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
Another Weekend Night In Paterson, Another Shooting Another Weekend Night In Paterson, Another Shooting Another Weekend Night In Paterson, Another Shooting
Another Weekend Night In Paterson, Another Shooting Like many before him, a Paterson man shot overnight Sunday got to the hospital instead of waiting for an ambulance. Authorities didn’t say whether they had anyone in custody after the 31-year-old city man turned up at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center while police were investigating a 12:45 a.m. report of shots fired on Park Avenue. “Based on the initial investigation, the victim was in the area of Park Avenue and East 22nd Street when the shooting took place,” Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Troy Oswald said in a joint release. An investigation was…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Your Community
Cigar/Cognac Station, Comedians, More At Hackensack PBA Beefsteak Cigar/Cognac Station, Comedians, More At Hackensack PBA Beefsteak Cigar/Cognac Station, Comedians, More At Hackensack PBA Beefsteak
Cigar/Cognac Station, Comedians, More At Hackensack PBA Beefsteak Hackensack PBA Local #9 invites members of the law enforcement community and their family, friends and supporters to a "Beefsteak for Brotherhood" this coming Thursday in Haledon. Besides great food, stand-up comedians and deejays, raffles and tricky trays, a cigar rolling and cognac station will be supplied by Codio Cigars and the PBA. The event runs from 5 to 10 p.m. at La Neve’s Banquet Hall in Haledon. All are welcome. Donations are $75 and include beefsteak, pasta, beer, wine and soda. A full cash bar also will be available. TICKETS: Contact Hackensack PBA Local #9 Preside…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
PHOTO GALLERY: Cat Up A Tree? No Problem For Ridgewood FD PHOTO GALLERY: Cat Up A Tree? No Problem For Ridgewood FD PHOTO GALLERY: Cat Up A Tree? No Problem For Ridgewood FD
Photo Gallery: Cat Up A Tree? No Problem For Ridgewood FD There's no emergency too big or small for firefighters -- including Ridgewood's bravest, who rescued a reluctant house cat from a tree. No kitten. Theo chased a bird up the Hope Street tree Thursday morning (surprise!), bringing members of Engine Company 35 and Tower Ladder 36. The glamourpuss was skittishly unreachable at first, clearly, unamewsed as village Firefighter Kurt Harba climbed a 35-foot ladder held by company colleagues. After several hours, Harba purr-suaded Theo to pawsition himself close enough to end the cat-and-mouse game. The playful pussy was back in the house moments…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Grin And Bear It: Cub Caught In New Milford Grin And Bear It: Cub Caught In New Milford Grin And Bear It: Cub Caught In New Milford
Grin And Bear It: Cub Caught In New Milford Bergen County's great bear roundup moved east Saturday when a furry little forager was found in New Milford. Police called to Congress Street found the 6-month-old, 125-pound black bear in a nearby yard on East Woodland Road. NJ Fish and Wildlife tranquilized and tagged the little fella for release onto state land in Morris County.  The agency recently has bagged bears in Englewood, Teaneck, Mahwah, Northvale and Waldwick.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Downed Wires In Ridgewood Trap 15-Month-Old Toddler In SUV Downed Wires In Ridgewood Trap 15-Month-Old Toddler In SUV Downed Wires In Ridgewood Trap 15-Month-Old Toddler In SUV
Downed Wires In Ridgewood Trap 15-Month-Old Toddler In SUV A toddler had to remain in her car seat for more than an hour after live wires downed by a broken tree limb fell across her parents' SUV in Ridgewood. The 15-month-old girl's mom talked with her from outside the vehicle before a PSE&G tech cut the power to the lines Friday and the child was removed safely. Responders included firefighters and police -- among them, Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke. 

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
PA Woman Charged With DWI In Route 287 Crash In Mahwah That Ejected Boy, 12 PA Woman Charged With DWI In Route 287 Crash In Mahwah That Ejected Boy, 12 PA Woman Charged With DWI In Route 287 Crash In Mahwah That Ejected Boy, 12
PA Woman Charged With DWI In Route 287 Crash In Mahwah That Ejected Boy, 12 A Pennsylvania driver whose car rear-ended an SUV on northbound Route 287 late Friday afternoon, ejecting a 12-year-old boy, was intoxicated and unlicensed, New Jersey State Police said. An AirMed One medical chopper flew the boy to Hackensack University Medical Center with head trauma after the crash near Exit 66 (Mahwah) just before 3 p.m. A sedan driven by Christine Ryan, 27, of Bartonsville, struck a Lincoln Navigator that was slowing for holiday traffic, sending it into a guardrail and ejecting the boy out the back window, witnesses told responding officers. An earlier Daily Voice rep…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Suspicious Package Outside Ridgefield Teamsters: Look Out! It's A... Suspicious Package Outside Ridgefield Teamsters: Look Out! It's A... Suspicious Package Outside Ridgefield Teamsters: Look Out! It's A...
Suspicious Package Outside Ridgefield Teamsters: Look Out! It's A... Ridgefield police were considering cordoning off the area and summoning the bomb squad for a suspicious package sticking out of a mailing box outside a Teamsters building when a UPS worker pulled up. "I know what this is," he said, approaching the box. “Everyone’s diving for cover as this guy grabs the package,” one responder told Daily Voice. It was a prom dress. Someone who’d used a rent-a-prom-dress service apparently couldn’t shove the package all the way into the box outside the Teamsters Local 617 building on Bergen Boulevard. A woman coming out of the building spotted th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
South Hackensack PD: Ex-Howard Stern Regular Was DWI In Crash Injuring 3 South Hackensack PD: Ex-Howard Stern Regular Was DWI In Crash Injuring 3 South Hackensack PD: Ex-Howard Stern Regular Was DWI In Crash Injuring 3
South Hackensack PD: Ex-Howard Stern Regular Was DWI In Crash Injuring 3 A former Howard Stern show contributor was drunk when he plowed his 2018 BMW into two cars at a red light in South Hackensack, injuring a pregnant woman and her young son, police said. Shelley Harris was taken into custody and charged with DWI, refusal to submit to breath test, reckless driving and failing to produce his insurance and registration after the 3:30 p.m. crash Thursday, Capt. Robert Kaiser said. A woman who is seven months pregnant and her son were in one car and a 27-year-old Clifton driver was in another when both were struck at the corner of Huyler and Wesley streets, Kaiser…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
PA Woman Charged With DWI In Route 287 Crash In Mahwah That Ejected Boy, 12 PA Woman Charged With DWI In Route 287 Crash In Mahwah That Ejected Boy, 12 PA Woman Charged With DWI In Route 287 Crash In Mahwah That Ejected Boy, 12
PA Woman Charged With DWI In Route 287 Crash In Mahwah That Ejected Boy, 12 A Pennsylvania driver whose car rear-ended an SUV on northbound Route 287 late Friday afternoon, ejecting a 12-year-old boy, was intoxicated and unlicensed, New Jersey State Police said. An AirMed One medical chopper flew the boy to Hackensack University Medical Center with head trauma after the crash near Exit 66 (Mahwah) just before 3 p.m. He remained in critical but stable condition, authorities reported Saturday. A sedan driven by Christine Ryan, 27, of Bartonsville, struck a Lincoln Navigator that was slowing for holiday traffic, sending it into a guardrail and ejecting the boy out th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Hudson Youngsters OK After Party Yacht Bumps Another In Hoboken Hudson Youngsters OK After Party Yacht Bumps Another In Hoboken Hudson Youngsters OK After Party Yacht Bumps Another In Hoboken
Hudson Youngsters OK After Party Yacht Bumps Another In Hoboken No serious injuries were reported after a dinner cruise yacht with nearly 100 Weehawken High School prom-goers and chaperones aboard bumped a smaller unoccupied boat from behind Thursday at a Hudson River pier in Hoboken, responders said. Dozens of minor cuts, scrapes and other injuries were reported after the 210-foot Cornicopia Destiny rear-ended the docked 117-foot Sundancer at the 14th Street pier. "Weehawken High School students disembarked the Destiny at 9:50 p.m.," Schools Supt. Robert Zywicki tweeted. "The students are en route to the Weehawken Elks via @WeehawkenTSD …

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