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

Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Lodi PD Investigating Whether Accused Robber Held Up Route 46 Gas Station Lodi PD Investigating Whether Accused Robber Held Up Route 46 Gas Station Lodi PD Investigating Whether Accused Robber Held Up Route 46 Gas Station
Lodi PD Investigating Whether Accused Robber Held Up Route 46 Gas Station LODI, N.J. -- Lodi detectives were trying to determine Friday whether a man captured by Ramsey police who said he took $560 at gunpoint from a Route 17 gas station Thursday night is the same one who tried to hold up a Route 46 station less than 90 minutes earlier. Frank Joseph Diaz, 22, of Mahwah pointed a BB gun that resembled a Glock semi-automatic handgun at a Valero station attendant in Upper Saddle River around 10:40 p.m. Thursday, USR Detective Lt. Edward Kane told Daily Voice. Ramsey Sgt. Mike Parise and Officer Casey Hines were on patrol when they spotted the fleeing 5-foot-6-inch, …

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Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Ramsey Police Nab Suspected Gunman In Upper Saddle River Gas Station Holdup Ramsey Police Nab Suspected Gunman In Upper Saddle River Gas Station Holdup Ramsey Police Nab Suspected Gunman In Upper Saddle River Gas Station Holdup
Ramsey Police Nab Suspected Gunman In Upper Saddle River Gas Station Holdup UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J. -- Ramsey police captured a Mahwah man who took $560 at gunpoint from a Route 17 gas station Thursday night in Upper Saddle River -- and was suspected in similar but aborted attempts in Lodi and Ramsey, authorities told Daily Voice. Frank Joseph Diaz, 22, pointed a BB gun that resembled a Glock semi-automatic handgun at the Valero station attendant around 10:40 p.m. Thursday, Upper Saddle River Detective Lt. Edward Kane said. Ramsey Sgt. Mike Parise and Officer Casey Hines were on patrol when they spotted the fleeing 5-foot-6-inch, 165-pound Diaz as he tried to get …

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Special Procession Planned For Beloved Mahwah EMT Greg Antonetti, 57 Special Procession Planned For Beloved Mahwah EMT Greg Antonetti, 57 Special Procession Planned For Beloved Mahwah EMT Greg Antonetti, 57
Special Procession Planned For Beloved Mahwah EMT Greg Antonetti, 57 MAHWAH, N.J. -- He loved good food and music, fine cigars, Martha's Vineyard and, particularly, his wife, Dejah Olsen. But most of all, Mahwah EMS charter member and former Deputy Chief Gregory M.  Antonetti loved his extended family -- the countless heavy-hearted emergency responders who mourn his passing at 57 years old. A private cremation will be held Saturday after an 11 a.m. service at Van Emburgh-Sneider-Pernice Funeral Home in Ramsey for Antonetti, who died peacefully early Wednesday at Villa Marie Claire in Saddle River after being taken there "with love and dignity" by f…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
PHOTOS: Fleeing Jeep Driver In Elmwood Crash Caught In Paterson PHOTOS: Fleeing Jeep Driver In Elmwood Crash Caught In Paterson PHOTOS: Fleeing Jeep Driver In Elmwood Crash Caught In Paterson
Photos: Fleeing Jeep Driver In Elmwood Crash Caught In Paterson ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- Quick-moving police nabbed a fleeing driver moments after his Jeep t-boned a female motorist's sedan, pushing it onto a sidewalk and into an office building in Elmwood Park, authorities told Daily Voice. "Her car was crossing Broadway/Route 4 through the cut-through when the Jeep T-boned her and pushed her onto the sidewalk and into the building, totaling the car and damaging the building," Police Chief Michael Foligno said. "He kept going west on Broadway -- without the license plate," said Foligno, who raced to the scene. "We ran the plate, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Cliffside Park Mom Charged With Torching Apartment Cliffside Park Mom Charged With Torching Apartment Cliffside Park Mom Charged With Torching Apartment
Cliffside Park Mom Charged With Torching Apartment CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. – A Cliffside Park woman set her apartment on fire and tried to take off with her two young children in a cab on Tuesday, authorities who arrested her on aggravated arson and child endangerment charges said Thursday. Laila Abualia, 26, was ordered held in the Bergen County Jail pending a bail hearing. The building superintendent told police and firefighters who responded to Tuesday’s fire at the 11-unit building at 238 Day Avenue that Abualia lived there with Imad Awawda and their two children – ages 3 and 5, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. The buildi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Feds: Sheriff's Officer Imposter In Paterson Home Invasion Formally Charged Feds: Sheriff's Officer Imposter In Paterson Home Invasion Formally Charged Feds: Sheriff's Officer Imposter In Paterson Home Invasion Formally Charged
Feds: Sheriff's Officer Imposter In Paterson Home Invasion Formally Charged PATERSON, N.J. – A Paterson ex-con accused of pulling off a home invasion by posing as a Passaic County sheriff's officer with a man who's already admitted his role in the crime was brought into federal court on Thursday for a formal arraignment.  Jason Thompson, 34 (above, left), is charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, using a gun during a violent crime and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Last December, Clemente R. Carlos of Newark (above, right) told a federal judge that he and Thompson conspired with an unidentified getaway car driver to hold up the resident who…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Oakland Police Revive Two OD Victims Less Than 24 Hours Apart Oakland Police Revive Two OD Victims Less Than 24 Hours Apart Oakland Police Revive Two OD Victims Less Than 24 Hours Apart
Oakland Police Revive Two OD Victims Less Than 24 Hours Apart OAKLAND, N.J. – Oakland police revived two overdosing drug users in less than a day with Narcan. Responding to an emergency call at a Riverside Drive home just before 10 p.m. Tuesday, Acting Sgt. Ryan O'Keefe and Officers Gary Fiore and Joseph Noury found an unresponsive 40-year-old Haskell man in the bathroom and a woman trying to revive him, Lt. Christian Eldridge told Daily Voice. O’Keefe administered two doses of Narcan and he “began to breathe on his own and later started to speak,” Eldridge said. The Oakland First Aid Squad took him to a local hospital for further treatment and evalu…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Missing Mahwah Native Accused In Highway Body Dumping Caught Missing Mahwah Native Accused In Highway Body Dumping Caught Missing Mahwah Native Accused In Highway Body Dumping Caught
Missing Mahwah Native Accused In Highway Body Dumping Caught MAHWAH, N.J. -- A Mahwah native who avoided capture for two weeks after being charged with dumping a woman’s body late last month in Central Jersey was caught at a New Brunswick motel, authorities said Thursday. Nicole Barbour, 26, was staying at the Red Carpet Inn on Route 1 when, according to Somerset County Prosecutor Michael H. Robertson, FBI agents and detectives from his Major Crimes Unit and Branchburg police took her into custody around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. A judge ordered Barbour held in the Somerset County Jail pending a detention hearing Thursday afternoon on charges of disturbin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: Lyndhurst Firefighters Rescue Kitten, Homes From Garage Blaze VIDEO: Lyndhurst Firefighters Rescue Kitten, Homes From Garage Blaze VIDEO: Lyndhurst Firefighters Rescue Kitten, Homes From Garage Blaze
Video: Lyndhurst Firefighters Rescue Kitten, Homes From Garage Blaze LYNDHURST, N.J. -- Lyndhurst firefighters rescued a kitten while keeping a fully-involved detached garage fire from seriously damaging nearby homes Wednesday afternoon. UPDATE: Hair Stylist Leaves Appointment With Client Whose House Was On Fire Flames from the garage behind the Kingsland Avenue home extended to the rear living room, rendering it temporarily inhabitable for its two residents, after the blaze broke out just after 4 p.m., Fire Chief Joseph Roofe told Daily Voice. Two neighboring homes sustained some heat damage, said Roofe, who commended his crew for "aggressively stoppi…

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Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Lyndhurst Police Receive Prestigious Award Lyndhurst Police Receive Prestigious Award Lyndhurst Police Receive Prestigious Award
Lyndhurst Police Receive Prestigious Award LYNDHURST, N.J. – Lyndhurst officials are basking in the glow of recognition given to members of the borough police department through a prestigious award from The New Jersey Narcotics Enforcement Officers Association. The NJNEOA selected the department’s Patrol/CriminaI Investigation divisions for this year's Individual Guns, Gangs, and Narcotics Law Enforcement Award. "I couldn't be prouder of our police department," said Public Safety Director John Montillo. "From our police chief down, we have extremely talented and dedicated individuals who help to keep our community and…

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