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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Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
WHOOPS: Ex-Con From Teaneck Fleeing Stolen Car Crash Mistakes Tenafly Police Car For Uber WHOOPS: Ex-Con From Teaneck Fleeing Stolen Car Crash Mistakes Tenafly Police Car For Uber WHOOPS: Ex-Con From Teaneck Fleeing Stolen Car Crash Mistakes Tenafly Police Car For Uber
Whoops: Ex-Con From Teaneck Fleeing Stolen Car Crash Mistakes Tenafly Police Car For Uber A Teaneck ex-con who ran off after crashing a stolen car near the Englewood border in Tenafly was about to hop into what he thought was an Uber – but was actually a police car, authorities said. Officer Manuel Fidel was searching the area of West Hudson Avenue in Englewood following the 5:22 p.m. crash Wednesday on Knickerbocker Road when an out-of-breath Michael D. Lockett approached his cruiser, Tenafly Police Chief Robert Chamberlain said. “Upon reaching the patrol car, [Lockett] said he thought it was his Uber,” the chief said. Realizing his mistake, the 28-year-old parolee began tippi…

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Paterson, NJ
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GOTCHA! State Police Capture Accused Christmas Day Shooter In Paterson GOTCHA! State Police Capture Accused Christmas Day Shooter In Paterson GOTCHA! State Police Capture Accused Christmas Day Shooter In Paterson
Gotcha! State Police Capture Accused Christmas Day Shooter In Paterson POLICE NAVIDAD: A Paterson man wanted in a Christmas Day shooting had a handgun and more than a dozen bags of cocaine when he was captured by State Police this week, authorities announced Thursday. Esau Torres-Guzman shot and wounded a fellow 19-year-old city resident at the corner of Market and Carroll streets last Dec. 25, they said. The victim went to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center via a private vehicle with injuries that weren’t life-threatening following the shooting, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes, Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora and New Jersey State Police Co…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Westwood Mechanic's Hand Crushed In Park Ridge Auto Repair Shop Accident Westwood Mechanic's Hand Crushed In Park Ridge Auto Repair Shop Accident Westwood Mechanic's Hand Crushed In Park Ridge Auto Repair Shop Accident
Westwood Mechanic's Hand Crushed In Park Ridge Auto Repair Shop Accident A mechanic from Westwood had his hand crushed in a Thursday morning accident at a Park Ridge auto repair shop, authorities said. The 61-year-old employee was working on a vehicle Z Star Park Ridge Auto Repair at Kinderkamack Road and Park Avenue when his right hand was crushed between the motor and its mount shortly after 10:30 a.m., Police Capt. Joseph Rampolla said. Another worker freed him and Officer David DiGregorio administered first aid before the Tri-Boro Volunteer Ambulance Corps took him to Hackensack University Medical Center, the captain said. ****** ALSO SEE: A medical c…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Worker Seriously Injured In Explosion At Machining Plant Off Route 287 Worker Seriously Injured In Explosion At Machining Plant Off Route 287 Worker Seriously Injured In Explosion At Machining Plant Off Route 287
Worker Seriously Injured In Explosion At Machining Plant Off Route 287 A medical chopper was summoned after an employee was severely burned in an explosion Thursday morning at a machining company in Oakland. Responders were called to FIMS Manufacturing on Allerman Road -- just off the Route 202 ramp to Route 287 -- around 10:45 a.m. Police, firefighers and EMS responded. The nearly 42,000-square-foot, third-generation family machine shop was established in 1962. Among other services, FIMS makes firearms and does heavy work for the military, as well as aerospace machining, the company says on its website. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS ****** ALSO SEE: …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
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Teaneck Restaurant Owner, Employee Grab Gun Away From Robber Teaneck Restaurant Owner, Employee Grab Gun Away From Robber Teaneck Restaurant Owner, Employee Grab Gun Away From Robber
Teaneck Restaurant Owner, Employee Grab Gun Away From Robber The owner and an employee at a Teaneck restaurant wrested a gun from a robber who was later captured by police after fleeing, authorities said. Christopher Estades, 28, of New York City pulled the gun and demanded money after entering Mis Raices, a Puerto Rican and Cuban restaurant on Teaneck Road, on Sunday, Police Chief Glenn M. O’Reilly said. He ran after the two took it from him, O’Reilly said. Responding officers captured Estades without incident and recovered the weapon from the restaurant, the chief said. No injuries were reported Estades remained held Thursday in the Bergen Count…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Unidentified Man's Body Found In Clifton Garage Fire Unidentified Man's Body Found In Clifton Garage Fire Unidentified Man's Body Found In Clifton Garage Fire
Unidentified Man's Body Found In Clifton Garage Fire Authorities were trying to identify a man whose body was found following a garage fire in Clifton. The man's body was found in a car parked in the detached garage behind a 2½-story home at 44 Seger Ave. Wednesday, they said. Firefighters doused the heavily-involved blaze, which was called in at 5:42 p.m.  No other injuries were reported. The cause hadn't officially been determined, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes, Clifton Police Chief Thomas Rinaldi and Clifton Fire Chief Frank Prezioso said in a brief release. An investigation was continuing.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Three Shot After Paterson Police Nab Accused Heroin Dealer, 71, In Major Senior Housing Bust Three Shot After Paterson Police Nab Accused Heroin Dealer, 71, In Major Senior Housing Bust Three Shot After Paterson Police Nab Accused Heroin Dealer, 71, In Major Senior Housing Bust
Three Shot After Paterson Police Nab Accused Heroin Dealer, 71, In Major Senior Housing Bust Three people were shot Wednesday afternoon in Paterson shortly after authorities announced the arrest of an accused 71-year-old heroin dealer following a drug raid at a city senior citizens complex. There was no immediate word on the conditions of the three victims, two of whom police found seriously wounded on Summer Street and a third on Lake Street. One victim had been shot in the chest, another in the abdomen and the third in the leg, responders said. The shootings followed announcements by city police about a series of major drug operations, including one that turned up 11,396 heroin …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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‘Win-Win’: New Hackensack Police Pact Boasts Changes Aimed At Boosting Growing Prestige ‘Win-Win’: New Hackensack Police Pact Boasts Changes Aimed At Boosting Growing Prestige ‘Win-Win’: New Hackensack Police Pact Boasts Changes Aimed At Boosting Growing Prestige
‘Win-Win’: New Hackensack Police Pact Boasts Changes Aimed At Boosting Growing Prestige A new contract secured by the union representing more than 100 Hackensack police officers gives them a 2.75% pay bump and revises their work schedule for the first time in nearly 25 years. Officers will move to 12-hour work tours, from what had been 11 hours, under the five-year deal collectively bargained between the city and New Jersey State Police Benevolent Association's Local #9. They’ll work alternately for 16 days of 8-day shifts, followed by 16 days of 8-night shifts, or vice versa -- with critically consistent starting and finishing times. At the same time, “major modifications” t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
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MOST WANTED: Reward Offered For Fugitive NJ Couple In Nationwide Sex-Trafficking Ring MOST WANTED: Reward Offered For Fugitive NJ Couple In Nationwide Sex-Trafficking Ring MOST WANTED: Reward Offered For Fugitive NJ Couple In Nationwide Sex-Trafficking Ring
Most Wanted: Reward Offered For Fugitive NJ Couple In Nationwide Sex-Trafficking Ring The FBI is offering a $5,000 reward – or $2,500 each -- for information leading to the arrests of a couple wanted out of New Jersey for sex-trafficking victims across state lines using “force, fraud, and/or coercion.” Mallie Monte Evans, 34, and Elizabeth Sanchez, 25, have remained on the run since a federal judge in Trenton signed a warrant for Evans’s arrest last September, authorities said. It's a reflection of the danger they post that Evans and Sanchez were being sought publicly. Sex traffickers have rarely ended up on the FBI’s “Most Wanted” list. Both are considered armed and danger…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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NYC COVID-19 Capacities: Yankee Stadium Can Have Fans On Opening Day, All 5,425 Of Them NYC COVID-19 Capacities: Yankee Stadium Can Have Fans On Opening Day, All 5,425 Of Them NYC COVID-19 Capacities: Yankee Stadium Can Have Fans On Opening Day, All 5,425 Of Them
NYC Covid-19 Capacities: Yankee Stadium Can Have Fans On Opening Day, All 5,425 Of Them Following New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announcement Wednesday that large arenas in the Empire State can reopen at 10% capacity in less than two weeks, some fans began crunching numbers. We took care of that already (see below). First, know that you’ll have to present a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours of the game or event. You’ll also have to wear a mask and social distance, of course. The Bronx Bombers launch the 2021 season with a six-game homestand beginning Opening Day, April 1, against the Toronto Blue Jays. The Metropolitans, who open the season on the road, begin their first …

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