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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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Woman, 80, Dies, 4 Others Infected After NJ Home Health Aide Ignores Self-Isolation Instruction Woman, 80, Dies, 4 Others Infected After NJ Home Health Aide Ignores Self-Isolation Instruction Woman, 80, Dies, 4 Others Infected After NJ Home Health Aide Ignores Self-Isolation Instruction
Woman, 80, Dies, 4 Others Infected After NJ Home Health Aide Ignores Self-Isolation Instruction An 80-year-old New Jersey woman died and four other household members tested positive for the coronavirus after a home health aide ignored instructions to self-quarantine, state authorities said. Josefina Brito-Hernandez, 49, of Camden went to a local COVID-19 testing site, without telling the family, after not feeling well, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. “Once she was tested, Brito-Hernandez was told to self-isolate -- even before her results came back -- because she had been in contact with someone who was suspected to be positive for COVID-19 (and who ultimately was found …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
NJSP: 3 Charged, 5,000 Heroin Folds, $28,688 Drug Cash Seized In Garfield-Based Drug Operation NJSP: 3 Charged, 5,000 Heroin Folds, $28,688 Drug Cash Seized In Garfield-Based Drug Operation NJSP: 3 Charged, 5,000 Heroin Folds, $28,688 Drug Cash Seized In Garfield-Based Drug Operation
Njsp: 3 Charged, 5,000 Heroin Folds, $28,688 Drug Cash Seized In Garfield-Based Drug Operation New Jersey State Police smashed a Garfield-based drug operation, seizing 5,000 heroin folds and $28,668 in suspected proceeds while arresting three people. Detectives from the NJSP Opioid Enforcement Task Force (OETF) at first focused on Luis M. Cuebas, 28, who they said ran the operation in Garfield with Victoria L. Rodriguez, also 28. Cuebas supplied a large amount of drugs in Lodi to Jasmin R. Willis, 29, of Manchester, whom they stopped soon after on the southbound Garden State Parkway in Middletown. In her vehicle, Willis had the 5,000 heroin folds, they said. Other detectives at the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Former Part-Timer Charged With Stealing DPW Vehicles In Glen Rock Crime Spree Former Part-Timer Charged With Stealing DPW Vehicles In Glen Rock Crime Spree Former Part-Timer Charged With Stealing DPW Vehicles In Glen Rock Crime Spree
Former Part-Timer Charged With Stealing DPW Vehicles In Glen Rock Crime Spree A Glen Rock man who’d once done part-time work for the borough DPW stole two department vehicles and committed a home burglary, said authorities who captured him in Paterson. Colin H. McCann, 38, was nabbed by Glen Rock Detective Sgt. James Calaski and Officer Nicholas Onove with a vehicle reported stolen out of Midland Park, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said Friday. The investigation began over a week ago, when DPW workers reported the overnight theft of one of their trucks from the borough yard, Ackermann said. The vehicle was recovered with thousands of dollars worth of tools missing, th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Your Community
Just In Time: Pop-Up Drive-In Movies Come To New Jersey Just In Time: Pop-Up Drive-In Movies Come To New Jersey Just In Time: Pop-Up Drive-In Movies Come To New Jersey
Just In Time: Pop-Up Drive-In Movies Come To New Jersey Weren't you just saying that drive-in movies would be a good idea for a coronavirus-age outing? Once socially extinct -- and now aptly socially distant -- the drive-in movie is returning to the state that spawned it more than 85 years ago. The Boxcar company, which has succeeded with a parking app and socially distant grocery shopping, will begin rolling feature films at pop-up drive-ins in Madison (Morris County) on May 29 and in Franklin Lakes (Bergen County) on June 6. “The Princess Bride” is sold out in Madison. The Franklin Lakes feature has yet to be announced. Boxcar founder and CEO…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
Breaking News
Jersey City Pedestrian Left With Limp Gets $675,000 Crash Settlement Jersey City Pedestrian Left With Limp Gets $675,000 Crash Settlement Jersey City Pedestrian Left With Limp Gets $675,000 Crash Settlement
Jersey City Pedestrian Left With Limp Gets $675,000 Crash Settlement A pedestrian who had several bones broken when he was hit by a Bergen County manufacturing company's vehicle while crossing a Jersey City street has accepted $675,000 to settle a lawsuit. Jose Rojas, 33, was crossing Barrow Street in a crosswalk when he was knocked down by a vehicle owned by a Moonachie company when its driver turned from York Street on Nov. 19, 2018, according to the NJ Law Journal. Rojas suffered right leg and ankle fractures requiring surgery and leaving him with what his attorney said will be a permanent limp. Rojas claimed that the driver, Guido Openner, disregarded a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
108-Year-Old Bergen Nursing Home Resident Believed To Be Oldest COVID-19 Survivor In US 108-Year-Old Bergen Nursing Home Resident Believed To Be Oldest COVID-19 Survivor In US 108-Year-Old Bergen Nursing Home Resident Believed To Be Oldest COVID-19 Survivor In US
108-Year-Old Bergen Nursing Home Resident Believed To Be Oldest Covid-19 Survivor In US From the devastation that the coronavirus has wrought on New Jersey nursing homes comes a woman who has survived not just this pandemic but a far deadlier one more than a century ago. Sylvia Goldsholl, a 108-year-old resident at the Allendale Community for Senior Living in Bergen County, is believed to be the United States' oldest COVID-19 survivor. Born in December 1911, the Bronx native was 7 when the Spanish Flu killed 50 million people worldwide. “The oldest of four children and I was the smartest one from the bunch,” Goldsholl told News 12 New Jersey last week. “I survived everything …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Saddle Brook Detective Outwits Walmart Electronics Thieves Police: Saddle Brook Detective Outwits Walmart Electronics Thieves Police: Saddle Brook Detective Outwits Walmart Electronics Thieves
Police: Saddle Brook Detective Outwits Walmart Electronics Thieves Saddle Brook police tracked down two men who they said loaded a pair of shopping carts with home theater equipment and assorted household items and tossed them into the back of a U-Haul parked right outside a Walmart fire exit. Brendan Hunt, 43, of Garfield and Gerard Hill, 53, of Passaic left the truck there for a quick getaway from the Route 46 store around 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Detective Capt. John Zotollo said. They got onto westbound Route 46 and apparently seemed free and clear. Saddle Brook Detective Robert Littlejohn changed all that when he went to a Passaic spot where thieves often…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Feds: Teaneck Man Busted With 5,126 Fake Credit Cards, DLs From 24 States Feds: Teaneck Man Busted With 5,126 Fake Credit Cards, DLs From 24 States Feds: Teaneck Man Busted With 5,126 Fake Credit Cards, DLs From 24 States
Feds: Teaneck Man Busted With 5,126 Fake Credit Cards, DLs From 24 States Secret Service agents seized 4,920 counterfeit credit cards, 206 counterfeit driver’s licenses from 24 different states and a bank of forgery equipment while arresting a man who they said ran a massive ID-theft operation from his Teaneck home. A federal judge released Michael Fulcher, 35, of Teaneck on $100,000 unsecured bond during a teleconferenced U.S. District Court appearance. Teaneck police found the stash in March after Fulcher called to report a burglary in progress, authorities said. Responding officers saw “several counterfeit driver’s licenses with Fulcher’s photograph as well a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Weather
SUMMER TEASE: Warming Trend To Trigger Damaging Winds, Downpours, Hail SUMMER TEASE: Warming Trend To Trigger Damaging Winds, Downpours, Hail SUMMER TEASE: Warming Trend To Trigger Damaging Winds, Downpours, Hail
Summer Tease: Warming Trend To Trigger Damaging Winds, Downpours, Hail Sunshine and rising temperatures the past few days have given the Northeast a desperately-needed reprieve from the chilly and dreary weather that pestered the region during much of April into May. The flip side comes Friday. A much warmer, soggier stretch will kick off with a bang as severe thunderstorms threaten parts of the Northeast. "Thunderstorms will erupt Friday afternoon ahead of a cold front across parts of Ohio, northwestern Pennsylvania and upstate New York then charge east and southeastward into portions of New England, the lower Hudson Valley and central and eastern Pennsylvani…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
SEE ANYTHING? Englewood Shooting Suspects In Pursuit Bail At Leonia Border SEE ANYTHING? Englewood Shooting Suspects In Pursuit Bail At Leonia Border SEE ANYTHING? Englewood Shooting Suspects In Pursuit Bail At Leonia Border
SEE Anything? Englewood Shooting Suspects In Pursuit Bail At Leonia Border Two guns came flying out the window of a car during a wild Englewood police pursuit following a shooting last month, said authorities who grabbed the occupant of one vehicle and were seeking the public’s help finding those in the other. Several officers heard gunfire at the One William Street apartment complex at West Englewood Avenue and William Street and saw two vehicles speed away just after midnight April 13, Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said. Police pursed both vehicle along South Dean Street, where the two guns were tossed from a late model Jeep Grand Cherokee, he said. “Whe…

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