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
UPDATE: Gun Suspect In Traffic Stop Charged With Attempted Murder In Passaic Street Robbery UPDATE: Gun Suspect In Traffic Stop Charged With Attempted Murder In Passaic Street Robbery UPDATE: Gun Suspect In Traffic Stop Charged With Attempted Murder In Passaic Street Robbery
Update: Gun Suspect In Traffic Stop Charged With Attempted Murder In Passaic Street Robbery A Passaic man caught carrying a gun was later charged with attempted murder after investigators tied him to the shooting of a street robbery victim, authorities said. Jairo Ramirez-Abreu, 31, was arrested shortly before noon last Tuesday, Feb. 7, after city officers found him carrying a loaded gun during a traffic stop near the corner of Main and Howard avenues, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Passaic Police Chief Luis A. Guzman said in a joint release. They later learned that Ramirez-Abreu and an as-yet-unidentified accomplice jumped a 54-year-old man near the corner o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
50,000 Pills: Feds Hold Accused Fentanyl Trafficker From Mexico In Bergen Jail After NYC Bust 50,000 Pills: Feds Hold Accused Fentanyl Trafficker From Mexico In Bergen Jail After NYC Bust 50,000 Pills: Feds Hold Accused Fentanyl Trafficker From Mexico In Bergen Jail After NYC Bust
50,000 Pills: Feds Hold Accused Fentanyl Trafficker From Mexico In Bergen Jail After NYC Bust Federal authorities kept an accused fentanyl trafficker in custody at the Bergen County Jail after they said they caught her selling 50,000 potentially fatal fentanyl pills in Manhattan. Agari Reyes-Sillero, a 34-year-old Mexican national, got into a cooperator’s car in with the multi-colored pills packed into four protein powder containers on Feb. 5, 2023, a complaint signed by a DEA agent alleges. She expected to be paid $400,000 in return, the complaint filed in the Southern District of New York in Manhattan says. Members of a task force comprised of DEA agents, the NYPD and the New Yo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Good Samaritan Leads Lodi PD To Drunk Driver: Police Good Samaritan Leads Lodi PD To Drunk Driver: Police Good Samaritan Leads Lodi PD To Drunk Driver: Police
Good Samaritan Leads Lodi PD To Drunk Driver: Police A good Samaritan led Lodi police to a drunk driver who'd blacked out behind the wheel across from headquarters, authorities said. The citizen called police from Memorial Drive and began following the 2013 Jeep Wrangler driven by Franklin R. Sosa, 42, of West New York shortly before midnight late last week, Lodi Police Sgt. Dominic Miller said. He then told them the driver had stopped in a Mercer Street parking lot, where responding officers found Sosa slumped over the wheel, the sergeant said. They knocked on the window, then removed Sosa from the Jeep, administered a field test and arrest…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
Breaking News
Video Shows Fatal Morris Motel Shootout With Fugitive Wanted For Wounding Bergen Woman Video Shows Fatal Morris Motel Shootout With Fugitive Wanted For Wounding Bergen Woman Video Shows Fatal Morris Motel Shootout With Fugitive Wanted For Wounding Bergen Woman
Video Shows Fatal Morris Motel Shootout With Fugitive Wanted For Wounding Bergen Woman A soundless TV is on in his Route 46 motel room when a tactical team bursts in and an ex-con being sought for shooting a New Milford woman in Elmwood Park raises a silver revolver. Several shots are fired by shield-wielding members of Morris County's emergency response team, and James Allandale instantly falls to the floor. He's pronounced dead less than 10 minutes later. The scene at the Knights Inn in Pinebook this past New Year's Eve is captured in a pair of body-camera videos released by state authorities as part of a mandated review of all deaths involving police in New Jersey. All…

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by Jerry DeMarco, Jon Craig & Cecilia Levine
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
EPIC FAIL: Would-Be Bank Robber Captured After Leaving Empty-Handed, Hackensack Police Say EPIC FAIL: Would-Be Bank Robber Captured After Leaving Empty-Handed, Hackensack Police Say EPIC FAIL: Would-Be Bank Robber Captured After Leaving Empty-Handed, Hackensack Police Say
Epic Fail: Would-Be Bank Robber Captured After Leaving Empty-Handed, Hackensack Police Say A would-be bank robber who walked out of a Hackensack TD branch empty-handed ended up with bracelets instead, authorities said. City resident Roderick Troy Smith, 32, was nabbed by Hackensack police detectives and FBI agents who spotted him on Anderson Street on Tuesday, Feb. 7, Capt. Michael Antista said on Thursday. It began around 4:30 p.m. Jan. 18, when a man walked into the TD Bank at the corner of University Plaza Drive and River Street, passed a note to a teller demanding money and said he was armed with a gun, the captain said. The robber was denied and took off, said Antista, the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Smoking Oven Fire Damages Lodi Home Smoking Oven Fire Damages Lodi Home Smoking Oven Fire Damages Lodi Home
Smoking Oven Fire Damages Lodi Home A fire reportedly ignited by a smoking oven severely damaged a Lodi home Wednesday night. The two-alarm, gas-fed blaze broke out on the first floor in the rear of the two-story Garibaldi Avenue home shortly before 7:30 p.m. Feb. 8, responders said. Firefighters had it knocked down within 20 minutes. It was declared under control shortly after 8 p.m. No injuries were reported. Smoke eaters attack the Garibaldi Avenue fire in Lodi.Damien Danis for DAILY VOICE Mutual aid at the scene and in coverage included firefighters from Garfield, Wallington and Hasbrouck Heights, as well as Wood-Ri…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Home Invaders Kick In Door, Beat Hackensack Tenants: Two Caught, One Sought, Police Say Home Invaders Kick In Door, Beat Hackensack Tenants: Two Caught, One Sought, Police Say Home Invaders Kick In Door, Beat Hackensack Tenants: Two Caught, One Sought, Police Say
Home Invaders Kick In Door, Beat Hackensack Tenants: Two Caught, One Sought, Police Say Three home invaders held several victims captive while beating them after kicking in the door of a Hackensack apartment and demanding money, authorities said. Hackensack police arrested an adult, identified as Kenny Segura, 18, and a juvenile in connection with the 1:23 a.m. Feb. 1 robbery at a Pangborn Place apartment, Capt. Michael Antista said. The victims sustained minor injuries and didn’t require medical treatment, said Antista, who’s the officer in charge of the department. Detective John Mora identified the two suspects who were taken into custody, the captain said on Wednesday, Fe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Franklin Township, NJ
Breaking News
Former PSE&G Worker Found Dead After Fatal Shooting Of Councilman At Somerset Facility Former PSE&G Worker Found Dead After Fatal Shooting Of Councilman At Somerset Facility Former PSE&G Worker Found Dead After Fatal Shooting Of Councilman At Somerset Facility
Former PSE&G Worker Found Dead After Fatal Shooting Of Councilman At Somerset Facility A former PSE&G employee shot and killed a supervisor outside the utility company's Somerset County facility early Wednesday before eventually turning the gun on himself, authorities confirmed. Gary T. Curtis, 58, shot Russell D. Heller, of Milford, of Washington, at PSE&G's Central Division Headquarters on Weston Canal Road in Franklin Township shortly after 7 a.m. Feb. 8, Somerset County Prosecutor John P. McDonald said. Heller — who was a council member in Milford — died at the scene of a gunshot wound to the head, the State Police Regional Operations & Intelligence Center (…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Illegal Turn Produces 8½ Lbs Of Coke, 150 Pounds Of Pot, Loaded Guns, $50K In Leonia Illegal Turn Produces 8½ Lbs Of Coke, 150 Pounds Of Pot, Loaded Guns, $50K In Leonia Illegal Turn Produces 8½ Lbs Of Coke, 150 Pounds Of Pot, Loaded Guns, $50K In Leonia
Illegal Turn Produces 8½ Lbs Of Coke, 150 Pounds Of Pot, Loaded Guns, $50K In Leonia An illegal turn at a busy Leonia intersection led to the discovery of 8½ pounds of cocaine, 150 pounds of marijuana, two loaded handguns and $50,000 in proceeds and the arrests of three unemployed men from Ridgefield Park, Manhattan and Long Island, authorities said. Sgt. Ray Forsdahl stopped a 2018 Chevrolet Suburban after the driver made a left turn from the right lane at Grand Avenue and Fort Lee Road around 9 a.m. Feb. 2, Leonia Police Chief Scott Tamagny said. Forsdahl discovered 50 pounds of pot and $10,000 in cash after speaking with the driver, identified as Lenny Fernandez, a 43-ye…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
GOTCHA! Jersey City Driver Who Fled Palisades Parkway Stop Caught With Ghost Gun, Ammo: PIP PD GOTCHA! Jersey City Driver Who Fled Palisades Parkway Stop Caught With Ghost Gun, Ammo: PIP PD GOTCHA! Jersey City Driver Who Fled Palisades Parkway Stop Caught With Ghost Gun, Ammo: PIP PD
Gotcha! Jersey City Driver Who Fled Palisades Parkway Stop Caught With Ghost Gun, Ammo: PIP PD A speeding Jersey City driver eluded Palisades Interstate Parkway police before an officer caught him with a ghost gun, a high-capacity magazine and hollow-point bullets when he tried to do it again, authorities said. PIP Police Officer Gabriel Roldan pulled back rather than pursue a black Hyundai Palisade whose driver recklessly swerved in and out of traffic to elude him just after noon on Monday, Jan. 23, Lt. Raymond E. Walter said. Roldan tossed the information to PIP detectives, who traced a fictitious plate on the SUV to an Ocean Avenue address in Jersey City, the lieutenant said. Fur…

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