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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Car Burglar Sought In 15 Rochelle Park Vehicle Break-Ins, Attempts Captured In Passaic Car Burglar Sought In 15 Rochelle Park Vehicle Break-Ins, Attempts Captured In Passaic Car Burglar Sought In 15 Rochelle Park Vehicle Break-Ins, Attempts Captured In Passaic
Car Burglar Sought In 15 Rochelle Park Vehicle Break-Ins, Attempts Captured In Passaic GOTCHA! A repeat offender wanted for a car burglary spree in Rochelle Park earlier this month was caught in Passaic. Rashawn Vaughan, 22, of Newark remained held Friday in the Bergen County Jail after Passaic police nabbed him hours earlier. Home and business surveillance cameras helped identify Vaughan in all of the Nov. 4 incidents, Detective Sgt. James M. DePreta said. He was known to police, having been charged with 18 car burglaries in less than a month last year in Rochelle Park. Vaughan got into eight cars this time -- taking whatever he could get his hands on -- and failed to ente…

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Rutherford, NJ
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Moonachie PD: Driver Tosses Pot Out Window During Pursuit Moonachie PD: Driver Tosses Pot Out Window During Pursuit Moonachie PD: Driver Tosses Pot Out Window During Pursuit
Moonachie PD: Driver Tosses Pot Out Window During Pursuit A driver who led a Moonachie police office on a brief chase while tossing pot out the window had a bag of the drug and a pair of brass knuckles with him, authorities said. Officer Mark Mulvaney was on patrol on Moonachie Avenue when he tried pulling over a 2015 Mercedes Benz that crossed over the double-yellow line before turning onto Redneck Avenue just after 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Police Chief Richard Behrens said. Michael McCloud, 34, of Paterson refused to stop, continuing on for nearly a mile while throwing things out the window that included a bag of marijuana, the chief said. After McCl…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Tenafly Pedestrian, 86, Hit By SUV Driven By Englewood Motorist, 84 Tenafly Pedestrian, 86, Hit By SUV Driven By Englewood Motorist, 84 Tenafly Pedestrian, 86, Hit By SUV Driven By Englewood Motorist, 84
Tenafly Pedestrian, 86, Hit By SUV Driven By Englewood Motorist, 84 An 86-year-old Tenafly man was hospitalized after he was struck by an SUV driven by an 84-year-old Englewood woman, authorities said. The victim was crossing Riveredge Road in Tenafly near the Stop and Shop driveway about 200 feet west of West Railroad Avenue when the Honda CR-V hit him shortly before 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Detective Capt. Michael deMoncada said. The driver stopped immediately and remained there, deMoncada said. The Tenafly Volunteer Ambulance Corps took the victim to Hackensack University Medical Center with head and leg injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening, the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Van Pursuit From NY State Ends In Paramus With Vehicles Struck, Philadelphia Driver Caught Van Pursuit From NY State Ends In Paramus With Vehicles Struck, Philadelphia Driver Caught Van Pursuit From NY State Ends In Paramus With Vehicles Struck, Philadelphia Driver Caught
Van Pursuit From NY State Ends In Paramus With Vehicles Struck, Philadelphia Driver Caught UPDATE: A multi-agency pursuit Thursday night that began in upstate New York ended 100 miles away in Paramus Thursday night after a Brooklyn man rammed two police cars with a U-Haul van that he was driving on two front rims and a rear flat tire, police said. Mark Simpson, 31, got out of the van shortly after crashing around 10:30 p.m., then hopped the highway divider and ran behind the Suburban Diner before police nabbed him moments later, authorities said. It began more than an hour and a half earlier with a theft from a Walmart in Catskill, NY, they said. New York State Police said troop…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: Two Paterson Police Officers Injured In High-Rise Fire UPDATE: Two Paterson Police Officers Injured In High-Rise Fire UPDATE: Two Paterson Police Officers Injured In High-Rise Fire
Update: Two Paterson Police Officers Injured In High-Rise Fire Two Paterson police officers were briefly hospitalized during a 13th floor high-rise apartment blaze Thursday night. The fire at the 16-story Riverview Towers on Presidential Boulevard went to three alarms within 15 or so minutes of the 10:30 p.m. call as flames blew out the back window, responders said. By 11 p.m., the main body of the fire had been knocked down. It was declared under control around midnight. The suspected cause wasn't immediately disclosed, but Paterson firefighters alerted county arson investigators after the officers had to be taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Cen…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Englewood PD: Report Of Attempted Kidnapping 'Exaggerated' Englewood PD: Report Of Attempted Kidnapping 'Exaggerated' Englewood PD: Report Of Attempted Kidnapping 'Exaggerated'
Englewood PD: Report Of Attempted Kidnapping 'Exaggerated' An Englewood citizen’s claim that a man tried luring her daughter into his vehicle was exaggerated, police said.  "It appears at this point that an 84-year-old male offered an 16-year-old female a ride in his vehicle," Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead told Daily Voice early Friday. "There was no kidnap attempt." "He asked her if she wanted a ride and she told him to get lost and he did," the deputy chief said. "The reports are exaggerated. "There is no cause for alarm or threat to the public." The mother on Wednesday night posted a photo on Facebook of a man in a baseball cap dri…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Kingston, NY
Breaking News
U-Haul Van Pursuit From Greene County Ends In NJ With Vehicles Struck, Philly Driver Caught U-Haul Van Pursuit From Greene County Ends In NJ With Vehicles Struck, Philly Driver Caught U-Haul Van Pursuit From Greene County Ends In NJ With Vehicles Struck, Philly Driver Caught
U-Haul Van Pursuit From Greene County Ends In NJ With Vehicles Struck, Philly Driver Caught UPDATE: A multi-agency pursuit Thursday night that began in upstate New York ended 100 miles away in Paramus Thursday night after a Brooklyn man rammed two police cars with a U-Haul van that he was driving on two front rims and a rear flat tire, police said. Mark Simpson, 31, got out of the van shortly after crashing around 10:30 p.m., then hopped the highway divider and ran behind the Suburban Diner before police nabbed him moments later, authorities said. It began more than an hour and a half earlier with a theft from a Walmart in Catskill, NY, they said. New York State Police said troop…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Van Pursuit From NY State Ends In Paramus With Vehicles Struck, Philadelphia Driver Caught Van Pursuit From NY State Ends In Paramus With Vehicles Struck, Philadelphia Driver Caught Van Pursuit From NY State Ends In Paramus With Vehicles Struck, Philadelphia Driver Caught
Van Pursuit From NY State Ends In Paramus With Vehicles Struck, Philadelphia Driver Caught UPDATE: A multi-agency pursuit Thursday night that began in upstate New York ended 100 miles away in Paramus Thursday night after a Brooklyn man rammed two police cars with a U-Haul van that he was driving on two front rims and a rear flat tire, police said. Mark Simpson, 31, got out of the van shortly after crashing around 10:30 p.m., then hopped the highway divider and ran behind the Suburban Diner before police nabbed him moments later, authorities said. It began more than an hour and a half earlier with a theft from a Walmart in Catskill, NY, they said. New York State Police said troop…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood PD: Report Of Attempted Kidnapping Not True Englewood PD: Report Of Attempted Kidnapping Not True Englewood PD: Report Of Attempted Kidnapping Not True
Englewood PD: Report Of Attempted Kidnapping Not True An Englewood citizen’s claim that a man tried luring her daughter into his vehicle was exaggerated, police said.  "It appears at this point that an 84-year-old male offered an 16-year-old female a ride in his vehicle," Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead told Daily Voice early Friday. "There was no kidnap attempt." "He asked her if she wanted a ride and she told him to get lost and he did," the deputy chief said. "The reports are exaggerated. "There is no cause for alarm or threat to the public." The mother on Wednesday night posted a photo on Facebook of a man in a baseball cap driving…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack Mom, BF Pressure Young Daughter To Lie About Abuse, Authorities Charge Hackensack Mom, BF Pressure Young Daughter To Lie About Abuse, Authorities Charge Hackensack Mom, BF Pressure Young Daughter To Lie About Abuse, Authorities Charge
Hackensack Mom, BF Pressure Young Daughter To Lie About Abuse, Authorities Charge A Hackensack woman and her boyfriend pressured her young daughter to lie about being beaten, authorities said. Crystalann Clarke, 35, knocked the girl's glasses off while causing an injury that required stitches at Hackensack University Medical Center, responders told Daily Voice. Clarke and Patel Whyte, also 35, of Bergenfield, were later arrested following an investigation that found that they’d “instructed the juvenile to lie about how the injuries were sustained to protect Clarke from being investigated for child abuse,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Thursday. Clarke was c…

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