englewood Ex-Con With Guns Tries To Disarm Officer In Drug Den Raid Prosecutor: Englewood Ex-Con With Guns Tries To Disarm Officer In Drug Den Raid
Prosecutor: Englewood Ex-Con With Guns Tries To Disarm Officer In Drug Den Raid An Englewood ex-con struggled with police within arm’s reach of three stolen guns – at one point trying to take an officer’s weapon -- during a drug-den raid that produced four arrests, authorities said. A Bergen County Regional SWAT Team, along with Dumont and Englewood police, joined county prosecutor’s detectives in the Friday raid of the Thompson Avenue home of Gavin Birthwright, 30, following what they said was a tip about extensive drug dealing there. Birthwright, whose adult criminal record stretches back more than a decade, “fought with police and resisted arrest within reaching dis…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Clifton Police: Dirt Bike Pursuit Ends In Crash, Arrest Of Boy, 15 Clifton Police: Dirt Bike Pursuit Ends In Crash, Arrest Of Boy, 15 Clifton Police: Dirt Bike Pursuit Ends In Crash, Arrest Of Boy, 15
Clifton Police: Dirt Bike Pursuit Ends In Crash, Arrest Of Boy, 15 A 15-year-old boy led Clifton police on a miles-long chase before his dirt bike slammed into a parked car, authorities said. It began just before 6 p.m. Friday, when Officer Zachary Martin spotted the teen not wearing a helmet recklessly riding the green Kawasaki dirt bike with no license plates in the area of Mount Washington Drive and Vallely Road, Detective Sgt. Robert Anderson said. He tried to pull the cycle over, but the teen kept going, Anderson said. Sgt. Bruce Lawson soon joined the chase, which continued along Valley Road, Fenner Avenue, Broad and Hazel streets and several other …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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VIDEO (UPDATE): Cigarette Ignites New Milford Townhouse Blaze VIDEO (UPDATE): Cigarette Ignites New Milford Townhouse Blaze VIDEO (UPDATE): Cigarette Ignites New Milford Townhouse Blaze
Video (Update): Cigarette Ignites New Milford Townhouse Blaze UPDATE: Three firefighters had to be treated for heat-related injuries -- one of whom was hospitalized -- after a cigarette ignited a rapidly-spreading blaze that ripped through a townhouse complex in New Milford on Sunday. The fire rekindled hours later, requiring firefighters to return to fully douse it. The blaze -- caused by a cigarette -- broke out around 11:40 a.m. at the Canterbury Village homes just off River Road, Police Detective Lt. Kevin Van Saders said. Two firefighters were treated at the scene, while a third was taken to Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck with injuries that…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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VIDEO (UPDATE): Firefighter Hospitalized In New Milford Townhouse Blaze VIDEO (UPDATE): Firefighter Hospitalized In New Milford Townhouse Blaze VIDEO (UPDATE): Firefighter Hospitalized In New Milford Townhouse Blaze
Video (Update): Firefighter Hospitalized In New Milford Townhouse Blaze UPDATE: Three firefighters had to be treated for heat-related injuries -- one of whom was hospitalized -- after a cigarette ignited a rapidly-spreading blaze that ripped through a townhouse complex in New Milford on Sunday. The fire rekindled hours later, requiring firefighters to return to fully douse it. The blaze -- caused by a cigarette -- broke out around 11:40 a.m. at the Canterbury Village homes just off River Road, Police Detective Lt. Kevin Van Saders said. Two firefighters were treated at the scene, while a third was taken to Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck with injuries that…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Fort Meyers Police Officer From Wayne Dies Of Gunshot Wounds Fort Meyers Police Officer From Wayne Dies Of Gunshot Wounds Fort Meyers Police Officer From Wayne Dies Of Gunshot Wounds
Fort Meyers Police Officer From Wayne Dies Of Gunshot Wounds A 29-year-old Florida police officer with roots in Wayne died Saturday, a week after a gunman shot him in the head. Fort Meyers Officer Adam Jobbers-Miller had been in critical condition since last Saturday after a man who he was chasing for stealing a cellphone shot him at a local gas station, authorities said. "It is with a heavy heart that we inform our community that Fort Myers Police Officer Adam Jobbers-Miller has passed away," FMPD spokesman Mitch Haley wrote early Saturday evening. "We ask that you continue to pray for Officer Jobbers-Miller’s family, friends and our …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Firefighters Free Two Mid-70s Women After Crash At Same Mahwah Intersection As Last Year Firefighters Free Two Mid-70s Women After Crash At Same Mahwah Intersection As Last Year Firefighters Free Two Mid-70s Women After Crash At Same Mahwah Intersection As Last Year
Firefighters Free Two Mid-70s Women After Crash At Same Mahwah Intersection As Last Year In an odd coincidence, a crash requiring Mahwah firefighters to cut victims from a vehicle Saturday occurred exactly a year to the day that another collision happened at that same intersection. Two township women – one 76 and the other 75 – were trapped Saturday after a head-on crash sent their car into a tree on Darlington Avenue near MacArthur Boulevard around 11:30 a.m. Both were taken to The Valley Hospital by Mahwah EMS with injuries that Sgt. Michael Blondin said weren’t life-threatening. The occupants of the other vehicle – a 40-year-old woman and 8-year-old girl – also were taken t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Port Authority PD Chase Ends When Woman In Window Points Officers To Hiding Suspect Port Authority PD Chase Ends When Woman In Window Points Officers To Hiding Suspect Port Authority PD Chase Ends When Woman In Window Points Officers To Hiding Suspect
Port Authority PD Chase Ends When Woman In Window Points Officers To Hiding Suspect Port Authority police were searching for a suspect who’d just bailed out of a stolen car near the Holland Tunnel when an elderly apartment building resident pointed from her window to a couch in the alleyway below. There, they said, they found the driver who tried to elude them covered in a blanket. Officer Joshua Oliveri first stopped 46-year-old Ismael Hernandez on Hoboken Avenue Thursday night because the vehicle he was driving didn’t have a license plate, Port Authority spokesman Lenis Rodrigues said. Hernandez immediately hopped out and took off, she said. Oliveri chased him, joined …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Section Of Century-Old Railroad Bridge Collapses In Ridgefield Park Section Of Century-Old Railroad Bridge Collapses In Ridgefield Park Section Of Century-Old Railroad Bridge Collapses In Ridgefield Park
Section Of Century-Old Railroad Bridge Collapses In Ridgefield Park No one was hurt when a stretch of a 100-year-old railroad bridge collapsed in Ridgefield Park on Saturday. The rear car of a New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway train crossing the 405-foot bridge where Overpeck Creek meets the Hackensack River tumbled down in the collapse just before 8:30 a.m. No one was inside, responders said. Work had begun just last week to replace the roadbed approaching the bridge from the NYS&W yard.

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