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

Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah Mayor: Wells Thought Tainted By Spent Shells Were Already Shut Mahwah Mayor: Wells Thought Tainted By Spent Shells Were Already Shut Mahwah Mayor: Wells Thought Tainted By Spent Shells Were Already Shut
Mahwah Mayor: Wells Thought Tainted By Spent Shells Were Already Shut MAHWAH, N.J. -- Spent lead bullets found in a remote section of a firing range at the Bergen County Law and Public Safety Training Institute in Mahwah has some concerned that contaminants have leached into the Ramapo River -- a source of township drinking water. However, Mayor Bill LaForet said Friday afternoon that the three wells in question were sealed years ago. What's more, he said, "the last time the wells were tested for lead was on 4/27/2016." Other wells along the Ramapo River all tested below the reporting limit, the mayor said. "Our wells are tested frequently an…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
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'Unattended Construction Equipment' Sparked Garfield Fire That Injured 2 'Unattended Construction Equipment' Sparked Garfield Fire That Injured 2 'Unattended Construction Equipment' Sparked Garfield Fire That Injured 2
'Unattended Construction Equipment' Sparked Garfield Fire That Injured 2 GARFIELD, N.J. -- Two firefighters were treated for minor injuries after they fell through a floor in an early Friday blaze at a Garfield house under renovation, Fire Chief Edward J. Morano said. Both "were assisted out of the building under their own power" before being treated at Hackensack University Medical Center, the chief said. No other injuries were reported in the two-alarm Banta Avenue fire, which broke out around 6:30 a.m. and was brought under control within 45 minutes, Morano said. The Garfield fire official "determined the fire started due to unattended constru…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Teen Released From Hospital After Rear-Ended Jeep Rolls Into River In Lodi Teen Released From Hospital After Rear-Ended Jeep Rolls Into River In Lodi Teen Released From Hospital After Rear-Ended Jeep Rolls Into River In Lodi
Teen Released From Hospital After Rear-Ended Jeep Rolls Into River In Lodi LODI, N.J. -- The 17-year-old driver of a Jeep that rolled into the Saddle River in Lodi after it was struck from behind Thursday afternoon was home several hours later -- a bit rattled but no worse for wear, her mother said. Kailyn Anderson was "a little shaken up and scared" but otherwise physically OK, Jocelyn Anderson said after she was discharged from Hackensack University Medical Center around 8 p.m. Thursday. The Jeep Patriot rolled three times down a ravine before landing wheels-down in the river, Anderson told Daily Voice from the HUMC emergency room.  Witnesses told Dai…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Woman Burned On Hand, Face In Elmwood Park Home Gas Explosion Woman Burned On Hand, Face In Elmwood Park Home Gas Explosion Woman Burned On Hand, Face In Elmwood Park Home Gas Explosion
Woman Burned On Hand, Face In Elmwood Park Home Gas Explosion ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- A woman was hospitalized with hand and facial burns Thursday night after a gas explosion in an Elmwood Park house, police told Daily Voice. "A stove in a first-floor kitchen was leaking gas and there was an explosion," Police Chief Michael Foligno told Daily Voice. "We have an adult female victim with minor to moderate burns to her face and hand." She was taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson, the chief said. Firefighters, police and and other emergency responders rushed to the Martha Avenue home after windows and a garage door …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson Native Who Was Among Last Pearl Harbor Victims Honored Paterson Native Who Was Among Last Pearl Harbor Victims Honored Paterson Native Who Was Among Last Pearl Harbor Victims Honored
Paterson Native Who Was Among Last Pearl Harbor Victims Honored PATERSON, N.J. -- A water cannon salute was part of a solemn ceremony held Thursday at Newark Airport for Master Chief Petty Officer Raymond Haerry, a Paterson native who was one of last surviving members of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. American Airlines Flight #2321 left the airport in the morning carrying Haerry's remains following a tribute to his life and service from staff from the Port Authority -- among them, a police bagpiper and honor guard and PAPD Chaplain Rabbi Mendy Carlebach -- as well as members of the Transportation Security Administration and American Airlines. Haerr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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VIDEO: Wayne Police Hunt Houses Of Worship Car Burglar VIDEO: Wayne Police Hunt Houses Of Worship Car Burglar VIDEO: Wayne Police Hunt Houses Of Worship Car Burglar
Video: Wayne Police Hunt Houses Of Worship Car Burglar WAYNE, N.J. -- Wayne police on Thursday released surveillance video of a man suspected in a series of car burglaries -- some while congregants gathered inside houses of worship. The break-ins occurred around noon Sunday in the area of the Valley and Preakness shopping centers and parking lots of houses of worship, Capt. Laurence Martin said. The thief "walks though the lot stopping at cars momentarily," Martin said. "It appears he is electronically manipulating the car locks with some unseen device," the captain said. "Once inside the vehicle he steals money, cred…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson Heroin Ringleader Gets 3½-Year Parole Minimum Paterson Heroin Ringleader Gets 3½-Year Parole Minimum Paterson Heroin Ringleader Gets 3½-Year Parole Minimum
Paterson Heroin Ringleader Gets 3½-Year Parole Minimum PATERSON, N.J. -- The top member of a ring that flooded Paterson with heroin was sentenced Thursday to a plea-bargained 3½-year minimum prison stretch before he's eligible for parole. Marino Pimentel-Tejada, 35, whose total sentence is 10 years, wasn't the only one who cut a deal on charges of participating in a heroin production facility. Sentenced to five years each in prison in exchange for guilty pleas -- with parole eligibility after 51 months -- were three fellow Paterson residents: Yinsys Pimentel-Tejada, 28;Manuel Garcia-Tejada, 31;Nuris Dominguez-Lara, 34. State Police who smashe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Prospect Park PD: 16-Year-Old Passenger Packed Fully-Loaded Stolen Handgun Prospect Park PD: 16-Year-Old Passenger Packed Fully-Loaded Stolen Handgun Prospect Park PD: 16-Year-Old Passenger Packed Fully-Loaded Stolen Handgun
Prospect Park PD: 16-Year-Old Passenger Packed Fully-Loaded Stolen Handgun PROSPECT PARK, N.J. – A 16-year-old front-seat passenger in a car stopped for a noisy muffler was carrying a fully-loaded handgun reported stolen out of Florida, Prospect Park police said Thursday. Officers who pulled over the 2004 Honda Accord on Haledon Avenue and Kossuth Street late Tuesday found the .380 Bersa Thunder handgun with seven full-metal jacket rounds in the magazine and one in the chamber, said Capt. Ammen Matari. It had been reported stolen out of Orlando, he said. Police filed a delinquency complaint against the teen charging him with weapons offenses and receiving stolen …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah Native Accused In Highway Body Dumping Found, Charged Mahwah Native Accused In Highway Body Dumping Found, Charged Mahwah Native Accused In Highway Body Dumping Found, Charged
Mahwah Native Accused In Highway Body Dumping Found, Charged MAHWAH, N.J. -- A Mahwah native who for two weeks eluded authorities who charged her with dumping a woman’s body late last month in Central Jersey was captured in a New Brunswick motel early Wednesday. 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 disturbing human re…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Tappan-Blauvelt, NY
Breaking News
Search Continues For Former Blauvelt Resident In Highway Body Dumping Search Continues For Former Blauvelt Resident In Highway Body Dumping Search Continues For Former Blauvelt Resident In Highway Body Dumping
Search Continues For Former Blauvelt Resident In Highway Body Dumping Authorities this week continued a search for a former Blauvelt resident in connection with the death of a New Jersey woman whose body was found hidden amid brush on a highway median. Nicole Barbour, a 26-year-old Mahwah native, was charged in a warrant with illegally disturbing human remains in the death of Ashley M. Castro, 29, following the April 5 discovery on Route 22 in Central New Jersey. Authorities said Barbour and a Pennsylvania man moved the victim's body from a motel across the highway into the brush six days earlier. After identifying the victim, investigators zeroed in on 32-y…

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