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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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Fairview FD: Man Thrown Off 10-Foot Porch Critically Injured, Cliffside Park Assailant Charged Fairview FD: Man Thrown Off 10-Foot Porch Critically Injured, Cliffside Park Assailant Charged Fairview FD: Man Thrown Off 10-Foot Porch Critically Injured, Cliffside Park Assailant Charged
Fairview FD: Man Thrown Off 10-Foot Porch Critically Injured, Cliffside Park Assailant Charged A Guatemalan national living in Cliffside Park tossed a Fairview resident over the front railing of a 10-foot-high porch during an argument, sending him to the hospital with critical injuries, authorities said. Tomas Bernardinho Ixcaco, 25, remained held Monday in the Bergen County Jail after a Central Judicial Processing Court judge in Hackensack denied his release during a weekend detention hearing. Ixcaco was eating and drinking with his girlfriend and two others at the victim’s house on Friday when he got into an argument with the 48-year-old victim, Capt. Vincent Bellucci said. Ixcaco…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Obituaries
Firstborn Due In June For Popular Wayne Stock Car Crew Chief Killed In Tragic Trench Collapse Firstborn Due In June For Popular Wayne Stock Car Crew Chief Killed In Tragic Trench Collapse Firstborn Due In June For Popular Wayne Stock Car Crew Chief Killed In Tragic Trench Collapse
Firstborn Due In June For Popular Wayne Stock Car Crew Chief Killed In Tragic Trench Collapse TRIBUTE: An unborn Wayne boy who's expected to arrive the end of June will never know his father, a popular racing crew chief and construction worker who was tragically killed in a trench collapse last month in Jersey City. Newlweds Jared Petruska, 35, and his wife, Maria, were joyously awaiting the birth of their first child. Now friends, loved ones and members of the racing community are amassing donations for the soon-to-be-newborn. Jared’s father and brother were at the site of a water line being installed for the Society Hill Development off Route 440 when the trench collapsed on him …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lakewood, NJ
Breaking News
Toms River Mob Associate Admits Having Nearly Pound Of Coke, Loaded Gun Toms River Mob Associate Admits Having Nearly Pound Of Coke, Loaded Gun Toms River Mob Associate Admits Having Nearly Pound Of Coke, Loaded Gun
Toms River Mob Associate Admits Having Nearly Pound Of Coke, Loaded Gun A Jersey Shore associate of the DeCavalcante crime family who was caught with cocaine and a loaded handgun is headed to federal prison for at least five years -- and likely much more, authorities said. Mario Galli III, 28, of Toms River, took a guilty plea Monday, admitting in U.S. District Court in Trenton that he had the gun and drugs when detectives from the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office searched his and another home last September. Detectives seized nearly a pound of the drug and a 9mm FEG Model PGK-9HP gun loaded with 12 rounds of ammunition during last fall’s raids, U.S. Attorney C…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Fleeing Peeping Tom Clips Victim With Car Outside South Hackensack Motel Police: Fleeing Peeping Tom Clips Victim With Car Outside South Hackensack Motel Police: Fleeing Peeping Tom Clips Victim With Car Outside South Hackensack Motel
Police: Fleeing Peeping Tom Clips Victim With Car Outside South Hackensack Motel A peeping Tom caught looking into the windows of a South Hackensack motel room while a couple was having sex clipped one of the victims with his car as he fled, authorities said. Eduardo Moreno was "peering into motel room windows where the curtains were not shut all the way and watching the occupants" at the Congress Inn on Route 46 around 2:45 a.m. Feb. 22, Deputy Police Chief Robert Kaiser said. One of the occupants chased after him and was grazed as Moreno drove off, Kaiser said. Police tracked down an arrested Moreno, a Mexican national living in Passaic, on Sunday. He was charged wi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Superintendent: Suspicious Call Locks Down Mahwah Schools Superintendent: Suspicious Call Locks Down Mahwah Schools Superintendent: Suspicious Call Locks Down Mahwah Schools
Superintendent: Suspicious Call Locks Down Mahwah Schools Mahwah schools went into "precautionary modified lockdown" on Monday after a suspicious call came in to the high school, officials said. The lockdowns began at 12:45 p.m. while police investigate the call to the high school's main office, Schools Supt. C. Lauren Schoen said in an email to parents. The call was deemed non-credible and the lockdowns were lifted at 1:38 p.m., Schoen said. "A police presence will remain on Ridge Road for the remainder of the school day," the superintendent said. "We thank the Mahwah Police Department for [its] continued support in maintaining a safe learn…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Rochelle Park Vehicle Burglary Victim Beaten, Zapped With Stun Gun, Police Nab 3 Rochelle Park Vehicle Burglary Victim Beaten, Zapped With Stun Gun, Police Nab 3 Rochelle Park Vehicle Burglary Victim Beaten, Zapped With Stun Gun, Police Nab 3
Rochelle Park Vehicle Burglary Victim Beaten, Zapped With Stun Gun, Police Nab 3 A Rochelle Park car burglary victim was beaten and zapped with a stun gun when he followed one of three teen thieves, authorities said. Officers Brian Gallina and Jim Zenock arrested all three in connection with several vehicle burglaries early Sunday, they said. A victim in one of the break-ins followed a 16-year-old boy while calling police. The teen “violently attacked the victim, striking him several times and shocking him with a stun gun,” Detective Sgt. James M. DePreta said. Paramus and Maywood police helped their Rochelle Park colleagues catch the assailant, another 16-year-old bo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Closter Bicyclist, 63, Seriously Injured, Police Say Closter Bicyclist, 63, Seriously Injured, Police Say Closter Bicyclist, 63, Seriously Injured, Police Say
Closter Bicyclist, 63, Seriously Injured, Police Say A 63-year-old bicyclist was flown to a local hospital by a medical chopper after he was struck Sunday afternoon in Closter, authorities said. The victim was found lying face down, bleeding and unconscious – but breathing – after he was struck by a Toyota Camry shortly after 1:30 p.m. at the corner of Knickerbocker Road and Harington Avenue, Sgt. Daniel Hargrave said. The bicyclist was traveling northbound on Knickerbocker Road when the southbound vehicle hit him while making left onto Harrington Avenue, police said.A medical chopper landed at Tenakill Field and took the victim to Hackensack…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Congregants Self-Quarantine After Rabbi In NY Coronavirus Outbreak Visits Passaic Synagogue Congregants Self-Quarantine After Rabbi In NY Coronavirus Outbreak Visits Passaic Synagogue Congregants Self-Quarantine After Rabbi In NY Coronavirus Outbreak Visits Passaic Synagogue
Congregants Self-Quarantine After Rabbi In NY Coronavirus Outbreak Visits Passaic Synagogue A Westchester rabbi at the center the New York metropolitan area's coronavirus outbreak visited a synagogue in Passaic last week, city health officials confirmed. An undisclosed number of congregants of Agudas Yisroel Bircas Yaakov in the Passaic Park section of town are self-quarantining for two weeks since Tuesday's visit, Daily Voice has learned. This came after Passaic city health officials asked that anyone who had close contact with the rabbi self-quarantine until March 16 -- defining close contact as being within six feet of the rabbi for 10 minutes or more. They emphasized that th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Freak Accident: Englewood Crash Brings Utility Pole Down On Second Vehicle, Two Extricated Freak Accident: Englewood Crash Brings Utility Pole Down On Second Vehicle, Two Extricated Freak Accident: Englewood Crash Brings Utility Pole Down On Second Vehicle, Two Extricated
Freak Accident: Englewood Crash Brings Utility Pole Down On Second Vehicle, Two Extricated An overnight crash in Englewood on Sunday pulled down three utility poles, one of which struck another vehicle behind the first one, authorities said. A Lexus wagon driven north by a 57-year-old Elmwood Park woman struck a pole on northbound Grand Avenue at the Linden Avenue intersection around 3:15 a.m., Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said.The pole pulled down two others with it as it toppled, he said.  One of the poles hit a Toyota Rav 4, also heading north, occupied by a 42-year-old Connecticut man and a 21-year-old Englewood man, Halstead said. City firefighters freed two of the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Congregants Self-Quarantine After NY Rabbi In Coronavirus Outbreak Visits Passaic Synagogue Congregants Self-Quarantine After NY Rabbi In Coronavirus Outbreak Visits Passaic Synagogue Congregants Self-Quarantine After NY Rabbi In Coronavirus Outbreak Visits Passaic Synagogue
Congregants Self-Quarantine After NY Rabbi In Coronavirus Outbreak Visits Passaic Synagogue A Westchester rabbi at the center the New York metropolitan area's coronavirus outbreak visited a synagogue in Passaic last week, city health officials confirmed. An undisclosed number of congregants of Agudas Yisroel Bircas Yaakov in the Passaic Park section of town are self-quarantining for two weeks since Tuesday's visit, Daily Voice has learned. This came after Passaic city health officials asked that anyone who had close contact with the rabbi self-quarantine until March 16 -- defining close contact as being within six feet of the rabbi for 10 minutes or more. They emphasized that th…

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