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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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Two-Week Mahwah Police Sweep Nets 41 Arrests, Drugs, Seizures, Leads Two-Week Mahwah Police Sweep Nets 41 Arrests, Drugs, Seizures, Leads Two-Week Mahwah Police Sweep Nets 41 Arrests, Drugs, Seizures, Leads
Two-Week Mahwah Police Sweep Nets 41 Arrests, Drugs, Seizures, Leads MAHWAH, N.J. – A total of 41 arrests accounting for double that number of criminal charges were made by Mahwah police in just two weeks. "Operation Fall Cleanup," directed by Detective Sgt. Kevin Hebert, included detectives, unformed officers and the K-9 unit who focused on clearing commercial parking lots, hotel lots, truck stops and other localized areas of wrongdoing. The quality-of-life initiative has been proven to help reduce crime in other areas. It deters those who’d break the law from doing so, embolden citizens to become active – by calling police and identifying suspic…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Englewood Police: Video Shows Sex Assault On Dumont Church-Goer, 83 Englewood Police: Video Shows Sex Assault On Dumont Church-Goer, 83 Englewood Police: Video Shows Sex Assault On Dumont Church-Goer, 83
Englewood Police: Video Shows Sex Assault On Dumont Church-Goer, 83 ENGLEWOOD, N.J. -- Englewood police released a video that they said shows a laborer grabbing an an 83-year-old Dumont woman walking to church off the street and sexually assaulting her, authorities said. Margarito Hernandez-Valladers, 23, grabbed the woman in the rear parking lot area of the Korean Community Church on Tenafly Road around 5:30 a.m. July 28, authorities said. He pulled her to the ground in a doorway but "stopped the attack and calmly walked away when the victim was able to wave down a passing vehicle," Detective Capt. Tim Torell said.The woman sustained minor physic…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Port Authority PD: GWB Trucking Company Toll Evaders Owed $62,000 Port Authority PD: GWB Trucking Company Toll Evaders Owed $62,000 Port Authority PD: GWB Trucking Company Toll Evaders Owed $62,000
Port Authority PD: GWB Trucking Company Toll Evaders Owed $62,000 FORT LEE, N.J. -- A trucking company owner and her driver were arrested at the George Washington Bridge after a check turned up more than $62,000 in unpaid tolls and fees, authorities said. Port Authority Police Officer Leonel Gonzalez stopped the 2015 Mack dump truck on the upper level Monday morning after Rigoberto Cardenas, 39, of Morristown drove through an EZ Pass toll lane without paying, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo said. A records check showed that the truck's EZ pass account was revoked and suspended -- along with 532 pass violations, he said. After Cardenas was arrested, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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VIDEO: Glen Rock Car Thieves Busy At Work, Chief Says Don't Be A Victim VIDEO: Glen Rock Car Thieves Busy At Work, Chief Says Don't Be A Victim VIDEO: Glen Rock Car Thieves Busy At Work, Chief Says Don't Be A Victim
Video: Glen Rock Car Thieves Busy At Work, Chief Says Don't Be A Victim GLEN ROCK, N.J. -- Three vehicles stolen from residential driveways the past two weeks -- one of them overnight Monday -- has Glen Rock police warning motorists to lock their cars and take their keys. "In each case, the vehicles were unlocked and the key fobs were in the vehicles," Police Chief Dean Ackermann said Monday morning. WATCH THIS VIDEO: Would-be car thief caught on camera A Jeep Grand Cherokee stolen from Highland Road this morning "had a credit card in it that was used at a fast food restaurant in Irvington," Ackermann said. The two other vehicles -- a 201…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Prosecutor: Laborer Sexually Assaults Englewood Woman, 83, Going To Church Prosecutor: Laborer Sexually Assaults Englewood Woman, 83, Going To Church Prosecutor: Laborer Sexually Assaults Englewood Woman, 83, Going To Church
Prosecutor: Laborer Sexually Assaults Englewood Woman, 83, Going To Church ENGLEWOOD, N.J. -- An Englewood laborer grabbed an an 83-year-old woman walking to church off the street and sexually assaulted her, authorities said. Margarito Hernandez-Valladers, 23, was arrested Thursday, nearly four months after the July 28 assault, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal confirmed. A judge on Friday ordered that he remain held in the Bergen County Jail pending further court action on charges of sexual assault, criminal restraint and criminal sexual contact. Hernandez-Valladares was arrested by detectivies from Grewal's office working with city police, the prosecuto…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
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SEE ANYTHING? Lodi PD Seek Rt. 46 Hit-Run Driver, 70+ Victim Critical SEE ANYTHING? Lodi PD Seek Rt. 46 Hit-Run Driver, 70+ Victim Critical SEE ANYTHING? Lodi PD Seek Rt. 46 Hit-Run Driver, 70+ Victim Critical
SEE Anything? Lodi PD Seek Rt. 46 Hit-Run Driver, 70+ Victim Critical LODI, N.J. -- Lodi police were hoping someone could help find a hit-and-run driver who left a 70-something man in critical condition after he tried to cross Route 46. The victim was rushed to the Intensive Care Unit at Hackensack University Mecidal Center after being struck outside a QuickChek on the highway just after 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, responders said. He remained in critical condition on Saturday with injuries that include a shattered hip, broken collarbone and broken ribs, a source with direct knowledge of the incident said. Lodi police requested "any and all assistance" in…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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90-Day Prison Sentence, Max, For Man Who Groped Girl On Newark Flight 90-Day Prison Sentence, Max, For Man Who Groped Girl On Newark Flight 90-Day Prison Sentence, Max, For Man Who Groped Girl On Newark Flight
90-Day Prison Sentence, Max, For Man Who Groped Girl On Newark Flight An Indian national is headed to prison for no more than 90 days after admitting in federal court Thursday that he groped a teenage girl on a flight to Newark from Seattle. Vijaykumar Krishnappa, 29, pleaded guilty to assault in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States in exchange for a sentence of 30 to 90 days. Sentencing was scheduled for Jan. 17. Krishnappa didn't know the girl, 16, who was seated next to him on the United Airlines flight from Seattle to Newark this past July 23, Acting U.S. Attorney William Fitzpatrick said. He admitted that while the victim was asleep, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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Scrap Metal Company Owner From Allendale Admits Multi-Million Fraud Scheme Scrap Metal Company Owner From Allendale Admits Multi-Million Fraud Scheme Scrap Metal Company Owner From Allendale Admits Multi-Million Fraud Scheme
Scrap Metal Company Owner From Allendale Admits Multi-Million Fraud Scheme ALLENDALE, N.J. -- A scrap metal company owner from Allendale admitted in federal court Thursday that he conned customers out of several million dollars over nearly two decades. Craig Cinelli, 47, a minority owner of Cinelli Iron & Metal Co. (CIMCO) who hails from Wood-Ridge, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in U.S. District Court in Newark. David Barteck, 53, of Wood-Ridge, the former chief financial officer of CIMCO, and Michael A. Valenti III, 43, of Hasbrouck Heights, the former senior vice-president of sales at CIMCO, each previously pleaded guilty to participating…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
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Authorities: Supermarket Clerk Recorded Men In Lyndhurst Park Bathroom Authorities: Supermarket Clerk Recorded Men In Lyndhurst Park Bathroom Authorities: Supermarket Clerk Recorded Men In Lyndhurst Park Bathroom
Authorities: Supermarket Clerk Recorded Men In Lyndhurst Park Bathroom LYNDHURST, N.J. – Authorities captured a man who they said was video-recording men using a public restroom in Lyndhurst and collecting child-porn videos. Raul J. Rodriguez, a 33-year-old supermarket clerk from Jersey City, was taken into custody by Bergen County Sheriff’s officers and borough police Wednesday night “for filming a patron using the restroom” with a cellphone at Riverside County Park South, county Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. A search of the device turned up “sexually explicit images and/or videos of prepubescent children,” the prosecutor said. “At this time there is no …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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Curious New Milford Police Chief Helps Find Woman Reported Missing In 2009 Curious New Milford Police Chief Helps Find Woman Reported Missing In 2009 Curious New Milford Police Chief Helps Find Woman Reported Missing In 2009
Curious New Milford Police Chief Helps Find Woman Reported Missing In 2009 NEW MILFORD, N.J. – What began as a conversation between New Milford Police Chief Frank Ramaci and one of his lieutenants led to the discovery of a woman who’d been reported missing eight years ago. Estephanie Rodriguez-Valle was alive and well, living in Illinois – with no idea that loved ones had reported her missing, Ramaci said Thursday. It began while Lt. William Duby was advising Ramaci of his recent effort to maintain the state computer system, which archives and includes various unidentified or missing persons files in a national database. Ramaci recalled an investigation into the…

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