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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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Wallington Pizza Deliveryman Shot Dead, Car Crashes Outside Passaic ShopRite Wallington Pizza Deliveryman Shot Dead, Car Crashes Outside Passaic ShopRite Wallington Pizza Deliveryman Shot Dead, Car Crashes Outside Passaic ShopRite
Wallington Pizza Deliveryman Shot Dead, Car Crashes Outside Passaic ShopRite A 27-year-old Wallington pizza delivery man was shot and killed in his car, which struck a tree outside the Passaic ShopRite before dawn Sunday, authorities said. Dervy Almonte-Moore of Elmwood Park was pronounced dead at St Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson at 2:48 a.m., they said. A little over a half-hour earlier, police found the black 1998 Toyota Camry with his body inside after it struck some shopping carts and a tree outside the Paulison Avenue supermarket in Passaic. Almonte-Moore "may have been shot while making a delivery" up the street in Clifton, Passaic Co…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Westwood Man, 87, Struck, Killed By Train During Thunderstorm Westwood Man, 87, Struck, Killed By Train During Thunderstorm Westwood Man, 87, Struck, Killed By Train During Thunderstorm
Westwood Man, 87, Struck, Killed By Train During Thunderstorm An 87-year-old borough man was struck and killed by an NJ Transit passenger train in Westwood during Sunday's overnight thunderstorm. The man was struck just by the Pascack Valley Line train carrying a dozen or so people at Broadway and Irvington Street just after 1:30 a.m., responders said. The scene was cleared and service resumed Woodcliff Lake and Spring Valley at 5:45 a.m., they said. Westwood, Emerson, Hillsdale and NJ Transit police responded, along with the Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification, which collected evidence. NJT police were handling the investigati…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
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Old Tappan PD: Rockland Burglar Chased Down, Charged With Attempted Murder In Beating Old Tappan PD: Rockland Burglar Chased Down, Charged With Attempted Murder In Beating Old Tappan PD: Rockland Burglar Chased Down, Charged With Attempted Murder In Beating
Old Tappan PD: Rockland Burglar Chased Down, Charged With Attempted Murder In Beating Police from several northeast Bergen towns working together nabbed a Rockland man shortly after authorities said he broke into an Old Tappan home and beat a resident. Garth C. Mackinnon, 26, of Piermont, threatened to kill the Orangeburg Road resident, who was found with head and neck injuries that required medical attention after chasing the intruder from his home, Police Chief Thomas M. Shine said. Police responding to the burglary call just before 2:30 a.m. Thursday got help from their colleagues from Closter, Demarest, Harrington Park, Haworth, Northvale, Norwood and River Vale in setti…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Car Falls Over Wall Next To Paterson Checkers Car Falls Over Wall Next To Paterson Checkers Car Falls Over Wall Next To Paterson Checkers
Car Falls Over Wall Next To Paterson Checkers A motorist claimed he accidentally left his car in drive before it rolled through a fence and over a short wall next to a Checkers in Paterson, witnesses said. Another vehicle had its rear windshield smashed in the Friday night mishap at the West Broadway/Union Avenue eatery. "Sh-t was nuts. Crazy," Escobar Jones wrote. "Everybody was good tho/safe." There was no immediate word on possible summonses.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Donations Sought For Families Of Three Children Killed In Union City Fire Donations Sought For Families Of Three Children Killed In Union City Fire Donations Sought For Families Of Three Children Killed In Union City Fire
Donations Sought For Families Of Three Children Killed In Union City Fire Union City officials have established funds for the survivors of a multi-family building fire that killed two boys – 7 and 2 – and a 5-year-old girl. The Red Cross was proving temporary assistance for the survivors, who Mayor Brian Stack said Saturday are “poorer than poor.” The five-alarm blaze tore through 25th Street building between Bergenline and New York Avenues a little before 9 a.m. Friday. Firefighters were seen carrying limp children from the building and providing CPR and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Eight of the bravest had to be hospitalized themselves and several others trea…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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SEEN IT? Hit-Run Kia Leaves Paterson Responder's Family Of 9 Without Car SEEN IT? Hit-Run Kia Leaves Paterson Responder's Family Of 9 Without Car SEEN IT? Hit-Run Kia Leaves Paterson Responder's Family Of 9 Without Car
Seen IT? Hit-Run Kia Leaves Paterson Responder's Family Of 9 Without Car "We don't deserve this," Paterson's Jorge Ariel said after finding his SUV severely damaged, his neighbor's sedan smashed up -- and the hit-and-run driver's bumper left behind. "I'm really hurting right now," the father of seven said. "We work so hard in getting our stuff. We have kids we take out in that vehicle." Ariel -- a volunteer Hawthorne firefighter who works as a Paterson police aide and Passaic County constable -- has only liability insurance on his Honda Pilot and can't afford the necessary repairs, or a rental car. But he also has the bumper, the V…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Self-Published 'Inspirational' Wyckoff Author Charged With Torching Former Home Self-Published 'Inspirational' Wyckoff Author Charged With Torching Former Home Self-Published 'Inspirational' Wyckoff Author Charged With Torching Former Home
Self-Published 'Inspirational' Wyckoff Author Charged With Torching Former Home A self-published Wyckoff author who wrote about suffering from depression and schizophrenia was charged with trying to burn down her former home. Carolyn M. Kaetz, 54, “admitted to Detective Sgt. Kevin Kasak that she started the fire” at her former residence at 115 Huntington Court in March, destroying it, Lt. Joseph Soto said. She was charged with one count of aggravated arson and sent to the Bergen County Jail after police said she confessed last month – only to be released by a judge hours later under New Jersey’s 2017 bail reform law pending a court hearing. Kaetz, who previously worke…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Gas Leak Clears Half-Dozen Hawthorne Homes Gas Leak Clears Half-Dozen Hawthorne Homes Gas Leak Clears Half-Dozen Hawthorne Homes
Gas Leak Clears Half-Dozen Hawthorne Homes Six Hawthorne homes were evacuated Saturday morning after a gas main leak. A Fire Department engine and Special Operations Unit and a PSE&G crew responded to the 9:30 a.m. 6th Avenue leak between Utter and Rea streets. No injuries were reported.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Car In Pursuit Rolls In East Rutherford, Injuring Six Car In Pursuit Rolls In East Rutherford, Injuring Six Car In Pursuit Rolls In East Rutherford, Injuring Six
Car In Pursuit Rolls In East Rutherford, Injuring Six A car heading the wrong way in East Rutherford while being chased by police rolled over and struck a medical building before dawn Saturday, sending six people to the hospital, responders said. There was no immediate word on the extent of their injuries. One of the occupants apparently ran from police but was caught after the car struck the Whitney Building on Paterson Avenue, across from the Candlewyck Diner, just before 3:45 a.m.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Bicyclist Robs Fair Lawn Bank Bicyclist Robs Fair Lawn Bank Bicyclist Robs Fair Lawn Bank
Bicyclist Robs Fair Lawn Bank A robber apparently rode off on a bicycle after holding up a Fair Lawn bank Friday afternoon. The robber in the black hooded sweatshirt made off with $10,000 in cash after passing a note at the Columbia Bank on Broadway just after 4:30 p.m., authorities said. K-9 units searched the area while the Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification collected evidence. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS

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