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.

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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Drunken Man With .327 BAC Puts Fist Through Restaurant Window, Bleeds On Cliffside Police Drunken Man With .327 BAC Puts Fist Through Restaurant Window, Bleeds On Cliffside Police Drunken Man With .327 BAC Puts Fist Through Restaurant Window, Bleeds On Cliffside Police
Drunken Man With .327 BAC Puts Fist Through Restaurant Window, Bleeds On Cliffside Police A drunken man who put his fist through a Guatemalan restaurant window bled all over Cliffside Park police while trying to fight them, authorities said. Marcus Camargo Machado, a 39-year-old Brazilian national who lives in Palisades Park, recorded a staggering .327 blood-alcohol level, Deputy Police Chief Vincent Capano said. Machado also told EMS workers that he’s HIV positive, forcing bloodwork at Palisade Medical Center in North Bergen that found he isn’t, the deputy chief said. Machado was angry about something when he shattered the window at La Estancia at the corner of Palisade and Wa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Feds Help Seize 11 Guns, Bust 14 Members, Associates Of Violent Paterson 'UpTop' Gang Feds Help Seize 11 Guns, Bust 14 Members, Associates Of Violent Paterson 'UpTop' Gang Feds Help Seize 11 Guns, Bust 14 Members, Associates Of Violent Paterson 'UpTop' Gang
Feds Help Seize 11 Guns, Bust 14 Members, Associates Of Violent Paterson 'UpTop' Gang Federal agents united with local and county law enforcers to disarm several members of one of Paterson’s most violent street gangs. Members of the “UpTop” crew packed heat while slinging heroin and pot in the urban war zone that is the Silk City’s 4th Ward, authorities said. In response, the ATF teamed up with Passaic County prosecutor’s detectives, members of the Passaic County Sheriff’s Office and Paterson police, as well as several other local, county, state and federal agencies. A total of 11 guns were seized and 14 people charged locally and federally in a joint operation that began …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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'Forgotten Baby' Prank: Police Called To Paramus Malls Aren't Laughing 'Forgotten Baby' Prank: Police Called To Paramus Malls Aren't Laughing 'Forgotten Baby' Prank: Police Called To Paramus Malls Aren't Laughing
'Forgotten Baby' Prank: Police Called To Paramus Malls Aren't Laughing Shades of "Raising Arizona." As pranks go, the forgotten baby on the car roof is particularly cruel because of the scare it gives people.  That's why police weren't laughing when someone drove a Tesla with New York plates through the parking lots of all three major malls in Paramus on Monday with looked like a genuine baby in a car seat on the roof. Not only is the stunt callous, they said. Depending on who the punk'd bystanders are, the gagman could end up getting thrown a beatin'. "Although incidents of baby car seats left in parking lots and on vehicles has occurred in our shopping mal…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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PUNITIVE DAMAGE: Bergen Judge Made Misogynist TikTok Videos In Chambers, In Bed: Complaint PUNITIVE DAMAGE: Bergen Judge Made Misogynist TikTok Videos In Chambers, In Bed: Complaint PUNITIVE DAMAGE: Bergen Judge Made Misogynist TikTok Videos In Chambers, In Bed: Complaint
Punitive Damage: Bergen Judge Made Misogynist TikTok Videos In Chambers, In Bed: Complaint A New Jersey criminal judge is accused of creating offensive videos in his chambers at the Bergen County courthouse in Hackensack, as well as partly undressed in his bed. Using a pseudonym," Superior Court Judge Gary N. Wilcox created 40 public TikTok videos, some containing profanity and graphic sexual terms for body parts, others with violent, misogynist and racist terms, a complaint against him alleges. In one video, Wilcox wears a “Beavis and Butt-Head” T-shirt while walking through the county courthouse to the sound of the Nas song "Get Down," which concerns a courtroom shooting and t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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Death Of SUV Driver Struck By Overnight Freight Train Was Suicide, Bergenfield Police Say Death Of SUV Driver Struck By Overnight Freight Train Was Suicide, Bergenfield Police Say Death Of SUV Driver Struck By Overnight Freight Train Was Suicide, Bergenfield Police Say
Death Of SUV Driver Struck By Overnight Freight Train Was Suicide, Bergenfield Police Say A distraught Morris County woman intentionally drove into the path of a freight train that slammed into her SUV at a railroad crossing in Bergenfield, killing her, in the middle of the night, authorities said. The lifeless victim 42, from Jefferson, NJ, was alone in the 2019 Hyundai Santa Fe when it was struck by a CSX train at the West Central crossing and knocked onto its roof around 1 a.m. Sunday, July 2, Police Capt. William Duran said. Responding police officers found various vehicle parts strewn around, the captain said on Monday. An ALS unit pronounced the woman dead at the scene af…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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PRISONER ESCAPES: Passaic Dad, 20, Accused In Abduction Captured PRISONER ESCAPES: Passaic Dad, 20, Accused In Abduction Captured PRISONER ESCAPES: Passaic Dad, 20, Accused In Abduction Captured
Prisoner Escapes: Passaic Dad, 20, Accused In Abduction Captured UPDATE: A young dad from Passaic who escaped after being charged with parental abduction ended a manhunt when he surrendered late Monday, authorities confirmed. Isaiah Felix, 20, of Passaic had been arrested by Clifton police and charged with unlawfully entering a residence in town and taking his young son without permission on Sunday, July 2. Felix was arrested without incident after police found him with the boy at a relative's home a short time later, law enforcement sources told Daily Voice. The child wasn't in any danger, they said. Officers who took Felix to the Passaic County Jail h…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
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Gun Seized, NJ Man Busted During Busiest Travel Day Ever For Newark And US Airports Gun Seized, NJ Man Busted During Busiest Travel Day Ever For Newark And US Airports Gun Seized, NJ Man Busted During Busiest Travel Day Ever For Newark And US Airports
Gun Seized, NJ Man Busted During Busiest Travel Day Ever For Newark And US Airports A Middlesex County man tried bringing a loaded gun aboard a flight at Newark Airport on what was the busiest travel day ever not only there but throughout the United States, authorities said. The Woodbridge resident was arrested and the weapon seized on Friday, July 1, as the July 4th travel weekend shifted into high gear, the Transportation Security Administration's Lisa Farbstein said. Criminal charges and a fine that can run as high as $15,000 follow, she said. TSA officers screened 2,884,683 travelers across the country on Friday and locally screened 83,041 passengers at Newark Liberty…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Driver, 78, Hospitalized, Summonsed After Paramus Crash Driver, 78, Hospitalized, Summonsed After Paramus Crash Driver, 78, Hospitalized, Summonsed After Paramus Crash
Driver, 78, Hospitalized, Summonsed After Paramus Crash A 78-year-old driver was hospitalized and received a summons after his SUV collided with another vehicle and slammed into a utility pole in Paramus on Sunday. A 10-year-old passenger in the Honda CR-V was treated for facial injuries at the scene of the 5:20 p.m. July 2 crash on Paramus Road across from Fairway Oaks Park. His mother, who was also in the SUV, was uninjured. The driver, who complained of chest pains, was issued a summons for careless driving, police at the scene said. Two adults who were in a Chevy Equinox that was struck by the Honda weren't injured. The Honda CR-V coll…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Towson, MD
Breaking News
MASS SHOOTING: Two Killed, Dozens Wounded At Baltimore Block Party, Mayor: 'We Will Find You' MASS SHOOTING: Two Killed, Dozens Wounded At Baltimore Block Party, Mayor: 'We Will Find You' MASS SHOOTING: Two Killed, Dozens Wounded At Baltimore Block Party, Mayor: 'We Will Find You'
Mass Shooting: Two Killed, Dozens Wounded At Baltimore Block Party, Mayor: 'We Will Find You' An 18-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man were killed and 28 others wounded in a mass shooting at a late-night block party in Baltimore. No arrests had been announced, nor suspects identified, as of noontime Sunday, June 2. However, Mayor Brandon Scott said it's just a matter of time. Nine people were rushed to hospitals from the scene and another 20 got there either via private vehicle or on foot following one of Charm City’s largest mass shootings ever. Three of the injured were in critical condition, authorities said. Witnesses reported hearing 20 to 30 shots at what has been an annu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Bogota Man Charged After Accidentally Shooting Himself, Blaming Drive-By: Police Bogota Man Charged After Accidentally Shooting Himself, Blaming Drive-By: Police Bogota Man Charged After Accidentally Shooting Himself, Blaming Drive-By: Police
Bogota Man Charged After Accidentally Shooting Himself, Blaming Drive-By: Police A 30-year-old Bogota man was arrested after accidentally shooting himself in the leg and claiming he was the victim of a drive-by, authorities said. Officers called to the 100 block of West Fort Lee Road at 3:40 a.m. Saturday, July 1, found Frederick Bambo Jr., formerly of Paterson, with a gunshot wound in his upper left thigh, Sgt. Geoffrey Cole said. They rendered aid until a Little Ferry EMS rig and paramedics from Holy Name Medical Center arrived. Bambo -- who claimed that a silver vehicle fled the scene after the shooting -- was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, Cole said…

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