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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Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Paramus Detective Collars Convicted Criminal In Golf Store Robbery, Thefts Paramus Detective Collars Convicted Criminal In Golf Store Robbery, Thefts Paramus Detective Collars Convicted Criminal In Golf Store Robbery, Thefts
Paramus Detective Collars Convicted Criminal In Golf Store Robbery, Thefts PARAMUS, N.J. -- A Nutley man tracked down by a Paramus police detective after he injured a store employee during a theft admitted to committing four crimes in all, authorities said Monday. Anthony Cervino, 46, swiped a set of Cobra womens' golf clubs and a bag worth a combined $800 and fled the PGA Superstore on Route 17 last Monday, Deputy Police Chief Robert Guidetti told Daily Voice. An employee who tried to stop him ended up with a bruised arm after getting it caught in the closing door of the getaway car, Guidetti said. The blue Toyota 4Runner headed south on the Garden State Parkway…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Police: Ridgefield, Oradell Buyers Busted In Paterson Heroin Sweep Police: Ridgefield, Oradell Buyers Busted In Paterson Heroin Sweep Police: Ridgefield, Oradell Buyers Busted In Paterson Heroin Sweep
Police: Ridgefield, Oradell Buyers Busted In Paterson Heroin Sweep PATERSON, N.J. -- Two men from Ridgefield and one from Oradell were among a group of accused heroin buyers from Bergen County busted by police on Paterson streets, authorities said. A weekly drug sweep netted Rocci L. Marttine, 29, and Kevin W. Kohberg, 33, after officers on East 26th Street found them carrying 37 folds of heroin and bag of crack, city Police Director Jerry Speziale said. They also arrested 24-year-old Tamir Blackwood of Paterson, who they said sold the drugs to both men, he said. Blackwood was still carrying 11 bags of crack -- along with nearly $500 in alleged drug proce…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Member Of Rapper's Entourage Charged In Paterson Shootings Of 3 Member Of Rapper's Entourage Charged In Paterson Shootings Of 3 Member Of Rapper's Entourage Charged In Paterson Shootings Of 3
Member Of Rapper's Entourage Charged In Paterson Shootings Of 3 PATERSON, N.J. -- A member of rapper Fetty Wap's entourage was charged with aggravated assault and weapons offenses after an argument in a Paterson deli ended with three shot, authorities told Daily Voice early Monday. Raheem Thomas, a 36-year-old ex-con, was among a group of associates with Wap at the Montclair Deli on Montclair Avenue near Paxton Street when the incident began around 4 a.m. Sunday, city Police Director Jerry Speziale said. The groups got into it a short time after Wap -- aka Jerry Maxwell -- arrived, Speziale said. Thomas drew a gun and hit one of the other men with it, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Paterson Shootings That Wounded 3 Tied To Rapper Fetty Wap Paterson Shootings That Wounded 3 Tied To Rapper Fetty Wap Paterson Shootings That Wounded 3 Tied To Rapper Fetty Wap
Paterson Shootings That Wounded 3 Tied To Rapper Fetty Wap UPDATE: A member of rapper Fetty Wap's entourage was charged with aggravated assault and weapons offenses after an argument in a Paterson deli ended with three shot, authorities told Daily Voice early Monday. Raheem Thomas, a 36-year-old ex-con, was among a group of associates with Wap at the Montclair Deli on Montclair Avenue near Paxton Street when the incident began around 4 a.m. Sunday, city Police Director Jerry Speziale said. The groups got into it a short time after Wap -- aka Jerry Maxwell -- arrived, Speziale said. Thomas drew a gun and hit one of the other men with it, the direct…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Fairview Detectives Nab Ex-Con After Barroom Stabbing Fairview Detectives Nab Ex-Con After Barroom Stabbing Fairview Detectives Nab Ex-Con After Barroom Stabbing
Fairview Detectives Nab Ex-Con After Barroom Stabbing FAIRVIEW, N.J. -- A dispute over a woman led to a stabbing in a Fairview bar overnight Sunday and an intense investigation by borough detectives that produced the arrest a short time later of a parolee released from state prison just three months ago. Michael A. "Money Mike" Agosto, 28, went to Bar One on Fairview Avenue looking for the victim just after 12:30 a.m. Sunday, Police Chief Martin Kahn told Daily Voice. A confrontation led to an argument that quickly became a scuffle, he said Suddenly, the victim felt a pain in his back. He was taken to Hackensack University Medical …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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Driver Hospitalized After Pickup Hits Two Cars, Loses Axle In New Milford Driver Hospitalized After Pickup Hits Two Cars, Loses Axle In New Milford Driver Hospitalized After Pickup Hits Two Cars, Loses Axle In New Milford
Driver Hospitalized After Pickup Hits Two Cars, Loses Axle In New Milford NEW MILFORD, N.J. -- A driver was hospitalized with what witnesses said appeared to be minor injuries after his pickup truck struck two other vehicles and lost an axle Friday night. The driver was taken to Holy Name Medical Center after the 10:15 p.m. incident on River Road, witnesses told Daily Voice.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn Teen Says He Whacked Overnight Burglar With Baseball Bat Fair Lawn Teen Says He Whacked Overnight Burglar With Baseball Bat Fair Lawn Teen Says He Whacked Overnight Burglar With Baseball Bat
Fair Lawn Teen Says He Whacked Overnight Burglar With Baseball Bat FAIR LAWN, N.J. – A Fair Lawn teenager told police he whacked an intruder with a baseball bat after finding him in the family kitchen before dawn. The 16-year-old Ivy Lane resident told police he went to the kitchen for a glass of water just after 4 a.m. Thursday when he saw the burglar at the entrance, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. The intruder followed him into the next room, he said, where the boy said he grabbed the bat and hit the purported burglar once in the upper arm. The boy told police the burglar took off, dropping $160 and two passports taken from the home. A perimeter was establis…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Judge: No Bail For 2 In Paterson Torched-Car Murders Tied To 'RHONJ' Guest Judge: No Bail For 2 In Paterson Torched-Car Murders Tied To 'RHONJ' Guest Judge: No Bail For 2 In Paterson Torched-Car Murders Tied To 'RHONJ' Guest
Judge: No Bail For 2 In Paterson Torched-Car Murders Tied To 'Rhonj' Guest PATERSON, N.J. -- A state judge in Paterson on Friday denied bail for two men charged in the killings of two others found on a city street in a burning car owned by "The Real Wives of New Jersey" guest Kim DePaola. Clarence Williams, 26, and Gerry Thomas, 28, remained held in the Passaic County Jail while prosecutors prepared to seek a grand jury indictment charging them with murder, arson, robbery, conspiracy and weapons possession, among other counts.  Detectives and U.S. Marshals arrested the pair Monday night. The victims' bodies were found burned beyond recognition after cit…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Duo Charged With Robbing Passaic Club, Leading Police On Chase Duo Charged With Robbing Passaic Club, Leading Police On Chase Duo Charged With Robbing Passaic Club, Leading Police On Chase
Duo Charged With Robbing Passaic Club, Leading Police On Chase PASSAIC, N.J. – An ex-con with a decade-long history of gun convictions and other offenses that include harboring a missing 15-year-old girl was one of two men charged federally on Friday with robbing a Passaic club and then leading police on a chase into Essex County. Keontrae “Taz” Lawrence, 28, of South Orange and fellow Essex County resident Jimmy “Flip” Cooper, 32, of Irvington conspired with others to rob the club in the early morning hours of Sept. 6, 2015, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick said. Cooper “sent text messages to a conspirator’s phone coordinating the timing of…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Prosecutor: Elmwood Park Druglord Distributed Heroin, Crack In 4 Counties Prosecutor: Elmwood Park Druglord Distributed Heroin, Crack In 4 Counties Prosecutor: Elmwood Park Druglord Distributed Heroin, Crack In 4 Counties
Prosecutor: Elmwood Park Druglord Distributed Heroin, Crack In 4 Counties ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- A 23-year-old Elmwood Park man was at the center of a North Jersey heroin and crack distribution ring that was smashed with the arrests of him and 17 other people, authorities said. Kevin “Star” Ruiz ran "a profitable drug distribution network in which he personally delivered heroin and crack cocaine to customers daily in Bergen, Morris, Sussex and Warren counties,” Morris County Prosecutor Fredric M. Knapp said. They, in turn, sold more than 4,000 folds of heroin and more than 130 packages of crack – worth a combined $12,000 on the street -- in Hackensack and oth…

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