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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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Jack-Knifed Tractor-Trailer Jumps Median On Route 80 Jack-Knifed Tractor-Trailer Jumps Median On Route 80 Jack-Knifed Tractor-Trailer Jumps Median On Route 80
Jack-Knifed Tractor-Trailer Jumps Median On Route 80 A tractor-tractor jackknifed and jumped the median on Route 80 in Paterson overnight Saturday. The mishap left the trailer on on side of the highway and part of the rig on the other part near westbound Exit 58 around midnight. Two lanes were temporarily closed on the eastbound side and one on the westbound. An ambulance took the driver to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening. Firefighters summoned a hazardous materials unit to tend to a fuel spill.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Body Washes Up In Hudson River Near GWB Body Washes Up In Hudson River Near GWB Body Washes Up In Hudson River Near GWB
Body Washes Up In Hudson River Near GWB 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 aroiund 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
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Four From Philly Charged With Beating, Tasing, Robbing Edgewater Pair At Gunpoint Four From Philly Charged With Beating, Tasing, Robbing Edgewater Pair At Gunpoint Four From Philly Charged With Beating, Tasing, Robbing Edgewater Pair At Gunpoint
Four From Philly Charged With Beating, Tasing, Robbing Edgewater Pair At Gunpoint Authorities captured four Philadelphia men who they said beat and tased two victims during a gunpoint robbery in Edgewater late last year. The victims were attacked when they arrived at the Riello Apartments on Gorge Road before dawn on Dec. 8, 2019 by a quartet who held them at gunpoint while beating them, tasing them with a cattle prod and robbing them, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Friday. Detectives from Musella’s office and the Edgewater Police Department identified four suspects who were all arrested Wednesday at their homes with help from the FBI and Philadelphia Police …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
Breaking News
AG: Essex Detective Illegally Attached Hidden GPS To Suspect's Vehicle AG: Essex Detective Illegally Attached Hidden GPS To Suspect's Vehicle AG: Essex Detective Illegally Attached Hidden GPS To Suspect's Vehicle
AG: Essex Detective Illegally Attached Hidden GPS To Suspect's Vehicle An Essex County prosecutor’s detective stuck a hidden GPS on a suspect’s vehicle without permission, then lied about where to find his county-issued cellphone when he was ordered to turn it in, state authorities said Friday. Timothy Kealy, 27, of Bloomfield, was working with the prosecutor’s Narcotics Task Force when he bought and installed the tracking device without getting a supervisor’s permission to apply to a judge for a warrant, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. A court-issued warrant is required by law for law enforcement to install a GPS device on a vehicle. Kealy was suspe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: West Milford Man, Underage Boy Exchanged Sexual Images Of Each Other Authorities: West Milford Man, Underage Boy Exchanged Sexual Images Of Each Other Authorities: West Milford Man, Underage Boy Exchanged Sexual Images Of Each Other
Authorities: West Milford Man, Underage Boy Exchanged Sexual Images Of Each Other A West Milford man sent sexually explicit images to an underage boy and had him do the same, authorities said. New York State Police alerted authorities in Passaic County to Tekanand V. Singh, 28, who they said began messaging the boy after meeting him online. Singh “sent the victim photographs of himself” and “requested the victim engage in sexual acts [that] he instructed should be recorded and sent to him,” Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said in a joint release. “All images were obtained by law enforcement,” they added. Si…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
FUNDING POLICE: Paterson Gets $1.9 Million To Hire More Police Officers, Attack Gun Violence FUNDING POLICE: Paterson Gets $1.9 Million To Hire More Police Officers, Attack Gun Violence FUNDING POLICE: Paterson Gets $1.9 Million To Hire More Police Officers, Attack Gun Violence
Funding Police: Paterson Gets $1.9 Million To Hire More Police Officers, Attack Gun Violence With gun violence rising as quickly as cries in some national quarters to defund police, Paterson is receiving nearly $1.9 million to hire 10 new officers to fight back, Mayor Andre Sayegh formally announced Friday. The $1.88 million U.S. Department of Justice COPS grant is the largest amount received in this round by any law enforcement agency in New Jersey and "comes at a pivotal point in time," he said. For one thing, the mayor said, it “will allow the City of Paterson to hire 10 new officers," which "allow for expanded support in reducing gun violence." The news comes amid a rising wav…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Weather
SUPER SOAKER: Tropical Storm Fay Drenches Northeast SUPER SOAKER: Tropical Storm Fay Drenches Northeast SUPER SOAKER: Tropical Storm Fay Drenches Northeast
Super Soaker: Tropical Storm Fay Drenches Northeast UPDATE: Tropical Storm Fay continued drenching New Jersey as it blew north on Friday, churning the waves off the beaches, triggering flash floods in several areas and stoking the anxiety of those already shaken by the events of 2020. Overall, however, the fear-mongering predictions didn't appear as if they'd materialize -- at least not in the Garden State. Winds gusts as of early Friday afternoon topped out under 40 mph -- significantly less than the 60 mph that some had forecast -- and almost entirely along the coast, where the severest damage was expected. Several Jersey Shore towns wer…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Burglar Caught Trying To Saw Into Fairview Gun Store Sees Police Coming, Keeps Cutting Burglar Caught Trying To Saw Into Fairview Gun Store Sees Police Coming, Keeps Cutting Burglar Caught Trying To Saw Into Fairview Gun Store Sees Police Coming, Keeps Cutting
Burglar Caught Trying To Saw Into Fairview Gun Store Sees Police Coming, Keeps Cutting A burglar caught trying to break into a Fairview gun store in the middle of the night took one look at responding police officers and went right back to what he was doing, authorities said. The suspect was using a power saw to try and cut the padlock on a roll-down security gate at Mike’s Gun Shop on Anderson Avenue when police arrived around 1:45 a.m. Thursday, Police Chief Martin Kahn said. “He looked at them and kept sawing,” Kahn said. The man, who wasn’t carrying any ID, refused to cooperate during processing at headquarters – including not giving his name, Kahn said. He required a p…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: Retired Jersey City Police Officer Kills Himself In Hasbrouck Heights Home Authorities: Retired Jersey City Police Officer Kills Himself In Hasbrouck Heights Home Authorities: Retired Jersey City Police Officer Kills Himself In Hasbrouck Heights Home
Authorities: Retired Jersey City Police Officer Kills Himself In Hasbrouck Heights Home A distraught retired Jersey City police officer shot and killed himself in his Hasbrouck Heights home Thursday night, authorities confirmed. The 50-something man’s wife called police and met them outside the Lawrence Avenue house, saying he had a handgun and was threatening to kill himself, shortly after 5:30 p.m. When efforts to reach him failed, borough police called for the Bergen County Regional SWAT team and Crisis Negotiation Unit. After additional attempts at contact also failed, the SWAT team broke in and found him dead of a single gunshot wound to the head, with a handgun nearby, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
Breaking News
Feds: COVID Couldn't Slow Down Rockland Doc, Wife In Multi-Million Dollar Bribery Scam Feds: COVID Couldn't Slow Down Rockland Doc, Wife In Multi-Million Dollar Bribery Scam Feds: COVID Couldn't Slow Down Rockland Doc, Wife In Multi-Million Dollar Bribery Scam
Feds: COVID Couldn't Slow Down Rockland Doc, Wife In Multi-Million Dollar Bribery Scam The coronavirus pandemic hardly fazed a Rockland doctor who with his wife continued to collect bribes and kickbacks in exchange for ordering millions of dollars in genetic tests, federal authorities said Thursday. Yitzachok “Barry” Kurtzer, 60, of Monsey operated an office in Scranton, PA, as did another physician, Lee Besen, 64, of Waverly, PA, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Craig Carpenito said. Both collected monthly cash kickbacks and bribes ranging from $500 to $5,000 in exchange for “collecting DNA samples from Medicare patients and sending them for genetic tests to clinical laboratorie…

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