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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Jersey City, NJ
Breaking News
Two Charged In Cold-Blooded Executions Of Jersey City Rival, Pregnant Woman, Associate Two Charged In Cold-Blooded Executions Of Jersey City Rival, Pregnant Woman, Associate Two Charged In Cold-Blooded Executions Of Jersey City Rival, Pregnant Woman, Associate
Two Charged In Cold-Blooded Executions Of Jersey City Rival, Pregnant Woman, Associate Two members of the Jersey City Bloods are charged in the cold-blooded killings of a rival, his pregnant girlfriend and an associate who accompanied them on the murder mission, federal authorities announced Monday. Markell “Sayboy” Brown, 32, and Terence “Sweet Meat” Shaw, 32, used fellow street gang member Quadel Chisolm to gain access to the Fulton Street apartment of Ishear Bailey and his girlfriend, Janaya Lee, on Jan. 16, 2017, an indictment returned by a grand jury in U.S. District Court in Newark charges. Brown and Shaw executed Bailey, 26, shooting him in the back of the head, the le…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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NEAR MISS: Limb Of Tree Swing Breaks, Falls On Glen Rock Girl, 11 NEAR MISS: Limb Of Tree Swing Breaks, Falls On Glen Rock Girl, 11 NEAR MISS: Limb Of Tree Swing Breaks, Falls On Glen Rock Girl, 11
Near Miss: Limb Of Tree Swing Breaks, Falls On Glen Rock Girl, 11 An 11-year-old Glen Rock girl enjoying a tree swing escaped serious injury when the limb broke and fell on her. The girl was playing in her Harristown Road backyard late Friday afternoon when the limb snapped and fell on her, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Responding officers and EMTs administered first aid before the Glen Rock Volunteer Ambulance Corps took the girl, conscious and alert, to The Valley Hospital. “She had cuts, bumps, bruises and some stitches, but no broken bones,” Ackermann said. “The little girl’s guardian angel was watching out for her.” Her grandmother called the y…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Hackensack PD: Police Flood Neighborhood, Capture Fleeing NYC Parolees Hackensack PD: Police Flood Neighborhood, Capture Fleeing NYC Parolees Hackensack PD: Police Flood Neighborhood, Capture Fleeing NYC Parolees
Hackensack PD: Police Flood Neighborhood, Capture Fleeing NYC Parolees Hackensack police grabbed two Brooklyn parolees who tried to flee a Monday afternoon traffic stop, authorities said. Narcotics detectives smelled raw pot after stopping their vehicle at the corner of Prospect and Poplar avenues shortly after 2:30 p.m., Detective Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. The driver, Marquis Fleming, 24, at first complied with investigators and got out of the car, DeWitt said. Suddenly, his passenger – identified as 27-year-old Gerald Russell – took off on foot, the captain said. As he did, Fleming got back in the car, put it in drive and tried to flee, as well, DeWitt sa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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NO GAME: Feds Bust Accused Ringleaders Of Worldwide Videogame Hacking Crew NO GAME: Feds Bust Accused Ringleaders Of Worldwide Videogame Hacking Crew NO GAME: Feds Bust Accused Ringleaders Of Worldwide Videogame Hacking Crew
NO Game: Feds Bust Accused Ringleaders Of Worldwide Videogame Hacking Crew Two accused ringleaders of one of the world’s most notorious videogame hacking groups were in FBI custody and an associate was being sought, federal authorities announced. All three are members Team Xecuter, a group that the government said develops and sells “jailbreak” devices that allow people to play pirated copies of games on their consoles. A federal indictment accuses Max “MAXiMiLiEN” Louarn, a 48-year-old French national, Gary “GaryOPA” Bowser, 51, of Canada, and Yuanning Chen, 35, of Shenzhen, China of creating and distributing the devices, which authorities said became more popula…

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
Jersey Shore Driver, 39, Airlifted After New SUV Hits Pole, Rolls On Route 23 Jersey Shore Driver, 39, Airlifted After New SUV Hits Pole, Rolls On Route 23 Jersey Shore Driver, 39, Airlifted After New SUV Hits Pole, Rolls On Route 23
Jersey Shore Driver, 39, Airlifted After New SUV Hits Pole, Rolls On Route 23 A Jersey Shore driver was airlifted after his new SUV hit a utility pole and rolled on Route 23 in West Milford over the weekend. Brian Kochakji, a 39-year-old finance manager with Mercedes Benz, was headed north on Route 23 when the 2020 Mercedes-AMG GLC43 crashed shortly before 9:30 p.m. Saturday, authorities said. Kochakji, a former township resident who lives in Point Pleasant, was brought by ambulance to Echo Lake Ballfield on Germantown Road, police Lt. Thomas Valente said. AirMed One flew him from there to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson with serious injuries, Va…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Cliffside Park PD: Hudson Ex-Con With 49-Arrest History Captured After Fleeing Stolen Car Crash Cliffside Park PD: Hudson Ex-Con With 49-Arrest History Captured After Fleeing Stolen Car Crash Cliffside Park PD: Hudson Ex-Con With 49-Arrest History Captured After Fleeing Stolen Car Crash
Cliffside Park PD: Hudson Ex-Con With 49-Arrest History Captured After Fleeing Stolen Car Crash Cliffside Park police chased down a Jersey City ex-con with a rap sheet nearly 50 arrests long after he crashed a stolen car and bailed out, authorities said. Lester Williams, 54, was speeding south on Anderson Avenue in the 2015 Honda Accord late Saturday when he saw a police car and hit the brake, rapidly slowing down, Deputy Police Chief Vincent Capano said. Williams then made a quick left onto eastbound Jersey Avenue at Sal's Deli, where the Accord -- reported stolen earlier out of Bayonne -- slammed into two parked vehicles, one of which was a 2001 Ford Mustang, Capano said. The other…

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Bergenfield, NJ
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Bergenfield Woman Remains Held After SWAT Standoff Bergenfield Woman Remains Held After SWAT Standoff Bergenfield Woman Remains Held After SWAT Standoff
Bergenfield Woman Remains Held After SWAT Standoff A Bergenfield woman remained hospitalized following an hours-long standoff with police last week that began with a reported domestic violence incident and ended with a SWAT team taking her into custody. Area streets remained closed as members of Bergen County Regional SWAT and Regional Crisis Negotiation units joined Bergenfield police at the Maiden Lane home last Wednesday. It continued for more than five hours before the tactical team moved in and took 42-year-old Luisa Rosario into custody without further incident. Police charged Rosario with aggravated assault by choking, simple assaul…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Two Injured In River Edge Rollover Two Injured In River Edge Rollover Two Injured In River Edge Rollover
Two Injured In River Edge Rollover Two victims in a Saturday rollover crash in River Edge were hospitalized with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening, responders said.  Both got out of the sedan before firefighters arrived at the intersection of Continental and 7th avenues around 4:45 p.m. The River Edge Volunteer Ambulance Service and Hackensack University Medical Center BLS took them to HUMC. River Edge police also responded.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
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Newark Driver Charged In Upstate NY Thruway Hit-Run Crash That Killed Two Newark Driver Charged In Upstate NY Thruway Hit-Run Crash That Killed Two Newark Driver Charged In Upstate NY Thruway Hit-Run Crash That Killed Two
Newark Driver Charged In Upstate NY Thruway Hit-Run Crash That Killed Two A tractor-trailer driver from Newark was extradited to New York and charged with a hit-and-run crash on the New York State Thruway that killed two people. A car slid under his rig when Quentin D. Campbell, 55, made an illegal U-turn in the Monroe County town of Wheatland, just west of Rochester, around 4:15 a.m. Sept. 4, New York State Police reported. Campbell kept going, pulled off at Exit 46, then removed a piece of debris from the rig in the parking lot of a hotel before continuing on, they said. Both victims were from Tennessee, State Police said. The driver was pronounced dead at the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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One Dead, 2 Critically Injured When Seaplane Crashes Into Long Island Sound Pier In Queens One Dead, 2 Critically Injured When Seaplane Crashes Into Long Island Sound Pier In Queens One Dead, 2 Critically Injured When Seaplane Crashes Into Long Island Sound Pier In Queens
One Dead, 2 Critically Injured When Seaplane Crashes Into Long Island Sound Pier In Queens One person was killed and two others critically injured when a small seaplane crashed into a pier Sunday afternoon on the Long Island Sound in Queens, authorities confirmed. Jet skiers reportedly helped pull three victims from the wreckage after the single-engine Cessna 182 came down on the Beechhurst Yacht Club pier, in the shadow of the Throgs Neck Bridge, around 3 p.m. "Witnesses said that the plane was traveling rather fast along the water, skipped twice, and [broke apart when it] hit the pier," then "jumped FDNY Commissioner Dan Nigro said. "Why this happened, we have no idea right now…

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