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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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
BIAS CRIME? Hindus Demand Justice For Mahwah Priest In Alleged Ramsey Parking Lot Assault BIAS CRIME? Hindus Demand Justice For Mahwah Priest In Alleged Ramsey Parking Lot Assault BIAS CRIME? Hindus Demand Justice For Mahwah Priest In Alleged Ramsey Parking Lot Assault
Bias Crime? Hindus Demand Justice For Mahwah Priest In Alleged Ramsey Parking Lot Assault His young daughter cowered in the back seat as a Hindu priest was attacked by a Mahwah man during a road-rage incident in the parking lot of a Route 17 shopping center in Ramsey, according to a police complaint. Members of the Hindu community are now demanding justice in the alleged attack. Ramsey police charged Nicholas Dow, 30, who lives next door to the Hindu Samaj Temple of Mahwah on West Ramapo Avenue, with simple assault and burglary following the April 3 incident at the Interstate Shopping Center. They then referred the case to the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office to be considered…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Clifton Man Admits Scamming Businesses, Individuals In Multi-Million-Dollar Email Scheme Clifton Man Admits Scamming Businesses, Individuals In Multi-Million-Dollar Email Scheme Clifton Man Admits Scamming Businesses, Individuals In Multi-Million-Dollar Email Scheme
Clifton Man Admits Scamming Businesses, Individuals In Multi-Million-Dollar Email Scheme A Clifton man admitted in federal court on Wednesday that he helped mastermind a massive emailing scheme that scammed more than $1 million from businesses and individuals. Lawrence Espaillat, 41, said he worked with co-conspirators Corry Pringley and Amanda Suazo to recruit “mules” to provide personal info that was used to incorporate phony businesses under their names. The ringleaders then opened bank accounts in the names of the sham companies, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Next came a cyber attack in which they created email addresses that were extremely similar to those of legit…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
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Girlfriend: Lodi Motorcyclist, 24, Critical With Major Injuries Needs 'Lots Of Prayers, Love' Girlfriend: Lodi Motorcyclist, 24, Critical With Major Injuries Needs 'Lots Of Prayers, Love' Girlfriend: Lodi Motorcyclist, 24, Critical With Major Injuries Needs 'Lots Of Prayers, Love'
Girlfriend: Lodi Motorcyclist, 24, Critical With Major Injuries Needs 'Lots Of Prayers, Love' UPDATE: A 24-year-old motorcyclist from Lodi reportedly remained in critical but stable condition Wednesday after crashing in a convenience store parking lot the night before. His girlfriend said he's fighting but still needs prayers and love. Josey Munez underwent more than three hours of brain surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center to reduce and monitor the pressure in his brain, loved ones said. Munez, a tow truck driver and landscaper, also suffered "a few broken ribs, a fractured scapula, spinal injury to his 16 and 17, multiple breaks in his left hand, a broken and two coll…

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by Jerry DeMarco
New City, NY
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'Operation Home Alone' Sting: Rockland, Westchester Men Accused Of Trying To Meet Kids For Sex 'Operation Home Alone' Sting: Rockland, Westchester Men Accused Of Trying To Meet Kids For Sex 'Operation Home Alone' Sting: Rockland, Westchester Men Accused Of Trying To Meet Kids For Sex
'Operation Home Alone' Sting: Rockland, Westchester Men Accused Of Trying To Meet Kids For Sex Five men from Rockland and one from Westchester – including a high school teacher and a bank manager – were among 16 defendants busted in New Jersey after they’d arranged meetings for sex with what they thought were underage boys and girls, authorities announced Wednesday. New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal identified the six as: Kevin Roth, 26, Nanuet, who teaches at the High School of Computers and Technology in the Bronx and thought was meeting a 14-year-old boy, Grewal said; Shaheen Lariff, 49, a bank branch officer manager from New City who the attorney general said thought …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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'Operation Home Alone': 16 Nabbed, Including Ridgewood Officer, Trying To Meet Kids For Sex 'Operation Home Alone': 16 Nabbed, Including Ridgewood Officer, Trying To Meet Kids For Sex 'Operation Home Alone': 16 Nabbed, Including Ridgewood Officer, Trying To Meet Kids For Sex
'Operation Home Alone': 16 Nabbed, Including Ridgewood Officer, Trying To Meet Kids For Sex A Ridgewood police officer who is accused of arranging a meeting for sex with what he thought was a 15-year-old girl was one of 16 men who were nabbed in a similar undercover sting by state and local authorities, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced Wednesday. Others include a barbershop owner from Passaic, a food delivery driver from Fairview, a supermarket employee/deejay from Hawthorne and two Garfield men – one of them a rideshare company driver and another a convicted sex offender awaiting sentencing on child porn possession charges. All thought they were communicatin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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Upper Saddle River Police: How Are We Doing? Upper Saddle River Police: How Are We Doing? Upper Saddle River Police: How Are We Doing?
Upper Saddle River Police: How Are We Doing? Upper Saddle River residents and merchants are invited to assess the borough's police department as part of a process known as accreditation. Members of the department and borough employees also are encouraged to call during the scheduled phone-in period this coming Monday, April 29, from 9-11 a.m. THE NUMBER: ((201) 934-3979 Telephone comments will be fielded by an assessment team from the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police, whose members will examine “all aspects of the Bergenfield Police Department’s policies and procedures, management, operations, and supp…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
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Lodi Motorcyclist, 24, Critically Injured In Crash Needs 'Lots Of Prayers, Love,' GF Says Lodi Motorcyclist, 24, Critically Injured In Crash Needs 'Lots Of Prayers, Love,' GF Says Lodi Motorcyclist, 24, Critically Injured In Crash Needs 'Lots Of Prayers, Love,' GF Says
Lodi Motorcyclist, 24, Critically Injured In Crash Needs 'Lots Of Prayers, Love,' GF Says UPDATE: A 24-year-old motorcyclist from Lodi remained in critical but stable condition Wednesday after crashing in a convenience store parking lot the night before. His girlfriend said he's fighting but still needs prayers and love. Josey Munez underwent more than three hours of brain surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center to reduce and monitor the pressure in his brain, loved ones said. Munez, a tow truck driver and landscaper, also suffered "a few broken ribs, a fractured scapula, spinal injury to his 16 and 17, multiple breaks in his left hand, a broken and two collapsed lungs,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
Breaking News
Seen The Easter Bunny Brawl? Wanted North Jersey Man Says He Was Defending Woman At Florida Bar Seen The Easter Bunny Brawl? Wanted North Jersey Man Says He Was Defending Woman At Florida Bar Seen The Easter Bunny Brawl? Wanted North Jersey Man Says He Was Defending Woman At Florida Bar
Seen The Easter Bunny Brawl? Wanted North Jersey Man Says He Was Defending Woman At Florida Bar A Sussex County man wanted on an outstanding warrant in South Brunswick partied with women in a Florida bar while dressed as the Easter Bunny, then got into a street brawl with a patron accused of spitting on one of them -- all caught on video, of course. Video shows a costumed Antoine McDonald, 20, of Franklin, dancing provocatively with women in the Orlando bar Saturday night. He's later seen throwing haymakers at a man who’d been knocked to the ground. WATCH him partying, then brawling here: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwj6i37Ayau/ McDonald told various news outlets that he saw a coup…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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Police: Dumont Man Struck, Killed By Freight Train In Bergenfield Suicide Police: Dumont Man Struck, Killed By Freight Train In Bergenfield Suicide Police: Dumont Man Struck, Killed By Freight Train In Bergenfield Suicide
Police: Dumont Man Struck, Killed By Freight Train In Bergenfield Suicide UPDATE: A freight train struck and killed a Dumont man in Bergenfield Tuesday in what police said was a suicide. The 55-year-old kneeled down on the tracks near Church Street as the CSX train approached around 1:40 p.m., Capt. Mustafa Rabboh said. The man "parked his vehicle a short distance away, waited for the train, then kneeled on the tracks as the train approached," Rabboh said. He was pronounced deceased at the scene.  The Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification was summoned to collect evidence. Main Street was closed. Traffic was re-routed to Columbia Avenue…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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SOURCES: Elmwood Park Mayor Investigated In Alleged Voter-Fraud Probe SOURCES: Elmwood Park Mayor Investigated In Alleged Voter-Fraud Probe SOURCES: Elmwood Park Mayor Investigated In Alleged Voter-Fraud Probe
Sources: Elmwood Park Mayor Investigated In Alleged Voter-Fraud Probe A defense attorney for Elmwood Park Mayor Frank Caramagna apparently was in negotiations with the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office in response to a voter fraud investigation, sources confirmed Tuesday. ****** UPDATE: Elmwood Park Mayor Francesco Caramagna resigned from office after being charged with election fraud for filling in ballots for voters, authorities confirmed Monday. SEE: https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/saddlebrook/police-fire/elmwood-park-mayor-charged-with-voter-fraud-resigns/767080/ ****** Caramagna contends the charges brought by the Bergen County Prosecutor'…

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