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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Cherry Hill, NJ
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Convicted Child Porn Collector Admits Gathering More While In NJ Federal Prison Convicted Child Porn Collector Admits Gathering More While In NJ Federal Prison Convicted Child Porn Collector Admits Gathering More While In NJ Federal Prison
Convicted Child Porn Collector Admits Gathering More While In NJ Federal Prison Daniel Baldwin still had 3½ years to go on his 10-year federal prison sentence for a child porn conviction when corrections officers found an SD card hidden in his clothes. Now there's no telling how long it'll be before he tastes freedom again. Officers at the Federal Correctional Institution at Fort Dix in Lakehurst, NJ, examined the memory card in June 2022 and found hundreds of images and videos of child abuse, including depictions of prepubescent minors, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. Rather than risk the potential consequences of a trial, took a deal from the government. He…

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Jersey City, NJ
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NY Dealer Gets 11 Years, No Parole, For Moving Fentanyl, Meth, Coke By The Pound Into NJ NY Dealer Gets 11 Years, No Parole, For Moving Fentanyl, Meth, Coke By The Pound Into NJ NY Dealer Gets 11 Years, No Parole, For Moving Fentanyl, Meth, Coke By The Pound Into NJ
NY Dealer Gets 11 Years, No Parole, For Moving Fentanyl, Meth, Coke By The Pound Into NJ A dealer who admitted flooding four North Jersey counties with massive quantities of fentanyl, meth and coke is headed to federal prison for more than a decade. Juan Carlos Merced Moreno, 45, of Manhattan must serve out just about all of his plea-bargained 11-year sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Moreno and his partners operated a fentanyl mill in Washington Heights that supplied traffickers in New Jersey with at least 25,000 pills that were distributed throughout the Garden State, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said. Authorities disco…

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Pascack Valley, NJ
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Fast-Moving Fire Destroys Harrington Park Home Fast-Moving Fire Destroys Harrington Park Home Fast-Moving Fire Destroys Harrington Park Home
Fast-Moving Fire Destroys Harrington Park Home A fast-moving pre-dawn fire destroyed a Harrington Park home. A couple who bought the Maryann Lane home just last month wasn't there when the blaze broke out at around 5 a.m., less than an hour before sunrise.  It went two alarms on arrival as flames engulfed the two-story, wood-frame house. Burning electrical wires only made matters worse. Burning electrical wires made matters worse in the early-morning fire on MaryAnn Lane in Harrington Park.Harrington Park Volunteer Ambulance Corps Borough police and fire from Norwood, Northvale, River Vale, Closter, Old Tappan, Demarest, Alpine an…

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Two More Alleged Pre-Teen Sex Assault Victims Of Ridgefield Park Trucker Increase Total To 5 Two More Alleged Pre-Teen Sex Assault Victims Of Ridgefield Park Trucker Increase Total To 5 Two More Alleged Pre-Teen Sex Assault Victims Of Ridgefield Park Trucker Increase Total To 5
Two More Alleged Pre-Teen Sex Assault Victims Of Ridgefield Park Trucker Increase Total To 5 Two adults have come forward in the case of an independent trucker from Ridgefield Park already accused of multiple sex assaults to say that they, too, were abused by him 20 years ago, authorities said Friday. That brings the total to five alleged victims of Humberto Duenas, 61. The defendant, who owns and operates Duenas Trucking from his Paulison Avenue home off Webster Street, was originally arrested on July 5 following an investigation by Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella’s Special Victims Unit. Investigators found that Duenas sexually assaulted three victims “at multiple locations…

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Jersey City, NJ
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Jersey City Man Wrongly Serving 30 Years For Mugging Victim's Murder Cleared After 16 Years Jersey City Man Wrongly Serving 30 Years For Mugging Victim's Murder Cleared After 16 Years Jersey City Man Wrongly Serving 30 Years For Mugging Victim's Murder Cleared After 16 Years
Jersey City Man Wrongly Serving 30 Years For Mugging Victim's Murder Cleared After 16 Years A Jersey City man serving a 30-year prison sentence for killing an elderly mugging victim in 2003 was released after state authorities re-examined the circumstances of his conviction. Dion Miller, 54, was released on Thursday, July 27, after 16 years behind bars thanks to a re-investigation that he requested from one of the nation’s first statewide conviction review units. Jurors in Jersey City had convicted Miller in 2007 of felony murder, robbery and weapons offenses in the death of 74-year-old Romeo Cavero outside a Van Nostrand Avenue senior citizens’ building in January 2003. Cavero w…

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Bergenfield, NJ
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UPDATE: Accused Shooter Of Bergenfield GF Extradited To NJ, Charged With Attempted Murder UPDATE: Accused Shooter Of Bergenfield GF Extradited To NJ, Charged With Attempted Murder UPDATE: Accused Shooter Of Bergenfield GF Extradited To NJ, Charged With Attempted Murder
Update: Accused Shooter Of Bergenfield GF Extradited To NJ, Charged With Attempted Murder THE LATEST: A one-time fugitive from Bergenfield who authorities said shot his 20-year-old girlfriend three times during an argument in his bedroom is being held in the Bergen County Jail after being extradited from New York State. Aaron Sierra, 22, whom sources described as emotionally disturbed, was captured after a brief standoff with the NYPD's Emergency Services Unit in New York City on July 12, a month and a half after the shooting. An iPhone helped track him down, according to court papers on file in Hackensack. Sierra was initially hospitalized before being extradited to New Jerse…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
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Love Triangle: NYC Man Again Convicted Of Murdering Popular Teaneck Software Engineer Love Triangle: NYC Man Again Convicted Of Murdering Popular Teaneck Software Engineer Love Triangle: NYC Man Again Convicted Of Murdering Popular Teaneck Software Engineer
Love Triangle: NYC Man Again Convicted Of Murdering Popular Teaneck Software Engineer Jurors in Hackensack convicted a Manhattan man for a second time of brutally murdering a popular software engineer in his Teaneck home. Sui Kam "Tony" Tung was found guilty of all counts in the horrific killing of Robert Cantor, who authorities said was his estranged wife's lover, over a decade ago. Superior Court Judge Christopher Kazlau scheduled sentencing for Sept. 8. Tung faces a minimum of 30 years and a maximum of life, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Tung was found guilty of the same crimes in 2016, but a state appeals court overturned the convictions and sent the case…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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UPDATE: Paramus Motorcyclist Struck Near Home Dies, Driver Charged With Aggravated Manslaughter UPDATE: Paramus Motorcyclist Struck Near Home Dies, Driver Charged With Aggravated Manslaughter UPDATE: Paramus Motorcyclist Struck Near Home Dies, Driver Charged With Aggravated Manslaughter
Update: Paramus Motorcyclist Struck Near Home Dies, Driver Charged With Aggravated Manslaughter A Paramus man who was critically injured when he was struck by a car last weekend died, authorities confirmed on Friday, July 28. Charges against the intoxicated driver who hit him were upgraded, they said. Cody Cleary, 28, was on his 2015 Yamaha motorcycle when he was rammed from behind on Farview Drive -- practically around the corner from his family's home -- shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday, July 23, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella confirmed. Cleary -- whose brother, Michael, is a Paramus police officer -- was rushed to Hackensack University Medical Center. He remained in critical co…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
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$206,908 In Drug Money Seized From Home Of Accused Teaneck Bag Man, Prosecutor Says $206,908 In Drug Money Seized From Home Of Accused Teaneck Bag Man, Prosecutor Says $206,908 In Drug Money Seized From Home Of Accused Teaneck Bag Man, Prosecutor Says
$206,908 In Drug Money Seized From Home Of Accused Teaneck Bag Man, Prosecutor Says Bergen County narcotics detectives seized $206,980 in cash from two men – one of them from Teaneck, the other from Queens -- who they said were running both drugs and huge amounts of cash. The green was collected at the modest Alpine Drive home of Wesley Cordova, 44, after a stun gun and prescription drugs were found in his car during a stop in Fort Lee, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Cordova’s alleged partner, William Vargas of Ozone Park, had heroin and fentanyl in an electronically-operated hidden compartment built into his vehicle that the detectives discovered during anoth…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Middletown, NJ
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Jersey Shore Man Who Recorded Oral Sex From Girl Between 5-8 Years Old Gets 20 Years, No Parole Jersey Shore Man Who Recorded Oral Sex From Girl Between 5-8 Years Old Gets 20 Years, No Parole Jersey Shore Man Who Recorded Oral Sex From Girl Between 5-8 Years Old Gets 20 Years, No Parole
Jersey Shore Man Who Recorded Oral Sex From Girl Between 5-8 Years Old Gets 20 Years, No Parole A Jersey Shore man who recorded himself sexually assaulting a girl between 5 and 8 years old is headed to federal prison for 20 years. Christian Importuna, 27, of Englishtown, must serve out the plea-bargained sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. FBI agents zeroed in on Importuna when he tried trading the videos with what turned out to be an undercover detective in March 2020, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. One of the videos shows a very young girl giving him oral sex in response to his instructions, a complaint on file in U.S. District Court says. In …

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