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.

Jerry DeMarco's Contributions

Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Bicyclist Struck By SUV Seriously Injured In Paramus Bicyclist Struck By SUV Seriously Injured In Paramus Bicyclist Struck By SUV Seriously Injured In Paramus
Bicyclist Struck By SUV Seriously Injured In Paramus An SUV struck and seriously injured a bicyclist who cracked the vehicle's windshield Thursday on Paramus Road in Paramus. He was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center after being struck just south of West Midland Avenue. The visibly distraught driver remained at the scene and was hospitalized, as well.  A flatbed tow truck lifted the SUV off the damaged bicycle and removed the vehicle from the scene.  Paramus police and EMS responded, along with an ambulance from HUMC and a paramedic team from The Valley Hospital.   Boyd A. Loving contributed to this account.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Garfield Pet Shop Drug Ring Had 56+ Pounds Of Pot, Weapons Prosecutor: Garfield Pet Shop Drug Ring Had 56+ Pounds Of Pot, Weapons Prosecutor: Garfield Pet Shop Drug Ring Had 56+ Pounds Of Pot, Weapons
Prosecutor: Garfield Pet Shop Drug Ring Had 56+ Pounds Of Pot, Weapons Detectives found 56 pounds of pot, five rifles and two shotguns at a Garfield pet grooming shop while arresting five accused members of a drug-dealing operation during a series of raids. They also found an assault weapon, a revolver, ammunition and three high-capacity ammo magazines at the Passaic home of one of the alleged crew members, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Thursday. Calo’s detectives arrested three people connected to Happy Pet Tails on River Drive, including a Garfield couple, 31-year-old Jennifer M. Santos and Carlos M. Gutierrez, 30, following an investigati…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah Police Find Pot Grow Room, Arrest Resident And Friend From Englewood Mahwah Police Find Pot Grow Room, Arrest Resident And Friend From Englewood Mahwah Police Find Pot Grow Room, Arrest Resident And Friend From Englewood
Mahwah Police Find Pot Grow Room, Arrest Resident And Friend From Englewood Mahwah police searching for a man who’d fled a previous arrest found a pot-growing operation at his home, authorities said. They arrested Michael Deans at his Pine Hill Road home along with Jordan Winfree of Englewood, both 29, after a warranted search turned up marijuana package for resale, high-concentrate THC oil and a pot grow room, Police Chief James N. Batelli said Thursday. Deans was wanted for having pot for sale in a school zone and fleeing police, among other offenses, when Detective Sgt. Kevin Hebert and Detectives Michael Grassi, and Eric Larsen went to his home to serve an arre…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Driver In Fatal Paramus School Bus Crash Charged With Death By Auto Driver In Fatal Paramus School Bus Crash Charged With Death By Auto Driver In Fatal Paramus School Bus Crash Charged With Death By Auto
Driver In Fatal Paramus School Bus Crash Charged With Death By Auto Authorities have filed death-by-auto charges against the 77-year-old school bus driver in a Route 80 crash that killed a Paramus middle school student and one of her teachers last week. If convicted of the two vehicular homicide counts, Hudy Muldrow Sr. of Woodland Park could face five to 10 years in state prison, 85% of which he’d have to serve before being eligible for parole. A detention hearing was scheduled for Friday in Morristown for Muldrow, who, records show, has been cited for speeding eight times and had his driver’s license suspended several others. Muldrow was transporting 44 …

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by Jerry DeMarco & Cecilia Levine
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Clifton Garden Apartment Fire Kills Resident, 69 Clifton Garden Apartment Fire Kills Resident, 69 Clifton Garden Apartment Fire Kills Resident, 69
Clifton Garden Apartment Fire Kills Resident, 69 A 69-year-old man who was hospitalized in critical condition after suffering cardiac arrest during a Wednesday morning garden apartment fire in Clifton had died, authorities said Thursday. David Bork was the only casualty of the two-alarm first-floor blaze at the Sytertown Apartments on Market Street, which broke out around 7:40 a.m., Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Clifton Police Chief Mark Centurione. Three apartments in all were affected, authorities said. The cause was still under investigation.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Your Community
Hello, Sailors: Fleet Week 2018 Is On, Plus Bergen Memorial Day Events Hello, Sailors: Fleet Week 2018 Is On, Plus Bergen Memorial Day Events Hello, Sailors: Fleet Week 2018 Is On, Plus Bergen Memorial Day Events
Hello, Sailors: Fleet Week 2018 Is On, Plus Bergen Memorial Day Events U.S. sailors have once again taken Manhattan, arriving on a flotilla of 14 ships that launched a Fleet Week packed with seven days of tri-state area events, exhibitions and spectacles. The USS Arlington led the way for the 2,300 sailors on Wednesday, as crew members in their whites stood shoulder to shoulder before the 25,000-ton warship – named for the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon -- docked at Manhattan’s Pier 90. For more than 35 years, on and off, residents have enjoyed the pageantry, as well as the chance to mingle – and take selfies, of course -- with the United States’ fighting forces …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
PHOTOS: Flames Ravage School Bus In Wayne, Driver OK PHOTOS: Flames Ravage School Bus In Wayne, Driver OK PHOTOS: Flames Ravage School Bus In Wayne, Driver OK
Photos: Flames Ravage School Bus In Wayne, Driver OK A driver got out unharmed after a school bus went up in flames Wednesday afternoon near the Passaic County Technical Institute in Wayne, authorities said. The Jersey Kids Transportation Inc. bus driver was scheduled to collect students at dismissal when the engine caught fire around 2:30 p.m. on Reinhardt Road, said Bill Maer of the county sheriff's office. It was doused within 45 minutes.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Monsey, NY
Breaking News
Rockland Gangsters' Associate Gets 65 Months In 'Cabjacking,' Bar Holdups Rockland Gangsters' Associate Gets 65 Months In 'Cabjacking,' Bar Holdups Rockland Gangsters' Associate Gets 65 Months In 'Cabjacking,' Bar Holdups
Rockland Gangsters' Associate Gets 65 Months In 'Cabjacking,' Bar Holdups A fellow member of a gang from Rockland was sentenced Wednesday to 65 months in federal prison for his role in carjacking, kidnapping and leaving a local cab driver for dead in Orange County after he and four others robbed a North Jersey bar. Wilbur J. Barahona, 22, of Ridgewood was the last of six defendants to accept a plea deal from federal prosecutors in Newark in connection with the separate crimes, which occurred within hours of one another. The others: Guillermo Carillo-Iraheta, Balmore Carrillo-Iraheta and Juan Chiliseo-Vega, all of Suffern,and the getaway driver in the Hawthorne, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgewood Gang Member Gets 65 Months In Cab Carjacking, Bar Holdups Ridgewood Gang Member Gets 65 Months In Cab Carjacking, Bar Holdups Ridgewood Gang Member Gets 65 Months In Cab Carjacking, Bar Holdups
Ridgewood Gang Member Gets 65 Months In Cab Carjacking, Bar Holdups A gang member from Ridgewood was sentenced Wednesday to 65 months in federal prison for his role in carjacking, kidnapping and leaving a local cab driver for dead after he and four others robbed a Hawthorne bar. Wilbur J. Barahona, 22, was the last of six defendants to accept a plea deal from federal prosecutors in Newark in connection with the separate crimes, which occurred within hours of one another. Exactly a year ago Wednesday, Barahona told a U.S. District Court judge that he and other members of the 18th Street Gang got into a cab in Paterson around 3 a.m. on Dec. 26, 2015 for a ri…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Driver Hospitalized After Mustang Ragtop, Pickup Truck Crash In Glen Rock Driver Hospitalized After Mustang Ragtop, Pickup Truck Crash In Glen Rock Driver Hospitalized After Mustang Ragtop, Pickup Truck Crash In Glen Rock
Driver Hospitalized After Mustang Ragtop, Pickup Truck Crash In Glen Rock A driver was hospitalized with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening after her Mustang convertible collided with a commercial pickup truck Wednesday afternoon in Glen Rock. Both vehicles were towed after the crash at the intersection of Hamilton and South Maple avenues, pushing the sports car onto the sidewalk. First-responding police officers rendered first aid. An EMS unit took over from there. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this account.

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