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
Paterson PD Raids Stash House That Supplied Open-Air Drug Market At City Park Paterson PD Raids Stash House That Supplied Open-Air Drug Market At City Park Paterson PD Raids Stash House That Supplied Open-Air Drug Market At City Park
Paterson PD Raids Stash House That Supplied Open-Air Drug Market At City Park Dealers were doing brisk business at an open-air drug market in and around a Paterson park when city police raided their stash house, seizing 1,500 heroin folds, nearly 100 vials of crack and two handguns. As the investigators watched, a three-man team of dealers took orders and retrieved drugs for buyers from an apartment over a Rosa Parks Boulevard storefront around the corner from Barbour Park, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said Tuesday. After a series of arrests, they obtained warrants and hit the apartment, he said. There, the director said, they seized: a .38-caliber Taurus…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
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Lyndhurst Detective Seizes Loaded Gun, Drugs After Motel Check Lyndhurst Detective Seizes Loaded Gun, Drugs After Motel Check Lyndhurst Detective Seizes Loaded Gun, Drugs After Motel Check
Lyndhurst Detective Seizes Loaded Gun, Drugs After Motel Check A Lyndhurst police detective seized a stolen gun and drugs after seeing a deal go down outside a local motel, authorities said. Detective Nick Abruscato was doing a routine commercial property check around 9 p.m. Monday when he saw the sale happen in the parking lot of the Quality Inn on Polito Avenue, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. He recognized Aldred Negron, 40, of Newark from previous incidents, then stopped his Cadillac STX after Negron drove off. Abruscato quickly discovered five bags of cocaine and two bags of Molly, the lieutenant said. He then found a .380-caliber handgun loa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Egg Harbor Township, NJ
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NYC Men In Tropicana Brawl Stabbings Indicted NYC Men In Tropicana Brawl Stabbings Indicted NYC Men In Tropicana Brawl Stabbings Indicted
NYC Men In Tropicana Brawl Stabbings Indicted UPDATE: One of two New York City men accused of stabbing a pair of New Jersey patrons at an Atlantic City casino tossed two knives and 14 cocaine vials under a vehicle when police found him, a state indictment alleges. Jabari O. Cummings, 31, of Brooklyn was sitting in the vehicle outside AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City, where the victims had been taken after a predawn brawl at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino, the indictment returned in Trenton says. Seeing police approaching, Cummings tried to stash the drugs and weapons, it says. Authorities charged Cummings and Delro…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgewood Ex-Con Charged With Cyber-Harassment For Messages On Facebook, Elsewhere Ridgewood Ex-Con Charged With Cyber-Harassment For Messages On Facebook, Elsewhere Ridgewood Ex-Con Charged With Cyber-Harassment For Messages On Facebook, Elsewhere
Ridgewood Ex-Con Charged With Cyber-Harassment For Messages On Facebook, Elsewhere A Ridgewood ex-con was arrested after he ignored a restraining order and continued sending a woman messages online, authorities said. Dereck Peter Miller, 43, is charged with invasion of privacy, harassment, cyber-harassment and contempt, among other counts. Miller has served several years in state prison the past two decades for convictions on a variety of offenses, including robbery, burglary and theft, records show. Miller more recently called the victim "very suggestive names" in messages through Facebook and other online applications, according to a police report. He remained held Mo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Man Struck, Killed Outside Lodi Strip Club Was Beaten, Left In Path Of Driver Prosecutor: Man Struck, Killed Outside Lodi Strip Club Was Beaten, Left In Path Of Driver Prosecutor: Man Struck, Killed Outside Lodi Strip Club Was Beaten, Left In Path Of Driver
Prosecutor: Man Struck, Killed Outside Lodi Strip Club Was Beaten, Left In Path Of Driver UPDATE: Five Ridgefield Park men – two of them brothers -- are charged with beating a Fair Lawn man outside the Satin Dolls nightclub in Lodi and then dumping him onto Route 17, where he was struck and killed. Adrian Hoti, 23, and Fero Hoti, 24, along with Kevin Agudelo and Christian Reyes, both 22, and Julio Pena, 23, are all charged with aggravated manslaughter showing "extreme indifference to human life" and endangering an injured victim. The quintet apparently got into a dispute with Marko Guberovic, 38, while waiting for dancers to leave the club -- made famous as the "Bada Bing" in th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Egg Harbor Township, NJ
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Grand Jury Indicts Convicted Rapist Accused Of Riding Bus 1,450 Miles To AC Motel For Kid Sex Grand Jury Indicts Convicted Rapist Accused Of Riding Bus 1,450 Miles To AC Motel For Kid Sex Grand Jury Indicts Convicted Rapist Accused Of Riding Bus 1,450 Miles To AC Motel For Kid Sex
Grand Jury Indicts Convicted Rapist Accused Of Riding Bus 1,450 Miles To AC Motel For Kid Sex A convicted rapist took a bus from Oklahoma to Atlantic City to meet two men he thought were bringing their pre-teen daughters for sex, an indictment returned by a state grand jury says. The “dads” turned out to be undercover members of the New Jersey State Police and U.S. Homeland Security Investigations. Aaron D. Craiger, 34, of Oklahoma City originally was arrested in March 2020 after he checked into a motel with condoms and pot that he wanted to smoke with the “girls,” ages 11 and 12, the indictment returned Friday in Trenton says. He has remained in custody since then. SEE: Oklahoma …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Police: Convicted Stalker Targets Same Bergen Victim With Emails To Schools, Towns, Others Police: Convicted Stalker Targets Same Bergen Victim With Emails To Schools, Towns, Others Police: Convicted Stalker Targets Same Bergen Victim With Emails To Schools, Towns, Others
Police: Convicted Stalker Targets Same Bergen Victim With Emails To Schools, Towns, Others A convicted stalker from Bergen County sent a series of emails about a victim to several North Jersey school districts, municipalities and individuals, authorities charged. Patrick McMeekin, 53, of Hillsdale had already spent four months in the Bergen County Jail before being released, with conditions, in January for stalking the same victim in 2018, records show. The former Mahwah resident had been a fugitive and was believed to be shuttling between town and another home he maintained in Colorado before police eventually took him into custody that time. This time, Hillsdale Police Chief R…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Tragedy Follows Joy: Hackensack Funeral Director Tom Gentile Dies Tragedy Follows Joy: Hackensack Funeral Director Tom Gentile Dies Tragedy Follows Joy: Hackensack Funeral Director Tom Gentile Dies
Tragedy Follows Joy: Hackensack Funeral Director Tom Gentile Dies He’d walked his daughter down the aisle just the day before when beloved Hackensack funeral director Tom Gentile died suddenly this weekend, friends and loved ones said. “After a day of celebration, it is with heavy hearts that our family regretfully needs to announce that our patriarch, G. Thomas Gentile…passed away this morning,” the family announced Sunday. He was 72. Gaetano Gentile, a father of three, dedicated his life to helping people at one of the most vulnerable times in their lives. “This community has been kind to me over the years, giving me the opportunity of fulfilling my …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Senseless Death Of Fair Lawn Man Outside Satin Dolls Devastates Friends, Loved Ones Senseless Death Of Fair Lawn Man Outside Satin Dolls Devastates Friends, Loved Ones Senseless Death Of Fair Lawn Man Outside Satin Dolls Devastates Friends, Loved Ones
Senseless Death Of Fair Lawn Man Outside Satin Dolls Devastates Friends, Loved Ones The senseless death of a Fair Lawn man outside a famed North Jersey strip club this weekend shocked and saddened many -- but likely none more so than his young niece. Marko Guberovic, 38, adored Tessa, who friends called "the absolute light of his life." Just a small sampling of sweet and sometimes silly selfies he took with the blond-haired pre-teen showed the love they shared. Guberovic was killed around 3:30 a.m. Saturday following a fight with a group of men outside Satin Dolls, the Route 17 club made famous as the "Bada Bing" in the legendary TV show "The Sopranos." Five Ridgefield …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah Driver Identified In Fatal Franklin Lakes Crash Mahwah Driver Identified In Fatal Franklin Lakes Crash Mahwah Driver Identified In Fatal Franklin Lakes Crash
Mahwah Driver Identified In Fatal Franklin Lakes Crash UPDATE: A 63-year-old driver was two turns away from his Mahwah home when he was killed in a rollover crash Sunday afternoon in Franklin Lakes, authorities confirmed. James Renke was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash on a treacherous stretch of Pullis Avenue at Woodside Avenue shortly before 4:30 p.m., Franklin Lakes Police Capt. Robert Lyon said. Responders said Renke, who lived in the nearby Bogerts Ranch Estates, was ejected from his the 2002 Toyota, which hit a tree. Franklin Lakes and Mahwah police and firefighters were among the responders, as well as Mahwah EMS, the captain …

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