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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Paterson, NJ
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Garfield Man, 21, Convicted Of Armed Paterson Street Robbery Spree Faces At Least 10 Years Garfield Man, 21, Convicted Of Armed Paterson Street Robbery Spree Faces At Least 10 Years Garfield Man, 21, Convicted Of Armed Paterson Street Robbery Spree Faces At Least 10 Years
Garfield Man, 21, Convicted Of Armed Paterson Street Robbery Spree Faces At Least 10 Years UPDATE: A 21-year-old Garfield man who rejected a plea offer was convicted of robbing four different victims during an early-morning armed street holdup spree in Paterson. Jurors in Paterson didn’t need long to find Jimmy German guilty of four counts of robbery along with possession of a handgun and the unlawful taking of a vehicle. Superior Court Judge Justine A. Niccollai then ordered that German remain held in the Bergen County Jail while awaiting a March 31 sentencing. He's looking at a sentence of at least 10 years, 8½ of which must be served under New Jersey’s No Early Release Act. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives Seize $77,500 From Female PA Driver Charged With Laundering Cash Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives Seize $77,500 From Female PA Driver Charged With Laundering Cash Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives Seize $77,500 From Female PA Driver Charged With Laundering Cash
Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives Seize $77,500 From Female PA Driver Charged With Laundering Cash Bergen County narcotics detectives seized $77,500 in suspected drug money from an unemployed Pennsylvania woman following a traffic stop, authorities said. Joseline De Jesus-Quinones, 28, of Allentown was charged with money laundering and released on a summons to appear in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. He didn't say where in the county the stop was made. Whether the defendant will show is doubtful. Major drug suppliers consider such seizures the cost of doing business. Local authorities, meanwhile, get to keep the money for eq…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Knife-Wielding Sex Offender Utters Racial Slurs Against Asian Man In Fort Lee: Authorities Knife-Wielding Sex Offender Utters Racial Slurs Against Asian Man In Fort Lee: Authorities Knife-Wielding Sex Offender Utters Racial Slurs Against Asian Man In Fort Lee: Authorities
Knife-Wielding Sex Offender Utters Racial Slurs Against Asian Man In Fort Lee: Authorities A registered sex offender from out of state was jailed after pulling a knife and uttering racial slurs against an Asian man during a dispute at a Fort Lee shopping center, authorities said. Responding officers arrested Brett Epps, 47, of Mansfield, Ohio, after speaking with him, the alleged victim and others at Whiteman Park Plaza on Lemoine Avenue shortly after 7:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, Capt. Edward Young said. Police seized the weapon, brought Epps to headquarters and charged him with aggravated assault, four counts of bias intimidation, making terroristic threats and illegal weapons p…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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WATCH: YouTube Video Shows Rapper Assaulting Bergen Shop Rite Worker, Harassing Customers WATCH: YouTube Video Shows Rapper Assaulting Bergen Shop Rite Worker, Harassing Customers WATCH: YouTube Video Shows Rapper Assaulting Bergen Shop Rite Worker, Harassing Customers
Watch: YouTube Video Shows Rapper Assaulting Bergen Shop Rite Worker, Harassing Customers One way to pretty much guarantee you'll be arrested is to record a crime and post it on YouTube -- in high def, no less. Just ask drill music rapper Nas Ebk. Nasir Valenzuela, who has produced prank videos that push the limits of legality, joined two accomplices in harassing and intimidating customers and employees at the ShopRite in Rochelle Park while recording it. Some of their targets laughed it off. At least one seemed intimidated. Others simply ignored them. One worker, in particular, wasn't having it, though. The video shows Valenzuela, 19, of the Bronx, snatching the stock cler…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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Springsteen Tickets Going For Less Than A Soda At Some Venues Springsteen Tickets Going For Less Than A Soda At Some Venues Springsteen Tickets Going For Less Than A Soda At Some Venues
Springsteen Tickets Going For Less Than A Soda At Some Venues Trouble in the heartland: That darkness on the edge of town might just be empty seats during Bruce Springsteen's current tour. Ticket prices for Springsteen's Tuesday night Feb. 21 show with the E Street Band in Tulsa, Oklahoma, dropped as low as $6 each -- with fees -- as resellers found themselves forced to dump. His Valentine's Day shindig at the Toyota Center in Houston saw hundreds of tickets left at as little as 10 bucks and hundreds more between $25 and a C-note days before the big night. A portent of things to come? Good question. Okies who scouted Ticketmaster for seats found the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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TEEN MURDER: Paterson Boy, 15, Charged With Stabbing 14-Year-Old Dead, Wounding 16-Year-Old TEEN MURDER: Paterson Boy, 15, Charged With Stabbing 14-Year-Old Dead, Wounding 16-Year-Old TEEN MURDER: Paterson Boy, 15, Charged With Stabbing 14-Year-Old Dead, Wounding 16-Year-Old
Teen Murder: Paterson Boy, 15, Charged With Stabbing 14-Year-Old Dead, Wounding 16-Year-Old A 15-year-old Paterson boy was seized by police on Tuesday for stabbing and killing a 14-year-old city youth and wounding the victim’s 16-year-old companion in broad daylight last week. Delinquency complaints were signed against the boy that would equal adult criminal charges of murder, aggravated assault, and weapons possession, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Acting Paterson Police Chief Bert Ribeiro said. He was placed in detention pending a hearing in the Family Part of Superior Court in Paterson. The incident occurred outside but not on the property of Paterson Eastsi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Mexican National Living In Englewood Charged With Sexually Assaulting Two Pre-Teens Mexican National Living In Englewood Charged With Sexually Assaulting Two Pre-Teens Mexican National Living In Englewood Charged With Sexually Assaulting Two Pre-Teens
Mexican National Living In Englewood Charged With Sexually Assaulting Two Pre-Teens A Mexican national who lives in Englewood sexually assaulted two different pre-teens on more than one occasion, authorities charged. Robert Martinez-Guzman, a 41-year-old married laborer, remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Tuesday, Feb. 21, following his arrest late last week, records show. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said his Special Victims Unit was alerted by Englewood police the day after Christmas last year. A joint investigation that followed produced four counts of first-degree aggravated sexual assault against Martinez-Guzman, which records show stem from alleged …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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17 Shots: One Caught, Others Sought After Gunfire Erupts In Front Of Paterson Detective 17 Shots: One Caught, Others Sought After Gunfire Erupts In Front Of Paterson Detective 17 Shots: One Caught, Others Sought After Gunfire Erupts In Front Of Paterson Detective
17 Shots: One Caught, Others Sought After Gunfire Erupts In Front Of Paterson Detective Paterson detectives were in the middle of a drug investigation when one of them saw a group of assailants armed with handguns suddenly open fire on another group on a city street corner. Everything happened quickly after that. By the time it was done, an accused shooter was in custody and two handguns had been recovered, Paterson Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Detectives and uniformed officers rushed to the corner of Rosa Parks Boulevard and Putnam Street following the 2 p.m. shooting on Monday, Feb. 20. As many as 17 shots were believed fired before both groups scattered with…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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'Really Is A Miracle': Fairview Girl, 13, Who Plunged 5 Stories Now Alert, Breathing, Aware 'Really Is A Miracle': Fairview Girl, 13, Who Plunged 5 Stories Now Alert, Breathing, Aware 'Really Is A Miracle': Fairview Girl, 13, Who Plunged 5 Stories Now Alert, Breathing, Aware
'Really Is A Miracle': Fairview Girl, 13, Who Plunged 5 Stories Now Alert, Breathing, Aware UPDATE: A 13-year-old girl who jumped from the roof of a five-story apartment building in Fairview last week has emerged from a medically-induced coma, multiple sources confirmed on Tuesday. “She’s alert, breathing on her own and aware of her surroundings -- getting better and better each day,” a law enforcement veteran told Daily Voice shortly after noon on Feb. 21. “It really is a miracle,” he said. “There’s no other way to put it.” Just six days earlier, the distressed youngster went to the roof of the brick building on Day Avenue as classmates headed home from Lincoln School just two …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Tear Gas Ends Hours-Long SWAT Standoff With Knife-Wielding Man At River Edge Garden Apartment Tear Gas Ends Hours-Long SWAT Standoff With Knife-Wielding Man At River Edge Garden Apartment Tear Gas Ends Hours-Long SWAT Standoff With Knife-Wielding Man At River Edge Garden Apartment
Tear Gas Ends Hours-Long SWAT Standoff With Knife-Wielding Man At River Edge Garden Apartment SWAT team members ended a standoff of more than five hours when they subdued a knife-wielding man who’d barricaded himself in his mother’s River Edge apartment. A construction worker by trade, the man had been living in shelters in New York City before recently moving in with his mother at the Oxford Terrace Apartments. He'd become violent, however, so she fled and called police at 7:43 a.m., River Edge Police Chief Michael Walker said. Responding officers “tried to contend with him,” but he retreated into the kitchen of the garden apartment and began picking up knives, the chief said. Th…

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