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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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Brooklyn Nets' Kevin Durant Tests Positive For Coronavirus Brooklyn Nets' Kevin Durant Tests Positive For Coronavirus Brooklyn Nets' Kevin Durant Tests Positive For Coronavirus
Brooklyn Nets' Kevin Durant Tests Positive For Coronavirus Kevin Durant told The Athletic NBA on Tuesday that he'd tested positive for the coronavirus. "Everyone be careful, take care of yourself and quarantine," the Brooklyn Nets star told The Athletic NBA. "We're going to get through this." Durant, 31, didn't have symptoms but was among four positive test results on the Nets, the Athletic's Shams Charania tweeted. The other three Nets players who tested positive -- bringing the overall NBA total to seven -- weren't immediately identified. Durant signed a four-year, $164.3 million contract with the Nets last June after three seasons wi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
ROUTE 17 JAMMED: Three Hospitalized In Rush-Hour Van Crash In Hasbrouck Heights ROUTE 17 JAMMED: Three Hospitalized In Rush-Hour Van Crash In Hasbrouck Heights ROUTE 17 JAMMED: Three Hospitalized In Rush-Hour Van Crash In Hasbrouck Heights
Route 17 Jammed: Three Hospitalized In Rush-Hour Van Crash In Hasbrouck Heights A driver and two passengers were injured when a van overturned in a Tuesday afternoon rush-hour crash that closed northbound Route 17 in Hasbrouck Heights, authorities said. The driver apparently was trying to pull into a BP gas station on the northbound highway just north of Franklin Avenue when the Honda Odyssey struck a vehicle in the right lane, spun and slammed into a tractor-trailer parked at the station, Detective Lt. Michael Colaneri said. Hasbrouck Heights firefighters extricated the driver, assisted by their colleagues from Wood-Ridge, Colaneri said. All three victims were taken…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
HERO: Jogging Off-Duty Port Authority Officer Rescues Suicidal River Jumper HERO: Jogging Off-Duty Port Authority Officer Rescues Suicidal River Jumper HERO: Jogging Off-Duty Port Authority Officer Rescues Suicidal River Jumper
Hero: Jogging Off-Duty Port Authority Officer Rescues Suicidal River Jumper An off-duty Port Authority police officer out for a run rescued a suicidal woman who’d jumped into the East River Tuesday afternoon. PAPD Officer Eileen Fitzgerald was running along a path in Astoria Park in Queens when she saw a crowd gathered along the shore near the intersection of 20th Avenue and Shore Boulevard around 1:30 p.m., authority spokeswoman Lenis Rodrigues said. Fitzgerald dashed over, told a civilian to dial 911, then climbed down the rocks to the river, speaking to the woman the entire time, Rodrigues said. The woman said “she no longer wanted to live and to let her go,” R…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Teammates Rally For College Lacrosse Stars From Oakland, Long Island Killed In Crash Teammates Rally For College Lacrosse Stars From Oakland, Long Island Killed In Crash Teammates Rally For College Lacrosse Stars From Oakland, Long Island Killed In Crash
Teammates Rally For College Lacrosse Stars From Oakland, Long Island Killed In Crash Current and former members of the Mount Olive University women's lacrosse team are trying to help the families of two teammates -- one from Bergen County, the other from Long Island -- who were killed in a crash in North Carolina last week. The group launched the GoFundMe campaigns for the families of Ann Wray and Madison Mergl to "bring [them] home and to pay for all unexpected funeral costs," wrote one of the players, Caitlin Gore. Wray, a sophomore agribusiness major who starred at Indian Hills High School in Oakland, and Mergl, a freshman exercise science major, were in a Jeep with sev…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Your Community
Brady To Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Sports Radio Host Says Brady To Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Sports Radio Host Says Brady To Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Sports Radio Host Says
Brady To Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Sports Radio Host Says Tom Brady is signing with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Wednesday, sports talk-radio host Colin Cowherd reported Tuesday afternoon. After six Super Bowl wins in 20 years with the New England Patriots, the future Hall of Famer announced Tuesday morning that he wasn't re-resigning with them. Pundits on Monday speculated that the only true destination the "GOAT" could end up if he left was in Tampa Bay. “I have somebody telling me this morning – this is very interesting – this is not a football source, it's an icon source, it is somebody in Tom’s stratosphere who knows Tom and is a famous perso…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen Sheriff Suspends Evictions Amid COVID-19 Pandemic Bergen Sheriff Suspends Evictions Amid COVID-19 Pandemic Bergen Sheriff Suspends Evictions Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Bergen Sheriff Suspends Evictions Amid Covid-19 Pandemic Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton on Tuesday suspended all evictions until further notice amid the coronavirus pandemic. This order follows recent measures taken by Gov. Phil Murphy and County Executive Jim Tedesco urging residents to work from home and practice social distancing, the sheriff said. “Issuing eviction notices during this heightened public health emergency is counter-productive to the mission of our agency and the goal of mitigating the spread of COVID-19," Cureton explained. "At this time, I have ordered operations to focus primarily on assisting local police departments…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
Breaking News
Feds: Longtime Fugitive From Brazil Surrenders In Major NJ Mortgage Fraud Feds: Longtime Fugitive From Brazil Surrenders In Major NJ Mortgage Fraud Feds: Longtime Fugitive From Brazil Surrenders In Major NJ Mortgage Fraud
Feds: Longtime Fugitive From Brazil Surrenders In Major NJ Mortgage Fraud A long-time Brazilian fugitive flew returned to New Jersey on Tuesday to face federal charges in a long-running mortgage fraud, authorities said. Isaac DePaula, 40, of Brazil, had been on the run since federal authorities first charged him in a 2012 complaint and then a grand jury in U.S. District Court in Newark indicted him four years later. He flew in to Newark Airport on Tuesday to face the indictment, which charges him with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and three counts of bank fraud, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. A federal judge ordered DePaula’s release pending further court…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
COVID-19: Rochelle Park Police Limit Non-Emergency Contact COVID-19: Rochelle Park Police Limit Non-Emergency Contact COVID-19: Rochelle Park Police Limit Non-Emergency Contact
Covid-19: Rochelle Park Police Limit Non-Emergency Contact In an effort to protect the public – and themselves – from the spread of the coronavirus, Rochelle Park police joined law enforcement agencies throughout New Jersey who are handling non-emergencies by phone. Police Chief Robert Flannelly said Tuesday that his officers “will continue to respond to all matters which present an imminent risk to public safety, crimes in progress, and to those which require the collection of evidence.” However, they’ll go with phoned reports “where an immediate response is not necessary.” Flannelly also asked that anyone seeking to come to police headquarters f…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
High-Speed Stolen Car Chase From Paramus Ends In Crash, Arrests In Bloomfield High-Speed Stolen Car Chase From Paramus Ends In Crash, Arrests In Bloomfield High-Speed Stolen Car Chase From Paramus Ends In Crash, Arrests In Bloomfield
High-Speed Stolen Car Chase From Paramus Ends In Crash, Arrests In Bloomfield Paramus police seized two Newark men in Bloomfield following an overnight car chase and crash Tuesday that began after the owner of a BMW left it running at a Route 17 gas station in Upper Saddle River, authorities said. The driver went in to make a purchase at the Valero station on the highway's northbound side shortly after 2:30 a.m. when another car pulled in and two thieves in masks and hoods got out, they said. The transport vehicle -- a white Infiniti Q50 stolen out of East Rutherford -- and the BMW 8 Series both took off, Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. A short time lat…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
EXCLUSIVE: Family Of Saddle Brook Man Killed By Coronavirus: 'We Have To Take This Seriously' EXCLUSIVE: Family Of Saddle Brook Man Killed By Coronavirus: 'We Have To Take This Seriously' EXCLUSIVE: Family Of Saddle Brook Man Killed By Coronavirus: 'We Have To Take This Seriously'
Exclusive: Family Of Saddle Brook Man Killed By Coronavirus: 'We Have To Take This Seriously' A Saddle Brook man who was the third New Jerseyan to die from the coronavirus was still active at 90 and had no underlying conditions, his family said Tuesday. “He was still working and in great shape in mind and body,” Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler told Daily Voice on behalf of the family. "There was nothing wrong with him." The victim, who turned 90 a couple of months ago, had gone snowmobiling early this month, then later developed a tickle in his throat, the chief said. He was subsequently taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, where he died Sunday, said Kugler, …

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