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
Authorities: NYC Corrections Officers Surrender On Weapons Charges In Paterson Shooting Authorities: NYC Corrections Officers Surrender On Weapons Charges In Paterson Shooting Authorities: NYC Corrections Officers Surrender On Weapons Charges In Paterson Shooting
Authorities: NYC Corrections Officers Surrender On Weapons Charges In Paterson Shooting Two New York City corrections officers surrendered Friday in connection with a shooting in Paterson that authorities said was committed by a Union County man. Authorities charged Rasheim Williams, 26, of Brooklyn, and Keith Hood, 29, of Staten Island each with weapons possession. Jeffrey Hulse, 29, of Roselle also turned himself in and was charged with attempted murder and weapons offenses, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Troy Oswald said in a joint release. City police found the victim – a 27-year-old East Orange man -- with several gunshot wounds in …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
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Teaneck Police ID Trio Accused Of Squirting Jewish Prayer Service Attendees With Water Pistols Teaneck Police ID Trio Accused Of Squirting Jewish Prayer Service Attendees With Water Pistols Teaneck Police ID Trio Accused Of Squirting Jewish Prayer Service Attendees With Water Pistols
Teaneck Police ID Trio Accused Of Squirting Jewish Prayer Service Attendees With Water Pistols UPDATE: Teaneck police on Friday identified the three local men who they said committed a bias crime when they sprayed worshipers leaving a Jewish prayer service with water pistols. Matthew A. Davis, Tyrell N. Culver, both 21, and Michael Davis were charged with harassment stemming from the incident last Friday. One of the victims told police that one of the three shouted an anti-Semitic remark from a fleeing Honda after he and another congregation member from Young Israel of Teaneck were squirted on Perry Lane as they walked back from services just after 9 p.m. July 12, Poli…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson Detectives Seize Guns In Separate Street Arrests Paterson Detectives Seize Guns In Separate Street Arrests Paterson Detectives Seize Guns In Separate Street Arrests
Paterson Detectives Seize Guns In Separate Street Arrests Paterson street-crime detectives seized guns from two 20-year-old men in separate arrests a little over five hours apart. Detectives Anthony Nestico and Ismael Kivanc found the first handgun and played prominent roles in seizing the second, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. Nestico and Kivanc immediately smelled pot after pulling over a black Ford Taurus in the 700 block of East 19th Street for equipment violations just after 7 p.m. Thursday, Speziale said. Moments later, they found a loaded 9mm handgun that had been reported stolen out of North Carolina, the director said. They arrest…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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New Bergen County Undersheriff, Officers Sworn New Bergen County Undersheriff, Officers Sworn New Bergen County Undersheriff, Officers Sworn
New Bergen County Undersheriff, Officers Sworn The latest addition to Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton’s executive team brings 25 years of experience as a corrections officer in Hudson County. The sheriff swore in Undersheriff Orestes Alvarez along with eight new officers in Hackensack on Thursday. Alvarez, who the sheriff said will be responsible for operations at the Bergen County Jail, retired from the Hudson sheriff’s office in 2015 as a lieutenant. Among his positions there, Alvarez oversaw the Disciplinary Department, the Home Confinement Program, the Work Release Program, and the County Re-Integration Program. “Undersherif…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen-Based Cold Case Unit Cracks Newark Killing Bergen-Based Cold Case Unit Cracks Newark Killing Bergen-Based Cold Case Unit Cracks Newark Killing
Bergen-Based Cold Case Unit Cracks Newark Killing A new cold-case task force created in Bergen County solved the four-year-old slaying of a Newark man in his apartment with the arrest of an Irvington man, authorities said. Victor Taylor, 47, struck 46-year-old Mark Holley with an object and then strangled him in the South 16th Street apartment on Feb. 1, 2015, they said. 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…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Feds: Edgewater Man Collected $1.7M In Fake Insurance Claims To Courier Companies Feds: Edgewater Man Collected $1.7M In Fake Insurance Claims To Courier Companies Feds: Edgewater Man Collected $1.7M In Fake Insurance Claims To Courier Companies
Feds: Edgewater Man Collected $1.7M In Fake Insurance Claims To Courier Companies He used some famous aliases – including the names of a late Italian film director and a current Turkish soccer goalie – but it eventually caught up to an Edgewater man who federal authorities said collected $1.7 million in bogus insurance claims to courier companies. Over the course of nearly three years, Enrico DiCaprio, 57, used the aliases “Sergio Leone” and “Hakan Arikan,” among others, to submit thousands of bogus claims that items shipped by two international courier delivery services were lost, damaged or stolen, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. They weren’t, the U.S. attorney sai…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Troubles Increase For Bergen Businessman Accused Of Squatting In 3 Different Towns Troubles Increase For Bergen Businessman Accused Of Squatting In 3 Different Towns Troubles Increase For Bergen Businessman Accused Of Squatting In 3 Different Towns
Troubles Increase For Bergen Businessman Accused Of Squatting In 3 Different Towns Charges continued to mount against a former Bergen businessman who authorities say has been letting himself into pricey homes when their owners aren’t around. In the span of only a few weeks, Peter McElkenney was caught after breaking into homes in Franklin Lakes, Oakland and Wyckoff, local authorities said. He then skipped his court appearance in Wyckoff but went to court in Oakland – where borough police promptly arrested him on an outstanding warrant. They turned McElkenney, 43, over to their Wyckoff colleagues, who sent him to the Bergen County Jail last Thursday. A judge ordered McEl…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
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Norwood PD: Rockland Trash Hauler Walks A Mile After Compactor Severs Part Of Finger Norwood PD: Rockland Trash Hauler Walks A Mile After Compactor Severs Part Of Finger Norwood PD: Rockland Trash Hauler Walks A Mile After Compactor Severs Part Of Finger
Norwood PD: Rockland Trash Hauler Walks A Mile After Compactor Severs Part Of Finger A Rockland trash hauler had part of his finger chopped off by a truck compactor on a Norwood street Wednesday afternoon -- then walked nearly a mile in the scorching heat before finding police who helped get him to the hospital. The 36-year-old Interstate Waste Services employee from Spring Valley was on Carter Street, near Old Tappan, when his left ring finger got caught between the trash and the dump box panel shortly after noon, Officer Nick Moltzen said. The panel severed the top third of his left ring finger to the knuckle, Moltzen said. The victim told police he was in so much pain t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Theft-Turned-Robbery: Boy, 15, Slams Clifton Liquor Store Employee Into Display Case Theft-Turned-Robbery: Boy, 15, Slams Clifton Liquor Store Employee Into Display Case Theft-Turned-Robbery: Boy, 15, Slams Clifton Liquor Store Employee Into Display Case
Theft-Turned-Robbery: Boy, 15, Slams Clifton Liquor Store Employee Into Display Case A 15-year-old boy slammed a Clifton liquor store employee into a display case before running out with two bottles of alcohol, said police who tracked him down Tuesday night. The Paulison Liquors employee confronted the boy when he tried to walk out with the bottles, then got pushed into the case just before 9:30 p.m., Detective Robert Anderson said. The employee wasn’t injured, Anderson added. Police reviewed surveillance footage and began to check the surrounding areas for the teen. An officer spotted him barely a half-hour after the call near the intersection of Sheridan Avenue and Thir…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Parlor Tricks: NJ Pulls Allendale, Saddle River Massage Therapists’ Licenses In Sex Cases Parlor Tricks: NJ Pulls Allendale, Saddle River Massage Therapists’ Licenses In Sex Cases Parlor Tricks: NJ Pulls Allendale, Saddle River Massage Therapists’ Licenses In Sex Cases
Parlor Tricks: NJ Pulls Allendale, Saddle River Massage Therapists’ Licenses In Sex Cases Massage therapists working in Allendale and Saddle River were among five who recently had their licenses yanked by state authorities amid charges of rubbing certain customers the wrong way. State authorities announced the charges to help lay the groundwork for proposed new rules that they said are aimed at “preventing and detecting sexual misconduct in the industry.” The rules would, among other things: Require massage therapists to notify the state Board of Massage and Bodywork Therapy of criminal, civil, administrative, and employment actions against them; Require massage therapists to …

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