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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Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Fire In Oradell Medical Building Doused Fire In Oradell Medical Building Doused Fire In Oradell Medical Building Doused
Fire In Oradell Medical Building Doused Firefighters quickly doused a Friday morning fire in an Oradell medical building. The apparently electrical fire broke out in an oxygen room in the three-story office building on Kinderkamack Road shortly before 8:30 a.m. Firefighters contained it to that room, kept the flames from spreading and had the blaze extinguished in minutes. No injuries were reported.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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'Shoot Him': Manhunt Continues For Strong-Arm Robbers Who Accosted Hasbrouck Heights Tenant 'Shoot Him': Manhunt Continues For Strong-Arm Robbers Who Accosted Hasbrouck Heights Tenant 'Shoot Him': Manhunt Continues For Strong-Arm Robbers Who Accosted Hasbrouck Heights Tenant
'Shoot Him': Manhunt Continues For Strong-Arm Robbers Who Accosted Hasbrouck Heights Tenant A Hasbrouck Heights garden apartment tenant told police he was robbed by two men who covered his mouth and yanked a bracelet from his wrist as he arrived home shortly before dawn. Officers from Hasbrouck Heights and Wood-Ridge responded to the call from the Skyline Apartments on Terrace Avenue shortly before 5 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, Sgt. John Behr said. He was headed to his apartment door, the 23-year-old tenant said, when the robbers rushed him -- forcing open a common-area door and breaking the lock, the sergeant said. They then "held a hand over his mouth and forced a bracelet off of …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Out-Of-Control SUV Crosses Palisades Parkway Median, Slams Head-On Into Uber Carrying Diabetic Out-Of-Control SUV Crosses Palisades Parkway Median, Slams Head-On Into Uber Carrying Diabetic Out-Of-Control SUV Crosses Palisades Parkway Median, Slams Head-On Into Uber Carrying Diabetic
Out-Of-Control SUV Crosses Palisades Parkway Median, Slams Head-On Into Uber Carrying Diabetic Responders feared the worst after an out-of-control SUV crossed the grass median of the Palisades Interstate Parkway and slammed head-on into an Uber headed in the opposite direction. What's more, the Uber passenger was suffering a medical episode and was going in and out of consciousness when officers arrived an instant later, PIP police said. A 37-year-old Suffern man who was driving the 2021 Honda Passport told police he was headed south in Englewood Cliffs when he tried to avoid hitting another vehicle and lost control of the SUV, Lt. Raymond Walter said. The Passport barreled across t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Demolition Derby: Responders Revive Route 17 Driver With Narcan After Chain-Reaction Crash Demolition Derby: Responders Revive Route 17 Driver With Narcan After Chain-Reaction Crash Demolition Derby: Responders Revive Route 17 Driver With Narcan After Chain-Reaction Crash
Demolition Derby: Responders Revive Route 17 Driver With Narcan After Chain-Reaction Crash A sedan slammed into several vehicles on Route 17 after its driver apparently overdosed behind the wheel, authorities said. Responders revived the 28-year-old motorist from Miami with Narcan after his 2003 Infiniti G35 damaged multiple vehicles on the southbound highway in Lodi around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, said Keisha J. McLean, the Bergen County sheriff's public information officer. The driver was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center for an evaluation, McLean said. No other injuries were reported. Hackensack firefighters and HUMC paramedics responded along with the sheri…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson Ex-Con Admits Having Drugs, Gun When Detectives Busted In Paterson Ex-Con Admits Having Drugs, Gun When Detectives Busted In Paterson Ex-Con Admits Having Drugs, Gun When Detectives Busted In
Paterson Ex-Con Admits Having Drugs, Gun When Detectives Busted In UPDATE: A convicted pedophile from Paterson whose parole officers found large amounts of cash on top of his bed admitted on Thursday that he kept a loaded gun beneath it, authorities said. Jessie Mayfield, 59, told a judge he also had fentanyl for sale along with ilegal .22-caliber Ruger -- which, as a convicted felon, he was prohibited from owning, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said on Nov. 17. Records show that Mayfield served three years and eight months in state prison for sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl and 12-year-old boy and fondling two other girls, ages 5 and 6, in 2014. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
HACKENSACK HOMICIDE: Three Charged In Targeted Barbershop Shooting HACKENSACK HOMICIDE: Three Charged In Targeted Barbershop Shooting HACKENSACK HOMICIDE: Three Charged In Targeted Barbershop Shooting
Hackensack Homicide: Three Charged In Targeted Barbershop Shooting UPDATE: On the day when loved ones laid to rest a Maywood man who was gunned down outside a Hackensack barber shop last weekend, authorities announced the arrests of his alleged killer and two accomplices. A Catholic prayer service and burial were held on Thursday morning, Nov. 17, for Vidal Nieves, a 28-year-old single dad who worked at a dollar store in Passaic. At the same time, charges were being brought against: Dior Alston, a 21-year-old laborer from South Hackensack; Malik Abel, 21, an electrician from Maywood; Rayshawn Powel-Myhand, a 19-year-old cashier from Hackensack. Alston a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Brazen Fair Lawn Home Invaders Tie Up Resident, Trigger Massive Manhunt Brazen Fair Lawn Home Invaders Tie Up Resident, Trigger Massive Manhunt Brazen Fair Lawn Home Invaders Tie Up Resident, Trigger Massive Manhunt
Brazen Fair Lawn Home Invaders Tie Up Resident, Trigger Massive Manhunt SEE ANYTHING? Armed Intruders tied up a Fair Lawn resident during a brazen home invasion Thursday morning, authorities said. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella confirmed that his detectives and borough police are investigating the push-in robbery, which sent a 28th Street resident to the hospital with minor injuries around 9:30 a.m. Nov. 17. Two other residents were home at the time, the prosecutor said. Musella didn't address an initial report that the bandits posed as investigators from the state Division of Criminal Justice. What was taken wasn't immediately determined. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cherry Hill, NJ
Breaking News
Air Force Officer From NJ Admits Trafficking Child Porn Air Force Officer From NJ Admits Trafficking Child Porn Air Force Officer From NJ Admits Trafficking Child Porn
Air Force Officer From NJ Admits Trafficking Child Porn An Air Force officer from Camden County admitted sharing child porn videos and images with others through a cloud, federal authorities said. Federal agents began investigating Ryan Osinski, 31, of Cherry Hill following a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. They found that “images of child sexual abuse were shared from an IP address assigned to Osinski’s residence,” the U.S. attorney said. "Numerous images and videos of child sexual abuse” were found on his phone, as were links and folders on a cloud storage site that Osi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
75 Miles From Home: New York State Pair Busted For Heroin, Coke In Fair Lawn Traffic Stop 75 Miles From Home: New York State Pair Busted For Heroin, Coke In Fair Lawn Traffic Stop 75 Miles From Home: New York State Pair Busted For Heroin, Coke In Fair Lawn Traffic Stop
75 Miles From Home: New York State Pair Busted For Heroin, Coke In Fair Lawn Traffic Stop Two New York State men who’d apparently driven well over an hour to Paterson in an unregistered, uninsured car to buy drugs were charged with heroin and crack possession following a Fair Lawn traffic stop, authorities said. Officer Brad Pindyck stopped the two on Loretto Avenue at Lincoln Avenue after spotting the driver texting, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. It turned out the driver, Christopher Cardarello, 38, of Highland, NY, had neither a valid registration nor insurance, the sergeant said. Cardarello and his passenger, Michael Hannon, 36, of Poughkeepsie, were taken into custody after the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
Breaking News
TSA: Disassembled Gun Found In Separate Carry-Ons At Newark Airport TSA: Disassembled Gun Found In Separate Carry-Ons At Newark Airport TSA: Disassembled Gun Found In Separate Carry-Ons At Newark Airport
TSA: Disassembled Gun Found In Separate Carry-Ons At Newark Airport A traveler at Newark Airport couldn't claim he forgot when TSA officers found gun parts and more than a dozen rounds spread through two of his carry-on bags, authorities said. The Indiana man was taken into custody after they alerted Port Authority police to the 9mm discovery at a Terminal B security checkpoint, Transportation Security Administration Spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said on Thursday, Nov. 17. He told officials he'd driven to the area but had to fly home after his vehicle was stolen, Farbstein said. He "thought it would be okay to travel with a disassembled gun," she said. Nope.…

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