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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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
SUV Collides With Sedan, Slams Into Restaurant At Bergen-Passaic Border SUV Collides With Sedan, Slams Into Restaurant At Bergen-Passaic Border SUV Collides With Sedan, Slams Into Restaurant At Bergen-Passaic Border
SUV Collides With Sedan, Slams Into Restaurant At Bergen-Passaic Border Three people were hospitalized after a collision shortly before daybreak sent an SUV crashing into the window of a restaurant at the Bergen-Passaic border. The collision occurred at the corner of Lincoln and Loretto avenues when a 2010 Nissan driven by a 57-year-old Oak Ridge man knocked a 2007 Honda CR-V into the corner eatery known as First on the Hawthorne side of the street across from Fair Lawn shortly before 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19. The other vehicle, a 2010 Nissan, was so badly damaged that a huge chunk of its nose fell off. The Honda driver, 54, of Paterson and passenger, 31,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Store Clerk From Ramsey Charges With Collecting Child Porn Store Clerk From Ramsey Charges With Collecting Child Porn Store Clerk From Ramsey Charges With Collecting Child Porn
Store Clerk From Ramsey Charges With Collecting Child Porn A 42-year-old store clerk from Ramsey was charged with collecting online child porn. Steven Vanduysen was arrested during a raid of his Spruce Run condo last Friday, Oct. 14, and remained in the Bergen County Jail on Tuesday, records show. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said detectives from his Cyber Crimes Unit found that VanDuysen had “ used the Internet to view, download, and possess over 100 files depicting nude and/or sexually explicit prepubescent children.” They charged him with possession of child pornography and sent him to the county lockup to await a first appearance in C…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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LATEST: Head-On Bridge Crash, Attempted Murder Charge Follows Hammer Attack At Rockland Hotel LATEST: Head-On Bridge Crash, Attempted Murder Charge Follows Hammer Attack At Rockland Hotel LATEST: Head-On Bridge Crash, Attempted Murder Charge Follows Hammer Attack At Rockland Hotel
Latest: Head-On Bridge Crash, Attempted Murder Charge Follows Hammer Attack At Rockland Hotel UPDATE: A man accused of trying to kill his girlfriend with a hammer at a Clarkstown hotel was captured after a wild chase that ended in a head-on crash on a heavily-traveled bridge. Clarkstown police said they responded to reports of a woman screaming at the Tappan Zee Hotel on northbound Route 303 shortly after 5 a.m. Monday, Oct. 17. They found a victim, they said, who told them that her boyfriend, 46-year-old Todd Humphrey of Stony Point, had hit her in the head with a hammer while she was in the shower.  She escaped the room and got the attention of hotel staff who dialed 911 as Hump…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
One Caught, One Sought In Airbag Thefts: Elmwood Park PD One Caught, One Sought In Airbag Thefts: Elmwood Park PD One Caught, One Sought In Airbag Thefts: Elmwood Park PD
One Caught, One Sought In Airbag Thefts: Elmwood Park PD Elmwood Park police arrested a Paterson man after an officer interrupted an overnight airbag theft in a quiet local neighborhood, authorities said. Officer Joshua Rodriguez was patrolling the area of 18th Avenue and East 54th Street when he spotted an unoccupied car on the side of the road with its engine running shortly before 2 a.m., Police Chief Michael Foligno said. Nearby were two men standing on either side of another vehicle. Seeing him, the men shouted to one another and took off on foot, the chief said. Fair Lawn police and a Bergen County sheriff's K-9 unit helped establish a pe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
14-Year-Old Stolen SUV Driver, Passenger From Newark Caught After Rush-Hour Pursuit, Crash 14-Year-Old Stolen SUV Driver, Passenger From Newark Caught After Rush-Hour Pursuit, Crash 14-Year-Old Stolen SUV Driver, Passenger From Newark Caught After Rush-Hour Pursuit, Crash
14-Year-Old Stolen SUV Driver, Passenger From Newark Caught After Rush-Hour Pursuit, Crash A 14-year-old driver and 15-year-old passenger who were caught after crashing a stolen SUV during a pursuit from Route 3 to Route 21 were carrying key fobs from vehicles swiped as far south as the Jersey Shore, Clifton police said. An officer began pursuing the 2021 Ford Explorer -- which had been reported stolen out of North Caldwell -- after the driver refused to stop on westbound Route 3 around 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. The chase continued south on Route 21 before the Explorer struck a civilian's vehicle near the intersection of 3rd Avenue in Newark, the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Route 17 Crash Rolls One Vehicle, Sends Another Into Side Of Nail Salon Route 17 Crash Rolls One Vehicle, Sends Another Into Side Of Nail Salon Route 17 Crash Rolls One Vehicle, Sends Another Into Side Of Nail Salon
Route 17 Crash Rolls One Vehicle, Sends Another Into Side Of Nail Salon No injuries were reported following a rollover crash on northbound Route 17 in Paramus. A Nissan Murano landed right-side-up after colliding with a Chevy Suburban livery vehicle that careened off the highway and came to rest between the side of a nail salon and a roll-off trash bin during Tuesday morning's rush hour. Both vehicles had to be towed following the 7:15 a.m. crash just north of East Ridgewood Avenue, which jammed traffic. The Chevy Suburban livery vehicle careened into a nail salon and rollover trash bin on northbound Route 17 in Paramus.Boyd A. Loving Damage to the Happy N…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Responder In Route 9W Crash That Critically Injured Bergen Teens Brought To NJ To Face Charges Responder In Route 9W Crash That Critically Injured Bergen Teens Brought To NJ To Face Charges Responder In Route 9W Crash That Critically Injured Bergen Teens Brought To NJ To Face Charges
Responder In Route 9W Crash That Critically Injured Bergen Teens Brought To NJ To Face Charges UPDATE: A volunteer firefighter accused in a horrific road-rage crash that nearly killed a fellow group of fellow Bergen County teens last week was brought back to New Jersey to face charges. Luke G. Stein, 18, of Cresskill was booked into the Bergen County Jail on Monday, Oct. 17, after being brought from the Boulder County Jail in Colorado.  Authorities there seized Stein this past Friday on a warrant from the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office that charges him with five counts of aggravated assault, as well as impersonating a law enforcement officer. Restraining orders were also being s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: E-Motorcycle Rider Ran Red Light Before Fatal Crash At GWB, Authorities Say UPDATE: E-Motorcycle Rider Ran Red Light Before Fatal Crash At GWB, Authorities Say UPDATE: E-Motorcycle Rider Ran Red Light Before Fatal Crash At GWB, Authorities Say
Update: E-Motorcycle Rider Ran Red Light Before Fatal Crash At GWB, Authorities Say UPDATE: A motorcyclist ran a red light and was killed when he crashed into a Port Authority police car near the George Washington Bridge as the morning rush was beginning, authorities said. The officer had a green light on Bruce Reynolds Boulevard while responding to a call when the electric bike slammed into it on Lemoine Avenue at 5:45 a.m. Oct. 17, Port Authority Police Spokeswoman Lenis Valens said. The operator of the northbound motorcycle was taken to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center and pronounced dead at 6:27 a.m., New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said. The …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Two Men, 70 And 63 Years Old, Shot In Broad Daylight In Paterson, Obvious Questions Arise Two Men, 70 And 63 Years Old, Shot In Broad Daylight In Paterson, Obvious Questions Arise Two Men, 70 And 63 Years Old, Shot In Broad Daylight In Paterson, Obvious Questions Arise
Two Men, 70 And 63 Years Old, Shot In Broad Daylight In Paterson, Obvious Questions Arise Two men – one 70 years old, the other 63 – were shot in the middle of a Sunday afternoon in Paterson, authorities reported, leaving more questions than answers. Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Acting Paterson Police Chief Bert Ribeiro confirmed that both victims were taken to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center with injuries that weren’t fatal following the shooting at North 1st and Arch streets shortly after 2:30 p.m. Oct. 16. They didn’t say, however, under what circumstances the two city residents had been shot – targeted or bystanding, possible street crime or domest…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: Teens Stabbed But Not At Hackensack High School, Police Say UPDATE: Teens Stabbed But Not At Hackensack High School, Police Say UPDATE: Teens Stabbed But Not At Hackensack High School, Police Say
Update: Teens Stabbed But Not At Hackensack High School, Police Say Three teenagers were stabbed in an incident that authorities initially believed occurred at Hackensack High School. The confusion began with a report to city police of a fight with possible weapons at the high school around 2:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 17, said Capt. Michael Antista, the officer in charge of the department. As responding officers dispersed a crowd on nearby First Street, they received a report from Hackensack University Medical Center that three victims with apparent stab wounds had shown up at the hospital following an incident "that may have occurred near the high …

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