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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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
PHOTOS: Couple Rescued, Landmark Passaic Deli Destroyed PHOTOS: Couple Rescued, Landmark Passaic Deli Destroyed PHOTOS: Couple Rescued, Landmark Passaic Deli Destroyed
Photos: Couple Rescued, Landmark Passaic Deli Destroyed PASSAIC, N.J. -- Firefighters rescued a couple while battling a four-alarm blaze that destroyed the landmark King of Delancey kosher deli in Passaic early Wednesday. Several firefighters sustained minor injuries, authorities said. No serious injuries were reported. The 5:30 a.m. blaze began in a rear basement of the 3½-story, multi-use building at Main Avenue and Carlton Place and quickly raced upward, collapsing floors, responders said. Joining their Passaic colleagues were firefighters from Carlstadt, East Rutherford, Little Falls, Wallington and Woodland Park, as well as the Moonachie F…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: Gunman, 20, Charged In Paterson Street Shooting Authorities: Gunman, 20, Charged In Paterson Street Shooting Authorities: Gunman, 20, Charged In Paterson Street Shooting
Authorities: Gunman, 20, Charged In Paterson Street Shooting PATERSON, N.J. -- Authorities charged a 20-year-old Paterson resident with a January city shooting that sent the victim to the hospital. Delsean Pinchom remained held pending a hearing Wednesday afternoon in Central Judicial Processing Court in Paterson. He’s charged with aggravated assault and weapons offenses, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Troy Oswald said in a joint release. City detectives, working with their colleagues from the county prosecutor’s office, arrested Pinchom on Tuesday in connection with the Jan. 10 shooting of the 24-year-old vict…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Your Community
Crimestoppers V. Hackensack Middle Schoolers: Slam Dunk For Awareness Crimestoppers V. Hackensack Middle Schoolers: Slam Dunk For Awareness Crimestoppers V. Hackensack Middle Schoolers: Slam Dunk For Awareness
Crimestoppers V. Hackensack Middle Schoolers: Slam Dunk For Awareness HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Hackensack police will play the city's middle school students in a community awareness basketball game this Thursday. There will also be a free-throw shooting contest with prizes that include a mountain bike, assorting sporting goods and gift certificates. Crimes Stoppers of Bergenfield, Englewood, Teaneck, Hackensack and Bogota are staging the game -- aided by donations from city citizens, merchants and Hackensack Local PBA #9 -- at the middle school on Union Street. The Crime Stoppers group helps authorities investigate and solve crime in the five municipalities it se…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
10 Years In Fed Pen For Driver Who Trucked 100 Pounds Of Drugs To Clifton 10 Years In Fed Pen For Driver Who Trucked 100 Pounds Of Drugs To Clifton 10 Years In Fed Pen For Driver Who Trucked 100 Pounds Of Drugs To Clifton
10 Years In Fed Pen For Driver Who Trucked 100 Pounds Of Drugs To Clifton CLIFTON, N.J. -- A Miami man must serve 10 years in federal prison for trucking nearly 100 pounds of heroin, fentanyl, cocaine and more for sale to Clifton. Sauro D. Estevez Figueredo, 50, was the last of five defendants to plead guilty in the case, admitting last November that he collected the drugs and hauled them in a tractor-trailer to New Jersey. Because there's no parole in the federal system, he must serve nearly all of the plea-bargained sentence handed down Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Trenton. DEA agents busted the ring after finding the drug-filled rig parked in Clifton on …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Wayne PD: Passaic Couple Caught Behind Route 46 Motel Had Crack, Pot, Baby Wayne PD: Passaic Couple Caught Behind Route 46 Motel Had Crack, Pot, Baby Wayne PD: Passaic Couple Caught Behind Route 46 Motel Had Crack, Pot, Baby
Wayne PD: Passaic Couple Caught Behind Route 46 Motel Had Crack, Pot, Baby WAYNE, N.J. -- A Passaic County couple caught behind a Route 46 motel with 15 bags of crack as well as marijuana in their car also had an infant in the back seat, said Wayne police who busted them. Officers Ryan Vallaro and Mark Ciavirella investigated after spotting Michael J Allen, 28, of Paterson and Shaquetta F. Mouzone, 27, of Haledon in the rear parking lot of the Kings Motor Inn around 2:45 p.m. Sunday, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. In plain view on the front seat of their car was a clear, zip-locked bag of marijuana, Martin said. The officers also found 15 individually pack…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
NJ Dealer Admits Going Postal To Get Pot From California NJ Dealer Admits Going Postal To Get Pot From California NJ Dealer Admits Going Postal To Get Pot From California
NJ Dealer Admits Going Postal To Get Pot From California A Newark man admitted in federal court Tuesday that he bribed a pair of mail carriers to intercept and deliver packages of pot to him from California for nearly three years. A U.S. District Court judge in Newark freed Glenn Blackstone, 48, on a $100,000 unsecured bond pending sentencing after he pleadd guilty to single counts of bribery and conspiracy. Blackstone bought the marijuana from a producer in California, then slipped the carriers $50 to $100 a delivery before dealing the drug in Newark, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Blackstone said he paid then-USPS mail carrier Leonard Gre…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
SEEN HIM? Wayne PD Seeks Help Finding Cellphone Thief SEEN HIM? Wayne PD Seeks Help Finding Cellphone Thief SEEN HIM? Wayne PD Seeks Help Finding Cellphone Thief
Seen HIM? Wayne PD Seeks Help Finding Cellphone Thief WAYNE, N.J. -- Wayne police asked the public for help Tuesday identifying a man who they said snatched an iPhone worth $1,160 from a Willowbrook Mall kiosk and fled. The thief "engaged in a ruse sale for an iPhone X," then "seized the phone and fled the shopping center" just after 5:30 p.m. March 11, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. If you see or know the suspect, Martin asked that you contact Wayne Police Detective Michael O’Rourke at (973)633-3537 or call the township Detective Bureau: (973) 633-3530. 

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: Helicopter/Drone Demo Will Show Paterson Kids How To Share Sky VIDEO: Helicopter/Drone Demo Will Show Paterson Kids How To Share Sky VIDEO: Helicopter/Drone Demo Will Show Paterson Kids How To Share Sky
Video: Helicopter/Drone Demo Will Show Paterson Kids How To Share Sky WOODLAND PARK, N.J. -- Sharing the sky safely will be the focus of a demonstration this weekend for the Paterson PAL Cadets and other youngsters who are interested in flying helicopters or operating drones. The free event this Saturday at Garrett Mountain is co-sponsored by Garden State Helicopters and the Eye in the Sky Project. "Helicopters and drones need to work together," Eye in the Sky Executive Director Victor Barriga said, citing several reported mid-air collisions. " Barriga frequently trains law enforcement in various uses for non-piloted aircraft -- from surveilla…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen-Based 15-Year Fugitive Takes Plea Bergen-Based 15-Year Fugitive Takes Plea Bergen-Based 15-Year Fugitive Takes Plea
Bergen-Based 15-Year Fugitive Takes Plea EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- A Middle Eastern organized crime figure captured by the FBI after a 15-year international manhunt admitted Tuesday that he conned New Jersey mom-and-pop stores out of computer equipment as part of an East Rutherford-based criminal enterprise. Some of the small business owners were wiped out by the group of thieves that included Steven “Fouad" Nacim, 49, a naturalized U.S. citizen living in Newark who fled to his native Morocco in 2002 to avoid prosecution. Nacim, who'd been under house arrest with GPS location monitoring, pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: Hit-Run Route 17 Pickup Loses Two Wheels, Causes Extensive Damage VIDEO: Hit-Run Route 17 Pickup Loses Two Wheels, Causes Extensive Damage VIDEO: Hit-Run Route 17 Pickup Loses Two Wheels, Causes Extensive Damage
Video: Hit-Run Route 17 Pickup Loses Two Wheels, Causes Extensive Damage Police on both sides of the state border were looking for the owner of a white pickup truck that they said lost two wheels on northbound Route 17 in Upper Saddle River near Rockland County -- one of which smashed into a store window and the other which caused two minor vehicle crashes. Surveillance video (above) shows one of the tires flying through the air into a front window at the AutoSport store just after 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Soon after, the pickup driver rushes into the frame, retrieving the wheel from outside Salvatore Marsilla's auto body and detailing shop. USR and Ramsey police also…

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