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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Bergenfield, NJ
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Bergenfield Laborer Charged With Sexually Assaulting 13-Year-Old Bergenfield Laborer Charged With Sexually Assaulting 13-Year-Old Bergenfield Laborer Charged With Sexually Assaulting 13-Year-Old
Bergenfield Laborer Charged With Sexually Assaulting 13-Year-Old BERGENFIELD, N.J. -- A Bergenfield laborer was charged with sexually assaulting an underage teen. Deangelo Gonzalez, 35, remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Monday following a detention hearing on Saturday, records show. Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Bergenfield police and investigators from his Special Victims Unit were told on Aug. 18 that Gonzalez had "inappropriate sexual contact with a 13-year-old victim in Bergenfield." They arrested him Friday on charges of aggravated assault, criminal sexual contact and child endangerment through sexual conduct, t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Authorities: Ex-Slasher From Hackensack Had $10,000 Of Coke Stashed In Car Authorities: Ex-Slasher From Hackensack Had $10,000 Of Coke Stashed In Car Authorities: Ex-Slasher From Hackensack Had $10,000 Of Coke Stashed In Car
Authorities: Ex-Slasher From Hackensack Had $10,000 Of Coke Stashed In Car HACKENSACK, N.J. – Authorities said they found nearly a half-pound of cocaine stashed in a car driven by an ex-con from Hackensack who was once accused of slashing a man talking to a woman who had his baby. Tadd D. Mitchell, Jr., 32, formerly of Mahwah, was driving a Honda Accord when investigators acting on a tip stopped him in Paramus on Friday with help from the Bergen County Regional SWAT Team, county Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. A search of the vehicle revealed the secret compartment containing the cocaine, worth roughly $10,000 on the street, the prosecutor said. Mitchell was ch…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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PHOTOS: Glen Rock Building Almost Becomes Drive-Thru, Mahwah Motorist OK PHOTOS: Glen Rock Building Almost Becomes Drive-Thru, Mahwah Motorist OK PHOTOS: Glen Rock Building Almost Becomes Drive-Thru, Mahwah Motorist OK
Photos: Glen Rock Building Almost Becomes Drive-Thru, Mahwah Motorist OK GLEN ROCK, N.J. -- A Mahwah motorist hit the gas instead of the brake, sending her car up the stairs of a Glen Rock office building. The 65-year-old driver wasn't injured in Friday morning's mishap, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. The steps of the Bank of America building on Harristown Road were damaged, but there was no structural damage to the building itself, he said.

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Bergenfield, NJ
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Bergenfield Laborer Charged With Sexually Assaulting 13-Year-Old Bergenfield Laborer Charged With Sexually Assaulting 13-Year-Old Bergenfield Laborer Charged With Sexually Assaulting 13-Year-Old
Bergenfield Laborer Charged With Sexually Assaulting 13-Year-Old BERGENFIELD, N.J. -- A Bergenfield laborer was charged with sexually assaulting an underage teen. Deangelo Gonzalez, 35, remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Monday following a detention hearing on Saturday, records show. Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Bergenfield police and investigators from his Special Victims Unit were told on Aug. 18 that Gonzalez had "inappropriate sexual contact with a 13-year-old victim in Bergenfield." They arrested him Friday on charges of aggravated assault, criminal sexual contact and child endangerment through sexual conduct, t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Police: Suspended GWB Driver In Uninspected Car, No Front Plate Owed $4,285 Police: Suspended GWB Driver In Uninspected Car, No Front Plate Owed $4,285 Police: Suspended GWB Driver In Uninspected Car, No Front Plate Owed $4,285
Police: Suspended GWB Driver In Uninspected Car, No Front Plate Owed $4,285 FORT LEE, N.J. -- A suspended driver stopped at the George Washington Bridge behind the wheel of an uninspected 2003 Ford wagon with no front license plate also owed $4,285 in tolls and fees, authorities said. Howard C. Davis, 34, of Newark was processed and released pending a Jan. 9 hearing in Fort Lee Municipal Court and his car was impounded, the Port Authority's Joseph Pentangelo said. Officers stopped Davis at the GWB's lower-level toll plaza Friday afternoon after he illegally rolled through an E-ZPass lane, Pentangelo said. A records check turned up 66 previous E-ZPass violations, h…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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New Milford Father Of 5 Shot Dead Outside His NYC Bar New Milford Father Of 5 Shot Dead Outside His NYC Bar New Milford Father Of 5 Shot Dead Outside His NYC Bar
New Milford Father Of 5 Shot Dead Outside His NYC Bar NEW MILFORD, N.J. -- A father of five from New Milford was shot and killed outside a bar and lounge he co-owned on Manhattan's Upper West Side, authorities said. Damian Ramirez, 48, was struck several times just before 1 a.m. Saturday, outside Manhattan Brew & Vine on Columbus Avenue at 109th Street, the NYPD confirmed. He was later pronounced dead at Mount Sinai St. Luke's Hospital. His killer remained at large, said the NYPD, which didn't speculate on a possible motive. Ramirez, who grew up on the Upper West Side, had been married for 24 years to Myriam Rodriguez and had been an adv…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Visiting Scheduled For Veteran Passaic Sheriff's Lieutenant, 49 Visiting Scheduled For Veteran Passaic Sheriff's Lieutenant, 49 Visiting Scheduled For Veteran Passaic Sheriff's Lieutenant, 49
Visiting Scheduled For Veteran Passaic Sheriff's Lieutenant, 49 WEST MILFORD, N.J. -- He served in the U.S. Army and for 18 years with the Passaic County Sheriff's Office: Services for the late Timothy L. Carpenter, 49, of West Milford will be private. Visitation is Tuesday. Carpenter, who died Tuesday, is survived by his wife, Pamela, his children: daughters Summer Carpenter and Nicolette Carpenter, and Ryan Layton and his wife, Kira, and siblings: Brett Carpenter and his wife, Angie, Jimmy Carpenter and his wife, Dalia, Michelle Millender and her husband, Norman, and Scott Carpenter and his wife, Tara, as well as many nieces and nephews. The family w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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VIDEO: Christmas Lights Fire Destroys Secor Farms' Family Home VIDEO: Christmas Lights Fire Destroys Secor Farms' Family Home VIDEO: Christmas Lights Fire Destroys Secor Farms' Family Home
Video: Christmas Lights Fire Destroys Secor Farms' Family Home MAHWAH, N.J. -- No injuries were reported in an electrical fire that roared through the home of the popular family that owns Secor Farms in Mahwah. The blaze began "either in an extension cord or timer connected to outdoor Christmas lights" on the porch and ripped through Darryl and Jackie Secor's home on Airmount Avenue -- right next to their farm -- just as night began to fall Saturday, Police James N. Batelli said. Darryl Secor discovered the fire around 4:15 p.m., notified authorities and tried to put it out, sustaining minor burns to his hands and his face, for which he was t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Poughkeepsie Pair Popped In 12-Pound Pot Stop Poughkeepsie Pair Popped In 12-Pound Pot Stop Poughkeepsie Pair Popped In 12-Pound Pot Stop
Poughkeepsie Pair Popped In 12-Pound Pot Stop A pair of Poughkeepsie pot buyers were interrupted by investigators from New Jersey who found them carrying 12 pounds of the drug, authorities said. Tipped off a short time earlier that Sashagaye Brown, 31, of Paterson, N.J., was selling large quantities of marijuana in the area, investigators moved in Friday during a deal in Hackensack and found the pot in the trunk, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. They arrested Brown, along with Kevin Marsh, 39, and Dale Smart, 38, all of whom are unemployed, he said. An underage girl in Brown’s care who was in the vehicle was taken to hi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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VIDEO: Blaze Rips Through Secor Family's Mahwah Home VIDEO: Blaze Rips Through Secor Family's Mahwah Home VIDEO: Blaze Rips Through Secor Family's Mahwah Home
Video: Blaze Rips Through Secor Family's Mahwah Home MAHWAH, N.J. -- No injuries were reported in an electrical fire that roared through the home of the popular family that owns Secor Farms in Mahwah. The blaze began "either in an extension cord or timer connected to outdoor Christmas lights" on the porch and ripped through Darryl and Jackie Secor's home on Airmount Avenue -- right next to their farm -- just as night began to fall Saturday, Police James N. Batelli said. Darryl Secor discovered the fire around 4:15 p.m., notified authorities and tried to put it out, sustaining minor burns to his hands and his face, for which he was t…

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