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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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Wood-Ridge House Fire Doused Wood-Ridge House Fire Doused Wood-Ridge House Fire Doused
Wood-Ridge House Fire Doused Firefighters made quick work of a Thursday evening house blaze in Wood-Ridge. A firefighter was treated at the scene of the Fourth Street blaze, which broke out around 6 p.m. and was doused within minutes. The fire damaged the second floor and attic.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Paramus Police Pursuit Ends When Stolen Mercedes Runs Out Of Gas Paramus Police Pursuit Ends When Stolen Mercedes Runs Out Of Gas Paramus Police Pursuit Ends When Stolen Mercedes Runs Out Of Gas
Paramus Police Pursuit Ends When Stolen Mercedes Runs Out Of Gas A Newark teen chased by a Paramus police officer was nabbed before dawn Thursday after the Mercedes he'd just stolen out of Dumont ran out of gas, authorities said. The owner of the 2018 sedan notified Paramus police while tracking the car on an app that it was headed into town around 3:15 a.m., Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. A short time later, Officer Kevin Grady saw it speed by on westbound Route 4. Grady pursued the car onto northbound Route 208, where it suddenly ran out of gas and stalled to a stop, Ehrenberg said. Grady, along with Sgt.  Michael Kelly and Officer Ry…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
Breaking News
WATCH: Fire Blows Through Bayonne Multi-Family Home WATCH: Fire Blows Through Bayonne Multi-Family Home WATCH: Fire Blows Through Bayonne Multi-Family Home
Watch: Fire Blows Through Bayonne Multi-Family Home Fire ravaged two Bayonne multi-family homes Thursday afternoon, partially collapsing one and severely damaging the other. The blaze broke out on the second floor of the first home on Kennedy Boulevard at 18th Street shortly before 1 p.m. and quickly blew through the roof. Officials quickly pulled their firefighters out for an exclusively exterior attack as it spread to the second home. The fire went to four alarms in under a half hour. It was finally declared under control shortly before 4 p.m. Kennedy Boulevard was closed from 18th to 21st streets. Firefighters from several surrounding …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Feds: Paterson Man Got Girl, 11, To Share Nude Photos, Posted Child Sex-Assault Video Feds: Paterson Man Got Girl, 11, To Share Nude Photos, Posted Child Sex-Assault Video Feds: Paterson Man Got Girl, 11, To Share Nude Photos, Posted Child Sex-Assault Video
Feds: Paterson Man Got Girl, 11, To Share Nude Photos, Posted Child Sex-Assault Video A Paterson man who posted a graphic video of a child being sexually assaulted convinced an 11-year-old girl to send him naked photos, said federal Homeland Security agents who arrested him. Jose Minaya, 24, was scheduled for a first federal court appearance via teleconference Thursday afternoon on charges of producing and distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Minaya “used a web-based application to engage an 11-year-old child in a sexually explicit conversation online [and] ultimately instructed the child to take sexually explicit photographs and send them to h…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson PD Gets 2,269 Heroin Folds, Plus Dealers, Buyers From Bergen, Passaic, Hudson, Morris Paterson PD Gets 2,269 Heroin Folds, Plus Dealers, Buyers From Bergen, Passaic, Hudson, Morris Paterson PD Gets 2,269 Heroin Folds, Plus Dealers, Buyers From Bergen, Passaic, Hudson, Morris
Paterson PD Gets 2,269 Heroin Folds, Plus Dealers, Buyers From Bergen, Passaic, Hudson, Morris Paterson police seized 2,269 heroin folds, more than 130 illegal pills and more in a quick-strike sweep of a drug-ridden street corner while arresting a trio of local dealers and several of their customers from Bergen, Passaic, Morris and Hudson counties, authorities said.  Among those arrested, police said, was a 66-year-old user from Ridgefield (Bergen County) who bought eight heroin folds and a vial of crack at the corner of Van Houten and Summer streets behind the city public library. Citizen complaints about “rampant” drug dealing at all hours of the day and night brought Narcotic…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Teens In Cliffside Park Accused Of Flashing Laser Pointer At NYPD Chopper Teens In Cliffside Park Accused Of Flashing Laser Pointer At NYPD Chopper Teens In Cliffside Park Accused Of Flashing Laser Pointer At NYPD Chopper
Teens In Cliffside Park Accused Of Flashing Laser Pointer At Nypd Chopper Cliffside Park police filed delinquency complaints against two teen cousins for flashing a laser pointer into the cockpit of an NYPD helicopter Wednesday night -- a serious crime that has sent some adults to prison. NYPD Aviation 20 was above Covenant Avenue and 128th Street, searching for a robbery suspect near St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem, when the incident occurred shortly before 9:30 p.m., the department said. Crew members used an infrared sensor to pinpoint the location of the beam on the Palisades near the corner of Cecelia Place and Cecelia Avenue, the borough’s highest point, Cliff…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Edgewater PD: Bronx Pair Nabbed After Hitting Several Stores In Town With Bogus $100 Bills Edgewater PD: Bronx Pair Nabbed After Hitting Several Stores In Town With Bogus $100 Bills Edgewater PD: Bronx Pair Nabbed After Hitting Several Stores In Town With Bogus $100 Bills
Edgewater PD: Bronx Pair Nabbed After Hitting Several Stores In Town With Bogus $100 Bills Edgewater police nabbed a pair of counterfeiters from the Bronx who hit several stores in town, authorities said. The manager of a River Road GNC called police Wednesday after the men used three bogus $100 bills to pay for low-priced items, receiving genuine cash as change, before fleeing in a white Mercedes Benz E350 Police Chief Donald Martin said. The car pulled into the parking lot of The Square shopping center when Officer Tyler Iafelice spotted it, Martin said. A search turned up $600 in bogus $100 bills and the same amount in real money, he said. Charged with forgery, money launder…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Middletown, NJ
Breaking News
WATCH: Jersey Shore Vehicle Owner Dragged In Brazen Daylight Theft WATCH: Jersey Shore Vehicle Owner Dragged In Brazen Daylight Theft WATCH: Jersey Shore Vehicle Owner Dragged In Brazen Daylight Theft
Watch: Jersey Shore Vehicle Owner Dragged In Brazen Daylight Theft Two car thieves dragged a Middletown homeowner while stealing his Range Rover in broad daylight, surveillance video shows. A dark Mercedes Benz backs up to the victim’s Windermere Road driveway in the township’s Lincroft section around 5:30 p.m. Saturday, the video posted publicly on Facebook shows. Both thieves get out, with one in a black ski mask heading into an open attached garage. “Keys were in the woman's purse in her mudroom,” a friend of the victims wrote in the post. “The thief opened the door and grabbed the keys and her wallet from her bag!”. The thief backs a white Range Rove…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Feds: Ex-Reality Star Uses $2 Million Business Pandemic Loan For Jewelry, Child Support Feds: Ex-Reality Star Uses $2 Million Business Pandemic Loan For Jewelry, Child Support Feds: Ex-Reality Star Uses $2 Million Business Pandemic Loan For Jewelry, Child Support
Feds: Ex-Reality Star Uses $2 Million Business Pandemic Loan For Jewelry, Child Support Former “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” star Maurice “Arkansas Mo” Fayne used a $2,045,800 coronavirus pandemic loan on jewelry for himself – including a 5.73-carat diamond ring – and child support, among other illegal purposes, said federal authorities who charged him with bank fraud. Federal agents who raided Fayne’s Georgia home this week said they seized roughly $80,000 in cash -- including $9,400 that they said he had in his pockets. The 37-year-old Fayne secured the loan in the name of a corporation that he called Flame Trucking to support 107 employees and an average monthly payroll of …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
SEE ANYTHING? Teaneck Police Seek Help Finding Shooter Near Englewood Border SEE ANYTHING? Teaneck Police Seek Help Finding Shooter Near Englewood Border SEE ANYTHING? Teaneck Police Seek Help Finding Shooter Near Englewood Border
SEE Anything? Teaneck Police Seek Help Finding Shooter Near Englewood Border Witnesses told Teaneck police an SUV passenger fired several shots Tuesday night near the Englewood border, hitting another vehicle, a utility pole and a tree. No one was struck in the 9:30 p.m. shooting on Washington Place near Walden Street, Police Chief Glenn M. O'Reilly said. The getaway vehicle was described as a late-model blue or gray Honda Odyssey and the shooter a thin black man wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt, O'Reilly said. Anyone who might have seen something, has video surveillance footage or information that could help investigators is asked to call Teaneck police at (2…

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