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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Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Rollover Crash Jams Route 17 In Paramus Rollover Crash Jams Route 17 In Paramus Rollover Crash Jams Route 17 In Paramus
Rollover Crash Jams Route 17 In Paramus An SUV overturned in a crash Tuesday afternoon that temporarily closed the northbound lanes of Route 17 near the Garden State Parkway in Paramus. At least one occupant was injured, though apparently not seriously, in the 12:45 p.m. two-vehicle crash, responders said. Everyone was out of their vehicles and no extrications were required, they noted.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
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Driver Admits Guilt In Drugged Crash That Killed North Bergen Woman, 20 Driver Admits Guilt In Drugged Crash That Killed North Bergen Woman, 20 Driver Admits Guilt In Drugged Crash That Killed North Bergen Woman, 20
Driver Admits Guilt In Drugged Crash That Killed North Bergen Woman, 20 A North Bergen man admitted that he had THC in his system when he ran a red light in West New York and crashed his car into another, killing a 20-year-old passenger. Fernando Batista, 25, pleaded guilty to death by auto in exchange for what will be a five-year prison sentence during a virtual hearing Monday attended by family members of the victim, Alysa Matos, also of North Bergen, authorities said. Batista was driving a 2002 Acura TL west on 60th Street when he blew the light at Jefferson Street shortly after 12:30 a.m. on June 18, 2019, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. The …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Hawthorne House Fire Doused Hawthorne House Fire Doused Hawthorne House Fire Doused
Hawthorne House Fire Doused Firefighters doused an early-morning house blaze Tuesday in Hawthorne. Heavy fire in the rear extended into the attic of the two-story, wood-frame Union Street home after igniting shortly after 6:30 a.m., responders said. Firefighters had the main body of the two-alarm blaze knocked down within 15 minutes. MORE PHOTOS: Fireground Buff Network LLC ****** VIDEO: A bear cub who apparently didn’t love playing in the yard dashed through downtown Hawthorne on Tuesday. https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/southpassaic/news/video-baby-bear-scampers-through-downtown-hawthorne/790136/ ******

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Correctional Officer From Passaic Among 5 Charged In Multi-Million Cross-Country Drug Ring Correctional Officer From Passaic Among 5 Charged In Multi-Million Cross-Country Drug Ring Correctional Officer From Passaic Among 5 Charged In Multi-Million Cross-Country Drug Ring
Correctional Officer From Passaic Among 5 Charged In Multi-Million Cross-Country Drug Ring A correctional officer who lives in Passaic was among five men busted in the takedown of a multi-million-dollar bi-coastal cocaine and heroin trafficking ring, authorities on Long Island said. A judge released Anthony Cyntje, 22, of Passaic, without bail on drug possession and conspiracy charges. Authorities said he works at a correctional facility in Trenton. The judge also ordered another Passaic man, Dawshawn Jones, 33, held on $2.5 million cash bail. Even higher bails were ordered for two Long Island men: Brian Sullivan, 24, of Lake Grove, at $7.5 million, and James Sosa, 25, of Wadin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Lodi Police Rescue Resident, 80, Badly Burned In Garden Apartment Fire Lodi Police Rescue Resident, 80, Badly Burned In Garden Apartment Fire Lodi Police Rescue Resident, 80, Badly Burned In Garden Apartment Fire
Lodi Police Rescue Resident, 80, Badly Burned In Garden Apartment Fire An 80-year-old resident was taken to St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston with severe burns after two Lodi police officers rescued him from a garden apartment fire Monday afternoon, authorities said.  Officers John Calabrese and David Delia pulled the unconscious victim out on their hands and knees due to all the smoke at the Gardens condos on Terhune Avenue near Marion Pepe Drive across from the Avalon development, Police Chief Donald Scorzetti said. Outside, the officers gave him oxygen and he came to, Scorzetti said. Firefighters doused the blaze, which may have first ign…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: Two Men Lured To Elmwood Park Spot By Women Robbed At Gunpoint Authorities: Two Men Lured To Elmwood Park Spot By Women Robbed At Gunpoint Authorities: Two Men Lured To Elmwood Park Spot By Women Robbed At Gunpoint
Authorities: Two Men Lured To Elmwood Park Spot By Women Robbed At Gunpoint Two men told Elmwood Park police they were robbed of cash, iPhones and sneakers after two women they’d recently met lured them to the spot. The men, from Newark and Belleville, said they were waiting for the women when a silver sedan (no further description) pulled up next to them on Doremus Place around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. The pair, ages 25 and 29, told police that one of two men who got out of the sedan pointed a handgun at them. “At gunpoint the victims were robbed of a combined $1,300 in cash, 2 iPhones and Yeezy sneakers,” the chief said. The robbers …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Supreme Court Chief Justice Joins Liberal Minority In Upholding Abortion Rights Supreme Court Chief Justice Joins Liberal Minority In Upholding Abortion Rights Supreme Court Chief Justice Joins Liberal Minority In Upholding Abortion Rights
Supreme Court Chief Justice Joins Liberal Minority In Upholding Abortion Rights For the first time since President Trump’s new appointees took their seats, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a pro-abortion decision on Monday. Chief Justice John Roberts, placing precedent over all else, joined the court's four minority liberals in striking down a Louisiana law that would have required doctors at abortion clinics to have hospital admitting privileges. The Louisiana Unsafe Abortion Protection Act, which never went into effect, required abortion doctors in the state to have admitting the privileges at hospitals within 30 miles of the clinics where they worked. The law was simi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Sheriff: Paterson Man Nabbed After Stealing Same Vehicle Twice Sheriff: Paterson Man Nabbed After Stealing Same Vehicle Twice Sheriff: Paterson Man Nabbed After Stealing Same Vehicle Twice
Sheriff: Paterson Man Nabbed After Stealing Same Vehicle Twice Passaic County sheriff’s detectives busted an 18-year-old Paterson man who they said stole the same BMW 325 twice in a little over a week. The key, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said, was LoJack. Detectives were investigating the May 29 theft of the vehicle -- which was found unoccupied on May Street in Paterson -- when it was stolen again nine days later, the sheriff said. This time, the BMW was found in the 100 block of East 19th Street, he said. Combining information from LoJack with surveillance video from homes and businesses, Berdnik’s investigators identified Yulian Paulino-Rivera as…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Barking Up Right Trees: Paterson PD K-9 Finds 683 Heroin Folds, 97 Crack Vials, 3 Loaded Guns Barking Up Right Trees: Paterson PD K-9 Finds 683 Heroin Folds, 97 Crack Vials, 3 Loaded Guns Barking Up Right Trees: Paterson PD K-9 Finds 683 Heroin Folds, 97 Crack Vials, 3 Loaded Guns
Barking Up Right Trees: Paterson PD K-9 Finds 683 Heroin Folds, 97 Crack Vials, 3 Loaded Guns In a span of only 10 days, a Paterson K9 led police to 683 heroin folds, nearly 100 vials of crack and three loaded guns. Simpson began his string on June 18, finding 119 heroin folds and a handgun in a black plastic bag hidden inside a backyard grill in the 100 block of Governor Street, city Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Simpson found more drugs on the same block that same day. This time, it was 313 heroin folds and 72 cracks vials in a small plastic bag behind a wheelchair that was leaned up against a backyard fence, Speziale said. This past Friday, Simpson led police to a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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Revolving Door: Accused Repeat Stalker Returns To Rutherford Woman's Home, Arrested Yet Again Revolving Door: Accused Repeat Stalker Returns To Rutherford Woman's Home, Arrested Yet Again Revolving Door: Accused Repeat Stalker Returns To Rutherford Woman's Home, Arrested Yet Again
Revolving Door: Accused Repeat Stalker Returns To Rutherford Woman's Home, Arrested Yet Again An accused repeat stalker who was captured after police said he chased a Rutherford woman down her street in the middle of the night returned to her building yet again on Sunday – and was arrested once more. Rutherford police had taken Timothy Conti, 43, into custody a little over a week ago for stalking the same victim twice in the span of an hour. SEE: Released Stalker Chases Terrified Woman Down Street, Rutherford Police Say They sent him to the Bergen County Jail after the second incident -- only to have a judge order Conti released under New Jersey's 2017 bail reform law less tha…

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