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
Passaic Sheriff: Hidden Vehicle Compartment Holds $24,000 In Ecstasy, Coke Passaic Sheriff: Hidden Vehicle Compartment Holds $24,000 In Ecstasy, Coke Passaic Sheriff: Hidden Vehicle Compartment Holds $24,000 In Ecstasy, Coke
Passaic Sheriff: Hidden Vehicle Compartment Holds $24,000 In Ecstasy, Coke PATERSON, N.J. -- Passaic County sheriff's detectives found a secret compartment that held nearly 1,000 Ecstasy pills and a half-ounce of cocaine in a car searched during a drug investigation, authorities said Friday. The unit was investigating the sale of both drugs in the area of Chadwick Street and Mary Street when a man identified as Yeahia Ahmed got out of a gray Lexus, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. Ahmed, 32, of Woodland Park then gave an unidentified man what apparently were drugs in exchange for money, the sheriff said. The second man then got into another car and sped off, he s…

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Gang Member Locked In GF's Elmwood Park Apartment Surrenders To SWAT Team Gang Member Locked In GF's Elmwood Park Apartment Surrenders To SWAT Team Gang Member Locked In GF's Elmwood Park Apartment Surrenders To SWAT Team
Gang Member Locked In GF's Elmwood Park Apartment Surrenders To SWAT Team ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- (UPDATE) The barricaded man talked out of his girlfriend's Elmwood Park apartment by a SWAT team negotiator after he stabbed and slashed himself Friday morning is a gang member known as "Young Yb," authorities said. Ex-con Danny Urena, 25, kicked in the door of the Donor Avenue garden apartment in the Elmwood Village complex around 9:45 a.m. and confronted his 31-year-old girlfriend about not coming home last night, Chief Michael Foligno said. She escaped and called police while the 6-foot-3-inch, 250-pound Urena barricaded himself in the bathroom and began c…

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by Jerry DeMarco
New Rochelle, NY
Breaking News
Pair Charged With $1M New Rochelle Jewelry Store Burglary Pair Charged With $1M New Rochelle Jewelry Store Burglary Pair Charged With $1M New Rochelle Jewelry Store Burglary
Pair Charged With $1M New Rochelle Jewelry Store Burglary Two members of a tristate burglary crew that stole $1,000,000 worth of bling from a New Rochelle jewelry store were arrested by authorities who said they sold the goods through a New Jersey fence. The two 55-year-old Brooklyn men -- Kevin Lyde, a spiritual rehabilitation counselor, and Kevin Young, who is unemployed -- remained held in New York City on charges that include grand larceny and burglary, Acting Bergen County (NJ) Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Friday.  Additional charges were expected against them and against 56-year-old Frank Lashvili of River Vale, who Calo said fenced the stole…

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Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Jeweler From River Vale Fenced $1.25M In Stolen Bling Prosecutor: Jeweler From River Vale Fenced $1.25M In Stolen Bling Prosecutor: Jeweler From River Vale Fenced $1.25M In Stolen Bling
Prosecutor: Jeweler From River Vale Fenced $1.25M In Stolen Bling RIVER VALE, N.J. – A jeweler from River Vale fenced $275,000 worth of bling from an Englewood jewelry store and $1,000,000 worth from one in Westchester County for a tri-state area burglary crew, authorities said Friday. Frank Lashvili, 56, remained held Friday in the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing Monday in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. He's charged with fencing, receiving stolen property and accomplice liability. Also arrested were two 55-year-old Brooklyn men: Kevin Lyde, a spiritual rehabilitation couns…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
FOUND! Garfield Motorist, 80, Turns Up Outside Trenton FOUND! Garfield Motorist, 80, Turns Up Outside Trenton FOUND! Garfield Motorist, 80, Turns Up Outside Trenton
Found! Garfield Motorist, 80, Turns Up Outside Trenton GARFIELD, N.J. – An 80-year-old Garfield man reported missing after he left home in his car Wednesday morning was found just outside Trenton on Friday by a Good Samaritan who "noticed that he appeared lost," police said. The Good Samaritan helped Yun T. Lee contact his family and then local police in Lawrenceville, more than 60 miles from home. Police there determined that he was "in good health," Sucorowski said. Lee was last seen around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday driving a silver 2006 Toyota Highlander. The vehicle apparently was spotted in Warren County later that day, the…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack PD: Homeless Man Steals Little Ferry Car To Sleep In, Buy Pot Hackensack PD: Homeless Man Steals Little Ferry Car To Sleep In, Buy Pot Hackensack PD: Homeless Man Steals Little Ferry Car To Sleep In, Buy Pot
Hackensack PD: Homeless Man Steals Little Ferry Car To Sleep In, Buy Pot HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A homeless man who last month left two court summonses behind in a vehicle he'd just burglarized was caught driving a stolen car, Hackensack police said. Released under New Jersey's bail reform law, 32-year-old Anthony Burks was stopped by city detectives Thursday afternoon on Lodi Street, Capt. Peter Busciglio said. “I took it from a gas station last night,” Busciglio said Burks told them. The car was, in fact, taken from a gas station in neighboring Little Ferry around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, the captain said. ****** ALSO SEE: An Elmwood Park man who stabbed himself an…

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Gang Member Locked In GF's Elmwood Park Apartment Surrenders To SWAT Team Gang Member Locked In GF's Elmwood Park Apartment Surrenders To SWAT Team Gang Member Locked In GF's Elmwood Park Apartment Surrenders To SWAT Team
Gang Member Locked In GF's Elmwood Park Apartment Surrenders To SWAT Team ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- (UPDATE) The barricaded man talked out of his girlfriend's Elmwood Park apartment by a SWAT team negotiator after he stabbed and slashed himself Friday morning is a gang member known as "Young Yb," Daily Voice has learned. Ex-con Danny Urena, 25, kicked in the door of the Donor Avenue garden apartment in the Elmwood Village complex around 9:45 a.m. and confronted his 31-year-old girlfriend about not coming home last night, Chief Michael Foligno said. She escaped and called police while the 6-foot-3-inch, 250-pound Bloods member barricaded himself in the bathr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Here's An Advertisement: Distracted Driver Rams Fair Lawn Police Car Here's An Advertisement: Distracted Driver Rams Fair Lawn Police Car Here's An Advertisement: Distracted Driver Rams Fair Lawn Police Car
Here's An Advertisement: Distracted Driver Rams Fair Lawn Police Car FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- National Distracted Driver Awareness Month couldn't have gotten better publicity: A motorist rammed his Jeep into a Fair Lawn police car after running a stop sign while using his cellphone for directions, authorities said. Officer Luis Vazquez emerged with a sore neck after his SUV was rammed by a 2017 Jeep Cherokee driven by Hani Chenouda, 41, of West Orange, at the corner of Willow Street and Kenneth Avenue, authorities said. Chenouda admitted "he was using his cellphone for directions, holding it in his right hand, when he went through the stop sign" on eastb…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bogota PD: Driver In Chase To Paterson Carried Fake Urine Bogota PD: Driver In Chase To Paterson Carried Fake Urine Bogota PD: Driver In Chase To Paterson Carried Fake Urine
Bogota PD: Driver In Chase To Paterson Carried Fake Urine BOGOTA, N.J. -- A driver who led police on a chase from Bogota to Paterson was carrying synthetic urine used to fool drug tests, authorities said. Another officer was coming after Monsun A. Mersier, 27, of Newark when Officer Michael LaFererra -- working a distracted driving detail -- saw him speed by on Palisade Avenue at nearly 50 miles an hour in a 25mph zone, Sgt. Geoffrey Cole said. Unaware that another officer was pursuing him, LaFererra tried to stop Mersier -- but he "hit the gas and entered westbound Route 80, with Officer LaFererra behind," Cole said. New Jersey State…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Lodi Man Had Cybersex With Child, Authorities Charge Lodi Man Had Cybersex With Child, Authorities Charge Lodi Man Had Cybersex With Child, Authorities Charge
Lodi Man Had Cybersex With Child, Authorities Charge LODI, N.J. – An unemployed Lodi man had cybersex with an underage child, said authorities who arrested him Thursday on local and federal charges. Aris Gungormez, 22, was taken into custody following a warranted search at his Avenue D home by detectives from the the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Cyber Crimes Unit and the Broward County (Florida) Sheriff’s Office. Both agencies collaborate on an investigation that found that he “used the Internet to view, possess, and attempt to distribute digital files depicting nude and sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children,” Acting Bergen Coun…

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