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

Rivertowns, NY
Breaking News
Port Authority: Yonkers DWI Crash Driver Found Shirtless, Shoeless, Stoned Port Authority: Yonkers DWI Crash Driver Found Shirtless, Shoeless, Stoned Port Authority: Yonkers DWI Crash Driver Found Shirtless, Shoeless, Stoned
Port Authority: Yonkers DWI Crash Driver Found Shirtless, Shoeless, Stoned FORT LEE, N.J. -- A Yonkers man was stoned, shirtless and shoeless when police found him sitting on the lower level of the George Washington Bridge after his car crashed into a van overnight Thursday, authorities told Daily Voice. PAPD Officer Jesse Turano found 35-year-old Jorge Luiggi "breathing but unresponsive" in an eastbound lane around 1 a.m., the authority's Joseph Pentangelo said. Nearby was his 2013 Toyota, which had collided with a 2011 Ford sedan driven by a 52-year-old woman, he said. She was taken to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan with injuries that were…

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Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Rutherford Police Honored By Local UNICO Chapter Rutherford Police Honored By Local UNICO Chapter Rutherford Police Honored By Local UNICO Chapter
Rutherford Police Honored By Local Unico Chapter RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- For "grateful recognition of their dedicated service to the community," Rutherford police were honored by the Rutherford Chapter of UNICO National with the organization's prestigious Mille Grazie Award. Committee members presented the award to Police Chief John Russo and Capt. Patrick Feliciano at the annual Christmas party at Lassoni's in North Arlington.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen EMS Volunteers, HUMC Officials Agree on Improving ER Relations Bergen EMS Volunteers, HUMC Officials Agree on Improving ER Relations Bergen EMS Volunteers, HUMC Officials Agree on Improving ER Relations
Bergen EMS Volunteers, Humc Officials Agree on Improving ER Relations HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A highly respected physician at Hackensack University Medical Center promised nearly two dozen local members of the New Jersey State First Aid Council that relationships will continue to improve between emergency room staff and volunteer EMS agencies. Dr. Joseph Feldman "made the personal commitment to the volunteer agencies and promised to continue making changes until a resolution is reached," one of nearly two dozen attendees told Daily Voice after a nearly two-hour meeting with hospital officials Tuesday night. Members of the council's 24th District called …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgewood police officer runs Hawaii marathon for fallen colleagues Ridgewood police officer runs Hawaii marathon for fallen colleagues Ridgewood police officer runs Hawaii marathon for fallen colleagues
Ridgewood police officer runs Hawaii marathon for fallen colleagues Three-hours, 53 minutes and 1 second after bolting from the starting line, Ridgewood Police Officer John Ward Jr. finished the Honolulu Marathon in honor of two fallen colleagues on a humid Sunday morning. The officer came in 1st place out of the 2,000 New Jersey runners and in the fourth percentile of the entire field. Ward had raised $6,095 for the run on his GoFundMe page as of Tuesday evening in memory of Officers Christopher Goodell of Waldwick and Christopher Birch of Midland Park. READ MORE…. PHOTO: Courtesy JOHN WARD JR.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Unattended Bag Closes Lodi Street Unattended Bag Closes Lodi Street Unattended Bag Closes Lodi Street
Unattended Bag Closes Lodi Street LODI, N.J. -- Police shut down a Lodi street early Wednesday evening to investigate an unattended bag. First Street was closed to vehicle and pedestrian traffic from Passaic Avenue to River Street after the bag was found at the corner of Bernice Place. The Bergen County Sheriff's Bomb Squad responded.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Edgewater Man Busted in $300,000 Nigerian Grandparent Phone Scam Edgewater Man Busted in $300,000 Nigerian Grandparent Phone Scam Edgewater Man Busted in $300,000 Nigerian Grandparent Phone Scam
Edgewater Man Busted in $300,000 Nigerian Grandparent Phone Scam EDGEWATER, N.J. -- An Edgewater man was one of five people -- most of them originally from Nigeria -- who were charged in a multi-national phone scam that fleeced an elderly New York State woman of $300,000, authorities said. Sylvester Odiase was arrested after investigators in Harrison, N.Y. learned that the 92-year-old victim deposited the money into various sham accounts after receiving a call from a police impersonator in September. The caller, who identified himself as a police sergeant, told her that her grandson was in jail and needed the money to secure his release, they said. Also…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Obituaries
Harry Kuhles, Retired Maywood Police Sergeant, 89 Harry Kuhles, Retired Maywood Police Sergeant, 89 Harry Kuhles, Retired Maywood Police Sergeant, 89
Harry Kuhles, Retired Maywood Police Sergeant, 89 MAYWOOD, N.J. -- A funeral service s scheduled Friday in Paramus for Harry Khules, a retired Maywood police sergeant who died last Thursday, Dec. 10, in Montgomery, TX. He was 89. An Army Air Corps veteran, Khules was active in Alzheimer's support groups in both New Jersey and Texas. He was a former member of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Maywood, where he served as a team leader of "Engaged and Marriage Encounter" weekends for the Archdiocese of Newark. Khules was also one of the founders of the Bergen Bowmen. He is survived by Joan Sabino and her husband, Alfred, of M…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
$250,000 Bail For Maywood Man Shot By Police In Rochelle Park $250,000 Bail For Maywood Man Shot By Police In Rochelle Park $250,000 Bail For Maywood Man Shot By Police In Rochelle Park
$250,000 Bail For Maywood Man Shot By Police In Rochelle Park ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. -- A Maywood man shot by police was ordered held on $250,000 bail under guard at Hackensack University Medical Center. Matthew Chaseman, 46, was charged with two counts of attempting to cause bodily injury to the two officers who found him after he'd crashed his car outside a Route 17 building that houses the Bergen County Office of Social Services. He also was charged with weapons possession for a BB gun that Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said had its orange tip painted black. Chaseman had crashed his car and remained inside when security at the building o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Police Warn: Texting While Walking Can Kill You Police Warn: Texting While Walking Can Kill You Police Warn: Texting While Walking Can Kill You
Police Warn: Texting While Walking Can Kill You It's not only texting drivers who cause crashes -- police warn that the number of emergency room visits by distracted walkers has increased steadily. Not on that: More than half of injuries recently reported while people were on their cellphones while walking in their homes. Statistics for 2013, the most recent year available, found that 3,154 people died and an estimated 424,000 were hurt in distraction-related mishaps in the U.S. More than two-thirds of those injured were women and slightly more than half were under age 40. More than 20 percent were age 71 or older. Police urge people …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
TLC Daycare Boosts Lodi Police PBA Toy Drive TLC Daycare Boosts Lodi Police PBA Toy Drive TLC Daycare Boosts Lodi Police PBA Toy Drive
TLC Daycare Boosts Lodi Police PBA Toy Drive LODI, N.J. -- Lodi police got a big boost in collecting for the annual Bergen County PBA Toy Drive from TLC Daycare in Saddle Brook. TLC children joined owner Florence Mazzaer and directors Melissa Rodrigues and Alisa Miller in making the presentation to PBA Local #26 after parents donated the toys and other gifts.

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