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
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Berkeley Leadership Panel Celebrates Women's History Month Berkeley Leadership Panel Celebrates Women's History Month Berkeley Leadership Panel Celebrates Women's History Month
Berkeley Leadership Panel Celebrates Women's History Month WOODLAND PARK, N.J. -- More than 150 students, faculty, legislators and community members attended the Seventh Annual Berkeley College Women’s Leadership Panel, held in recognition of Women’s History Month at Berkeley College in Woodland Park. “It’s so important to have leaders on campus and have our students hear from successful women,” Berkeley President Michael J. Smith told the gathering Monday. Panelists included Melissa Orsen, CEO of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority; state Assemblywomen Holly Schepisi and Shavonda E. Sumter; Clifton Councilwoman Lauren Murphy, who is also…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Haledon Police Charge Driver With Stealing $75,000 Of Chanel Merchandise Haledon Police Charge Driver With Stealing $75,000 Of Chanel Merchandise Haledon Police Charge Driver With Stealing $75,000 Of Chanel Merchandise
Haledon Police Charge Driver With Stealing $75,000 Of Chanel Merchandise HALEDON, N.J. -- Haledon police charged a local Chanel of New York City Driver with stealing more than $75,000 worth of merchandise from sealed boxes that he intended to sell. Detectives who investigated after receiving a complaint from the company arrested Edwin Duran, 30, of Haledon, Lt. George Guzman said Tuesday. Duran was supposed to be delivering the merchandise to warehouses but took 50 assorted pieces, Guzman said. Detective Sgt. George Kelly and Detective Tim Lindberg recovered the items and returned them to Chanel after arresting Duran. Duran was released pending a court hearing…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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Hackensack Cook Charged With Sexually Assaulting Dumont Girl, 8 Hackensack Cook Charged With Sexually Assaulting Dumont Girl, 8 Hackensack Cook Charged With Sexually Assaulting Dumont Girl, 8
Hackensack Cook Charged With Sexually Assaulting Dumont Girl, 8 DUMONT, N.J. -- A married cook from Hackensack was being held on $250,000 bail after authorities charged him with sexually assaulting an 8-year-old Dumot girl. Carlos Enrique Lliguisupa-Medina, 32, was arrested on sexual assault and child endangerment counts on Monday, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Tuesday afternoon. The night before, the girl told detectives from Grewal's Special Victims Unit that Lliguisupa-Medina "inappropriately touched her more than one time...on intimate parts of her body...between August 2013 and August 2014," he said. He's due f…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Maywood Officer Finds 50 Bags of Heroin, Crack, Arrests Wayne Driver Maywood Officer Finds 50 Bags of Heroin, Crack, Arrests Wayne Driver Maywood Officer Finds 50 Bags of Heroin, Crack, Arrests Wayne Driver
Maywood Officer Finds 50 Bags of Heroin, Crack, Arrests Wayne Driver MAYWOOD, N.J. -- A Maywood police officer making a routine traffic stop arrested a 52-year-old Wayne man Tuesday afternoon after finding 50 bags of heroin, crack, a hypodermic syringe and drug paraphernalia. Officer Greg Mulawka pulled the two-door 2000 Mercury Cougar on Essex Street around 1 p.m. because it had no front license plate, Detective Jason Liaban told Daily Voice. After spotting paraphernalia in plain view, he arrested Todd Malsch and searched the car, Liaban said. Among the drugs found were heroin bags stamped "8888," he said. Malsch was released pending a court hea…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
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Sanzari 'Heartbroken' Over Teaneck Complex Manager Who Fell From Roof Sanzari 'Heartbroken' Over Teaneck Complex Manager Who Fell From Roof Sanzari 'Heartbroken' Over Teaneck Complex Manager Who Fell From Roof
Sanzari 'Heartbroken' Over Teaneck Complex Manager Who Fell From Roof TEANECK, N.J. -- The building manager who fell from the roof of Glenpointe office complex Tuesday morning was "appreciated and loved by both our employees and tenants who knew him," said David Sanzari, president and CEO at Alfred Sanzari Enterprises. Sanzari said he was "shocked and saddened" to confirm the death of 57-year-old Cliff Michael LeMay, who he said had gone to the roof of the seven-story building "to investigate any possible damage caused by last night’s excessive wind and weather. "His body was found soon after on the grass in the courtyard," …

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
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Feds Charge Ringwood Man With 17 Machine Guns Feds Charge Ringwood Man With 17 Machine Guns Feds Charge Ringwood Man With 17 Machine Guns
Feds Charge Ringwood Man With 17 Machine Guns RINGWOOD, N.J. -- A Ringwood man was to be brought before a federal judge in Newark on Tuesday after ATF agents charged him with having 17 machine guns. Local authorities said they discovered the weapons while serving a restraining order on Mariusz Cebula, 36, at his home last July. They also reported finding 262 high-capacity magazines for firearms, as well as dozens of other firearms components, ammunition, accessories and manufacturing tools. Federal agents arrested him Monday following an investigation, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said. Some of the weapons were found to be operati…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
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Ridgewood Police: Dog Ordered To Kill Officers Shot During Traffic Stop Ridgewood Police: Dog Ordered To Kill Officers Shot During Traffic Stop Ridgewood Police: Dog Ordered To Kill Officers Shot During Traffic Stop
Ridgewood Police: Dog Ordered To Kill Officers Shot During Traffic Stop RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- Ridgewood police shot and wounded a large dog who they said jumped through a car window at his master's command to kill them. It was around 10:30 p.m. Saturday when the officers approached the car, which had been rolling at about 5 miles an hour down Lincoln Avenue when it came to a stop at the Godwin Avenue intersection, Capt. Jacqueline Luthcke said. The officers were concerned over whether "there were any medical or other issues," she said. The driver -- identified as Wilfredo Paduani, 38, of West Paterson -- "became combative and assaulted" the of…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Narcan Could Reverse 250+ Bergen Drug ODs This Year, Prosecutor Says Narcan Could Reverse 250+ Bergen Drug ODs This Year, Prosecutor Says Narcan Could Reverse 250+ Bergen Drug ODs This Year, Prosecutor Says
Narcan Could Reverse 250+ Bergen Drug ODs This Year, Prosecutor Says PARAMUS, N.J. -- At the current rate for 2016, police in Bergen County will administer Narcan 277 times to overdosing drug users this year -- roughly 50% more than last year, acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Monday. More than two dozen of those users will die, anyway, based on those figures. Grewal released the numbers during a “Heroin Summit” at his Paramus office -- held "to discuss ways to improve coordination among public and private entities to combat the heroin epidemic" in the county, he said. “It has become readily apparent to me in my first several m…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Pair Bound For Federal Pen For Swiping $250G From Tristate Home Depots Pair Bound For Federal Pen For Swiping $250G From Tristate Home Depots Pair Bound For Federal Pen For Swiping $250G From Tristate Home Depots
Pair Bound For Federal Pen For Swiping $250G From Tristate Home Depots Two Brooklyn men were sentenced to federal prison terms Monday for fleecing Home Depots in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and elswhere of more than $250,000 through an elaborate double-dipping scheme. Renauld Medard, 75, got 30 months and and 31-year-old Wesly Dieudonne 28 months from a U.S. District Court Judge Anne E. Thompson, who convicted both of wire fraud and conspiracy after a four-day bench trial in Trenton. As part of the scheme, Medard and Dieudonne bought various items from Home Depot locations in the tri-state area, as well as in Maryland and Pennsylvania, using cash, credit…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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New Milford PD: Couple, Kids, Bail From DWI Crash Car New Milford PD: Couple, Kids, Bail From DWI Crash Car New Milford PD: Couple, Kids, Bail From DWI Crash Car
New Milford PD: Couple, Kids, Bail From DWI Crash Car NEW MILFORD, N.J. -- A couple with three young children in a BMW driven by an intoxicated motorist piled into another car -- whose driver also was drunk -- after the Beamer plowed into a tree, New Milford police said Monday. The BMW driver, identified as 27-year-old Ivan Samano of Teaneck, had no license, registration or insurance, as well as no front license plate on the car, police said. The children weren't in restraints, either, they said. Samano was following the other car home when the BMW hit the tree in the 100 block of Madison Avenue, near New Milford High School, shortly after 11…

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