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
Breaking News
Passaic Man Shot, Killed Outside Housing Complex Passaic Man Shot, Killed Outside Housing Complex Passaic Man Shot, Killed Outside Housing Complex
Passaic Man Shot, Killed Outside Housing Complex A Passaic man was shot and killed shortly before dawn Sunday outside the city housing complex where he'd lived, authorities said. Donyell Coley, who was struck several times, arrived at St. Mary’s Hospital in a private vehicle at 5:50 a.m. and was pronounced dead about 45 minutes later, they said. Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Passaic Police Chief Luis A. Guzman didn’t say whether a suspect had been captured or identified – only that Coley, 41, was shot in the parking lot at Speer Village. The public housing complex on Aspen Place was Coley’s most recent address, records …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lakewood, NJ
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Planned Sex With 15-Year-Old Jersey Shore 'Boy' Gets Admitted Predator Three Years Behind Bars Planned Sex With 15-Year-Old Jersey Shore 'Boy' Gets Admitted Predator Three Years Behind Bars Planned Sex With 15-Year-Old Jersey Shore 'Boy' Gets Admitted Predator Three Years Behind Bars
Planned Sex With 15-Year-Old Jersey Shore 'Boy' Gets Admitted Predator Three Years Behind Bars A confessed predator who was busted when he showed up for what he thought would be sex with a 15-year-old boy at the Jersey Shore was sentenced to a plea-bargained three years in prison. Robert Lisicki, 51, of Metuchen didn’t realize the person he’d been communicating with on social media was actually an undercover detective, Acting Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck said. Lisicki planned meeting the “boy” for sex, even discussing the things he’d planned do to, Bruck said. Detectives who were waiting arrested Lisicki when he arrived at the planned location in Toms River, the attorney general…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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New Details Emerge As Man Accused Of Dumping Escort's Body Is Moved To Bergen County Jail New Details Emerge As Man Accused Of Dumping Escort's Body Is Moved To Bergen County Jail New Details Emerge As Man Accused Of Dumping Escort's Body Is Moved To Bergen County Jail
New Details Emerge As Man Accused Of Dumping Escort's Body Is Moved To Bergen County Jail UPDATE: A man now jailed in Bergen County was seen entering a Manhattan building with a New York City escort a full week before her remains were found dumped on a quiet local street, court papers show. Auriello Parker was waiting for Nicole Flanagan at the deluxe Wall Street apartment after texting her on Aug. 6, Bergen County homicide detectives wrote in an arrest warrant. Flanagan, a 42-year-old Connecticut native living in Queens, arrived at 1:45 a.m., got into an elevator with Parker and headed upstairs to a 22nd-floor apartment, it says. No proof has yet been shown that anyone beside…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
NJ Judge Charged With Covering Ties To Friend She Appointed To Handle $600,000 Estate NJ Judge Charged With Covering Ties To Friend She Appointed To Handle $600,000 Estate NJ Judge Charged With Covering Ties To Friend She Appointed To Handle $600,000 Estate
NJ Judge Charged With Covering Ties To Friend She Appointed To Handle $600,000 Estate Passaic County Surrogate Bernice Toledo tried to cover up her appointment of a longtime friend and political ally as administrator of a $600,000 estate over the objections of the dead man’s cousin, state authorities charged. Toledo, 51, of Wayne first drew the attention of a state judicial ethics committee after she claimed that “all of the competent adult next of kin and other persons having a prior right to administer the estate had renounced [that] right,” Acting New Jersey Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck said. “In reality, a relative of the decedent who had a prior right of administra…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Deliveryman From Little Ferry Charged With Repeatedly Molesting Pre-Teen In River Edge Deliveryman From Little Ferry Charged With Repeatedly Molesting Pre-Teen In River Edge Deliveryman From Little Ferry Charged With Repeatedly Molesting Pre-Teen In River Edge
Deliveryman From Little Ferry Charged With Repeatedly Molesting Pre-Teen In River Edge A 23-year-old deliveryman from Little Ferry repeatedly molested a pre-teen at a River Edge residence, authorities charged. Roberto Carlos Mancia remained held Saturday in the Bergen County Jail pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack following his arrest by county prosecutor’s detectives earlier this week, records show. Mancia is charged with second-degree sexual assault, as well as child endangerment. Investigating a tip from the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency, Special Victims Unit detectives found that Mancia “sexually assaulted th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson PD Busts Drug-Dealing Trio, Seize 811 Heroin Folds, 26 Crack Vials, Laser Sight Gun Paterson PD Busts Drug-Dealing Trio, Seize 811 Heroin Folds, 26 Crack Vials, Laser Sight Gun Paterson PD Busts Drug-Dealing Trio, Seize 811 Heroin Folds, 26 Crack Vials, Laser Sight Gun
Paterson PD Busts Drug-Dealing Trio, Seize 811 Heroin Folds, 26 Crack Vials, Laser Sight Gun Drug buyers flocked from inside and out of Paterson to a squat apartment house in the Silk City as detectives watched. After picking off several buyers, police moved in, seizing three dealers – one of them only 16 years old. They collected 811 heroin folds, 26 crack vials and a high-powered handgun, among other contraband, city Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Responding to neighborhood complaints, detectives quickly discovered that Mike Jones, 29, Pedro Santiago, 44, and the 16-year-old boy said ran a brisk open-air business from the brick walkup near Straight Street, the dire…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Wallington Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting Elmwood Park Pre-Teen Wallington Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting Elmwood Park Pre-Teen Wallington Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting Elmwood Park Pre-Teen
Wallington Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting Elmwood Park Pre-Teen A Wallington man who was once accused of having sex with a minor was arrested again on charges of sexually assaulting a pre-teen in Elmwood Park eight years ago, authorities confirmed. Rene A. Castaneda, 43, remained held Friday in the Bergen County Jail following his arrest the day before on aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and child endangerment charges. The unemployed Salvadoran national has an extensive criminal history in Bergen County dating back more than a decade, records show. Authorities in 2015 charged him with the statutory rape of a 14-year-old girl. How those charges…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Authorities: Street Evangelist Violates Judge's Order, Stalks Englewood Abortion Doc Again Authorities: Street Evangelist Violates Judge's Order, Stalks Englewood Abortion Doc Again Authorities: Street Evangelist Violates Judge's Order, Stalks Englewood Abortion Doc Again
Authorities: Street Evangelist Violates Judge's Order, Stalks Englewood Abortion Doc Again A self-described Christian missionary from Bergenfield who was accused of using a drone to peer into the second-floor office of an Englewood abortion doctor was arrested again Friday morning for violating a restraining order, authorities said. A Superior Court judge in March ordered Daniel Stephen Courney, 37, not to return to Metropolitan Medical Associates on Engle Street as a condition of his release after city police charged him with stalking the doctor. He was back Friday morning -- and recorded it on Facebook. Officers responding to a call of excessive noise by a small group of peopl…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Contractor's Truck Splits Utility Pole On Busy Northwest Bergen Road Contractor's Truck Splits Utility Pole On Busy Northwest Bergen Road Contractor's Truck Splits Utility Pole On Busy Northwest Bergen Road
Contractor's Truck Splits Utility Pole On Busy Northwest Bergen Road A stretch of Wyckoff Avenue was indefinitely closed Friday afternoon after a contractor's truck snapped a utility pole. The driver of the Louis Lee and Son asphalt paving truck out of North Haledon apparently wasn't injured seriously in the noontime-hour crash, which also downed wires, between Fardale Avenue and Lehmann Street in Mahwah. The road was closed in both directions while a crew from Orange & Rockland Utilities replaced the pole. Township police responded and were investigating.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Woman Admits Setting Paterson Apartment Couch Fire That Ended Up Destroying Half A City Block Woman Admits Setting Paterson Apartment Couch Fire That Ended Up Destroying Half A City Block Woman Admits Setting Paterson Apartment Couch Fire That Ended Up Destroying Half A City Block
Woman Admits Setting Paterson Apartment Couch Fire That Ended Up Destroying Half A City Block A New York City woman admitted Friday that she deliberately set a massive fire that roared through a Paterson block, displacing 60 residents and injuring four firefighters, during an argument last summer. Yanit Valdez took a deal from prosecutors rather than face trial, pleading guilty in Superior Court in Paterson to aggravated arson in exchange for what will be a six-year prison sentence. Valdez, 38, of Manhattan will have to serve five years and a month of the term under New Jersey’s No Early Release law, followed by three years of parole supervision, Passaic County Camelia M. Valdes sa…

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