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

Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
3-Month-Old Boy In Saddle Brook Fall Dies 3-Month-Old Boy In Saddle Brook Fall Dies 3-Month-Old Boy In Saddle Brook Fall Dies
3-Month-Old Boy In Saddle Brook Fall Dies SADDLE BROOK, N.J. – A 3-month-old boy who was taken off life support after injuring his head in an accidental fall at a family member's home died Friday. "Baby Reece passed away today at 12:03 p.m. Everyone has been so supportive and generous. Nicole and Mark cannot thank you enough," Benjamin DiFranco wrote on a GoFundMe page established for the boy’s parents, Nicole Nicastro and Mark Modzelewski. Reece Modzelewski "has taken his last breath and received his wings," wrote Cecilia Vilchez. "He was surrounded by all who loved him including those in spirit. "I …

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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgefield Police: Thieves Are Fishing Checks From Mailboxes Ridgefield Police: Thieves Are Fishing Checks From Mailboxes Ridgefield Police: Thieves Are Fishing Checks From Mailboxes
Ridgefield Police: Thieves Are Fishing Checks From Mailboxes RIDGEFIELD, N.J. -- Thieves are fishing envelopes containing checks and cash from various free-standing mailboxes throughout Ridgefield, say police who are urging citizens to go inside the post office to mail money. The more common tools are hardly sophisticated: Sometimes it's nothing more than a weighted line covered with reversed duct tape or rat-trap glue. Dozens of borough residents and merchants have reported losing money -- at the time of year when a large number of checks and cash are sent as gifts or payments. "Once stolen, the check is forged and cashed," said a borough…

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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Cliffside Park Firefighters Douse Apartment Blaze Cliffside Park Firefighters Douse Apartment Blaze Cliffside Park Firefighters Douse Apartment Blaze
Cliffside Park Firefighters Douse Apartment Blaze CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. -- Flames shot out a first-floor window before Cliffside Park firefighters quickly put down an apartment blaze Tuesday afternoon. No injuries were immediately reported in the two-alarm fire, which broke out in the 200 block of Washington Place just after 1:30 p.m. Firefighters had the blaze extinguished within 20 minutes. Fairview firefighters sent a ladder truck, while Ridgefield and Fort Lee remained on standby.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority PD: Flier Tries Toting Gun Through Newark Airport Checkpoint Port Authority PD: Flier Tries Toting Gun Through Newark Airport Checkpoint Port Authority PD: Flier Tries Toting Gun Through Newark Airport Checkpoint
Port Authority PD: Flier Tries Toting Gun Through Newark Airport Checkpoint A Pennsylvania man had a loaded gun in his backpack as he passed through a Newark Airport checkpoint, said Port Authority police who arrested him. "The .40-caliber semi-automatic handgun was among the man’s carry-on items as he entered one of the airport checkpoints," the authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. The checkpoint X-ray machine detected the pistol, Port Authority police were summoned and the area was shut down, Pentangelo said. PAPD officers arrested 30-year-old Christopher C. Brown of Morrisville, PA and seized the gun, he said.

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson Police Seize Uzi, Arrest Three Minutes After Shots Fired Paterson Police Seize Uzi, Arrest Three Minutes After Shots Fired Paterson Police Seize Uzi, Arrest Three Minutes After Shots Fired
Paterson Police Seize Uzi, Arrest Three Minutes After Shots Fired PATERSON, N.J. -- Paterson police seized an Uzi loaded with a 25-round magazine while arresting three men -- two from the city, the other from Brookyn -- after shots were fired on a local street. The police spotter activation system pointed officers to 30 Rose Street, where it reported five shots fired at 7:10 p.m. Monday, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. Units coordinated their efforts to find a Toyota Corolla that fled down Summer Street towards 20th Avenue and stopped it five minutes later in the 900 block of East 19th Street, Speziale said. "Inside the vehicle in plain view wa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Pair Charged In Wyckoff Y Car Burglaries After Police Chase, Crash Pair Charged In Wyckoff Y Car Burglaries After Police Chase, Crash Pair Charged In Wyckoff Y Car Burglaries After Police Chase, Crash
Pair Charged In Wyckoff Y Car Burglaries After Police Chase, Crash WYCKOFF, N.J. -- Police captured two suspected members of a national car burglary gang following a chase and crash in Upper Saddle River after they smashed windows and stole valuables from vehicles at the Wyckoff YMCA, authorities told Daily Voice. Tony Spells and La'quez Boyd, both 19 of Fort Lauderdale, were being held on $75,000 bail each in the Bergen County Jail. Police in Wyckoff and Upper Saddle River charged them with various counts of burglary, theft and resisting arrest. The pair might have had an accomplice when they entered the YMCA on Wyckoff Avenue sometime after 9 a.m. Mond…

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Tappan-Blauvelt, NY
Breaking News
Driver, 21, In Pearl River Crash Registered 2X Legal Limit, Police Say Driver, 21, In Pearl River Crash Registered 2X Legal Limit, Police Say Driver, 21, In Pearl River Crash Registered 2X Legal Limit, Police Say
Driver, 21, In Pearl River Crash Registered 2X Legal Limit, Police Say ORANGETOWN, N.Y. – Orangetown police said a 21-year-old Pearl River motorist registered twice the legal limit after he crashed his car on Route 304 over the weekend. Micahel Duda was standing outside the car, which was disabled on the center median, when responding officers pulled up just after 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Sgt. Kirk Vega said Monday night. He smelled of alcohol, had “glassy eyes, slurred speech and poor motor control” and failed on-scene sobriety tests, Vega said. After consenting to a breath test, Duda was charged with DWI and released pending a Dec. 20 hearing in Orangetown Just…

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Tappan-Blauvelt, NY
Breaking News
Man Punches Hole In Nyack Business' Window, Police Say Man Punches Hole In Nyack Business' Window, Police Say Man Punches Hole In Nyack Business' Window, Police Say
Man Punches Hole In Nyack Business' Window, Police Say NYACK, N.Y. – A Newburgh man was arrested after punching a hole in the front window of a downtown Nyack business, according to police. Nikai Lewis, 21, was charged with criminal mischief and ordered held on unspecified bail in the Rockland County Jail. Lewis was standing on Main Street in Nyack just before 4 a.m. Sunday when he “punched the large front window of one of the businesses, causing it to break,” Sgt. Kirk Vega of the Orangetown Police Department said.

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Driver ODs On 20 Bags Of Heroin, Crashes Car In Clifton, Revived By Police Driver ODs On 20 Bags Of Heroin, Crashes Car In Clifton, Revived By Police Driver ODs On 20 Bags Of Heroin, Crashes Car In Clifton, Revived By Police
Driver ODs On 20 Bags Of Heroin, Crashes Car In Clifton, Revived By Police CLIFTON, N.J. -- A driver was behind the wheel when she overdosed after snorting 20 bags of heroin and crashed the vehicle on Route 46 in Clifton, said police who revived her with Narcan. A physician at the scene was conducting CPR and administering mouth-to-mouth when Officers Robert Marks, Andrew Alvarez, and Todd Compesi arrived at the Crooks Avenue intersection around 3:40 p.m. Sunday, Lt. Robert Bracken said. The officers administered Narcan, which revived the 30-year-old Union woman, Bracken said Tuesday. She was conscious and alert when taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center, …

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Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Source: East Rutherford Man Finds Assaulted Girlfriend, Beats Neighbor Source: East Rutherford Man Finds Assaulted Girlfriend, Beats Neighbor Source: East Rutherford Man Finds Assaulted Girlfriend, Beats Neighbor
Source: East Rutherford Man Finds Assaulted Girlfriend, Beats Neighbor EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The boyfriend of an East Rutherford woman beat a neighbor who authorities said stabbed and nearly strangled his girlfriend moments earlier, a source with direct knowledge of the incident told Daily Voice. Monet Thomas, 25, of Kearny remained on life support late Monday, the source said. Thomas was visiting her boyfriend at the 258 Summer Street complex when she took her dog for a walk Saturday night. She'd been gone too long when the boyfriend went looking for Thomas -- and found her body in the doorway of Francis "Frankie" Tattoli's first-floor apartment…

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