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

Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
NJPBA President: Rush To Judgment Created Dallas Cop Killings NJPBA President: Rush To Judgment Created Dallas Cop Killings NJPBA President: Rush To Judgment Created Dallas Cop Killings
Njpba President: Rush To Judgment Created Dallas Cop Killings "Based on a video and without facts a group of lunatics decided to become executioners" in Dallas on Thursday night, New Jersey PBA President Pat Colligan wrote, in an opinion piece sent to Daily Voice. It's such rushes to judgment that "fan the flames" that produce such horrifying results, Colligan wrote. His complete piece: "The assassination of five Dallas law enforcement officers should shock and disgust us all. No society can be safe, no rights can be assured and no justice can be found in any place where police officers are intentionally targeted for murder.…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood Detectives Search For Gunman Who Wounded Newark Man Englewood Detectives Search For Gunman Who Wounded Newark Man Englewood Detectives Search For Gunman Who Wounded Newark Man
Englewood Detectives Search For Gunman Who Wounded Newark Man ENGLEWOOD, N.J. -- Englewood police were hunting a gunman following another shooting in the city, this one leaving a 44-year-old Newark man with a serious arm injury Thursday night. ****** UPDATE: Detectives from the Bergen County prosecutor's office solved a pair of shootings in Englewood with the arrest of a Teaneck ex-con -- whom a judge ordered held on $1 million. CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL STORY. ****** 'The victim was expected to survive the 11:45 p.m. shooting, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell said. After being shot front of 105 Orange Street, the victim was driven to the city fire…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Chief: Slain Suspect Claimed Sole Responsibility For Dallas Police Killings Chief: Slain Suspect Claimed Sole Responsibility For Dallas Police Killings Chief: Slain Suspect Claimed Sole Responsibility For Dallas Police Killings
Chief: Slain Suspect Claimed Sole Responsibility For Dallas Police Killings Five police officers in Dallas were dead when a bomb squad robot killed a former U.S. Army reservist who claimed full responsibility for an ambush hours earlier following a Thursday rally against police-involved shootings. Two civilians and seven other police officers were injured in what was the deadliest attack on U.S. law enforcement since 9/11. Authorities said the "Black Lives Matter" protest march had gone peacefully, as officers chatted with participants along the route. Then the shooting began. Hours later, police engaged in a lengthy standoff in a parking garage with a …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Weather
Hot, Humid Thunderstorms Headed To North Jersey Hot, Humid Thunderstorms Headed To North Jersey Hot, Humid Thunderstorms Headed To North Jersey
Hot, Humid Thunderstorms Headed To North Jersey Hot humid thunderstorms were expected to hit North Jersey late Friday afternoon into the evening, meteorologists said. "Temperatures are going to climb quickly through the 80s to near 90 by midday," meteorologist Joe Cioffi said. "The Storm Prediction Center is forecasting a risk of severe weather from New York State southward through North Carolina with a higher risk to the west," he said. "The satellite loop below shows the upper air disturbance swinging out of the Great Lakes with clouds to the west," Cioffi said. "Thunderstorms will likely develop lat…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Emerson Officials Ask Judge To Order Unlicensed Pet Shop Closed Emerson Officials Ask Judge To Order Unlicensed Pet Shop Closed Emerson Officials Ask Judge To Order Unlicensed Pet Shop Closed
Emerson Officials Ask Judge To Order Unlicensed Pet Shop Closed EMERSON, N.J. -- A judge in Hackensack on Friday will hear a request by Emerson officials that she immediately order closed a pet shop whose owner kept it open after his license expired last week, Mayor Louis Lamatina told Daily Voice. Vincent LoSacco's license expired on June 30, but his Just Pups store remained open for business through Thursday. On Wednesday, he sued the borough, demanding that a judge order its clerk to issue a pet shop license. Borough officials responded to the complaint -- and sought a temporary injunction from Superior Court Judge Lisa Perez Friscia ordering the sh…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Deaths Of Former Westwood Councilman, Wife Both Suicides Prosecutor: Deaths Of Former Westwood Councilman, Wife Both Suicides Prosecutor: Deaths Of Former Westwood Councilman, Wife Both Suicides
Prosecutor: Deaths Of Former Westwood Councilman, Wife Both Suicides UPDATE: Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal confirmed that the deaths of former Westwood and Ridgewood Councilman Bob Miller and his wife, Aecha, were apparent suicides. "Confirmation of [the] manners of death will be made by [the county] Medical Examiner," the prosecutor said. Grewal's Major Crimes Unit and the county Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification joined local police at the couple's home on Kinderkamack off Irvington Street. Miller, 67, admitted in federal court in February that he sold bogus training certificates to workers who wanted to sell sex at massage parlors in…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Second Child Sexual Assault Charged To Palisades Park Man Second Child Sexual Assault Charged To Palisades Park Man Second Child Sexual Assault Charged To Palisades Park Man
Second Child Sexual Assault Charged To Palisades Park Man PALISADES PARK, N.J. -- A 54-year-old machine technician from Palisades Park already in custody was charged with sexually assaulting a second girl. A judge doubled bail for Ramon J. Contreras to $200,000 after the charges were brought by the Special Victims Unit of Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal's office. The SVU originally arrested Contreras after Palisades Park police received a report on Tuesday that a sexual assault of a child occurred at a home in the borough on Sunday. Detectives then found another girl, who they said was under 13 when she was abused. Contreras rem…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Garfield Police Charge Clifton Man In Bank Robbery Garfield Police Charge Clifton Man In Bank Robbery Garfield Police Charge Clifton Man In Bank Robbery
Garfield Police Charge Clifton Man In Bank Robbery GARFIELD, N.J. -- Garfield police arrested a 32-year-old Clifton man who they said robbed a local bank on Tuesday. Harun Arslan, 32, was being held on $150,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail. Arslan is the man seen in surveillance video released after he passed a threatening note to a teller and fled with $3,250 in cash from the Clifton Savings Bank on Palisade Avenue just before 5 p.m., Lt. Richard Uram said Thursday. Detective Sgt. Joseph Delaney and Detective Marc Amos arrested Arslan on Wednesday, thanks to evidence developed with the Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identifi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Moonachie PD: Daily Voice Photo Produces Arrest Of Walmart Robbery Suspect Moonachie PD: Daily Voice Photo Produces Arrest Of Walmart Robbery Suspect Moonachie PD: Daily Voice Photo Produces Arrest Of Walmart Robbery Suspect
Moonachie PD: Daily Voice Photo Produces Arrest Of Walmart Robbery Suspect MOONACHIE, N.J. -- Thanks to a surveillance photo posted on Daily Voice, Moonachie police charged a Garfield man wanted in a shoplifting turned robbery at the Teterboro Walmart. Joseph Vaccaro, 40, remained held on $75,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with robbery. Vaccaro tried to flee the store riding a bicycle he took from the display area with two stolen cordless drills in his backpack. He knocked down a security officer who tried to stop him and ran off toward Route 46, turning a shoplifting into a robbery. "Shortly after Daily Voice posted the photo of the suspect, th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
NJ Police: Daily Voice Photo Produces Arrest Of Walmart Robbery Suspect NJ Police: Daily Voice Photo Produces Arrest Of Walmart Robbery Suspect NJ Police: Daily Voice Photo Produces Arrest Of Walmart Robbery Suspect
NJ Police: Daily Voice Photo Produces Arrest Of Walmart Robbery Suspect MOONACHIE, N.J. -- Thanks to a surveillance photo posted on Daily Voice, Moonachie police charged a Garfield man wanted in a shoplifting turned robbery at the Teterboro Walmart. Joseph Vaccaro, 40, remained held on $75,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with robbery. Vaccaro tried to flee the store riding a bicycle he took from the display area with two stolen cordless drills in his backpack. He knocked down a security officer who tried to stop him and ran off toward Route 46, turning a shoplifting into a robbery. "Shortly after Daily Voice posted the photo of the suspect, th…

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