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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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Parked Cars Damaged In DWI Crashes, Fair Lawn Police Say Parked Cars Damaged In DWI Crashes, Fair Lawn Police Say Parked Cars Damaged In DWI Crashes, Fair Lawn Police Say
Parked Cars Damaged In DWI Crashes, Fair Lawn Police Say It was fortunate that parked cars -- and not people -- were struck in separate DWI crashes a week and a half apart in Fair Lawn, responders said. Kelbin Cardenes of Paterson was arrested after refusing a roadside sobriety test following a single-car crash on Morlot Avenue near Van Saun Place around 7:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve 2022, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Cardenes was released to a responsible adult after being charged with reckless driving, failure to remain in a single lane, DWI and refusing to submit to breath testing, the sergeant said. Miguel Alvarez of Elmwood Park was arrested after…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
Breaking News
Newark Again Leads NYC-Area Airports In Gun Seizures: LGA Up, JFK Down In 2022, TSA Says Newark Again Leads NYC-Area Airports In Gun Seizures: LGA Up, JFK Down In 2022, TSA Says Newark Again Leads NYC-Area Airports In Gun Seizures: LGA Up, JFK Down In 2022, TSA Says
Newark Again Leads Nyc-area Airports In Gun Seizures: LGA Up, JFK Down In 2022, TSA Says Newark Liberty International Airport last year had the dubious distinction of recording the most gun seizures by TSA officers of any hub in the New York metropolitan area, the agency reported. It also makes the fifth straight year that Newark Airport had more checkpoint gun seizures than its regional counterparts. The 14 firearms discovered at Newark security checkpoints in 2022 tie a recent high from 2018, Transportation Security Administration statistics show. LaGuardia had 11 and JFK had seven. Overall, the 39 handguns stopped at New York City regional airports last year were 50% more…

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
Gas-Fed Fire Ravages North Haledon Home Gas-Fed Fire Ravages North Haledon Home Gas-Fed Fire Ravages North Haledon Home
Gas-Fed Fire Ravages North Haledon Home No injuries were reported in a heavy house fire in North Haledon. Fed by gas from a stove, the noontime blaze on Monday, Jan. 16, ravaged the two-story, wood-frame home across from the Salesian Sisters' Mary Help of Christians Academy on Belmont Avenue. PSE&G was called on a rush to cut the feed. Mutual aid firefighters included companies from Franklin Lakes, Haledon, Hawthorne, Midland Park, Paterson, Prospect Park and Wyckoff. The gas-fed fire ravaged the Belmont Avenue home in North Haledon.FRANKLIN LAKES FD

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
House Fire Doused In Rutherford House Fire Doused In Rutherford House Fire Doused In Rutherford
House Fire Doused In Rutherford Firefighters made quick work of a house blaze in Rutherford. The fire broke out shortly before 9:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 16, on the second floor of the Vanderburgh Avenue home at the corner of Clark Avenue. Work apparently was being done at the home, responders said. Firefighters made quick work of the blaze on Vanderburgh Avenue in Rutherford.Jo Fehl Firefighters had the bulk of the blaze knocked down in under 20 minutes. The fire was officially declared under control soon after. No injuries were reported. At the scene of the Jan. 16 blaze on Vanderburgh Avenue in Rutherford.Jo Feh…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Pickup Driver In Horrific Head-On Ridgewood Crash With 80-Year-Old Motorist Was DWI: Police Pickup Driver In Horrific Head-On Ridgewood Crash With 80-Year-Old Motorist Was DWI: Police Pickup Driver In Horrific Head-On Ridgewood Crash With 80-Year-Old Motorist Was DWI: Police
Pickup Driver In Horrific Head-On Ridgewood Crash With 80-Year-Old Motorist Was DWI: Police A driver from Hawthorne was drunk when his pickup truck slammed head-on into an SUV driven by an 80-year-old Waldwick woman in Ridgewood, authorities charged. Thomas Michalski, 59, was headed south on North Monroe Street when his Chevy Silverado crossed the double-yellow line Fairmount Road and collided with a northbound Honda CRV around 11:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 13, Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke said. Both drivers were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, the chief said. What was left of the Chevrolet Silverado.Boyd A. Loving Michaski was charged with DWI, making an unsafe l…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Little Ferry Laborer Torched Truck For Insurance Money, Authorities Charge Little Ferry Laborer Torched Truck For Insurance Money, Authorities Charge Little Ferry Laborer Torched Truck For Insurance Money, Authorities Charge
Little Ferry Laborer Torched Truck For Insurance Money, Authorities Charge A laborer from Little Ferry was charged with torching his pickup truck outside his own home for the insurance money. Louis M. Molino, 40, was arrested soon after firefighters responding to a quiet Couchon Drive neighborhood near Route 46 found the 2008 Nissan Frontier ablaze around 11:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 13, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Little Ferry police and members of Musella’s Major Crimes Unit, assisted by the Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification, collected enough evidence to charge Molina with aggravated arson, arson and risking widespread injury o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
FAKE NEWS: Man Who KO's Roadside Brawler In Viral Video ISN'T Former NY Jet Shaun Ellis FAKE NEWS: Man Who KO's Roadside Brawler In Viral Video ISN'T Former NY Jet Shaun Ellis FAKE NEWS: Man Who KO's Roadside Brawler In Viral Video ISN'T Former NY Jet Shaun Ellis
Fake NEWS: Man Who KO's Roadside Brawler In Viral Video ISN'T Former NY Jet Shaun Ellis If you believed that former New York Jets defensive end Shaun Ellis is the man in a now-viral video who dropped a driver with a jab during a bare-knuckle roadside brawl, you're not the only one. The identification of Ellis in the clip of two men squaring off -- and one falling like a sack of potatoes when he's popped seconds later -- is the handiwork of a superfan prankster known as "Incarcerated Bob." Both men had their dukes up when the winner in the flat cap, polo shirt and brown shoes feigned a left and snapped a right jab right to the kisser.  Boom! goes the dynamite. "That’s not Sh…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Motorist From Waldwick Charged In DWI Hit-And-Run: Franklin Lakes PD Motorist From Waldwick Charged In DWI Hit-And-Run: Franklin Lakes PD Motorist From Waldwick Charged In DWI Hit-And-Run: Franklin Lakes PD
Motorist From Waldwick Charged In DWI Hit-And-Run: Franklin Lakes PD A motorist from Waldwick was intoxicated when police in Franklin Lakes found her and her disabled Jeep near the scene of a single-vehicle hit-and-run crash, authorities said. Andrea L. Wilkin, 44, was turning left onto Ewing Avenue from Franklin Lake Road when her 2021 Wrangler left the roadway and smashed into a curb shortly after 10 p.m. Friday, Jan. 13, Capt. Mark McCombs said. Wilkin, who apparently wasn’t injured, drove her partially disabled vehicle off instead of waiting for police, the captain said on Monday, Jan. 16. The Jeep broke down up the road on George Street near Ramapo Hig…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
TRAFFIC ALERT: Water Main Break Closes Major Roadway Near Route 3 TRAFFIC ALERT: Water Main Break Closes Major Roadway Near Route 3 TRAFFIC ALERT: Water Main Break Closes Major Roadway Near Route 3
Traffic ALERT: Water Main Break Closes Major Roadway Near Route 3 A 12-inch water main break temporarily closed a major thoroughfare near Route 3 in Clifton. "Customers in the immediate area may experience low pressure [and] discolored or no water while repairs are made," Bryan Frierson of the Passaic Valley Water Commission said shortly after 8:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 16. "Nutley residents near the Clifton border may also be affected," he noted, adding that commuters should find alternate routes. Frierson didn't say when they expect repairs will be completed. "Thank you for your patience as we work quickly and safely to remediate the issue," he wrote in …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
SUV, Crossover Collide In Ridgewood SUV, Crossover Collide In Ridgewood SUV, Crossover Collide In Ridgewood
SUV, Crossover Collide In Ridgewood An elderly occupant was hospitalized following an afternoon collision in Ridgewood. He and a woman were in a Ford crossover that collided with a Volkswagen Golf on Linwood Avenue off Northern Parkway near Graydon Park around 1:45 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15. Members of Ridgewood Village Ambulance took him to The Valley Hospital nearby. At the scene of the crash on Linwood Avenue near Northern Parkway in Paramus on Sunday, Jan. 15.Boyd A. Loving Village police and firefighters also responded. Boyd A. Loving took the photos and contributed to this story. The elderly occupant was tended to …

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