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

Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
'Unfathomable': Carlstadt Kids Rescued After Father Kills Mom, Self 'Unfathomable': Carlstadt Kids Rescued After Father Kills Mom, Self 'Unfathomable': Carlstadt Kids Rescued After Father Kills Mom, Self
'Unfathomable': Carlstadt Kids Rescued After Father Kills Mom, Self CARLSTADT, N.J. -- Police brought three Carlstadt children to safety over a backyard fence Wednesday night after their father shot and killed their mother on the front lawn of their home before killing himself. The three children of Scott Sabia and his wife, Michele, fled the house "as the events were unfolding," Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. A Daily Voice photo shows police lifting the couple's 9-year-old daughter over a backyard fence while also rescuing 14-year-old and 11-year-old sons They also retrieved the body of Michele Sabia, a grade-school teach…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Woman Finds Inert WWII-Era Mortar Shell In Late Dad's Paramus Home Woman Finds Inert WWII-Era Mortar Shell In Late Dad's Paramus Home Woman Finds Inert WWII-Era Mortar Shell In Late Dad's Paramus Home
Woman Finds Inert Wwii-era Mortar Shell In Late Dad's Paramus Home PARAMUS, N.J. -- A woman who finally got around to cleaning out her late father's Paramus home found a harmless WWII-era mortar shell, said borough police, who had it removed. "These kinds of things happen from time to time," Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg told Daily Voice. "She was cleaning out boxes from her father's house and found the 60mm round. It was inert." Police summoned the Bergen County Bomb Squad as a precaution. The chief urged citizens who find any suspicious-looking war surplus materials to contact his or her local police.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Detectives Charge Newark Man With Selling Molly In Lyndhurst Detectives Charge Newark Man With Selling Molly In Lyndhurst Detectives Charge Newark Man With Selling Molly In Lyndhurst
Detectives Charge Newark Man With Selling Molly In Lyndhurst LYNDHURST, N.J. -- The sale of $220 worth of Molly to an undercover investigator in Lyndhurst led to charges against a Newark glazier who turned himself in to detectives, authorities said Wednesday. Lamont House Jr., 24, was released without bail pending a July 20 court hearing after being charged with drug distribution, acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. House sold the four grams of MDMA to a detective from Grewal's Narcotic Task Force in March, the prosecutor said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Washington Township Police: Heroin Addict Arrested Twice In Same Day Washington Township Police: Heroin Addict Arrested Twice In Same Day Washington Township Police: Heroin Addict Arrested Twice In Same Day
Washington Township Police: Heroin Addict Arrested Twice In Same Day WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- Washington Township police said they busted the same heroin user twice on drug-related charges in a little over six hours. Officer Michael Ferrarini had just stopped a car heading the wrong way on a one-way street near the Washington School just after 4 p.m. Monday when Stephen Campo, 27, came walking up, Officer Heather Castronova told Daily Voice. Campo "asked if he could sit in the front passenger seat" of his friend's car as Ferrarini removed the driver, Castronova said. At that point, Campo got out of the vehicle, she said. Castronova said she p…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities Seek Help Finding Garfield Bank Robber Who Got $3,250 Authorities Seek Help Finding Garfield Bank Robber Who Got $3,250 Authorities Seek Help Finding Garfield Bank Robber Who Got $3,250
Authorities Seek Help Finding Garfield Bank Robber Who Got $3,250 GARFIELD, N.J. -- Authorities released surveillance images Wednesday of a man who they said robber a Garfield bank of $3,250 a day earlier. The bandit fled with the cash from the Clifton Savings Bank on Palisade Avenue after passing a note justbefore 5 p.m., Lt. Richard Uram said. He was described as white, in his 30s,about 5-foot-8 to 5-foot-9 and 140 to 150 pounds, wearing a white t-shirt, dark pants and a baseball cap. He also appeared to have a scar on the nape of his neck. Authorities asked that anyone who saw something or has information that could help catch the robber call Garfield…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Single-Car Crash Jams Route 80 Express Lanes In South Hackensack Single-Car Crash Jams Route 80 Express Lanes In South Hackensack Single-Car Crash Jams Route 80 Express Lanes In South Hackensack
Single-Car Crash Jams Route 80 Express Lanes In South Hackensack SOUTH HACKENSACK, N.J. -- No serious injuries were immediately reported Wednesday morning after a sedan spun out on in the westbound express lanes on Route 80 in South Hackensack. Bergen County and New Jersey State Police responded to the crash just before 9:30 a.m., along with a EMS unit from Hackensack University Medical Center.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Passaic County Sheriff's Officers Bust 3 In Prospect Park After Heroin Deal Passaic County Sheriff's Officers Bust 3 In Prospect Park After Heroin Deal Passaic County Sheriff's Officers Bust 3 In Prospect Park After Heroin Deal
Passaic County Sheriff's Officers Bust 3 In Prospect Park After Heroin Deal PROSPECT PARK, N.J. -- Passaic County sheriff's officers grabbed three men in Prospect Park with 1,000 folds of heroin worth about $4,000 on the street after following their BMW from Paterson, authorities said. Detectives approached the 328 around 7 p.m. Tuesday at North 12th Street and Brown Avenue, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said early Wednesday. The driver, 25-year-old Eric Sanchez of Paterson, was talking on the phone, looking in different directions, "as if he was waiting someone's arrival," the sheriff said. With him was Pelal Deeb, 22, of Totowa. Several minutes later, Adr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
NJ Authorities: Ridgewood Psychiatrist, 72, Had Wife Dispense Drugs For Him NJ Authorities: Ridgewood Psychiatrist, 72, Had Wife Dispense Drugs For Him NJ Authorities: Ridgewood Psychiatrist, 72, Had Wife Dispense Drugs For Him
NJ Authorities: Ridgewood Psychiatrist, 72, Had Wife Dispense Drugs For Him RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- A 72-year-old Ridgewood psychiatrist allowed his social-worker wife to use pre-signed prescription blanks to dispense drugs such as Adderall and Xanax to his patients after he was confined to a hospital and then a nursing home, authorities said. Dr. James Cowan, Jr., who practiced from a home office, agreed to the temporary suspension of his medical license followiong the allegations, acting New Jersey Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino said. Under a consent order with the state Board of Medical Examiners (BME), Cowan is barred from practicing medicine and also from …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Weather
Is This The Way July's Supposed To Be? We're In A Heat Wave Is This The Way July's Supposed To Be? We're In A Heat Wave Is This The Way July's Supposed To Be? We're In A Heat Wave
Is This The Way July's Supposed To Be? We're In A Heat Wave The heat wave that flooded Bergen and Passaic counties Tuesday will only get hotter as the week goes on, meteorologists warn. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection issued an air quality alert for Bergen, Passaic, Hudson, Essex and Union counties from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Wednesday. North Jersey temperatures were breaking into the 90s -- and expected to climb even higher on Thursday, AccuWeather says. The "real feel" in some places will be more like 100 degrees, thanks to swelling humidity that will make breathing difficult for many. "Ozone is forecast to reach …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Englewood House Sitter's Shooter Wore Ski Mask, Ditched Keys, Phone Police: Englewood House Sitter's Shooter Wore Ski Mask, Ditched Keys, Phone Police: Englewood House Sitter's Shooter Wore Ski Mask, Ditched Keys, Phone
Police: Englewood House Sitter's Shooter Wore Ski Mask, Ditched Keys, Phone ENGLEWOOD, N.J. -- A ski mask-wearing robber who shot a house-sitting Garfield man in Englewood overnight took the victim's car keys and cellphone and tossed them into a catch basin a block away as he escaped, police said Tuesday afternoon. ****** 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. ****** Police found the 33-year-old victim next to the house at 316 Howland Avenue around 4 a.m., Detective Capt. Timothy Torell t…

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