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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Paterson PD: Pill Pusher Popped With Hundreds Of Oxy Tabs, Gun, $25,000 Drug Cash Paterson PD: Pill Pusher Popped With Hundreds Of Oxy Tabs, Gun, $25,000 Drug Cash Paterson PD: Pill Pusher Popped With Hundreds Of Oxy Tabs, Gun, $25,000 Drug Cash
Paterson PD: Pill Pusher Popped With Hundreds Of Oxy Tabs, Gun, $25,000 Drug Cash Paterson detectives seized hundreds of Oxycodone pills, a handgun and nearly $25,000 in profits while busting a high-level street dealer who operated up the block from a city school, authorities said. Alexander Roller-Huarotte, 30, was previously charged in a 2015 home invasion in which the wrong family was victimized. Earlier this month, city Narcotics Division detectives learned that he was "distributing large quantities of Oxycodone tablets," Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said Friday. An investigation led to search warrants, the director said. Detectives searched and seized Rol…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
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High-Living Ex-Bergen Stockbroker Arrested By IRS For Ducking $4.3M In Taxes, Feds Say High-Living Ex-Bergen Stockbroker Arrested By IRS For Ducking $4.3M In Taxes, Feds Say High-Living Ex-Bergen Stockbroker Arrested By IRS For Ducking $4.3M In Taxes, Feds Say
High-Living Ex-Bergen Stockbroker Arrested By IRS For Ducking $4.3M In Taxes, Feds Say A disgraced stockbroker from Bergen County was arrested Thursday by IRS agents who said he lived the high life while shortchanging Uncle Sam $4.3 million. Jason Kronick, 48, of Woodcliff Lake made headlines after he was fired from one job for alleged “unauthorized trading and unauthorized positions,” then resigned from after allegedly omitting $330,000 in judgments against him on his job application. Kronick, who eventually filed for bankruptcy, earned $20 million during tax years 2008 through 2010, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said Thursday. Honig said Kronick: used roughly $1.…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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COUPLE MURDERS: Doorbell Video Shows Ex-Con Repeatedly Stabbing Hackensack Woman, Police Say COUPLE MURDERS: Doorbell Video Shows Ex-Con Repeatedly Stabbing Hackensack Woman, Police Say COUPLE MURDERS: Doorbell Video Shows Ex-Con Repeatedly Stabbing Hackensack Woman, Police Say
Couple Murders: Doorbell Video Shows Ex-Con Repeatedly Stabbing Hackensack Woman, Police Say UPDATE: A doorbell camera captured horrific video -- and audio -- of an ex-con from Paterson repeatedly stabbing a Hackensack woman outside her home, law enforcement sources said Thursday. Clarence S. Stokes, 42, apparently had come to see Stanley Gunter and Latrice Avery on Wednesday evening to discuss living in a room in their Fairmount Avenue home. An argument over what would be the terms of his stay erupted before turning deadly, an investigator with knowledge of the incident told Daily Voice. Police responding to a 911 call captured Stokes after they found him "walking down the stree…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Bergen Pizza Deliveryman Doubled As Porch Pirate, Police Charge Bergen Pizza Deliveryman Doubled As Porch Pirate, Police Charge Bergen Pizza Deliveryman Doubled As Porch Pirate, Police Charge
Bergen Pizza Deliveryman Doubled As Porch Pirate, Police Charge A deliveryman for a Fort Lee pizzeria was also making pickups of packages from porches in town, as well as in Englewood Cliffs and Tenafly, authorities charged. Detective Lts. Ronald F. Waldt and Benjamin Totten were investigating a series of front-step thefts when they obtained surveillance video that they said gave them a “firm” suspect and vehicle description. Detectives shared information with their colleagues in the neighboring municipalities, then caught a break on Wednesday. Shortly after 3:30 p.m., Waldt said, an alert postal carrier saw a man later identified as Johan Arroyave Gav…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Girl, 15, Seriously Injured, Five Hospitalized In Ridgefield Crash Girl, 15, Seriously Injured, Five Hospitalized In Ridgefield Crash Girl, 15, Seriously Injured, Five Hospitalized In Ridgefield Crash
Girl, 15, Seriously Injured, Five Hospitalized In Ridgefield Crash A 15-year-old female passenger from Ridgefield was seriously injured when she and three other borough girls were involved in a crash Thursday at a busy intersection, authorities said. A 2018 Mercedes C300 driven by a 64-year-old Morristown man north on Broad Avenue near Rispoli’s Bakery collided with the girls’ 2015 BMW 3, which was driven by a 17-year-old heading east on Elm Street, shortly before 9:30 a.m., Deputy Police Chief Robert Meurer said. The oldest teen and two 16-year-old passengers sustained minor injuries, as did the driver of the Mercedes, Meurer said. The 15-year-old’s inju…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
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Feds: NJ Scammer, Accomplice Submit $1.2M In Bogus COVID-19 Unemployment Claims Feds: NJ Scammer, Accomplice Submit $1.2M In Bogus COVID-19 Unemployment Claims Feds: NJ Scammer, Accomplice Submit $1.2M In Bogus COVID-19 Unemployment Claims
Feds: NJ Scammer, Accomplice Submit $1.2M In Bogus Covid-19 Unemployment Claims A Paterson man and an accomplice filed nearly $1.2 million in bogus COVID-related unemployment claims over the course of three months, federal authorities in Massachusetts charged. Omar Thompson, 39, and his unidentified female partner submitted more than 100 fraudulent Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claims, sometimes recruiting people from other states in the scheme and pocketing kickbacks, they said. Roughly half of the claims were submitted on behalf of people with out-of-state driver’s licenses and mailing addresses, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts. In anoth…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Feds Probe Explosions On Same Paterson Street Feds Probe Explosions On Same Paterson Street Feds Probe Explosions On Same Paterson Street
Feds Probe Explosions On Same Paterson Street Authorities hadn't said by noontime Thursday whether a pair of explosions on the same Paterson block the night before were from fireworks or improvised devices thrown from a passing car. They did say that agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives responded to the pair of incidents on 21st Avenue around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. Authorities were looking for a white Nissan Quest after the devices were reportedly tossed in the middle of the block and at a travel agency on the corner of 22nd Avenue. No one was injured, although a door and window were damaged, r…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Hackensack Couple Stabbed Dead By Ex-Con Seeking Room Hackensack Couple Stabbed Dead By Ex-Con Seeking Room Hackensack Couple Stabbed Dead By Ex-Con Seeking Room
Hackensack Couple Stabbed Dead By Ex-Con Seeking Room UPDATE: A Hackensack couple was stabbed dead by an ex-con who came to their home looking for a room, authorities said. Clarence S. Stokes, 42, got into an argument with the victims over what would be the terms of his stay before stabbing Stanley Gunter and Latrice Avery around 8 p.m. Wednesday, a law enforcement investigator with knowledge of the incident told Daily Voice. Gunter, a 67-year-old U.S. Navy veteran, was pronounced dead in a living room on the second floor of the Fairmount Avenue home after he'd been stabbed in the torso, responders said. Doorbell video with audio shows Avery…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack Couple Stabbed Dead By Ex-Con Seeking Room Hackensack Couple Stabbed Dead By Ex-Con Seeking Room Hackensack Couple Stabbed Dead By Ex-Con Seeking Room
Hackensack Couple Stabbed Dead By Ex-Con Seeking Room UPDATE: A Hackensack couple was stabbed dead by an ex-con who came to their home looking for a room, authorities said. Clarence S. Stokes, 42, got into an argument with the victims over what would be the terms of his stay before stabbing Stanley Gunter and Latrice Avery around 8 p.m. Wednesday, a law enforcement investigator with knowledge of the incident told Daily Voice. Gunter, a 67-year-old U.S. Navy veteran, was pronounced dead in a living room on the second floor of the Fairmount Avenue home after he'd been stabbed in the torso, responders said. Doorbell video with audio shows Avery…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Police: Pedestrian, 27, Struck Crossing Busy Downtown Englewood Street Police: Pedestrian, 27, Struck Crossing Busy Downtown Englewood Street Police: Pedestrian, 27, Struck Crossing Busy Downtown Englewood Street
Police: Pedestrian, 27, Struck Crossing Busy Downtown Englewood Street A 27-year-old Dumont woman was struck by a sedan when she crossed in the middle of a busy Englewood street in the dark, authorities said. The victim "walked into the roadway, midblock, not in a crosswalk, and was struck" by an Acura TL on West Palisade Avenue near Nathaniel Place shortly before 9 p.m. Tuesday, Capt. Matthew de la Rosa said. Englewood police and paramedics from Englewood Hospital and Medical Center responded, de la Rosa said Wednesday. The pedestrian was taken to the hospital, where she was treated for her injuries before being released. No charges were filed or summonses …

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