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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Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Hit-Run Driver Who Struck Bicyclist Surrenders Following Daily Voice Report: Englewood PD Hit-Run Driver Who Struck Bicyclist Surrenders Following Daily Voice Report: Englewood PD Hit-Run Driver Who Struck Bicyclist Surrenders Following Daily Voice Report: Englewood PD
Hit-Run Driver Who Struck Bicyclist Surrenders Following Daily Voice Report: Englewood PD UPDATE: A driver who police said sped off after hitting a bicyclist at a busy Englewood street corner Thursday morning surrendered to police after Daily Voice published a public callout. The bicyclist escaped serious injury in the collision on Knickerbocker Road at West Palisade Avenue early May 25, Englewood Police Chief Thomas Greeley said. Daily Voice published a story about the incident late Thursday morning, with a number to call police for anyone who might have witnessed the crash or had home surveillance video of the driver's white Audi coupe. As word spread, city resident Jeremy Be…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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ENGINE'S PROBABLY FLOODED: Stolen Sedan Fished From Passaic River ENGINE'S PROBABLY FLOODED: Stolen Sedan Fished From Passaic River ENGINE'S PROBABLY FLOODED: Stolen Sedan Fished From Passaic River
Engine'S Probably Flooded: Stolen Sedan Fished From Passaic River It was a curiosity more than anything. A stolen car was fished out of the Passaic River -- and no, there weren't any bodies in it. A passerby in Paterson's Westside Park spotted the Chevy Cruze about 100 feet from the water's edge and alerted police early Wednesday, May 24. The sedan had been reported stolen overnight, police said. A tow truck fished it out as a news chopper flew overhead and students, teachers and staff at nearby JFK High School strained to get a look from their windows. The water-logged Chevy was impounded so forensic investigators could inspect it for evidence. How o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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GOTCHA! Fairview Detectives Nab Habitual Criminal In Spree Of Smash-And-Grabs GOTCHA! Fairview Detectives Nab Habitual Criminal In Spree Of Smash-And-Grabs GOTCHA! Fairview Detectives Nab Habitual Criminal In Spree Of Smash-And-Grabs
Gotcha! Fairview Detectives Nab Habitual Criminal In Spree Of Smash-And-Grabs Fairview detectives cracked a string of smash-and-grab business burglaries after a local career criminal had a blowup with a woman over his drug use, authorities said. The phrase “known to police” was coined for offenders like Andrew Stanganelli, 32, who has a drug-related arrest record in both North Jersey and New York City that stretches back more than a decade. So it’s no surprise that he’d be on the list of usual suspects following last fall’s burglary spree. It began shortly after midnight Nov. 7 when an intruder forced open the front door of Romo Dry Cleaners on Fairview Avenue, sla…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Specialized Paramus Police Unit Cranks Up Chainsaws After Pickup Crash Specialized Paramus Police Unit Cranks Up Chainsaws After Pickup Crash Specialized Paramus Police Unit Cranks Up Chainsaws After Pickup Crash
Specialized Paramus Police Unit Cranks Up Chainsaws After Pickup Crash Members of the Paramus Police Emergency Services Unit got to work after a pickup truck toppled a pole at the Oradell border on Thursday. The 22-year-old Mosquito Squad driver from Basking Ridge apparently looked down at his GPS and looked up too late to avoid hitting the curb, uprooting a fire hydrant and toppling the guy-wire pole on Oradell Avenue at Terrace Drive at 10:20 a.m. May 25, Paramus Police Sgt. Todd Colaianni said. The driver refused medical treatment, Colaianni said, but Bergen Brookside Auto Body & Towing had to remove his pickup on a flatbed. The cross-trained membe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Hit-Run Driver Who Struck Bicyclist Surrenders Following Daily Voice Report: Englewood PD Hit-Run Driver Who Struck Bicyclist Surrenders Following Daily Voice Report: Englewood PD Hit-Run Driver Who Struck Bicyclist Surrenders Following Daily Voice Report: Englewood PD
Hit-Run Driver Who Struck Bicyclist Surrenders Following Daily Voice Report: Englewood PD UPDATE: A driver who police said sped off after hitting a bicyclist at a busy Englewood street corner Thursday morning surrendered to police after Daily Voice published a public callout. The bicyclist escaped serious injury in the collision on Knickerbocker Road at West Palisade Avenue early May 25, Englewood Police Chief Thomas Greeley said. Daily Voice published a story about the incident late Thursday morning, with a number to call police for anyone who might have witnessed the crash or had home surveillance video of the driver's white Audi coupe. As word spread, city resident Jeremy Be…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cherry Hill, NJ
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'FIGHT CLUB': NJ Prison Officer Who Brutalized Inmates Sentenced To 2½ Years In Federal Prison 'FIGHT CLUB': NJ Prison Officer Who Brutalized Inmates Sentenced To 2½ Years In Federal Prison 'FIGHT CLUB': NJ Prison Officer Who Brutalized Inmates Sentenced To 2½ Years In Federal Prison
'Fight Club': NJ Prison Officer Who Brutalized Inmates Sentenced To 2½ Years In Federal Prison UPDATE: A now-former New Jersey corrections officer must spend the next 2½ years behind bars for brutalizing inmates through what one victim described as a “fight club.” John Makos, 42, of Millville, took advantage of areas in the kitchen at Bayside State Prison in Leesburg out of the view of surveillance cameras where inmates during and after their work shifts were beaten by him, colleagues and fellow prisoners, federal authorities said. In one instance Makos “watched and did not attempt to intervene when multiple inmates pinned a victim-inmate to the floor and, while the inmates restraine…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Victim Of Hawthorne House Fire Airlifted To Burn Center, Investigators Summoned Victim Of Hawthorne House Fire Airlifted To Burn Center, Investigators Summoned Victim Of Hawthorne House Fire Airlifted To Burn Center, Investigators Summoned
Victim Of Hawthorne House Fire Airlifted To Burn Center, Investigators Summoned Authorities were investigating the circumstances surrounding a house fire in Hawthorne on Wednesday that sent a burn victim to St. Barnabas in a medical chopper. No fewer than five people also were treated for smoke inhalation, including police officers who had to break a window to get into the apparently barricaded home on Sunrise Drive off Goffle Hill Road shortly after 1:30 p.m. May 24, a source with direct knowledge of the incident said. The State Police helicopter took the female victim to the medical center in Livingston after landing on the baseball field at Hawthorne High School, w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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Rutherford Attic Fire Doused Rutherford Attic Fire Doused Rutherford Attic Fire Doused
Rutherford Attic Fire Doused Firefighters quickly doused a house blaze Wednesday afternoon in Rutherford. The fire apparently broke out in the attic of a 2½-story, wood-frame home on Belford Avenue near Jackson Avenue around 1:30 p.m. Firefighters knocked the two-alarmer down in minutes and had it under control in well under a half hour. No injuries were reported. Damien Danis for DAILY VOICE Mutual aid responders at the scene or in coverage included firefighters from East Rutherford, Lyndhurst, North Arlington and Wallington. A preliminary cause wasn't immediately determined. Mutual aid responders at the sce…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgewood Bank Teller Flags ID Thief Trying To Cash $26,000 Check: Police Ridgewood Bank Teller Flags ID Thief Trying To Cash $26,000 Check: Police Ridgewood Bank Teller Flags ID Thief Trying To Cash $26,000 Check: Police
Ridgewood Bank Teller Flags ID Thief Trying To Cash $26,000 Check: Police A Chinese national from Queens was arrested by Ridgewood police when he tried to cash a $26,000 check in another person's name with one of dozens of bogus IDs he was carrying, authorities said. A teller at the East Ridgewood Avenue bank flagged down an officer Tuesday afternoon, May 23, while Lin X. Guan, 51, was still inside, Detective Capt. Forest Lyons said. Police charged Guan with ID theft, trafficking personal information -- more than 50 items, with multiple victims -- and theft by unlawful taking. He remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Wednesday while awaiting a first appeara…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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NJ Rapper Fetty Wap Sentenced To 6 Years For Running Drugs NJ Rapper Fetty Wap Sentenced To 6 Years For Running Drugs NJ Rapper Fetty Wap Sentenced To 6 Years For Running Drugs
NJ Rapper Fetty Wap Sentenced To 6 Years For Running Drugs Paterson rapper Fetty Wap caught something of a break on Wednesday. A federal judge sentenced the platinum-selling rapper – whose real name is William Junior Maxwell II – to six years in federal prison on May 24 for his role in a drug-trafficking ring that flooded part of New Jersey and Long Island with cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and crack. Maxwell had been charged with conspiring to transport more than 100 kilos of the drugs there from the West Coast. Rather than risk the potential consequences of a trial, he took a deal from the government, pleading guilty in U.S. Eastern District Court …

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