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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Middletown, NJ
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Pistol-Packing Ex-Con Busted At Jersey Shore ER Said He Was DEA: Indictment Pistol-Packing Ex-Con Busted At Jersey Shore ER Said He Was DEA: Indictment Pistol-Packing Ex-Con Busted At Jersey Shore ER Said He Was DEA: Indictment
Pistol-Packing Ex-Con Busted At Jersey Shore ER Said He Was DEA: Indictment An ex-con who authorities said showed up at a Jersey Shore emergency room packing a loaded gun and claiming he was a DEA agent was indicted by a federal grand jury. Wesley Rucker, 36, of Tinton Falls has had more than two years to consider a deal with the government rather than proceed with the case. He hasn’t taken one, however, and now he’s under indictment. Staff members at Hackensack Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank spotted Rucker carrying the handgun in his waistband, the ATF said. “Rucker showed the security officer two identification cards in a leather bifold wa…

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Miracle On The Turnpike: Passing Bergen Fire Veterans Rescue Young Child Having Seizure Miracle On The Turnpike: Passing Bergen Fire Veterans Rescue Young Child Having Seizure Miracle On The Turnpike: Passing Bergen Fire Veterans Rescue Young Child Having Seizure
Miracle On The Turnpike: Passing Bergen Fire Veterans Rescue Young Child Having Seizure HEROES: A seizure suffered by an epileptic child on a jammed New Jersey Turnpike had her stranded mom praying for a pre-Christmas miracle. Sure enough, she got one. Vanessa Senquis of Bayonne was taking her 4-year-old daughter Leilani to Hackensack University Medical Center after she’d fallen down some steps and cut her forehead. The unconscious child was in serious peril during the medical episode as her terrified mother shouted to a 911 dispatcher: “I need help! I need help!” Seemingly out of nowhere, Hasbrouck Heights Fire Chief Michael Greco was next to her in his chief’s truck. S…

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Hackensack, NJ
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EXCLUSIVE REPORT: Instructors At Bergen Police Academy Removed, New Recruit Class Suspended EXCLUSIVE REPORT: Instructors At Bergen Police Academy Removed, New Recruit Class Suspended EXCLUSIVE REPORT: Instructors At Bergen Police Academy Removed, New Recruit Class Suspended
Exclusive Report: Instructors At Bergen Police Academy Removed, New Recruit Class Suspended The latest recruits to officially graduate from the Bergen County Police Academy on Friday night might be the last for some time, it appears. The 131st Bergen Academy class of graduates from various area departments were joined at their Dec. 15 commencement ceremony at Felician University by loved ones, colleagues and dignitaries -- but not by nearly all of their instructors. All except one of those instructors were relieved of their duties by the New Jersey Police Training Commission (PTC) amid accusations of impropriety, Daily Voice has learned. As a result, Academy Class #132, which was…

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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Laborer Charged With Sexually Assaulting Preteen In Midland Parik Laborer Charged With Sexually Assaulting Preteen In Midland Parik Laborer Charged With Sexually Assaulting Preteen In Midland Parik
Laborer Charged With Sexually Assaulting Preteen In Midland Parik A man who attaches images, lettering and other signage to vehicles for a living sexually assaulted a pre-teen in Midland Park, authorities charged. Luis Saul Yanez, a 29-year-old Mexican national who lives in the borough, remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Friday, Dec. 15. He was arrested four days earlier on charges of sexual assault by contact and child endangerment through sexual conduct, records show. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said an investigation of Yanez began when Midland Park police alerted his Special Victims Unit on Sept. 26 to a single alleged incident.&nbs…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
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Brawl At End Of Teaneck HS Basketball Game Versus Hackensack Brings Area Reinforcements Brawl At End Of Teaneck HS Basketball Game Versus Hackensack Brings Area Reinforcements Brawl At End Of Teaneck HS Basketball Game Versus Hackensack Brings Area Reinforcements
Brawl At End Of Teaneck HS Basketball Game Versus Hackensack Brings Area Reinforcements A wave of police from nearly a dozen area law enforcement agencies converged on Teaneck High School after a brawl erupted Thursday night at the end of a two-point boys basketball victory over Hackensack. A girls basketball game against both schools in Hackensack had been canceled following a fight there, which brought extra uniformed and plainclothes officers to the Dec. 14 match at Teaneck High School. At the end of the 54-52 boys game, the officers “observed several small fights erupt between groups of spectators,” Teaneck Police Chief Andrew McGurr said. There was also a report that a t…

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Lyndhurst, NJ
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Repeat Lyndhurst Offender Shoots Acquaintance In Home With Airsoft Gun: Police Repeat Lyndhurst Offender Shoots Acquaintance In Home With Airsoft Gun: Police Repeat Lyndhurst Offender Shoots Acquaintance In Home With Airsoft Gun: Police
Repeat Lyndhurst Offender Shoots Acquaintance In Home With Airsoft Gun: Police A Lyndhurst man who’s had several run-ins with police lately was arrested after he shot an acquaintance with an airsoft gun, authorities said. An eyewitness report of a man brandishing a handgun brought Officers Matthew Dudek, Anthony Giaquinto, and Robert Litterio to a home on Copeland Avenue between Stuyvesant and 10th Street. Witnesses reportedly told police 33-year-old resident Ronnie Williams had fired several projectiles from an airsoft gun, hitting one of them. Thankfully, the victim wasn’t seriously injured, they said. Airsoft guns are replica weapons designed to shoot recycled pl…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Troubled Dad Plunges To Death From NJ/NY Lookout Troubled Dad Plunges To Death From NJ/NY Lookout Troubled Dad Plunges To Death From NJ/NY Lookout
Troubled Dad Plunges To Death From NJ/NY Lookout A troubled man from River Edge who’d just been involved in a fender bender leaped to his death from atop the Palisades at the New York/New Jersey border on Wednesday, Dec. 13, authorities confirmed. The 38-year-old man had hit a couple of cars while trying to back out of a dead end near his son’s school. A resident shared video of the incident with River Edge police who -- aware of his history -- began looking for the troubled driver. Then came the heartbreaking news. It was shortly before 5 p.m. when a concerned citizen called Palisades Interstate Parkway Police from the State Line …

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Garfield-Lodi, NJ
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Lodi Driver Slams Charger Into Parked Cars, Arrested On Outstanding Warrants Lodi Driver Slams Charger Into Parked Cars, Arrested On Outstanding Warrants Lodi Driver Slams Charger Into Parked Cars, Arrested On Outstanding Warrants
Lodi Driver Slams Charger Into Parked Cars, Arrested On Outstanding Warrants A Lodi driver who hit two parked cars, knocking one onto its side, was taken into custody after responding officers discovered that she had outstanding warrants. Kimberly Toro, 36, was headed south on South Main Street in Lodi when her 2011 Dodge Charger hit the other vehicles in front of the Pizza Zone restaurant and across from the Crescent Heights condominium development, at 9:42 p.m. Monday, Dec. 11. Neither car had any occupants and Toro didn't appear under the influence of anything at the time, police said. Toro was processed at headquarters, posted bail and was released with new cou…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Social Security Recipient's Death Not Reported, Bank Worker From Passaic Pockets $100,000: Feds Social Security Recipient's Death Not Reported, Bank Worker From Passaic Pockets $100,000: Feds Social Security Recipient's Death Not Reported, Bank Worker From Passaic Pockets $100,000: Feds
Social Security Recipient's Death Not Reported, Bank Worker From Passaic Pockets $100,000: Feds A Passaic man who worked at a bank in Nutley stole more than $100,000 worth of Social Security benefits from the government in the name of a deceased customer, federal authorities charged. The Social Security Administration wasn’t notified of the beneficiary’s death and continued depositing benefits at the commercial bank for more than four years, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said on Wednesday, Dec. 13. Bank employee Jorge Nova, 35, issued debit cards to himself in the beneficiary’s name that he used to drain the account, Sellinger said. Nova also “registered new accounts with a money…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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DWI Fair Lawn Woman's SUV Pinballs Off Pole Into Tree Outside Glen Rock Jewish Center: Police DWI Fair Lawn Woman's SUV Pinballs Off Pole Into Tree Outside Glen Rock Jewish Center: Police DWI Fair Lawn Woman's SUV Pinballs Off Pole Into Tree Outside Glen Rock Jewish Center: Police
DWI Fair Lawn Woman's SUV Pinballs Off Pole Into Tree Outside Glen Rock Jewish Center: Police A Fair Lawn driver was intoxicated when her SUV rammed a utility pole in front of the Glen Rock Jewish Center, then slammed into a tree on the other side of the street, authorities said. The Glen Rock Volunteer Ambulance Corps took Lyubov Korniyevska, 62, to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood following the crash on Harristown Road near Berkeley Place shortly after 6 p.m. Dec. 4, Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Her injuries weren’t considered life-threatening, the chief said. The 2022 Toyota RAV had to be towed from the scene. Korniyevska was alone and headed south when the SUV v…

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