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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Lyndhurst, NJ
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Lyndhurst PD: Wood-Ridge Driver Kicked, Spit At Officers, Claimed He Had COVID Lyndhurst PD: Wood-Ridge Driver Kicked, Spit At Officers, Claimed He Had COVID Lyndhurst PD: Wood-Ridge Driver Kicked, Spit At Officers, Claimed He Had COVID
Lyndhurst PD: Wood-Ridge Driver Kicked, Spit At Officers, Claimed He Had COVID A drunk driver from Wood-Ridge kicked an off-duty Lyndhurst police lieutenant who stopped him for driving recklessly, then spit on the officer’s backups, claiming he had the coronavirus, authorities said. A recklessly-driven BMW driven by Joseph Marotta, 37, nearly hit Lt. Paul Haggerty’s car as he turned off Post Avenue onto Stuyvesant Avenue around 11:30 p.m. Friday, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. Haggerty alerted headquarters and followed the BMW as it headed back to Post Avenue, he said. Marotta pulled to the curb near the corner of Post and Willow as backup Officers Joseph White, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Bogota PD: Teaneck Driver Masturbated, Shouted Obscenities At Women From His Car Bogota PD: Teaneck Driver Masturbated, Shouted Obscenities At Women From His Car Bogota PD: Teaneck Driver Masturbated, Shouted Obscenities At Women From His Car
Bogota PD: Teaneck Driver Masturbated, Shouted Obscenities At Women From His Car A Teaneck motorist shouted obscenities at women while masturbating in his car, Bogota police charged. Juan D. Hernandez-Morales, 19, was charged with lewdness and making harassing comments by borough detectives following victims' complaints, authorities said. "Hernandez-Morales habitually harassed and made lewd acts to females within the borough while driving by them on the roadway," a post by the department says. He was released pending a court hearing.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Fairview Man Charged With Vehicular Homicide In Deaths Of Couple On GWB Fairview Man Charged With Vehicular Homicide In Deaths Of Couple On GWB Fairview Man Charged With Vehicular Homicide In Deaths Of Couple On GWB
Fairview Man Charged With Vehicular Homicide In Deaths Of Couple On GWB Authorities charged a Fairview driver with two counts of vehicular homicide in the deaths of a Bronx couple killed in a crash Friday on the George Washington Bridge. Charles R. Wilson, 45, was heading toward New Jersey on the bridge’s lower level shortly before 9:30 a.m. Friday when his 2014 Chevy Corvette slammed into the rear of a 2011 Honda CRV, sending it crashing onto the divider, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The Honda passenger Bisere Frluckaj, 42, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver, 52-year-old Muharem Frluckaj, was taken to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
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Driver May Have Passed Out In Bus Crash At Port Authority Terminal Driver May Have Passed Out In Bus Crash At Port Authority Terminal Driver May Have Passed Out In Bus Crash At Port Authority Terminal
Driver May Have Passed Out In Bus Crash At Port Authority Terminal Two severely injured victims were among 16 in all who were hospitalized following a Saturday morning bus crash at the Port Authority bus terminal in Manhattan, they said. Authorities suspect a medical condition was to blame for the driver of the #156 bus losing consciousness prior to the crash. Six were moderately hurt and the rest considered minor, mostly with face and neck injuries, after the bus slammed into a guardrail on an inbound ramp around 9:30 a.m., responders told Daily Voice. The trip apparently originated out of the bus depot in Fairview. PAPD officers and Tunnel & Bridge…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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‘Operation Reboot’: 7 Bergen Men, Juvenile Busted With 32,500 Child Porn Images ‘Operation Reboot’: 7 Bergen Men, Juvenile Busted With 32,500 Child Porn Images ‘Operation Reboot’: 7 Bergen Men, Juvenile Busted With 32,500 Child Porn Images
‘Operation Reboot’: 7 Bergen Men, Juvenile Busted With 32,500 Child Porn Images Men from seven different Bergen County towns were busted with more than 32,500 child porn images combined -- among them, a trucker from Westwood who alone had 5,733 illegal files, authorities said. Detectives who participated in “Operation Reboot” arrested the men and a juvenile while seizing files from online accounts and electronic devices of victims “as young as infants and toddlers to pubescent children aged 13-16, in nude, semi-nude, or sexually explicit poses, including child rape videos and images,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Some of those nabbed trafficked images, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Another Tractor-Trailer Crashes Off Route 287 Another Tractor-Trailer Crashes Off Route 287 Another Tractor-Trailer Crashes Off Route 287
Another Tractor-Trailer Crashes Off Route 287 A tractor-trailer rolled off Route 287 and down an embankment before dawn Friday. It was another in a series of crashes that has plagued that stretch of highway for years. The System Freight rig out of Jamesburg rolled off the northbound highway near Exit 59 to southbound Route 208 in Oakland at 4:25 a.m., New Jersey State Police Trooper Alejandro Goez said. The right and center lanes remained closed as a pair of heavy-duty wreckers from DeFalco's in Chatham pulled it from the trees after sunrise, he said. Traffic remained backed up for miles past mid-morning. The driver was taken to Ha…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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UPDATE: Fairview Man Charged With Vehicular Homicide In Deaths Of Couple On GWB UPDATE: Fairview Man Charged With Vehicular Homicide In Deaths Of Couple On GWB UPDATE: Fairview Man Charged With Vehicular Homicide In Deaths Of Couple On GWB
Update: Fairview Man Charged With Vehicular Homicide In Deaths Of Couple On GWB UPDATE: Authorities charged a Fairview driver with two counts of vehicular homicide in the deaths of a Bronx couple killed in a crash Friday on the George Washington Bridge. https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/cliffsidepark/police-fire/fairview-man-charged-with-vehicular-homicide-in-deaths-of-couple-on-gwb/793270/ ****** PREVIOUS POST: A Bronx couple was killed in a Thursday morning crash on the George Washington Bridge's lowel level, authorities said. Muharem Frluckaj, 52, was driving a Honda CRV that collided with a Chevy Corvette in the westbound lower-level lanes shortly before 9:30 a.m…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Sheriff: Church Bell Ringer Who Played On Celine Dion CD Caught With Child Porn Sheriff: Church Bell Ringer Who Played On Celine Dion CD Caught With Child Porn Sheriff: Church Bell Ringer Who Played On Celine Dion CD Caught With Child Porn
Sheriff: Church Bell Ringer Who Played On Celine Dion CD Caught With Child Porn A Passaic County sheriff’s security guard who’s also been a church handbell ringer for more than a quarter of a century was charged with having dozens of child porn images on his computer. Brian Tricoli, 49, of Hawthorne “self-reported a computer issue that he believed was related to possible child pornography that was stored on his computer,” Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. Tricoli "turned over his computer and phone to detectives at that time and was suspended with pay on June 12 while detectives continued the investigation,” Berdnik said. “Detectives using several tools available to l…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Victim In Paterson Beating Dies, Hawthorne Ex-Con Charged With Murder Victim In Paterson Beating Dies, Hawthorne Ex-Con Charged With Murder Victim In Paterson Beating Dies, Hawthorne Ex-Con Charged With Murder
Victim In Paterson Beating Dies, Hawthorne Ex-Con Charged With Murder Authorities upgraded charges against a Hawthorne ex-con to first-degree murder after a man whom they said he kicked, punched and pistol whipped died of his injuries. Tyheem T. Jones, 37, was “pacing back and forth in the middle of the street” while “breathing heavily and sweating profusely” when officers responding to an assault call found him near the corner of Auburn Street and Godwin Avenue around 4 a.m. Thursday, authorities said. Nearby, they found the victim on the ground with a large gash on the right side of his head. Reyes has been "repeatedly punching and kicking him for several …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Body Of Missing Bogota Man, 48, Recovered From Hackensack River Body Of Missing Bogota Man, 48, Recovered From Hackensack River Body Of Missing Bogota Man, 48, Recovered From Hackensack River
Body Of Missing Bogota Man, 48, Recovered From Hackensack River UPDATE: A body recovered Thursday afternoon from the Hackensack River was that of a Bogota man who went missing last week, responders said. He'd been in the water for several days, they said. Felix Enrique Martinez, 48, left his home and headed toward Palisades Avenue last Thursday morning (Aug. 20), borough police said at the time.  He appeared in need of medical attention, they said. Responders from Hackensack and Ridgefield Park searched the river soon after Martinez was reported missing without success. Responding this Thursday were Hackensack firefighters, the Bogota and Ridgefield…

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