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
Babysitter Gets Three Years For Fondling Wayne Youngster, 13, After Sharing Booze, Pot Babysitter Gets Three Years For Fondling Wayne Youngster, 13, After Sharing Booze, Pot Babysitter Gets Three Years For Fondling Wayne Youngster, 13, After Sharing Booze, Pot
Babysitter Gets Three Years For Fondling Wayne Youngster, 13, After Sharing Booze, Pot UPDATE: A 33-year-old babysitter was sentenced to three years in state prison Friday for fondling a 13-year-old Wayne youngster after giving the victim booze and pot. Joseph Montgomery of Paterson wasted little time accepting a deal from prosecutors after authorities charged him in February with aggravated criminal sexual contact, criminal sexual contact and child endangerment. He pleaded guilty in March to a single second-degree child endangerment charge that requires him to serve 2½ years before he'll be eligible for parole. Wayne police had responded to a local home on Jan. 2 on a …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
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Jamaican Man, Peruvian Woman Admit Smuggling 22 Pounds Of Cocaine Into Newark Airport Jamaican Man, Peruvian Woman Admit Smuggling 22 Pounds Of Cocaine Into Newark Airport Jamaican Man, Peruvian Woman Admit Smuggling 22 Pounds Of Cocaine Into Newark Airport
Jamaican Man, Peruvian Woman Admit Smuggling 22 Pounds Of Cocaine Into Newark Airport Two people in two days this week admitted smuggling more than 22 pounds of cocaine combined into Newark Airport. Perez Omar Gibbs, 38, of Jamaica told a federal judge in Newark via videoconference that he hid more than six pounds of coke in two bags of coffee and four picture frames aboard a flight from Montego Bay, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. In an unrelated case, Honig said, Yolanda Fonseca Melgarejo, 59, a legal permanent resident of the United States and a citizen of Peru, told another judge in Newark that she concealed more than 15 pounds in chocolate candy on a flight …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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10 Years After: Bergen Man Busted On Child Porn Charges Again 10 Years After: Bergen Man Busted On Child Porn Charges Again 10 Years After: Bergen Man Busted On Child Porn Charges Again
10 Years After: Bergen Man Busted On Child Porn Charges Again A landscaper from Waldwick who was busted on child porn charges nearly 10 years ago was back in custody after detectives caught him this time with more than 600 illegal files, authorities said. Jakob Menzo, 31, was arrested after detectives raided his Dow Avenue home on Thursday, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Members of his Cyber Crimes Unit found that Menzo “used the Internet to view, download, and possess more than 600 digital files depicting nude and/or sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children,” the prosecutor said. Menzo was living in Ramsey, attending Bergen…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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Bergenfield Home Ravaged By Fire Bergenfield Home Ravaged By Fire Bergenfield Home Ravaged By Fire
Bergenfield Home Ravaged By Fire UPDATE: Fire ravaged a Bergenfield home early Friday. A resident and her son got out safely after the three-alarm East Clinton Avenue blaze -- just off South Washington Avenue -- broke out around 7 a.m., friends and neighbors said. Flames tore through the second floor into the attic as the fire spread. Firefighters had the blaze doused within an hour, then remained to douse pockets of flame. A home behind it also was evacuated out of an abundance of caution. Mutual aid responders included firefighters from Bogota, Dumont, Englewood, Hackensack, Teaneck and Tenafly. No injuries were rep…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Young Man Drowns At Closed Lake In Mahwah Young Man Drowns At Closed Lake In Mahwah Young Man Drowns At Closed Lake In Mahwah
Young Man Drowns At Closed Lake In Mahwah A Hudson County man who drowned despite an intense effort by rescuers to save him at a closed swimming lake at Darlington County Park in Mahwah didn't know how to swim, friends and loved ones said. Loved ones, neighbors and others have been trying to comfort the family of Kevin Acevedo at the 51st Street apartment in Weehawken where he'd lived his entire life. Kevin had just turned 21 two weeks ago, they said. He and his friend, Andrew Florez, 20, also of Weehawken, weren't supposed to be in the lake, which is open for swimming only on weekends this time of year, Bergen County Sheriff's P…

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
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Pedestrian Struck, Killed By Bus In Haledon Pedestrian Struck, Killed By Bus In Haledon Pedestrian Struck, Killed By Bus In Haledon
Pedestrian Struck, Killed By Bus In Haledon A 67-year-old pedestrian from Haledon was struck and killed by a commuter bus in town late Thursday afternoon, authorities confirmed. The driver was making a left from Belmont Avenue onto West Haledon Avenue when the bus struck the woman shortly before 4:30 p.m., NJ Transit spokeswoman Lisa Torbic said. The woman was taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead shortly after 6 p.m., Torbic said. The driver was the only occupant of the #703 bus from American Dream in East Rutherford to Haledon, she said. Investigators from the Passaic County prosecutor's an…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
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Mobster Sent To Federal Prison For Beating Husband Of ‘Real Housewives Of NJ’ Cast Member Mobster Sent To Federal Prison For Beating Husband Of ‘Real Housewives Of NJ’ Cast Member Mobster Sent To Federal Prison For Beating Husband Of ‘Real Housewives Of NJ’ Cast Member
Mobster Sent To Federal Prison For Beating Husband Of ‘Real Housewives Of NJ’ Cast Member A Lucchese crime soldier was sentenced Thursday to a plea-bargained 2½ years in federal prison for throwing the current husband of former “Real Housewives of New Jersey” cast member Dina Manzo a beating in exchange for an extravagant gift from her well-known ex. John Perna, 44, of Cedar Grove testified last October that Thomas Manzo hired him in 2015 to assault David Cantin, who was dating Dina at the time. Perna told a federal judge he was armed with a “slapjack” when he and another Lucchese associate followed Cantin to a Passaic County strip mall and attacked him on July 18, 2015. In exc…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Clifton Man Charged With Sexually Abusing Child For Years Clifton Man Charged With Sexually Abusing Child For Years Clifton Man Charged With Sexually Abusing Child For Years
Clifton Man Charged With Sexually Abusing Child For Years A Clifton man sexually abused a child over the course of several years and then intimidated the victim into not reporting it, authorities said. Alejandro Arotoma-Chavez, 45, abused the youngster at homes in Clifton and Paterson from October 2009 to September 2015, then pressured the child in a car in Wayne in September 2018, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said Thursday. A grand jury in Paterson returned an indictment charging Arotoma-Chavez with three counts each of aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and child endangerment. He has remained held in the Passaic County Ja…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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NYC Man Jailed In Stabbing Of Route 17 Gas Station Attendant NYC Man Jailed In Stabbing Of Route 17 Gas Station Attendant NYC Man Jailed In Stabbing Of Route 17 Gas Station Attendant
NYC Man Jailed In Stabbing Of Route 17 Gas Station Attendant UPDATE: A Queens man remained jailed after police said he stabbed a Route 17 gas station attendant in Paramus during an argument over a rewards card. Kevin Reid, 38, argued with the attendant over the use of a Speedway pass at the Speedway station on the southbound highway near A&S Drive on Wednesday, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. Reid then pulled a knife and stabbed the 23-year-old pump jockey from East Orange in the chest, the chief said. Police and EMS workers rendered aid before the victim was taken to the trauma unit at Hackensack University Medical Center, where he re…

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by Jerry DeMarco
New City, NY
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Driver Of Airborne Mini Cooper That Slammed Into Minivan On Route 17 Identified, Charged Driver Of Airborne Mini Cooper That Slammed Into Minivan On Route 17 Identified, Charged Driver Of Airborne Mini Cooper That Slammed Into Minivan On Route 17 Identified, Charged
Driver Of Airborne Mini Cooper That Slammed Into Minivan On Route 17 Identified, Charged Authorities identified the driver of a speeding Mini Cooper that flew into a minivan on Route 17, critically injuring its driver, as a 33-year-old warehouse worker from Hudson County, New Jersey. Witnesses told police that Christopher Macias of Guttenberg was racing the driver of another vehicle – believed to be a Camaro – when he failed to negotiate the exit ramp to Hoboken Road on the southbound highway shortly before 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 8, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The other vehicle kept going, they said. Macias’s Mini Cooper hit the grass triangle median separating …

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