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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Egg Harbor Township, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities Suspend NJ Corrections Officer Involved In Counterprotest Mocking Floyd Death Authorities Suspend NJ Corrections Officer Involved In Counterprotest Mocking Floyd Death Authorities Suspend NJ Corrections Officer Involved In Counterprotest Mocking Floyd Death
Authorities Suspend NJ Corrections Officer Involved In Counterprotest Mocking Floyd Death State authorities said they’ve suspended a corrections officer who participated in the recording of what they called a "hateful and disappointing video" in which one man kneeled on the neck of another during a counter-protest to a "Black Lives Matter" march. In videos of the incident that continued to spread Wednesday, police-escorted protesters marching down a Franklin Township street in Gloucester County on Monday pass a group of men reenacting George Floyd’s death on a private property stacked with firewood for sale. A pickup truck bears an American flag and a “Trump 2020” banner, while …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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CANCELLED: COPS TV Show Gone For Good CANCELLED: COPS TV Show Gone For Good CANCELLED: COPS TV Show Gone For Good
Cancelled: Cops TV Show Gone For Good After 32 seasons, one of the longest-running reality series ever is gone for good – not just from TV but online, as well. "COPS" has been permanently cancelled. "We don't have any current or future plans for it to return," the Paramount Network said in a statement. The ViacomCBS-owned cable networknetwork stopped airing the series on June 1 – scrapping the Season 33 premiere on Monday -- in what was described a s temporary move. It’s now final. Not only that: Paramount axed all traces of the show from its website. A pioneer of the real-police documentary series format, “Cops” helped turn…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Responders: Stabbing Victim Emerges From Paterson House Fire Responders: Stabbing Victim Emerges From Paterson House Fire Responders: Stabbing Victim Emerges From Paterson House Fire
Responders: Stabbing Victim Emerges From Paterson House Fire An emotionally disturbed man who'd apparently stabbed himself emerged from a burning Paterson home Tuesday afternoon, responders said. Police responding to a call of a barricade subject in the 400 block of Sussex Street shortly before 2 p.m. summoned firefighters after seeing smoke coming from the attic of the 2½-story home. They got the victim outside and conducted CPR. It wasn't immediately clear whether the victim survived. Firefighters had the bulk of the blaze knocked down within 20 minutes but then had to contend with cluttered conditions. They declared it under control about 2…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lakewood, NJ
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Woman's Body Pulled From Water Off Jersey Shore Woman's Body Pulled From Water Off Jersey Shore Woman's Body Pulled From Water Off Jersey Shore
Woman's Body Pulled From Water Off Jersey Shore A recovery team pulled a woman’s body from Barnegat Bay in Toms River on Tuesday. Authorities couldn’t immediately say how she ended up near the Route 37 Mathis Bridge. Toms River police and firefighters, the Island Heights Volunteer Fire Company and a New Jersey State Police marine unit initially responded to the bridge’s south side shortly before 11:30 a.m., township police said in a statement. The body was brought to the Aqua Blue marina, where Ocean County Crime Scene Investigation officers and a member of the Ocean County Medical Examiner’s Office met them.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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AG: Driver In High-Speed Pursuit Shot Dead In Wayne After Pointing Gun Directly At Police AG: Driver In High-Speed Pursuit Shot Dead In Wayne After Pointing Gun Directly At Police AG: Driver In High-Speed Pursuit Shot Dead In Wayne After Pointing Gun Directly At Police
AG: Driver In High-Speed Pursuit Shot Dead In Wayne After Pointing Gun Directly At Police A driver in a high-speed pursuit stopped his car on a highway in Wayne and began to get out with a gun pointed directly at police when he was shot and killed, state authorities said video shows. Bradley G. Pullman, 48, of Queens made an illegal U-turn over the Route 46 median in Mountain Lanes around 4:30 p.m. April 26, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Tuesday. An officer activated his lights and sirens and tried to stop the Lexus, but Pullman -- who records show had arrests for robbery in New York City and drunk driving in Ulster, NY -- kept going east on the highway, Grewal sa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Elizabeth, NJ
Breaking News
SWAT Standoff Ends With Weapons Seized In Union SWAT Standoff Ends With Weapons Seized In Union SWAT Standoff Ends With Weapons Seized In Union
SWAT Standoff Ends With Weapons Seized In Union Authorities said they seized several weapons after an hours-long SWAT standoff in Union ended peacefully Monday night. The home on Arnet Avenue off Morris Avenue was evacuated of family members in the standoff, which began around 7:40 p.m. with a report of a man armed with a shotgun barricaded inside, responders said. The Union County Emergency Response Team, which includes SWAT team members and negotiators, joined police, firefighters and EMTs. The incident reportedly ended around 11 p.m. No injuries were immediately reported. Arnet Avenue, off Morris Avenue, in Union.Googlemaps CHE…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Paterson Detectives Seize Three Guns In Neighborhood Where Woman Was Shot Dead Hours Earlier Paterson Detectives Seize Three Guns In Neighborhood Where Woman Was Shot Dead Hours Earlier Paterson Detectives Seize Three Guns In Neighborhood Where Woman Was Shot Dead Hours Earlier
Paterson Detectives Seize Three Guns In Neighborhood Where Woman Was Shot Dead Hours Earlier Paterson police detectives seized three guns after nabbing a city man in the same neighborhood where a woman was slain and a companion wounded that same morning. That makes 28 seized by the department just this month, during a time when three people were killed and 17 wounded by gunfire in less than two weeks. Detective Sgt. Richard LaTrecchia was on a COVID emergency order compliance detail with Detectives Anthony Castronova, Luis Roca, Mustafa Dombayci and Mohamed Bashir when they responded to a call of a man with a gun in the area of 12th Avenue and Straight Street shortly before 6:30 p…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Mahwah P.O. Box Holders: Pick Up Your Keys For Township's New Post Office This Week Mahwah P.O. Box Holders: Pick Up Your Keys For Township's New Post Office This Week Mahwah P.O. Box Holders: Pick Up Your Keys For Township's New Post Office This Week
Mahwah P.O. Box Holders: Pick Up Your Keys For Township's New Post Office This Week Current P.O. box holders can pick up their keys for the new Mahwah post office through this Saturday. The keys are available at the temporary location on 46 Industrial Drive, Postmaster Michael Watts said. They will also be available at the new location when it opens this coming Monday, June 15, at 1037 MacArthur Boulevard. HOURS: Retail area open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Saturday (not 4 p.m., as originally announced): Lobby from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. The new 2,200-square-foot facility, replacing th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Bergen Man Accused Of Raping Two Pre-Teens Faces New Sex Charges In Sussex Bergen Man Accused Of Raping Two Pre-Teens Faces New Sex Charges In Sussex Bergen Man Accused Of Raping Two Pre-Teens Faces New Sex Charges In Sussex
Bergen Man Accused Of Raping Two Pre-Teens Faces New Sex Charges In Sussex UPDATE: A former state DOT employee from River Edge already being held on charges of raping two pre-teens is also accused of sexually assaulting a member of a Sussex County rescue squad at his former home in Frankford. Cory Bensen, 27, has remained in the Bergen County Jail since authorities arrested him in February in connection with the accused rape of a victim under 13. Bensen, who is engaged, was fired as a state Department of Transportation highway operations technician soon after, authorities said.  SEE: State DOT Worker From River Edge Charged With Raping Pre-Teen He and his f…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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AG: Recordings Of Fatal NJSP Shooting During Violent GSP Struggle Show Pepper Spray Didn't Work AG: Recordings Of Fatal NJSP Shooting During Violent GSP Struggle Show Pepper Spray Didn't Work AG: Recordings Of Fatal NJSP Shooting During Violent GSP Struggle Show Pepper Spray Didn't Work
AG: Recordings Of Fatal Njsp Shooting During Violent GSP Struggle Show Pepper Spray Didn't Work A New Jersey State Police sergeant who first used pepper spray to try and stop a Poughkeepsie man who assaulted him on a shoulder of the Garden State Parkway finally shot him to subdue him, authorities on Monday said dash cam video shows. NJSP Troop D Sgt. Randall Wetzel was identified Monday as the trooper who fatally shot Maurice Gordon, 28, during a vicious struggle on the parkway in Bass River on May 23. In addition to identifying Wetzel by name, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal released several audio and video recordings related to the shooting. They involve a series of event…

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