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

Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Wayne PD: 'Agitated' Hummer Driver Carrying Loaded Gun, Ammo Wayne PD: 'Agitated' Hummer Driver Carrying Loaded Gun, Ammo Wayne PD: 'Agitated' Hummer Driver Carrying Loaded Gun, Ammo
Wayne PD: 'Agitated' Hummer Driver Carrying Loaded Gun, Ammo WAYNE, N.J. -- An anxious Hummer driver in a Route 46 hotel parking lot was carrying a loaded gun, said police who arrested him. Nicholas Saykaly, a 34-year-old construction worker from Manchester, NH, was in the vehicle at the Ramada Inn on the highway’s eastbound side when he drew the attention of Officers Mark Ciavirella and Ryan Vallaro as they conducted safety and security checks along the highway's business corridor just before 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. Saykaly was “agitated and acting in an animated manner,” Martin said. Talking with him, the officer…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack Middle Schooler Brings BB Guns To School Hackensack Middle Schooler Brings BB Guns To School Hackensack Middle Schooler Brings BB Guns To School
Hackensack Middle Schooler Brings BB Guns To School HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A Hackensack Middle School student who brought two BB guns in with him on Monday was detained by police and then sent home, authorities said. A source with knowledge of the situation said it was the second time it had recently happened at the Union Street school, which has roughly 1,500 students in grades 5-8. The situation was handled without incident, Acting Schools Supt. Rosemary Marks said in a letter to parents (see photo above).  The Hackensack Police Department's school resource officer responded to the school and took the sixth grader into custody before he was …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Burglar Breaks Into Same Clifton Furniture Store 6 Times Police: Burglar Breaks Into Same Clifton Furniture Store 6 Times Police: Burglar Breaks Into Same Clifton Furniture Store 6 Times
Police: Burglar Breaks Into Same Clifton Furniture Store 6 Times CLIFTON, N.J. – A Clifton man broke into the same furniture store six times in under a week, stealing $10,000 in merchandise, said police who arrested him. Detectives who began investigating last week after owners of the Furniture Signature store on Lakeview Avenue told them of the overnight break-ins identified 53-year-old David Merced, Sgt. Robert Anderson said Monday. They arrested Merced at his home on Friday and charged him with six counts of burglary and one of theft. Merced remained held in the Passaic County Jail on Monday after a detention hearing.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Wayne PD: Drunk Driver Runs Light, Slams Pickup, Assaults Medic Wayne PD: Drunk Driver Runs Light, Slams Pickup, Assaults Medic Wayne PD: Drunk Driver Runs Light, Slams Pickup, Assaults Medic
Wayne PD: Drunk Driver Runs Light, Slams Pickup, Assaults Medic WAYNE, N.J. -- A drunk driver rammed his Mini Cooper into a pickup truck after running a red light in Wayne, then assaulted an ambulance squad responder who was trying to help him, authorities said. The 2012 compact car veered off the roadway before hitting the fence at the QuickChek on Hamburg Turnpike after it struck the pickup so hard that it left the truck facing east in the westbound lane of Ratzer Road just after 9:30 p.m. Friday, Detective Capt. Laurence J. Martin said. Wayne firefighters extricated the driver of the mangled Mini Cooper, 38-year-old Jim Chung of Pompton Lakes, who wa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Wyckoff PD: Repeat Offender Caught Speeding With Crack On Route 208 Wyckoff PD: Repeat Offender Caught Speeding With Crack On Route 208 Wyckoff PD: Repeat Offender Caught Speeding With Crack On Route 208
Wyckoff PD: Repeat Offender Caught Speeding With Crack On Route 208 WYCKOFF, N.J. -- Bail reform strikes again: A repeat offender who's been arrested and released several times in recent months was busted again -- this time after Wyckoff police who stopped his speeding car on Route 208 said he was carrying crack -- only to be freed once more. Officer Robert Schlossberg stopped the 2001 Toyota Avalon near Cedar Court after Jaime D. Bauer, 29, of Wyckoff exited the northbound highway at Cedar Hill Avenue just after 11 p.m. Friday, Lt. Joseph Soto said. He'd been doing between 65-70 miles per hour in a 55MPH zone, Soto said. Schlossberg immediately spotted …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Catch/Release: Fair Lawn Police Bust Hackensack Man Twice In Same Day Catch/Release: Fair Lawn Police Bust Hackensack Man Twice In Same Day Catch/Release: Fair Lawn Police Bust Hackensack Man Twice In Same Day
Catch/Release: Fair Lawn Police Bust Hackensack Man Twice In Same Day FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- Hours after an ex-con wanted for skipping court was arrested for lying to Fair Lawn police, he threw a brick through the window of a local bakery during a burglary, authorities said. Sure enough, 53-year-old R.J. Button Baker of Hackensack was released again, under the terms of New Jersey's 2017 bail reform law. Officer Justin DiGuglielmo first approached Baker as he pedaled his bicycle on Broadway at 29th Street, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. With a criminal record stretching back 25 years, Baker was known to police. He gave a fake name to DiGuglielmo, who discovered warran…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
HEROES: Upper Saddle River Responders Rescue Unresponsive Man, 58 HEROES: Upper Saddle River Responders Rescue Unresponsive Man, 58 HEROES: Upper Saddle River Responders Rescue Unresponsive Man, 58
Heroes: Upper Saddle River Responders Rescue Unresponsive Man, 58 UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J. -- A 58-year-old Upper Saddle River man wasn't breathing and didn't have a pulse when borough police arrived at his home. Officers Kevin McWilliams and Colin Gurney began CPR and attached a defibrillator as ambulance corps members and paramedics responded, Detective Lt. Edward Kane said. The victim's pulse returned and he was rushed to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, the lieutenant said. He was back at work six weeks later. The grateful man and his family attended a recent borough council meeting, making powerful speeches thanking the emergency workers for thei…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Elderly Driver Hospitalized After SUV Slams Into Glen Rock Utility Pole Elderly Driver Hospitalized After SUV Slams Into Glen Rock Utility Pole Elderly Driver Hospitalized After SUV Slams Into Glen Rock Utility Pole
Elderly Driver Hospitalized After SUV Slams Into Glen Rock Utility Pole GLEN ROCK, N.J. -- An elderly driver was hospitalized after SUV slammed head-on into a utility pole Sunday night in Glen Rock. A paramedic team from The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood assisted Glen Rock EMTs in tending to the woman, who was conscious when she was brought to Hackensack University Center following the Harristown Road crash. The Toyota was removed from the scene by a flatbed tow truck, whose driver also tended to a significant fluid leak. A PSE&G crew also responded. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this report.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Edgewater PD: Repeat Thief Swipes Goods From 3rd App Victim In Weeks Edgewater PD: Repeat Thief Swipes Goods From 3rd App Victim In Weeks Edgewater PD: Repeat Thief Swipes Goods From 3rd App Victim In Weeks
Edgewater PD: Repeat Thief Swipes Goods From 3rd App Victim In Weeks EDGEWATER, N.J. – Released three times after snatching items from sellers he met on the LetGo and OfferUp apps, an Edgewater man did it again, police said. This time, 19-year-old Joshua Emmanuel offered to buy a gold necklace the seller offered on LetGo – then snatched it from the victim’s hand and ran, Police Chief Donald Martin said. It was the third time since January that Emmanuel lured sellers to town only to steal their merchandise, Emmanuel said. He was arrested after a similar incident in Englewood last April and spent nearly seven months in the Bergen County Jail. The last two ti…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Washington Township Crashes Minutes Apart: One Closes Major Road, Other DWI Washington Township Crashes Minutes Apart: One Closes Major Road, Other DWI Washington Township Crashes Minutes Apart: One Closes Major Road, Other DWI
Washington Township Crashes Minutes Apart: One Closes Major Road, Other DWI WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- One driver split a utility pole, closing a major thoroughfare, while another was charged with DWI in a pair of Washington Township crashes that occurred a little more than 15 minutes apart. The first driver -- a 31-year-old Waldwick man -- refused medical attention after his Ford Explorer slammed into a utility pole on Washington Avenue near Koch Peak at 10:55 p.m. Friday, township Police Lt. Richard Skinner told Daily Voice. Washington Avenue still remained closed in both directions early Saturday afternoon between Calvin Street and Lafayette Avenue while PSE&a…

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