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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Garfield-Lodi, NJ
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You Can Help A Garfield Family Burned Out By Fire You Can Help A Garfield Family Burned Out By Fire You Can Help A Garfield Family Burned Out By Fire
You Can Help A Garfield Family Burned Out By Fire GARFIELD, N.J. – A friend is gathering clothing and other necessities for a Garfield family burned out of their home. Robert and Dana, their children and the kids’ grandmother could use shirts, pants, shoes and more, Christopher Fuschini said. Both girls – daughters Casey, 18, and Amber, 18 – take medium shirts and large pants. Shoe sizes: 7 and 8; Robert Jr. 14, takes a large shirt and medium pants. Shoe: 7 or 8; Grandma Jean needs shoes: 6-6½; Robert Sr. takes 34x33 pants, extra large shirts and boots: 11½ wide. They can also use socks, underwear and school shirts, as well as personal hy…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Police ID Fort Lee Mom Who Left Toddler, 2, In Towed Car Police ID Fort Lee Mom Who Left Toddler, 2, In Towed Car Police ID Fort Lee Mom Who Left Toddler, 2, In Towed Car
Police ID Fort Lee Mom Who Left Toddler, 2, In Towed Car FORT LEE, N.J. -- Police on Thursday identified a Fort Lee woman whose illegally parked car was towed with her 2-year-old daughter in the back seat while she was inside a local bank. Yuqing Jiang, 46, was charged with abandonment, child abuse and endangerment after a borough police sergeant found the toddler still asleep in a Bergen Boulevard towing lot. Jiang had parked at the Towne Center on Schlosser Street while she went into the Chase Bank on Main Street early Monday evening, responders told Daily Voice on Wednesday. The car was towed at 5:30 p.m., records show. At 5:56 p.m., Fort Le…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Franklin Lakes Doctor Gets 18 Months In Fed Pen For Test Company Bribes Franklin Lakes Doctor Gets 18 Months In Fed Pen For Test Company Bribes Franklin Lakes Doctor Gets 18 Months In Fed Pen For Test Company Bribes
Franklin Lakes Doctor Gets 18 Months In Fed Pen For Test Company Bribes FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. -- A physician from Franklin Lakes was sentenced to a plea-bargained 18 months in federal prison Wednesday for his role in a massive test-referral bribery scheme. Basel Batarseh, 57, will have to serve the entire term: There is no parole in the federal prison system. Batarseh, who had an internal medicine practice in West New York, previously admitted that he took more than $104,000 in payoffs from employees and associates of Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS) of Parsippany between November 2007 and August 2010. In exchange, Batarseh said, he generated more t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Paterson PD: Teen Drug Dealer Had 3,150 Heroin Folds, AR-15, $4,000 Paterson PD: Teen Drug Dealer Had 3,150 Heroin Folds, AR-15, $4,000 Paterson PD: Teen Drug Dealer Had 3,150 Heroin Folds, AR-15, $4,000
Paterson PD: Teen Drug Dealer Had 3,150 Heroin Folds, AR-15, $4,000 PATERSON, N.J. -- An 18-year-old drug dealer had an AR-15 rifle and a .357 Magnum handgun that had been reported stolen along with nearly 3,150 folds of heroin when Paterson police nabbed him, authorities said. Marshall T. Stephenson also had a prohibited high-capacity magazine and $4,017 in drug proceeds when narcotics detectives arrested near his East 28th Street apartment last week, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. A judge refused to release Stephenson from the Passaic County Jail, where he remained held on a variety of drug and weapons offenses.

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Teaneck, NJ
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Feds: Teaneck Man Tried Bribing Employee For Special Visa Feds: Teaneck Man Tried Bribing Employee For Special Visa Feds: Teaneck Man Tried Bribing Employee For Special Visa
Feds: Teaneck Man Tried Bribing Employee For Special Visa TEANECK, N.J. -- A Teaneck man was arrested Wednesday after he tried bribing a federal employee to take care of a non-immigrant visa that allows Dominican nationals to enter the U.S., authorities said. Luis Santos, 27, offered the State Department employee -- a U.S. consular adjudicator -- $2,500 for a favorable outcome, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito, announced. A nonimmigrant visa (NIV) is issued to a person with permanent residence outside the U.S. who seeks admission here temporarily for tourism, medical treatment, business or temporary work or study. Santos was scheduled for a Wednesda…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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SEEN HIM? Manhunt On For Deportee Who Escaped ICE Agents At JFK SEEN HIM? Manhunt On For Deportee Who Escaped ICE Agents At JFK SEEN HIM? Manhunt On For Deportee Who Escaped ICE Agents At JFK
Seen HIM? Manhunt On For Deportee Who Escaped ICE Agents At JFK A Senegalese national escaped ICE agents who were deporting him at JFK Airport, said authorities who were searching for him. Mohamadou Lamine Mbacke, 31, "was in ICE custody awaiting removal via a commercial airline flight through JFK Tuesday before absconding" at Terminal 4's Gate B23, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Khaalid Walls. The agents apparently had removed Mbacke's handcuffs to bring him through screening when he bolted, authorities said. He hopped into a cab around 9 p.m. and was gone, Walls said surveillance video show. Mbacke, who'd been living in D…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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RECOGNIZE HIM? Police Release More Photos Of Clifton Bank Robber RECOGNIZE HIM? Police Release More Photos Of Clifton Bank Robber RECOGNIZE HIM? Police Release More Photos Of Clifton Bank Robber
Recognize HIM? Police Release More Photos Of Clifton Bank Robber CLIFTON, N.J. -- Clifton police on Wednesday released additional photos of a robber who implied he was armed before making off with an undisclosed amount of cash from a local bank three weeks ago. The robber, dressed in dark clothing, handed a note to the teller demanding money at the Investors Savings Bank at the corner of 4th Street and Clifton Avenue just before 3 p.m. March 6, Sgt. Robert Anderson said. He "implied that he was armed, but no weapon was shown," Anderson said. Clifton police were investigating with assistance from the FBI-Newark Field Office, he said. The Passa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Port Authority PD: Traveler Caught With Pistol, Ammo In Carry-On Bag Port Authority PD: Traveler Caught With Pistol, Ammo In Carry-On Bag Port Authority PD: Traveler Caught With Pistol, Ammo In Carry-On Bag
Port Authority PD: Traveler Caught With Pistol, Ammo In Carry-On Bag TSA agents at Newark Airport found a loaded handgun in the carry-on bag of a Pennsylvania man who was immediately taken into custody, Port Authority police said. Adam Scott, 52, of Barto, PA also had five hollow-point bullets in his bag along with the Smith & Wesson .38-caliber pistol as it passed through the X-ray screener Saturday afternoon, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo said. "There was no interruption to airport operations," Pentangelo said. Scott was charged with illegal possession of the handgun and the ammunition. The TSA has details on how to properly travel wit…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Grewal Joins Opposition To Federal Denial Of Health Care Proposal Grewal Joins Opposition To Federal Denial Of Health Care Proposal Grewal Joins Opposition To Federal Denial Of Health Care Proposal
Grewal Joins Opposition To Federal Denial Of Health Care Proposal New Jersey's Gurbir S. Grewal has joined a multi-state coalition of Attorneys General in urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to withdraw a proposed “conscience” rule that would allow health care institutions to deny medically necessary care to patients on the basis of “religious, moral, ethical or other reasons.” New Jersey receives more than $11 billion in federal health care funding annually – funding that Grewal said could be terminated under the proposed rule if HHS determines the state has failed, or even “threatened” to fail, to comply with the rule’s requirem…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
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Fire Ravages Trash-Filled Garfield Home, Cat Hospitalized Fire Ravages Trash-Filled Garfield Home, Cat Hospitalized Fire Ravages Trash-Filled Garfield Home, Cat Hospitalized
Fire Ravages Trash-Filled Garfield Home, Cat Hospitalized GARFIELD, N.J. -- "Collyer's Mansion" conditions hampered firefighters who battled flames that tore through a Garfield home late Tuesday. The two-alarm blaze began in the basement around 10:30 p.m. and quickly blew through the roof, responders said. Trash stacked in the 1½-story home -- set back behind another house on Cedar Street -- blocked access and forced firefighters to attack the flames from outside, they said. No injuries were reported, although a cat was treated for smoke inhalation before being taken to Oradell Animal Hospital. Responders included Garfield police and f…

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