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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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: Police Nab Stolen Car Driver Who Hit Fellow Patron Outside Route 46 Strip Club UPDATE: Police Nab Stolen Car Driver Who Hit Fellow Patron Outside Route 46 Strip Club UPDATE: Police Nab Stolen Car Driver Who Hit Fellow Patron Outside Route 46 Strip Club
Update: Police Nab Stolen Car Driver Who Hit Fellow Patron Outside Route 46 Strip Club UPDATE: A manhunt ended when South Hackensack police arrested a Newark resident who they said stole a sedan outside a Route 46 strip club and struck another customer with it in the parking lot as he fled. Christian H. Quimis, 33, was being held in the Bergen County Jail after South Hackensack and Hackensack police arrested him arrest at his home on Monday. "Within 36 hours of the initial incident, our suspect was in custody thanks to fine investigative work of several agencies" Capt. Robert Chinchar said. Quimis had tried to break up a fight in the parking lot of Club Flamingo around 3 …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Firefighters Extricate Passenger In Multi-Vehicle Hawthorne Crash Firefighters Extricate Passenger In Multi-Vehicle Hawthorne Crash Firefighters Extricate Passenger In Multi-Vehicle Hawthorne Crash
Firefighters Extricate Passenger In Multi-Vehicle Hawthorne Crash Hawthorne firefighters extricated a passenger following a three-vehicle crash Monday afternoon. The woman was taken to the hospital by ambulance with injuries that weren't considered serious after members of Hawthorne Rescue Co. 5 got her out of a KIA SUV that was rammed by a Jeep Grand Cherokee at the corner of Utter and Lincoln avenues. No other injuries were reported. A Mercedes sedan also was damaged. The Cherokee got the worst of it.Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE Borough police were investigating. Glen Rock police assisted. Boyd A. Loving took the photos and contributed to this…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
DWI Clubgoer Hits Passaic Police Car, Parked Vehicles, People, Authorities Say DWI Clubgoer Hits Passaic Police Car, Parked Vehicles, People, Authorities Say DWI Clubgoer Hits Passaic Police Car, Parked Vehicles, People, Authorities Say
DWI Clubgoer Hits Passaic Police Car, Parked Vehicles, People, Authorities Say A drunken patron was arrested after his sedan slammed into a Passaic police car and two other vehicles as left a local nightclub, authorities said. Four pedestrians claimed they also were hit by the 2002 Toyota Camry outside the Fiesta Night Club on President Street shortly before 2:30 a.m. Sunday, Police Chief Luis Guzman said. All four left, however, before ambulances got there or police could get any information from them, he said. Officers assigned to make sure closing time went smoothly heard a loud crash and spotted the Camry, driven by city resident Nicholas Martinez, 21, Guzman sai…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Woodcliff Lake Victim, 17, OK After Pickup Rolls Into Trees Off Route 17 Woodcliff Lake Victim, 17, OK After Pickup Rolls Into Trees Off Route 17 Woodcliff Lake Victim, 17, OK After Pickup Rolls Into Trees Off Route 17
Woodcliff Lake Victim, 17, OK After Pickup Rolls Into Trees Off Route 17 UPDATE: A 17-year-old Woodcliff Lake resident was hospitalized after her pickup truck rolled off Route 17 into the woods in Saddle River, authorities said Monday. She was taken to The Valley Hospital for evaluation as a precaution after her Toyota slid off the rainy southbound highway and into a wooded area near the Allendale border on Sunday. Two tow trucks were needed to remove it and borough firefighters cleaned up a significant fuel spill. The vehicle rolled off the highway near West Allendale Avenue in Saddle River.Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE Also assisting their Saddle River c…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Body Pulled From Hackensack River ID'd As Missing Palisades Park Man Body Pulled From Hackensack River ID'd As Missing Palisades Park Man Body Pulled From Hackensack River ID'd As Missing Palisades Park Man
Body Pulled From Hackensack River ID'd As Missing Palisades Park Man UPDATE: For days, a Palisades Park detective searched in vain for a troubled borough man whose worried wife had reported him missing. Detective Alex Monteleone sent alerts to local law enforcement agencies, asked Port Authority and Palisades Interstate Parkway police to keep a lookout and called area hospitals. A GPS search for the missing man's Lexus at the bridges and tunnels and throughout the state returned nothing. There was no trace of the 51-year-old resident for days after he left his house without a word last Monday, depressed over health issues. Until this weekend. The Hac…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Police Seize Glen Rock High School Senior For Racial, Gender Bias On Instagram, Zoom Police Seize Glen Rock High School Senior For Racial, Gender Bias On Instagram, Zoom Police Seize Glen Rock High School Senior For Racial, Gender Bias On Instagram, Zoom
Police Seize Glen Rock High School Senior For Racial, Gender Bias On Instagram, Zoom Detectives were investigating racially biased Instagram posts by a Glen Rock High School student when the teenage bigot struck again, this time targeting another classmate over gender identity on Zoom, authorities said. Detectives were a month into their investigation of racial bias when administrators at the high school showed them “questionable comments” entered during a school Zoom session, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. The comment “appeared to target another student over their gender identity,” the chief said Monday. Using information provided by the teenage victims and the school’…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Boy, 5, Struck By Rockland Driver's Vehicle In Montvale Boy, 5, Struck By Rockland Driver's Vehicle In Montvale Boy, 5, Struck By Rockland Driver's Vehicle In Montvale
Boy, 5, Struck By Rockland Driver's Vehicle In Montvale A 5-year-old Montvale boy ran out from between parked cars and was struck by a sedan driven by an 18-year-old Rockland man, authorities said. The 2020 Hyundai Elantra driven by a Spring Valley motorist hit the boy on Nottingham Court at the Nottingham Manor Apartments shortly after 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Montvale Police Chief Joseph Sanfilippo said. The boy, who had a bump on his head, was taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood as a precaution, he said. No summonses were issued.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Woman, 23, Wounded In Paterson Drive-By Woman, 23, Wounded In Paterson Drive-By Woman, 23, Wounded In Paterson Drive-By
Woman, 23, Wounded In Paterson Drive-By A Paterson woman was wounded in a broad-daylight drive-by shooting, authorities said. The woman arrived at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center via private vehicles shortly before 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint announcement. She’d been walking in the area of 20th Avenue and State Street when someone in a passing car fired several shots, hitting her an unspecified number of times, they said. Her injuries weren’t considered life-threatening, Valdes and Baycora said. They didn’t say whether any suspects …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Woodcliff Lake Victim, 17, OK After Pickup Rolls Into Trees Off Route 17 Woodcliff Lake Victim, 17, OK After Pickup Rolls Into Trees Off Route 17 Woodcliff Lake Victim, 17, OK After Pickup Rolls Into Trees Off Route 17
Woodcliff Lake Victim, 17, OK After Pickup Rolls Into Trees Off Route 17 UPDATE: A 17-year-old Woodcliff Lake resident was hospitalized after her pickup truck rolled off Route 17 into the woods in Saddle River, authorities said Monday. She was taken to The Valley Hospital for evaluation as a precaution after her Toyota slid off the rainy southbound highway and into a wooded area near East Allendale Avenue on Sunday. Two tow trucks were needed to remove it and borough firefighters cleaned up a significant fuel spill. Two tow trucks eventually were needed to remove the vehicle.Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE Also assisting their Saddle River colleagues were Al…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
Breaking News
Bayonne Man, 19, Dies In Bridge Plunge Bayonne Man, 19, Dies In Bridge Plunge Bayonne Man, 19, Dies In Bridge Plunge
Bayonne Man, 19, Dies In Bridge Plunge UPDATE: A body pulled from the water beneath the Bayonne Bridge over the weekend was that of a 19-year-old city man, friends and loved ones confirmed. Rescuers who responded to a report of a jumper shortly before 2 p.m. Saturday got help from a tug boat operator after the body was spotted in the Kill Van Kull just east of the bridge, Deputy Fire Chief Bill Bartos said. Bayonne Fire Boat Marine 1 pulled alongside the vessel, collected the body and brought it to the boat launch at 16th Street Park. The victim had been mugged earlier in the week and wasn't carrying a wallet or cellp…

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