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.

Jerry DeMarco's Contributions

Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Help Wayne Police, Marines Make Christmas Special For Needy Youngsters Help Wayne Police, Marines Make Christmas Special For Needy Youngsters Help Wayne Police, Marines Make Christmas Special For Needy Youngsters
Help Wayne Police, Marines Make Christmas Special For Needy Youngsters WAYNE, N.J. -- It’s that time of year again: Wayne police are launching their 8th annual "Toys for Tots" collection drive. PBA Local #136, department U.S. Marine veterans and their colleagues are hoping to build upon last year's hugely successful drive "and make more children’s dreams come true," Capt. Laurence W. Martin said. The mission of the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve “Toys for Tots” Program is to collect and distribute new, unwrapped toys as Christmas presents for less fortunate children. The drive officially begins Nov. 27 and continues through Dec. 12. Although…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Paramus Mall Undercover Drug Buy: $10,000 In Heroin Seized, 2 Busted Paramus Mall Undercover Drug Buy: $10,000 In Heroin Seized, 2 Busted Paramus Mall Undercover Drug Buy: $10,000 In Heroin Seized, 2 Busted
Paramus Mall Undercover Drug Buy: $10,000 In Heroin Seized, 2 Busted PARAMUS, N.J. -- Detectives and SWAT team members swooped in on two unemployed Paterson men during an undercover buy at the Garden State Plaza in Paramus and arrested them with $10,000 worth of heroin, authorities said Saturday. A detective bought several bricks of heroin from Merciful Parks, 24, twice over the past month or so before arranging Friday’s meeting at the mall, where he and 28-year-old Jeffrey H. Rincon were taken into custody without incident, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. The pair had 1,500 envelopes of heroin in 30 bricks, Grewal said. Parks also was carry…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Bergen Prosecutor Monitoring Palisades Parkway PD After Suspects' Deaths Bergen Prosecutor Monitoring Palisades Parkway PD After Suspects' Deaths Bergen Prosecutor Monitoring Palisades Parkway PD After Suspects' Deaths
Bergen Prosecutor Monitoring Palisades Parkway PD After Suspects' Deaths ALPINE, N.J. -- The Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department has agreed to be monitored by the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, following the separate deaths this year of two suspects during pursuits. Under the agreement, the office will: "ensure the orderly administraton of the law enforcement function of the PIPPD"; "conduct a review of its operating procedures"; "retrain members of the PIPPD on Attorney General and Prosecutor guidelines, directives, policies and relevant laws"; "ensure that the PIPPD complies with and administers itself in comp…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
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Prosecutor: $141,965 In 'Sophisticated' Stash Found In Teaneck SUV Stop Prosecutor: $141,965 In 'Sophisticated' Stash Found In Teaneck SUV Stop Prosecutor: $141,965 In 'Sophisticated' Stash Found In Teaneck SUV Stop
Prosecutor: $141,965 In 'Sophisticated' Stash Found In Teaneck SUV Stop TEANECK, N.J. – Two unemployed men stopped by Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives in Teaneck had $141,965 stashed in a secret compartment of their SUV, authorities said. Jose R. Fontana-Santana, 27, and Cesar A. Fontana-Veras, 26, both of Paterson, were arrested on money-laundering charges after investigators stopped their silver 2012 Ford Escape in Teaneck on Thursday and found the cash in a “sophisticated, after-market, electronic hidden compartment in the rear cargo area,” Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. “The currency was packaged in a way that is consistent with being …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Dad Who Pimped Teen In South Hackensack, Clifton Motels Gets 5-Year Minimum Dad Who Pimped Teen In South Hackensack, Clifton Motels Gets 5-Year Minimum Dad Who Pimped Teen In South Hackensack, Clifton Motels Gets 5-Year Minimum
Dad Who Pimped Teen In South Hackensack, Clifton Motels Gets 5-Year Minimum SOUTH HACKENSACK, N.J. -- The patriarch of a family that prostituted a 16-year-old girl at motels in South Hackensack and Clifton was sentenced Friday to 13 years in state prison -- five of which he must serve before being eligible for parole. Glen Bowman Sr., 42, of Newark, pleaded guilty to human trafficking in October in exchange for leniency from Superior Court Judge Robert M. Vinci in Hackensack. Earlier this month, his wife, 33-year-old Ernestine Bowman of Orange, got a plea-bargained 10-year state prison sentence with parole eligibility after 39 months. Their son, Glen Bowman Jr., 23…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Ex-Con Followed By Fort Lee PD Collared By Port Authority Officers In NYC Ex-Con Followed By Fort Lee PD Collared By Port Authority Officers In NYC Ex-Con Followed By Fort Lee PD Collared By Port Authority Officers In NYC
Ex-Con Followed By Fort Lee PD Collared By Port Authority Officers In NYC FORT LEE, N.J. -- An ex-con being followed by Fort Lee police was chased down by their Port Authority colleagues on the Manhattan side of the George Washington Bridge. Hearing a borough police radio transmission, PAPD officers followed a black 2009 Corvette that had been reported stolen as it passed through the bridge's upper-level toll plaza around 3:40 a.m. Thursday, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo said. After heading into the Port Authority bus station at 179th Street, the driver -- identified as 33-year-old convicted felon Alsalik Bronson of Newark -- abandoned the vehicle on the uppe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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‘Shoot Me!’ Little Ferry Police Rescue Mom Held At Knifepoint By Son ‘Shoot Me!’ Little Ferry Police Rescue Mom Held At Knifepoint By Son ‘Shoot Me!’ Little Ferry Police Rescue Mom Held At Knifepoint By Son
‘Shoot Me!’ Little Ferry Police Rescue Mom Held At Knifepoint By Son LITTLE FERRY, N.J. – “Go ahead and shoot me!” a man who held a knife to his mother’s throat shouted at Little Ferry police early Friday, authorities said. Omar Abdeirahim, 18, refused several commands to drop the knife, but his mother somehow managed to knock the weapon down the stairs, they said. Abdeirahim “tightened his head lock on his mother,” at which point the officers rushed him and rescued her, Detective Sgt. Ronald Klein Jr. said. “Once in custody, [Abdeirahim] stated several times that he wanted the police to shoot him and that he wanted to die,” Klein said. Abdeirahim had dial…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Sent Money To Scammers Via Western Union? You Could Get Some Back Sent Money To Scammers Via Western Union? You Could Get Some Back Sent Money To Scammers Via Western Union? You Could Get Some Back
Sent Money To Scammers Via Western Union? You Could Get Some Back If you were conned into sending money to scammers using Western Union’s wire transfer service, you could get some back. You could qualify for compensation if you were the victim of a fraud-induced money transfer using Western Union services between January 1, 2004 and January 19, 2017 -- part of a $586 million settlement with the company by all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The settlement resolved an investigation focused on fraud-induced money transfers – specifically, the wiring of money by unwitting consumers to third-party con artists using Western Union’s wire transfer servic…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Wyckoff PD: NYC Trio Nabbed In Mahwah Involved In Credit Card Fraud Wyckoff PD: NYC Trio Nabbed In Mahwah Involved In Credit Card Fraud Wyckoff PD: NYC Trio Nabbed In Mahwah Involved In Credit Card Fraud
Wyckoff PD: NYC Trio Nabbed In Mahwah Involved In Credit Card Fraud WYCKOFF, N.J. – Three New York City men involved in credit card fraud were arrested by Wyckoff police in Mahwah thanks to an alert business owner, authorities said. The owner called police just after 3 p.m. Tuesday to report a suspicious vehicle in the business lot occupied by three people – one of whom went to a nearby bank, Lt. Joseph Soto said. Responding to the call, Officer Terrance Murphy spotted the trio’s black Dodge Challenger, with “darkly tinted windows and Maryland registration,” on Wyckoff Avenue, Soto said. Murphy was joined by backups as he pulled the car over, witnesses sai…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Sheriff: Hawthorne Man Was Sharing Child Porn When Detectives Burst In Sheriff: Hawthorne Man Was Sharing Child Porn When Detectives Burst In Sheriff: Hawthorne Man Was Sharing Child Porn When Detectives Burst In
Sheriff: Hawthorne Man Was Sharing Child Porn When Detectives Burst In HAWTHORNE, N.J. – A 62-year-old Hawthorne man was trafficking child pornography when detectives busted in on him, authorities said. Patrick Chu “was downloading and distributing videos of child pornography,” Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said, when members of his Internet Crime Unit and prosecutor’s detectives raided Chu’s North 8th Street apartment on Thursday. They arrested Chu and seized his electronic devices, the sheriff said, adding that authorities “anticipate recovering several hundred files of child pornography.” A judge ordered Chu held in the Passaic County Jail, pen…

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