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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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Dealer Caught With 2½ Pounds Of Cocaine In Leonia Traffic Stop Prosecutor: Dealer Caught With 2½ Pounds Of Cocaine In Leonia Traffic Stop Prosecutor: Dealer Caught With 2½ Pounds Of Cocaine In Leonia Traffic Stop
Prosecutor: Dealer Caught With 2½ Pounds Of Cocaine In Leonia Traffic Stop Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives seized 2½ pounds of cocaine while busting an accused dealer from the Bronx during a traffic stop on Route 95 in Leonia, authorities said. Alexander Garces Brioso, 39, was “identified as a distributor of large quantities of narcotics within the New York City/North Jersey metropolitan area,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Brioso, who works for Optimum Wireless, was charged with possession with the intent to distribute the cocaine, which Musella said had a street value of $50,000. He was sent to the Bergen County Jail, only to have a Central…

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Hackensack, NJ
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COVID Price Gougers Include Jersey Shore Biz That Marked Up Masks 600%, State Charges COVID Price Gougers Include Jersey Shore Biz That Marked Up Masks 600%, State Charges COVID Price Gougers Include Jersey Shore Biz That Marked Up Masks 600%, State Charges
COVID Price Gougers Include Jersey Shore Biz That Marked Up Masks 600%, State Charges A dozen COVID price gougers fined by the state include a Jersey Shore business that sold masks at a 600% markup, a Bergen County pharmacy that peddled at-home antibody tests and several other merchants who jacked up prices on bottled water, rice and other essentials, authorities announced Monday.  Performance Supply LLC made “false and misleading statements in advertising N95 mask respirators for sale to personnel from the New York City Office of Citywide Procurement,” New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. The Manalapan-based business “misleadingly suggested the company i…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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PD: Maywood Man Who Vandalized Police Cars Steals, Burns Firefighters Memorial Flag, Posts It PD: Maywood Man Who Vandalized Police Cars Steals, Burns Firefighters Memorial Flag, Posts It PD: Maywood Man Who Vandalized Police Cars Steals, Burns Firefighters Memorial Flag, Posts It
PD: Maywood Man Who Vandalized Police Cars Steals, Burns Firefighters Memorial Flag, Posts It A man who was caught vandalizing Saddle Brook police cars posted photos and videos of himself stealing an American flag from a firefighters memorial in Maywood and burning it, authorities said. Maywood police on Monday arrested borough resident Mazin Musbah, 25, who told them his actions – which included leaving vulgar notes on residents’ vehicles and streets signs throughout town -- “were in response to an anti-government sentiment he recently developed from watching the news,” Police Chief Terence Kenny said. Saddle Brook police arrested and released Musbah last week after video showed h…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Police: Hackensack Victim Says 'Really Good Friend' Stabbed Him During Dispute Police: Hackensack Victim Says 'Really Good Friend' Stabbed Him During Dispute Police: Hackensack Victim Says 'Really Good Friend' Stabbed Him During Dispute
Police: Hackensack Victim Says 'Really Good Friend' Stabbed Him During Dispute An unemployed Hackensack man stabbed another man who claimed that they are “really good friends," in what may have been a misunderstanding, police said. Police responding to a 911 call from a witness found the 29-year-old victim with a small cut on his left side following a fight on Krone Place shortly after 2 a.m. Monday, Detective Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. They then found John Martinez, Jr., 43, wearing blood-spattered shorts in a garage on the property, DeWitt said. Nearby, they found a 13-inch kitchen knife, he said. EMTs with the Hackensack Volunteer Ambulance Corps treated the victi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack Man, 60, Charged With Raping Pre-Teen Hackensack Man, 60, Charged With Raping Pre-Teen Hackensack Man, 60, Charged With Raping Pre-Teen
Hackensack Man, 60, Charged With Raping Pre-Teen An unemployed Hackensack man was charged with raping a pre-teen. Luis Gonzalez, 60, remained held Monday in the Bergen County Jail pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said members of his Special Victims Unit and Hackensack police arrested Gonzalez, of Holt Street, on Friday after city police “received information that [he] engaged in sexual penetration with a juvenile under the age of 13 in Hackensack.” He’s charged with aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and child endangerment. Court records show t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
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Wallington Pedestrian, 53, Struck By Sedan Wallington Pedestrian, 53, Struck By Sedan Wallington Pedestrian, 53, Struck By Sedan
Wallington Pedestrian, 53, Struck By Sedan A 53-year-old Wallington pedestrian was hospitalized with a head and leg injury after being struck over the weekend, authorities said. The victim was crossing Union Boulevard when she was hit by a leased Mercedes Benz C30 sedan driven by a 49-year-old borough resident around 9 a.m. Saturday, Police Chief Camello Imbruglia said. The driver told police she was making a left from Wallington Avenue and didn’t see the pedestrian in the crosswalk, Imbruglia said (NOTE: A quarter of all pedestrian crashes reportedly occur during left turns). The victim was taken to Hackensack University Medical C…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Elizabeth, NJ
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Two Rockland EMTs Killed In State-Line Thruway Crash With NJ Driver Two Rockland EMTs Killed In State-Line Thruway Crash With NJ Driver Two Rockland EMTs Killed In State-Line Thruway Crash With NJ Driver
Two Rockland EMTs Killed In State-Line Thruway Crash With NJ Driver UPDATE: A New Jersey tractor-trailer driver was hospitalized in a crash that killed two members of a volunteer ambulance corps from Rockland on the New York State Thruway near the state line before dawn Monday, authorities said. Moshe Herzog, 27, of Spring Valley and David Z. Schneebalg, 26, both member of William Paul Feist and Haverstraw Ambulance Corps reportedly were returning from spending Rosh Hashanah in Pennsylvania when the crash occurred around . Herzog was driving a 2017 Chevy Tahoe in the center lane of southbound Route 87 when he apparently attempted to move into the right lane…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Justice Dept: NYC Allows ‘Anarchy, Violence, Destruction,’ Federal Funds In Jeopardy Justice Dept: NYC Allows ‘Anarchy, Violence, Destruction,’ Federal Funds In Jeopardy Justice Dept: NYC Allows ‘Anarchy, Violence, Destruction,’ Federal Funds In Jeopardy
Justice Dept: NYC Allows ‘Anarchy, Violence, Destruction,’ Federal Funds In Jeopardy New York City risks losing federal funding for “endangering innocent citizens” by allowing widespread violence and destruction and preventing police from doing their jobs, U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr said Monday. Portland, Oregon and Seattle were included in a list released Monday by the Justice Department of jurisdictions that “have permitted violence and destruction of property to persist and have refused to undertake reasonable measures to counteract criminal activities.” Shootings in New York City “have been on the rise since looting and protests began on or about May 28, 2020…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Responders Rally For Popular Garfield Police Officer Who Lost Cats, Home In Fierce Fire Responders Rally For Popular Garfield Police Officer Who Lost Cats, Home In Fierce Fire Responders Rally For Popular Garfield Police Officer Who Lost Cats, Home In Fierce Fire
Responders Rally For Popular Garfield Police Officer Who Lost Cats, Home In Fierce Fire YOU CAN HELP: Responders, friends and community members are rallying to assist a Garfield police officer whose home was destroyed by a raging fire that killed her two cats and displaced her family and five others. No one was in the Van Winkle Avenue residence that had been home for more than 30 years to four-year Garfield Police Department veteran Rebecca Schmidt and her parents and brother when the blaze broke out around 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Brother Adam Schmidt rescued the family dog, but his sister’s two cats perished in the fire, which engulfed their home and another and severely damaged…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hamilton Township, NJ
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NO PAROLE: Major Trenton Heroin Trafficker Headed To Fed Pen For Plea-Bargained 17 Years NO PAROLE: Major Trenton Heroin Trafficker Headed To Fed Pen For Plea-Bargained 17 Years NO PAROLE: Major Trenton Heroin Trafficker Headed To Fed Pen For Plea-Bargained 17 Years
NO Parole: Major Trenton Heroin Trafficker Headed To Fed Pen For Plea-Bargained 17 Years A major trafficker who supplied enough heroin to “flood the streets” of Trenton was sentenced to a plea-bargained 17 years in federal prison – all of which he must serve. David Antonio, 32, who was caught with more than three pounds of heroin, admitted being part of a violent, massive distribution network taken down by huge collection of local, county, state and federal law enforcement, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Antonio – also known as “Pop” and “Papi” -- became the 23rd of 26 defendants to take a plea deal in exchange for leniency at sentencing. He and the others must all serve …

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