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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Hackensack, NJ
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Prosecutor: Dealer Who Tried To Kill Bergen Detective Captured In Philly Prosecutor: Dealer Who Tried To Kill Bergen Detective Captured In Philly Prosecutor: Dealer Who Tried To Kill Bergen Detective Captured In Philly
Prosecutor: Dealer Who Tried To Kill Bergen Detective Captured In Philly A drug dealer who fled after deliberately hitting a Bergen County prosecutor’s detective with his car was later captured in Philadelphia, authorities said. An investigation took Bergen County Narcotics Task Force detectives to Camden, where they and their colleagues from the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office approached Lionel Guerrero, 34, of Philadelphia on Monday as he sat in a car, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. Guerrero, who’d been dealing crystal meth and heroin, suddenly hit the accelerator and headed straight for the investigators, hitting one of them with his vehi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Fairview Officer Finds Drug Mill: 8 Pounds Of Pot, Crack, $72,000 Cash Seized, Three Busted Fairview Officer Finds Drug Mill: 8 Pounds Of Pot, Crack, $72,000 Cash Seized, Three Busted Fairview Officer Finds Drug Mill: 8 Pounds Of Pot, Crack, $72,000 Cash Seized, Three Busted
Fairview Officer Finds Drug Mill: 8 Pounds Of Pot, Crack, $72,000 Cash Seized, Three Busted A keen-eyed Fairview police officer discovered a drug mill where he and his colleagues arrested two brothers and a pregnant woman while seizing eight pounds of pot -- along with crack, Molly and other drugs – as well as more than $72,000 in drug proceeds, authorities said. Officer Geremia DeMartino was on patrol Tuesday morning when he noticed a 9th Street home with jury-rigged exhaust fans that were running, Police Chief Martin Kahn said. DeMartino “recalled past code violations for operating an illegal barber shop out of the basement/garage area,” Kahn said. A code enforcement officer w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Masked Clifton Carjacker Hops Into Back Seat, Pulls Gun On Pair Police: Masked Clifton Carjacker Hops Into Back Seat, Pulls Gun On Pair Police: Masked Clifton Carjacker Hops Into Back Seat, Pulls Gun On Pair
Police: Masked Clifton Carjacker Hops Into Back Seat, Pulls Gun On Pair A carjacker hopped into the back seat of parked Jeep in Clifton before dawn Wednesday, pulled a gun on two young men seated in front, then stole the vehicle, police said. The victims – ages 21 and 20 – were sitting in the Liberty near the corner of Yereance and Lexington avenues around 1 a.m. when the masked robber walked up, began talking with them and pulled out the gun, Detective Sgt. Robert Anderson said. After getting in, he “directed the victims to drive, and after several blocks, ordered them to park and exit the vehicle,” Anderson said. He then got behind the wheel and drove off. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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MUGSHOT: Repeat Offender Flips Bird After Trashing South Hackensack Motel Room MUGSHOT: Repeat Offender Flips Bird After Trashing South Hackensack Motel Room MUGSHOT: Repeat Offender Flips Bird After Trashing South Hackensack Motel Room
Mugshot: Repeat Offender Flips Bird After Trashing South Hackensack Motel Room He’d just ripped a TV from the wall and destroyed a telephone at a South Hackensack motel, but Timothy Carriel wasn’t done yet: Positioned for his mugshot, he gave police the finger. It wasn't anything new for Carriel, who's been arrested no fewer than four times in the past six months. Once of those times he refused to submit to fingerprinting, records show. Carriel, 19, of Hackensack, fought and threatened the officers who responded to the Knights Motel during the rampage, Capt. Robert Kaiser said. After they subdued him, they found the 6-foot, 141-pound Carriel carrying 15 Xanax bars an…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Life Sentence Possible For Paterson Man Convicted Of Raping, Sexually Abusing Girl For 5 Years Life Sentence Possible For Paterson Man Convicted Of Raping, Sexually Abusing Girl For 5 Years Life Sentence Possible For Paterson Man Convicted Of Raping, Sexually Abusing Girl For 5 Years
Life Sentence Possible For Paterson Man Convicted Of Raping, Sexually Abusing Girl For 5 Years A Paterson man could spend the rest of his life behind bars after jurors convicted him of repeatedly raping and sexually abusing a girl over several years, beginning when she was 5. Jose Antonio Gueits, 34, must spend at least 25 years in state prison after being found guilty of 12 sex offense counts following a trial in Paterson. These included a trio each of aggravated sexual assault and sexual assault, five counts of child endangerment and one of making threats – “all relating to the sexual assault and sexual abuse of a female child while she was between five and ten years of age,” Passa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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'Digital Blackmail': FBI Hunts Iranian Duo Named In $30M International 'Ransomware' Plot 'Digital Blackmail': FBI Hunts Iranian Duo Named In $30M International 'Ransomware' Plot 'Digital Blackmail': FBI Hunts Iranian Duo Named In $30M International 'Ransomware' Plot
'Digital Blackmail': FBI Hunts Iranian Duo Named In $30M International 'Ransomware' Plot Two Iranian men were being sought by the FBI for what one official called “21st-century digital blackmail” that netted them more than $6 million while racking up over $30 million in losses to hospitals, municipalities and public agencies across North America. Faramarz Shahi Savandi, 34, and Mohammad Mehdi Shah Mansouri, 27, operated an international computer hacking and extortion racket for more than 2½ years, a grand jury indictment unsealed Wednesday morning in U.S. District Court in Newark charges. Working from inside Iran, Savandi and Mansouri authored “SamSam Ransomware” that was “capa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Upper Saddle River PD: 23 Pounds Of Pot, 100 THC Cartridges Found In Route 17 Traffic Stop Upper Saddle River PD: 23 Pounds Of Pot, 100 THC Cartridges Found In Route 17 Traffic Stop Upper Saddle River PD: 23 Pounds Of Pot, 100 THC Cartridges Found In Route 17 Traffic Stop
Upper Saddle River PD: 23 Pounds Of Pot, 100 THC Cartridges Found In Route 17 Traffic Stop Two Buffalo men were carrying 23 pounds of marijuana and 100 THC vaping cartridges when they were stopped on northbound Route 17 before dawn Wednesday, Upper Saddle River police said. Officer Kevin McWilliams pulled over the rented Mitsubishi Outlander for several traffic violations just before 12:30 a.m. and found the driver, Andres Colon, 22, carrying a small bag of pot, Detective Lt. Edward Kane said. He arrested both Colon and his passenger, 23-year-old Tyquan Pounds, after finding nearly two dozen pounds of weed and the vaping cartridges, Kane said. Both were being held in the Bergen …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Rochelle Park Detectives Crack Two More Cold-Case Home Burglaries Rochelle Park Detectives Crack Two More Cold-Case Home Burglaries Rochelle Park Detectives Crack Two More Cold-Case Home Burglaries
Rochelle Park Detectives Crack Two More Cold-Case Home Burglaries Rochelle Park police detectives solved a pair of two-year-old burglaries thanks to a DNA hit on gloves that were left behind. That increases their total to arrests made in six of 11 borough home break-ins that occurred over a four-month stretch that began in November 2016, they said. On Dec. 6 of that year, borough investigators recovered fragments of latex gloves left behind at one of two Parkway homes that were burglarized, Detective Sgt. James DePreta said. The Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification collected the evidence, which was submitted to the New Jersey State P…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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PHOTOS: Disabled Elderly Driver Crashes Sedan Into Paramus Lighting Store Showroom PHOTOS: Disabled Elderly Driver Crashes Sedan Into Paramus Lighting Store Showroom PHOTOS: Disabled Elderly Driver Crashes Sedan Into Paramus Lighting Store Showroom
Photos: Disabled Elderly Driver Crashes Sedan Into Paramus Lighting Store Showroom A disabled elderly driver was OK Tuesday night after her car plowed into the Capitol Lighting store on Route 17 in Paramus. The woman lost control of her Honda Accord while trying to make a U-turn in the parking lot, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. The sedan crashed into the front of the store, causing moderate damage to the facade and scattering several lighting fixtures in the showroom. A building inspector was summoned to evaluate the structure's integrity. A flatbed tow truck removed the damaged Accord.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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SCAM ALERT: Don’t Forward ‘Got Another Friend Request From You’ Facebook PM -- It’s A Hoax SCAM ALERT: Don’t Forward ‘Got Another Friend Request From You’ Facebook PM -- It’s A Hoax SCAM ALERT: Don’t Forward ‘Got Another Friend Request From You’ Facebook PM -- It’s A Hoax
Scam ALERT: Don’t Forward ‘Got Another Friend Request From You’ Facebook PM -- It’s A Hoax You can stop forwarding that latest warning from your Facebook friends about your account being cloned. You weren’t. It’s bogus. And you're just making it worse. It starts out: “Hi….I actually got another friend request from you yesterday…which I ignored so you may want to check your account…” Then it tells you to “hold your finger on the message until the forward button appears…then hit forward….” Your account isn’t sending duplicate friend requests. And you didn’t receive a request from the person you’re forwarding it to. You’re simply doing it because the message tells you to. DON’T. …

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