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
Jersey City Girl, 17, Shot, Killed Jersey City Girl, 17, Shot, Killed Jersey City Girl, 17, Shot, Killed
Jersey City Girl, 17, Shot, Killed A 17-year-old girl was shot and killed Monday night in Jersey City, authorities said. Tyeah Garner was found with a single gunshot wound in the face at a single-family home on tree-lined Rutgers Avenue, near the corner of Sheffield Street, just after 10:30 p.m., Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. Tyeah was taken to Jersey City Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead five hours later. Suarez didn’t immediately say under what circumstances authorities believe she was killed -- whether intentional or accidental -- or by whom. No arrests had been made as of Tuesday. Anyone wit…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Detectives Seize Loaded Gun, 275 Combined Doses Of Heroin, Crack Following Paterson Street Deal Detectives Seize Loaded Gun, 275 Combined Doses Of Heroin, Crack Following Paterson Street Deal Detectives Seize Loaded Gun, 275 Combined Doses Of Heroin, Crack Following Paterson Street Deal
Detectives Seize Loaded Gun, 275 Combined Doses Of Heroin, Crack Following Paterson Street Deal Two detectives who witnessed a street drug deal in Paterson seized a loaded semi-automatic handgun, along with 169 heroin folds, a combined 88 bags and vials of crack and 112 Xanax pills, while arresting two city residents. Detective Mohammad Bashir of the city’s Street Crime Unit was on a special holiday details with Passaic County Prosecutor’s Detective Eugene Tolliver when they saw the deal go down near the corner of Rosa Parks Boulevard and Pearl Street shortly before 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. The detectives stopped a car that pulled away for motor ve…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Resident: Paramus Firefighter Raises Fallen Stars And Stripes During Storm Resident: Paramus Firefighter Raises Fallen Stars And Stripes During Storm Resident: Paramus Firefighter Raises Fallen Stars And Stripes During Storm
Resident: Paramus Firefighter Raises Fallen Stars And Stripes During Storm They say true character is what you do when no one is watching, which is what some people in Paramus were saying Monday about one of the borough’s bravest. “Amidst the worst thunderstorm I have ever seen, multiple trees blown down across the roadway, large tree branches falling without notice, live power wires down in the street and on fire, this selfless firefighter took the time to walk over to my lawn, pick up my American flag off the ground that had fallen during the strong winds and then returned to his work,”  resident Kaitlin Cafone said. “Thank you,” she wrote in a Facebook pos…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Bullet Fired At Luxury Englewood Complex Goes Into Neighbor's Apartment, Gunman Flees Bullet Fired At Luxury Englewood Complex Goes Into Neighbor's Apartment, Gunman Flees Bullet Fired At Luxury Englewood Complex Goes Into Neighbor's Apartment, Gunman Flees
Bullet Fired At Luxury Englewood Complex Goes Into Neighbor's Apartment, Gunman Flees Residents of a luxury apartment building in Englewood have been on edge since someone in the building fired a bullet Sunday that went through a wall into another apartment. All that residents said they knew as of Monday was that someone on the second floor of the Vivian on Sterling Boulevard off Route 4 fired the shot and then fled. Surveillance video shows the person believed responsible leaving the building carrying a duffel bag, they said. Police searched the apartment and didn’t find a weapon, neighbors said, adding that no one had returned to the unit. Tenant Joshua Goot said the la…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
HEROES: Firefighters From Rockland Rescue Palisades Hiker Above NJ Marina HEROES: Firefighters From Rockland Rescue Palisades Hiker Above NJ Marina HEROES: Firefighters From Rockland Rescue Palisades Hiker Above NJ Marina
Heroes: Firefighters From Rockland Rescue Palisades Hiker Above NJ Marina Responders from Piermont rescued a stranded Fourth of July hiker from the Palisades above the Hudson River, authorities said. The 32-year-old Manhattan hiker was with a group who called Palisades Interstate Parkway police from the Giant Stairs in Alpine when he became lightheaded and had difficulty breathing shortly before noon Saturday, PIP Police Sgt. First Class Raymond Walter said. Piermont EMS members stabilized the man while members of the Marine Unit firefighters ran a line that they used to lower him to the Alpine Marina, with help from their colleagues from Nyack, Walter said. Pal…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority, Westchester, NYC, PIP Police Search Hudson In Vain For Presumed GWB Jumper Port Authority, Westchester, NYC, PIP Police Search Hudson In Vain For Presumed GWB Jumper Port Authority, Westchester, NYC, PIP Police Search Hudson In Vain For Presumed GWB Jumper
Port Authority, Westchester, NYC, PIP Police Search Hudson In Vain For Presumed GWB Jumper Responders from several law enforcement agencies searched the Hudson River in vain for a presumed jumper after a car was found abandoned on the George Washington Bridge. Port Authority police found the abandoned vehicle midspan of the bridge's westbound upper level around 9 p.m. Sunday. Among the agencies that sent air and sea units to assist were the NYPD, Palisades Interstate Parkway Police, the Nyack and Piermont fire department marine units, the Thiells dive team,  the Irvington and Tarrytown fire departments, the Rockland County Sheriff's Office and the Westchester County Police A…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
Breaking News
Feds: Crew In NJ, NY, Michigan Conned Banks, Merchant Processors Out Of $3.5 Million Feds: Crew In NJ, NY, Michigan Conned Banks, Merchant Processors Out Of $3.5 Million Feds: Crew In NJ, NY, Michigan Conned Banks, Merchant Processors Out Of $3.5 Million
Feds: Crew In NJ, NY, Michigan Conned Banks, Merchant Processors Out Of $3.5 Million Federal agents arrested five people from New Jersey, New York and Michigan and were searching for two others Monday in connection with a $3.5 million bank fraud. Working together, the defendants defrauded several major banks and electronic merchant processors by creating shell companies that issued checks to one another, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. They also conducted “fraudulent credit card and debit card transactions between shell companies to fraudulently credit payee accounts and fraudulently overdraw payor accounts,” Carpenito said. The shell companies also issued temporary re…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen Cub Scout Leader, Youth Sports Coach Charged With Sexually Assaulting Minor Bergen Cub Scout Leader, Youth Sports Coach Charged With Sexually Assaulting Minor Bergen Cub Scout Leader, Youth Sports Coach Charged With Sexually Assaulting Minor
Bergen Cub Scout Leader, Youth Sports Coach Charged With Sexually Assaulting Minor A Bergen County Cub Scout leader from Oakland who also coaches youth sports was charged with sexually assaulting a minor. Gary Sarno, 47, remained held Monday in the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing Wednesday in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. Sarno "engaged in sexual conduct with a child" between 16 and 17 years old late last December, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. An investigation by Musella's Special Victims Unit and Oakland police led to Sarno's arrest last week on charges of sexual assault, criminal sexual contact and child endang…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Fairview Officers Nab Pre-Dawn Burglary Trio At Major Area Truck Dealer Fairview Officers Nab Pre-Dawn Burglary Trio At Major Area Truck Dealer Fairview Officers Nab Pre-Dawn Burglary Trio At Major Area Truck Dealer
Fairview Officers Nab Pre-Dawn Burglary Trio At Major Area Truck Dealer A trio of Fairview police officers nabbed three burglars as they tried to flee the lot of one of the area’s largest truck dealers. Officers Ralph Guastella, CJ Turro, and Diego Porras caught one on the south side of Beyer Brothers on Broad Avenue, another who was tossing stolen items as he ran on the north side and the third waiting in a getaway car nearby after an alarm company notified police at 4:50 a.m. Friday, Police Chief Martin Kahn said. Khairi Matthews, 20, and Christopher Scott, 23, had a backpack containing a reciprocating saw, bolt cutter and sawzall blades, Kahn said. Scott al…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson Officers Seize Loaded Gun In Fierce Struggle Paterson Officers Seize Loaded Gun In Fierce Struggle Paterson Officers Seize Loaded Gun In Fierce Struggle
Paterson Officers Seize Loaded Gun In Fierce Struggle A struggle over a pistol-grip rifle loaded with nearly two dozen rounds ended with a Paterson driver in custody, authorities said. Officers Mark Alvarez and Fernando Saint-Hilaire, responding to a report of a dangerous situation on Warren Street, found Kwame Morrison asleep in the driver's seat of a 2020 Honda Accord LX that was double-parked with its headlights on and engine running around 6:30 a.m. Sunday, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. The officers knocked on the windows in a failed effort to wake him, Speziale said. They opened the driver's side door and finally roused Mor…

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