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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Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
Breaking News
Rockaway Firefighters Contain Commercial Blaze Rockaway Firefighters Contain Commercial Blaze Rockaway Firefighters Contain Commercial Blaze
Rockaway Firefighters Contain Commercial Blaze Firefighters prevented a late-night blaze from damaging expensive machinery at a Rockaway metal manufacturing company. Borough police were the first responders at the scene after the fire broke out near the rear of Able Gear and Machine on Stickle Avenue and collapsed a portion of the roof shortly before 11:30 p.m., authorities said. Firefighters knocked down visible flames within a half-hour of arriving, confining the blaze to the rear part of the business, away from expensive machinery up front, they said. They continued hitting hot spots for the next hour or so. The scene was cleared a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE (NEW VIDEO): Gunman Refusing To Drop Weapon Shot, Killed By Police In Paterson UPDATE (NEW VIDEO): Gunman Refusing To Drop Weapon Shot, Killed By Police In Paterson UPDATE (NEW VIDEO): Gunman Refusing To Drop Weapon Shot, Killed By Police In Paterson
Update (NEW Video): Gunman Refusing To Drop Weapon Shot, Killed By Police In Paterson WATCH: A gunman who refused to drop his weapon in a confrontation with Paterson police raised the firearm a final time and was shot Thursday afternoon, video taken from above shows. Luan Agolli, 42, of Pequannock lifts the gun several times, refusing to drop it, as he paces the intersection of Carroll and Harrison streets surrounded by officers just after 4:15 p.m., the video obtained by Daily Voice shows (see above). At times he holds the weapon with both hands and points it at the converging officers. "I'm giving him all these opportunities," says an officer in another video taken from t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: Domestic Violence Defendant Coughs At Officers Going To, At Guttenberg Police HQ Authorities: Domestic Violence Defendant Coughs At Officers Going To, At Guttenberg Police HQ Authorities: Domestic Violence Defendant Coughs At Officers Going To, At Guttenberg Police HQ
Authorities: Domestic Violence Defendant Coughs At Officers Going To, At Guttenberg Police HQ A Union City man arrested on domestic violence charges coughed in the back of a Guttenberg police car all the way to headquarters, saying he was trying to infect officers with the coronavirus, authorities said Thursday. Elvis Perez-Astacio, 25, at first resisted arrest and threatened to harm an officer when they found him, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Once they put him in the police cruiser, he “said he would cough on the officers and infect them with COVID-19, [then] coughed throughout the trip to headquarters and while being processed,” Grewal said. Police charged Perez-…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Fire Destroys Familiar Paterson Water Tower, Ravages Abandoned Mill Fire Destroys Familiar Paterson Water Tower, Ravages Abandoned Mill Fire Destroys Familiar Paterson Water Tower, Ravages Abandoned Mill
Fire Destroys Familiar Paterson Water Tower, Ravages Abandoned Mill The second fire in a little over two years at a vacant mill near the Great Falls in Paterson destroyed a 125-year-old water tower on Thursday. Three squatters emerged safely from the McBride Avenue building shortly after the three-alarm blaze broke out around 10 a.m. EMS brought one to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center for treatment of smoke inhalation. Arson investigators were eyeing the squatters as they probed the blaze to determine its origin, authorities said. Firefighters were forced into an exterior operation and had the blaze under control in just over an hour. None were injur…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Hasbrouck Heights Professor Accused Of Attempted St. Patrick's Arson Dies In Verrazano Leap Hasbrouck Heights Professor Accused Of Attempted St. Patrick's Arson Dies In Verrazano Leap Hasbrouck Heights Professor Accused Of Attempted St. Patrick's Arson Dies In Verrazano Leap
Hasbrouck Heights Professor Accused Of Attempted St. Patrick's Arson Dies In Verrazano Leap A philosophy professor from Hasbrouck Heights who authorities said planned to burn down St. Patrick's Cathedral died by suicide last week, nearly a month after being released from Rikers Island amid the coronavirus outbreak. A judge ordered Marc Lamparello, 38, to participate in an outpatient program at Bergen New Bridge Medical Center after releasing him on March 20 as part of an effort to stem the rapid spread of COVID-19 through the city jail system. Lamparello jumped from Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge last Friday, a week after police prevented a similar suicide try at the George Washington …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: Gunman Refusing To Drop Weapon Shot, Killed By Police In Paterson VIDEO: Gunman Refusing To Drop Weapon Shot, Killed By Police In Paterson VIDEO: Gunman Refusing To Drop Weapon Shot, Killed By Police In Paterson
Video: Gunman Refusing To Drop Weapon Shot, Killed By Police In Paterson WATCH: A gunman who refused to drop his weapon in a confrontation with Paterson police raised the firearm a final time and was shot Thursday afternoon, video taken from above shows. Luan Agolli, 42, of Pequannock lifts the gun several times, refusing to drop it, as he paces the intersection of Carroll and Harrison streets surrounded by officers just after 4:15 p.m., the video obtained by Daily Voice shows (see above). At times he holds the weapon with both hands and points it at the converging officers. "I'm giving him all these opportunities," says an officer in another video taken from t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
COVID-19: Bergen Sheriff's Staff Sanitizing HUMC Workers Personal Vehicles This Weekend COVID-19: Bergen Sheriff's Staff Sanitizing HUMC Workers Personal Vehicles This Weekend COVID-19: Bergen Sheriff's Staff Sanitizing HUMC Workers Personal Vehicles This Weekend
Covid-19: Bergen Sheriff's Staff Sanitizing Humc Workers Personal Vehicles This Weekend Here’s a twist on a COVID-19 assist: Bergen County sheriff’s staff will sanitize personal vehicles for healthcare workers from Hackensack University Medical Center this weekend. “Our recently-purchased fogging devices can sanitize cars and office space,” Sheriff Anthony Cureton said Thursday. The ultra-low volume process generates a cloud of extremely small droplets of a disinfectant liquid that can help reduce the number of pathogens in areas that may be difficult or impossible to reach than ordinary cleaning methods. Cureton’s staff will provide the free service from 6 to 9 a.m. Saturda…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson Child, 2, Falls From Second-Floor Window, Detectives Investigating Paterson Child, 2, Falls From Second-Floor Window, Detectives Investigating Paterson Child, 2, Falls From Second-Floor Window, Detectives Investigating
Paterson Child, 2, Falls From Second-Floor Window, Detectives Investigating The Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office and Paterson police detectives were investigating a fall that a 2-year-old child took out a second-floor window on Thursday. The toddler was alert and conscious while being taken via city Fire Department ambulance to the trauma unit at nearby St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. The toddler went out the window in the 600 block of East 24th Street around 10 a.m., he said. "It was believed to be accidental," one law enforcement officer told Daily Voice. "But not everyone is so sure." ****** WATCH: A gunman…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Middletown, NJ
Breaking News
Jersey 4 Jersey: Reunited Fountains Of Wayne Dedicates "Hackensack" To Late Adam Schlesinger Jersey 4 Jersey: Reunited Fountains Of Wayne Dedicates "Hackensack" To Late Adam Schlesinger Jersey 4 Jersey: Reunited Fountains Of Wayne Dedicates "Hackensack" To Late Adam Schlesinger
Jersey 4 Jersey: Reunited Fountains Of Wayne Dedicates "Hackensack" To Late Adam Schlesinger A song written nearly two decades ago made for a touching tribute during the “Jersey 4 Jersey” benefit Wednesday night when Fountains of Wayne co-founder Chris Collingwood dedicated “Hackensack” to late bandmate Adam Schlesinger. Collingwood co-wrote “Hackensack” in 2003 with Schlesinger, a former Montclair resident who died of coronavirus complications earlier this month. “I will wait for you / As long as I need to / And if you ever get back to Hackensack / I'll be here for you….” Handling what would have been Schlesinger’s bass and backing vocals during the virtual reunion from the band …

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
Driver Killed In Route 23 Rollover Crash Driver Killed In Route 23 Rollover Crash Driver Killed In Route 23 Rollover Crash
Driver Killed In Route 23 Rollover Crash A Brooklyn woman was killed Wednesday in a rollover crash on Route 23 in West Milford, authorities confirmed. Rebecca McMahon Adelman, 36, was driving a 2019 Chevy Impala that collided with a 2003 Ford Explorer driven by a 27-year-old Bloomingdale woman at the intersection of Route 23 and Canistear Road shortly before 12:30 p.m. McMahon Adelman was extricated from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene, responders said. The other driver wasn’t injured and provided a valid driver’s license, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Acting West Milford Police Chief James DeVore s…

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