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

Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Westbound Route 80 In Paterson Closed After Tractor-Trailer Jackknifes Westbound Route 80 In Paterson Closed After Tractor-Trailer Jackknifes Westbound Route 80 In Paterson Closed After Tractor-Trailer Jackknifes
Westbound Route 80 In Paterson Closed After Tractor-Trailer Jackknifes PATERSON, N.J. -- Just what the oncoming Tuesday evening rush-hour traffic needed: A jack-knifed tractor-trailer closed westbound Route 80 in Paterson just after the Market Street exit. "Rush-hour traffic hasn't even started yet and it's backed up pretty good," PJ Conklin of Butler said just after 2:30 p.m. "Just saw an accident on eastbound, as well. "Be careful out there," the Oakland native added. "The roads are horrible."

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Downed Lines From Fair Lawn Transformer Fire Ignite Rig Downed Lines From Fair Lawn Transformer Fire Ignite Rig Downed Lines From Fair Lawn Transformer Fire Ignite Rig
Downed Lines From Fair Lawn Transformer Fire Ignite Rig FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- No injuries were immediately reported in Fair Lawn after downed power lines caused by a transformer fire ignited a tractor-trailer. The blaze broke out just before 10 a.m. at Broadway and Zink Place and was quickly brought under control.

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
Tense Hours End: Wanaque, Oakland Police Find Lost Man With Medical Issues Tense Hours End: Wanaque, Oakland Police Find Lost Man With Medical Issues Tense Hours End: Wanaque, Oakland Police Find Lost Man With Medical Issues
Tense Hours End: Wanaque, Oakland Police Find Lost Man With Medical Issues WANAQUE, N.J. -- A 24-year-old man with medical issues who got lost in the woods without a coat for six chilly hours Monday was rescued after a Wanaque detective tracked his cellphone and an Oakland colleague found him. Loved ones became worried when they returned to their Wanaque home to find the family dog -- whom the man often takes on hikes in the woods -- but not him Monday afternoon, Capt. Kenneth Fackina said. Although they reached him on his cellphone, he "couldn't say where he was," the captain said. So they dialed 911. Wanaque Sgt. Keith Spillane notified borough firefi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
Video Ties 3 Vehicles To Crash That Killed West Milford Woman Walking Dog Video Ties 3 Vehicles To Crash That Killed West Milford Woman Walking Dog Video Ties 3 Vehicles To Crash That Killed West Milford Woman Walking Dog
Video Ties 3 Vehicles To Crash That Killed West Milford Woman Walking Dog WEST MILFORD, N.J. -- West Milford Police Chief Timothy Storbeck on Tuesday renewed his call for help from the public finding three vehicles that video surveillance cameras connected to the hit-and-run death of a 58-year-old township woman while walking her dog more than three weeks ago. The footage shows a pickup truck and two smaller vehicles "present at or near the time" that Kelly A. Vaughn was struck while walking her dog in the parking lot of Mount Laurel Park in the Hewitt section at Upper Greenwood Lake on Nov. 7, the chief said. "At this point in the investigation, t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Pascack Valley Teen Who Shot Himself Dies Pascack Valley Teen Who Shot Himself Dies Pascack Valley Teen Who Shot Himself Dies
Pascack Valley Teen Who Shot Himself Dies WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J.: A 17-year-old Pascack Valley Regional High School student who shot himself Sunday morning in a county park in Woodcliff Lake has died, authorities reported Wednesday morning. FULL STORY (CLICK HERE): https://pascackvalley.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/pascack-valley-high-school-student-who-shot-himself-dies/691451/ ****** PREVIOUS STORY: WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J. -- Members of the Pascack Valley Regional High School crisis response team met with students throughout the day Monday as the community tried to cope with the news that a 17-year-old classmate shot himself Sunday mor…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Obituaries
'Amazing' Teaneck Nurse Killed In Holiday Crash Recalled With Great Love 'Amazing' Teaneck Nurse Killed In Holiday Crash Recalled With Great Love 'Amazing' Teaneck Nurse Killed In Holiday Crash Recalled With Great Love
'Amazing' Teaneck Nurse Killed In Holiday Crash Recalled With Great Love TEANECK, N.J.(ARRANGEMENTS) -- Tributes continued to mount Monday for a popular labor and delivery from nurse who was killed in a Thanksgiving Day car crash barely a block from her Teaneck home. Belinda Mercado Loughlin, who was an RN at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck and at HUMC at Pascack Valley in Westwood, was "amazing individual with a compassion" for people, wrote cousin Dennis Sanabria. "I pray the healing of love from family and friends will help lessen the pain many are so feeling at this time of great sadness," Sanabria added to a wall full of photos of a …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen Prosecutor, Rutherford Police Chief Talk Race Relations At Felician Bergen Prosecutor, Rutherford Police Chief Talk Race Relations At Felician Bergen Prosecutor, Rutherford Police Chief Talk Race Relations At Felician
Bergen Prosecutor, Rutherford Police Chief Talk Race Relations At Felician RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The third event in Felician University's "Race and Criminal Justice in America" series brings Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal and borough Police Chief John Russo to the Rutherford campus Wednesday afternoon. Dr. Irfan Khawaja will serve as moderator for the "Community Policing in Rutherford" discussion from 1 to 2 p.m. on the university's Rutherford campus. The event is sponsored by the Felician University Committee for Leadership & Social Justice, the New Jersey Department of Criminal Justice and the university's Pre-Law and UN Fellows…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Your Community
Nearly A Decade Gone, Glen (Punk) Rockers Titus Andronicus Return To Bergen Nearly A Decade Gone, Glen (Punk) Rockers Titus Andronicus Return To Bergen Nearly A Decade Gone, Glen (Punk) Rockers Titus Andronicus Return To Bergen
Nearly A Decade Gone, Glen (Punk) Rockers Titus Andronicus Return To Bergen GLEN ROCK, N.J. -- Back in Bergen County after nearly a decade, the post-punk band Titus Andronicus returns to its roots with an all-ages show this Friday in Hasbrouck Heights. Founding member and lead vocalist/guitarist Patrick Stickles brings the band to the Hasbrouck Heights VFW Hall on Springfield Avenue off Route 17 from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday. Forged in Glen Rock in 2005, the band that takes its name from a Shakespeare play has released four albums, toured the world and opened for, among others, the Pogues, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Lucero and has played at Coachella, Lollapalooza, an…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Moonachie Police: Palisades Park Woman Was Repeat Costco Face Cream Thief Moonachie Police: Palisades Park Woman Was Repeat Costco Face Cream Thief Moonachie Police: Palisades Park Woman Was Repeat Costco Face Cream Thief
Moonachie Police: Palisades Park Woman Was Repeat Costco Face Cream Thief MOONACHIE, N.J. -- The Black Friday throng at the Teterboro Costco included a Palisades Park woman who tried for the second time in a little over a month to swipe some pricey face cream, police said Monday. Hye Won Lee, 53, was charged with shoplifting a single bottle of the SK-II factial treatment cream, priced at just below $200, after she was detained by a security officer, Detective Sgt. Anthony Fugnititti said. Police also charged her with a similar theft from Nov. 18 and released on summonses stemming from both incidents, he said. They were back at Costco less than three hours later …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Know Them? Police Say Bandits Hit Liquor Stores In Wayne, Glen Rock Know Them? Police Say Bandits Hit Liquor Stores In Wayne, Glen Rock Know Them? Police Say Bandits Hit Liquor Stores In Wayne, Glen Rock
Know Them? Police Say Bandits Hit Liquor Stores In Wayne, Glen Rock WAYNE, N.J. -- Wayne police released surveillance photos of five men who they said have stolen several thousands of dollars of merchandise from liquor stores in Bergen, Passaic and Essex counties. The crew has struck Bottle King stores in Wayne, Glen Rock and Livingston "in a short number of days," Wayne Police Capt. Laurence Martin said. Crew members "enter the store, load up their shopping carts then wait until the store employees are distracted and flee the busy stores with the carts to waiting cars," Martin said. In Wayne, they fled in a white, late-model Honda Acco…

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