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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Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: Woman, 66, Four Cats Killed In Ridgewood Fire UPDATE: Woman, 66, Four Cats Killed In Ridgewood Fire UPDATE: Woman, 66, Four Cats Killed In Ridgewood Fire
Update: Woman, 66, Four Cats Killed In Ridgewood Fire UPDATE: A semi-retired Ridgewood woman and her four cats were killed in an overnight oven fire Monday, authorities confirmed. Responders found the body of 66-year-old Sharon Maes in the first-floor living room of her two-story North Pleasant Avenue home after fire broke out in her kitchen oven shortly before 1 a.m., Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. She'd apparently left something unattended and was overcome by smoke as she tried to flee, responders told Daily Voice. Maes was pronounced dead at the scene, Musella said, adding that the cause wasn't considered suspicious. Musella…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
WILD NIGHT: Four Wounded As Bullets Fly In Paterson WILD NIGHT: Four Wounded As Bullets Fly In Paterson WILD NIGHT: Four Wounded As Bullets Fly In Paterson
Wild Night: Four Wounded As Bullets Fly In Paterson Three men and a woman were hospitalized in a trio of Paterson shootings in a span of barely six hours, authorities said. The first two men – one, 20, from the city and the other a 22-year-old Wallingon resident – arrived at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center via private vehicle shortly before 6:30 p.m. Saturday, they said. Both had been struck in a drive-by shooting on East 27th Street between Park and 17th avenues, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint announcement. Police responded to another shooting shortly before 10 p.m…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Wayne PD: Suspect, Victim Arrested In Drug-Dispute Stabbing Wayne PD: Suspect, Victim Arrested In Drug-Dispute Stabbing Wayne PD: Suspect, Victim Arrested In Drug-Dispute Stabbing
Wayne PD: Suspect, Victim Arrested In Drug-Dispute Stabbing A fight between two Wayne men over drugs left one severely stabbed and both charged, authorities said. Police were called after Asante Cugliari, 23, arrived at the St. Joseph’s Wayne Hospital emergency room around 4:30 a.m. Saturday with leg, facial and abdominal wounds that required surgery, Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. Cugliari told them that he and Joseph Derissio, also 23, had gotten into a drug-related argument at a female acquaintance’s home that escalated into a confrontation, Daly said. According to Cugliari, Derissio grabbed a knife and stabbed him, the captain said. The woman …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Rochelle Park PD: Newark Man Who Paid For Sex With Underage Girl Gets Beaten, Robbed, Arrested Rochelle Park PD: Newark Man Who Paid For Sex With Underage Girl Gets Beaten, Robbed, Arrested Rochelle Park PD: Newark Man Who Paid For Sex With Underage Girl Gets Beaten, Robbed, Arrested
Rochelle Park PD: Newark Man Who Paid For Sex With Underage Girl Gets Beaten, Robbed, Arrested A Newark man who paid for sex with an underage girl got mugged instead, said Rochelle Park police who took four people into custody -- including him. An injured Samati Kokou, 36, came running into Fire Department headquarters Saturday night seeking help, Lt. James DePreta said. He had driven to Central Avenue, he said, where he gave a 16-year-old girl cash in exchange for what he expected would be sex, the lieutenant said. Instead, two robbers popped up and beat him. Kokou ran to the Lotz Lane firehouse with injuries to his face, arms and hand, DePreta said. Meanwhile, the robbers ransa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Little Ferry PD: Officer Nabs Garfield Repeat Offender, 20, In Burglarized Pickup Little Ferry PD: Officer Nabs Garfield Repeat Offender, 20, In Burglarized Pickup Little Ferry PD: Officer Nabs Garfield Repeat Offender, 20, In Burglarized Pickup
Little Ferry PD: Officer Nabs Garfield Repeat Offender, 20, In Burglarized Pickup A 20-year-old Garfield car burglar with a string of recent arrests tried talking his way out of an another when a Little Ferry police officer caught him breaking into a pickup truck before dawn, authorities said. Xhonatan Gaba, 20, was sitting in the passenger seat of a Chevy pickup owned by a tenant at the Williamstone Manor Apartments on William Street when Officer Joseph Montemurro rolled up around 3:15 a.m. Saturday, Police Chief James Walters said. Montemurro was cruising the area after finding another vehicle unlocked with its emergency lights flashing and car alarm blaring on Jackson…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
SEE ANYTHING? Police Seek Help In Route 46 Hit-Run Crash That Killed Clifton Pedestrian, 35 SEE ANYTHING? Police Seek Help In Route 46 Hit-Run Crash That Killed Clifton Pedestrian, 35 SEE ANYTHING? Police Seek Help In Route 46 Hit-Run Crash That Killed Clifton Pedestrian, 35
SEE Anything? Police Seek Help In Route 46 Hit-Run Crash That Killed Clifton Pedestrian, 35 Police turned to the public for help finding a hit-and-run driver involved in a crash that killed a Clifton man crossing Route 46 before dawn Sunday. Dharmesh H. Patel, 35 was crossing the highway near Rock Hill Road when he was struck on the westbound side shortly after midnight, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Clifton Police Chief Thomas Rinaldi said. As that vehicle sped off, Patel was struck by a second vehicle driven by a 52-year-old New Brunswick man who stopped and remained at the scene, they said. Patel was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, where he was…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Monroe, NY
Breaking News
Imprisoned Dealer Admits Selling Heroin That Killed User From Orange County, Authorities Say Imprisoned Dealer Admits Selling Heroin That Killed User From Orange County, Authorities Say Imprisoned Dealer Admits Selling Heroin That Killed User From Orange County, Authorities Say
Imprisoned Dealer Admits Selling Heroin That Killed User From Orange County, Authorities Say A twice-imprisoned drug dealer from New Jersey admitted he sold the heroin that killed a user from Orange County, authorities said. Shameik "Homeboy" Byrd, age 31, who’s currently serving a state prison sentence, told a federal judge via videoconference in Newark that the death of 25-year-old Kean Cabral of Warwick was caused by heroin from the batch of “Trap Queen” that he’d been selling. State authorities tried to prosecute Byrd and a couple who they said bought the drugs from him and sold some to Cabral in April 2016. They were overruled, however, by the New Jersey Supreme Court, which …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Blaze Destroys Paterson Home, Neighbors Flee Down Fire Escape Blaze Destroys Paterson Home, Neighbors Flee Down Fire Escape Blaze Destroys Paterson Home, Neighbors Flee Down Fire Escape
Blaze Destroys Paterson Home, Neighbors Flee Down Fire Escape Reports of trapped residents thankfully proved unfounded as a gas-fed fire engulfed a Paterson home before dawn Sunday. Everyone got out safely in the William Street blaze, which broke out in a 1½-story wood-frame house off 12th Avenue shortly after midnight and quickly went to three alarms. There were initial fears that residents were trapped after evacuees were seen using the fire escape of a neighboring building on East 22nd Street that sustained exterior damage. A third building also was slightly damaged, responders said. No injuries were reported, however. PSE&G responded and cu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Fair Lawn Firefighters Douse Blaze At Auto Repair Shop Fair Lawn Firefighters Douse Blaze At Auto Repair Shop Fair Lawn Firefighters Douse Blaze At Auto Repair Shop
Fair Lawn Firefighters Douse Blaze At Auto Repair Shop Fire damaged a Fair Lawn auto repair shop on Saturday. Firefighters “quickly stretched hose into the building and got the fire knocked down” after it broke out at Prestige Autowerks on Fair Lawn Avenue at Third Street shortly after 6 p.m., Fire Chief Thomas Carney said. Carney declared the two-alarm blaze under control within a half-hour. No one was injured, he said. Carney thanked Fair Lawn police, Rescue Squad and Volunteer Ambulance Corps, as well as fellow fire companies that provided mutual aid from Elmwood Park, Glen Rock, Paramus and Saddle Brook. Fair Lawn firefighters respon…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Saddle Brook Payroll Manager From Montvale Admits Shorting Workers By $1M In Extortion Scheme Saddle Brook Payroll Manager From Montvale Admits Shorting Workers By $1M In Extortion Scheme Saddle Brook Payroll Manager From Montvale Admits Shorting Workers By $1M In Extortion Scheme
Saddle Brook Payroll Manager From Montvale Admits Shorting Workers By $1M In Extortion Scheme The payroll manager of a Bergen County construction company admitted that he shorted a group of employees by more than $1 million in pay by shaking them down for cash kickbacks, state authorities said. Rather than wait for an indictment following his arrest last month, Toni Jovanoski, 44, of Montvale took a deal from prosecutors following an investigation into his Saddle Brook company, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Jovanoski pleaded guilty this week in Superior Court in Hackensack to making false payment claims for a government contract (prevailing wage violations) and …

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