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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Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Wallington Drug Raid Produces Cocaine, Cash, Arrest Wallington Drug Raid Produces Cocaine, Cash, Arrest Wallington Drug Raid Produces Cocaine, Cash, Arrest
Wallington Drug Raid Produces Cocaine, Cash, Arrest A Polish national had roughly $3,000 worth of cocaine for sale in his Wallington home, said authorities who arrested him. Arkadiusz Krupinski, 30, “became a target after detectives received a tip that he was selling cocaine from his Anderson Avenue home,” Capt. Shawn Kudlacik said. Besides the cocaine, detectives seized nearly $1,700 in drug proceeds during a warranted raid on Saturday involving a Bergen County Regional SWAT Team and a county sheriff’s K-9 unit, Kudlacik said. A judge ordered Krupinski’s release on Tuesday, under New Jersey’s 2017 bail reform law, after two days in the Ber…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Clifton PD: Drug-Probe Targets Stole Handgun, Valuables In Burglary Clifton PD: Drug-Probe Targets Stole Handgun, Valuables In Burglary Clifton PD: Drug-Probe Targets Stole Handgun, Valuables In Burglary
Clifton PD: Drug-Probe Targets Stole Handgun, Valuables In Burglary What began as a drug investigation led to the arrests of two local men who Clifton police said stole a gun during a burglary. City detectives arrested Ehab Hassan, 22, and Shelzen Murati, 35, after a weeks-long investigation and charged them with burglary and weapons possession, among other offenses, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said Wednesday. The pair took other valuables along with the handgun – which hadn’t yet been recovered – during the Sept. 10 break-in on Hudson Street, Bracken said. Police arrested Shelzen when he showed up for work on Tuesday. Ehab surrendered on Nov. 1.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: Fugitive Paterson Ex-Con Shot, Killed Two, Critically Wounded Girlfriend Authorities: Fugitive Paterson Ex-Con Shot, Killed Two, Critically Wounded Girlfriend Authorities: Fugitive Paterson Ex-Con Shot, Killed Two, Critically Wounded Girlfriend
Authorities: Fugitive Paterson Ex-Con Shot, Killed Two, Critically Wounded Girlfriend SEEN HIM? A manhunt was underway for a 31-year-old ex-con from Paterson who authorities said shot two people dead wounded two others – including his ex-girlfriend – as they sat in a car in September. Jonathan Hernandez should be considered armed and dangerous, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Troy Oswald said in a joint news release. Hernandez was released from state custody on Nov. 28, 2017 after two separate prison sentences totaling 29 months for aggravated assault, drug dealing and weapons convictions for crimes he committed in Bergen and Passaic cou…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Tappan-Blauvelt, NY
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Pearl River Pedophile Gets 25 Years In Federal Pen For Making, Sharing Images Of Sex With Child Pearl River Pedophile Gets 25 Years In Federal Pen For Making, Sharing Images Of Sex With Child Pearl River Pedophile Gets 25 Years In Federal Pen For Making, Sharing Images Of Sex With Child
Pearl River Pedophile Gets 25 Years In Federal Pen For Making, Sharing Images Of Sex With Child A Pearl River man was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in federal prison for taking and sharing sex videos and images that he made with a child. Richard Murphy, 33, will have to serve out just about the entire sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Murphy told a judge in Newark in June that he "persuaded a child to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of taking photos and videos of that conduct" in December 2016, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Craig Carpenito said. Murphy also "admitted that he took video of the child performing a sex act on him" an…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Driver In DWI Crash Blames NY Jets, Wayne Police Say Driver In DWI Crash Blames NY Jets, Wayne Police Say Driver In DWI Crash Blames NY Jets, Wayne Police Say
Driver In DWI Crash Blames NY Jets, Wayne Police Say An intoxicated driver who could barely walk after his car rear-ended another in Wayne, injuring two people, blamed his drunkenness on the New York Jets, police said. Then he smiled for his mugshot. Christopher J. Greyshock, 57, of West Milford was “staggering and swaying,” nearly falling into traffic on Route 23, following the 5:15 p.m. crash, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. Barely an hour earlier, the favored Jets lost to the Buffalo Bills, 41-10, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford – leaving both teams with 3-7 records. "I drank too much because the Jets suck!" Greyshock told the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Rockland Pedophile Gets 25 Years In Federal Pen For Making, Sharing Images Of Sex With NJ Child Rockland Pedophile Gets 25 Years In Federal Pen For Making, Sharing Images Of Sex With NJ Child Rockland Pedophile Gets 25 Years In Federal Pen For Making, Sharing Images Of Sex With NJ Child
Rockland Pedophile Gets 25 Years In Federal Pen For Making, Sharing Images Of Sex With NJ Child A Rockland man was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in federal prison for taking and sharing sex videos and images that he made with a New Jersey child. Richard Murphy, 33, of Pearl River will have to serve out just about the entire sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Murphy told a judge in Newark in June that he "persuaded a child to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of taking photos and videos of that conduct" in December 2016, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Craig Carpenito said. Murphy also "admitted that he took video of the child performi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Prosecutor: Mexican Duo Nabbed With $3M In Heroin, Meth, Fentanyl, ICE Issues Detainers Prosecutor: Mexican Duo Nabbed With $3M In Heroin, Meth, Fentanyl, ICE Issues Detainers Prosecutor: Mexican Duo Nabbed With $3M In Heroin, Meth, Fentanyl, ICE Issues Detainers
Prosecutor: Mexican Duo Nabbed With $3M In Heroin, Meth, Fentanyl, ICE Issues Detainers Two brothers from Sinaloa, Mexico were caught in Hasbrouck Heights with dozens of pounds of heroin, crystal meth and fentanyl worth a combined $3 million on the street, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo announced Tuesday. Rumulo Chaidez Medrano, 46, and Arcenio Chaidez Medrano, 36, were carrying nearly 29 pounds of crystal methamphetamine, more than seven pounds of heroin, three pounds of raw fentanyl and 6,255 fentanyl tablets for sale when detectives from his office moved in and nabbed the pair, Calo said. ICE immediately issued detainers on both men, who remained held Tues…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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SEEN HIM? Surveillance Image Released Of Man Who Robbed Hackensack Bank Of Nearly $950 SEEN HIM? Surveillance Image Released Of Man Who Robbed Hackensack Bank Of Nearly $950 SEEN HIM? Surveillance Image Released Of Man Who Robbed Hackensack Bank Of Nearly $950
Seen HIM? Surveillance Image Released Of Man Who Robbed Hackensack Bank Of Nearly $950 Hackensack police were searching for a man who robbed a TD Bank branch of nearly $950 Tuesday morning.  Area schools were locked down as police searched for the bearded, 5-foot-10-inch robber, who struck just after 9 a.m. at the bank at 540 River Street near the FDU campus. The robber, wearing a hooded sweatshirt and a cap, "walked into the bank and walked over to a counter where he grabbed an envelope and wrote down a note, which he then handed to the teller," Capt. Peter Busciglio said. "The note demanded money." No weapon was shown, the captain added. The robber walked out with $9…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: More Hateful Symbols Reported Found At Pascack Valley High School UPDATE: More Hateful Symbols Reported Found At Pascack Valley High School UPDATE: More Hateful Symbols Reported Found At Pascack Valley High School
Update: More Hateful Symbols Reported Found At Pascack Valley High School UPDATE: A recent rash of hate symbols that have confounded officials and angered parents have spread from Pascack Valley High School to Pascack Hills. https://pascackvalley.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/swastikas-racist-graffiti-spread-from-pascack-valley-hs-to-hills/745334/ ****** ORIGINAL STORY: As calls for healing intensified, more symbols of hate were found at Pascack Valley High School -- for what is now the third time in less than two months, officials said. Students said homophobic and racial slurs were drawn on plaques honoring former high school players on one of the baseball …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bogota PD: Pair Broke Into Apartment, Assaulted Borough Man Bogota PD: Pair Broke Into Apartment, Assaulted Borough Man Bogota PD: Pair Broke Into Apartment, Assaulted Borough Man
Bogota PD: Pair Broke Into Apartment, Assaulted Borough Man Two ex-cons broke into a Bogota apartment to settle a score with another man, then fled after assaulting him, authorities said. Gregory Owen Cannell, 53, and William E. Hafner, 56, were found by city police in Hackensack after the 6 p.m. burglary and assault in the 200 block of Ridgefield Avenue on Sunday, Sgt. Geoffrey Cole said. Both men “had broken through a window and entered an apartment in order to assault another who was known to them,” Cole said. Cannell spent four years in state prison for convictions of arson, harassment, burglary, weapons and making terroristic threats before he…

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