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: Lodi Man Charged With Murdering Cresskill Mom, Daughter Charged With Helping Dump Body UPDATE: Lodi Man Charged With Murdering Cresskill Mom, Daughter Charged With Helping Dump Body UPDATE: Lodi Man Charged With Murdering Cresskill Mom, Daughter Charged With Helping Dump Body
Update: Lodi Man Charged With Murdering Cresskill Mom, Daughter Charged With Helping Dump Body A 19-year-old Lodi man was charged Monday with killing a Cresskill woman whose 14-year-old daughter assisted in a bungled attempt to dispose of the body, authorities said. Nicolas Coirazza killed Divna Rosasco, 51, at her home in Cresskill and then got the girl to help him try to dump the body in Overpeck Creek in Teaneck, authorities said. The girl's father had reported the woman missing around 12:20 p.m. Monday, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. A Bergen County sheriff's officer on patrol in Overpeck Park off Fort Lee Road later found Rosasco's SUV (see photo below) parked nea…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: Boyfriend Of Slain Dumont Woman Captured Without Pants, Shoes, Carrying Two Young Kids UPDATE: Boyfriend Of Slain Dumont Woman Captured Without Pants, Shoes, Carrying Two Young Kids UPDATE: Boyfriend Of Slain Dumont Woman Captured Without Pants, Shoes, Carrying Two Young Kids
Update: Boyfriend Of Slain Dumont Woman Captured Without Pants, Shoes, Carrying Two Young Kids UPDATE: A man who authorities said brutally stabbed his girlfriend dead in her Dumont apartment before dawn Tuesday was captured by Closter police after he knocked on a local resident's door in the middle of the night not wearing pants or shoes and carrying their two young children in his arms. Jeffrey Daniels, 36, was charged with murder, child endangerment and illegal weapons possession in the slaying of Michelle Boccellari Burns hours earlier in the garden apartment they shared on Knickerbocker Road. Burns, a 36-year-old mother of three girls, had been stabbed several times in the head …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Ambulance Driver Ejected In Norwood Garbage Truck Crash Ambulance Driver Ejected In Norwood Garbage Truck Crash Ambulance Driver Ejected In Norwood Garbage Truck Crash
Ambulance Driver Ejected In Norwood Garbage Truck Crash A private ambulance driver was ejected when a garbage truck ran a stop sign and slammed into his rig early Monday afternoon in Norwood, authorities said. The driver for Paramus-based MP Care was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with what Police Chief Jeffrey Krapels said was a possible broken hip after the crash at Broadway and Summit Street around 12:45 p.m. He was alone in the rig, not wearing a seat belt, when the driver of the Teaneck-based Interstate Waste Services garbage truck ignored the stop sign, Krapels said. The truck driver and a passenger weren't injured, the chi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: Garfield PD Nabs Man Who Scammed Upstate NY Grandma Out Of Nearly $12,800 Authorities: Garfield PD Nabs Man Who Scammed Upstate NY Grandma Out Of Nearly $12,800 Authorities: Garfield PD Nabs Man Who Scammed Upstate NY Grandma Out Of Nearly $12,800
Authorities: Garfield PD Nabs Man Who Scammed Upstate NY Grandma Out Of Nearly $12,800 An elderly New York State woman was conned out of $7,000 in a grandparent scam -- and nearly lost $5,800 more before Garfield police grabbed a Paterson man as he collected the second payment, authorities said. Jose A. Torres-Dejesus, 27, called the victim on Friday claiming to be her grandson, Detective Capt. Richard Uram said. Torres-Dejesus told the woman he’d been involved in a DUI crash and needed money, Uram said. He then gave her a phone number, saying it was his attorney, the captain said. The woman called the number and a man who answered said she had overnight $7,000 in cash to a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
UNICO, Others Clean Vandalized Columbus Statue, Mayor Vows To Find, Prosecute Those Responsible UNICO, Others Clean Vandalized Columbus Statue, Mayor Vows To Find, Prosecute Those Responsible UNICO, Others Clean Vandalized Columbus Statue, Mayor Vows To Find, Prosecute Those Responsible
Unico, Others Clean Vandalized Columbus Statue, Mayor Vows To Find, Prosecute Those Responsible In what the president of UNICO called “lowlife cowardly acts,” vandals in Garfield defaced a Christopher Columbus statue and damaged a local elementary school named for the Italian explorer. Police were actively pursuing leads in finding those responsible for what Mayor Richard Rigoglioso called “hateful and disrespectful” acts, and said they’d be prosecuted “to the fullest extent of the law.” Meanwhile, members of the local UNICO chapter cleaned up both the statue, which was being protected by a tarp, and paving stones dedicated to deceased loved ones that had been spray-painted with hate…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Victim Hospitalized, Man Charged In Ridgewood Stabbing Victim Hospitalized, Man Charged In Ridgewood Stabbing Victim Hospitalized, Man Charged In Ridgewood Stabbing
Victim Hospitalized, Man Charged In Ridgewood Stabbing A victim was hospitalized and a man was jailed for stabbing and slashing him with a broken bottle during a fight in Ridgewood, authorities said Monday. The 27-year-old village victim was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with injuries to his head, arm and abdomen after police responded to a report of a fight at the corner of North Maple Avenue and 1st Street around 7 p.m. Sunday, Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke said. A 36-year-old woman, also of Ridgewood, was taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood with no visible injuries, she said. Tomas Aguirre, a 58-year-old Salvadoran n…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
GRUESOME: Cresskill Woman Slain, Dumped In Overpeck Creek, Daughter And Older Teen In Custody GRUESOME: Cresskill Woman Slain, Dumped In Overpeck Creek, Daughter And Older Teen In Custody GRUESOME: Cresskill Woman Slain, Dumped In Overpeck Creek, Daughter And Older Teen In Custody
Gruesome: Cresskill Woman Slain, Dumped In Overpeck Creek, Daughter And Older Teen In Custody UPDATE: A 19-year-old Lodi man was charged Monday with killing a Cresskill woman whose 14-year-old daughter assisted in a bungled attempt to dispose of the body, authorities said. Nicolas Coirazza killed Divna Rosasco, 51, at her home in Cresskill and then got the girl to help him try to dump the body in Overpeck Creek in Teaneck, authorities said. The girl's father had reported the woman missing around 12:20 p.m. Monday, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. A Bergen County sheriff's officer on patrol in Overpeck Park off Fort Lee Road later found Rosasco's SUV (see photo below) pa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
HEROES: Couple From Englewood, Teaneck Save Saddle Brook Residents From Fire HEROES: Couple From Englewood, Teaneck Save Saddle Brook Residents From Fire HEROES: Couple From Englewood, Teaneck Save Saddle Brook Residents From Fire
Heroes: Couple From Englewood, Teaneck Save Saddle Brook Residents From Fire Doorbells ringing in the middle of the night startled sleeping residents of a Saddle Brook neighborhood. What the sleepy-eyed homeowners found at 1:30 a.m. Saturday were two good Samaritans who'd been driving by and saw some trees on fire. Matthew Blackwell of Teaneck and Donnae Cushnie of Englewood, both 24, first dialed 911, then made sure residents in the Midland Avenue townhouse community were aware of the danger. Firefighters doused the flames before they could spread to the homes. "We were all in bed," resident Michael Sarao said. "If they hadn't seen it, or stopped, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Longtime Leonia Firefighter Resigns Over 'Indefensible' Post About Asian American Protester Longtime Leonia Firefighter Resigns Over 'Indefensible' Post About Asian American Protester Longtime Leonia Firefighter Resigns Over 'Indefensible' Post About Asian American Protester
Longtime Leonia Firefighter Resigns Over 'Indefensible' Post About Asian American Protester A string of racist insults on Facebook against a young Asian-American protester has cost a volunteer of nearly 45 years his ranking positions with the Leonia Fire Department. It began with a post by a fellow firefighter of a photo taken during a protest in Leonia against the death of George Floyd. A young woman in the photo holds a sign that says “F(***) THE POLICE”. "To my Leonia people, who is this and how do you think this is peaceful?" a comment attached to the photo asked. A thread of nearly 300 comments followed -- many sharing the poster’s anger -- before the June 8 post was remove…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Cliffside Park Apartment Fire Doused Cliffside Park Apartment Fire Doused Cliffside Park Apartment Fire Doused
Cliffside Park Apartment Fire Doused Cliffside Park police braved thick smoke Saturday afternoon to get all residents of an apartment building out safely after a fire broke out in a unit being renovated. The fire broke out around 2 p.m. on the second floor of a four-story apartment building above a trio of storefronts at the corner of Anderson and Lincoln avenues. A paint thinner apparently caught fire, sending smoke through the hallways. Sgt. Chris Merrill dashed through the smoke to the upper floor to get residents out, while Officers Jason Messina and Marc Moschella and Deputy Chief Vincent Capano cleared the rest of the …

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