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
HEROES: Second Would-Be Jumper In 3 Days Rescued From GWB HEROES: Second Would-Be Jumper In 3 Days Rescued From GWB HEROES: Second Would-Be Jumper In 3 Days Rescued From GWB
Heroes: Second Would-Be Jumper In 3 Days Rescued From GWB For the second time in three days, a despondent 24-year-old man -- this one from Jersey City -- perched himself on a ledge at the George Washington Bridge and threatened to jump. Port Authority Tunnel and Bridge Agent Gerry Smithson was driving eastbound on the upper level just after 9:30 a.m. Saturday when a passing motorist flagged him down, said Steve Coleman, the authority's deputy media director. Smithson notified the GWB desk and authority police, then stopped traffic in two bridge lanes and found the man on a narrow ledge over the railing on the bridge's south sidewalk, Coleman said…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
WATCH: Passaic Firefighter Rescues Man From Burning Building WATCH: Passaic Firefighter Rescues Man From Burning Building WATCH: Passaic Firefighter Rescues Man From Burning Building
Watch: Passaic Firefighter Rescues Man From Burning Building Smoke pours out the windows of a burning multi-family home as a Passaic firefighter rescues a man down a ladder Saturday morning, dramatic video shows. The resident was hospitalized after Firefighter René Rivera punched out enough of the second-floor window frame to get the man out -- head-first -- in the 5th Street rescue around 6:30 a.m. Rivera then slides down the back of the ladder, allowing the man to climb down, in the exclusive video captured by Edward Devine for Daily Voice. "Throughout the entire time the firefighter was down, his only concern was if the young man survived," one …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Ex-Con Wanted In Paterson Shooting Captured In Boston With Help From FBI Ex-Con Wanted In Paterson Shooting Captured In Boston With Help From FBI Ex-Con Wanted In Paterson Shooting Captured In Boston With Help From FBI
Ex-Con Wanted In Paterson Shooting Captured In Boston With Help From FBI FBI agents and Boston police on Friday helped capture a fugitive wanted for a shooting in Paterson earlier this month, authorities said. Luis M. Doran, 28, remained held pending extradition to New Jersey to face charges of attempted murder and several weapons counts, including being a felon in possession of a firearm, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Troy Oswald said. A joint investigation by their respective departments led to Boston after the 28-year-old victim was wounded near the corner of 21st Street and Madison Avenue in Paterson on Aug. 22. He wa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Maywood Police Catch NYC Fugitive, Seize Pot, Pills, More Maywood Police Catch NYC Fugitive, Seize Pot, Pills, More Maywood Police Catch NYC Fugitive, Seize Pot, Pills, More
Maywood Police Catch NYC Fugitive, Seize Pot, Pills, More Maywood police nabbed a New York City fugitive during a Route 17 traffic stop that they said turned up more than 120 pills, 15 bags and containers of pot for sale, and a ledger listing drug deals. Officers Benjamin Singer and Christopher Melber were on a roving DWI patrol shortly before 1:30 a.m. Tuesday when they saw a maroon Ford Fusion with New York license plates heading east on Essex Street with its high beams on, Detective Sgt. Matthew Parodi said. After stopping the driver for not maintaining a lane, the officers smelled raw marijuana and obtained her consent to search the vehicle, P…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
SAFE & SOUND: Boy, 7, Feared Abducted From Garfield Walmart Walked To Lodi, Police Say SAFE & SOUND: Boy, 7, Feared Abducted From Garfield Walmart Walked To Lodi, Police Say SAFE & SOUND: Boy, 7, Feared Abducted From Garfield Walmart Walked To Lodi, Police Say
Safe & Sound: Boy, 7, Feared Abducted From Garfield Walmart Walked To Lodi, Police Say An all-out search for a 7-year-old boy who went missing from his parents at the Garfield Walmart ended Friday afternoon when police found him safe and sound in Lodi. The boy's mother told police they'd gone shopping for school supplies around 1 p.m. when they turned around and he was gone, Capt. Richard Uram said. Security guards who searched the store with no luck were joined by several Garfield police officers, Uram said. An alert also was broadcast to surrounding towns, bringing police from Lodi, Passaic, Saddle Brook and Wallington, as well as Bergen County sheriff's officers. "The en…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Clifton PD: City Man Stole Another's Spray Paint, Vandalized His Car With It Clifton PD: City Man Stole Another's Spray Paint, Vandalized His Car With It Clifton PD: City Man Stole Another's Spray Paint, Vandalized His Car With It
Clifton PD: City Man Stole Another's Spray Paint, Vandalized His Car With It A Clifton man sprayed graffiti on the inside windshield of another man’s vehicle before dawn Friday with cans of paint that he found in it, authorities said. Officers responding to a 2 a.m. call said they found both men fighting on Burgess Place near Paulison Avenue. The victim apparently had followed the other man there after seeing him rummaging through his vehicle and discovering the graffiti, Sgt. Robert Anderson said. The defendant, identified as 18-year-old Mauricio Mejia, also had been pulling on door handles of other vehicles nearby, the victim told police. When confronted, Mejia …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Paramus Police Pursuit Down GSP Ends In Stolen SUV Crash, Two Arrests Paramus Police Pursuit Down GSP Ends In Stolen SUV Crash, Two Arrests Paramus Police Pursuit Down GSP Ends In Stolen SUV Crash, Two Arrests
Paramus Police Pursuit Down GSP Ends In Stolen SUV Crash, Two Arrests A pre-dawn Paramus police chase Friday ended with a crash in East Orange and the arrests of two Newark men, authorities said. Officer William Stallone tried stopping a speeding 2011 Nissan SUV carrying two occupants with ski marks on southbound Route 17 near Linwood Avenue shortly before 3 a.m., Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. The SUV, reported stolen out of Elizabeth, roared off, Ehrenberg said, and Stallone chased it onto the southbound Garden State Parkway. Clifton and New Jersey State Police joined the pursuit, he said. The driver -- identified as Tyquan Boulware, 19 -- turned of…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Passaic Firefighters Douse Apartment Blaze Passaic Firefighters Douse Apartment Blaze Passaic Firefighters Douse Apartment Blaze
Passaic Firefighters Douse Apartment Blaze Passaic firefighters kept a pre-dawn blaze in a rear addition from spreading to a four-story apartment building. Responders said they had the two-alarm fire in the vacant apartment under control about an hour after receiving the 5:11 a.m. call Friday at 62 Wall Street. No injuries were reported and no residents were permanently displaced by the fire, which they said began on the exterior of the building. The fire was brought under control in about an hour.Damien Danis for DAILY VOICE PHOTOS: Damien Danis for DAILY VOICE

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
WIRED: Feds Charge Pharmacy Owner From Paramus In $5M Fraud, Bribery Schemes WIRED: Feds Charge Pharmacy Owner From Paramus In $5M Fraud, Bribery Schemes WIRED: Feds Charge Pharmacy Owner From Paramus In $5M Fraud, Bribery Schemes
Wired: Feds Charge Pharmacy Owner From Paramus In $5M Fraud, Bribery Schemes A former Hudson County pharmacy owner from Paramus bribed a local doctor with $100 bills stuffed into pill bottles to steer patients to his business, said federal authorities who took him into custody on Friday -- thanks, in part, to conversations secretly recorded by the FBI. Eduard “Eddy” Shtindler, 36, also produced bogus documents that generated even more income, raking in nearly $5 million in illegal proceeds through both schemes combined, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said in announcing his arrest by the FBI. Federal agents raided Shtindler’s since-closed Empire Pharmacy on Bergenline…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Tenafly Firefighters Free Worker In Home Construction Site Fall Tenafly Firefighters Free Worker In Home Construction Site Fall Tenafly Firefighters Free Worker In Home Construction Site Fall
Tenafly Firefighters Free Worker In Home Construction Site Fall A 55-year-old worker was hospitalized in a 10-foot fall Thursday morning at a Tenafly home construction site. Firefighters got the Newark worker out after he fell into the basement area of a new foundation, with no way out, at the Buckingham Road site just before 9 a.m., police Capt. Michael deMoncada said. The Tenafly Volunteer Ambulance Corps took him to Hackensack University Medical Center with head and shoulder injuries that weren't considered life-threatening, Moncada said. OSHA was notified.

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