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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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Oakland Woman Killed By Jeep Lived At Developmentally Disabled Group Home Oakland Woman Killed By Jeep Lived At Developmentally Disabled Group Home Oakland Woman Killed By Jeep Lived At Developmentally Disabled Group Home
Oakland Woman Killed By Jeep Lived At Developmentally Disabled Group Home OAKLAND, N.J. – (UPDATE) A 38-year-old Oakland woman who was struck and killed by a Jeep backing out of a driveway this week had been living at a nearby group home for developmentally disabled adults. Nora Kohlash was killed Wednesday on Thackery Road -- in what law enforcement authorities called a "tragic accident" -- five doors down from the Bethesda Lutheran Communities group home where she'd been living. “A tragic accident – nothing criminal,” a law enforcement official told Daily Voice. The woman and an aide were walking on the sidewalk in front of 18 Thackeray Road just bef…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
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Lodi Homeowner Charged With $125,159 Superstorm Sandy Scam Lodi Homeowner Charged With $125,159 Superstorm Sandy Scam Lodi Homeowner Charged With $125,159 Superstorm Sandy Scam
Lodi Homeowner Charged With $125,159 Superstorm Sandy Scam Lodi, N.J. -- A Lodi homeowner collected nearly $125,159 in taxpayer-funded Superstorm Sandy relief by claiming her damaged Jersey Shore home as her primary residence, state authorities charged. The home that Appolonia DiPiazza, 53, owns on East Mohawk Avenue in Little Egg Harbor that was damaged by the historic storm is actually a summer/weekend property, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. By lying on applications, DiPiazza received $2,270 from FEMA, $112,889 in RREM grant funds, and a $10,000 RSP grant, Grewal said. Authorities charged her with theft by deception and released…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Police: Paramus Deli Worker Sexually Assaulted 6 Kids At Hackensack YMCA Police: Paramus Deli Worker Sexually Assaulted 6 Kids At Hackensack YMCA Police: Paramus Deli Worker Sexually Assaulted 6 Kids At Hackensack YMCA
Police: Paramus Deli Worker Sexually Assaulted 6 Kids At Hackensack YMCA HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A Paramus supermarket worker living at the Hackensack YMCA was arrested Friday and charged with sexually assaulting six children between the ages of 6 and 9 there last week. Hackensack police Friday morning arrested Timothy Smith, a 42-year-old former accountant who'd been living at the Main Street Y, on sexual assault and child endangerment charges, Capt. Peter Busciglio said. The incidents all occurred at the Y last Friday and were reported to city police the same day, he said. "With the assistance of the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, the six victims...were …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
POLICE: Deli Worker Sexually Assaulted 6 Kids At Hackensack YMCA POLICE: Deli Worker Sexually Assaulted 6 Kids At Hackensack YMCA POLICE: Deli Worker Sexually Assaulted 6 Kids At Hackensack YMCA
Police: Deli Worker Sexually Assaulted 6 Kids At Hackensack YMCA A Paramus supermarket worker living at the Hackensack YMCA was arrested Friday and charged with sexually assaulting six children between the ages of 6 and 9 there last week. Hackensack police Friday morning arrested Timothy Smith, 42 , who been living at the Main Street Y, on sexual assault and child endangerment charges, Capt. Peter Busciglio said. The incidents all occurred at the Y last Friday and were reported to city police the same day, he said. "With the assistance of the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, the six victims...were interviewed during the course of the next over t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Woodcliff Lake Financial Advisor Charged With Fleecing $1M From Elderly Duo Woodcliff Lake Financial Advisor Charged With Fleecing $1M From Elderly Duo Woodcliff Lake Financial Advisor Charged With Fleecing $1M From Elderly Duo
Woodcliff Lake Financial Advisor Charged With Fleecing $1M From Elderly Duo WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J. -- A Woodcliff Lake financial fleeced two elderly victims of more than $1 million, said authorities who arrested him on theft by deception charges. Jeffrey Palish, 64, first “failed to make payments on a $100,000 loan that he had received from two elderly clients, a loan which he had failed to disclose to the financial institution at which he was employed,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Thursday. “An investigation revealed that, during a four-year period, [Palish] received in excess of $600,000 from the clients,” Calo said. “The funds were obtained t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Alarming Instagram Post Leads Wayne Police To Illegal Gun, Arrests Of Two Alarming Instagram Post Leads Wayne Police To Illegal Gun, Arrests Of Two Alarming Instagram Post Leads Wayne Police To Illegal Gun, Arrests Of Two
Alarming Instagram Post Leads Wayne Police To Illegal Gun, Arrests Of Two WAYNE, N.J. – An Instagram photo of a former Florida resident brandishing a revolver led to a raid on his Wayne home and the seizure of the gun, as well as anabolic steroids, authorities said. Wayne police Wednesday night raided the home of Christopher S. Ruby, 18, after learning that he’d had “prior interaction” with law enforcement in Florida, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. They’d been tipped off by a school resource officer who lives in Wayne and saw the photo of Christopher Ruby brandishing the gun, he said. They arrested Ruby along with his sister, Alyssa, also 18, after findin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority PD: Con Man Chased Through Newark Airport Traffic Port Authority PD: Con Man Chased Through Newark Airport Traffic Port Authority PD: Con Man Chased Through Newark Airport Traffic
Port Authority PD: Con Man Chased Through Newark Airport Traffic Drivers swerved to avoid an accused Florida con man chased by Port Authority police as he darted across several lanes of traffic at Newark Airport. Andrew Mack, 58, climbed an embankment behind a nearby 7-Eleven, shed his jacket and bolted across traffic on the airport entrance bridge after he and another man tried to rent a car with a stolen credit card, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said. Officers caught up with Mack and arrested him on a roadway adjacent to an FAA control tower about 10 minutes later, he said. Mack, of Miami Gardens, and Michael Hill, 48, of Lauderhill, FL tried to …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Passaic Prosecutor: Four-County Stolen Car Ring Smashed, Nine Busted Passaic Prosecutor: Four-County Stolen Car Ring Smashed, Nine Busted Passaic Prosecutor: Four-County Stolen Car Ring Smashed, Nine Busted
Passaic Prosecutor: Four-County Stolen Car Ring Smashed, Nine Busted PATERSON, N.J. – Nine men from Paterson were charged with burglarizing a Clifton auto dealer twice and stealing vehicles from eight other dealerships in four counties while using juveniles as accomplices, authorities announced Thursday. Among the victims were B&M Auto Mall in Clifton, which was broken into twice, as well as Lakeview Auto (also in Clifton) and Otocity in Totowa, a 131-count indictment returned by a grand jury in Paterson says. Also victimized in a 10-month spree that began in January last year were dealerships in East Brunswick, Jefferson Township, Neptune Township, Old …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Feds: BMW To Pay $2.2M+ To Service Members For Early Lease Terminations Feds: BMW To Pay $2.2M+ To Service Members For Early Lease Terminations Feds: BMW To Pay $2.2M+ To Service Members For Early Lease Terminations
Feds: BMW To Pay $2.2M+ To Service Members For Early Lease Terminations WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J. -- BMW Financial Services has agreed to pay more than $2.2 million to settle charges that it refused to refund certain up-front car lease payments to 492 service members when they were deployed or re-deployed. The case is the first case brought by the Justice Department involving a motor vehicle lessor’s failure to refund lease amounts to those service members who exercised their rights to do so early. The agreement requires BMW FS to refund to each service member portions of the pre-paid CCR amount based on how many days were remaining in their individual leases. BMW…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Prosecutor: Hackensack Penthouse Raid Finds Steroids, LSD, Date-Rape Drug Prosecutor: Hackensack Penthouse Raid Finds Steroids, LSD, Date-Rape Drug Prosecutor: Hackensack Penthouse Raid Finds Steroids, LSD, Date-Rape Drug
Prosecutor: Hackensack Penthouse Raid Finds Steroids, LSD, Date-Rape Drug HACKENSACK, N.J. – A raid on a Hackensack penthouse produced an assortment of drugs – including anabolic steroids, LSD and mushrooms – and an arrest, authorities said Thursday. Ryan W. Rohlfs also had the date-rape drug Ketamine, as well as hash oil and marijuana in his Prospect Avenue apartment when it was raided last week, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. “A handgun and drug paraphernalia also were seized during the search,” he said. Knowing authorities were searching for him, Rohlfs turned himself in at the prosecutor’s Paramus office on Tuesday, Calo said. The North …

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