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
Paterson Man Charged With Attempted Murder In Shooting Paterson Man Charged With Attempted Murder In Shooting Paterson Man Charged With Attempted Murder In Shooting
Paterson Man Charged With Attempted Murder In Shooting PATERSON, N.J. -- Paterson police, already having tracked down and charged suspects in a pair of killings, arrested a city man who they said shot another earlier this month. Criminal Warrant Squad detectives took Boris Capers, 45, into custody on attempted murder and weapons charges after finding him at a Straight Street residence late Tuesday morning, city Police Director Jerry Speziale said. The 51-year-old victim was shot in the leg in the 100 block of Cedar Street around 10 p.m. April 15, Speziale said. He was later treated at to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, the director said. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgefield Firefighters Rescue Pooch Trapped In Recliner Gears Ridgefield Firefighters Rescue Pooch Trapped In Recliner Gears Ridgefield Firefighters Rescue Pooch Trapped In Recliner Gears
Ridgefield Firefighters Rescue Pooch Trapped In Recliner Gears RIDGEFIELD, N.J. -- A terrified pup quickly turned adoring Tuesday afternoon after Ridgefield firefighters rescued the furry Pomeranian-Husky mix from a sectional recliner's gears. The chair's coils twisted the 1-year-old Mia's thickly textured coat and skin into the mechanism, making it impossible for her to get free, Capt. David Brierty of Ridgefield Engine/Rescue Company No. 2 told Daily Voice. "We had to take apart the chair just so we could bring her out to see how badly she was in there," Brierty said. "We brought her out with the motor still attached," the capta…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Mother Abandons Baby At Clifton Library, Police Say Mother Abandons Baby At Clifton Library, Police Say Mother Abandons Baby At Clifton Library, Police Say
Mother Abandons Baby At Clifton Library, Police Say CLIFTON, N.J. -- An Atlantic City woman abandoned her 13-month-old baby at the Clifton Public Library, said police who chased down the mother and got the boy into the custody of child welfare officials. The 33-year-old mother entered the Piaget Avenue library around noon Monday holding the baby in her arms, then left him and a bag of belonging with a volunteer and said she'd be right back, Lt. Robert Bracken told Daily Voice. Library staff "immediately contacted the police and afforded care to the child until officers arrived," Bracken said. Officer Randy Colondres chased the wom…

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
West Milford Woman: Road Rager Hit Me With Soda Bottle In Bloomingdale West Milford Woman: Road Rager Hit Me With Soda Bottle In Bloomingdale West Milford Woman: Road Rager Hit Me With Soda Bottle In Bloomingdale
West Milford Woman: Road Rager Hit Me With Soda Bottle In Bloomingdale BLOOMINGDALE, N.J. -- Bloomingdale police turned to the public for help Tuesday investigating what a female driver told them was a road rage incident in which she said a soda bottle thrown through her window injured her face. The 55-year-old woman first took to Facebook with her account, which she then gave to police. It began around 6:30 a.m. Saturday in the Otterhole Road area of West Milford (top of map above) while she was driving a red Dodge wagon, the woman told police. The driver of a white Ram ProMaster van (similar to the one pictured above) began following her, then pulled very c…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Parked Fair Lawn Lumber Yard Truck Slammed By SUV, Sedan Parked Fair Lawn Lumber Yard Truck Slammed By SUV, Sedan Parked Fair Lawn Lumber Yard Truck Slammed By SUV, Sedan
Parked Fair Lawn Lumber Yard Truck Slammed By SUV, Sedan FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- No one was hospitalized and no summonses were immediately issued after an SUV and a sedan both slammed into a parked lumber yard truck in Fair Lawn on Tuesday. The crash occurred in the same neighborhood that was closed off early Saturday after a dozen candles that looked like M-80s were placed in jars of baby food and left in the middle of intersections. "Our truck was parked and empty when a white Suzuki pulled out from the gym across the street and collided with a Honda" around 9:30 a.m., Rick Merchant of Blue Ridge Lumber Company on Banta Place told Daily Vo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
2nd Murder Arrest In 24 Hours: Paterson PD Nabs Accused Killer Of Boy, 16 2nd Murder Arrest In 24 Hours: Paterson PD Nabs Accused Killer Of Boy, 16 2nd Murder Arrest In 24 Hours: Paterson PD Nabs Accused Killer Of Boy, 16
2nd Murder Arrest In 24 Hours: Paterson PD Nabs Accused Killer Of Boy, 16 PATERSON, N.J. -- Members of the Paterson Police Warrant Squad nabbed a 21-year-old city man wanted on charges of killing a 16-year-old boy in February at his home Tuesday morning, authorities said. It was the department's second murder arrest in less than 24 hours -- and the second in the Feb. 4 shooting death of Kasir Davis and the wounding of a 17-year-old companion at an Auburn Street apartment house that police said was being used as a drug den. ****** ALSO SEE: Paterson police detectives solved last the shooting death of a 16-year-old city resident in a drug den with the arrest of a …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Prospect Park PD: Stoned Driver With Tinted Windows Had Heroin, Cocaine Prospect Park PD: Stoned Driver With Tinted Windows Had Heroin, Cocaine Prospect Park PD: Stoned Driver With Tinted Windows Had Heroin, Cocaine
Prospect Park PD: Stoned Driver With Tinted Windows Had Heroin, Cocaine PROSPECT PARK, N.J. – A driver stopped by Prospect Park police who admitted he’d been smoking pot earlier had several ounces of heroin, along with cocaine and drug packaging materials in his car, authorities said Tuesday. Officer Daniel Rinaldi and Sgt. Amy Perlmutter stopped the 2008 Ford Focus for having tinted windows on East Main and North 6th Street late Sunday morning, Detective Walter Richmond said. Both “immediately detected a strong odor of marijuana emanating from inside the vehicle,” Richmond said. The driver, 25-year-old Quaashir Scarborough of Paterson, “admitted to smoking ma…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority PD: GWB Driver Bolts, Busted With Gun In Hidden Compartment Port Authority PD: GWB Driver Bolts, Busted With Gun In Hidden Compartment Port Authority PD: GWB Driver Bolts, Busted With Gun In Hidden Compartment
Port Authority PD: GWB Driver Bolts, Busted With Gun In Hidden Compartment FORT LEE, N.J. -- An erratic driver pulling onto the George Washington Bridge had a secret compartment built into his car that contained a loaded gun, Port Authority police said Tuesday. Officers Patrick Devins and Collin Journey pulled over the 2003 Honda sedan around 5:30 p.m. Monday as the driver abruptly changed lanes and crossed a solid white line headed to the lower level of the GWB in Fort Lee, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. Devins and Journey "immediately spotted modifications to the Honda that indicated a hidden compartment," Pentangelo said. Haniel …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood Councilman Who Championed Towing Reforms Has Car Towed Englewood Councilman Who Championed Towing Reforms Has Car Towed Englewood Councilman Who Championed Towing Reforms Has Car Towed
Englewood Councilman Who Championed Towing Reforms Has Car Towed ENGLEWOOD, N.J. — An Englewood councilman who championed efforts to amend the city's towing ordinance had his own car hooked after police discovered it had gone unregistered for a year, according to a taped recording obtained by Daily Voice. Councilman Charles Cobb identifies himself, gives a police dispatcher his license plate number and asks why the vehicle was towed from in front of his house on the call, recorded at 10:30 a.m. last Dec. 11. The car was towed at 6 a.m. that day because its registration expired in January 2016, the dispatcher tells Cobb on the call, a recording of which w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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SEEN HER? Wayne PD Seeks Help Finding Suspect In $15,000 Costco Thefts SEEN HER? Wayne PD Seeks Help Finding Suspect In $15,000 Costco Thefts SEEN HER? Wayne PD Seeks Help Finding Suspect In $15,000 Costco Thefts
Seen HER? Wayne PD Seeks Help Finding Suspect In $15,000 Costco Thefts WAYNE, N.J. -- Wayne police sought the public's help identifying and finding a woman who they said was part of a ring that bought more than $15,000 worth of goods -- including 65-inch TVs -- at Costco stores in North Jersey by using credit cards created with a skimming device that captured victims' account information. Police responding to a call at the local Costco on March 16 said the woman, approached by security, bolted from the store after trying to make a fraudulent credit card purchase, Capt. Laurence W. Martin said Tuesday. It was the same woman, they told police, who'd gotten away …

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