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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Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: Man Who Got Out Of Car, 22, Killed In Gruesome Route 4 Crash UPDATE: Man Who Got Out Of Car, 22, Killed In Gruesome Route 4 Crash UPDATE: Man Who Got Out Of Car, 22, Killed In Gruesome Route 4 Crash
Update: Man Who Got Out Of Car, 22, Killed In Gruesome Route 4 Crash It wasn't a scene for the faint of heart: A man who got out of a sedan after it was rear-ended on Route 4 in Teaneck over the weekend was struck and killed in a chain-reaction crash that sent a van careening into a house and bursting into flames. It began when the Toyota Sienna was rear-ended by a Honda Accord on westbound Route 4 off North Wilson Avenue shortly after 5 a.m. Sunday. The van rolled across a lawn and slammed into a brick wall of the North Wilson Avenue home, landing right side up and bursting into flames, authorities said. The van driver and a passenger got out OK, Bergen C…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: Body Of Missing Moonachie Woman, 81, Found In Creek UPDATE: Body Of Missing Moonachie Woman, 81, Found In Creek UPDATE: Body Of Missing Moonachie Woman, 81, Found In Creek
Update: Body Of Missing Moonachie Woman, 81, Found In Creek The body of an 81-year-old Moonachie woman who'd gone missing last week was found Sunday. Angelina Wolchko's body was found in a creek behind 105 State St., where it had been for several days, responders told Daily Voice. Wochko was wearing light pink pajamas and black slippers, when she went missing from her Frederick Street home -- nearly three quarters of a mile from where she was found Sunday -- around 9 p.m. last Monday, Police Chief Richard Behrens said. Witnesses reported seeing Wolchko on Tuesday in the area of Redd’s Restaurant and the Valero gas station on Washington Avenue in C…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Union County Man Who Thought He Was Buying Car In Paterson Shot, Robbed Instead Union County Man Who Thought He Was Buying Car In Paterson Shot, Robbed Instead Union County Man Who Thought He Was Buying Car In Paterson Shot, Robbed Instead
Union County Man Who Thought He Was Buying Car In Paterson Shot, Robbed Instead A Union County man who went to Paterson thinking he was buying a car got shot in the leg and robbed instead, city police said. The 41-year-old Kenilworth victim drove himself to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center shortly before 10:30 p.m. Saturday, responders said. He’d been shot in the area of 9th Avenue and East 28th Street, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint announcement. His injury wasn’t life-threatening, they said. They didn’t address an unconfirmed report that city police had a suspect in custody. Barely a half…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Chomping Grounds: Great Whites Lurking Off Jersey Shore, NYC, Long Island Are Social Distancing Chomping Grounds: Great Whites Lurking Off Jersey Shore, NYC, Long Island Are Social Distancing Chomping Grounds: Great Whites Lurking Off Jersey Shore, NYC, Long Island Are Social Distancing
Chomping Grounds: Great Whites Lurking Off Jersey Shore, NYC, Long Island Are Social Distancing Looks like we won't need a bigger boat: Although reports have emerged of a half-dozen or so great white sharks lurking off the Jersey Shore, New York City and Long Island this summer, a real-life version of "Jaws" isn't coming to a beach near you. Among the maneaters out there is Caroline -- nearly 13 feet long and 1,348 pounds -- whom the OCEARCH shark tracker pinged between Seaside Heights and Barnegat Light on July 1. Add in Cabot (nine feet, 533 pounds) and Caper (eight feet, 348 pounds), both of whom were pinged off the Hamptons in early June. And don't forget 16-foot, 3,456-pound Mar…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Nanny Caught On Hidden Camera Abusing Hackensack Infant Prosecutor: Nanny Caught On Hidden Camera Abusing Hackensack Infant Prosecutor: Nanny Caught On Hidden Camera Abusing Hackensack Infant
Prosecutor: Nanny Caught On Hidden Camera Abusing Hackensack Infant A hidden camera caught a nanny “hitting, kicking and yanking” a Hackensack infant by the arm, said authorities who charged her with child abuse. Abena Yeboah, 71, of the Bronx “had been hired to care for the infant,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. City police were notified after a nanny cam captured her abusing the child, he said. New York City police arrested Yeboah on a Hackensack Police Department warrant, Musella said. She remained held pending extradition to Bergen County to face child abuse charges, he said. ****** ALSO SEE: A laborer living in Hackensack was ar…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities Charge Laborer In Hit-Run Crash That Critically Injured Hackensack Man, 27 Authorities Charge Laborer In Hit-Run Crash That Critically Injured Hackensack Man, 27 Authorities Charge Laborer In Hit-Run Crash That Critically Injured Hackensack Man, 27
Authorities Charge Laborer In Hit-Run Crash That Critically Injured Hackensack Man, 27 A laborer living in Hackensack was arrested Saturday and charged with leaving a 27-year-old city man for dead after mowing him down in the middle of the night. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said detectives from his Fatal Accident Investigations Unit and Hackensack police identified and arrested Juan Gonzalez Ramirez in connection with the 12:39 a.m. hit-and-run crash at the corner of Polifly Road and Sutton Avenue. The victim remained in critical condition with multiple injuries Saturday at Hackensack University Medical Center, the prosecutor said. SEE: Hackensack Pedestrian, 27, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Police Investigate Gunshot At Mahwah Firehouse Police Investigate Gunshot At Mahwah Firehouse Police Investigate Gunshot At Mahwah Firehouse
Police Investigate Gunshot At Mahwah Firehouse Detectives were trying to determine who fired a gunshot at a Mahwah firehouse. A bullet hole was found in a bay door window and a round recovered from inside the Fire Company #2 house on Island Road on Thursday, indicating the shot came from outside, a police source told Daily Voice. An investigation was continuing. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: Driver Faints After COVID Test, SUV Plows Through Waldwick Eatery's Outdoor Dining Area VIDEO: Driver Faints After COVID Test, SUV Plows Through Waldwick Eatery's Outdoor Dining Area VIDEO: Driver Faints After COVID Test, SUV Plows Through Waldwick Eatery's Outdoor Dining Area
Video: Driver Faints After COVID Test, SUV Plows Through Waldwick Eatery's Outdoor Dining Area Tropical Storm Fay may have ended up saving lives when an SUV plowed into a popular Bergen County restaurant's temporary outdoor dining area after the driver fainted following a COVID test. Surveillance video captured the lunchtime crash, which scattered tables, chairs and tent poles before slamming into a pair of Dumpsters and stopping atop some tree stumps Friday at Nellie’s Place in Waldwick. Witnesses said the 57-year-old driver had just submitted a sample for a COVID test at the Rite Aid up the street when she lost consciousness heading down Franklin Turnpike. Her SUV hit the curb ou…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: Woman Whose Body Washed Up Near GWB Not Victim Of Foul Play, Authorities Say UPDATE: Woman Whose Body Washed Up Near GWB Not Victim Of Foul Play, Authorities Say UPDATE: Woman Whose Body Washed Up Near GWB Not Victim Of Foul Play, Authorities Say
Update: Woman Whose Body Washed Up Near GWB Not Victim Of Foul Play, Authorities Say UPDATE: A woman whose body was found Saturday morning along the Hudson River in Edgewater apparently wasn't the victim of foul play, said authorities who were trying to positively identify her. A 911 caller led officers to the body on the Hudson River Walkway shoreline behind the Comfort Inn around 8 a.m., Edgewater Police Chief Donald Martin said. Port Authority police detectives joined their Edgewater colleagues at the scene, along with the Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification, which collected evidence. The Asian woman's body was taken to the Bergen County Medical E…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Three More Shot, Two Critically, In Paterson Three More Shot, Two Critically, In Paterson Three More Shot, Two Critically, In Paterson
Three More Shot, Two Critically, In Paterson Ongoing warfare continued to escalate in Paterson when two men were critically wounded and another injured in a street corner shooting Friday night. Responding officers found the critically injured city men – one 58 and the other 35 – at the corner of 10th Avenue and East 26th Street shortly after 9 p.m., authorities said. Also wounded was a 35-year-old Newark man, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint announcement. All were taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, they said. This comes after four other…

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