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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Yonkers, NY
Breaking News
Promoter Shipped Thousands Of Pounds Of Pot To Yonkers, Prosecutor Says Promoter Shipped Thousands Of Pounds Of Pot To Yonkers, Prosecutor Says Promoter Shipped Thousands Of Pounds Of Pot To Yonkers, Prosecutor Says
Promoter Shipped Thousands Of Pounds Of Pot To Yonkers, Prosecutor Says An entertainment producer from New Jersey shipped thousands of pounds of marijuana for sale hidden in musical speakers from the West Coast to Yonkers and elsewhere, said authorities who busted him and two accused accomplices in a special operation. Oscar Holguin, 38, was arrested in the Central Jersey town of Carteret, just off the New Jersey Turnpike, where authorities said he was assisted by 27-year-old local barmaid Natalie Stojano. Also busted were Holguin’s girlfriend, Paula Amador, 29, also of Englewood, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. Detectives from Calo’s office …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Passaic Sheriff: Detectives Bust Clifton Dealer With 1.2 Pounds Of Cocaine Passaic Sheriff: Detectives Bust Clifton Dealer With 1.2 Pounds Of Cocaine Passaic Sheriff: Detectives Bust Clifton Dealer With 1.2 Pounds Of Cocaine
Passaic Sheriff: Detectives Bust Clifton Dealer With 1.2 Pounds Of Cocaine CLIFTON, N.J. – Passaic County Sheriff’s detectives seized 1.2 pounds of cocaine and more from a Clifton dealer after searching his home and car, authorities said. Wiston Ramiro Garcia-Oquendo, 41, became a target after investigators received a tip that he was selling coke from his Doherty Drive home and his gray Honda Civic, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. Carrying warrants, members of Berdnik’s Bureau of Narcotics unit followed and then stopped Quendo Thursday afternoon, the sheriff said. Berdnik said searches turned up: 1 large vacuumed-sealed bag of cocaine; 1 small vacuumed-sealed …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
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Lyndhurst Crash Sends Car Into One Church, Truck Into Other: Driver, 92, OK Lyndhurst Crash Sends Car Into One Church, Truck Into Other: Driver, 92, OK Lyndhurst Crash Sends Car Into One Church, Truck Into Other: Driver, 92, OK
Lyndhurst Crash Sends Car Into One Church, Truck Into Other: Driver, 92, OK LYNDHURST, N.J. -- Two tree company drivers accidentally sandwiched a 92-year-old motorist between their trucks, sending his car onto the stairs of one Lyndhurst church and one of theirs into another one across the street, police said. The elderly driver wasn't seriously injured in Friday's mishap, authorities said. However, the United Presbyterian Church on Ridge Road sustained some damage, including a "Spring Fling & Craft Fair" sign that police helped reattach to the portico. The first truck had stopped, as did the passenger vehicle, Police Chief James O'Connor said. The …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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ICE Eyes Fort Lee Korean Restaurant Manager Charged With Pocketing $500,000 ICE Eyes Fort Lee Korean Restaurant Manager Charged With Pocketing $500,000 ICE Eyes Fort Lee Korean Restaurant Manager Charged With Pocketing $500,000
ICE Eyes Fort Lee Korean Restaurant Manager Charged With Pocketing $500,000 PALISADES PARK, N.J. – A Fort Lee restaurant manager living in Palisades Park stole $500,000 from the business by falsely canceling payments made in cash and pocketing staff tips, authorities said. Now federal authorities are looking at possibly deporting the Korean national. Investigators targeted Jung M. Yun, 36, after the restaurant owner discovered the thefts made over the past four years, beginning soon after she was hired, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. They learned that Yun “used her position and her knowledge of the restaurant’s computerized point of sale system …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
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Body Of Missing Postal Worker From Lyndhurst Found In Passaic River Body Of Missing Postal Worker From Lyndhurst Found In Passaic River Body Of Missing Postal Worker From Lyndhurst Found In Passaic River
Body Of Missing Postal Worker From Lyndhurst Found In Passaic River LYNDHURST, N.J. – The body of a postal worker from Lyndhurst who went missing more than three weeks ago was pulled Friday from the Passaic River in South Kearny. "We're pending positive identification [from the Bergen County Medical Examiner's Office]," Police Chief James O'Connor told Daily Voice, adding that foul play wasn't suspected. Co-workers of 51-year-old Vitorino Cirne at the U.S. Postal Service facility in Kearny sobbed Friday after receiving the news. "I got to dance with him at the last retirement party they had," the wife of one of them told Daily Voice. &q…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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Cirque Du Soleil Performer Injured On Trampoline During Meadowlands Show Cirque Du Soleil Performer Injured On Trampoline During Meadowlands Show Cirque Du Soleil Performer Injured On Trampoline During Meadowlands Show
Cirque Du Soleil Performer Injured On Trampoline During Meadowlands Show EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Parents and children gasped in shock when a Cirque du Soleil performer missed a trampoline jump and slammed her head on a perimeter bar during a show Friday night in East Rutherford. The mishap came after organizers previously postponed the Meadowlands performance in the wake of a company aerialist’s death two months ago. "There were four men and two women. It was the intermission, and they were building up for their finale," one parent said after Friday's incident.  "The one girl jumped two stories onto the trampoline, then went up -- and on her way…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
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Teaneck Elevator Tech, 43, Had Sex With Underage Teen, Authorities Charge Teaneck Elevator Tech, 43, Had Sex With Underage Teen, Authorities Charge Teaneck Elevator Tech, 43, Had Sex With Underage Teen, Authorities Charge
Teaneck Elevator Tech, 43, Had Sex With Underage Teen, Authorities Charge TEANECK, N.J. – Authorities charged a 43-year-old elevator technician from Teaneck with having sex with an underage teen. Authorities investigated after local police were told that Arturo Diaz “engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct with a juvenile in Teaneck,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. The youngster was between 13 and 16 years old, records show. Calo’s Special Victims Unit and Teaneck police arrested Diaz, who was charged with aggravated sexual assault – also known as statutory rape – as well as sexual assault and child endangerment. He remained held in the Berge…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Prosecutor: Englewood Promoter Shipped Thousands Of Pot Pounds To Bergen Prosecutor: Englewood Promoter Shipped Thousands Of Pot Pounds To Bergen Prosecutor: Englewood Promoter Shipped Thousands Of Pot Pounds To Bergen
Prosecutor: Englewood Promoter Shipped Thousands Of Pot Pounds To Bergen An entertainment producer from Englewood shipped thousands of pounds of marijuana for sale hidden in musical speakers from the West Coast to Bergen and Westchester counties, said authorities who busted him and two accused accomplices in a special operation. Oscar Holguin, 38, was arrested in Carteret, where authorities said he was assisted by 27-year-old barmaid Natalie Stojano. Also busted were Holguin’s girlfriend, Paula Amador, 29, also of Englewood, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. Detectives from Calo’s office “received a tip from a concerned citizen regarding suspici…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Hackensack Couple Killed By Train Identified Hackensack Couple Killed By Train Identified Hackensack Couple Killed By Train Identified
Hackensack Couple Killed By Train Identified HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Each was on the opposite side of the tracks before Keith Daisley and Regina Eller met in the middle Wednesday afternoon -- and were struck and killed by a commuter train, witnesses told investigators. Eller, 48, "had just gotten off a bus on Main Street" around 1:10 p.m., a law enforcement official said. Daisley, 51, "was waiting for her on the other side of the tracks," he said, adding that they apparently hadn't seen one another in awhile. The couple -- who each lived at different Hackensack addresses -- "met in the middle of the tracks,"…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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West Milford Police, Firefighters Rescue Struggling Girl From Rushing River West Milford Police, Firefighters Rescue Struggling Girl From Rushing River West Milford Police, Firefighters Rescue Struggling Girl From Rushing River
West Milford Police, Firefighters Rescue Struggling Girl From Rushing River WEST MILFORD, N.J. – West Milford police and firefighters rescued a young swimmer swept away by the Wanaque River current in an area where others have drowned. The girl "entered the water in an area where swimming is banned and was swept away by the current” around 5 p.m. Thursday, West Milford Fire Co. 3 Chief Michael Blondin said. “As she was being pulled into the area where the river dumps into a swirl at an abandoned mine shaft, she was able to grab onto a rock,” Blondin said. “A friend who was with her was able to call for help and guide the rescuers to her exact location.” West …

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