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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Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Brazen Burglars In Bergen Jewelry Store Heist Flee Across GWB In Purple Muscle Car Brazen Burglars In Bergen Jewelry Store Heist Flee Across GWB In Purple Muscle Car Brazen Burglars In Bergen Jewelry Store Heist Flee Across GWB In Purple Muscle Car
Brazen Burglars In Bergen Jewelry Store Heist Flee Across GWB In Purple Muscle Car Burglars outraced pursuing police across the George Washington Bridge after breaking into a Bergen County jewelry store before dawn Wednesday. Borough police responding to a burglar alarm at the Northvale Jewelry Exchange on Livingston Street shortly after 5 a.m. found the front glass door shattered and several pieces of jewelry scattered outside the store, Police Chief Howard Ostrow said. Witnesses said they heard glass breaking and then observed a purple Dodge Charger speed away, Ostrow said. Police with several agencies heard the Northvale police alert and began chasing the Charger, the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Palisades Park Public Library Employee Charged With Having Sex With Underage Girl Palisades Park Public Library Employee Charged With Having Sex With Underage Girl Palisades Park Public Library Employee Charged With Having Sex With Underage Girl
Palisades Park Public Library Employee Charged With Having Sex With Underage Girl A maintenance worker at the Palisades Park public library was charged with statutory rape for having sex with an underage girl, authorities said Wednesday. Mario Esau Simon Martinez, 21, remained held in the Bergen County Jail pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. Palisades Park police “received information that [Martinez] engaged in sexual relations with a juvenile under the age of 16,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Police, in turn, notified Musella’s Special Victims Unit, the prosecutor said. Detectives arrested Martinez on Monday a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
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Union County Woman Gets 10 Years In Fed Pen For Dealing Pounds Of Meth From JC Storage Unit Union County Woman Gets 10 Years In Fed Pen For Dealing Pounds Of Meth From JC Storage Unit Union County Woman Gets 10 Years In Fed Pen For Dealing Pounds Of Meth From JC Storage Unit
Union County Woman Gets 10 Years In Fed Pen For Dealing Pounds Of Meth From JC Storage Unit A Union County woman was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Wednesday for selling meth by the pound from a Jersey City self-storage facility. Lorena Marquez, 48, of Union Township, must serve all of the plea-bargained sentence because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. Federal and local authorities investigating drug trafficking in North Jersey seized nearly two pounds of crystal meth from the storage unit and arrested Marquez. She, in turn, pleaded guilty to selling the drug in exchange for leniency. U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton sentenced Marquez via videoconfe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hamilton Township, NJ
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NJ SWAT Team Justified Killing Former UPS Employee Who Took Hostages, Shot At Ex-GF NJ SWAT Team Justified Killing Former UPS Employee Who Took Hostages, Shot At Ex-GF NJ SWAT Team Justified Killing Former UPS Employee Who Took Hostages, Shot At Ex-GF
NJ SWAT Team Justified Killing Former UPS Employee Who Took Hostages, Shot At Ex-GF A SWAT team was justified in shooting and killing a former UPS employee as he chased at an ex-girlfriend at his old job, firing a handgun at her, after taking her and another woman hostage, New Jersey's attorney general said Wednesday. The beaten, bleeding woman had broken away from William J. Owens, 39, of Sicklerville (Camden County) during what had been a 3½-hour standoff with police. Owens chased her, firing shots from a 9mm handgun, as the woman ran out an employee door into the parking lot of the UPS Mail Innovations facility on Birch Creek Road in Logan Township on Jan. 14, 2019, sta…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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SEEN THIS? Female Bruisers Get Into Brutal Brawl At LaGuardia SEEN THIS? Female Bruisers Get Into Brutal Brawl At LaGuardia SEEN THIS? Female Bruisers Get Into Brutal Brawl At LaGuardia
Seen This? Female Bruisers Get Into Brutal Brawl At LaGuardia WATCH: A now-viral video captured a vicious fistfight between two women on the jet bridge to a flight at LaGuardia Airport. Punches flew and fingernails scraped as both women hit the deck moments before the Atlanta-bound Delta flight was scheduled to leave on Sunday. “Come get Aaliyah, she’s fighting,” someone shouts. Another woman yells at "Aaliyah" to stop as one airline employee calls for help and another watches in apparent shock.  One of the women seemed to get the upper hand as they fell, but then the other pulled a reversal -- only to get reversed herself. A man is then seen …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Shoeless Hackensack FedEx Robber: ‘Give Me The Package Or I’ll F*** You Up’ Shoeless Hackensack FedEx Robber: ‘Give Me The Package Or I’ll F*** You Up’ Shoeless Hackensack FedEx Robber: ‘Give Me The Package Or I’ll F*** You Up’
Shoeless Hackensack FedEx Robber: ‘Give Me The Package Or I’ll F*** You Up’ "Give me the package or I'll f*** you up," a shoeless robber from Teaneck told a FedEx driver who was making a delivery in Hackensack on Tuesday, authorities said. What followed was a massive manhunt and a police chase through a muddy creek that ended when police found Newon O. Byfield, 31, behind the nearby Hilton Hasbrouck Heights/Meadowlands. And what was in the package? Marijuana, authorities suspect. The shoeless Byfield approached the driver at a Polifly Road address and threatened him shortly after 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Lt. Anthony DiPersia said. The driver resisted, a struggle follo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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Woman Struck By Bus On Route 120 In Carlstadt Woman Struck By Bus On Route 120 In Carlstadt Woman Struck By Bus On Route 120 In Carlstadt
Woman Struck By Bus On Route 120 In Carlstadt A woman staying at a local hotel was struck by a commuter bus near the Meadowlands Tuesday night. The 36-year-old victim wasn't in a crosswalk when an NJ Transit bus hit her in the middle lane of Route 120 (Paterson Plank Road) outside the Holiday Inn Express in Carlstadt shortly after 7:30 p.m., Detective Sgt. John Cleary said. She was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with serious and possibly life-threatening injuries, Cleary said. The Bergen County Prosecutor's Fatal Accident Investigations Unit and NJ Transit police were notified. The Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Crim…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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UPDATE: FedEx Driver Robbed, Police Nab Teaneck Suspect, 31, Who Waded Into Creek Near Route 80 UPDATE: FedEx Driver Robbed, Police Nab Teaneck Suspect, 31, Who Waded Into Creek Near Route 80 UPDATE: FedEx Driver Robbed, Police Nab Teaneck Suspect, 31, Who Waded Into Creek Near Route 80
Update: FedEx Driver Robbed, Police Nab Teaneck Suspect, 31, Who Waded Into Creek Near Route 80 "Give me the package or I'll f*** you up," a shoeless robber from Teaneck told a FedEx driver who was making a delivery in Hackensack on Tuesday, authorities said. What followed was a massive manhunt and a police chase through a muddy creek that ended when police found Newon O. Byfield, 31, behind the nearby Hilton Hasbrouck Heights/Meadowlands. And what was in the package? Marijuana, authorities suspect. The shoeless Byfield approached the driver at a Polifly Road address and threatened him shortly after 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Lt. Anthony DiPersia said. The driver resisted, a struggle follo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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MANHUNT: NJ Murder Suspect, 28, Captured On Roof Of Route 46 Hotel In Wayne Identified MANHUNT: NJ Murder Suspect, 28, Captured On Roof Of Route 46 Hotel In Wayne Identified MANHUNT: NJ Murder Suspect, 28, Captured On Roof Of Route 46 Hotel In Wayne Identified
Manhunt: NJ Murder Suspect, 28, Captured On Roof Of Route 46 Hotel In Wayne Identified An ex-con from North Carolina wanted in an Essex County homicide was captured on the roof of a Route 46 hotel in Wayne before dawn Tuesday, multiple law enforcement sources told Daily Voice. The search began after Derrick Anthony Younger, 28, ran from a Route 46 traffic stop near Route 23 around midnight. Wayne Police Officer Wayne Bush, who stopped Younger, chased him on foot to the Ramada Inn. A Passaic County Sheriff's SWAT unit was summoned in case of a possible standoff. Although authorities initially suspected that Younger was in Room 228, he'd actually gone to the roof. After a SW…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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COVID Flight: New Jersey, New York Lead US In Out-Of-State Moves, CT Close Behind, Survey Says COVID Flight: New Jersey, New York Lead US In Out-Of-State Moves, CT Close Behind, Survey Says COVID Flight: New Jersey, New York Lead US In Out-Of-State Moves, CT Close Behind, Survey Says
COVID Flight: New Jersey, New York Lead US In Out-Of-State Moves, CT Close Behind, Survey Says New Jersey and New York are leading the nation in the percentage of household relocations to other states, driven by the “new normal” of the coronavirus pandemic, a recent survey shows. A whopping 69% of all New Jersey residents who moved from March 1 to Aug. 19 relocated out of state, UniGroup reports. That’s just about 7 of every 10. New York is close behind at 67%, with Connecticut fourth at 64%. Residents from New Jersey and New York mostly moved to suburbs and smaller towns in Florida, Texas and other Sunbelt states between March and July, Bloomberg reported. Vermont, Idaho, Oregon a…

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