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
Bergen/Passaic Pot Source Smashed, 50 Pounds Of Weed Seized, Two Busted Bergen/Passaic Pot Source Smashed, 50 Pounds Of Weed Seized, Two Busted Bergen/Passaic Pot Source Smashed, 50 Pounds Of Weed Seized, Two Busted
Bergen/Passaic Pot Source Smashed, 50 Pounds Of Weed Seized, Two Busted A series of raids in Bergen and Passaic counties turned up more than 50 pounds of pot for sale, four dozen THC cartridges and $55,000 in drug money, said authorities who arrested two men – one from Wood-Ridge and the other from Passaic. After receiving large shipments of marijuana, Christian Delossantos, 27, of Wood-Ridge, and 26-year-old Ricky Colon, Jr. of Passaic, weighed, packaged and prepared it for sale, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said. Valdes said her Narcotics Task Force was assisted in the six-month investigation by Wood-Ridge and Passaic police, as well as the DEA…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Brother Of Giants Player Fled To NY After Killing Family Friend Prosecutor: Brother Of Giants Player Fled To NY After Killing Family Friend Prosecutor: Brother Of Giants Player Fled To NY After Killing Family Friend
Prosecutor: Brother Of Giants Player Fled To NY After Killing Family Friend UPDATE: The brother of New York Giants player Janoris Jenkins killed a friend in the family’s Fair Lawn home, then fled to upstate New York – where he was arrested on a parole violation, authorities said Thursday. Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo -- who announced the arrest on Wednesday of William H. Jenkins Jr., 34, of Fair Lawn -- said Thursday that he and fellow music producer Roosevelt "Trypps Beatz" Rene, a Spring Valley native, got into an argument early Monday that “resulted in Rene’s death.” Although Calo didn’t specify how Rene was killed, the charge against Je…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Elmwood Park Member Of Bergen Family Admits Role In $2Million Tax Fraud Elmwood Park Member Of Bergen Family Admits Role In $2Million Tax Fraud Elmwood Park Member Of Bergen Family Admits Role In $2Million Tax Fraud
Elmwood Park Member Of Bergen Family Admits Role In $2Million Tax Fraud The third member of a Bergen County family that collected nearly $2 million combined in illegal tax refunds admitted his role in one of the scams on Thursday. Jason Crespo, 35, of Elmwood Park told a federal judge in Newark that he and his father, mortgage broker Jose Crespo of Fort Lee, filed several bogus federal corporate tax returns claiming fuel excise credits for commercial use, netting $191,953 in refunds they weren’t entitled to. In one case, the Crespos filed a federal corporate tax return for 2008 for a non-existent shell company called Jason Cleaning Service Corp. that falsely c…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Mahwah's New Oxygen Masks, Home Decals Could Save Pets' Lives Mahwah's New Oxygen Masks, Home Decals Could Save Pets' Lives Mahwah's New Oxygen Masks, Home Decals Could Save Pets' Lives
Mahwah's New Oxygen Masks, Home Decals Could Save Pets' Lives Somewhere, Greg Antonetti is smiling. Mahwah fire officials announced Thursday that they’d received five donated sets of specially-designed pet oxygen masks. The kits will be deployed across the township’s five fire companies so first responders can deliver oxygen to pets at house fires and other emergencies. They work, too: This year alone, at least a half-dozen family pets across the state have been rescued by responders using the masks. Getting oxygen masks was close to the heart of Antonetti, a Mahwah EMS charter member and former deputy chief who died in April 2017. Lt. Robert Polich…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson Man Gunned Down Outside Church Paterson Man Gunned Down Outside Church Paterson Man Gunned Down Outside Church
Paterson Man Gunned Down Outside Church A gunman shot and killed a Paterson man on a city street late Wednesday, authorities said. The body of 26-year-old Asmar Williams was found just after 10:30 p.m. Wednesday lying in the intersection of Fair and Auburn streets outside St. Peter's Sounds of Praise Church, authorities said. Williams was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, where he was pronounced deceased at 1:14 p.m., Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Troy Oswald said in a joint announcement. What they didn’t say was whether or not they had anyone in custody or were pu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Jeep Crashes Into Ridgewood Service Station Convenience Store Jeep Crashes Into Ridgewood Service Station Convenience Store Jeep Crashes Into Ridgewood Service Station Convenience Store
Jeep Crashes Into Ridgewood Service Station Convenience Store No injuries were reported after a Jeep crashed into the front of service station convenience store on Goffle Road in Ridgewood early Thursday. Damage to the store was limited to broken glass, although firefighters requested the Health Department to determine any food was contaminated by the glass following the crash at Speedway Gas. The Jeep sustained relatively little damage. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this account.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
FOUND! Missing Hackensack Man, 79, Safe Sound -- In Somerset County FOUND! Missing Hackensack Man, 79, Safe Sound -- In Somerset County FOUND! Missing Hackensack Man, 79, Safe Sound -- In Somerset County
Found! Missing Hackensack Man, 79, Safe Sound -- In Somerset County A 79-year-old Hackensack man who went missing Tuesday afternoon was found more than 40 miles away early Wednesday evening.  Family members were on their way to Bernards Township, south of Morristown, where police had a "safe and sound" Vicente Coronado, city police told Daily Voice. Coronado was driving a hunter green 1999 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck when he was reported heading north on Kinderkamack Road in River Edge at 4:17 p.m Tuesday, Detective Sgt. Ryan Weber said. The father, grandfather and husband was carrying his driver's license and passport, family members told Daily V…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Prospect Park PD: Gang Members Who Took $167G In Jewelry, Cash, Guns Nabbed Prospect Park PD: Gang Members Who Took $167G In Jewelry, Cash, Guns Nabbed Prospect Park PD: Gang Members Who Took $167G In Jewelry, Cash, Guns Nabbed
Prospect Park PD: Gang Members Who Took $167G In Jewelry, Cash, Guns Nabbed Prospect Park detectives cracked a series of burglaries, arresting two self-proclaimed Trinitario gang members who they said stole more than $167,000 in jewelry, cash, watches, electronics – and guns. Detective Walter Richmond and Officer Arthur Canestrino were reviewing surveillance footage from a burglary last Friday when they identified a car whose owner said a 17-year-old Passaic boy had been using it at the time. A search of the vehicle turned up several pieces of jewelry taken during a Prospect Park break-in, Capt. Ammen Matari said Wednesday. Around 1:15 p.m. Tuesday, Richmond and C…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Road Rage: Oradell PD Arrests Motorist Who Hit Other With Tire Iron Road Rage: Oradell PD Arrests Motorist Who Hit Other With Tire Iron Road Rage: Oradell PD Arrests Motorist Who Hit Other With Tire Iron
Road Rage: Oradell PD Arrests Motorist Who Hit Other With Tire Iron Oradell police took a local man into custody Wednesday night after they said he struck another driver in the head with a tire iron during a road-rage incident. Witnesses said both drivers were fighting in the street at Soldier Hill Road and Forest Avenue when one grabbed the tire iron and struck the other. They said he then got back into his 1999 Jeep Cherokee and took off. Moments after the license plate was broadcast, Oradell police found the SUV parked in a driveway in the 100 block of Kinderkamack Road at New Milford Avenue and made the arrest. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: Brother Of NY Giants Player Charged In Family Friend's Killing UPDATE: Brother Of NY Giants Player Charged In Family Friend's Killing UPDATE: Brother Of NY Giants Player Charged In Family Friend's Killing
Update: Brother Of NY Giants Player Charged In Family Friend's Killing UPDATE: The brother of New York Giants player Janoris Jenkins killed a friend in the family’s Fair Lawn home, then fled to upstate New York – where he was arrested on a parole violation, authorities said Thursday. Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo -- who announced the arrest on Wednesday of William H. Jenkins Jr., 34, of Fair Lawn -- said Thursday that he and fellow music producer Roosevelt "Trypps Beatz" Rene, a Spring Valley native, got into an argument early Monday that “resulted in Rene’s death.” Although Calo didn’t specify how Rene was killed, the charge against Je…

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