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
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Passaic Sewerage Commission Employee From Bergen Charged With Bribing Senior Official Passaic Sewerage Commission Employee From Bergen Charged With Bribing Senior Official Passaic Sewerage Commission Employee From Bergen Charged With Bribing Senior Official
Passaic Sewerage Commission Employee From Bergen Charged With Bribing Senior Official UPDATE: A department head who was fired from the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office picked the wrong guys when he tried bribing one former and one current North Jersey mayor, according to a published report. Omid Bayati, 39, was charged with trying to bribe a senior official at the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission to advance his career after taking a job there, state authorities announced Wednesday. Former Fair Lawn Mayor John Cosgrove, who was appointed to the commission in 2019, later told New Jersey Globe that he was the official. SEE: Official wears wire after sewerage commissioners repo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
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Lyndhurst Police Bust NYC Driver With Loaded Gun Lyndhurst Police Bust NYC Driver With Loaded Gun Lyndhurst Police Bust NYC Driver With Loaded Gun
Lyndhurst Police Bust NYC Driver With Loaded Gun Police responding to a call of vehicles without license plates cruising the parking deck of a Lyndhurst apartment complex said they found a driver carrying a loaded gun. Thomas Massenburg, 19, of Jamaica, Queens, was driving a Honda Accord approached at the Wall Street West development on Tuesday by police who noticed that it had an expired temporary plate, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. Smelling a strong odor of raw marijuana, Lt. Paul Haggerty looked inside and spotted a small box on the passenger-side floor that contained a .380-caliber handgun, Auteri said. Massenburg remained held…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Driver, 81, Critical In Medical Episode That Caused Wood-Ridge Crash, Police Say Driver, 81, Critical In Medical Episode That Caused Wood-Ridge Crash, Police Say Driver, 81, Critical In Medical Episode That Caused Wood-Ridge Crash, Police Say
Driver, 81, Critical In Medical Episode That Caused Wood-Ridge Crash, Police Say An 81-year-old driver was in critical condition after he suffered a medical episode behind the wheel, Wood-Ridge police said. The victims was headed north on Hackensack Street when he blacked out shortly after noon Monday, Detective Lt. Joseph Biamonte said. His 2016 Ford Escape then struck a building at the corner of Moonachie Avenue at a low rate of speed, Biamonte said. Officer Timothy Janz, Lt. Jim Witkowski, Lt. William Wolfsohn, paramedics from Hackensack University Medical Center Wood-Ridge firefighters began life-saving measures before the victim was taken to HUMC, the lieutenant s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Authorities ID Mahwah Man Accused Of Stabbing Wife Dead With Kitchen Knife Authorities ID Mahwah Man Accused Of Stabbing Wife Dead With Kitchen Knife Authorities ID Mahwah Man Accused Of Stabbing Wife Dead With Kitchen Knife
Authorities ID Mahwah Man Accused Of Stabbing Wife Dead With Kitchen Knife UPDATE: Authorities on Tuesday night identified a Mahwah retiree who they said stabbed his wife dead with a kitchen knife after her morning shower. Dieter R. Zimmerman, 73, called police around 7:45 a.m. from the couple's home on Indian Field Court, a townhouse development off Belgrove Drive near the Rockland border,  to tell them what happened, authorities said. Township police found Zimmerman with “several scratches and a bleeding cut on a finger” and his 69-year-old wife, Jaquelin, on a floor in an upstairs bathroom adjacent to the master bedroom, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark …

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
COVID-19: With Concert Experiments Succeeding, Big Shows Could Return This Fall, Fauci Says COVID-19: With Concert Experiments Succeeding, Big Shows Could Return This Fall, Fauci Says COVID-19: With Concert Experiments Succeeding, Big Shows Could Return This Fall, Fauci Says
Covid-19: With Concert Experiments Succeeding, Big Shows Could Return This Fall, Fauci Says Successes with experimental concerts in Spain and Germany have convinced Dr. Anthony Fauci that big shows could return to the U.S. this fall -- provided Americans reach an effective level of herd immunity. “I think you can start getting back to almost full capacity of seating,” the nation's top infectious disease expert said during a virtual live event over the weekend. “What the performing arts needs to do is to do a little bit more of what the Germans are doing,” Fauci noted. A controlled experiment in Germany featuring a show by pop singer Tim Bendzko safely accommodated about 1,400 at…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Police Urge Residents To Protect Homes Against Northwest Bergen Burglars Police Urge Residents To Protect Homes Against Northwest Bergen Burglars Police Urge Residents To Protect Homes Against Northwest Bergen Burglars
Police Urge Residents To Protect Homes Against Northwest Bergen Burglars ALERT: Windows have been smashed, doors kicked in and jewelry and cash stolen during a series of burglaries in northwest Bergen County. Police are urging residents to keep their doors locked and security lights and cameras on. Franklin Lakes police fielded reports between Thursday and Monday of residential burglaries on Shinnecock Trail, where a glass rear door was broken, and Lily Pond Lane, where a rear window was smashed, Capt. John Bakelaar said. As usual, the burglar or burglars headed straight to the bedrooms, looking for cash and jewelry, he said. Wyckoff police, meanwhile, were in…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack Deputy Mayor Accused Of Bringing COVID-Positive Relative Into Locked-Down City Hall Hackensack Deputy Mayor Accused Of Bringing COVID-Positive Relative Into Locked-Down City Hall Hackensack Deputy Mayor Accused Of Bringing COVID-Positive Relative Into Locked-Down City Hall
Hackensack Deputy Mayor Accused Of Bringing Covid-positive Relative Into Locked-Down City Hall Hackensack government went on alert after an elected official was accused of escorting a relative he knew had tested positive for the coronavirus into City Hall even though the building had been closed to the public. The alleged Dec. 29 incident involving Deputy Mayor David Sims raised concerns over infection, although no one who was at City Hall has reported contracting COVID-19 since then. Although the person with Sims wasn’t publicly identified, various city sources said it was a female family member who doesn’t live with him who needed a document notarized. She apparently interacted wi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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New Milford Driver Charged With Fleeing Critical Palisades Park Pedestrian Crash New Milford Driver Charged With Fleeing Critical Palisades Park Pedestrian Crash New Milford Driver Charged With Fleeing Critical Palisades Park Pedestrian Crash
New Milford Driver Charged With Fleeing Critical Palisades Park Pedestrian Crash A New Milford driver who sped off after his vehicle struck and critically injured a pedestrian in Palisades Park was arrested after witnesses got his license plate number, authorities said. Nicholas Sodano, 57, was behind the wheel of a vehicle that struck the 53-year-old woman shortly before 1:30 p.m. last Thursday outside the Chase Bank building on Bergen Boulevard, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The victim, who was found on the side of the roadway with several injuries, was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, where her condition worsened, responders said. She rem…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
Breaking News
Former Union Officer At Jersey City Med Center, 71, Admits Embezzling $40,455 Former Union Officer At Jersey City Med Center, 71, Admits Embezzling $40,455 Former Union Officer At Jersey City Med Center, 71, Admits Embezzling $40,455
Former Union Officer At Jersey City Med Center, 71, Admits Embezzling $40,455 The former secretary treasurer of a public workers union at Jersey City Medical Center admitted in federal court in Newark on Tuesday that she embezzled $40,455 from the local’s checking and savings accounts. Linda Rogers, 71, of Jersey City was employed at JCMC and held a part-time position at Local 2254 of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Union when she and her daughter, Jennifer, deposited 112 unauthorized union checks worth $35,267 to their joint checking and savings accounts, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael Honig said. Rogers also transferred $5,1…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Seized In Paterson Public Housing Raid: 7 Adults, Boy With Gun, 426 Heroin Folds, Crack, $7,822 Seized In Paterson Public Housing Raid: 7 Adults, Boy With Gun, 426 Heroin Folds, Crack, $7,822 Seized In Paterson Public Housing Raid: 7 Adults, Boy With Gun, 426 Heroin Folds, Crack, $7,822
Seized In Paterson Public Housing Raid: 7 Adults, Boy With Gun, 426 Heroin Folds, Crack, $7,822 Paterson drug detectives raided a public housing development and seized 426 heroin folds, 45 bags and 18 vials of crack, a loaded handgun and $7,822 in drug proceeds, authorities said. They arrested seven adults, as well as a 16-year-old boy who they said was carrying a loaded handgun. Police responding to complaints of drug dealing got a warrant for the residence at the low-rise Sojourner Douglass Homes on Jefferson Street off North 1st Street, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Among those arrested on various charges involving the sale of heroin and cocaine were first-floor resi…

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