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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Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
'What Happened Is Not Okay,' Catholic HS Student Says Of Classmates' Racially Offensive Video 'What Happened Is Not Okay,' Catholic HS Student Says Of Classmates' Racially Offensive Video 'What Happened Is Not Okay,' Catholic HS Student Says Of Classmates' Racially Offensive Video
'What Happened Is Not Okay,' Catholic HS Student Says Of Classmates' Racially Offensive Video “What happened is not okay and we will not be quiet,” a student at a Catholic high school in Bergen County wrote in response to a racist video created by two of her classmates. Alumnae and current students at Immaculate Heart Academy have signed a petition with an accompanying letter calling for expulsion of the two seniors and “actions from the administration to further promote racial equality,” she said. This comes in response to a gone-viral video in which one student from the all-girls school in Washington Township repeats a racial epithet and then curses “Black Lives Matter” while…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
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ROAD RAGE: Lodi Police Charge Englewood Driver, 22, With Waving Fake Gun ROAD RAGE: Lodi Police Charge Englewood Driver, 22, With Waving Fake Gun ROAD RAGE: Lodi Police Charge Englewood Driver, 22, With Waving Fake Gun
Road Rage: Lodi Police Charge Englewood Driver, 22, With Waving Fake Gun An Englewood driver took her road rage against another motorist too far when she waved a fake gun, police in Lodi said. The two clashed “over one of the parties driving in an erratic manner” before stopping at the intersection of Essex Street and Riverview Avenue around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Capt. Robert Salerno said. Adjah Brown, 22, “brandished a handgun, waved it in a menacing manner, and exchanged a few words with the people in the other vehicle before driving off” from the light, Salerno said. Police gave Brown a complaint summons to appear in Municipal Court on charges of simple assault…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Catholic NJ High School Pair In Profane, Racist Video Draw Wrath, Shake Community Catholic NJ High School Pair In Profane, Racist Video Draw Wrath, Shake Community Catholic NJ High School Pair In Profane, Racist Video Draw Wrath, Shake Community
Catholic NJ High School Pair In Profane, Racist Video Draw Wrath, Shake Community Two seniors at a respected Catholic Bergen County high school used a racial epithet and then cursed “Black Lives Matter” while downing shots in an offensive viral video that has brought widespread wrath on a shaken community. "Don't be snowflakes," one student from the all-girls Immaculate Heart Academy in Washington Township says, before the other utters a racial epithet during a 25-second clip recorded at a Valentine’s Day party in earshot of other underage teens. Laughter is heard, after which the second girl leans into the camera leans and repeats the epithet, then says "Black Lives Mat…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Convicted Bank Robber, 70, Charged With Stabbing Albany Man Dead At Mall In Bergen County Convicted Bank Robber, 70, Charged With Stabbing Albany Man Dead At Mall In Bergen County Convicted Bank Robber, 70, Charged With Stabbing Albany Man Dead At Mall In Bergen County
Convicted Bank Robber, 70, Charged With Stabbing Albany Man Dead At Mall In Bergen County UPDATE: With his dying breath, an Albany man who was stabbed in the parking lot of a Bergen County shopping mall identified his alleged killer -- a 70-year-old convicted bank robber from North Bergen. "Augusto. Augusto," Omar Cruz, 64, told responders, a law enforcement source said. A check of Cruz's cellphone led them to Augusto G. Perez. Perez was charged with murder, illegal weapons possession and suppressing evidence in Tuesday night's killing of Cruz on the Maywood side of Bergen Town Center off eastbound Route 4, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Thursday. The 5-foot-6-in…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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HOMICIDE: Victim Of Bergen Town Center Stabbing Dies, 70-Year-Old Ex-Con Charged With Murder HOMICIDE: Victim Of Bergen Town Center Stabbing Dies, 70-Year-Old Ex-Con Charged With Murder HOMICIDE: Victim Of Bergen Town Center Stabbing Dies, 70-Year-Old Ex-Con Charged With Murder
Homicide: Victim Of Bergen Town Center Stabbing Dies, 70-Year-Old Ex-Con Charged With Murder UPDATE: With his dying breath, an Albany man who was stabbed in the parking lot of a Bergen County shopping mall identified his alleged killer -- a 70-year-old convicted bank robber from North Bergen. "Augusto. Augusto," Omar Cruz, 64, told responders, a law enforcement source said. Augusto G. Perez was charged with murder, illegal weapons possession and suppressing evidence in Tuesday night's killing of Cruz on the Maywood side of Bergen Town Center off eastbound Route 4, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Thursday. The 5-foot-6-inch, 154-pound Perez remained held in the Bergen C…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Ridgefield Park Man, 64, Struck, Injured At Route 4 Gas Station In Englewood Ridgefield Park Man, 64, Struck, Injured At Route 4 Gas Station In Englewood Ridgefield Park Man, 64, Struck, Injured At Route 4 Gas Station In Englewood
Ridgefield Park Man, 64, Struck, Injured At Route 4 Gas Station In Englewood A 64-year-old Ridgefield Park man was hospitalized after being struck by a vehicle Tuesday at a Route 4 gas station in Englewood, authorities said. The 54-year-old driver from Franklin Lakes remained at the scene following the crash at the BP station on the eastbound side of the highway across from the South Van Brunt Street interchange shortly before 10:30 a.m., Police Chief Lawrence Suffern said. The victim was taken to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening, the chief said. Any possible summons or charges were pending the outcome of …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
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NJ: Indictments In ‘Old School’ Corruption Sting Name Ex-Officials, Political Candidates NJ: Indictments In ‘Old School’ Corruption Sting Name Ex-Officials, Political Candidates NJ: Indictments In ‘Old School’ Corruption Sting Name Ex-Officials, Political Candidates
NJ: Indictments In ‘Old School’ Corruption Sting Name Ex-Officials, Political Candidates Indictments were returned against four former New Jersey public officials and political candidates accused of taking bribes in a major corruption probe in Hudson and Morris counties, authorities announced Tuesday. Former Jersey City School Board President Sudhan Thomas, former state Assemblyman and Bayonne mayoral candidate Jason O’Donnell, former Morris County Freeholder John Cesaro and former Mount Arlington Council Member John Windish are charged in separate indictments with pocketing thousands of dollars in bribes from a campaign contributor. A fifth defendant, former Morris County free…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
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Feds: NJ Teacher, Soccer Coach Caught Making Child Porn After Sending Hard Drive For Repairs Feds: NJ Teacher, Soccer Coach Caught Making Child Porn After Sending Hard Drive For Repairs Feds: NJ Teacher, Soccer Coach Caught Making Child Porn After Sending Hard Drive For Repairs
Feds: NJ Teacher, Soccer Coach Caught Making Child Porn After Sending Hard Drive For Repairs A Union County fifth-grade teacher from Morristown who also coaches youth soccer was arrested by the FBI after sending a hard drive containing child porn that he’d created to a California company to recover his files, authorities said. Steven Brooks, 34, who recently taught at Washington Elementary School in Summit and has helped run the Livingston Soccer Club the past 10 years, used a fake online profile to get underage boys to send him videos and photos, authorities said Tuesday. Brooks had emailed an employee at a California company that he had “sensitive and private” information on a ha…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hamilton Township, NJ
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Trouble Collecting Unemployment? Working NJ Man Pocketed $96,437 Before COVID, Authorities Say Trouble Collecting Unemployment? Working NJ Man Pocketed $96,437 Before COVID, Authorities Say Trouble Collecting Unemployment? Working NJ Man Pocketed $96,437 Before COVID, Authorities Say
Trouble Collecting Unemployment? Working NJ Man Pocketed $96,437 Before COVID, Authorities Say Before the coronavirus pandemic drove claims to unprecedented heights, a South Jersey man collected $96,437 in unemployment benefits from the state while holding down a job, said authorities who charged him with theft. Brian Peyton, 50, of Vineland had worked for a major food packaging company in Cumberland County for 27 years, in fact, records show. A state grand jury in Trenton indicted Peyton late last week after prosecutors said he had the benefits directly deposited from July 2010 through January 2017 while remaining employed the entire time, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal sai…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Victim In Paterson Triple Shooting, 38, Dies Victim In Paterson Triple Shooting, 38, Dies Victim In Paterson Triple Shooting, 38, Dies
Victim In Paterson Triple Shooting, 38, Dies UPDATE: Whoever gunned down a 38-year-old Paterson man in a shooting that also wounded two others late last week now faces murder charges. Charles Hughes, 38, died of his wounds on Valentine’s Day, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora announced Tuesday. Although a majority of shooting victims in the Silk City are in their teens and 20s, this one was different. Two other city men were struck by gunfire – one 52, the other 37 -- at the corner of Summer Street and Broadway shortly after 5 p.m. last Friday, authorities said. One victim had been…

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