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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Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Pregnant Passenger Busted Shooting Heroin In Route 17 Stop Police: Pregnant Passenger Busted Shooting Heroin In Route 17 Stop Police: Pregnant Passenger Busted Shooting Heroin In Route 17 Stop
Police: Pregnant Passenger Busted Shooting Heroin In Route 17 Stop A pregnant passenger who was shooting heroin when she and her fiancé were stopped by Upper Saddle River police before dawn Saturday pulled the needle out so fast that she bled on her clothes, authorities said. Officer Kevin McWilliams stopped their car for various violations as the couple headed north on the highway toward their home in Monroe, NY, around 1:30 a.m., Detective Lt. Edward Kane said. Williams immediately spotted a needle and empty heroin bag on the center console, Kane said. Both the driver, Erik Shepard, 27, and his fiancée, Jacqueline Completo, 20, were apparently under the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: WNY Production Manager Embezzled $75,000 Through Record Company's Fort Lee Bank Prosecutor: WNY Production Manager Embezzled $75,000 Through Record Company's Fort Lee Bank Prosecutor: WNY Production Manager Embezzled $75,000 Through Record Company's Fort Lee Bank
Prosecutor: WNY Production Manager Embezzled $75,000 Through Record Company's Fort Lee Bank A music production manager from West New York stole $75,000 from a record company’s bank account in Fort Lee, authorities said. Zuleica Martins, 41, who worked for Brooklyn-based Vega Records, “conducted numerous, unauthorized automated teller machine withdrawals and debit card purchases, wired funds into her personal bank accounts, and altered the financial bank records to conceal these transactions,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Friday. Martins was arrested in West New York on Friday and charged with theft by deception and falsifying records. She was released pending an …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Ridgefield Man, 29, Admits Trafficking Child Porn Videos, Photos Ridgefield Man, 29, Admits Trafficking Child Porn Videos, Photos Ridgefield Man, 29, Admits Trafficking Child Porn Videos, Photos
Ridgefield Man, 29, Admits Trafficking Child Porn Videos, Photos A Ridgefield man admitted in federal court Friday that he collected and distributed videos and other images of child sex abuse. Malcolm Salamanca, 29, will have to serve the entire term when he’s sentenced Dec. 2 in U.S. District Court in Newark. There no parole in the federal prison system. He’ll also have to register as a sex offender. Salamanca admitted using a peer-to-peer file-sharing program to download and share the images, some of which undercover agents with the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations took from his computer during a November 2017 raid. U…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Citizens Cheer: Hackensack Police, SWAT Team Raid Drug Den, Bust 10 Citizens Cheer: Hackensack Police, SWAT Team Raid Drug Den, Bust 10 Citizens Cheer: Hackensack Police, SWAT Team Raid Drug Den, Bust 10
Citizens Cheer: Hackensack Police, SWAT Team Raid Drug Den, Bust 10 Relieved residents of a Hackensack neighborhood praised police for smashing an open-air drug market on their street, arresting 10 people in the process and seizing an assortment of drugs, packaging materials – along with a 9mm handgun. Hackensack Narcotics Bureau detectives summoned the Bergen County Regional SWAT team to help hit the home at 181 Berdan Place, which had been the scene of previous shootings, assaults and other crimes. Detective Reuven Lyak initiated the investigation “after receiving numerous complaints from residents and tipsters regarding an open-air drug market and ongoin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgefield PD: Racing Trio Nabbed After Palisades Park Crash Ridgefield PD: Racing Trio Nabbed After Palisades Park Crash Ridgefield PD: Racing Trio Nabbed After Palisades Park Crash
Ridgefield PD: Racing Trio Nabbed After Palisades Park Crash Three local men were arrested after they sped away from police and crashed at the Ridgefield/Palisades Park border, authorities said. Ridgefield Police Sgt. Edward Schaefer and Officer Ali Huda began chasing a 2015 Jeep GRC as it sped north up Broad Avenue, near Edgewater Avenue, around 1 a.m. Friday, Deputy Chief Robert Meurer said. Patrol units lost sight of the vehicle and continued northbound on Grand Avenue in an attempt to locate it, Meurer said. They found it crashed into a utility pole in front of a Japanese restaurant on Grand Avenue just north of the Route 46 overpass in Palisade…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Bookkeeper From Mahwah Charged With Embezzling $100,000 From Ramsey Company Bookkeeper From Mahwah Charged With Embezzling $100,000 From Ramsey Company Bookkeeper From Mahwah Charged With Embezzling $100,000 From Ramsey Company
Bookkeeper From Mahwah Charged With Embezzling $100,000 From Ramsey Company A bookkeeper from Mahwah embezzled nearly $100,000 over five years from a Ramsey door manufacturer, basically covering her personal expenses with the money, authorities charged. Denise J. Mann, 42, was busted in a “long and complicated” case that took nearly a year to assemble, Ramsey Police Chief Bryan Gurney said Friday. Working for North Jersey Door Center on Swan Street, Mann “used various business bank accounts in order to make personal payments and purchases” of $94,289.73, Gurney said. Among the methods, the chief said, Mann: forged business checks to herself; paid her Sprint, Ver…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Authorities Raid Paterson Opioid Factories, Bust Accused Gang Leader Of Heroin, Fentanyl Ring Authorities Raid Paterson Opioid Factories, Bust Accused Gang Leader Of Heroin, Fentanyl Ring Authorities Raid Paterson Opioid Factories, Bust Accused Gang Leader Of Heroin, Fentanyl Ring
Authorities Raid Paterson Opioid Factories, Bust Accused Gang Leader Of Heroin, Fentanyl Ring The reputed leader of a Bloods set and nine alleged associates were charged with running a drug distribution ring in Paterson after authorities smashed two sophisticated opioid mills that put tens of thousands of heroin and fentanyl doses on the street each week. Authorities seized 27,000 individual doses of heroin, more than two pounds of the drug, nearly a pound of fentanyl and $60,000 in alleged proceeds. Kashard Whitaker, a 41-year-old founding member and leader of the 4K Boyz set of the Bloods street gang, “commanded a ring of suppliers and street-level distributors,” state Attorney Ge…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen-Based Cold-Case Squad Cracks Newark Murder, Accused Irvington Gunman Captured Bergen-Based Cold-Case Squad Cracks Newark Murder, Accused Irvington Gunman Captured Bergen-Based Cold-Case Squad Cracks Newark Murder, Accused Irvington Gunman Captured
Bergen-Based Cold-Case Squad Cracks Newark Murder, Accused Irvington Gunman Captured A cold-case task force created in Bergen County cracked a 10-year-old Newark murder with the arrest of an East Orange man. The victim, 31-year-old Philip Quale, was killed by several gunshots on the 17th floor of a First Street high rise on Dec. 27, 2009, authorities said Thursday. What initially was an exhaustive investigation didn’t produce an arrest, and the case went cold, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II and Newark Public Safety Director Anthony F. Ambrose, III said in a joint release. The investigation was revived by the N…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Fairview Woman Severely Burned In Stove Fire Fairview Woman Severely Burned In Stove Fire Fairview Woman Severely Burned In Stove Fire
Fairview Woman Severely Burned In Stove Fire A Fairview woman suffered burns on her face and arms in a Thursday stove fire, authorities said. The Anderson Avenue woman apparently was injured by a fire sparked by oil in a frying pan, Police Chief Martin Kahn said. She was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, where specialists were to determine whether she should be transported to St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Rapes, Beatings, Brandings: Paterson Sex-Trafficking Ring 'Defied Humanity,' FBI Chief Says Rapes, Beatings, Brandings: Paterson Sex-Trafficking Ring 'Defied Humanity,' FBI Chief Says Rapes, Beatings, Brandings: Paterson Sex-Trafficking Ring 'Defied Humanity,' FBI Chief Says
Rapes, Beatings, Brandings: Paterson Sex-Trafficking Ring 'Defied Humanity,' FBI Chief Says A Paterson convict ran a sex-trafficking ring from a New York prison, having the women he controlled raped, beaten and branded with his name, with help from his ex-wife and another accomplice, federal authorities said Thursday. Jean "Poison" Noriega, 48, used “violence, threats of violence, threats of drug withdrawal, and other means, to compel the victims to engage in commercial sex for his profit, including after his incarceration in New York in 2017,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Noriega had help controlling the drug-dependent victims from Enna Gonzalez, 53, and John "Peachy,” Oyo…

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