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.

Jerry DeMarco's Contributions

Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
'Good Cars Here,' Captured Vehicle Thieves Tell Cresskill Police 'Good Cars Here,' Captured Vehicle Thieves Tell Cresskill Police 'Good Cars Here,' Captured Vehicle Thieves Tell Cresskill Police
'Good Cars Here,' Captured Vehicle Thieves Tell Cresskill Police Two members of a vehicle theft ring out of Essex County told Cresskill police that they weren’t familiar with the area but “knew there were good cars here” after they were captured, authorities said. A resident flagged down a passing Cresskill officer around 3 a.m. Tuesday, saying that he’d seen the thieves in his car. Moments later, Sgt. Jeremy Luciano spotted a suspicious vehicle on a nearby side street, Detective John Birnie said. As the sergeant approached, he said, the driver hit the gas, nearly hitting a police cruiser driven by Officer Michael Polling as the vehicle sped off. The …

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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Palisades Park Firefighters Battle Extreme Heat, Terrain To Douse House Blaze Palisades Park Firefighters Battle Extreme Heat, Terrain To Douse House Blaze Palisades Park Firefighters Battle Extreme Heat, Terrain To Douse House Blaze
Palisades Park Firefighters Battle Extreme Heat, Terrain To Douse House Blaze It wasn’t the easiest job: The air was thick, with temperatures still in the high 80s, when a fire broke out in a home on a Palisades Park hill at the top of a private driveway. Borough firefighters lugging hoses and ground ladders doused the Monday night blaze -- saving the house -- with no serious injuries. An air conditioning unit in back of the Chateau Road home ignited, sending flames up the vinyl siding, then into a soffit and roof rafter, shortly before 8 p.m., Fire Chief John Mantone said. Mantone’s firefighters had help at the scene from their colleagues from Ridgefield and Leoni…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
HEROES: Police Officers Revive Lifeless Diner At Allendale Restaurant HEROES: Police Officers Revive Lifeless Diner At Allendale Restaurant HEROES: Police Officers Revive Lifeless Diner At Allendale Restaurant
Heroes: Police Officers Revive Lifeless Diner At Allendale Restaurant A 68-year-old Park Ridge woman had no pulse and wasn’t breathing after she choked on food while dining outdoors at an Allendale restaurant. Then two of the borough's finest came running. A waiter from Mezza Luna dashed down the street and alerted Allendale Police Officers Sean Hubbard and Alex Helmer, who were at the Walgreens directing traffic for the special "Dine-Out" event on Saturday. The officers found the woman unresponsive, not breathing, with no pulse, Police Chief George Scherb said. They tried clearing the obstruction but couldn’t, the chief said. They then conducted CPR, which…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Compactor Fire Clears Route 4 Mall Compactor Fire Clears Route 4 Mall Compactor Fire Clears Route 4 Mall
Compactor Fire Clears Route 4 Mall The Shops at Riverside off Route 4 in Hackensack was evacuated Tuesday as city firefighters doused a compactor blaze. Sprinklers temporarily kept the fire in check before firefighters took over on the Macy's loading dock beneath the parking garage shortly before 2 p.m. A DPW truck pulled the contractor out so they could extinguish the blaze. The fire didn’t spread to the interior of the mall, responders said. Teaneck and Bogota firefighters provided mutual aid. At the scene.Jerry DeMarco At the Shops at Riverside off Route 4 in Hackensack.Jerry DeMarco

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Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Ex-BF From North Bergen Charged With Breaking Into New Milford Home, Stealing Phones, Assault Ex-BF From North Bergen Charged With Breaking Into New Milford Home, Stealing Phones, Assault Ex-BF From North Bergen Charged With Breaking Into New Milford Home, Stealing Phones, Assault
Ex-BF From North Bergen Charged With Breaking Into New Milford Home, Stealing Phones, Assault A North Bergen man broke into a former girlfriend’s New Milford apartment, assaulted a resident and fled with two cellphones, authorities said. Carlos Flores, 44, surrendered to police who had charged him with burglary, simple assault, theft, criminal mischief, harassment, and trespassing, Detective Lt. Kevin Van Saders said. Flores pushed in the front door of the victim’s Brookchester Apartments home around noon last Thursday, assaulted a family member and grabbed the phone, Van Saders said. He was sent to the Bergen County Jail after surrendering on Friday and was ordered released by a j…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Closter PD: Bergenfield Ex-Con In Domestic Assault Threatens To Hunt Down, Kill Police Closter PD: Bergenfield Ex-Con In Domestic Assault Threatens To Hunt Down, Kill Police Closter PD: Bergenfield Ex-Con In Domestic Assault Threatens To Hunt Down, Kill Police
Closter PD: Bergenfield Ex-Con In Domestic Assault Threatens To Hunt Down, Kill Police A Bergenfield ex-con with a history of arrests in no fewer than a dozen Bergen County towns assaulted a woman, damaged a Closter police car and threatened to kill the arresting officers, authorities said Tuesday. David Fusco, 36, got out of his car and began yelling and cursing at officers responding to an assault call at the Closter Nature Center, calling them “pigs,” Detective Lt. Vincent Aiello said. As they checked on the victim and took Fusco into custody, he “threatened to take officers’ weapons from their holsters and kill them” and said that he’d remember their names and faces, then…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Prosecutor: Drug Detectives Capture Virginia Driver After Chase, Crash In Fort Lee Prosecutor: Drug Detectives Capture Virginia Driver After Chase, Crash In Fort Lee Prosecutor: Drug Detectives Capture Virginia Driver After Chase, Crash In Fort Lee
Prosecutor: Drug Detectives Capture Virginia Driver After Chase, Crash In Fort Lee A Virginia driver crashed in Fort Lee and was captured by Bergen County prosecutor’s drug detectives following a pursuit, authorities said. Larry J. Blackwell, 38, of Hampton, VA, at first began to slow down as members of the Narcotic Task Force tried to stop his rented Jeep Wrangler on eastbound Route 46 last Tuesday as part of an investigation, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. He then turned onto North Avenue and kept going, Musella said. The Jeep hit a passing vehicle before slamming into an embankment at West Street, the prosecutor said. Detectives quickly captured Blackwel…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Detective 'Buyers' Nab Accused Fair Lawn Thief Selling Stolen Bicycle Online Detective 'Buyers' Nab Accused Fair Lawn Thief Selling Stolen Bicycle Online Detective 'Buyers' Nab Accused Fair Lawn Thief Selling Stolen Bicycle Online
Detective 'Buyers' Nab Accused Fair Lawn Thief Selling Stolen Bicycle Online A Fair Lawn resident who swiped two bicycles and several packages was caught after borough detectives responded to his Facebook ad selling one of the bikes, authorities said. Detective Mark Wyka and Detective Sgt. Nick Snyder found the Facebook ad and got in touch with Jordan Meyers, 23, asking to see the bicycles, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Meyers arranged to meet them at a Wagaraw Road business, then ran after he realized they were police, Metzler said. The detectives chased down Meyers and charged him with two counts of theft and with hindering his arrest. Detective Brian Rykema, who was…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: Ex-Con Enlisted Baltimore Shooters Who Killed Newark Man At Englewood Party Ambush Authorities: Ex-Con Enlisted Baltimore Shooters Who Killed Newark Man At Englewood Party Ambush Authorities: Ex-Con Enlisted Baltimore Shooters Who Killed Newark Man At Englewood Party Ambush
Authorities: Ex-Con Enlisted Baltimore Shooters Who Killed Newark Man At Englewood Party Ambush UPDATE: A local ex-con recruited two unemployed Baltimore men who shot and killed a Newark man in an ambush at an Englewood house party last month, authorities said. Daily Voice broke the story Saturday that members of a Bergen County Regional SWAT team captured Jamal "Mally" Robinson, 44, in a rental car on Reade Street in Englewood on Friday in connection with the fatal June 20 shooting at the corner of 2nd and 4th streets. What was temporarily withheld was that authorities had also captured one of two accused hit men while they searched for the other. Dejuan Stokes, 23 (photo inset, abo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Eight Firefighters Hospitalized In Passaic Blaze Eight Firefighters Hospitalized In Passaic Blaze Eight Firefighters Hospitalized In Passaic Blaze
Eight Firefighters Hospitalized In Passaic Blaze Eight firefighters were hospitalized with heat exhaustion Monday after rescuing 20 or so residents – several of whom were trapped – during a roaring Monday afternoon blaze that ravaged two homes and damaged others in Passaic. Seven of the firefighters are from the city and the eighth is from Wallington, Passaic Mayor Hector Carlos Lora said. None of the injuries was considered life-threatening, he said. Firefighters rescued five people from two of the Passaic Street homes and got 15 out of another after the blaze broke out around 2 p.m. at 74 Passaic Street, the mayor said. Flames raced th…

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