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
Body Of Missing Paterson Professor Found At Garret Mountain Reservation Body Of Missing Paterson Professor Found At Garret Mountain Reservation Body Of Missing Paterson Professor Found At Garret Mountain Reservation
Body Of Missing Paterson Professor Found At Garret Mountain Reservation The body of a missing Paterson man was pulled from Barbour Pond at Garret Mountain on Wednesday, authorities confirmed Thursday morning. Samuel Núñez Gomez, a 37-year-old technician and adjunct professor at Passaic County Community College, "left his belongings, including his ID, visible to be found" a short distance from the pond, a family friend told Daily Voice on Wednesday.  Bill Maer of the Passaic County Sheriff's Office confirmed that the belongings were found around noon, although he couldn't disclose the owner's identity. A Paterson dive team found the body soon after, a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
HERO: Montvale Special PD Officer Saves Choking Pascack Hills Student, 17 HERO: Montvale Special PD Officer Saves Choking Pascack Hills Student, 17 HERO: Montvale Special PD Officer Saves Choking Pascack Hills Student, 17
Hero: Montvale Special PD Officer Saves Choking Pascack Hills Student, 17 MONTVALE, N.J. – A Montvale special in-school police officer rescued a choking 17-year-old Pascack Hills High School student by using the Heimlich maneuver, authorities said. Special Law Enforcement Officer III Roger Caron was patrolling the interior of the Montvale school when he came across the girl, who was “exhibiting signs of distress due to choking,” Police Chief Jeremy Abrams. “Her face was turning blue, she was unable to speak and she had her hands to her neck displaying the universal choking sign,” Abrams said. Caron asked her if she was choking, to which she nodded her head “yes,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
One Caught, More Sought In Englewood Street Robberies One Caught, More Sought In Englewood Street Robberies One Caught, More Sought In Englewood Street Robberies
One Caught, More Sought In Englewood Street Robberies ENGLEWOOD, N.J. – Englewood detectives filed a delinquency complaint against a 17-year-old city boy who they said snatched a chain from another teen in one of at least two connected street robberies, authorities said. They're now tirelessly looking for others. It began after two victims reported being beaten and the third having the chain snatched the same night. The first told police he was working on his car in the 200 block of Liberty Road Saturday night when he was struck in the head by one of two robbers who fled with an undisclosed amount of cash, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell said.…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Saddle River Teen In Paramus Mall Parking Deck Leap Expected To Survive Saddle River Teen In Paramus Mall Parking Deck Leap Expected To Survive Saddle River Teen In Paramus Mall Parking Deck Leap Expected To Survive
Saddle River Teen In Paramus Mall Parking Deck Leap Expected To Survive PARAMUS, N.J. -- A 16-year-old Northern Highlands High School sophomore from Saddle River who jumped from the top level of a five-story parking deck Tuesday morning at the Garden State Plaza in Paramus was expected to survive, a source with direct knowledge of the incident said Wednesday. Police found the boy on the roadway next to the garage following what Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said was an attempted suicide leap. "He had no pulse," the chief said. Officer Keith Bland, Sgt. Michael Pollaro and Lt. Christine Udis immediately began CPR and used their Automatic External Def…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Boy, 12, Killed By Truck In Garfield Emigrated From Albania Last Week Boy, 12, Killed By Truck In Garfield Emigrated From Albania Last Week Boy, 12, Killed By Truck In Garfield Emigrated From Albania Last Week
Boy, 12, Killed By Truck In Garfield Emigrated From Albania Last Week GARFIELD, N.J. -- (UPDATE) A 12-year-old Albanian boy who was struck and killed by a box truck in Garfield on Tuesday had just emigrated to New Jersey a few days earlier. Identified by his cousin as Elios Xhemollari, the boy was riding alongside the truck's right side on the sidewalk of eastbound Lanza Avenue when the 43-year-old truck driver made a right turn onto Pleasant Avenue, hitting the boy, at 1:17 p.m. Tuesday, Capt. Darren Sucorowski said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The boy had only arrived here on Friday, a GoFundMe page established by his cousin for the family says. H…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Police Tandem Avoids Route 17 Tragedy In Low-Speed Heroin User Chase Police Tandem Avoids Route 17 Tragedy In Low-Speed Heroin User Chase Police Tandem Avoids Route 17 Tragedy In Low-Speed Heroin User Chase
Police Tandem Avoids Route 17 Tragedy In Low-Speed Heroin User Chase Police from several Northwest Bergen towns thwarted a potentially dangerous incident Wednesday when they closed off a stretch of northbound Route 17 to stop a heroin-addled driver from Rockland whose car bounced off the center divider several times, authorities said. Upper Saddle River Police Officer Kevin McWilliams, responding to another motorist's call, got behind the car around 12:30 p.m., Detective Lt. Edward Kane said. "He kept hitting the center median at about 30 miles an hour," he said. "So the officer activated his lights and siren to try and stop him." The 25-year-old Orangeburg…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Detectives: Three Stabbed -- None Cooperating -- In Englewood Street Fight Detectives: Three Stabbed -- None Cooperating -- In Englewood Street Fight Detectives: Three Stabbed -- None Cooperating -- In Englewood Street Fight
Detectives: Three Stabbed -- None Cooperating -- In Englewood Street Fight ENGLEWOOD, N.J. -- Police were trying to determine who stabbed three men -- one of whom suffered a collapsed lung -- during an Englewood street fight. The trouble is: None of the victims is cooperating, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell said. Two victims were found at West Englewood Avenue and Reade Street around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, Torell said. The fight, in the 100 block of Reade Street, sent a 22-year-old Englewood victim to Hackensack University Medical Center with a stab wound to his chest and the collapsed lung, Torell said. The second victim, 25, also from Englewood, "claimed he …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Why Home Security Apps Rock: Fair Lawn Police Nab Burglar In The Act Why Home Security Apps Rock: Fair Lawn Police Nab Burglar In The Act Why Home Security Apps Rock: Fair Lawn Police Nab Burglar In The Act
Why Home Security Apps Rock: Fair Lawn Police Nab Burglar In The Act FAIR LAWN, N.J. – A Fair Lawn homeowner who got an alert on a security app led to the capture Wednesday afternoon of an accused burglar right outside the house. Before they were finished, Fair Lawn police had charged the man -- identified as Junior Perales, 31 -- with burglarizing the same place twice. The Morlot Avenue victim told police he got the video alert at 12:22 p.m. showing Perales going into a backyard shed and taking items, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Officers Luis Vasquez and Ian Manelis rushed to the home and grabbed Perales in the front yard, Metzler said. A bicycle that he use…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Boy, 12, Killed By Truck In Garfield Emigrated From Albania Last Week Boy, 12, Killed By Truck In Garfield Emigrated From Albania Last Week Boy, 12, Killed By Truck In Garfield Emigrated From Albania Last Week
Boy, 12, Killed By Truck In Garfield Emigrated From Albania Last Week GARFIELD, N.J. -- (UPDATE) A 12-year-old Albanian boy who was struck and killed by a box truck in Garfield on Tuesday had just emigrated to New Jersey a few days earlier. Identified by his cousin as Elios Xhemollari, the boy was riding alongside the truck's right side on the sidewalk of eastbound Lanza Avenue when the 43-year-old truck driver made a right turn onto Pleasant Avenue, hitting the boy, at 1:17 p.m. Tuesday, Capt. Darren Sucorowski said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The boy had only arrived here on Friday, a GoFundMe page established by his cousin for the family says. H…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Driver Hospitalized After Spinout Crash On Route 208 In Hawthorne Driver Hospitalized After Spinout Crash On Route 208 In Hawthorne Driver Hospitalized After Spinout Crash On Route 208 In Hawthorne
Driver Hospitalized After Spinout Crash On Route 208 In Hawthorne HAWTHORNE, N.J. -- A driver was hospitalized with injuries that responders didn't consider life-threatening after her sedan spun out and struck a utility pole, snapping it in half, on northbound Route 208 Wednesday afternoon. An ambulance took the victim to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center following the afternoon crash just south of the Goffle Road exit ramp, which backed traffic for miles. A flatbed tow truck removed the 4-door sedan while a PSE&G crew tended to the damaged utility pole.  Boyd A. Loving contributed to this report.

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