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
HIT-RUN: Driver Flees After Injuring Two Passaic County Sheriff's Officers HIT-RUN: Driver Flees After Injuring Two Passaic County Sheriff's Officers HIT-RUN: Driver Flees After Injuring Two Passaic County Sheriff's Officers
Hit-run: Driver Flees After Injuring Two Passaic County Sheriff's Officers Two Passaic County sheriff's correctional officers were struck by a hit-and-run driver while heading to work in Paterson early Sunday. Both officers were treated at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center before being released, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. A late-model four-door sedan struck them at 6:45 a.m. while rounding a corner from westbound Grand Street to southbound Main Street a block from the Passaic County Jail, responders said. One of the officers was struck on the leg and the other hit in the arm by the driver's side mirror, they said. The driver apparently sl…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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City Man Shot Dead Outside Paterson Shopping Center City Man Shot Dead Outside Paterson Shopping Center City Man Shot Dead Outside Paterson Shopping Center
City Man Shot Dead Outside Paterson Shopping Center Small minds will often wonder when someone is shot and killed in an inner city whether that person somehow had something to do with his or her own death. A chorus of voices rose this weekend, however, after word spread that the man known as “Rei” -- Ravel Trejo -- had been gunned down outside a city shopping center. Trejo, 32, who worked as a pharmacy tech at the CVS on Union Boulevard in Totowa, was "a cool dude, a down-to-earth person,” wrote friend Mel Taylor.  “He wasn’t with that goofy s**t," Taylor said. “He wasn’t with that s**t at all,” Destinee Corina added. “That’s what makes …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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New Milford PD: Medical Episode Causes 5-Vehicle Chain-Reaction Crash Near River Edge New Milford PD: Medical Episode Causes 5-Vehicle Chain-Reaction Crash Near River Edge New Milford PD: Medical Episode Causes 5-Vehicle Chain-Reaction Crash Near River Edge
New Milford PD: Medical Episode Causes 5-Vehicle Chain-Reaction Crash Near River Edge Five vehicles in all were heavily damaged in a chain-reaction crash after a driver suffered a medical episode on a busy New Milford road. The 32-year-old Honda driver from Beverly, MA was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center following the crash on New Bridge Road shortly before 4:30 p.m., Detective Lt. Kevin Van Saders said. Taken to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center was a 60-year-old Jeep driver from Tenafly, Van Saders said. Refusing medical attention were two women, both 48 – one from Tenafly who was driving a Nissan and another from Rutherford who was driving a BMW – as we…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Out-Of-Control SUV Barrels Through Saddle Brook Playground, Just Misses Kids, Slams Into School Out-Of-Control SUV Barrels Through Saddle Brook Playground, Just Misses Kids, Slams Into School Out-Of-Control SUV Barrels Through Saddle Brook Playground, Just Misses Kids, Slams Into School
Out-Of-Control SUV Barrels Through Saddle Brook Playground, Just Misses Kids, Slams Into School A group of Saddle Brook pre-schoolers were enjoying a late morning outside when out-of-control SUV crashed through their playground fence barely 50 feet away. The large Chevrolet Suburban, driven by an off-duty Saddle Brook police officer, then hit a tree and slammed into the Washington School building. “The terror on those children’s faces I can never put into words,” one parent said. “Any of us could [have] been planning a funeral right now,” said another. Officer Matthew Benus, 52, suffered a medical episode and passed out before Thursday's crash at Market and West streets around 11 a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
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RECOGNIZE HIM? Gold-Toothed Stranger Tries To Buy Boy, 2, From Mom In NJ Park RECOGNIZE HIM? Gold-Toothed Stranger Tries To Buy Boy, 2, From Mom In NJ Park RECOGNIZE HIM? Gold-Toothed Stranger Tries To Buy Boy, 2, From Mom In NJ Park
Recognize HIM? Gold-Toothed Stranger Tries To Buy Boy, 2, From Mom In NJ Park A stranger approached a woman in a North Jersey park and repeatedly offered her money for her 2-year-old son, said authorities who turned to the public for help finding him. The man, sporting a gold tooth, approached the woman shortly before 2:30 p.m. this past Wednesday on the Hurd Street side of Hedden County Park in Morris County, they said. He "made multiple attempts to purchase the child," New Jersey State Police said. After getting several refusals, the man met with two others -- believed to be between 25 and 30 years old each -- then left through the Park Heights gate in Dover Town…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Driver, 27, Extricated After Multi-Vehicle Garden State Parkway Pileup Driver, 27, Extricated After Multi-Vehicle Garden State Parkway Pileup Driver, 27, Extricated After Multi-Vehicle Garden State Parkway Pileup
Driver, 27, Extricated After Multi-Vehicle Garden State Parkway Pileup UPDATE: A driver had to be extricated following a pre-dawn multi-vehicle pileup Saturday on the rainy Garden State Parkway in Clifton. The 27-year-old victim was taken to the trauma unit at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson after his Nissan Sentra overturned in the five-vehicle, chain-reaction crash near Exit 153B around 4:50 a.m. There was no immediate word on other injuries, although his appeared the most serious. Firefighters freed the driver of the overturned Nissan Sentra.CHRIS LEON (Bergen Brookside Auto Body and Towing, Inc.) The vehicle may have been caused by a …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Fire Ravages Woodland Park Mulch Plant Fire Ravages Woodland Park Mulch Plant Fire Ravages Woodland Park Mulch Plant
Fire Ravages Woodland Park Mulch Plant UPDATE: Firefighters doused a blaze Friday night that severely damaged a Woodland Park plant that produces compost and dyed mulches. The fire at Environmental Renewal behind the Route 46 Best Buy broke out in back of the complex shortly before 10:30 p.m.  It was fully involved in minutes, responders said. Explosions were heard inside the Andrews Drive building -- where propane and oxygen tanks were stored -- as well as among transformers outside. ****** PHOTO GALLERY: BT Fire Photos ****** Mutual aid at the Andrews Drive scene or in coverage included firefighters from Bloomingdale, C…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Authorities Probe Alarming Discovery Of German Shepherds Abandoned Throughout Bergen, Passaic Authorities Probe Alarming Discovery Of German Shepherds Abandoned Throughout Bergen, Passaic Authorities Probe Alarming Discovery Of German Shepherds Abandoned Throughout Bergen, Passaic
Authorities Probe Alarming Discovery Of German Shepherds Abandoned Throughout Bergen, Passaic Authorities have launched a major investigation into the alarming discovery of no fewer than nine apparently related German Shepherds abandoned in various areas of North Jersey this past week. “Something foul has happened,” Deborah Yankow, the director of the Bergen County Animal Shelter and Adoption Center, said Friday. “What that is we don’t yet know.” “German Shepherds, like any other breed, come in all sizes, shapes and colors,” Yankow said. “But going from the two we have at the shelter and the pictures I’ve looked at, they all look identical, like siblings.” Five of the young adult …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Authorities: Perv Pic Taker In Route 3 Bookstore Bathroom Did Same To Girls At Paterson Home Authorities: Perv Pic Taker In Route 3 Bookstore Bathroom Did Same To Girls At Paterson Home Authorities: Perv Pic Taker In Route 3 Bookstore Bathroom Did Same To Girls At Paterson Home
Authorities: Perv Pic Taker In Route 3 Bookstore Bathroom Did Same To Girls At Paterson Home A man caught secretly recording women in bathroom stalls at a Barnes & Noble on Route 3 in Clifton did the same with two children at a Paterson home, authorities said. Juan Mejia, 46, of Paterson was arrested in February 2020 after a woman alerted security officers at Clifton Commons who found him in the bathroom. An investigation by Clifton police and the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Sexual Investigations Unit found that Mejia “secretly recorded two women at separate times who were utilizing adjoining bathroom stalls,” an indictment returned by a grand jury in Paterson says. They also …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Building Collapses In Paterson Blaze, Firefighters Limit Damage To Neighboring Church, Home Building Collapses In Paterson Blaze, Firefighters Limit Damage To Neighboring Church, Home Building Collapses In Paterson Blaze, Firefighters Limit Damage To Neighboring Church, Home
Building Collapses In Paterson Blaze, Firefighters Limit Damage To Neighboring Church, Home WATCH: Video captured a vacant Paterson building collapsing during a fierce fire that also damaged a church and home on either side. The blaze began in the three-story 12th Avenue building near Rosa Parks Boulevard shortly before 2 p.m. and quickly consumed it, forcing firefighters to work from outside. Ron Bombaro -- aka “tornadochaser66” -- captured and collected video and photos of the fire. He also recorded the collapse, which can be seen around the 2-minute mark of this video: Ron Bombaro captured and collected these images.tornadochaser66 Several who’d gathered for a barbecue o…

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