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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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Edgewater Couple Clips $1.2M From South Hackensack Dealership Prosecutor: Edgewater Couple Clips $1.2M From South Hackensack Dealership Prosecutor: Edgewater Couple Clips $1.2M From South Hackensack Dealership
Prosecutor: Edgewater Couple Clips $1.2M From South Hackensack Dealership SOUTH HACKENSACK, N.J. – A South Hackensack used-car dealer from Edgewater and his wife illegally pocketed $1.2 million in sales tax, authorities charged. Samyon Gilstein, 33, who owned Sunrise Motors and his wife, Alexandra, 30, the dealership’s manager, collected more than $1.6 million in sales tax – but reported that they’d received only $360,000 – over four years, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Thursday. Detectives from the prosecutor’s office arrested Samyon Gilstein on Tuesday and his wife on Wednesday. Both were charged with misapplication of entrusted funds and fili…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Police: Thief Takes Donation, Tip Jars From Fairview Restaurants Police: Thief Takes Donation, Tip Jars From Fairview Restaurants Police: Thief Takes Donation, Tip Jars From Fairview Restaurants
Police: Thief Takes Donation, Tip Jars From Fairview Restaurants UPDATE: CAUGHT! Fairview detectives tracked down a brazen thief who they said stole a donation jar from one restaurant and a tip jar from another. https://cliffsidepark.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/fairview-pd-detectives-nab-donationtip-jar-thief/720001/ ****** FAIRVIEW, N.J. -- RECOGNIZE HIM? A brazen thief snatched a donation jar to help the poor from one Fairview restaurant and a tip jar from another, authorities said Thursday. The thief, who was wearing a Miami Dolphins baseball cap and carrying a messenger bag, grabbed a donation jar dedicated to helping needy families in El Salvador f…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Police: Speeding DWI Lincoln Tunnel Driver Had Suspended License, Warrants Police: Speeding DWI Lincoln Tunnel Driver Had Suspended License, Warrants Police: Speeding DWI Lincoln Tunnel Driver Had Suspended License, Warrants
Police: Speeding DWI Lincoln Tunnel Driver Had Suspended License, Warrants FORT LEE, N.J. -- A speeding DWI driver stopped by Port Authority police outside the Lincoln Tunnel before dawn had a suspended license -- and four outstanding warrants, authorities said Thursday. Officers stopped the speeding red 2016 Cherokee headed west on Route 495 near the southbound New Jersey Turnpike ramp at 2:30 a.m., the authority's Joseph Pentangelo said. The driver, 42-year-old Mohamed W. Moustafa of the Bronx, swayed as he got out of the Jeep, at one point losing his balance, Pentangelo said. He also smelled of alcohol and had a flushed face and tearing, bloodshot eyes, he sa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
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Ridgewood Police Bust Rockland Career Criminal On Drug Charges Ridgewood Police Bust Rockland Career Criminal On Drug Charges Ridgewood Police Bust Rockland Career Criminal On Drug Charges
Ridgewood Police Bust Rockland Career Criminal On Drug Charges RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- Four days after he was released from jail following a Mahwah arrest, a Suffern ex-con with an extensive criminal history was found carrying heroin and other drugs, Ridgewood police said. Jason Demarino, 40, was processed at village police headquarters and taken to the Bergen County Jail on drug-related charges after the North Broad Street arrest on Monday, Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke said. A judge the following day released him pending further court action. Demarino spent nearly two weeks in the county lockup after Mahwah police arrested him on drug charges on Aug. 4…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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R.I.P: Mahwah Police K-9 Döme, 11 R.I.P: Mahwah Police K-9 Döme, 11 R.I.P: Mahwah Police K-9 Döme, 11
R.I.P: Mahwah Police K-9 Döme, 11 MAHWAH, N.J. -- Emergency responders in Mahwah were saddened to learn of Wednesday's passing of retired police K-9 Döme. He was 11.  K-9 Döme faithfully served the township "with honor and distinction" for nine years before his retirement in January 2015, Police Chief James N. Batelli said. He then lived with Rapp, his wife, Amy and their family in Oakland. A Shepherd born in Czechoslovakia, Döme was Rapp's first canine and was crosstrained in drug and tracking.  "Döme was a truly great dog – wonderful disposition with children but when very assertive in the field," Ba…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Gang Member Gets 39 Months In Fed Pen For Hawthorne Bar Robbery Gang Member Gets 39 Months In Fed Pen For Hawthorne Bar Robbery Gang Member Gets 39 Months In Fed Pen For Hawthorne Bar Robbery
Gang Member Gets 39 Months In Fed Pen For Hawthorne Bar Robbery HAWTHORNE, N.J. – A purported gang member from Rockland County got a 39-month federal prison sentence Wednesday for his role in the robbery of a Passaic County bar two Christmases ago. Balmore Carrillo-Iraheta, 19, previously admitted holding up the Hawthorne bar of $200 with a group of accomplices in 2016 in exchange for leniency. There is no parole in the federal prison system -- meaning Carrillo-Iraheta must serve just about all of his sentence. His five co-defendants took pleas, as well. Several of them admitted also carjacking, kidnapping and leaving a local cab driver for dead after t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Prosecutor: Hasbrouck Heights Property Manager Stole $100G From Condo Group Prosecutor: Hasbrouck Heights Property Manager Stole $100G From Condo Group Prosecutor: Hasbrouck Heights Property Manager Stole $100G From Condo Group
Prosecutor: Hasbrouck Heights Property Manager Stole $100G From Condo Group HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N.J. – A former Hackensack property manager from Hasbrouck Heights stole more than $100,000 of a local condominium association’s money, authorities said Wednesday. Raymond Gonzalez, 62, who'd owned and operated RPM Management, lifted the money from the association’s credit line, after which he “transferred them into accounts held by his management company and used them for his personal benefit,” Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. Gonzalez “forged the signatures of two of the condominium association’s board members” to cash checks, Greal added. “The total the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Body Of Missing Oradell Talent Agent Found Near Home: Apparent Suicide Body Of Missing Oradell Talent Agent Found Near Home: Apparent Suicide Body Of Missing Oradell Talent Agent Found Near Home: Apparent Suicide
Body Of Missing Oradell Talent Agent Found Near Home: Apparent Suicide ORADELL, N.J. -- An Oradell police officer found the body of a missing talent agent from town Thursday afternoon in bushes just off Kinderkamack Road, barely a half-mile from his home, authorities told Daily Voice. UPDATE: Mark Schlegel Remembered As "Prince Among Men" The body of Mark Schlegel, who'd gone missing Aug. 13, "had been there for awhile," a law enforcement official said. Given the body's condition, an autopsy by the Bergen County Medical Examiner would have to officially determine the cause of death, another said. However, the veteran investigator said: &q…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
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River Vale Responders Rescue County Club Worker Stuck In Spiral Staircase River Vale Responders Rescue County Club Worker Stuck In Spiral Staircase River Vale Responders Rescue County Club Worker Stuck In Spiral Staircase
River Vale Responders Rescue County Club Worker Stuck In Spiral Staircase RIVER VALE, N.J. – An Edgewood Country Club employee who became stuck after tripping down a spiral staircase was rescued Wednesday afternoon by River Vale emergency responders. River Vale police responded to the Rivervale Road club along with member of the borough Volunteer Ambulance Corps and the Hackensack University Medical Center Mobile Intensive Care Unit, just before 1 p.m. Detective Sergeant John J. DeVoe told Daily Voice. They found the 46-year-old Passaic man with his leg pinned between the staircase and the wall, DeVoe said, adding that victim had also injured his back. Police…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
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Ridgewood Police Nab Wanted 81-Year-Old Maryland Man Ridgewood Police Nab Wanted 81-Year-Old Maryland Man Ridgewood Police Nab Wanted 81-Year-Old Maryland Man
Ridgewood Police Nab Wanted 81-Year-Old Maryland Man RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- Ridgewood police arrested an 81-year-old Maryland man who they said lied to them because he was wanted. Village police found three active warrants when they stopped James Johnson on a report of a suspicious trespasser outside a home on North Maple Avenue on Saturday, Police Chief Jacqueline Lutchke said Wednesday. Johnson, of Annapolis, then "provided false information" about his identity and was taken into custody, she said. Police processed him at headquarters, gave Johnson a court date to answer a summons charging him with hindering apprehension, then turned…

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