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

Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood PD: Bank Robber May Be Local, Reward Offered Englewood PD: Bank Robber May Be Local, Reward Offered Englewood PD: Bank Robber May Be Local, Reward Offered
Englewood PD: Bank Robber May Be Local, Reward Offered ENGLEWOOD, N.J. -- Englewood police on Wednesday released a surveillance image of a masked bank robber who wore rubber gloves and fled with an undisclosed amount of cash from the NVE branch on Grand Avenue five minutes before closing time Monday. They think he or she might live in the area. The tall robber entered the bank at 4:55 p.m. wearing a dark-colored hoodie up, sunglasses and "something light-colored covering the bottom portion" of his or her face, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell told Daily Voice. The robber "held up a note with writing on it while giving verbal instr…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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TRIBUTE: Memories Of Slain Fair Lawn Female Police Officer Still Glow TRIBUTE: Memories Of Slain Fair Lawn Female Police Officer Still Glow TRIBUTE: Memories Of Slain Fair Lawn Female Police Officer Still Glow
Tribute: Memories Of Slain Fair Lawn Female Police Officer Still Glow FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- Rushing to help a brother in blue, Fair Lawn's first female police officer didn't know that a murderous ex-con would emerge firing from a car that crashed on a church lawn and kill her. She wasn't calculating her pension or considering whether to boost vision coverage the night of April 17, 2003. Officer Mary Ann Collura was simply doing what she always did -- help someone in need. As dozens gathered Monday outside Borough Hall for a solemn memorial at the monument carved in her honor -- depicting Collura handing her trademark glow sticks to youngsters -- it was clear t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Helicopters Control Ramapo Reservation Brush Fire Helicopters Control Ramapo Reservation Brush Fire Helicopters Control Ramapo Reservation Brush Fire
Helicopters Control Ramapo Reservation Brush Fire MAHWAH, N.J. -- A brush fire that spread more than five acres on the Ramapo Reservation in Mahwah was brought under control Monday afternoon by the New Jersey State Forest Fire Service with help from helicopters and local firefighters. Tbe service used helicopter water drops at the site, beyond Upper Lake by the Yellow-Silver Trail, after the blaze was initially reported at 2:43 p.m. Mahwah and Ramsey firefighters and Mahwah police joined in all-terrain vehicles. Hillburn firefighters provided mutual aid. State authorities released the local units a little under two hours after the initial…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen Schools Get Narcan, Training From Valley, Mahwah PD, Muni Alliance Bergen Schools Get Narcan, Training From Valley, Mahwah PD, Muni Alliance Bergen Schools Get Narcan, Training From Valley, Mahwah PD, Muni Alliance
Bergen Schools Get Narcan, Training From Valley, Mahwah PD, Muni Alliance MAHWAH, N.J. – Mahwah police, the Municipal Alliance and The Valley Hospital will provide a training class and a free Narcan kit to nurses at Bergen County public and parochial schools in what is believed to be the first initiative of its kind in the county to fight the heroin scourge, township Police Chief James N Batelli announced Monday. Training in administering the heroin/opioid nasal-spray antidote is set for April 26 at township police headquarters. Dr. Marc Dreier, an emergency room physician at the Valley Hospital, will conduct two sessions for what are expected to be 100 or so nur…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Monsey, NY
Breaking News
Gang Member Points To Rockland Accomplices In Bar, Cab Robberies Gang Member Points To Rockland Accomplices In Bar, Cab Robberies Gang Member Points To Rockland Accomplices In Bar, Cab Robberies
Gang Member Points To Rockland Accomplices In Bar, Cab Robberies ROCKLAND COUNTY, N.Y. – A gang member admitted that he participated in carjacking, kidnapping and leaving a New Jersey cab driver for dead after he and fellow crew members -- two of them from Rockland County -- held up a bar. Jostin Vidal Reyes, 21, of Waldwick, NJ became the third defendant of five charged to take a plea deal from federal prosecutors in Newark. He told a U.S. District Court Judge there on Monday that he and other members of the 18th Street Gang got into a cab in Paterson around 3 a.m. on Dec. 26, 2015 for a ride to Waldwick. The crew members took control of the cab in Rid…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Waldwick Gang Member Admits Role In Ridgewood Cab, Hawthorne Bar Robberies Waldwick Gang Member Admits Role In Ridgewood Cab, Hawthorne Bar Robberies Waldwick Gang Member Admits Role In Ridgewood Cab, Hawthorne Bar Robberies
Waldwick Gang Member Admits Role In Ridgewood Cab, Hawthorne Bar Robberies WALDWICK, N.J. – A Waldwick gang member admitted Monday that he participated in carjacking, kidnapping and leaving a local cab driver for dead after he and four fellow crew members held up a bar. Jostin Vidal Reyes, 21, became the third defendant of five charged to take a plea deal from federal prosecutors in Newark. He told a U.S. District Court Judge there on Monday that he and other members of the 18th Street Gang got into a cab in Paterson around 3 a.m. on Dec. 26, 2015 for a ride to Waldwick. The crew members took control of the cab in Ridgewood, hit the driver in the head with a bee…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Rochelle Park PD Stop: Paramus Fugitive, Hackensack Dealer Busted Rochelle Park PD Stop: Paramus Fugitive, Hackensack Dealer Busted Rochelle Park PD Stop: Paramus Fugitive, Hackensack Dealer Busted
Rochelle Park PD Stop: Paramus Fugitive, Hackensack Dealer Busted ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. – A Lodi driver and her Hackensack passenger in a sedan reeking of pot were arrested by Rochelle Park police – her for an outstanding warrant and him for having more than a dozen small bags of marijuana for sale, authorities said Monday. Several of five adult occupants weren’t wearing seat belts when the 2009 Mercedes crossed the double yellow lines on East Passaic Street in front of Officer Ryan Burke’s patrol car on Easter Sunday, Lt. Dean Pinto said. Officer Nicholas Mercoun joined Burke, who smelled raw pot coming from the car, Pinto said. The driver, 21-year-old …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Wayne PD: 18-Year-Old Stabs Father In Back During Easter Argument Wayne PD: 18-Year-Old Stabs Father In Back During Easter Argument Wayne PD: 18-Year-Old Stabs Father In Back During Easter Argument
Wayne PD: 18-Year-Old Stabs Father In Back During Easter Argument WAYNE, N.J. -- An 18-year-old stabbed his father in the back, sending him to the hospital, during an Easter evening argument in a Wayne home, authorities confirmed Monday. The father was rushed into surgery at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson after the assault near the corner of Ratzer Road and Webster Drive around 8:30 p.m. and the weapon was recovered, they said. Further information was being withheld pending the father's condition because it was a domestic incident.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Saddle Brook Police Chief Damns 'Demand For Demon' That Killed Addict, 56 Saddle Brook Police Chief Damns 'Demand For Demon' That Killed Addict, 56 Saddle Brook Police Chief Damns 'Demand For Demon' That Killed Addict, 56
Saddle Brook Police Chief Damns 'Demand For Demon' That Killed Addict, 56 SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- The "demand for the demon" killed a 56-year-old Saddle Brook woman who died of an apparent heroin overdose over the weekend, Police Chief Robert Kugler said. Her landlord called police after finding the Midland Avenue tenant's body in her apartment around 1 p.m. Saturday, the chief said. "Although we don't like to publicly discuss the circumstances of death, we are, unfortunately, seeing heroin overdoses and deaths way too much," Kugler said. "This victim couldn't rid herself of the heroin addiction and it sadly took her life. "As we unde…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Clifton Police Quickly Nab 2 In Baseball Bat Attack Clifton Police Quickly Nab 2 In Baseball Bat Attack Clifton Police Quickly Nab 2 In Baseball Bat Attack
Clifton Police Quickly Nab 2 In Baseball Bat Attack CLIFTON, N.J. -- Clifton police quickly converged on a local man and 17-year-boy who they said hit an older man in the head with a baseball bat, sending him to the hospital. The 39-year-old Clifton resident was bleeding from the head when he flagged down a passing patrol car, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said early Monday. The victim told police two people approached him from behind in the 100 block of Clifton Avenue, then took off after assaulting him, Bracken said. Several units converged on the area. During the search, Officer John Ferraro found a suspicious-looking group in Nash Park,…

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