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

Englewood, NJ

Your Community

How Partnerships Succeed: Colvin, Earle Bring Musical Metaphor To BergenPAC ENGLEWOOD, N.J. -- Steve Earle warms when a longtime fan says he'd never seen him smile as much as in the publicity stills for the tour that brings him and fellow singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin to bergenPAC in Englewood this Wednesday. "I've probably never seen me smile as much," said Earle, a musician known as much as anything for his social advocacy. "The irony is that Shawn, who's always smiling, looks so serious. "This is an opportunity for Shawn to rock out a bit, be more intense. And I can tell you: She's enjoying it." Separate-act duos most times will swap s…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/16/2016

Hackensack, NJ

Your Community

Keith Urban Show On After PNC Arts Center Food Truck Fire Keith Urban's show at the PNC Bank Center in Holmdel was going on as scheduled Saturday night despite an early-morning food truck fire, State Police said. "If you thought Keith Urban would be deterred from performing today due to the lack of delicious, savory shish kebabs, you were sadly mistaken," the NJSP wrote. "This morning at 5:30 a.m., a food truck that serves shish kebabs caught fire," State Police said in a release. "Holmdel FD arrived at the scene and extinguished the flames. "The preliminary investigation by NJSP Arson/Bomb Unit found nothing suspic…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/16/2016

Rutherford, NJ

Breaking News

Girl, 15, Tells Rutherford Police She Was Mugged RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- A 15-year-old girl told Rutherford police she was mugged by two teens Thursday nght. Both came up to her as she walked on Vanderburgh Avenue near West Erie Avenue around 10:25 p.m., the girl said. After first walking past her, they came up behind and threatened "physical harm" if she didn't give them her purse, containing money, debit and gift cards, identification and keys, she said. So she did. She said they then ran to a waiting four-door sedan that then took off on Monona Avenue. The girl described both as light-skinned Hispanics with thin builds, about 5…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/15/2016

Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ

Breaking News

Ridgefield Father, Son Busted On Drug Charges RIDGEFIELD, N.J. -- An unemployed father and son from Ridgefield were selling drugs from their home before Bergen County detectives and local police raided it and arrested them, authorities said Friday. Joseph N. Marttine, 50, and Rocci L. Marttine, 28, were taken into custody after a court-warranted raid on their Maple Avenue home turned up cocaine, heroin, various prescription pills, drug paraphernalia and $9,090 in cash, acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. Both were released without bail on drug possession charges pending an Aug. 3 court date, Grewal said. Grewal than…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/15/2016

Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ

Breaking News

Photos: Saddle Brook House Fire Ignited By SUV Crash SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- Firefighters were hampered while waiting for PSE&G to arrive and cut the electricity to a Saddle Brook house that caught fire from sparking utility lines downed when an SUV rammed a pole Friday afternoon. The male SUV driver was hospitalized with undetermined injuries, and a Saddle Brook police officer was evaluated for heat exhaustion, Lt. John Zotolo told Daily Voice. Part of the roof of the Saddle River Road house collapsed during the fire, which broke out just before 1:30 p.m., responders said. The blaze was finally knocked down about an hour and 20 minutes la…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/15/2016

Fort Lee, NJ

Breaking News

Leonia PD: Videos Show Cerebral Palsy Victim's Wheelchair Thieves LEONIA, N.J. -- Leonia police released a trio of surveillance videos Friday in hopes of finding the thieves who they said swiped a motorized wheelchair from a 14-year-old boy with cerebral palsy. ****** UPDATE (Sat., July 16): Police charged a Palisades Park man with stealing a disabled Leonia teen's motorized wheelchair. ****** Meanwhile, a GoFundMe page was established to help replace the chair. The boy, whose name is Courtney, depends on the chair to get around. The case hit home for Leonia Police Chief Thomas Rowe, whose 19-year-old daughter has special needs. “After 25½ years, I …

by Jerry DeMarco

07/15/2016

Pascack Valley, NJ

Breaking News

Smoking AC Unit Clears Westwood Senior Care Facility WESTWOOD, N.J. -- A smoking air conditioning unit forced the brief evacuation Friday of a Westwood senior care facility. "There was smoke but no visible signs of fire," Police Chief Frank Regino told Daily Voice as responders moved CareOne at Valley occupants to the front lawn of the Old Hook Road facility, next to HackensackUMC at Pascack Valley Hospital. No injuries were immediately reported in the noontime incident. Firefighters had the situation resolved and were venting the building within 20 minutes, responders said. Firefighters from Emerson (engine), Hillsdale (rescue tru…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/15/2016

Englewood, NJ

Breaking News

Wood-Ridge Man Charged With Selling Pot In Englewood WOOD-RIDGE, N.J. -- An unemployed Wood-Ridge man was charged with selling pot to an undercover Bergen County detective in Englewood. Steven Noriega, 22, surrendered to authorities and was released without bail after being charged with distributing marijuana, acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Thursday. A July 27 hearing was set in Central Municipal Court in Hackensack.

by Jerry DeMarco

07/15/2016

Paramus, NJ

Obituaries

Retired Paramus Police Captain, 90, Recalled As Fair, Dedicated PARAMUS, N.J. -- Retired Paramus Police Chief Fred Corrubia wasn't on the job long after joining the department in 1972 when a sergeant caught him listening to a Yankee game outside the old E.J. Korvette's (now Kohl's) on Route 4. The sergeant made him see Capt. Emil Setmayer to get his transistor radio back. "I thought: 'Oh, no, I'm gonna lose a day's pay," Corrubia recalled Thursday night, after learning that Setmayer died Wednesday at 90. Corrubia's radio was on Setmayer's desk when he walked into the captain's office more than 40 years ago. "I was only listening to the …

by Jerry DeMarco

07/14/2016

Paramus, NJ

Breaking News

Missing Man, 26, Found Dead Near River Edge Train Station RIVER EDGE, N.J. -- The body of a 26-year-old River Edge man who'd been missing the past four days was found at the borough train station early Thursday afternoon, law enforcement sources told Daily Voice. The circumstances of the death of Keith O'Connell weren't considered suspicious, Anthony Cureton of the Bergen County Sheriff's Office. O'Connell, who lived in the Parlin section of Old Bridge, had been living with his mother, KrisAnn, who was at the scene talking with police. She denied a law enforcement official's account that her son had been a known drug user. The sheriff's Crime Sc…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/14/2016

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