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 Valley, NJ
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Colombian National Who Raped Pre-Teen While On Job In Bergen Gets 40 Years, Faces Deportation Colombian National Who Raped Pre-Teen While On Job In Bergen Gets 40 Years, Faces Deportation Colombian National Who Raped Pre-Teen While On Job In Bergen Gets 40 Years, Faces Deportation
Colombian National Who Raped Pre-Teen While On Job In Bergen Gets 40 Years, Faces Deportation A self-employed handyman was sentenced to 40 years in prison for raping a pre-teen while working at a Bergen County home. Jurors this past May convicted Alejandro Velasquez-Martinez, a 48-year-old Colombian national living in Morristown, of sexually assaulting the girl while doing tile repairs in her family’s home in Demarest the morning of August 19, 2019. Velasquez-Martinez was arrested a short time later in Demarest and has remained in the Bergen County Jail since then. His next stop isn’t certain. If he goes to state prison, Velasquez-Martinez will have to serve 34 years before he’ll …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Middletown, NJ
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Grand Jury Reviews Jersey Shore Passenger's Death In Accused Armed Burglar's Crash With Police Grand Jury Reviews Jersey Shore Passenger's Death In Accused Armed Burglar's Crash With Police Grand Jury Reviews Jersey Shore Passenger's Death In Accused Armed Burglar's Crash With Police
Grand Jury Reviews Jersey Shore Passenger's Death In Accused Armed Burglar's Crash With Police “Oh, sh*t! He’s drivin’!” a Long Branch police officer shouts before his cruiser and a vehicle driven by an armed ex-con slam head-on into one another. Officer Lucas Brito and his colleagues were racing to a 911 call of an attempted home invasion by a masked man with a gun around 4 a.m. this past Aug. 14. Brito’s cruiser collided near the corner of MacArthur and Elmwood avenues with a vehicle driven by the prime suspect in the burglary, Altonia Williams, 45, of Long Branch. Williams bailed out of the BMW 328i and was instantly captured by officers who converged on the accident scene. Two…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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KILLING FIELDS: Another Dead, Two Wounded In Latest Paterson Shooting KILLING FIELDS: Another Dead, Two Wounded In Latest Paterson Shooting KILLING FIELDS: Another Dead, Two Wounded In Latest Paterson Shooting
Killing Fields: Another Dead, Two Wounded In Latest Paterson Shooting Paterson was already reeling from three fatal shootings in a single day when a 23-year-old Riverdale man was killed and a 19-year-old Elmwood Park man was critically wounded Tuesday in a hail of gunfire at one of the city's deadliest street corners. Gunfire erupted at Rosa Parks Boulevard and Godwin Avenue shortly before 4 p.m. Oct. 3. In addition to the dead and critically injured victims, a 57-year-old Paterson man took a bullet in the leg. He and the Elmwood Park teenager were being treated at St. Joseph's University Medical Center, where the third victim was pronounced dead. This…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
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Marketplace Ripoff: Odometer Turned Way Down, Seller Screwed, Arrests Made Marketplace Ripoff: Odometer Turned Way Down, Seller Screwed, Arrests Made Marketplace Ripoff: Odometer Turned Way Down, Seller Screwed, Arrests Made
Marketplace Ripoff: Odometer Turned Way Down, Seller Screwed, Arrests Made A Teaneck resident who bought a used SUV on Facebook Marketplace was shocked to discover that the 79,750 miles recorded on its odometer was bogus. Try: 203,000. !! Teaneck police got involved, arresting two Bayonne men who Police Chief Andrew McGurr said conspired to pull the scam. The cash sale for the 2015 Subaru took place outside the victim’s home, the chief said. When it came time to register the vehicle, he said, an agent with the state Motor Vehicle Commission said the title appeared to have been altered. So did the odometer. “An investigation determined that the odometer of the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
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'Staggering': More Than 5,000 Guns Seized At Airports Nationwide So Far This Year, TSA Reports 'Staggering': More Than 5,000 Guns Seized At Airports Nationwide So Far This Year, TSA Reports 'Staggering': More Than 5,000 Guns Seized At Airports Nationwide So Far This Year, TSA Reports
'Staggering': More Than 5,000 Guns Seized At Airports Nationwide So Far This Year, TSA Reports A Connecticut man was seized at LaGuardia Airport on Tuesday after TSA screening revealed a loaded .380-caliber handgun in his carry-on bag. Port Authority police confiscated the gun and arrested the Newton, CT man on a weapons charge after the Transportation Security Administration X-ray machine alerted a screener, the TSA's Lisa Farbstein said on Oct. 3. “The number of individuals who are stopped with guns at checkpoints across the country is staggering," said Robert Duffy, the TSA’s federal security director for the airport. "Nationwide, TSA officers have already detected more than …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
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HERO: Jersey City Officer Justified In Gunning Down Suspect Who Shot Woman, Grand Jury Finds HERO: Jersey City Officer Justified In Gunning Down Suspect Who Shot Woman, Grand Jury Finds HERO: Jersey City Officer Justified In Gunning Down Suspect Who Shot Woman, Grand Jury Finds
Hero: Jersey City Officer Justified In Gunning Down Suspect Who Shot Woman, Grand Jury Finds UPDATE: A heroic Jersey City police officer was justified in gunning down a man who'd just deliberately shot a woman in the chest during a domestic dispute, a state-mandated review by a grand jury has found. Officers responding to a 911 call just before midnight May 24, 2022 found city resident Joseph Robertson, 59, crossing Communipaw Avenue at the corner of West Side Avenue with the female victim. Video recorded at the scene shows the officers approaching Robertson and ordering him to drop a gun he was carrying. Robertson instead grabs the woman, puts her in a headlock and points th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Elizabeth, NJ
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Repeat Child Porn Trafficker From NJ, 65, Gets 10 More Years Without Parole: Feds Repeat Child Porn Trafficker From NJ, 65, Gets 10 More Years Without Parole: Feds Repeat Child Porn Trafficker From NJ, 65, Gets 10 More Years Without Parole: Feds
Repeat Child Porn Trafficker From NJ, 65, Gets 10 More Years Without Parole: Feds A 65-year-old convicted child porn trafficker from New Jersey is headed to federal prison for 10 years without parole for going back to it while on supervised release. Hugh Cohen, 65, of Elizabeth, served nearly all of a five-year federal prison sentence for possessing and receiving child pornography in 2010. Supervised release, which was a requirement of his sentence, was to run from the end of October 2014 to the end of October 2021, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. While still on supervised release, from March 28, 2021, to April 24, 2021, Cohen “engaged an undercover agent in an …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Elmwood Park Fugitive Wanted For Death Threats Captured By Glen Rock PD Elmwood Park Fugitive Wanted For Death Threats Captured By Glen Rock PD Elmwood Park Fugitive Wanted For Death Threats Captured By Glen Rock PD
Elmwood Park Fugitive Wanted For Death Threats Captured By Glen Rock PD A 19-year-old fugitive from Elmwood Park who was wanted for making death threats was arrested by a Glen Rock police officer after eluding capture for more than three months, authorities said. Vijor Lowery “had made threats toward an individual who is employed at a business in the Central Business District as part of ongoing hostilities,” Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. A warrant for Lowery’s arrest was issued on June 14, the chief said. Glen Rock Officer Andrew Magro arrested Lowery last Wednesday, Sept. 27, assisted by Sgt. Bryan Scott and Officer Nick Onove, he said. He was …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Elizabeth, NJ
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3rd Member Of 'Hit List' Burglary Crew That Targeted Asian Homeowners In NJ, NY, PA, Cops Plea 3rd Member Of 'Hit List' Burglary Crew That Targeted Asian Homeowners In NJ, NY, PA, Cops Plea 3rd Member Of 'Hit List' Burglary Crew That Targeted Asian Homeowners In NJ, NY, PA, Cops Plea
3rd Member Of 'Hit List' Burglary Crew That Targeted Asian Homeowners In NJ, NY, PA, Cops Plea UPDATE: A third member of a burglary ring that targeted Asian-American small business owners in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware has pleaded guilty, authorities confirmed. Kevin Jackson, 57, of Rahway, was part of a second-story crew that the FBI said worked from a hit list of dozens of homes in four states based on “stereotype and opportunity." One of Jackson's associates told detectives that Asians were targeted “because it was believed that the victims kept large sums of currency and jewelry in their residences,” an FBI complaint says. Notes found in the defendants’ cars …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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BLOODY SUNDAY: Woman, 22, Becomes Third Paterson Weekend Gunshot Victim To Die BLOODY SUNDAY: Woman, 22, Becomes Third Paterson Weekend Gunshot Victim To Die BLOODY SUNDAY: Woman, 22, Becomes Third Paterson Weekend Gunshot Victim To Die
Bloody Sunday: Woman, 22, Becomes Third Paterson Weekend Gunshot Victim To Die UPDATE: A 22-year-old woman became the third victim to die from a daylong weekend shooting spree in Paterson, authorities confirmed. Two 19-year-old men also were gunned down in the series of shootings in three different Paterson neighborhoods. Mary Taylor was hospitalized in critical condition after responders said she was shot in the head during an apparent drive-by near the corner of Van Houten and Cianci Street outside Lou Costello Park shortly before 9:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 1. Police briefly chased the suspected vehicle – a burgundy Hyundai – before the pursuit was terminated out of s…

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