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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Elizabeth, NJ
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Feds: Online NJ 'Romeo' Conned Woman Out Of $300,000 Feds: Online NJ 'Romeo' Conned Woman Out Of $300,000 Feds: Online NJ 'Romeo' Conned Woman Out Of $300,000
Feds: Online NJ 'Romeo' Conned Woman Out Of $300,000 She met him on an Internet word game, then gave him her heart. Before she knew it, he’d taken more than $300,000 of her money. And she didn’t even know who her online Romeo really was. Eseosa Obaseki, 36, of Linden, was trying to dodge justice when FBI agents grabbed him this week at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, authorities said. Obaseki used a bogus persona to reach out to the Washington State victim in late winter/early spring of 2019, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. Their online exchanges continued for a couple of months before Obaseki “convinced [her] of his rom…

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Paterson, NJ
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Wheel Thief Left Victims' Vehicles On Rocks, Wayne PD Charges Wheel Thief Left Victims' Vehicles On Rocks, Wayne PD Charges Wheel Thief Left Victims' Vehicles On Rocks, Wayne PD Charges
Wheel Thief Left Victims' Vehicles On Rocks, Wayne PD Charges A wheel thief who left his Wayne victims’ vehicles on rocks was caught in the act before dawn Thursday, authorities said. Township investigators had identified his car and had a description of Antony M. Arlequin-Salcedo, 22, of Paterson when Officer Steven Papile spotted him parked on Andover Drive near Burnside Place shortly before 2 a.m., Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. Found near a vehicle in a nearby driveway were the tools of his illegal trade, the captain said. On his car was a set of wheels stolen the night before, he said. Arlequin-Salcedo was charged with theft, attempted theft, c…

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Newark, NJ
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Long Island Man Sentenced In NJ/NY ‘Shotgun’ Mortgage Scheme That Cost Banks $9 Million Long Island Man Sentenced In NJ/NY ‘Shotgun’ Mortgage Scheme That Cost Banks $9 Million Long Island Man Sentenced In NJ/NY ‘Shotgun’ Mortgage Scheme That Cost Banks $9 Million
Long Island Man Sentenced In NJ/NY ‘Shotgun’ Mortgage Scheme That Cost Banks $9 Million A Long Island man was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for his role in a $9 million ‘shotgun’ mortgage scheme in New Jersey and New York. Yorce Yotagri, 54, of Freeport admitted last year that he partnered with Jorge Flores of Oakdale and Jose Piehrahita, also of Freeport, to secure several home equity lines of credit for the same properties and pocket the money before the lending banks found out, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. One of those properties was in Jersey City, a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Newark says. Yotagri lived on another in Fre…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
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Ex-Con Who Cut Female Postal Carrier During Carjacking Gets 82 Months In Federal Prison Ex-Con Who Cut Female Postal Carrier During Carjacking Gets 82 Months In Federal Prison Ex-Con Who Cut Female Postal Carrier During Carjacking Gets 82 Months In Federal Prison
Ex-Con Who Cut Female Postal Carrier During Carjacking Gets 82 Months In Federal Prison UPDATE: An ex-con who attacked a postal carrier with a box cutter while carjacking her SUV is headed to federal prison for more than 6½ years. Wallace Johnson, 32, of Newark, must spend just about all of the 82 months because there's no parole in the federal prison system.  The U.S. Postal Service carrier was taking a break behind the wheel of her Dodge Durango on June 6, 2020 when Johnson walked up and held the knife to her throat, cutting her skin, in the 80s block of Cedar Avenue, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. Johnson “demanded that the postal employee get out of the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Reading, PA
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Grandparent Scam: Here’s How Pair From PA, NY Stole $300,000 From Elderly Victims Across US Grandparent Scam: Here’s How Pair From PA, NY Stole $300,000 From Elderly Victims Across US Grandparent Scam: Here’s How Pair From PA, NY Stole $300,000 From Elderly Victims Across US
Grandparent Scam: Here’s How Pair From PA, NY Stole $300,000 From Elderly Victims Across US At least 50 elderly victims across the United States were conned out of more than $300,000 by a ring of grandparent scammers who included a Pennsylvania woman and New York City man who confessed in federal court. Jacqueline Velazquez, 37, of Reading, and Daniel Duran, 33, of Queens played key roles in the phone and email-based scheme, Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams said. Here’s how it worked, Williams said: Co-schemers based in the Dominican Republic called elderly victims throughout the U.S. Posing as a grandchild, or the grandchild’s attorney, they claimed they’d been j…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Passaic Man Charged With Sexually Abusing Two Children Passaic Man Charged With Sexually Abusing Two Children Passaic Man Charged With Sexually Abusing Two Children
Passaic Man Charged With Sexually Abusing Two Children A Passaic man was charged with sexually abusing two children before he turned 18. Authorities began investigating after an employee at Woodrow Wilson Middle School in Clifton reported that a 13-year-old student had been sexually abused in the past, authorities said. Detectives from the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit and Passaic Police Department interviewed several witnesses and determined that the defendant had sexually abused two children at two different residences in Passaic, county Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Passaic Police Chief Luis A. Guzman said in a joint re…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Franklin Township, NJ
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Somerset Man Who Flew To Philippines For Sex With Minor Sentenced To 9 Years In Fed Pen Somerset Man Who Flew To Philippines For Sex With Minor Sentenced To 9 Years In Fed Pen Somerset Man Who Flew To Philippines For Sex With Minor Sentenced To 9 Years In Fed Pen
Somerset Man Who Flew To Philippines For Sex With Minor Sentenced To 9 Years In Fed Pen A Somerset County man who flew to the Philippines to have sex with a minor he met online is headed to federal prison for nine years. James A. Diggs, 45, of Somerville, told a U.S. District Court judge earlier this year that he used a messaging app to “persuade, induce, entice, and coerce” the victim into having sex with him during what became an October 2018 visit to the Southeast Asian country. He headed there out of JFK Airport in Queens at least seven times over four years, Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Rachel A. Honig said. Rather than go to trial, Diggs took a deal from the gove…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
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Sheriff: Attacker Admits Beating, Leaving Hudson Man For Dead Because He Thought He Was Gay Sheriff: Attacker Admits Beating, Leaving Hudson Man For Dead Because He Thought He Was Gay Sheriff: Attacker Admits Beating, Leaving Hudson Man For Dead Because He Thought He Was Gay
Sheriff: Attacker Admits Beating, Leaving Hudson Man For Dead Because He Thought He Was Gay A Baltimore man admitted luring and then savagely beating a learning-disabled man from West New York in North Hudson Park, leaving him for dead, because he thought he was gay, authorities said. José Tobias Carranza Serrano, 18, was captured by police in Bayonne who found him and his clothes covered in blood while arresting him on a trespassing charge, it was revealed Wednesday. Carranza Serrano confessed to them that he lured the 37-year-old victim into a wooded area of the North Bergen park, where he tried to kill him because he "does not like homosexuals," an affidavit filed by the Hudson…

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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Wyckoff PD: DWI Motorist Bails After Crashing Antique 'Vette Wyckoff PD: DWI Motorist Bails After Crashing Antique 'Vette Wyckoff PD: DWI Motorist Bails After Crashing Antique 'Vette
Wyckoff PD: DWI Motorist Bails After Crashing Antique 'Vette A Wyckoff man was intoxicated when he crashed his 1964 Corvette and left it there, township police said. Gerald Gallipoli, 69, had to be treated at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood for facial injuries following the June 10 crash, Lt. Joseph Soto said. A witness told Sgt. Michael DeMaio and Officer Kevin Oldewurtel that Gallipoli “walked away from the scene” after his antique coupe went off the road and struck a fire hydrant and concrete bridge column on Russell Avenue near Russell Farms Community Park shortly before 11:30 p.m., Soto said. Police charged him with DWI, reckless driving, fail…

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Lyndhurst, NJ
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Authorities: Long Island ID Thieves With Infant Had Stolen Gun, More In Lyndhurst Apartment Authorities: Long Island ID Thieves With Infant Had Stolen Gun, More In Lyndhurst Apartment Authorities: Long Island ID Thieves With Infant Had Stolen Gun, More In Lyndhurst Apartment
Authorities: Long Island ID Thieves With Infant Had Stolen Gun, More In Lyndhurst Apartment A Long Island couple ran an ID theft operation from a leased apartment in Lyndhurst where they'd just moved in with their 14-month-old daughter, authorities said following a raid there. Diamond Holder, 24, and Mohamed Konate, 26, both most recently of Amityville, NY, were found with bogus credit cards, fake driver's licenses and a stolen gun when they were busted, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. It began with the theft of a package for another resident at the Chubb Avenue complex, he said. Detectives Nick Abruscato and Tom McSweeney quickly identified Holder as the thief who swiped the …

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