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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Lakewood, NJ
Breaking News
Reputed Toms River Mob Associate Gets 6+ Years In Fed Pen For Pound Of Coke, Loaded Gun Reputed Toms River Mob Associate Gets 6+ Years In Fed Pen For Pound Of Coke, Loaded Gun Reputed Toms River Mob Associate Gets 6+ Years In Fed Pen For Pound Of Coke, Loaded Gun
Reputed Toms River Mob Associate Gets 6+ Years In Fed Pen For Pound Of Coke, Loaded Gun A reputed Jersey Shore associate of the DeCavalcante crime family who was caught with cocaine and a loaded handgun is headed to federal prison for more than six plea-bargained years following his sentencing Thursday. Mario Galli III, 28, of Toms River, admitted in U.S. District Court in Trenton in March that he had the gun and drugs when detectives from the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office searched his and another home last September. Detectives seized nearly a pound of the drug and a 9mm FEG Model PGK-9HP gun loaded with 12 rounds of ammunition during the raids, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpeni…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
HEROES: Hackensack Police Subdue Distraught Man Wielding Kitchen Knife HEROES: Hackensack Police Subdue Distraught Man Wielding Kitchen Knife HEROES: Hackensack Police Subdue Distraught Man Wielding Kitchen Knife
Heroes: Hackensack Police Subdue Distraught Man Wielding Kitchen Knife A crying and shaking Hackensack man who’d already cut himself several times refused to drop a bloody kitchen knife when a trio of city officers found him. Sgt. Michael Capone and Officers Mark Carrillo and Stanislav Tovbin found the man “visibly distraught” after a 911 call brought them to a Lodi Street home Wednesday morning, Detective Capt. Darren DeWitt said. He'd already cut his neck several time when the officers repeatedly asked him to put down the knife, the captain said. He refused. “With disregard for their own safety and with concern that [he] would hurt himself further, t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Rutherford Retiree, 76, Sexually Abused Pre-Teen Prosecutor: Rutherford Retiree, 76, Sexually Abused Pre-Teen Prosecutor: Rutherford Retiree, 76, Sexually Abused Pre-Teen
Prosecutor: Rutherford Retiree, 76, Sexually Abused Pre-Teen A married 76-year-old retiree from Rutherford was charged with sexually abusing a pre-teen over the past three years. Walter Maslanczuk remained held Thursday in the Bergen County Jail pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack following his arrest the day before. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said borough police notified Special Victims Unit detectives in his office that Maslanczuk “engaged in sexual activity with a juvenile on numerous occasions over the past three years in Rutherford.” The prosecutor didn't elaborate. The investigators ar…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
SEE ANYTHING? Hackensack Pedestrian, 27, Struck By Hit-Run Driver Critical SEE ANYTHING? Hackensack Pedestrian, 27, Struck By Hit-Run Driver Critical SEE ANYTHING? Hackensack Pedestrian, 27, Struck By Hit-Run Driver Critical
SEE Anything? Hackensack Pedestrian, 27, Struck By Hit-Run Driver Critical A 27-year-old Hackensack man remained in intensive care after being struck overnight Thursday by a vehicle that fled the scene, responders said. A motorist who didn’t witness the crash dialed 911 after finding the victim in the southbound lane of Polifly Road near Sutton Avenue around 12:30 a.m. He was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center in critical condition. Given the severity of injuries in the hit-and-run crash, the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Fatal Accident Investigations Unit is heading the investigation, assisted by Hackensack police and the Bergen Count Sheriff’s Bureau of…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson Man Stabs Woman, Jumps To Death From Roof Paterson Man Stabs Woman, Jumps To Death From Roof Paterson Man Stabs Woman, Jumps To Death From Roof
Paterson Man Stabs Woman, Jumps To Death From Roof A Paterson man critically stabbed a woman before jumping to his death from the roof of a nearby building, authorities said. The body of Esaul Morales, 38, was found on the sidewalk after he stabbed the 26-year-old victim in a Cianci Street apartment around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint release. The victim was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, where she remained in critical condition with stab wounds on Thursday, they said. “The investigation remains active and ongoing,” Valdes and Bayc…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Your Community
Another Giant Clothier Falls: These NJ, NY, CT Brooks Brothers Stores Are Closed For Good Another Giant Clothier Falls: These NJ, NY, CT Brooks Brothers Stores Are Closed For Good Another Giant Clothier Falls: These NJ, NY, CT Brooks Brothers Stores Are Closed For Good
Another Giant Clothier Falls: These NJ, NY, CT Brooks Brothers Stores Are Closed For Good It was the clothier that dressed 40 presidents, brought us the button-down polo shirt and survived not only the Great Depression and two world wars but also casual Fridays. But like so many other traditional retailers, Brooks Brothers was no match for the coronavirus. The 202-year-old company – considered America's oldest apparel seller -- on Wednesday filed for bankruptcy protection while announcing that 38 stores that it closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic weren't reopening. The shuttered stores in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut include: The Shops at Riverside, Hackensack; 2381…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Sinkhole Closes Route 19 Sinkhole Closes Route 19 Sinkhole Closes Route 19
Sinkhole Closes Route 19 A large sinkhole closed the southbound lanes of Route 19 at the Paterson/Clifton border Wednesday night. How long before the highway is reopened was anyone's guess.  Responders said it could take hours or even days depending on the condition of a huge drainage pipe beneath the roadway.  The hole began to open around 4 p.m., forcing a single lane closure. It widened until eventually all three lanes were compromised, responders said. Traffic was being detoured onto Valley Road to Marshall Street to South Broad Street back to the highway.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Widow Of Slain Bergen Sheriff's Officer Relieved After Killer Is Denied Parole Widow Of Slain Bergen Sheriff's Officer Relieved After Killer Is Denied Parole Widow Of Slain Bergen Sheriff's Officer Relieved After Killer Is Denied Parole
Widow Of Slain Bergen Sheriff's Officer Relieved After Killer Is Denied Parole Bergen County Sheriff’s Officer Joseph Rybka took with him the pride of those he served as he gasped his final breath on a Paramus hospital floor on Jan. 7, 1979. Only 32 years old and already a 10-year veteran of the sheriff’s office, he was a proud sentry who protected others from the horrors of crime. But while guarding a dangerous prisoner at what was then known as Bergen Pines Hospital (now Bergen New Bridge Medical Center), Rybka was suddenly and viciously attacked. Stephen Perry, an offender with a huge list of offenses, was at the hospital after being wounded in a shootout with Tea…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Fugitive Ex-Con Shot Dead By US Marshals In Paterson Was Wanted For Ex-GF's Killing Fugitive Ex-Con Shot Dead By US Marshals In Paterson Was Wanted For Ex-GF's Killing Fugitive Ex-Con Shot Dead By US Marshals In Paterson Was Wanted For Ex-GF's Killing
Fugitive Ex-Con Shot Dead By US Marshals In Paterson Was Wanted For Ex-GF's Killing UPDATE: A fugitive ex-con killed during a shootout in Paterson early Wednesday was wanted by the NYPD for the brutal beating death of his sometimes-girlfriend on a Harlem street. A loaded 9mm handgun was found near the body of Malik Canty, a 36-year-old Bloods gang member, after he was taken out by members of the U.S. Marshals Service NY/NJ Regional Fugitive Task Force in a second-floor Hamilton Avenue apartment at 6:30 a.m., state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Canty had exchanged gunfire with his pursuers before he was killed, responders said. A SWAT team then made entry into t…

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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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