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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Jersey City, NJ
Breaking News
Police Fully Justified In Shooting West New York Man Who Fired At Them, Grand Jury Rules Police Fully Justified In Shooting West New York Man Who Fired At Them, Grand Jury Rules Police Fully Justified In Shooting West New York Man Who Fired At Them, Grand Jury Rules
Police Fully Justified In Shooting West New York Man Who Fired At Them, Grand Jury Rules It was as open-and-shut as a police shooting can possibly get. That’s why a state grand jury found that police were more than justified in shooting a West New York gunman who’d just wounded one officer while firing point-blank at them with a gun in each hand. Dramatic police bodycam footage shows Kevin Colindres, 32, opening fire after emerging from his 59th Street home on June 3, 2022. In a clip recorded through the front-door window, Colindres is seen entering the vestibule in a t-shirt and shorts with both hands behind his back as police investigate a domestic violence call. He suddenl…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lakewood, NJ
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Jersey Shore Man Had Online Sex With Minors, Then Shared It, US Homeland Security Agents Charge Jersey Shore Man Had Online Sex With Minors, Then Shared It, US Homeland Security Agents Charge Jersey Shore Man Had Online Sex With Minors, Then Shared It, US Homeland Security Agents Charge
Jersey Shore Man Had Online Sex With Minors, Then Shared It, US Homeland Security Agents Charge UPDATE: Federal authorities have taken custody of an accused child porn trafficker from the Jersey Shore who they said had online sex with at least two minors he met on a social media app. Ocean County prosecutor’s detectives initially investigated Christopher Budelman, 36, of Brick, leading to an arrest in late September 2022. Following up on a referral from the New Jersey State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, the prosecutor's investigators learned that Budelman used the Kik Messenger App to upload and share images of child sexual abuse, authorities said at the time. F…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: 'Chopped' Kosher Chef Jailed On New Child Sex Assault Charges Out Of Teaneck UPDATE: 'Chopped' Kosher Chef Jailed On New Child Sex Assault Charges Out Of Teaneck UPDATE: 'Chopped' Kosher Chef Jailed On New Child Sex Assault Charges Out Of Teaneck
Update: 'Chopped' Kosher Chef Jailed On New Child Sex Assault Charges Out Of Teaneck A kosher chef from Teaneck who appeared on the Food Network show "Chopped” was jailed after a grand jury in Hackensack indicted him on charges of sexually assaulting a child. Shalom "Sal" Yehudiel, 41, was arrested at JFK Airport last month when authorities said he tried to flee the country. He'd only just had previous child sex assault charges against him dismissed by a judge in Hackensack at the time. A new indictment charges Yehudiel with sexually assaulting a girl who was 14 and 15 twice in Teaneck between November 2016 and April 2017. Yehudiel -- now lives in Aventura, FL -- surr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
Breaking News
Footage Released Of Ex-Con Shot Dead By Newark Police Following Killings Of Boy, 8, Man Footage Released Of Ex-Con Shot Dead By Newark Police Following Killings Of Boy, 8, Man Footage Released Of Ex-Con Shot Dead By Newark Police Following Killings Of Boy, 8, Man
Footage Released Of Ex-Con Shot Dead By Newark Police Following Killings Of Boy, 8, Man UPDATE: State authorities released body-camera footage of a Newark police foot chase that ended with a local ex-con suspected of a double homicide shot dead this past spring. Officers responding to the fatal May 3 shootings of a man and 8-year-old boy on Johnson Avenue in Newark saw Everett Rand toss what turned out to be a semi-automatic handgun with a large capacity magazine into a Dumpster, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said Monday, Sept. 18. Rand, 29, then took off on foot with several uniformed officers on his tail. A basic background search turned up a six-year history…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
HORRIFIC: Passaic Man Charged With Abducting, Raping, Beating Young Girl HORRIFIC: Passaic Man Charged With Abducting, Raping, Beating Young Girl HORRIFIC: Passaic Man Charged With Abducting, Raping, Beating Young Girl
Horrific: Passaic Man Charged With Abducting, Raping, Beating Young Girl Holding her against her will, a 22-year-old Passaic man repeatedly sexually assaulted and beat a child, authorities charged. Stiven Peralta “sexually assaulted and repeatedly physically assaulted a child at a residence in Passaic, restraining the child when she attempted to leave the residence,” Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Passaic Police Chief Luis A. Guzman said Authorities seized Peralta near the corner of Washington Place and Columbia Avenue shortly after 12:30 a.m. last Wednesday, Sept. 13, they said. He remained held Monday in the Bergen County Jail. The Dominica…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
'76 Corvette Recovered: Edgewater, West New York Police Seize City Man, 66 '76 Corvette Recovered: Edgewater, West New York Police Seize City Man, 66 '76 Corvette Recovered: Edgewater, West New York Police Seize City Man, 66
'76 Corvette Recovered: Edgewater, West New York Police Seize City Man, 66 Edgewater and West New York police teamed up to nab a 66-year-old repeat offender who they said snatched a classic Corvette. Surveillance video shows a thief stealing the ‘76 Chevy from Edgewater Motors and heading south on River Road shortly after 5 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 17, Edgewater Police Detective Lt. Steven Tibus said. West New York police notified their Edgewater colleagues that they’d recovered the vehicle at the intersection of 52nd Street and Broadway just before lunchtime Monday, the lieutenant said. Tibus and Detective Sgt. Timothy Farrell met West New York Detectives Mario Cadena…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Serial Burglar Wanted For 16 Lyndhurst Break-Ins Caught Stealing From Senior In PA: Police Serial Burglar Wanted For 16 Lyndhurst Break-Ins Caught Stealing From Senior In PA: Police Serial Burglar Wanted For 16 Lyndhurst Break-Ins Caught Stealing From Senior In PA: Police
Serial Burglar Wanted For 16 Lyndhurst Break-Ins Caught Stealing From Senior In PA: Police A habitual offender who used credit cards in three states that were stolen during 16 vehicle burglaries in Lyndhurst in a single night was brought to New Jersey after being captured by Pennsylvania State Police, authorities said. At only 20 years old, Veelique Farrior-Harris already has a sizable rap sheet, mostly involving small-time burglaries and thefts, records show. Lyndhurst police began looking for him, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said, after 16 vehicles were burglarized – on Jay, Port, Link and Stuyvesant avenues – between 2:30-4 a.m. Aug. 5. Detective Nick Abruscato identified a …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
Breaking News
Handgun Seized From Traveler At Newark Airport Increases Record 2023 Total, TSA Says Handgun Seized From Traveler At Newark Airport Increases Record 2023 Total, TSA Says Handgun Seized From Traveler At Newark Airport Increases Record 2023 Total, TSA Says
Handgun Seized From Traveler At Newark Airport Increases Record 2023 Total, TSA Says TSA agents at Newark Airport nabbed a Pennsylvania traveler who they said tried to bring a loaded gun aboard a flight in his backpack. The discovery of the 9mm handgun at a security checkpoint X-ray machine in Terminal C on Saturday, Sept. 16 brought the total number of firearm seizures at Newark Liberty International Airport this year to 18, federal officials said. That's four more than were seized all of last year, they said. The agents summoned Port Authority police, who took the Canadensis (Monroe County), PA man into custody, the TSA's Lisa Farbstein said. "We are at a point whe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
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TAX CHEAT: Owner Of NJ Construction, Real Estate Companies Admits Stiffing IRS By $236,000 TAX CHEAT: Owner Of NJ Construction, Real Estate Companies Admits Stiffing IRS By $236,000 TAX CHEAT: Owner Of NJ Construction, Real Estate Companies Admits Stiffing IRS By $236,000
TAX Cheat: Owner Of NJ Construction, Real Estate Companies Admits Stiffing IRS By $236,000 The owner of New Jersey construction and real estate companies admitted ducking $239,999 worth of federal income taxes, authorities said. Salvatore Caravella, Jr. of Kinnelon didn't report $692,185 in self-employment income he earned from his businesses on his personal tax returns, a complaint filed by the Internal Revenue Service says. Caravella's companies included 2-C Construction Company Inc., Bella Construction of North Jersey LLC and 203 Harrison Street LLC, according to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Newark. Caravella oversaw all aspects of the businesses’ operat…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
GOTCHA! Mahwah, Upper Saddle River PDs Nab Rockland Man In Commercial Burglary Spree GOTCHA! Mahwah, Upper Saddle River PDs Nab Rockland Man In Commercial Burglary Spree GOTCHA! Mahwah, Upper Saddle River PDs Nab Rockland Man In Commercial Burglary Spree
Gotcha! Mahwah, Upper Saddle River PDs Nab Rockland Man In Commercial Burglary Spree Police from Mahwah and Upper Saddle River teamed up to nab a serial burglar from Rockland County who broke into several well-known area businesses – including a local mini mart that was victimized twice, authorities said. Carlos M. Martinez Amaya wasn't only charged with burglarizing the Mahwah Bar & Grill, Ernie’s Ice Cream and the Fardale Deli & Mini Mart (twice). He's also accused of commercial burglaries in Upper Saddle River and Franklin Township and with pointing a gun at someone. Minimal proceeds were taken during break-ins the same night, March 31, at Ernie’s on Franklin Tu…

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