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
Sheriff: Two More Bergen County Jail Inmates Test Positive For Coronavirus Sheriff: Two More Bergen County Jail Inmates Test Positive For Coronavirus Sheriff: Two More Bergen County Jail Inmates Test Positive For Coronavirus
Sheriff: Two More Bergen County Jail Inmates Test Positive For Coronavirus Two more inmates at the Bergen County Jail recently tested positive for the coronavirus, one of whom was hospitalized and another who was receiving medical care in an isolation unit at the lockup, Sheriff Anthony Cureton said Monday. The 40-year-old Salvadoran national in ICE custody and a 54-year-old county inmate brought the total number of inmates who tested positive to three, the sheriff said. The first positive case, a 31-year-old ICE detainee, was released by federal authorities last Thursday, he said. The 40-year-old detainee was sent for medical evaluation after displaying symptoms…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Coronavirus Kills 8 Patients At Passaic County Nursing Home, Infects Many More, Mayor Says Coronavirus Kills 8 Patients At Passaic County Nursing Home, Infects Many More, Mayor Says Coronavirus Kills 8 Patients At Passaic County Nursing Home, Infects Many More, Mayor Says
Coronavirus Kills 8 Patients At Passaic County Nursing Home, Infects Many More, Mayor Says The coronavirus has killed eight patients at one Wanaque nursing home and infected many more there and at another in town, officials said. Staff members and others at the Lakeland Nursing Home on Fifth Avenue in Haskell were being treated there after being infected, Wanaque Mayor Dan Mahler said. “Most of this occurred over the past few days,” Mahler said in a Sunday night letter to residents (see below). No deaths were reported at the Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, he said, adding that “it was reported to me that 10 persons were infected” there. The outbreaks “were likel…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Paterson Ex-Con Charged With Attempted Murder In Weekend Shooting Paterson Ex-Con Charged With Attempted Murder In Weekend Shooting Paterson Ex-Con Charged With Attempted Murder In Weekend Shooting
Paterson Ex-Con Charged With Attempted Murder In Weekend Shooting Authorities charged a Paterson ex-con with attempted murder, among other counts, in a weekend shooting that sent a neighbor to the hospital. Sultan A. Woodford, 45, remained held Monday in the Passaic County Jail following his arrest at a nearby residence shortly after the 10:30 p.m. Sunday shooting at a Dixon Street home. In addition to the attempted murder count, city detectives charged Woodford with aggravated assault and several weapons offenses, including being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. The victim was treated at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center for a gunshot …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hospitals Increasingly Pressed For Space By Coronavirus: HUMC Converts Cafeteria, Pediatric ER Hospitals Increasingly Pressed For Space By Coronavirus: HUMC Converts Cafeteria, Pediatric ER Hospitals Increasingly Pressed For Space By Coronavirus: HUMC Converts Cafeteria, Pediatric ER
Hospitals Increasingly Pressed For Space By Coronavirus: Humc Converts Cafeteria, Pediatric ER Although the worst of the coronavirus pandemic isn’t expected in the U.S. for another two weeks, hospitals are already scrambling to find space to treat those infected. Hackensack University Medical Center is converting its cafeteria into a unit for more than 70 patients, health care workers said Monday. Nearly a dozen other units in the hospital have been converted for treating coronavirus patients – as has the pediatric emergency room, they said. Pediatric emergency room patients were being moved to another building. Room for COVID-19 patients is plaguing hospitals throughout the countr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Arson Investigators Probe Clifton Fire Spree Arson Investigators Probe Clifton Fire Spree Arson Investigators Probe Clifton Fire Spree
Arson Investigators Probe Clifton Fire Spree Arson investigators Monday morning probed a trio of garbage can fires on the same Clifton block, authorities confirmed. No one was injured in the most recent blaze, a smoky 5 a.m. fire Monday that cleared a Highland Avenue home, authorities said. Firefighters quickly doused the blaze and vented smoke from the home with fans. The Red Cross tended to the residents. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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'Comfort Home': NJ First Responders Have House To Self-Quarantine Together 'Comfort Home': NJ First Responders Have House To Self-Quarantine Together 'Comfort Home': NJ First Responders Have House To Self-Quarantine Together
'Comfort Home': NJ First Responders Have House To Self-Quarantine Together First responders with the coronavirus in New Jersey who cannot self-quarantine at home will have a place to stay, thanks to firefighters and police in the city of Passaic. Work this weekend continued on "The Comfort Home," a four-bedroom residence on a dead end city street that organizers say will accommodate up to eight first responders at a time beginning April 6. The idea emerged as word spread of a city responder who couldn’t self-quarantine at home and had no other place to go. Enter Boy Scout Devin Pellot. Devin, 15, told his dad, Passaic Police Capt. Isabelino Pellot Jr., that may…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Here's One Pleasure Of The Flesh Health Officials Say You Must Avoid Amid Coronavirus Here's One Pleasure Of The Flesh Health Officials Say You Must Avoid Amid Coronavirus Here's One Pleasure Of The Flesh Health Officials Say You Must Avoid Amid Coronavirus
Here's One Pleasure Of The Flesh Health Officials Say You Must Avoid Amid Coronavirus You can enjoy sex during the coronavirus pandemic if you follow certain precautions, but there’s one particular act of intimacy that health officials say you should avoid at all costs. Those getting busy amid the COVID-19 crisis should sleep only with people close to them in order to be safe – or, better yet, stick to self-serve, it seems. “You are your safest sex partner" -- or so a set of sex guidelines issued by the New York City Health Department says. The graphic guidelines, among other things, remind masters of their domains to “wash your hands (and any sex toys) with soap and w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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UPDATE: Elmwood Park Passenger, 20, Critically Injured In Rainy Route 17 Crash UPDATE: Elmwood Park Passenger, 20, Critically Injured In Rainy Route 17 Crash UPDATE: Elmwood Park Passenger, 20, Critically Injured In Rainy Route 17 Crash
Update: Elmwood Park Passenger, 20, Critically Injured In Rainy Route 17 Crash A 17-year-old Elmwood Park driver was behind the wheel when a sedan bounced off the divider and slammed into a retaining wall Saturday night on rain-slicked Route 17 in Waldwick, critically injuring a 20-year-old passenger, authorities said. Waldwick firefighters extricated the front-seat passenger after what responders said was a partial ejection in the crash on the highway’s southbound side just after 7 p.m. He was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, along with the driver and 19-year-old rear seat passenger, neither of whom had serious injuries, Police Lt. Thomas Dowling said. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Three Injured, One Critically, In Crash That Closes Route 17 Three Injured, One Critically, In Crash That Closes Route 17 Three Injured, One Critically, In Crash That Closes Route 17
Three Injured, One Critically, In Crash That Closes Route 17 UPDATE: A 17-year-old Elmwood Park driver was behind the wheel when a sedan bounced off the divider and slammed into a retaining wall Saturday night on rain-slicked Route 17 in Waldwick, critically injuring a 20-year-old passenger, authorities said. Waldwick firefighters extricated the front-seat passenger after what responders said was a partial ejection in the crash on the highway’s southbound side just after 7 p.m. He was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, along with the driver and 19-year-old rear seat passenger, neither of whom had serious injuries, Police Lt. Thomas Dowlin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
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ROAD RAGE: Driver With 1-Year-Old Son In Car Pulls Gun On Motorist In Garfield, Police Charge ROAD RAGE: Driver With 1-Year-Old Son In Car Pulls Gun On Motorist In Garfield, Police Charge ROAD RAGE: Driver With 1-Year-Old Son In Car Pulls Gun On Motorist In Garfield, Police Charge
Road Rage: Driver With 1-Year-Old Son In Car Pulls Gun On Motorist In Garfield, Police Charge A driver from Paterson had his 1-year-old son with him when he pulled a gun on another motorist during a road-rage incident in Garfield, authorities said. Tanner Young, 27, remained held Saturday in the Bergen County Jail pending a hearing in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack following his arrest the night before, records show. The other driver may have cut Young off, leading to the Midland Avenue confrontation, responders said. Police charged the 5-foot-10-inch, 165-pound Young with aggravated assault, child endangerment, various weapons offenses and possession of hollow-nos…

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