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

Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgewood Driver, 98, Gets Summons For Sending Pedestrian To Hospital Ridgewood Driver, 98, Gets Summons For Sending Pedestrian To Hospital Ridgewood Driver, 98, Gets Summons For Sending Pedestrian To Hospital
Ridgewood Driver, 98, Gets Summons For Sending Pedestrian To Hospital RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- Police issued a summons to the 98-year-old driver of a car that struck a pedestrian in Ridgewood Friday night, sending her to the hospital with injuries that they said on Monday weren't life-threatening. The elderly village resident was driving his four-door black Volkswagen west on East Ridgewood Avenue when it struck the 40-something woman as she crossed at Pershing Avenue around 7 p.m., Detective Capt. Forest Lyons told Daily Voice. Passersby helped stabilized the woman until she could be taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, one of them said. An investigatio…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Fair Lawn Police Find Pot, $22,400 In Cash During Route 208 Stop Fair Lawn Police Find Pot, $22,400 In Cash During Route 208 Stop Fair Lawn Police Find Pot, $22,400 In Cash During Route 208 Stop
Fair Lawn Police Find Pot, $22,400 In Cash During Route 208 Stop FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- Fair Lawn police seized nearly three ounces of marijuana and $22,412 in suspected drug proceeds while arresting two Paterson men after a routine traffic stop, authorities said Monday. The driver, Christopher Velez, 25, and his passenger, 22, were stopped on northbound Route 208 at McBride Avenue just before 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. The pair "initially stated that they had been smoking marijuana inside the vehicle earlier, then voluntarily turned over two bags of packaged marijuana to the officers," Metzler said. A search of the vehicle turne…

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Fort Lee, NJ
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Leonia Police: Borough Burglar Found In Bedroom Closet Leonia Police: Borough Burglar Found In Bedroom Closet Leonia Police: Borough Burglar Found In Bedroom Closet
Leonia Police: Borough Burglar Found In Bedroom Closet LEONIA, N.J. – A pair of Leonia police officers responding to an overnight burglary call Sunday found an intruder hiding in a second-floor bedroom closet, authorities said. Officers Sihoon Chung and Maria Perez responded to the 3:50 a.m. call from a resident on the 200 block of Harrison Street, Capt. Scott Tamagny told Daily Voice. The resident “heard noises coming from the second floor and found an open first-floor window,” Tamagny said. Chung found Leonia resident Fabian Soloman Reyes, 35, of the 300 block of Broad Avenue, on the closet floor, the captain said. He was carrying a metal pr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Woman Killed On Route 17 In Wood-Ridge Sought Phone, Source Says Woman Killed On Route 17 In Wood-Ridge Sought Phone, Source Says Woman Killed On Route 17 In Wood-Ridge Sought Phone, Source Says
Woman Killed On Route 17 In Wood-Ridge Sought Phone, Source Says WOOD-RIDGE, N.J. (UPDATE) -- A 49-year-old woman struck and killed Friday night on Route 17 in Wood-Ridge spoke with the driver barely 20 minutes earlier, authorities told Daily Voice. CLICK HERE: https://ridgefieldpark.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/woman-killed-on-route-17-in-wood-ridge-spoke-to-driver-moments-earlier/685159/ PREVIOUS STORY: A 40-something woman struck and killed on Route 17 in Wood-Ridge near the Hasbrouck Heights border late Friday had been asking people if she could use their phone moments earlier, a law enforcement official told Daily Voice. The woman "was at the W…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
$3M Bail Set For Bogota Sex Offender In New Case $3M Bail Set For Bogota Sex Offender In New Case $3M Bail Set For Bogota Sex Offender In New Case
$3M Bail Set For Bogota Sex Offender In New Case BOGOTA, N.J. – A judge ordered a registered sex offender from Bogota held on $3 million bail after authorities charged him with trafficking in child pornography. William R. Kooney, a 42-year-old former software engineer, had been free on bail stemming from a March 2015 case when investigators arrested him on new charges on Friday. Kooney “utilized the Internet to view, possess, and attempt to distribute an image of child sexual exploitation,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Sunday after members of his Cyber Crimes Unit executed search warrants at Kooney’s Central Avenu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Your Community
Englewood's Garrett: Trump Female Remarks Make Pence Best Nominee Englewood's Garrett: Trump Female Remarks Make Pence Best Nominee Englewood's Garrett: Trump Female Remarks Make Pence Best Nominee
Englewood's Garrett: Trump Female Remarks Make Pence Best Nominee ENGLEWOOD, N.J. -- Republican Congressman Scott Garrett of Englewood on Saturday called vice presidential hopeful Mike Pence "the best nominee for the Republican Party to defeat Hillary Clinton" following the release of a decade-old video of Donald Trump making lewd comments about women. Garrett, who is running against Josh Gottheimer, a former Clinton White House speech writer, didn't call on Trump th drop out of the race. In a statement, however, he called the presidential nominee's comments "inexcusable." Pence earlier said "I do not condone his remarks and cann…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Your Community
Washington Township BFFs Counter Bullying With Bracelets Washington Township BFFs Counter Bullying With Bracelets Washington Township BFFs Counter Bullying With Bracelets
Washington Township BFFs Counter Bullying With Bracelets WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- Two Washington Township girls on a mission distributed "Defeat Bullying" bracelets to the entire second grade in each of their schools. Best friends Ellorie Roberts of Washington Elementary School and Gina Castronova of Jessie F. George Elementary School bought the blue bracelets with their own money. October is National Bullying Awareness Month, and blue is its color. But Ellorie and Gina wanted to do more than just wear a t-shirt. "Heather and I are super-proud that our girls are compassionate to the bullying issue and came together to spread a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Port Authority Police Stop Suicidal Fort Lee Man At GWB Port Authority Police Stop Suicidal Fort Lee Man At GWB Port Authority Police Stop Suicidal Fort Lee Man At GWB
Port Authority Police Stop Suicidal Fort Lee Man At GWB FORT LEE, N.J. -- Port Authority police stopped a suicidal Fort Lee man from jumping from the George Washington Bridge on Friday. The 29-year-old man was headed to the bridge "threatening to jump from the south walkway near the New York tower" when police got a call just after 4 p.m., the authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. Sgt. Mike Barry directed a canvas of the entire south walk of the GWB, along with the lower level and all access ramps, while Lt. George Massouridis got the man's cellphone number and called him. Massouridis "engaged him in conversation and w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Female Pedestrian Struck Near Ridgewood Duck Pond, Driver, 98, Gets Summons Female Pedestrian Struck Near Ridgewood Duck Pond, Driver, 98, Gets Summons Female Pedestrian Struck Near Ridgewood Duck Pond, Driver, 98, Gets Summons
Female Pedestrian Struck Near Ridgewood Duck Pond, Driver, 98, Gets Summons RIDGEWOOD, N.J. (UPDATE): Police issued a summons to the 98-year-old driver of a car that struck a pedestrian in Ridgewood Friday night, sending her to the hospital with injuries that they said on Monday weren't life-threatening. The elderly village resident was driving his four-door black Volkswagen west on East Ridgewood Avenue when it struck the 40-something woman as she crossed at Pershing Avenue around 7 p.m., Detective Capt. Forest Lyons told Daily Voice. Passersby helped stabilized the woman until she could be taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, one of them said. An inves…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Sedan Ignites In Flames After Rear-Ending SUV On Route 80 In Wayne Sedan Ignites In Flames After Rear-Ending SUV On Route 80 In Wayne Sedan Ignites In Flames After Rear-Ending SUV On Route 80 In Wayne
Sedan Ignites In Flames After Rear-Ending SUV On Route 80 In Wayne WAYNE, N.J. -- No injuries were reported Friday afternoon after a sedan rear-ended an SUV and burst into flames on Route 80 in Wayne. All of the occupants got out safely and were standing at the divider when responders arrived around 4:30 p.m., witnesses told Daily Voice. Wayne firefighters and EMS joined New Jersey State Police at the scene, near the exit for Routes 46 and 3, ater the Dodge Neon rammed into the Lexus RX350. All but one lane was closed while the scene was cleared. Traffic was backed for miles.

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