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
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COVID-19 UPDATE: NCAA Tournament Cancelled COVID-19 UPDATE: NCAA Tournament Cancelled COVID-19 UPDATE: NCAA Tournament Cancelled
Covid-19 Update: NCAA Tournament Cancelled The NCAA on Thursday canceled its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments to prevent the spread of COVID-19, President Mark Emmert announced Thursday. "Today, NCAA president Mark Emmert and the board of governors canceled the Division I men's and women's 2020 basketball tournaments, as well as all remaining winter and spring NCAA championships," the NCAA announced. "This decision is based on the evolving COVID-19 public health threat, our ability to ensure the events do not contribute to the spread of the pandemic, and the impracticality of hosting such events at any time during this academ…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Prosecutor: Stop Near GWB Turns Up 1,400 Heroin Folds Stashed In Dashboard, 2 Bronx Men Busted Prosecutor: Stop Near GWB Turns Up 1,400 Heroin Folds Stashed In Dashboard, 2 Bronx Men Busted Prosecutor: Stop Near GWB Turns Up 1,400 Heroin Folds Stashed In Dashboard, 2 Bronx Men Busted
Prosecutor: Stop Near GWB Turns Up 1,400 Heroin Folds Stashed In Dashboard, 2 Bronx Men Busted Two Bronx men were stopped near the George Washington Bridge with 1,400 heroin folds stashed in a hidden dashboard compartment, authorities said. Detectives from Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella’s Narcotic Task Force arrested Felix A. Morel, a 23-year-old driving instructor, and Miguel A. Ferreira, a 25-year-old construction worker Tuesday on River Road in Edgewater. A search revealed an “electronically-operated hidden compartment, or ‘trap,’ in the vehicle’s dashboard,” Musella said. In addition to the 1,400 bags of dope, they found 4,000 empty folds ready for packaging, he said. Mo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
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UPDATE: Hillsdale Driver, 53, Killed In GSP Bergen Crash UPDATE: Hillsdale Driver, 53, Killed In GSP Bergen Crash UPDATE: Hillsdale Driver, 53, Killed In GSP Bergen Crash
Update: Hillsdale Driver, 53, Killed In GSP Bergen Crash A driver killed in a Wednesday morning crash on the Garden State Parkway was identified as a 53-year-old Hillsdale woman. A Toyota RAV 4 driven by Shang Nam was disabled by another crash when it was struck in the EZ-Pass express lanes on the southbound Parkway in Washington Township by an Audi A4 driven by a 40-year-old Upper Saddle River man shortly before 6 a.m., Sgt. Lawrence Peele said. Nam was pronounced dead at the scene, Peele said. The other driver was taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood with injuries that weren't considered life threatening, he said. The EZ-Pass express lan…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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HERO: Hackensack Police Officer Saves Life Of Unresponsive Baby HERO: Hackensack Police Officer Saves Life Of Unresponsive Baby HERO: Hackensack Police Officer Saves Life Of Unresponsive Baby
Hero: Hackensack Police Officer Saves Life Of Unresponsive Baby A year-old child had turned blue, her eyes rolling into the back of her head, when a Hackensack police officer saved her, authorities said. The 1-year-old girl was breathing but was limp when her mother handed her to Officer Mark Carillo on Tuesday, Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. The child remained unresponsive, so Carillo, rather than wait for an ambulance, took her and her mother to Hackensack University Medical Center himself, using his cruiser’s lights and siren, DeWitt said. The child was treated in the emergency room and was recovering from an undisclosed illness, the captain said. He pr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lakewood, NJ
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Jersey Shore Man, 80, With Mob Ties Gets 10 Years In Fed Pen For Dealing Meth, Heroin, Fentanyl Jersey Shore Man, 80, With Mob Ties Gets 10 Years In Fed Pen For Dealing Meth, Heroin, Fentanyl Jersey Shore Man, 80, With Mob Ties Gets 10 Years In Fed Pen For Dealing Meth, Heroin, Fentanyl
Jersey Shore Man, 80, With Mob Ties Gets 10 Years In Fed Pen For Dealing Meth, Heroin, Fentanyl If he lives that long, a Jersey Shore man with mob ties will be 90 when he completes a plea-bargained federal prison sentence for dealing crystal meth, heroin and fentanyl. Carl Chianese, 80, of Point Pleasant, must serve the full 10 years handed down Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Camden. There’s no parole in the federal prison system. The FBI busted Chianese at his home on March 14, 2018 during a search that turned up a .38-caliber revolver, a magazine for a .380 caliber semi-automatic handgun and more than $25,000 in illegal proceeds, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Chaniese an…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
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Coronavirus Concerns Postpone Bergen's Roches, Hoboken's Bongos At Montclair's Outpost Coronavirus Concerns Postpone Bergen's Roches, Hoboken's Bongos At Montclair's Outpost Coronavirus Concerns Postpone Bergen's Roches, Hoboken's Bongos At Montclair's Outpost
Coronavirus Concerns Postpone Bergen's Roches, Hoboken's Bongos At Montclair's Outpost Two native North Jersey musical legends had their upcoming back-to-back shows at the popular Outpost in the Burbs in Montclair postponed because of coronavirus concerns. Park Ridge’s Suzzy Roche and her daughter Lucy Wainwright Roche are having their March 19 show rescheduled. So are the Bongos, the most popular band to come out of Hoboken’s thriving alternative scene. Outpost organizers said they’re working with the Bongos to reschedule their March 20 and the Roches to move theirs (the same goes for Alex Cuba, a Cuban-Canadian singer-songwriter who’d been booked for April 4). “While this…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Pillar Of Little Ferry Community Becomes Its New Police Captain Pillar Of Little Ferry Community Becomes Its New Police Captain Pillar Of Little Ferry Community Becomes Its New Police Captain
Pillar Of Little Ferry Community Becomes Its New Police Captain A Little Ferry police veteran who has remained ingrained in the community he’s always called home was sworn as his department’s new captain at Borough Hall Tuesday night. Ronald Klein Jr. lived on Garden Street with his parents, Ronald and Karen. He attended the Wilson School and Memorial Middle School before being graduated from Ridgefield Park High School in 1989 – and worked as a volunteer EMT with the Little Ferry First Aid Corps for 10 years. After receiving degrees from Bergen Community College and Rutgers-Newark, Klein joined the Little Ferry Police Department as a dispatcher in 1996…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Store Owner Charged With Endangerment For Selling Homemade Sanitizer That Burned Bergen Boys Store Owner Charged With Endangerment For Selling Homemade Sanitizer That Burned Bergen Boys Store Owner Charged With Endangerment For Selling Homemade Sanitizer That Burned Bergen Boys
Store Owner Charged With Endangerment For Selling Homemade Sanitizer That Burned Bergen Boys Authorities on Tuesday charged the owner of a Bergen County 7-Eleven with child endangerment for selling a sanitizer she mixed herself using a commercial cleanser that ended up burning four local boys. Manisha Bharade, 47, Wood-Ridge also was charged with deceptive business practices before being released on a summons pending court action. Bharade mixed "commercially available foaming sanitizer, which was not meant for resale," with water in pump bottles -- unwittingly causing a harmful chemical reaction -- then sold them for $2.50 each at her store in River Vale, authorities said. “She w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mount Pleasant, NY
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COVID-19 Death Victim Was Horseman Who Worked In Westchester COVID-19 Death Victim Was Horseman Who Worked In Westchester COVID-19 Death Victim Was Horseman Who Worked In Westchester
Covid-19 Death Victim Was Horseman Who Worked In Westchester New Jersey’s first coronavirus fatality was a 69-year-old Little Ferry man who worked at Yonkers Raceway, which canceled racing Tuesday night, March 10 from concerns that others may have contracted the virus, officials said. John Brennan was a horseman’s field representative for the Standardbred Owners Association (SOA) of New York, its president, Joseph Faraldo, said Tuesday. Faraldo said COVID-19 exacerbated existing health conditions, which authorities in New Jersey said included diabetes. Faraldo, in a Facebook post, said he remained confined himself over his doctor’s concerns that he …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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1st NJ Coronvirus Death Victim Was 40-Year Horseman From Little Ferry Who Worked At Yonkers 1st NJ Coronvirus Death Victim Was 40-Year Horseman From Little Ferry Who Worked At Yonkers 1st NJ Coronvirus Death Victim Was 40-Year Horseman From Little Ferry Who Worked At Yonkers
1st NJ Coronvirus Death Victim Was 40-Year Horseman From Little Ferry Who Worked At Yonkers UPDATE: New Jersey’s first coronavirus fatality was a 69-year-old Little Ferry man who worked at Yonkers Raceway, which canceled racing Tuesday night from concerns that others may have contracted the virus, officials said. John Brennon was a horseman’s field representative for the Standardbred Owners Association (SOA) of New York, its president, Joseph Faraldo, said Tuesday. Faraldo said COVID-19 exacerbated existing health conditions, which authorities in New Jersey said included diabetes. Faraldo, in a Facebook post, said he remained confined himself over his doctor’s concerns that he mi…

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