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

Jersey City, NJ

Breaking News

Feds: 12-Year-Old Jersey City Girl Shot When Allied Gangs Attack Rivals In Drive-By A 12-year-old Jersey City girl was wounded in a drive-by shooting earlier this month when three members of a group of allied Jersey City gangs opened fire on a rival gang in retaliation for a previous attack, federal authorities said Wednesday. Marc “Bando” Taylor, Jashawn “Trilly” Tate and Damari “Juggy” Blackwell, all 18 years old, were scheduled for first appearances via videoconference Thursday before U.S. Magistrate Judge James B. Clark III in Newark, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Taylor, Tate and Blackwell are associated with violent street gangs tied to three neighborhoods -- t…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/15/2020

Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ

Breaking News

Police: Mahwah Man, 87, Threatens Painters With Knife, Coaxed From Condo By Sergeant On Ladder An 87-year-old Mahwah man who threatened a painting crew with a knife had to be coaxed out of his condo by a police sergeant who climbed a ladder to his window, authorities said. Michael Fennell “was apparently angered by the work that was being done outside of his residence and began to wave a knife at the painters” at the Indian Ridge condominium complex Wednesday morning, Capt. Guido Bussinelli said. The painters, who’d been hired by the condo association, “retreated, distancing themselves from the angered resident,” and alerted someone who called police, Bussinelli said. Detective Lt. …

by Jerry DeMarco

07/15/2020

Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ

Breaking News

Police: Ridgefield Car Burglars From Hudson Chased Through Cliffside, Crash In Fairview A police chase that began when a Cliffside Park officer spotted a Hudson County trio trying to steal a sports car in Ridgefield early Wednesday ended with a crash in Fairview and all three in custody. Joshua Bueso, 18, of Union City, was entering the Chevy Corvette on Westview Avenue in Ridgefield when a passing Cliffside Park officer spotted him around 7 a.m., Deputy Police Chief Vincent Capano said. Bueso hopped back into a Volkswagen Jetta occupied by two boys – one 16, also from Union City, the other 17, from Jersey City – and hit the gas, Capano said. The chase went several blocks bef…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/15/2020

Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ

Breaking News

Morris Township Man Killed By Police Held Genuine-Looking Airsoft Pistol, Attorney General Says A 24-year-old Morris County man who was shot and killed by police Tuesday was holding an airsoft gun that looks like a real firearm, authorities said Wednesday. Police got a 911 domestic call from an older woman at a Morris Township home who said Timothy O’Shea, 24, had a gun and had cut himself shortly after 4 p.m, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. They got the caller, whom responders said is O’Shea’s mother, to safety before encountering him in the driveway of the Fairchild Avenue home, responders said. He was “holding a pistol and bleeding,” Grewal said. Officers from three…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/15/2020

Fort Lee, NJ

Breaking News

Shock, Sadness Follow Sudden Death Of Veteran Leonia Firefighter TRIBUTE: Shock and sadness continued to spread with the news that veteran Leonia firefighter Jack Peters, a retired borough police officer, had died suddenly at 65. “It is with sadness and complete shock that we tell you that Jack Peters, husband, father, grandfather, father in law, and friend to many has passed away unexpectedly today,” daughter Kristen Richter wrote Tuesday night. “We know he touched many people in some way. He loved his town, the fire department, and his family -- especially his grandchildren, his “blessings”,” she added. Tributes continued to mount by the hundreds on W…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/15/2020

Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ

Breaking News

Trash-Hauling Tractor-Trailer Tips At Route 46, 80 Interchange A tractor-trailer hauling municipal waste tipped over around noontime Wednesday on the westbound Route 46 exit to Route 80. The driver and a 12-year-old passenger who was with him got out OK and waited for responders (see photo). Both were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with injuries that weren't considered serious. Ridgefield Park police and firefighters were the first on the scene. At the scene.DAILY VOICE

by Jerry DeMarco

07/15/2020

Paterson, NJ

Breaking News

Rampage: Women Assaulted In Clifton, Nutley, Suspect Nabbed In Belleville After Chase, Crash UPDATE: An East Orange man who punched several women in the face during a mad rampage through Clifton and Nutley was captured after he crashed a stolen car in Belleville during a police chase, authorities said. Quinn Mayweather, 22, had been free awaiting trial for groping a woman whose car he was trying to steal in Westfield last fall, they said. He remained held Wednesday in the Essex County Correctional Facility on charges from various police departments – including aggravated assault, assault and robbery. The victims in Monday's rampage ranged in age from 31 to 60, authorities said. I…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/15/2020

Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ

Breaking News

SUV Hits Utility Pole, Rolls In Glen Rock A driver escaped serious injury after her SUV overturned Wednesday morning in Glen Rock. The 28-year-old Union City driver, who was headed to work at a local doctor’s office, was checked out after her 2020 Toyota Rav 4 sideswiped a utility pole and overturned on Prospect Street near Cornwall Road just after 9:30 a.m. She got out on her own before police arrived and refused medical attention, responders said. "A witness that was driving behind the vehicle reported that it was traveling at the speed limit and not driving erratically before the crash," Sgt. Michael Trover said. The vehicle …

by Jerry DeMarco

07/15/2020

Bergenfield, NJ

Breaking News

New Milford PD: Porch Pirate Tied To More Than Dozen Thefts In Town, Bergenfield, Wyckoff New Milford police arrested a porch pirate linked to 10 different thefts in town, as well as others in Bergenfield and Wyckoff, authorities said. Detective Sgt. Nelson Perez was following up Tuesday on a theft from a Boulevard home the day before when he spotted a car that matched one seen on surveillance video in connection with that theft, Detective Lt. Kevin Van Saders said. Anthony Mendoza, 39, of East Rutherford was seen in the video "taking a package and leaving the area in the vehicle," Van Saders said. Perez stopped the car, assisted by Lt. John Moroney, Detective Brian Carlino and…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/15/2020

Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ

Breaking News

AG: Man Killed In Police-Involved Morris County Shooting UPDATE: A 24-year-old Morris County man who was shot and killed by police Tuesday was holding an airsoft gun that looks like a real firearm, authorities said Wednesday. Police got a 911 domestic call from an older woman at a Morris Township home who said Timothy O’Shea, 24, had a gun and had cut himself shortly after 4 p.m, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. They got the caller, whom responders said is O’Shea’s mother, to safety before encountering him in the driveway of the Fairchild Avenue home, responders said. He was “holding a pistol and bleeding,” Grewal said. Officers fr…

by Jerry DeMarco

07/14/2020

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