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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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Suspect Killed In Officer-Involved Shooting In Paterson Suspect Killed In Officer-Involved Shooting In Paterson Suspect Killed In Officer-Involved Shooting In Paterson
Suspect Killed In Officer-Involved Shooting In Paterson A man was shot and killed by a Passaic County sheriff's officer in an overnight confrontation Saturday with police in Paterson, authorities confirmed. Authorities recovered a loaded .45-caliber pistol near the body of Christopher Clark, 26, after he was shot on 16th Avenue around 1 a.m., state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Sheriff's officers were assisting city police on a report of shots fired, authorities said. Officers conducted CPR, but Clark was pronounced dead at the scene about a half hour later, they said. Three police officers were taken to the hospital. State Attorney…

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Owners Made It Easy For Pair To Take Cash, Checks, Cellphones From Vehicles, Clifton PD Says Owners Made It Easy For Pair To Take Cash, Checks, Cellphones From Vehicles, Clifton PD Says Owners Made It Easy For Pair To Take Cash, Checks, Cellphones From Vehicles, Clifton PD Says
Owners Made It Easy For Pair To Take Cash, Checks, Cellphones From Vehicles, Clifton PD Says Clifton patrol officers captured two men and recovered a trove of valuables taken from at least eight vehicles that they said their owners had left unlocked. Among the items taken with little effort were cash, checks, cellular phones, a purse, power tools and a tablet, they said. Officers were responding to a report of a vehicle burglary on Clinton Avenue when they spotted Mauricio Mejia, 18, of Clifton and Christian Martinez, 19, of Passaic, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. Seeing police, both ran behind a nearby commercial building, Bracken said. The officers quickly found and grabbed…

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Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Patrick Ewing Hospitalized With Coronavirus Patrick Ewing Hospitalized With Coronavirus Patrick Ewing Hospitalized With Coronavirus
Patrick Ewing Hospitalized With Coronavirus New York Knicks legend Patrick Ewing announced Friday night that he was hospitalized after testing positive for the coronavirus. "I want to share that I have tested positive for COVID-19," tweeted Ewing, who's in his third season as head coach at Georgetown University, his alma mater.  "This virus is serious and should not be taken lightly," he added. "I want to encourage everyone to stay safe and take care of yourselves and your loved ones." Ewing, 57, has been isolated at a Washington, D.C. hospital, according to the school. "I went to war with you for ten years," fellow forme…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: Burglar Caught In The Act During Tenafly Crime Spree Pulls Knife On Police Authorities: Burglar Caught In The Act During Tenafly Crime Spree Pulls Knife On Police Authorities: Burglar Caught In The Act During Tenafly Crime Spree Pulls Knife On Police
Authorities: Burglar Caught In The Act During Tenafly Crime Spree Pulls Knife On Police Caught inside the same house he broke into the night before, a Tenafly burglar brandished a kitchen knife at police before dawn Friday, authorities said. The 3 a.m. standoff capped a crime spree during which the same man and an accomplice burglarized a local restaurant and a California man stole a $7,000 bicycle after smashing the front window of a downtown bike shop, among other offenses, they said. It began after Joseph Farfan, 34, of Anaheim, CA stole the bicycle from Fusion Cycles on Washington Street around 1:30 a.m. this past Monday, Tenafly Police Capt. Michael deMoncada said. Surve…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Glen Rock PD: Social Media Pot Dealers Busted Glen Rock PD: Social Media Pot Dealers Busted Glen Rock PD: Social Media Pot Dealers Busted
Glen Rock PD: Social Media Pot Dealers Busted Glen Rock busted three accused drug dealers from Passaic County after staking them out -- online. Officer Samuel Evans arrested the trio when they showed up Thursday night in a parking lot near the Rock Road central business district after arranging a deal on social media, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Police recovered just over an ounce of marijuana and hash oil vape cartridges that had been offered for sale, he said. Arrested were Mutaz M. Saleh and Musbah N. Zakkour, 24, both of Clifton, and Justin W. Cortese, 22, of Passaic. All three were charged with drug-related offenses and re…

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: Drunk Long Island Driver Leads 10-Mile NJ Chase Toward GWB Authorities: Drunk Long Island Driver Leads 10-Mile NJ Chase Toward GWB Authorities: Drunk Long Island Driver Leads 10-Mile NJ Chase Toward GWB
Authorities: Drunk Long Island Driver Leads 10-Mile NJ Chase Toward GWB A fashion sales manager from Long Island was drunk when she led New Jersey State Police troopers on a 10-mile chase from Saddle Brook to Leonia, authorities said. A trooper tried to stop a weaving Nissan Rogue headed east on Route 80 in Saddle Brook shortly after 9 p.m. Thursday, a State Police spokesman said. Jan Kotowski, 45, of North Bellmore in Nassau County, kept going, however, NJSP Trooper Alejandro Goez said Friday. The trooper was joined by another, both with lights and sirens activated, before Kotowski finally pulled over on Route 95, he said. Kotowski was charged with eluding …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Paramus Man Stabbed, Fleeing Roommate Captured In Mall Parking Lot Paramus Man Stabbed, Fleeing Roommate Captured In Mall Parking Lot Paramus Man Stabbed, Fleeing Roommate Captured In Mall Parking Lot
Paramus Man Stabbed, Fleeing Roommate Captured In Mall Parking Lot A drunken argument left one Paramus boarding house resident hospitalized with a severe stab wound and another jailed, authorities said Friday. Jose Vasquez-Gonzales pulled a knife and stabbed Luis Cruz, 35, in the abdomen during a fight on the front lawn of the East Ridgewood Avenue boarding home just after midnight, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. Vasquez-Gonzales, a 49-year-old Dominican national, ran toward the Fashion Center mall on Route 17 as a squadron of police vehicles converged on the area. An EMS crew from New Bridge Medical Center saw him running through the parking lot a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
FOUND: Search Ends For Missing Jersey Shore Woman, 66, With Bergen County Family FOUND: Search Ends For Missing Jersey Shore Woman, 66, With Bergen County Family FOUND: Search Ends For Missing Jersey Shore Woman, 66, With Bergen County Family
Found: Search Ends For Missing Jersey Shore Woman, 66, With Bergen County Family A 66-year-old Lakewood woman with family in Bergen County was found in a Brooklyn hospital after she'd been missing more than a month, authorities told Daily Voice early Friday. Dale Murberg, 66, was safe and being reunited with family, they said. A massive search began after Murberg left the Lexington Rest Home on 7th Street in Lakewood on April 18. Among those concerned was her sister, who lives in Hillsdale.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson Police Raid Same Fortified Drug Den A Second Time, Seize Heroin, Pot, Guns, Young Crew Paterson Police Raid Same Fortified Drug Den A Second Time, Seize Heroin, Pot, Guns, Young Crew Paterson Police Raid Same Fortified Drug Den A Second Time, Seize Heroin, Pot, Guns, Young Crew
Paterson Police Raid Same Fortified Drug Den A Second Time, Seize Heroin, Pot, Guns, Young Crew Responding to frightened citizens, detectives raided a fortified drug den in an increasingly violent Paterson neighborhood, seizing 284 heroin folds, four pounds of pot and three guns while arresting 10 dealers – most of them 21 or younger, authorities said. It was the second time in eight months that they'd hit the same Marion Street home, which is ringed with cameras that provide a view of the property in all directions. Buyers came to the Marion Street home “at all times of the day and night,” which residents told police had been “disrupting their quality of life and placing them in fear…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Your Community
Freeholder Calls Paterson Mayor ‘Punk,’ ‘Slimy Coward’ After National TV Interview Freeholder Calls Paterson Mayor ‘Punk,’ ‘Slimy Coward’ After National TV Interview Freeholder Calls Paterson Mayor ‘Punk,’ ‘Slimy Coward’ After National TV Interview
Freeholder Calls Paterson Mayor ‘Punk,’ ‘Slimy Coward’ After National TV Interview Passaic County Freeholder Theodore Best called Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh a “slimy coward” and “a punk” in a Facebook post Thursday night following a nationally televised interview the mayor gave MSNBC about the city’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Although initial projections were that 8,000 Paterson residents would contract COVID-19 by April 15, the actual number on that date over a month ago was about 2,500, Sayegh said, praising the work of city health officials and contact tracers. “It could have been far worse,” Sayegh said during an MSNBC interview segment with Chris Hayes …

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