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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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Sudden Shooting Spree Taxes Paterson Police Sudden Shooting Spree Taxes Paterson Police Sudden Shooting Spree Taxes Paterson Police
Sudden Shooting Spree Taxes Paterson Police PATERSON, N.J. -- Paterson police's Ceasefire Unit was seeking the public's help investigating a spate of shootings, including one Saturday night in which a woman was struck in the hand in the parking lot of an apartment complex and another several hours later, when two men were wounded near a city street corner. The Passaic County Prosecutor's Office was assisting city detectives in some of the incidents, including the shooting death of a 20-year-old city man on North Main Street overnight Friday into Saturday. Among other things, they were trying to determine whether warfare among rival d…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson 20-Year-Old Gunned Down, City's 11th Homicide Victim This Year Paterson 20-Year-Old Gunned Down, City's 11th Homicide Victim This Year Paterson 20-Year-Old Gunned Down, City's 11th Homicide Victim This Year
Paterson 20-Year-Old Gunned Down, City's 11th Homicide Victim This Year PATERSON, N.J. – Detectives were searching for the gunman who killed a 20-year-old Paterson man overnight – the Silk City’s 11th homicide this year. Genico Robinson was struck twice by bullets on North Main Street just before 2 a.m., Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief William Fraher said in a joint announcement Saturday morning. He later was pronounced dead at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center. Paterson had 19 killings last year. At the current rate, it would finish this year around 16.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Your Community
VIDEO: Former Westwood Track Star Accepts Proposal At Springsteen Show VIDEO: Former Westwood Track Star Accepts Proposal At Springsteen Show VIDEO: Former Westwood Track Star Accepts Proposal At Springsteen Show
Video: Former Westwood Track Star Accepts Proposal At Springsteen Show EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The woman who accepted her boyfriend's marriage proposal onstage at Bruce Springsteen's record-setting MetLife Stadium concert Thursday night once starred for the Westwood Regional High School track team. A YouTube video (second above) captured the moment that Michael McCloskey of Manhattan proposed to Jillian Rabadan in the pit in front of the stage during "Jersey Girl," the closer to a show that missed hitting four hours by a single second. The houselights were up when Springsteen stopped the Tom Waits song in its tracks after spotting the couple (first …

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Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Two Hospitalized By Ether Spray Ignition At Carlstadt Coca-Cola Plant Two Hospitalized By Ether Spray Ignition At Carlstadt Coca-Cola Plant Two Hospitalized By Ether Spray Ignition At Carlstadt Coca-Cola Plant
Two Hospitalized By Ether Spray Ignition At Carlstadt Coca-Cola Plant CARLSTADT, N.J. -- Two employees were hospitalized and four refused treatment after one of them used ether spray to start a company vehicle Friday night at the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Carlstadt, authorities told Daily Voice. The employee fell unconscious after starting the vehicle inside the entrance bay at the west side of the Moonachie Avenue plant but quickly came to, Detective Sgt. John Cleary said. One of the employees was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center and the other to The Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center in Secaucus by the Wood-Ridge Fire Department EMS and Card…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
$250G Bail For Accused Nutley Police Car Thief Who Crashed In Clifton $250G Bail For Accused Nutley Police Car Thief Who Crashed In Clifton $250G Bail For Accused Nutley Police Car Thief Who Crashed In Clifton
$250G Bail For Accused Nutley Police Car Thief Who Crashed In Clifton CLIFTON, N.J. (UPDATE) – A 22-year-old man accused of domestic violence took off in a responding Nutley police officer’s cruiser, sparking a brief chase that ended when he crashed just off Route 3 in Clifton early Friday. A judge ordered Edgar Ordonez held on $250,000 bail in the Passaic County Jail on carjacking and related charges, county Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Clifton Police Chief Mark Centurione said Friday night. An additional $75,000 bail was tacked on for the domestic violence charge, they said. Police from Nutley and Clifton responded to the call at a Cathedral Avenue hom…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Rochelle Park Officer-In-Training Turns Up Drugs, Warrants In Traffic Stop Rochelle Park Officer-In-Training Turns Up Drugs, Warrants In Traffic Stop Rochelle Park Officer-In-Training Turns Up Drugs, Warrants In Traffic Stop
Rochelle Park Officer-In-Training Turns Up Drugs, Warrants In Traffic Stop ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. – A Rochelle Park police officer in field training helped find several packages of cocaine and cutting agents, along with stolen jewelry apparently intended for sale for drug money – and outstanding warrants for the passenger, authorities said. Officer Chris Saldivia was in training with Lt. Dean Pinto when their vehicle was almost struck by a 2009 Acura near the Ramada Hotel just before 9:45 a.m. Thursday, Detective Christopher Bermudez told Daily Voice. Saldivia, a former East Orange police officer, discovered that the passenger – identified as Melissa Rivera, 26, of E…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
$750,000 Bail For Englewood Man Charged In Aborted Home Invasion $750,000 Bail For Englewood Man Charged In Aborted Home Invasion $750,000 Bail For Englewood Man Charged In Aborted Home Invasion
$750,000 Bail For Englewood Man Charged In Aborted Home Invasion ENGLEWOOD, N.J. – The second of five men accused in an aborted home invasion during which shots were fired in June was ordered held on $750,000 bail after detectives arrested him late Thursday, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Friday afternoon. Tyrone “Tizzy” Stephens, 21, of Rosemont Place, was carrying a shotgun as he and four accomplices carrying handguns entered a Layfayette Place apartment building just before 11:30 p.m. June 2, the prosecutor said. The crew went directly to a second-floor apartment and knocked on the door, he said. They tried to force their way i…

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
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Van, Jeep Overturn In Three-Vehicle West Milford Crash Van, Jeep Overturn In Three-Vehicle West Milford Crash Van, Jeep Overturn In Three-Vehicle West Milford Crash
Van, Jeep Overturn In Three-Vehicle West Milford Crash WEST MILFORD, N.J. -- A van veered into oncoming traffic, sideswiped a pickup truck and slammed head-on into a Jeep, which overturned and caught fire early Friday in West Milford, authorities said. Jeffrey Carmona, 32, of Woodbridge, was headed north on Macopin Road near Dockerty Hollow Road in his 2009 Ford 150 van just after 6 a.m. when it "crossed the center line for reasons unknown," Lt. Stephen Singerline said Friday afternoon. After sideswiping a 2003 Ford F350 pickup driven by Arthur A. Ybarra, 40 of Gonzales, Texas, the van crashed into the 2008 Jeep driven by Rock Filipow…

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Hackensack, NJ
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Bergen County Detectives, Local Police Bust Pair On Drug-Dealing Charges Bergen County Detectives, Local Police Bust Pair On Drug-Dealing Charges Bergen County Detectives, Local Police Bust Pair On Drug-Dealing Charges
Bergen County Detectives, Local Police Bust Pair On Drug-Dealing Charges HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Narcotics detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office teamed up with local police to bust two men -- one from Bergenfield, the other from Englewood -- on drug charges. Investigators with search warrants found more than a pound of marijuana, Xanax pills and drug paraphernalia during raids at the homes of Taha Aziz, 27, of Bergenfield, and Ramon Henry, 28, of Englewood, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Friday. Both were released on summonses pending first appearances on Sept. 7 in Central Municipal Court in Hackensack. Charges include posses…

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Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Lyndhurst Police Tie Suspect Hiding In Mulch Bed To 6 Car Burglaries Lyndhurst Police Tie Suspect Hiding In Mulch Bed To 6 Car Burglaries Lyndhurst Police Tie Suspect Hiding In Mulch Bed To 6 Car Burglaries
Lyndhurst Police Tie Suspect Hiding In Mulch Bed To 6 Car Burglaries LYNDHURST, N.J. -- A group of Lyndhurst police officers quickly converged on a neighborhood following a report of a car burglary overnight Friday -- and caught their suspect hiding in a mulch bed, authorities told Daily Voice. As of early Friday afternoon, 34-year-old Daniel Navarro of Newark was charged with six car burglaries in all -- with more charges possible as reports from victims come in, said Police Chief James O'Connor, who once again urged citizens to lock their cars. The 55-year-old owner of a 2015 Mazda told officers he'd left his car unlocked -- with the keys still in it -- in…

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