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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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Video Shows Homeless Man Stealing Paterson Church Donations, Brass Candle Holders Police: Video Shows Homeless Man Stealing Paterson Church Donations, Brass Candle Holders Police: Video Shows Homeless Man Stealing Paterson Church Donations, Brass Candle Holders
Police: Video Shows Homeless Man Stealing Paterson Church Donations, Brass Candle Holders Paterson police captured a homeless man who they said broke into two donation boxes and stole brass candle holders and candles from the altar of a city church. Surveillance video from overnight Friday shows 35-year-old Antonio Figueroa trying to remove the tabernacle from the altar and breaking into the boxes at St. Agnes R.C. Church on Main Street, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Figueroa is then seen leaving with two 42-inch candle holders in each hand and two 24-inch candles in the pockets of his shorts, he said. A string of break-ins at the church over the past month or so…

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Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Allendale Ex-Con Captured After Breaking Into Woman’s Home, Furiously Fighting Police Allendale Ex-Con Captured After Breaking Into Woman’s Home, Furiously Fighting Police Allendale Ex-Con Captured After Breaking Into Woman’s Home, Furiously Fighting Police
Allendale Ex-Con Captured After Breaking Into Woman’s Home, Furiously Fighting Police An Allendale ex-con released from prison only three days earlier fought fiercely with police in a waist-deep stream after a local woman found him in her home before dawn Friday, authorities said. An Allendale dispatcher called the West Crescent Avenue resident back after getting an abandoned 911 call around 3:40 a.m. and was told that there was someone in the house, Police Chief George Scherb said. Borough police were joined in setting up a perimeter by officers from neighboring towns – among them, Mahwah, Midland Park, Ramsey, Saddle River, Waldwick and Wyckoff, Scherb said. Soon after, h…

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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Franklin Lakes PD: Drunk Driver Rear-Ends SUV On Route 208 Ramp, Runs For Home Franklin Lakes PD: Drunk Driver Rear-Ends SUV On Route 208 Ramp, Runs For Home Franklin Lakes PD: Drunk Driver Rear-Ends SUV On Route 208 Ramp, Runs For Home
Franklin Lakes PD: Drunk Driver Rear-Ends SUV On Route 208 Ramp, Runs For Home A drunk driver from Franklin Lakes got out and ran for home after his SUV rear-ended another on a Route 208 exit ramp -- then returned to the scene as police were investigating, authorities said. Brian Hogan, 60, was driving a 2010 Mercedes Benz that struck a 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by a 21-year-old West Milford man at the stop sign on Ewing Avenue off the northbound highway at 7:40 p.m. Wednesday, according to a police report. Hogan, who police said was following too closely, took off on foot, then “returned to the scene in the middle of the investigation,” the report says. Neithe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Victim, 19, Paralyzed In Lodi Shooting Victim, 19, Paralyzed In Lodi Shooting Victim, 19, Paralyzed In Lodi Shooting
Victim, 19, Paralyzed In Lodi Shooting A 19-year-old Lodi man was paralyzed when he was shot in the back just after midnight Thursday, authorities confirmed. The Burns Avenue victim remained in critical but stable condition Friday at Hackensack University Medical Center after being shot in what a neighbor said was some type of domestic dispute. "He has no movement in the lower half of his body," a senior law enforcement officer said. "He's likely to be paralyzed for life." Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella's Major Crimes Unit detectives were searching for the gunman. The Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identific…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Six Busted When Paterson Raid Turns Up Gun, Illegal Magazine, THC, Edibles Six Busted When Paterson Raid Turns Up Gun, Illegal Magazine, THC, Edibles Six Busted When Paterson Raid Turns Up Gun, Illegal Magazine, THC, Edibles
Six Busted When Paterson Raid Turns Up Gun, Illegal Magazine, THC, Edibles Paterson drug detectives found a handgun, a high-capacity magazine and an assortment of pot-related contraband – including dozens of THC cartridges and nearly three pounds of edibles – while arresting six people, authorities said. They also seized a reported $3,361 in suspected drug cash in a raid on a first-floor Union Avenue apartment, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said Friday. Arrested were residents Christian “Bris” Morales, 27, and Aurelia Radovic, 25, along with visitors Ahmed Yasin, 24, and Angela Dalba, 23, both of Clifton, Speziale said. All were charged with possession of…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgefield Park PD: Car-Hauling Mississippi Driver Had Loaded Gun, Magazine, Hollow-Point Ammo Ridgefield Park PD: Car-Hauling Mississippi Driver Had Loaded Gun, Magazine, Hollow-Point Ammo Ridgefield Park PD: Car-Hauling Mississippi Driver Had Loaded Gun, Magazine, Hollow-Point Ammo
Ridgefield Park PD: Car-Hauling Mississippi Driver Had Loaded Gun, Magazine, Hollow-Point Ammo A Ridgefield Park police sergeant found a car-hauling Mississippi driver carrying a loaded handgun and a high-capacity magazine packed with hollow-point bullets during a Route 46 traffic stop, authorities said. Sgt. William Morton pulled over Jory Robinson White, 25, of Jackson, MS on the eastbound highway around 9:45 a.m. Thursday, Lt. Joseph Rella said. White was driving a pickup truck pulling a vehicle-loaded trailer that didn’t have a visible license plate, Rella said. Interviews with White and other occupants produced stories that didn’t match up and “weren’t consistent with that of a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Police Seek Help Finding Pants-Open Pervert Who Touched Himself Outside Fort Lee Woman's Door Police Seek Help Finding Pants-Open Pervert Who Touched Himself Outside Fort Lee Woman's Door Police Seek Help Finding Pants-Open Pervert Who Touched Himself Outside Fort Lee Woman's Door
Police Seek Help Finding Pants-Open Pervert Who Touched Himself Outside Fort Lee Woman's Door Fort Lee police sought the public’s help finding a man whom a borough resident said she saw with his pants open, touching himself, outside her kitchen door. The victim lives on Oleri Terrace, a quiet, seven-block stretch just off Palisade Avenue. She said she was home around 9:30 p.m. this past Saturday when she spotted the man “standing next to the glass kitchen door staring at her and touching himself while his pants were open,” Capt. Ricky Mirkovic said. She described him as Hispanic, about 30 years old and 5-feet-6 with medium skin tone and wearing a Navy blue long-sleeved t-shirt. Bo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Wild Glen Rock Stolen Car Chase Goes Down To Paramus, Back Up To Paterson Wild Glen Rock Stolen Car Chase Goes Down To Paramus, Back Up To Paterson Wild Glen Rock Stolen Car Chase Goes Down To Paramus, Back Up To Paterson
Wild Glen Rock Stolen Car Chase Goes Down To Paramus, Back Up To Paterson A wild overnight pursuit of a vehicle stolen out of Glen Rock made its way south through several towns and then back north before police broke off the chase in Paterson. Glen Rock Police Officer John Tarantino was headed to a call of a burglar trying to break in through the rear of an Abbington Terrace home at 1:40 a.m. Friday when he was passed by a 2014 Subara Crosstrack stolen from a Gramercy Place driveway, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. “The keys had apparently been left in the Subaru while the owner was moving cars in the driveway the night before,” Ackermann said. The owner also …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Your Community
Community Rallies For Wayne Music Producer, 53, Fighting For His Life After Freak Accident Community Rallies For Wayne Music Producer, 53, Fighting For His Life After Freak Accident Community Rallies For Wayne Music Producer, 53, Fighting For His Life After Freak Accident
Community Rallies For Wayne Music Producer, 53, Fighting For His Life After Freak Accident A producer from Wayne who’s worked with a wide range of musicians – from Yes lead singer Jon Anderson to Darryl “DMC” McDaniels – was fighting for his life as friends, loved ones and colleagues rallied to assist him and his family. Jim DeSalvo, 53, was riding his bicycle in town Wednesday when he was struck by a tire that popped off a dump truck, critically injuring him. Supporters have rushed to help DeSalvo and his wife, Cat, a freelance video editor who married him 20 years ago next week. Cat “will be out of work for an undetermined amount of time to help him fight through this like the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson 5 Admit Swiping $300,000 In Checks From Bergen, Passaic, Morris, Essex Mailboxes Paterson 5 Admit Swiping $300,000 In Checks From Bergen, Passaic, Morris, Essex Mailboxes Paterson 5 Admit Swiping $300,000 In Checks From Bergen, Passaic, Morris, Essex Mailboxes
Paterson 5 Admit Swiping $300,000 In Checks From Bergen, Passaic, Morris, Essex Mailboxes Taking plea deals from the government, five Paterson men admitted stealing $300,000 in checks from mailboxes in Bergen, Passaic, Morris, Essex and Middlesex counties. Some “broke into mail collection boxes using pry bars, usually late at night…then fraudulently deposited them into various bank accounts, often within a day of being stolen,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Pleading guilty in U.S. District Court in Newark to conspiring to commit bank fraud: Ismael Alicea, Jr., 25; Yerrisson Garcia-Rodriguez, 23; Jerry Lake-Rodriguez, 25; Brayan Ulloa-Ulloa, 24. Johan Lake-Rodriguez, 26. …

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