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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Fort Lee, NJ
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American Cancer Society GWB Challenge Closes Lower Level American Cancer Society GWB Challenge Closes Lower Level American Cancer Society GWB Challenge Closes Lower Level
American Cancer Society GWB Challenge Closes Lower Level FORT LEE, N.J. — An expected turnout of more than 2,000 will participate in this Sunday's 29th annual George Washington Bridge Challenge for the American Cancer Society, which will close the span's lower level until 10 a.m. The lower level of the country's busiest bridge shuts down just before the stroke of midnight Saturday. The upper level will remain open, authorities said. Participants can run or walk one of two courses -- one a 5k and the other a 10k. The 5k sets off at 7:45 a.m. and the 10k at 8:15 a.m., both from the Port Authority parking lot at 220 Bruce Reynolds Drive just off Le…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
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Woodcliff Lake Man Charged With Robbing Ridgewood Bank Woodcliff Lake Man Charged With Robbing Ridgewood Bank Woodcliff Lake Man Charged With Robbing Ridgewood Bank
Woodcliff Lake Man Charged With Robbing Ridgewood Bank RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- Ridgewood police charged a Woodcliff Lake man with robbing a local bank after he turned himself in to authorities in Pennsylvania. A clear surveillance image distributed to regional law enforcement agencies led to the arrest of 49-year-old Jeffrey A. Morgan after he contacted the Bensalem, PA police and surrendered, Capt. Jacqueline Luthcke told Daily Voice Friday afternoon. Morgan was being held in the Bucks County Jail pending extradition to New Jersey to face bank robbery charges. Morgan passed a note demanding money to a teller at the TD Bank on Franklin Avenue at 4:…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Police: Disruptive Defendant In Fort Lee Court Goes Directly To Jail Police: Disruptive Defendant In Fort Lee Court Goes Directly To Jail Police: Disruptive Defendant In Fort Lee Court Goes Directly To Jail
Police: Disruptive Defendant In Fort Lee Court Goes Directly To Jail FORT LEE, N.J. -- A disruptive defendant who shouted obscenities at the Fort Lee municipal courthouse on Friday was arrested, Port Authority police said. Upset over having to wait to see a judge, 22-year-old Marlon J. Ortiz of North Bergen was "screaming obscenities just outside the courtroom doors" and then tried heading back into the courtroom when Port Authority Police Officer Fred Corrubia and a colleague approached him, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. Corrubia "told the suspect him he was being placed under arrest [when he] ulled away and ran into the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Berkeley Professor Slated For 'Tough Justice' Program Berkeley Professor Slated For 'Tough Justice' Program Berkeley Professor Slated For 'Tough Justice' Program
Berkeley Professor Slated For 'Tough Justice' Program WOODLAND PARK, N.J. -- Berkeley College Professor Allen R. Sondej, a retired police captain, will be a guest on the online broadcast program “Tough Justice” on Saturday. “Tough Justice” is hosted by Donna Roman Hernandez, also a former police captain who will join Sondej at the 3rd Annual Berkeley College National Security Forum next Friday at Berkeley College in Woodland Park. The event is free, but registration is required. Sondej, who was a police officer in South Brunswick for 25 years before retiring in 2013, is a professor in the Justice Studies Department at Berkeley College, teach…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Ridgefield Park Chase Defendant From Cliffside Park Arrested Again Ridgefield Park Chase Defendant From Cliffside Park Arrested Again Ridgefield Park Chase Defendant From Cliffside Park Arrested Again
Ridgefield Park Chase Defendant From Cliffside Park Arrested Again CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. -- A Cliffside Park man free on bail after authorities said he rammed two Ridgefield Park police car with his Mercedes during a brief chase two months ago was arrested again Thursday night -- this time for having drugs in an unregistered and uninsured car while driving without a license, Port Authority police said. Giovanni Petrov, 36, was behind the wheel of a tan Cadillac that was stopped near the Holland Tunnel, the Port Authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice. Officer Josh Oliveri smelled marijuana and spotted a bag of pot that he said Petrov told him was &qu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Jurors Convict Clifton Pharmacist In Oxycodone Scheme Jurors Convict Clifton Pharmacist In Oxycodone Scheme Jurors Convict Clifton Pharmacist In Oxycodone Scheme
Jurors Convict Clifton Pharmacist In Oxycodone Scheme CLIFTON, N.J. -- Jurors on Thursday convicted a pharmacist from Clifton of conspiring with a doctor to sell oxycodone with bogus or no prescriptions. Srinivasa Raju, 44, who worked at a pharmacy in Madison, was found guilty following a three-week trial in Morristown, acting state Attorney General Robert Lougy said. The doctor, 58-year-old Vincent A. Esposito of Madison, pleaded guilty on Dec. 17, 2013 to second-degree conspiracy to distribute oxycodone. He surrendered his medical license and has been awaiting sentencing pending the outcome of Raju's trial. Raju “pharmacist willfully parti…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Bergen Drug Task Force Arrests Cliffside Park Man On Heroin, Pot Charges Bergen Drug Task Force Arrests Cliffside Park Man On Heroin, Pot Charges Bergen Drug Task Force Arrests Cliffside Park Man On Heroin, Pot Charges
Bergen Drug Task Force Arrests Cliffside Park Man On Heroin, Pot Charges CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. -- A June 15 arraignment was scheduled for an unemployed Cliffside Park man who authorities said had heroin and pot in his apartment. Juan R. Martori, 34, was released without bail on drug possession charges after detectives searched his home in the 200 block of Palisade Avenue last Friday, acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said. The investigation and warranted search involved members of the prosecutor's Narcotic Task Force, the Bergen County Sheriff's K-9 Unit and borough police, Grewal said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Saddle Brook Boy, 13, Hit By Car In Front Of School Saddle Brook Boy, 13, Hit By Car In Front Of School Saddle Brook Boy, 13, Hit By Car In Front Of School
Saddle Brook Boy, 13, Hit By Car In Front Of School SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- A student sustained head and leg injuries after he was struck in front of Saddle Brook High/Middle School just after being dismissed Thursday. The 13-year-old 7th-grader was crossing in the middle of Mayhill Street -- about 65 yards from the crosswalk -- when he was struck by a Ford Contour, around 3:10 p.m. Police Chief Robert Kugler Daily Voice. The force cracked the vehicle's windshield, he said. Kugler said the boy's parents followed the ambulance to Hackensack University Medical Center. The female driver from Maywood, who witnesses said was extremely shaken up, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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Rutherford Man Admits Role In $2M Identity-Theft Hacking Scheme Rutherford Man Admits Role In $2M Identity-Theft Hacking Scheme Rutherford Man Admits Role In $2M Identity-Theft Hacking Scheme
Rutherford Man Admits Role In $2M Identity-Theft Hacking Scheme RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- A Rutherford man on Thursday admitted stealing more than $2 million by hacking corporate computers to steal the identities of of millions of people. Tomasz Chmielarz, 33, told a judge in Newark that he was solicited in January 2013 to write spam that bypassed filters for Timothy Edward Livingston of Boca Raton, Florida. A second defendant, 28-year-old Devin James McArthur of Ellicott City, Maryland, admitted his role in the scheme on Thursday, as well. Livingston is scheduled for trial in U.S. District Court in Newark on Oct. 13. Livingston and others operated A Whole …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Two Hackensack Men Charged With Sexually Abusing Same Girl Two Hackensack Men Charged With Sexually Abusing Same Girl Two Hackensack Men Charged With Sexually Abusing Same Girl
Two Hackensack Men Charged With Sexually Abusing Same Girl HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Two Hackensack men were charged with sexually assaulting the same city school student. Edwin M. Zhinin-Zhinin, a 31-year-old janitor, and Eli M. Mancia-Herrera, a 39-year-old construction worker, were charged with aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and chld endangerment, acting county Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Thursday afternoon. Both were being held in the Bergen County Jail -- Zhinin-Zhinin on $250,000 bail and Mancia-Herrera on $150,000 bail -- pending scheduled Friday arraignments in Central Processing Court in Hackensack. Grewal's Special Victims Unit…

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