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
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New Swing Set Aims To Bring Joy To Hawthorne Boy, Classmates With Severe Autism New Swing Set Aims To Bring Joy To Hawthorne Boy, Classmates With Severe Autism New Swing Set Aims To Bring Joy To Hawthorne Boy, Classmates With Severe Autism
New Swing Set Aims To Bring Joy To Hawthorne Boy, Classmates With Severe Autism To some, it’s simply a new swing set. But to a 14-year-old Hawthorne boy with severe autism, it means so much more. Spencer Schiavo "doesn't care about toys or material things that most kids enjoy," his stepmother, Julie Skolnik-Schiavo, said. "But he loves movement and does love to go on swings." Unfortunately, the year-round school he attends has been without swings for months, due to age and damage, she said. So she and her husband, Al Schiavo, took to Facebook seeking donations for the Allegro School for Autism in Cedar Knolls. “We asked for $1,000,” Skolnik-Schiavo said. “In only a …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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Northern Highlands Regional HS Opening Delayed, Counselors Available Following Junior's Death Northern Highlands Regional HS Opening Delayed, Counselors Available Following Junior's Death Northern Highlands Regional HS Opening Delayed, Counselors Available Following Junior's Death
Northern Highlands Regional HS Opening Delayed, Counselors Available Following Junior's Death Shock and sadness spread Wednesday with the news of the death of a Northern Highlands Regional High School student. "The entire school community extends our heartfelt thought and prayers" to the family of junior Jared Bowen "during this difficult time," Principal Joseph J. Occhino wrote. The school had a delayed opening Wednesday, with homeroom at 9:45 a.m., when students were informed of Jared's passing, the principal said. Bus pickup was postponed for two hours. The Crisis Response Team, school counselors, Child Study Team members and counselors from other area high schools were mad…

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by Daily Voice
Teaneck, NJ
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Teaneck Preacher Admits Stealing $5.3M From Black Nationalist Hate Group Teaneck Preacher Admits Stealing $5.3M From Black Nationalist Hate Group Teaneck Preacher Admits Stealing $5.3M From Black Nationalist Hate Group
Teaneck Preacher Admits Stealing $5.3M From Black Nationalist Hate Group A Teaneck preacher who led a religious hate group admitted in federal court in Newark on Wednesday that he stole what prosecutors said was more than $5.3 million from the organization over nearly a decade to pay for luxury cars, lavish vacations and private school for his children. As part of a plea deal with the government, Lincoln Warrington, 48, admitted pocketing the money from his Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ (ICGJC) through a dummy entertainment company that he created with Jermaine Grant, 43, of Burlington Township. Grant, the organization's treasurer, admitted conspiring …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
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Wallington PD: Car Burglars Nabbed In The Act Wallington PD: Car Burglars Nabbed In The Act Wallington PD: Car Burglars Nabbed In The Act
Wallington PD: Car Burglars Nabbed In The Act A male-female team of car burglars were at work overnight Wednesday when Wallington police rolled up. Officer Anthony Milne spotted Brian L Mcelfresh, 41, of Passaic walking and crouching down near parked cars along Parkway just after 1 a.m., Capt. Shawn Kudlacik said. At the same time, he saw a woman driving a Buick with one headlight driving slowly down the block. Mcelfresh dropped a backpack he was carrying while turning onto Hayward Place, Kudlacik said. Inside was a bottle of vodka and a pair of camouflage pants, he said. Backup Officer Michael Marciniak arrived as the Buick came by…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Sleeping NYC Taxi Thief Tells Rochelle Park Police He's Headed To Great Adventure Sleeping NYC Taxi Thief Tells Rochelle Park Police He's Headed To Great Adventure Sleeping NYC Taxi Thief Tells Rochelle Park Police He's Headed To Great Adventure
Sleeping NYC Taxi Thief Tells Rochelle Park Police He's Headed To Great Adventure A teen who stole a running New York City taxi told Rochelle Park police who found him sleeping in the back seat that he was headed to Six Flags Great Adventure, authorities said. Borough police received a report from the NYPD at 5:45 a.m. Tuesday that a GPS tracking device pegged the stolen yellow cab in the area of Essex Street, Detective Sgt. James M. DePreta said. Officer Jared Shatkin found Jonathan Gualpa, 19, sleeping in the back seat, DePreta said. “He said he intended to go to Six Flags but felt tired and pulled over to go to sleep,” the sergeant said. He was still 80-some miles a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
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Teaneck High School Basketball Coach 'Made Out' With Underage Girls, Authorities Charge Teaneck High School Basketball Coach 'Made Out' With Underage Girls, Authorities Charge Teaneck High School Basketball Coach 'Made Out' With Underage Girls, Authorities Charge
Teaneck High School Basketball Coach 'Made Out' With Underage Girls, Authorities Charge A first-year Teaneck High School boys basketball coach repeatedly had improper physical contact with two underage girls, said authorities who arrested him. Marcelle Williams, 37, “engaged in [the] acts with two juveniles between the ages of 16 and 18 years on numerous occasions in Teaneck since November,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Tuesday. The acts were described as "making out" with each girl, according to a law enforcement official. Members of Calo’s Special Victims Unit investigated along with Teaneck police after the local department received a tip, then cha…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Body Pulled From Hudson Near Jersey City Financial Center Body Pulled From Hudson Near Jersey City Financial Center Body Pulled From Hudson Near Jersey City Financial Center
Body Pulled From Hudson Near Jersey City Financial Center The NYPD Harbor Patrol Unit pulled a body from the Hudson River in Jersey City around lunchtime Tuesday. Witnesses gathered near the ferry dock that serves the Harborside Financial Center as the body was brought onto the boat around 12:30 p.m. It was bagged and then brought to shore, one said. Jersey City police and firefighters also responded.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Paterson Officer Convicted Of Wounding Bystander With Gunshot During Dispute With Ex-Con Paterson Officer Convicted Of Wounding Bystander With Gunshot During Dispute With Ex-Con Paterson Officer Convicted Of Wounding Bystander With Gunshot During Dispute With Ex-Con
Paterson Officer Convicted Of Wounding Bystander With Gunshot During Dispute With Ex-Con A Paterson police officer faces up to 18 months in prison for wounding a bystander when he fired his gun during an off-duty dispute with a known criminal outside a local 7-Eleven. Superior Court Judge Marybel Mercado-Ramirez ordered bail revoked and sent Dante Gordon, 28, to the Passaic County Jail to await sentencing after jurors in Paterson on Monday found him guilty of aggravated assault. The jury at the same time acquitted Gordon of charges of carrying a weapon for an unlawful purpose, making terroristic threats and a lesser aggravated assault charge for pointing a gun at or in the dire…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Ex-Karate Assistant Instructor From Haskell Convicted Of Sexually Assaulting 9-Year-Old Student Ex-Karate Assistant Instructor From Haskell Convicted Of Sexually Assaulting 9-Year-Old Student Ex-Karate Assistant Instructor From Haskell Convicted Of Sexually Assaulting 9-Year-Old Student
Ex-Karate Assistant Instructor From Haskell Convicted Of Sexually Assaulting 9-Year-Old Student A former assistant karate instructor from Haskell faces a maximum of 40 in state prison after jurors in Paterson convicted him of raping a 9-year-old girl at the Pompton Lakes dojo where he worked and at her Bloomingdale home, authorities said. Luke V. Bakula, 31, was found guilty last week of two counts of first-degree aggravated sexual assault and two counts each of sexual assault and child endangerment. Bakula sexually assaulted the girl at Porta’s Karate Dojo Academy and at her home between November 2005 and July 2006, prosecutors said. The girl eventually went to authorities nearly 10…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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SEE ANYTHING? Hospitalized Teaneck Man Says He Was Slashed In Englewood SEE ANYTHING? Hospitalized Teaneck Man Says He Was Slashed In Englewood SEE ANYTHING? Hospitalized Teaneck Man Says He Was Slashed In Englewood
SEE Anything? Hospitalized Teaneck Man Says He Was Slashed In Englewood Englewood police sought the public’s help investigating a Teaneck man’s claim that he was slashed in a surprise attack on a city street by an assailant who then ran off. Police responded to Holy Name Medical Center after a friend drove the 24-year-old victim there before dawn Sunday, Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said. The victim told police he was attacked by “a lone assailant” as he walked on West Forest Avenue toward Teaneck sometime between 1-2 a.m., the deputy chief said. The attacker “without word or warning struck him twice in the face with what he described as a folding knif…

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