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
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Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield Pays $1.1M For Customer Data Breach Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield Pays $1.1M For Customer Data Breach Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield Pays $1.1M For Customer Data Breach
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield Pays $1.1M For Customer Data Breach Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey agreed to pay $1.1 million and improve data-security practices to settle charges that it failed to properly protect the privacy of nearly 690,000 state policyholders whose personal information was contained on two laptops stolen from the insurer’s Newark headquarters. The insurance giant -- New Jersey's largest healthcare provider -- agreed to the settlement after state Division of Consumer Affairs investigators found that the company’s failure to comply with federal data security standards threatened to expose private information of its members, …

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Hackensack, NJ
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South Hackensack Adult Club Bouncers Busted In 'Vicious Attack' On Patron South Hackensack Adult Club Bouncers Busted In 'Vicious Attack' On Patron South Hackensack Adult Club Bouncers Busted In 'Vicious Attack' On Patron
South Hackensack Adult Club Bouncers Busted In 'Vicious Attack' On Patron SOUTH HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Two bouncers at a South Hackensack adult club attacked a patron, fracturing his skull and opening a gash from his hairline to the bridge of his nose, said police who arrested them. Players Club bouncers Andrew Allegro, 39, of Old Bridge, and Paul Mogilevsky, 42, Woodbridge, were each charged with aggravated assault, in what one ranking police officer called a "vicious attack" on the 55-year-old victim from Lodi, who needed 14 stitches. Allegro was released pending a court hearing. Mogilevsky -- who police said was carrying Xanax, Oxycodone, Oxycontin and …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Franklin Lakes Employee Arrested After Co-Worker Finds Gun In His Desk Franklin Lakes Employee Arrested After Co-Worker Finds Gun In His Desk Franklin Lakes Employee Arrested After Co-Worker Finds Gun In His Desk
Franklin Lakes Employee Arrested After Co-Worker Finds Gun In His Desk FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. – A Franklin Lakes insurance company employee was arrested after a co-worker found a gun in his desk drawer, authorities said Friday. Police summoned by the Daman Associates worker on High Mountain Road arrested 45-year-old Orlando Gonzalez on Thursday, Capt. John Bakelaar said. He was charged with unlawful possession of the 9mm handgun and released pending a hearing.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Passaic Sheriff's Officers Revive Overdosed Little Ferry Driver With Narcan Passaic Sheriff's Officers Revive Overdosed Little Ferry Driver With Narcan Passaic Sheriff's Officers Revive Overdosed Little Ferry Driver With Narcan
Passaic Sheriff's Officers Revive Overdosed Little Ferry Driver With Narcan PATERSON, N.J. -- Passaic County sheriff's officers who found a 36-year-old Little Ferry drug user slumped over the steering wheel of a parked car revived him with Narcan. Corporal Craig Goodson found the overdose victim parked in the area of Park Avenue and Summer Street early Thursday afternoon, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. Goodson summoned backup Corporal Ken McNish and Officer Francesca Vollaro, who administered the anti-opiate drug, he said. It revived the victim, who was taken to St Joseph's Regional Medical Center.

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Paterson, NJ
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Experienced Veteran Wayne Police Officers Promoted Experienced Veteran Wayne Police Officers Promoted Experienced Veteran Wayne Police Officers Promoted
Experienced Veteran Wayne Police Officers Promoted WAYNE, N.J. -- Wayne promoted a trio of veteran police officers with more than 65 years of combined experience. Detective Capt. Jack McNiff is a 21-year police veteran currently assigned to Internal Affairs who served five years in Montclair before joining Wayne in 2001. He's been assigned to various roles in the department, including walking patrol/community policing, Anti-Crime Task Force, juvenile detective/SRO, field training officer, crisis negotiator, and DARE instructor. McNiff, a township resident, cited five years as a school resource officer at Anthony Wayne Middle School as one o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Mahwah Police Bust Route 17 Philly Driver With $15,200 Cash Mahwah Police Bust Route 17 Philly Driver With $15,200 Cash Mahwah Police Bust Route 17 Philly Driver With $15,200 Cash
Mahwah Police Bust Route 17 Philly Driver With $15,200 Cash MAHWAH, N.J. -- A Philadelphia driver whose car reeked of pot was arrested after he couldn't say where he got $15,200 in cash that was neatly wrapped -- most of it in a vacuum-sealed bag -- the same as drug money, Mahwah police said. Officer Tyler Boucher stopped the vehicle on southbound Route 17 for traffic violations around 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Police Chief James N. Batelli said. After smelling marijuana, he asked 28-year-old Cameron Weaver for identification, he said. Weaver "acknowledged that someone had recently smoked marijuana inside the vehicle," the chief said. There a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Passenger Admits Groping Sleeping Woman On Newark Flight Passenger Admits Groping Sleeping Woman On Newark Flight Passenger Admits Groping Sleeping Woman On Newark Flight
Passenger Admits Groping Sleeping Woman On Newark Flight FOLLOW-UP: An airline passenger admitted in federal court Thursday that he sexually touched a sleeping stranger aboard a flight from Los Angeles to Newark. Veerabhadrarao Kunam, 58, of Visakhapatnam, India, pleaded guilty before a federal magistrate judge in Newark to assault in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States. Kunam “was seated next to a woman who occupied a middle seat on a Virgin America redeye flight from Los Angeles to [Newark Liberty International Airport]," U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said. "While the plane was in the air, the woman fell asleep. “S…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Seen Him? Bergen, Passaic PDs Say Burglar On Loose Poses As DPW Worker Seen Him? Bergen, Passaic PDs Say Burglar On Loose Poses As DPW Worker Seen Him? Bergen, Passaic PDs Say Burglar On Loose Poses As DPW Worker
Seen Him? Bergen, Passaic PDs Say Burglar On Loose Poses As DPW Worker PLEASE SHARE: Police in Bergen and Passaic counties issued an alert for a Sussex County burglar who they said dresses up as a DPW employee and breaks into unoccupied homes. Wanted by Wayne police, 34-year-old Jason Major is 6 feet tall and 200 pounds and could be driving a green 1997 Dodge pickup truck with the NJ license plate R38GEZ and a black ladder rack, authorities said. Major had donned a tri-colored safety vest as part of his costume and knocked on doors during the day, assuming residents would be at work, they said. When no one answered, they said, he broke in and stole jewelry, w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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Lodi Moving Company Worker Wanted On Drug Warrant Captured In Dumont Lodi Moving Company Worker Wanted On Drug Warrant Captured In Dumont Lodi Moving Company Worker Wanted On Drug Warrant Captured In Dumont
Lodi Moving Company Worker Wanted On Drug Warrant Captured In Dumont DUMONT, N.J. – A moving company employee wanted by police had 70 Xanaxes, pot packaged for sale, drug paraphernalia -- including digital scales and baggies -- and a blank 9mm pistol when authorities said they arrested him in Dumont. Paul Edmonds, 21, of Lodi was living on Ontario Street to avoid arrest for an outstanding warrant while selling drugs, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal, said when the residence was raided Thursday by his detectives and Dumont police accompanied by a K-9 unit from the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office. Edmonds was being held in the Bergen County Jail pendi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Mahwah PD Smashes Ramapo College Pot-Dealing Operation With Student Arrest Mahwah PD Smashes Ramapo College Pot-Dealing Operation With Student Arrest Mahwah PD Smashes Ramapo College Pot-Dealing Operation With Student Arrest
Mahwah PD Smashes Ramapo College Pot-Dealing Operation With Student Arrest MAHWAH, N.J. – A Ramapo College student had a pound of marijuana and $6,000 in drug proceeds when he was busted for selling pot on and off campus, Mahwah police said. Nathaniel Rodriguez, 22, of West New York, was dealing marijuana “in various quantities to both Ramapo College students and [buyers] not residing on the campus,” Police Chief James N. Batelli said Thursday. Detectives acting on a tip obtained three months ago confirmed that Rodriguez, a senior scheduled to graduate in three months, “was conducting the operation out of his College Park Apartment (Mimosa),” the chief said. Afte…

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