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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Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Closter Police Officer Dragged By Paramus Driver Closter Police Officer Dragged By Paramus Driver Closter Police Officer Dragged By Paramus Driver
Closter Police Officer Dragged By Paramus Driver A Closter police officer was hospitalized after being dragged by a fleeing motorist from Paramus on Thursday, authorities said. Sang Lee, 24, initially drove past several "road closed" signs on Closter Dock Road while ignoring three uniformed officers who tried to stop him, forcing a group of construction workers to flee to safety, Detective Lt. Vincent Aiello said. Two officers chased Lee a quarter mile before he stopped at an Exxon gas station at the corner of Closter Dock and Piermont roads, Aiello said. Lee "refused to provide his pedigree or exit the vehicle," the lieutenant said. "A…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Palisades Interstate Parkway Pursuit: Pair Bails Out Of Stolen Car, Caught On GWB Palisades Interstate Parkway Pursuit: Pair Bails Out Of Stolen Car, Caught On GWB Palisades Interstate Parkway Pursuit: Pair Bails Out Of Stolen Car, Caught On GWB
Palisades Interstate Parkway Pursuit: Pair Bails Out Of Stolen Car, Caught On GWB A stolen car chase down the Palisades Interstate Parkway ended when the 17-year-old driver and a passenger bailed out on the upper level of the George Washington Bridge and were quickly captured, authorities said. Palisades Interstate Police officers began pursuing the 2019 Honda Civic hatchback down the PIP for having stolen New York license plates, Sgt. First Class Raymond E. Walter said. The driver “at first began to slow down before picking up speed and merging back into the left lane of the highway,” Walter said. The officers terminated the pursuit at the GWB toll plaza, after which t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Driver Dead, SUV Found In Hackensack River In River Vale Driver Dead, SUV Found In Hackensack River In River Vale Driver Dead, SUV Found In Hackensack River In River Vale
Driver Dead, SUV Found In Hackensack River In River Vale A popular Hillsdale firefighter was found dead in his SUV Thursday in the upper Hackensack River in River Vale, the apparent victim of a heart attack. John Inserra, 48, was married with three young children -- two boys and a girl. He coached and was extremely active in local youth sports, including softball and wrestling. Inserra was reported missing after he headed to the a gym in Norwood early Thursday and wasn't heard from again, close friends said. His phone was pinged to the area of Rivervale Road and Piermont Avenue in River Vale several hours later. Officers from both towns respon…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hamilton Township, NJ
Breaking News
BUSTED! Tattoos Help ID Men In Trenton Protest Firebombings, FBI Says BUSTED! Tattoos Help ID Men In Trenton Protest Firebombings, FBI Says BUSTED! Tattoos Help ID Men In Trenton Protest Firebombings, FBI Says
Busted! Tattoos Help ID Men In Trenton Protest Firebombings, FBI Says The FBI arrested two more Trenton protesters, one of whom threw a makeshift Molotov cocktail at police and tried to set fire to a patrol car with two accomplices during an attack captured on video, federal authorities said Thursday. Kadeem A. Dockery, 29, of Trenton, and Killian F. Melecio, 20, of Columbus were taken into custody Wednesday on federal charges thanks to their distinctive tattoos, which could be seen on social media posts and videos recorded by street cameras, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. They join a third man, Justin D. Spry, who was arrested by the FBI last month. Th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Cliffside Park Pre-Teen Fondled By Jersey Shore 'Caretaker,' Authorities Charge Cliffside Park Pre-Teen Fondled By Jersey Shore 'Caretaker,' Authorities Charge Cliffside Park Pre-Teen Fondled By Jersey Shore 'Caretaker,' Authorities Charge
Cliffside Park Pre-Teen Fondled By Jersey Shore 'Caretaker,' Authorities Charge A Jersey Shore man molested an 11-year-old Cliffside Park girl who was in his care, authorities charged. Marquis Howard, 27, of Pleasantville (Atlantic County) remained held Thursday in the Bergen County Jail pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. Howard was arrested Wednesday after borough police received a complaint that he’d touched “the child’s intimate parts more than one time while the child was in his care," Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Howard, who's charged with sexual assault by contact and child endangerment, had been in…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
DWI Driver Charged In Head-On Oakland Crash That Seriously Injured Mahwah Motorcyclist, 68 DWI Driver Charged In Head-On Oakland Crash That Seriously Injured Mahwah Motorcyclist, 68 DWI Driver Charged In Head-On Oakland Crash That Seriously Injured Mahwah Motorcyclist, 68
DWI Driver Charged In Head-On Oakland Crash That Seriously Injured Mahwah Motorcyclist, 68 Authorities said a Bronx driver was drunk when he cut off a motorcycle and hit it head-on with his sedan in Oakland, seriously injuring the rider -- a 68-year-old Ramapough Lenape Nation member from Mahwah. Jeremiah W. Hayden, 23, turned his 2008 Acura TSX into a driveway from the opposite direction near Jim's Auto on West Oakland Avenue off Route 287, hitting the oncoming 1995 Honda Gold Wing, around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The motorcyclist, a member of the native American Ramapough Lenape Nation tribe, was taken to Hackensack University Medical Cent…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
'Drug Dungeon': Synth Pot Lab Found In Paterson Basement, 4 Firefighters Sickened By Fumes 'Drug Dungeon': Synth Pot Lab Found In Paterson Basement, 4 Firefighters Sickened By Fumes 'Drug Dungeon': Synth Pot Lab Found In Paterson Basement, 4 Firefighters Sickened By Fumes
'Drug Dungeon': Synth Pot Lab Found In Paterson Basement, 4 Firefighters Sickened By Fumes Four firefighters were briefly hospitalized after an overnight explosion and fire at a large-scale synth pot lab in the basement of a Paterson home up the block from a school. The firefighters were evaluated as a precaution and then released from St.Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson after they inhaled noxious fumes at the Illinois Avenue residence, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. “What it appears to be is a K2 mill,” Speziale said. Sold cheaply in packages the size of tea bags, K2 is what some officials have referred to as “weaponized marijuana.” It’s mixed with min…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
Breaking News
'American Ninja Warrior' Champ Charged With Having Sex With Underage Teen In NJ, CT 'American Ninja Warrior' Champ Charged With Having Sex With Underage Teen In NJ, CT 'American Ninja Warrior' Champ Charged With Having Sex With Underage Teen In NJ, CT
'American Ninja Warrior' Champ Charged With Having Sex With Underage Teen In NJ, CT Last year’s $1 million winner of TV’s “American Ninja Warrior” competition lured an underage girl to New Jersey and Connecticut for sex, said federal authorities who arrested him. The girl’s mother confronted Andrew Drechsel, 31, after discovering he’d had sex with her daughter at his “Ninja Gym” in Hamden, CT as a 15th birthday present, authorities said. Drechsel, who was 26 at the time, didn’t deny the abuse but, rather, claimed that he didn’t know her daughter’s age, they said. He reached out and met the girl again for several sexual encounters in New Jersey, at least one of which was i…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Driver Hospitalized In Fair Lawn Crash Driver Hospitalized In Fair Lawn Crash Driver Hospitalized In Fair Lawn Crash
Driver Hospitalized In Fair Lawn Crash A driver was hospitalized after her sedan slammed into a utility pole Wednesday afternoon in Fair Lawn. A passenger escaped injury after the Infiniti slammed into the pole in the 1600 block of Kipp Street. The Fair Lawn Volunteer Ambulance Corps took the driver to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening. A tow truck removed the sedan.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Elizabeth, NJ
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NJ Landlord Demanded Sex For Housing, Lower Rents, Justice Department Charges NJ Landlord Demanded Sex For Housing, Lower Rents, Justice Department Charges NJ Landlord Demanded Sex For Housing, Lower Rents, Justice Department Charges
NJ Landlord Demanded Sex For Housing, Lower Rents, Justice Department Charges For at least 15 years, an Elizabeth landlord has demanded sexual favors from tenants to get or keep apartments while offering reduced rent to others in exchange for sex, federal authorities charged. Joseph Centanni, who owns hundreds of rental units in and around Elizabeth, “initiated or threatened to initiate eviction actions against tenants who objected to or refused his sexual advances,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said Wednesday. The U.S. Justice Department took the case because Centanni -- who is married and lives in West Mountainside -- receives roughly $102,000 a month in Section 8…

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