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
COVID Mask Clash: Tech Darling Charged With Bashing Englewood Officer In Face With Radio COVID Mask Clash: Tech Darling Charged With Bashing Englewood Officer In Face With Radio COVID Mask Clash: Tech Darling Charged With Bashing Englewood Officer In Face With Radio
COVID Mask Clash: Tech Darling Charged With Bashing Englewood Officer In Face With Radio A celebrated startup business advisor with an escalating history of violence smashed an Englewood police officer in the face with his own radio after causing a commotion at a local Starbucks when he refused to wear a COVID mask, authorities said. Frank Denbow, 35, eventually was subdued with help from a good Samaritan, police said. The attack, captured on video, came just weeks after authorities said Denbow kicked a police officer in Wyoming in the chest and sprayed him with a carbonated energy drink. An Englewood native, Denbow has been featured on various online business shows and tech …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
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Dedicated Hospital Worker From Essex County Killed By DWI Driver Doing 97 MPH Dedicated Hospital Worker From Essex County Killed By DWI Driver Doing 97 MPH Dedicated Hospital Worker From Essex County Killed By DWI Driver Doing 97 MPH
Dedicated Hospital Worker From Essex County Killed By DWI Driver Doing 97 MPH A hospital worker from Essex County was killed when a drunk driver from Albany ran a red light in Queens and slammed his sedan into his car doing nearly 100 miles an hour, authorities said. Daniel Crawford, a 52-year-old father of two from Bloomfield, was pronounced dead at nearby Queens Hospital Center in Jamaica, where he worked as a phlebotomist the past 2½ years. Crawford was headed to work when a Mercedes Benz driven by 22-year-old Alamin Ahmed t-boned his Toyota Camry on Parsons Boulevard in Kew Gardens around 4:30 a.m. Friday, authorities said. A security guard told the Daily News t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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SEE ANYTHING? Glen Rock Police Seek Help Finding Arsonists SEE ANYTHING? Glen Rock Police Seek Help Finding Arsonists SEE ANYTHING? Glen Rock Police Seek Help Finding Arsonists
SEE Anything? Glen Rock Police Seek Help Finding Arsonists A weekend leaf fire in Glen Rock apparently was set, said police who turned to the public for help finding those responsible. Home surveillance video showed two people in the 200 block of Glen Avenue "who appeared to have started the fire" shortly before 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Firefighters quickly doused the blaze, the chief said. Ackermann asked that anyone who might have witnessed anything or has surveillance video or information that could help identify the pair contact Glen Rock police: (201) 652-3800.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hamilton Township, NJ
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Authorities: Released Gun Offender Charged With Prostituting Girl, 16, At Trenton Hotel Authorities: Released Gun Offender Charged With Prostituting Girl, 16, At Trenton Hotel Authorities: Released Gun Offender Charged With Prostituting Girl, 16, At Trenton Hotel
Authorities: Released Gun Offender Charged With Prostituting Girl, 16, At Trenton Hotel A Trenton man who was released after he was caught with three handguns and a missing 16-year-old girl following a high-speed police chase and crash was charged with prostituting the underage teen at a local hotel, state authorities announced. Ronald D. Harris, 40, originally was arrested on weapons charges by Trenton police and New Jersey State Police in July, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Monday. Harris had fled a traffic stop, hitting an unmarked police vehicle with his car, running a red light and hitting speeds of up to 80 miles an hour before it slammed into a taxi,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Egg Harbor Township, NJ
Breaking News
Feds: New Mob Regime Ran Sports Bets, Extorted Victims, Sold Drugs From Philly To Jersey Shore Feds: New Mob Regime Ran Sports Bets, Extorted Victims, Sold Drugs From Philly To Jersey Shore Feds: New Mob Regime Ran Sports Bets, Extorted Victims, Sold Drugs From Philly To Jersey Shore
Feds: New Mob Regime Ran Sports Bets, Extorted Victims, Sold Drugs From Philly To Jersey Shore The mob didn't disappear from Philadelphia and the Jersey Shore after former leaders Joseph Ligambi and Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino were sent to prison, federal authorities revealed Monday. Over the past five years, in fact, new leadership of the Philly and Atlantic City La Cosa Nostra beefed up the ranks, commanding illegal sports gambling, extorting victims through loansharking, selling cocaine, heroin and opioids -- even conspiring to kidnap a drug dealer who sold them bad dope, they said. Fifteen reputed mobsters and associates of the organized crime family were charged in a …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Bogota PD: Burglar Found In Homeowner's Living Room Attacks Officer Bogota PD: Burglar Found In Homeowner's Living Room Attacks Officer Bogota PD: Burglar Found In Homeowner's Living Room Attacks Officer
Bogota PD: Burglar Found In Homeowner's Living Room Attacks Officer A homeless burglar attacked a police officer after a startled Bogota resident found him in his living room early Monday, authorities said. The resident told police he heard a banging at his door, then went downstairs and found Abraham Reyes-Castro, 28, in his living room, Sgt. Geoffrey Cole said. Reyes-Castro, a Mexican national whose most recent address was in Elmwood Park, tried locking himself in a room when the resident called police, Cole said. Reyes-Castro refused to comply with their orders, then attacked one of the officers, the sergeant said. Police took Reyes-Castro into cu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Fire Consumes Emerson Home Fire Consumes Emerson Home Fire Consumes Emerson Home
Fire Consumes Emerson Home A fast-moving fire destroyed an Emerson multi-family home before dawn Monday. “All residents, firefighters and police are safe,” Mayor Danielle DiPaola said after the three-alarm Clinton Street blaze was finally declared under control just before 6:30 a.m. The house was a total loss, however. It was being razed Monday morning. Three families were living in what had originally been a single-family home and was converted into three units. A total of 13 people reportedly were living there, although responders said they believe there may have been more. Flames quickly engulfed the Emerso…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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16th-Floor Fire Doused At Paterson High-Rise 16th-Floor Fire Doused At Paterson High-Rise 16th-Floor Fire Doused At Paterson High-Rise
16th-Floor Fire Doused At Paterson High-Rise PHOTOS: No serious injuries were immediately reported in a Sunday night fire that ravaged a top-floor apartment of a Paterson high rise, responders said. The 16th-floor blaze broke out at the Riverview Towers building on Presidential Boulevard around 9 p.m., posing challenges overcome by city firefighters. Intense flames and smoke could be seen from the street as some residents on the floors below stood on their balconies for protection from possible smoke. Firefighters had the main body of two-alarm fire knocked down within 20 or so minutes and under control in under 40. Firefighters…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Passaic Man Stabbed, Killed In Fight Outside City Nightclub Passaic Man Stabbed, Killed In Fight Outside City Nightclub Passaic Man Stabbed, Killed In Fight Outside City Nightclub
Passaic Man Stabbed, Killed In Fight Outside City Nightclub Detectives were reviewing surveillance video after a Passaic man was stabbed and killed during a pre-dawn fight Sunday outside a city nightclub, authorities said. JuanManuel Marquez, 36, was “bleeding and unresponsive” when taken by ambulance to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center following the stabbing outside the Fiesta Lounge at the corner of Parker and President streets around 2:30 a.m., Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Passaic Police Chief Luis A. Guzman said in a joint release. He pronounced dead at the hospital about an hour later, they said. Valdes and Guzman didn’t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Feds Charge Pair In Luxury-Watch Robbery Spree Involving Kardashian BFF Feds Charge Pair In Luxury-Watch Robbery Spree Involving Kardashian BFF Feds Charge Pair In Luxury-Watch Robbery Spree Involving Kardashian BFF
Feds Charge Pair In Luxury-Watch Robbery Spree Involving Kardashian BFF Federal authorities have captured two men wanted for robbing luxury watches at gunpoint from, among others, a close reality-TV friend of Kim Kardashian’s known as "Foodgod" in Englewood Cliffs. Victor Rivera, 29, and Michols Pena, 38, were identified and captured with significant help from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, said Audrey Strauss, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Strauss also thanked police from Englewood Cliffs, Weehawken and Nassau County for their assistance. Rivera, who was captured in Miami, is accused of robbing Jonathan Cheban of a $2…

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