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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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Lodi Driver Flees On Three Wheels After Saddle Brook Crash, Hits SUV In Garfield Police: Lodi Driver Flees On Three Wheels After Saddle Brook Crash, Hits SUV In Garfield Police: Lodi Driver Flees On Three Wheels After Saddle Brook Crash, Hits SUV In Garfield
Police: Lodi Driver Flees On Three Wheels After Saddle Brook Crash, Hits SUV In Garfield A Lodi motorist drove nearly a mile and a half on three wheels after hitting a parked car in Saddle Brook before dawn Friday, authorities said. Salvatore Bonodonna, 28, received summonses when Garfield police caught him after the crippled sedan hit another parked car on Market Street. The 2008 Cadillac CTS lost its front passenger wheel when it hit a parked car on 7th Street in Saddle Brook around 5 a.m., Police Chief Robert Kugler said. A resident dialed 911 after hearing the crash, he said. Garfield police responded to their own call around 8 a.m. after a parked 2019 Nissan Rogue was fo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
33 Deaths Reported At Park Ridge Nursing Home Amid Coronavirus Pandemic 33 Deaths Reported At Park Ridge Nursing Home Amid Coronavirus Pandemic 33 Deaths Reported At Park Ridge Nursing Home Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
33 Deaths Reported At Park Ridge Nursing Home Amid Coronavirus Pandemic A reported 33 people have died at a Park Ridge nursing home since the coronavirus pandemic began while 21 others who’ve tested positive for COVID-19 were transferred to a facility in South Jersey. Of the dead at Atrium Post-Acute Care of Park Ridge, 19 reportedly tested positive for the virus. At least 21 others who were confirmed positive were transferred to an Atrium post-acute care facility nearly 120 miles away in the Gloucester County town of Woodbury, a spokeswoman for the parent company told NorthJersey.com. Coronavirus-like symptoms have also put three quarters of the remaining res…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
On Your Side
Mark Cuban Joins Teaneck's Charles Payne For TV Town Hall Q&A With Consumers Mark Cuban Joins Teaneck's Charles Payne For TV Town Hall Q&A With Consumers Mark Cuban Joins Teaneck's Charles Payne For TV Town Hall Q&A With Consumers
Mark Cuban Joins Teaneck's Charles Payne For TV Town Hall Q&A With Consumers Teaneck’s Charles Payne will host a virtual town hall focusing on personal finance amid the coronavirus pandemic and featuring an extensive interview with Mark Cuban. The one-hour Fox Business Network event, “America Works Together,” begins at 2 p.m. April 23. Various business experts will join Payne and Cuban -- the billionaire “Shark Tank” star who owns the Dallas Mavericks basketball team -- in discussing how COVID-19 has affected Americans financially and what they can do to deal with the impact. It will be the second virtual town hall for FBN and Payne during the pandemic, following a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
Breaking News
Body Of Missing Rutgers University Student, 21, Recovered, Authorities Confirm Body Of Missing Rutgers University Student, 21, Recovered, Authorities Confirm Body Of Missing Rutgers University Student, 21, Recovered, Authorities Confirm
Body Of Missing Rutgers University Student, 21, Recovered, Authorities Confirm UPDATE: The body of a 21-year-old Rutgers University honors student who went missing more than two weeks ago was found in a pond in Orange this past weekend, authorities confirmed Thursday night. The body of Yasir Williams of East Orange was pulled from the pond at Orange Park on Saturday, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II and Orange Public Safety Director Todd Warren said in a joint announcement. The cause of death was drowning, they said. Although they said the manner of death hadn't been determined, RLS Media reported Thursday night that family members in …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Edison, NJ
Breaking News
Girl Seized In COVID-19 Bias Attack On Asian Middlesex County Woman Girl Seized In COVID-19 Bias Attack On Asian Middlesex County Woman Girl Seized In COVID-19 Bias Attack On Asian Middlesex County Woman
Girl Seized In Covid-19 Bias Attack On Asian Middlesex County Woman An underage teen punched an Asian woman in the head after she and others surrounded the victim in Edison shouting coronavirus-related racial slurs, authorities said. The girl was detained on Tuesday in connection with the incident from 10 days earlier, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Thursday. Police issued delinquency complaints charging her with bias intimidation, rioting, simple assault and disorderly conduct, as well as with violating state coronavirus emergency orders, the attorney general said. The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office and Edison police were continuing an…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Edison, NJ
Breaking News
Contractor Charged With Stealing 1,600 Masks Intended For NJ Hospitals Contractor Charged With Stealing 1,600 Masks Intended For NJ Hospitals Contractor Charged With Stealing 1,600 Masks Intended For NJ Hospitals
Contractor Charged With Stealing 1,600 Masks Intended For NJ Hospitals An electrical contractor stole 1,600 respirator masks intended for a local hospital from a Prudential Financial building in Middlesex County, state authorities said Thursday. Kevin R. Brady, 49, of Point Pleasant Beach had access to storage areas in the Iselin building, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Brady swiped seven to eight cases of N95 coronavirus respirator masks, each case containing 200 masks, between March 27 and April 1, Grewal said. He was tripped up, however, during an ongoing investigation by the New Jersey State Police, Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office, Woo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
MTA Agrees To $500,000 Coronavirus Death Benefit MTA Agrees To $500,000 Coronavirus Death Benefit MTA Agrees To $500,000 Coronavirus Death Benefit
MTA Agrees To $500,000 Coronavirus Death Benefit The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Transport Workers Union Local 100 and the Transport Workers Union of America announced an agreement Tuesday establishing a COVID-19 death benefit for TWU members who died after being infected.  Under the agreement, the MTA will pay $500,000 in a lump sum to the spouse, beneficiary or estate of each deceased member in active service on or after Feb. 1, 2020, Local 100 in Brooklyn reported.  "Transportation workers are the heroes moving heroes of this public health crisis, continuing to get healthcare workers, first responders and other ess…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Teaneck PD: Hackensack Ex-Con Captured, Charged In Machete Robbery Teaneck PD: Hackensack Ex-Con Captured, Charged In Machete Robbery Teaneck PD: Hackensack Ex-Con Captured, Charged In Machete Robbery
Teaneck PD: Hackensack Ex-Con Captured, Charged In Machete Robbery Teaneck police captured an ex-con from Hackensack who they said robbed a man selling an Xbox at knifepoint, taking the gaming system, a cellphone, $580 in cash and assorted electronic from the victim’s car. Aaron McMorris, a 29-year-old convicted sex offender with a decade-long rap sheet, was only just released from state prison last September after serving more than 2½ years for a drug-related conviction, records show. The victim told Teaneck police he’d gone to Sterling Place Sunday night to see a man named Aaron, who he said agreed to buy the Xbox after they met in an Instagram group cha…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Pedestrian Struck On Route 21 In Passaic Listed In Serious Condition Pedestrian Struck On Route 21 In Passaic Listed In Serious Condition Pedestrian Struck On Route 21 In Passaic Listed In Serious Condition
Pedestrian Struck On Route 21 In Passaic Listed In Serious Condition A 27-year-old Paterson man was seriously injured when he was struck by a car while walking along Route 21 at night, authorities said Thursday. Emmanuel Perdomo, 27, was walking along the north side of the highway near River Drive when a 2005 Honda Civic struck him around 8 p.m. Tuesday, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Passaic Police Chief Luis A. Guzman said in a joint announcement. Both Perdomo and the driver, 57-year-old Luis J. Munoz of Passaic, were taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, they said. Munoz was treated for minor injuries and released, Valdes a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
HEROES: Port Authority Police Rescue Man Who Fell Onto World Trade Center Subway Tracks HEROES: Port Authority Police Rescue Man Who Fell Onto World Trade Center Subway Tracks HEROES: Port Authority Police Rescue Man Who Fell Onto World Trade Center Subway Tracks
Heroes: Port Authority Police Rescue Man Who Fell Onto World Trade Center Subway Tracks Port Authority Police Sgt. Christopher Mathus was on patrol at the World Trade Center Oculus Thursday morning when someone told him a man had fallen onto nearby subway tracks. Mathus rushed to the tracks of the downtown R and W trains at the Cortlandt Street Station, where he was joined by Officers Evan Butt and Eric Seborowski, Port Authority spokeswoman Lenis Rodrigues said. Within two minutes, they'd lifted the face-down, incoherent victim off the tracks to safety, she said. Port Authority and New York City Fire Department EMS rendered medical aid on the platform, Rodrigues said. T…

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