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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Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
GOTCHA! Englewood Ex-Con Busted In Business Burglary Spree GOTCHA! Englewood Ex-Con Busted In Business Burglary Spree GOTCHA! Englewood Ex-Con Busted In Business Burglary Spree
Gotcha! Englewood Ex-Con Busted In Business Burglary Spree An Englewood ex-con with a lengthy criminal history went on a downtown burglary spree before police caught him breaking into the same Dunkin Donuts a second time, authorities said. Detectives were investigating several burglaries at a string of neighboring businesses three nights earlier when a morning manager at the West Palisade Avenue Dunkin Donuts called police. Officers Julio Alvarado, Jordan Migliore, Luana Sharpe and Paul Schluter grabbed Adnan Hyder, 36, in the shop’s office area, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell said Tuesday. He'd just taken more than $100 cash from both a register …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Wayne Mechanic, 23, Indicted In Crash Death Of Paterson Motorist Wayne Mechanic, 23, Indicted In Crash Death Of Paterson Motorist Wayne Mechanic, 23, Indicted In Crash Death Of Paterson Motorist
Wayne Mechanic, 23, Indicted In Crash Death Of Paterson Motorist A 23-year-old mechanic from Wayne was indicted on death by auto and vehicular homicide charges for a crash last summer that killed a Paterson man, authorities announced. Asante Cugliari was drunk and under the influence of pot when he sped through a stop sign and his Hyundai Genesis T-boned a Dodge Charger near the 10th Avenue circle at Route 20 shortly before 10 p.m. Aug. 9, the indictment returned in Paterson alleges. The Charger driver, Gustavo Marte, 58, was killed instantly, it says. Surveillance footage showed Cugliari racing down East 26th Street before his sedan slammed into the Ch…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Sussex Dump Truck Driver Indicted For Route 3 Crash That Killed Girl, 1, Injured Mom Sussex Dump Truck Driver Indicted For Route 3 Crash That Killed Girl, 1, Injured Mom Sussex Dump Truck Driver Indicted For Route 3 Crash That Killed Girl, 1, Injured Mom
Sussex Dump Truck Driver Indicted For Route 3 Crash That Killed Girl, 1, Injured Mom UPDATE: A dump truck driver who caused a crash that killed a 1-year-old girl and seriously injured her mother on Route 3 in Clifton last summer was indicted on aggravated manslaughter and vehicular homicide charges. The indictment returned by a grand jury in Paterson also charges Chad Hines, 41, of Wantage with two counts of death by auto, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes said. Hines remained jailed pending an arraignment on the indictment, Valdes said Monday. Jamie Yarrish, 25, of Clifton had her infant daughter, Jaelynn, with her when a 2005 Mack Conventional Cab dump truck driv…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Tractor-Trailer Fire Closes Thruway Near State Line Tractor-Trailer Fire Closes Thruway Near State Line Tractor-Trailer Fire Closes Thruway Near State Line
Tractor-Trailer Fire Closes Thruway Near State Line A fully involved tractor-trailer fire temporarily closed the southbound New York State Thruway near the Bergen County border Monday night. Firefighters from Mahwah and Tuxedo brought tankers to assist their Hillburn colleagues in dousing the blaze, which responders said came dangerously close to overhead power lines. An Orange and Rockland Utilities crew was summoned, they said. Southbound New York State Thruway (Route 287) in Hillburn.John Kiene for DAILY VOICE No injuries were reported. The contents of the trailer weren't immediately known. No injuries were reported.John Kiene f…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Divers Search Mahwah Lake For Drowned Paddle Boarder Divers Search Mahwah Lake For Drowned Paddle Boarder Divers Search Mahwah Lake For Drowned Paddle Boarder
Divers Search Mahwah Lake For Drowned Paddle Boarder UPDATE: The body of a drowned paddle boarder was recovered from a Mahwah lake Tuesday afternoon, responders said. The body of the 24-year-old victim from Mountainside Avenue was found in 15 feet of water shortly before 3 p.m. He wasn't immediately identified by name. The boarder had lost his grip and fell into Dators Pond at the foot of Stag Hill Road early Thursday evening, responders said. His older brother then paddled to shore shouting for someone to call 911, Mayor Jim Wysocki said. The first responder, Mahwah Police Officer Travis Canning, headed into the pond just west of the Ramap…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Judge To Decide Holding Or Releasing Paterson Police Officer Charged With Assault, Misconduct Judge To Decide Holding Or Releasing Paterson Police Officer Charged With Assault, Misconduct Judge To Decide Holding Or Releasing Paterson Police Officer Charged With Assault, Misconduct
Judge To Decide Holding Or Releasing Paterson Police Officer Charged With Assault, Misconduct UPDATE: A judge in Paterson will decide Wednesday whether a city police officer charged with assaulting a victim and lying about it should remain jailed or be released from custody. Spencer Finch, 44, of Mahwah has been held in the Bergen County Jail since Friday, records show. The Passaic County Prosecutor's Office charged him with aggravated assault, official misconduct and illegal weapons possession, as well as tampering with public records.  Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said the 18-year city department veteran beat a victim with his fist and a flashlight and kn…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Clifton Ortho Doc Who State Said Freely Doled Out Opioids Permanently Barred From Practice Clifton Ortho Doc Who State Said Freely Doled Out Opioids Permanently Barred From Practice Clifton Ortho Doc Who State Said Freely Doled Out Opioids Permanently Barred From Practice
Clifton Ortho Doc Who State Said Freely Doled Out Opioids Permanently Barred From Practice UPDATE: A Clifton orthopedic surgeon who prescribed addictive opioid painkillers to patients who abused, sold or otherwise didn't need them was permanently barred from practicing medicine or prescribing drugs in New Jersey, state authorities announced Monday. Evangelos Megariotis – who owned and operated Clifton Orthopedic Associates -- told one patient that "anything that drugs can do on the street, my medications will do better and safer,” state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. "Just call me,” Grewal quoted him as saying. Megariotis also treated patient complaints of hypertension…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
WHO IS HE? Unidentified Man Struck, Killed on Route 3 WHO IS HE? Unidentified Man Struck, Killed on Route 3 WHO IS HE? Unidentified Man Struck, Killed on Route 3
WHO IS HE? Unidentified Man Struck, Killed on Route 3 UPDATE: A Moonachie man who was charged with the Route 3 hit and run death of a pedestrian from Paterson remained free pending further court action, authorities confirmed. A judge in Paterson ordered Bryan Meza-Roca, 26, to surrender his driver’s license and remain monitored while the case against him proceeds. He was charged with leaving the scene of a fatal crash and endangering an injured victim Meza-Roca turned himself in to Clifton police last Friday, five days after investigators said he struck Mustafa Hemaid, 33, with his 2021 Hyundai Santa Fe on the eastbound highway outside Clifto…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Clifton Man Sexually Assaulted Child, 14 Prosecutor: Clifton Man Sexually Assaulted Child, 14 Prosecutor: Clifton Man Sexually Assaulted Child, 14
Prosecutor: Clifton Man Sexually Assaulted Child, 14 A Clifton man was charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old child, authorities said Monday. Javier Beristain, 33, was arrested after the child “disclosed being sexually assaulted” by him at a residence in Clifton, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said. Detectives from Valdes’s Special Victims Unit interviewed the victim and multiple witnesses, the prosecutor said. Beristain is charged with aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and child endangerment. He remained free pending a hearing scheduled for this Wednesday in Paterson.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Authorities: Empty Bed Of Roll-Off Truck Was Raised When It Hit RR Bridge In Hawthorne Authorities: Empty Bed Of Roll-Off Truck Was Raised When It Hit RR Bridge In Hawthorne Authorities: Empty Bed Of Roll-Off Truck Was Raised When It Hit RR Bridge In Hawthorne
Authorities: Empty Bed Of Roll-Off Truck Was Raised When It Hit RR Bridge In Hawthorne UPDATE: A driver was hospitalized after the raised bed of his roll-off truck struck a railroad bridge and landed on its side Monday morning in Hawthorne, authorities said. The driver apparently had just delivered a trash container and drove off without lowering the bed before it struck the nearby Wagaraw Road bridge at Lincoln Street at 6:49 a.m., said Nancy Snyder, NJ Transit's chief media relations and communications officer. He was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson with injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening, she said, adding that he also received a sum…

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