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
Fire Severely Damages Woodland Park Home Fire Severely Damages Woodland Park Home Fire Severely Damages Woodland Park Home
Fire Severely Damages Woodland Park Home Fire ravaged a home in Woodland Park. The intense blaze broke out in the 1½ -story home on Highview Drive and spread quickly shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 11. No serious injuries were reported. "All our residents are safe," Mayor Keith Kazmark said. The intense blaze spread quickly through the 1½ -story home on Highway Drive in Woodland Park shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 11.Mayor Keith Kazmark Members of the West Paterson Fire Department got mutual aid at the scene and in coverage from their fire-fighting colleagues from Little Falls, Totowa and Paterson at the scene and…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: Victim In Passaic County Shooting ID'd As Middlesex Woman, 23 UPDATE: Victim In Passaic County Shooting ID'd As Middlesex Woman, 23 UPDATE: Victim In Passaic County Shooting ID'd As Middlesex Woman, 23
Update: Victim In Passaic County Shooting ID'd As Middlesex Woman, 23 Authorities on Tuesday identified a victim shot in Prospect Park more than 36 hours earlier as a 23-year-old Middlesex County woman. The Fords victim was shot shortly before 3 a.m. Monday, April 10, at North 9th Street and Haledon Avenue, near the Paterson border, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Prospect Park Police Chief Ammen Matari confirmed early Tuesday evening. She was dropped off at St. Joseph’s Wayne Medical Center in Wayne a short time after the shooting, and township police were notified.  The vehicle she arrived in was also secured as part of an investigati…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack Man, 21, Killed In Grisly Route 46 Hit And Run ID'd, Search For Car Continues Hackensack Man, 21, Killed In Grisly Route 46 Hit And Run ID'd, Search For Car Continues Hackensack Man, 21, Killed In Grisly Route 46 Hit And Run ID'd, Search For Car Continues
Hackensack Man, 21, Killed In Grisly Route 46 Hit And Run ID'd, Search For Car Continues UPDATE: A pedestrian who was struck and killed by a late-night hit-and-run driver on Route 46 last week was identified Tuesday as a 21-year-old Hackensack resident. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said authorities were still searching for the driver who kept going after his or her vehicle struck Jossy Israel Laguna-Matamoros on eastbound Route 46 (Winant Avenue) near Ridgefield Avenue in Ridgefield Park shortly after 11 p.m. Friday, April 7. Laguna-Matamoros was then struck, pinned and dragged beneath a Tesla in the westbound lanes, responders said. Firefighters raised the vehicle t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Fire Ravages Multiple Vehicles At Westwood Auto Repair Shop Fire Ravages Multiple Vehicles At Westwood Auto Repair Shop Fire Ravages Multiple Vehicles At Westwood Auto Repair Shop
Fire Ravages Multiple Vehicles At Westwood Auto Repair Shop Firefighters doused a blaze at a Westwood auto repair shop on Tuesday. The smoky noontime fire at Pat Barrett Transmissions on Bergenline Avenue on April 11 ravaged two vehicles, witnesses said. Borough firefighters extinguished the flames within minutes, they said. No injuries were reported.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Worker Run Over By Cement Truck At Fair Lawn Concrete Yard Worker Run Over By Cement Truck At Fair Lawn Concrete Yard Worker Run Over By Cement Truck At Fair Lawn Concrete Yard
Worker Run Over By Cement Truck At Fair Lawn Concrete Yard A man working on a cement truck was injured Tuesday when the vehicle ran over him at Tanis Concrete in Fair Lawn, authorities said. The 62-year-old Elmwood Park resident had his leg rolled over when the truck went into gear in the early afternoon at the River Road site, Fair Lawn Police Sgt. Eric Eleshewich said. Members of the Fair Lawn Volunteer Ambulance Corps took the victim to St. Joseph's University Medical Center in Paterson. The victim's wife told Daily Voice her husband suffered a broken leg, a fractured pelvis and back and major tissue damage. Members of the Fair Lawn Volunt…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Polish Ex-Con Nabbed In Burglary Spree Bites Wallington Detective: Authorities Polish Ex-Con Nabbed In Burglary Spree Bites Wallington Detective: Authorities Polish Ex-Con Nabbed In Burglary Spree Bites Wallington Detective: Authorities
Polish Ex-Con Nabbed In Burglary Spree Bites Wallington Detective: Authorities A drug-addicted Polish national with a lengthy rap sheet – including three arrests in barely a month’s time – bit the hand of a Wallington detective while resisting arrest for a series of vehicle break-ins. Detective Lt. Joseph Rock and Detective Simon Popek identified Adam Marek Jaworski through surveillance video during an investigation into a vehicle burglary shortly before 6 a.m. April 4, Police Chief Carmello J. Imbruglia said. Jaworski, 30, who most recently has been living in Clifton, is known to police. He has a history of drug-related arrests in several Bergen and Passaic county t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Driver, 66, Hospitalized In Route 17 Rollover Driver, 66, Hospitalized In Route 17 Rollover Driver, 66, Hospitalized In Route 17 Rollover
Driver, 66, Hospitalized In Route 17 Rollover A 66-year-old driver was hospitalized following a rollover crash on Route 17. The Belleville woman's Hyundai overturned outside the Element New York Wood-Ridge hotel on the highway's southbound side shortly before 9 p.m. Monday, April 10. She was extricated from the vehicle and taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with head and arm injuries, responders said. A report that another occupant was also hospitalized with lesser injuries couldn't immediately be confirmed. Hasbrouck Heights police joined their Wood-Ridge colleagues at the scene.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
SUV Rams Pole At Fair Lawn-Hawthorne Border SUV Rams Pole At Fair Lawn-Hawthorne Border SUV Rams Pole At Fair Lawn-Hawthorne Border
SUV Rams Pole At Fair Lawn-Hawthorne Border A passenger was seriously injured when an SUV struck a pole overnight Tuesday at the border of Fair Lawn and Hawthorne. The Honda CR-V slammed into the pole alongside the BP station just south of the Lincoln Avenue bridge at Wagaraw Road around 1 a.m. April 10. The passenger was extricated before members of the Fair Lawn Volunteer Ambulance Corps took him to the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood. The SUV rammed the pole outside the BP station at the busy intersection of Lincoln Avenue and Wagaraw Road in Fair Lawn at the Hawthorne border.Kyle Mazza/UNF News for DAILY VOICE At least one othe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
HEROES: Police Talk Down Would-Be Jumper At GWB HEROES: Police Talk Down Would-Be Jumper At GWB HEROES: Police Talk Down Would-Be Jumper At GWB
Heroes: Police Talk Down Would-Be Jumper At GWB A would-be jumper was talked down from atop a fence on the upper level of the George Washington Bridge early Tuesday, authorities said. Port Authority police responding to the northbound walkway on the Washington Heights side at 6 a.m. April 11 were joined by NYPD officers and New York City firefighters, authority spokesperson Lenis Valens said. The responders "engaged with the individual and safety resolved the situation," Valens said. The would-be jumper was perched atop a fence on the New York City side when responders arrived at daybreak Tuesday, April 11.Rich Tully The distraught …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: Victim In Prospect Park Shooting ID'd As Middlesex County Woman UPDATE: Victim In Prospect Park Shooting ID'd As Middlesex County Woman UPDATE: Victim In Prospect Park Shooting ID'd As Middlesex County Woman
Update: Victim In Prospect Park Shooting ID'd As Middlesex County Woman Authorities on Tuesday identified a victim shot in Prospect Park more than 36 hours earlier as a 23-year-old Middlesex County woman. The Fords victim was shot shortly before 3 a.m. Monday, April 10, at North 9th Street and Haledon Avenue, near the Paterson border, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Prospect Park Police Chief Ammen Matari confirmed early Tuesday evening. She was dropped off at St. Joseph’s Wayne Medical Center in Wayne a short time after the shooting, and township police were notified. The vehicle she arrived in was also secured as part of an investigation in …

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