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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Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: Man Gunned Down At New Milford Apartments ID'd As Search For Killer Continues UPDATE: Man Gunned Down At New Milford Apartments ID'd As Search For Killer Continues UPDATE: Man Gunned Down At New Milford Apartments ID'd As Search For Killer Continues
Update: Man Gunned Down At New Milford Apartments ID'd As Search For Killer Continues A Long Island man who was gunned down at an apartment complex in New Milford last month is being laid to rest this coming weekend as the hunt for his killer continued. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella identified the victim shot in the head in the rear of the Bookchester Apartments in the 900 block of Boulevard on Nov. 26 as Jacques McDonald, 25, of Amityville. McDonald was taken in traumatic arrest to Hackensack University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead shortly after 8 p.m., roughly an hour after the call, the prosecutor said. Investigators have yet to disclose unde…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cherry Hill, NJ
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NJ Megan's Law Offender Held By Feds In Sex Trafficking Of Missing PA Child, Others NJ Megan's Law Offender Held By Feds In Sex Trafficking Of Missing PA Child, Others NJ Megan's Law Offender Held By Feds In Sex Trafficking Of Missing PA Child, Others
NJ Megan's Law Offender Held By Feds In Sex Trafficking Of Missing PA Child, Others UPDATE: A federal judge ordered the continued detention of a registered South Jersey sex offender who authorities said was caught trafficking a trio of children for sex, including a missing Pennsylvania youngster. Semaj A. Gilmore, 32, of Camden, has been in custody since April 2021. That's when authorities learned that "a missing juvenile from Pennsylvania was being advertised for sexually illicit activities on a website that is often used to advertise acts of prostitution," U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. An undercover agent contacted a phone number associated with the ad and end…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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ARMED ROBBERY RAMPAGE: Federal Judge Orders Passaic County Pair Held ARMED ROBBERY RAMPAGE: Federal Judge Orders Passaic County Pair Held ARMED ROBBERY RAMPAGE: Federal Judge Orders Passaic County Pair Held
Armed Robbery Rampage: Federal Judge Orders Passaic County Pair Held Two Paterson men who were captured following a terrifying armed robbery rampage must remain in custody, a federal judge in Newark ordered. Carlos Diaz and Edward Porter and an unidentified third bandit menaced customers with handguns, ordering them to lie on the floor, while robbed a Passaic bodega this past Aug. 22, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. The pair, both 30, then robbed a Passaic liquor store of several thousand dollars at gunpoint -- with Porter pistol-whipping a victim, the U.S. attorney said. Later that night, they robbed another business, where Porter "pushed one vict…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Immigrant Seized By ICE For Deportation After Beating Young Fairview Man With Autism: Police Immigrant Seized By ICE For Deportation After Beating Young Fairview Man With Autism: Police Immigrant Seized By ICE For Deportation After Beating Young Fairview Man With Autism: Police
Immigrant Seized By ICE For Deportation After Beating Young Fairview Man With Autism: Police A Guatemalan immigrant illegally living in Fairview was seized by ICE agents after he beat a defenseless young man with autism, authorities said. Alexander Castellanos, 33, was initially sent to the Bergen County Jail on aggravated assault charges following his weekend arrest, records show. Fairview police said Castellanos punched the 20-year-old victim in the face, sending him to the hospital with was believed to be a broken nose. The victim obtained a temporary restraining order, they said, but that won't be necessary now. Within hours of being booked into the county lockup on aggravate…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Middletown, NJ
Breaking News
Jersey Shore Man Admits Recording Himself Sexually Assaulting Young Girl, Then Sharing It Jersey Shore Man Admits Recording Himself Sexually Assaulting Young Girl, Then Sharing It Jersey Shore Man Admits Recording Himself Sexually Assaulting Young Girl, Then Sharing It
Jersey Shore Man Admits Recording Himself Sexually Assaulting Young Girl, Then Sharing It A Jersey Shore man admitted recording himself sexually assaulting a young girl who authorities said was under 8 years old. FBI agents zeroed in on Christian Importuna, 27, of Englishtown, when he tried trading the videos with what turned out to be an undercover detective in March 2020, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. One of the videos shows a girl who appears less than 8 years old giving him oral sex, a complaint on file in U.S. District Court says. In the other, he is rubbing the crotch of a sleeping child who may be the same girl, it says. FBI investigators “linked the videos to…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Salesman, 23, From Midland Park Charged With Trafficking Child Porn Salesman, 23, From Midland Park Charged With Trafficking Child Porn Salesman, 23, From Midland Park Charged With Trafficking Child Porn
Salesman, 23, From Midland Park Charged With Trafficking Child Porn A 23-year-old salesman from Midland Park was arrested Tuesday and charged with trafficking child porn, authorities confirmed. Ali Aldoise was taken into custody during the execution of a search warrant at his home on Vreeland Avenue early Nov. 6, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Detectives from his Cyber Crimes Unit found that Aldoise “used the Internet to view, download, possess, distribute and share items depicting nude and/or sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children,” the prosecutor said. They charged Aldoise with possessing and distributing child pornography and…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Student Revived After Medical Episode At Bergen Middle School Student Revived After Medical Episode At Bergen Middle School Student Revived After Medical Episode At Bergen Middle School
Student Revived After Medical Episode At Bergen Middle School An Oakland middle school student was revived following a medical episode in gym class, authorities said. The Valley Middle School nurse was conducting CPR on the 13-year-old boy -- who responders said had a pre-existing medical condition -- when police arrived shortly after 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6. "He was breathing on his own at the time he was transported to the hospital," Police Capt. Timothy Keenan said. Responders included Oakland Police Lt. Mark Piercy, Sgt. Stephen Broek and Officers Jacob Martin and Joseph Burns. 

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Vehicle Plows Into Paramus Nail Salon Vehicle Plows Into Paramus Nail Salon Vehicle Plows Into Paramus Nail Salon
Vehicle Plows Into Paramus Nail Salon No one was seriously injured when a wagon driven by an 83-year-old local driver slammed into a Paramus nail salon Tuesday afternoon. Vehicles that hit storefronts ordinarily don't make it in very far.  Not the 2007 Lexus RX that crashed into Bliss Nails in the Highland Shopping Center on East Ridgewood Avenue shopping center shortly around 1:45 p.m. Dec. 6. "Several people were inside the salon at the time but only one was injured," Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. Members of Paramus Emergency Medical Services treated that person, a 59-year-old Paramus woman, for a minor cut …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
D-I-V-O-WTF? Man Jumps On Hood Of Car Driven By Estranged Wife Outside Route 17 Starbucks D-I-V-O-WTF? Man Jumps On Hood Of Car Driven By Estranged Wife Outside Route 17 Starbucks D-I-V-O-WTF? Man Jumps On Hood Of Car Driven By Estranged Wife Outside Route 17 Starbucks
D-i-v-o-wtf? Man Jumps On Hood Of Car Driven By Estranged Wife Outside Route 17 Starbucks Talk about an ugly separation: Anyone watching what became a bizarre mid-morning scene outside a Route 17 Starbucks had to be shaking their heads. As police told it: A man jumped on the hood of his sedan in an effort to stop his estranged wife and their son from stealing it as countless java junkies and bemused motorists looked on. The vehicle in question: A Ford Fusion. Joanne Schielzo, 55, of Garfield was "unsatisfied" with her husband getting the $25,000 sedan in their impending divorce, Rochelle Park Police Lt. James M. DePreta said. So she "concocted a plan to regain possession," th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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UPDATE: Carbon Dioxide Leak Clears Stew Leonard's In Paramus, Three Employees Rescued From Roof UPDATE: Carbon Dioxide Leak Clears Stew Leonard's In Paramus, Three Employees Rescued From Roof UPDATE: Carbon Dioxide Leak Clears Stew Leonard's In Paramus, Three Employees Rescued From Roof
Update: Carbon Dioxide Leak Clears Stew Leonard's In Paramus, Three Employees Rescued From Roof Five employees checked out OK, and firefighters plucked three others from the roof, after a broken refrigeration pipe filled Stew Leonard's in Paramus with carbon dioxide early Tuesday. The store hadn't opened yet when responders rushed to the Paramus Park mall at 7:45 a.m. Nov. 6, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. The pipe had been ruptured, releasing the CO2, while a service company was doing maintenance work, the chief said. Everyone was evacuated, including three workers who'd gone to the roof of the building and had to be collected by borough firefighters using a ladder truck, Ehr…

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