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
Passaic Firefighters Douse Suspicious Storage Room Blaze Passaic Firefighters Douse Suspicious Storage Room Blaze Passaic Firefighters Douse Suspicious Storage Room Blaze
Passaic Firefighters Douse Suspicious Storage Room Blaze Arson investigators were summoned after a trash fire in the basement of a mixed-use building in Passaic was quickly doused Sunday. Sprinklers helped contain the two-alarm blaze to the storage room on the Exchange Place side of the six-story building on Main Avenue after it broke out shortly before 2 p.m., responders said. No injuries were reported.

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Driver, 34, Ejected In Fatal Ridgefield Park NJ Turnpike Crash Driver, 34, Ejected In Fatal Ridgefield Park NJ Turnpike Crash Driver, 34, Ejected In Fatal Ridgefield Park NJ Turnpike Crash
Driver, 34, Ejected In Fatal Ridgefield Park NJ Turnpike Crash A driver was ejected from his Jeep in a fatal Sunday morning crash on the southbound New Jersey Turnpike in Ridgefield Park, State Police said. Jose Minaya, 34, Newark, was driving a Grand Cherokee that struck the center concrete barrier, then re-entered the roadway and hit the right-side guardrail, rolling over and ejecting him around 7 a.m., State Police Trooper II Alejandro Goez said. He was pronounced dead at the scene, Goez said, adding that no other vehicles or passengers were involved. The left lane approaching Route 46 initially was closed during the cleanup and investigation, cond…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Body Pulled From Hackensack River Body Pulled From Hackensack River Body Pulled From Hackensack River
Body Pulled From Hackensack River UPDATE: For days, a Palisades Park detective searched in vain for a troubled borough man whose wife had reported him missing. https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/hackensack/news/body-pulled-from-hackensack-river-idd-as-missing-palisades-park-man/805957/ ****** Authorities were trying to identify a man whose body was pulled from the Hackensack River in Little Ferry. Borough police Sgt. John Schwedhelm was on patrol when a trucker flagged him down around 3 p.m. Saturday, Police Chief James Walters said. He pointed the sergeant toward what appeared to be two legs sticking out of the water dur…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
SUV Crashes On Rainy Route 17 SUV Crashes On Rainy Route 17 SUV Crashes On Rainy Route 17
SUV Crashes On Rainy Route 17 A mother and child were involved in a Sunday morning crash on rainy Route 17. Their SUV veered off the southbound highway and struck a tree near Hollywood Avenue in Ho-Ho-Kus shortly after 10:30 a.m.Ho-Ho-Kus Volunteer Ambulance Corps responded along with borough police, but the pair refused medical attention for minor bumps and bruises. Saddle River police assisted their Ho-Ho-Kus colleagues.The vehicle had to be towed.

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Paterson, NJ
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Clifton Man Charged With Attempted Bias Murder In Knife Attack On Mexican Female Grocer Clifton Man Charged With Attempted Bias Murder In Knife Attack On Mexican Female Grocer Clifton Man Charged With Attempted Bias Murder In Knife Attack On Mexican Female Grocer
Clifton Man Charged With Attempted Bias Murder In Knife Attack On Mexican Female Grocer A Clifton man was charged with attempted murder in what prosecutors said was a bias attack on a Mexican grocery store clerk. Shairo Gil, 24, missed when he tried to stab the clerk at Barrales Grocery on Main Street in the chest, they said. Gil “was purposely targeting any individual of Mexican descent” and went after ther clerk “because he believed her to be of Mexican descent,” Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Clifton Police Chief Thomas Rinaldi said in a joint release. The intended victim was unharmed, they said. Gil also was charged with aggravated assault, bias int…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Parents: Board Trustee's Out-Of-Town Basketball League Took Gym Time From Midland Park Kids Parents: Board Trustee's Out-Of-Town Basketball League Took Gym Time From Midland Park Kids Parents: Board Trustee's Out-Of-Town Basketball League Took Gym Time From Midland Park Kids
Parents: Board Trustee's Out-Of-Town Basketball League Took Gym Time From Midland Park Kids A group of Midland Park parents are questioning why the gym at their children’s public school was used for basketball games during the COVID pandemic by a private travel league controlled by a Board of Education member. More than half of the games played at the Highland School by the North/West Bergen/Passaic Basketball League between Feb. 7-March 7 didn’t include a Midland Park team, resident Jillian Mulder said. “We allowed hundreds of out of town residents un-abided access to our gym during a time when the board meetings themselves couldn’t be in person and our kids weren’t allowed in sc…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
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NJ Driver, 20, Accused Of Killing 4 Friends In Crash Tells Her Side On TikTok, GoFundMe NJ Driver, 20, Accused Of Killing 4 Friends In Crash Tells Her Side On TikTok, GoFundMe NJ Driver, 20, Accused Of Killing 4 Friends In Crash Tells Her Side On TikTok, GoFundMe
NJ Driver, 20, Accused Of Killing 4 Friends In Crash Tells Her Side On TikTok, GoFundMe Money began pouring in to help pay legal fees for a 20-year-old Essex County woman after she posted a TikTok video on Saturday defending herself against charges in a violent crash that killed four of her close friends last spring. A badly-burned Nashauna Johnson of Newark also mounted a GoFundMe campaign to deal with legal costs. A grand jury in Newark on Thursday returned an indictment charging Johnson with four counts of death by auto – also known as vehicular homicide -- in the June 9 crash on Route 22 at the Newark-Hillside border. In her TikTok video, Johnson contends that drugs, alc…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Optimum Returns $2,000 Stolen From South Hackensack Customer By Fugitive 'Cable Guy' Optimum Returns $2,000 Stolen From South Hackensack Customer By Fugitive 'Cable Guy' Optimum Returns $2,000 Stolen From South Hackensack Customer By Fugitive 'Cable Guy'
Optimum Returns $2,000 Stolen From South Hackensack Customer By Fugitive 'Cable Guy' UPDATE: A South Hackensack woman who police said had $2,000 stolen from her home by an ex-con working temporarily as a cable TV trainee is getting the cash back, courtesy of Optimum. "We apologize to our customer and are providing full restitution and credits for this experience," the company said in a statement. "This situation was in clear violation of all company policies and we are taking the appropriate steps to ensure it never happens again. Gabriel Figueroa, 23, of the Bronx was wanted by authorities in New Jersey and Virginia when he swiped the cash from the victim's home, Police Ca…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: Englewood Homeowner Killed By Fallen Tree Limb, Mayor Says UPDATE: Englewood Homeowner Killed By Fallen Tree Limb, Mayor Says UPDATE: Englewood Homeowner Killed By Fallen Tree Limb, Mayor Says
Update: Englewood Homeowner Killed By Fallen Tree Limb, Mayor Says UPDATE: A 52-year-old Englewood homeowner died after he was struck by a falling tree limb Saturday morning, Mayor Michael Wildes said. The pinned Curry Avenue homeowner was in cardiac arrest and bleeding heavily when police arrived shortly before 11 a.m. He’s been trimming the tree with a gas-powered chainsaw when the limb fell, knocking him off a ladder more than 10 feet off the ground, responders said. "His legs were pinned under the tree [limb] and he had to be extricated," Wildes said. Firefighters used air bags to free the homeowner, who suffered a severely damaged right leg and ches…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Firefighters KO Hawthorne Townhouse Blaze Firefighters KO Hawthorne Townhouse Blaze Firefighters KO Hawthorne Townhouse Blaze
Firefighters KO Hawthorne Townhouse Blaze Hawthorne firefighters kept a heavy blaze from doing even more damage to a local townhouse complex Friday night. The two-alarm fire broke out in the middle unit of the three-story wood-frame townhouse on Metro Vista Drive at Alana Drive around 7:45 p.m. and quickly traveled up the walls, responders said. Flames were running the rear wall from the first to the third floor and across the deck, they said. Despite heavy winds and exposure concerns, firefighters contained the blaze to the single unit and stopped it from spreading to the attic. Firefighters contained the blaze to the singl…

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