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
Passaic Sheriff: Released Dealer Nabbed With 4,750 Heroin Bags, $15,000 Passaic Sheriff: Released Dealer Nabbed With 4,750 Heroin Bags, $15,000 Passaic Sheriff: Released Dealer Nabbed With 4,750 Heroin Bags, $15,000
Passaic Sheriff: Released Dealer Nabbed With 4,750 Heroin Bags, $15,000 PATERSON, N.J. – A month after he’d been arrested and released on drug charges, an ex-con was busted by Passaic County sheriff’s detectives with 4,750 bags of heroin and $15,500 in bundled proceeds, authorities said Wednesday. Narcotics Bureau members staked out a pair of residences where 51-year-old Troy Kelley was known to live – one in Newark and the other on Sherman Avenue in Paterson, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. They’d busted Kelley with 370 glassines of heroin for sale during a traffic stop a month ago, after which a judge released him under New Jersey’s 2017 bail reform law. Ar…

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Woman Killed, 6-Year-Old Boy Critically Injured Crossing Wayne Road Woman Killed, 6-Year-Old Boy Critically Injured Crossing Wayne Road Woman Killed, 6-Year-Old Boy Critically Injured Crossing Wayne Road
Woman Killed, 6-Year-Old Boy Critically Injured Crossing Wayne Road WAYNE, N.J. -- A woman was dead and a 6-year-old boy in surgery after they were struck Tuesday night while crossing the same Wayne road where another woman was killed a day earlier. The pair were crossing Valley Road at Birchwood Terrace around 7 p.m. when they were struck by a four-door Chevy Impala, authorities said. The elementary school-age boy was taken to the emergency room at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson in serious condition.  The woman was pronounced dead at the hospital at 7:46 a.m. The driver remained and his passenger remained at the scene -- barely a mile d…

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Woman Killed, 6-Year-Old Boy Critically Injured Crossing Wayne Road Woman Killed, 6-Year-Old Boy Critically Injured Crossing Wayne Road Woman Killed, 6-Year-Old Boy Critically Injured Crossing Wayne Road
Woman Killed, 6-Year-Old Boy Critically Injured Crossing Wayne Road WAYNE, N.J. -- A woman was dead and a 6-year-old boy in surgery after they were struck Tuesday night while crossing the same Wayne road where another woman was killed a day earlier. The pair were crossing Valley Road at Birchwood Terrace around 7 p.m. when they were struck by a four-door Chevy Impala, authorities said. The elementary school-age boy was taken to the emergency room at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson in serious condition.  The woman was pronounced dead at the hospital at 7:46 a.m. The driver remained and his passenger remained at the scene -- barely a mile d…

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Female Pedestrians Killed Barely Mile Apart On Valley Road In Wayne Female Pedestrians Killed Barely Mile Apart On Valley Road In Wayne Female Pedestrians Killed Barely Mile Apart On Valley Road In Wayne
Female Pedestrians Killed Barely Mile Apart On Valley Road In Wayne WAYNE, N.J. -- A 78-year-old Wayne woman was struck and killed Monday afternoon in the first of what responders said were a pair of tragic fatal accidents barely a mile apart. It came a day before another female pedestrian was killed – and a 6-year-old boy critically injured -- barely a mile up Valley Road. Rosa Nikhamina, 78, succumbed to her injuries at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson after she was struck by a 2007 GMC Sierra at the intersection of Valley Road and MacDonald Drive just before 12:30 p.m. Monday, authorities said. The 50-year-old driver from Plainfield rema…

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Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Lodi Police Chief Vincent Quatrone Leaves Action Behind For Final Walkout Lodi Police Chief Vincent Quatrone Leaves Action Behind For Final Walkout Lodi Police Chief Vincent Quatrone Leaves Action Behind For Final Walkout
Lodi Police Chief Vincent Quatrone Leaves Action Behind For Final Walkout LODI, N.J. -- He served his country in the U.S. Navy and his government as a Secret Service agent -- and on Wednesday, Lodi Police Chief Vincent Quatrone took his final walkout from the department he'd served for 28 years. Quatrone, a former college lacrosse player who became chief in 2014, is headed to the private sector as an insurance company senior risk consultant manager. Whether it will be stimulating enough for him, given his career in public service, will be seen. Twice the 49-year-old lieutenant commander was deployed with the U.S. Navy -- during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 an…

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Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Lockdown: What Happened At Dumont High School Lockdown: What Happened At Dumont High School Lockdown: What Happened At Dumont High School
Lockdown: What Happened At Dumont High School DUMONT, N.J. -- (UPDATE) While one family deals with the unthinkable, other parents of Dumont High School students were grateful that what had been a terrifying ordeal ended with their children returning safely to them. Authorities said they seized a rifle from the home of a sophomore who was taken into custody Monday after allegedly threatening a mass shooting. "It was a long gun, a rifle," a ranking law enforcement official told Daily Voice. "It was not his. "His mother was extremely cooperative," the official added. "[The gun] was at the house. He didn't br…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Suspect In Wayne Chase Rams Cruiser, Heads Wrong Way On Route 46 Police: Suspect In Wayne Chase Rams Cruiser, Heads Wrong Way On Route 46 Police: Suspect In Wayne Chase Rams Cruiser, Heads Wrong Way On Route 46
Police: Suspect In Wayne Chase Rams Cruiser, Heads Wrong Way On Route 46 WAYNE, N.J. -- Wayne police on Wednesday identified a man who they said tried to run over a police officer at the Willowbrook Mall, crashing a car he'd just stolen into the officer's patrol cruiser and then, later, another police car, before he was captured on Route 46 in Fairfield. Alterick Harris, 42, of Newark became "became irate and argumentative" with the owner of the silver BMW as they were driving outside the mall, then took the keys and sped off after she got out, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. Flagged down by the woman, responding Officer Pawel Jadczak positioned …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Tarrytown-SleepyHollow, NY
Breaking News
Suspect Caught In Killing That Led To Westchester Manhunt, Lockouts Suspect Caught In Killing That Led To Westchester Manhunt, Lockouts Suspect Caught In Killing That Led To Westchester Manhunt, Lockouts
Suspect Caught In Killing That Led To Westchester Manhunt, Lockouts A suspect in the fatal shooting of a woman at a Tarrytown housing complex was captured Tuesday night in Manhattan by Port Authority police as he tried to board a bus for Delaware, authorities said. Cynelle Brown, 28, was spotted by PAPD Sgt. Kevin Cottrell and Officers Brandon Kubic and James Herkenham, in plainclothes, on the lower level of the terminal's north wing at the Greyhound ticketing area, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo said. Brown was waiting on line to buy bus tickets to Wilmington, Delaware with "a woman identified as his aunt and the aunt's child" waiting on onlin…

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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Fort Lee PD: Building Super Climbed Ladder To Peep On Semi-Naked Girl Fort Lee PD: Building Super Climbed Ladder To Peep On Semi-Naked Girl Fort Lee PD: Building Super Climbed Ladder To Peep On Semi-Naked Girl
Fort Lee PD: Building Super Climbed Ladder To Peep On Semi-Naked Girl FORT LEE, N.J. – A Fort Lee building superintendent climbed a ladder to peep into an underage girl’s second-floor window as she was getting dressed, said police who were seeking any other potential victims. Police responding to 1405 Teresa Drive on a Peeping Tom report arrested Luis DeJesus, 53, on invasion of privacy and "peeping Tom" charges, Detective Sgt. Robert Tilton said. He was released pending a March 2 first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. Tilton urged anyone else who believes they’ve been a victim of a similar crime to contact his depart…

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Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
PHOTOS: Car Slams Into Route 4 Vitamin Shoppe In Paramus PHOTOS: Car Slams Into Route 4 Vitamin Shoppe In Paramus PHOTOS: Car Slams Into Route 4 Vitamin Shoppe In Paramus
Photos: Car Slams Into Route 4 Vitamin Shoppe In Paramus PARAMUS, N.J. -- A driver injured his arm Tuesday afternoon when his car slammed into the Vitamin Shoppe on Route 4 in Paramus, knocking a hole in the wall and sending products tumbling. The four-door Hyundai veered off the westbound highway near Spring Valley Road and struck the building after a collision with another car. Neither the other driver nor store employees were injured. The injured driver refused ambulance transportation to a local hospital. A building inspector was summoned to determine whether the store could be reopened before repairs were made. The sedan was removed by fl…

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