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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Egg Harbor Township, NJ
Breaking News
CAPITOL RIOT: Another New Jerseyan Charged CAPITOL RIOT: Another New Jerseyan Charged CAPITOL RIOT: Another New Jerseyan Charged
Capitol Riot: Another New Jerseyan Charged A South Jersey man became the latest defendant charged in the U.S. Capitol riot. A federal magistrate in Camden released Robert Lee Petrosh, 51, of Mays Landing on a $50,000 unsecured bond pending a first appearance next Tuesday with a U.S. District Court judge in Washington, D.C. via videoconference, according to the Courier Post. He’s charged with entering or remaining in a restricted building, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building, disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building. Federal authorities didn’t elabora…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Stripper Gets 17 Years Without Parole In Gang Rape At Passaic Gentleman's Club Stripper Gets 17 Years Without Parole In Gang Rape At Passaic Gentleman's Club Stripper Gets 17 Years Without Parole In Gang Rape At Passaic Gentleman's Club
Stripper Gets 17 Years Without Parole In Gang Rape At Passaic Gentleman's Club An "exotic dancer" must spend at least 17 years in state prison before she’ll be eligible for parole for her part in the video-recorded gang rape of another stripper during an after-hours party at a Passaic nightclub. In addition to the prison term she received on Tuesday, Trystal Lozada, 28, also must register as a sex offender under Megan’s Law, remain under lifetime parole supervision and have no contact with the victim. Jurors in Paterson convicted Michael Ramirez, 39, and Lozada in December 2019 of aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and criminal sexual contract following an eigh…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
Breaking News
Feds: PA Man Nabbed Collecting 950 Pounds Of Khat At Newark Airport Feds: PA Man Nabbed Collecting 950 Pounds Of Khat At Newark Airport Feds: PA Man Nabbed Collecting 950 Pounds Of Khat At Newark Airport
Feds: PA Man Nabbed Collecting 950 Pounds Of Khat At Newark Airport A Pennsylvania man was arrested by federal agents when he showed up at Newark Airport to collect a half-ton of khat that was flown in by freight container, authorities said. Azeez Adebari, 46, of Harrisburg, was listed as the consignee on a manifest and other documents the claimed the contents as clothing, ground melon and pepper, among other things, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig U.S. Customs and Border Protection authorities charged Adebari with conspiring to possess and distribute 430 kilograms (948 pounds) of the illegal drug after taking him into custody at the airport on Monday…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Carlstadt Resident Who Fired Shots Outside Home Was Annoyed By Loud Music, Noise Police: Carlstadt Resident Who Fired Shots Outside Home Was Annoyed By Loud Music, Noise Police: Carlstadt Resident Who Fired Shots Outside Home Was Annoyed By Loud Music, Noise
Police: Carlstadt Resident Who Fired Shots Outside Home Was Annoyed By Loud Music, Noise UPDATE: A Carlstadt resident who fired several shots from a handgun outside his home apparently was pissed about a neighbor's "loud parties and noise," authorities said Tuesday. David Knoll had no history of arrests before Sunday, when police took him into custody for firing three to five shots "in the direction of people and property" across the street from his Division Avenue home, Detective Sgt. John Cleary said. A caller who reported the shots told police the 62-year-old engineer was reloading the black handgun, Cleary said. Responding borough officers -- backed up by colleagues from …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Ramsey Man Admits Embezzling $516,000 From Ridgefield Park Security Firm Ramsey Man Admits Embezzling $516,000 From Ridgefield Park Security Firm Ramsey Man Admits Embezzling $516,000 From Ridgefield Park Security Firm
Ramsey Man Admits Embezzling $516,000 From Ridgefield Park Security Firm A Ramsey man who worked at a Ridgefield Park security systems firm told a federal judge that he and an accomplice diverted $516,000 of the company’s money to spend on themselves. Joseph Spaccavento, 41, was an accounts payable manager and assistant controller at the firm, which developed hardware and software for video surveillance, federal authorities said. His accomplice, Melissa Corso, coordinated the collection of customer payments and applied them to invoices, they said. For more than 5 ½ years, the two diverted customer payments to themselves, Spaccavento admitted during a videoconfe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
CONFIRMED: Three Dead In Wayne House Fire CONFIRMED: Three Dead In Wayne House Fire CONFIRMED: Three Dead In Wayne House Fire
Confirmed: Three Dead In Wayne House Fire UPDATE: A fire apparently ignited by a gas explosion at a Wayne home killed three people, authorities confirmed Tuesday morning. Firefighters responding to initial reports of occupants trapped found the windows blown out and flames consuming the 1½-story wood-frame house on Jackson Avenue just after 6 p.m. "I live 3 houses away. Heard an explosion of glass and ran outside and called 911," Gina Amelia Sasso wrote soon afterward. "House was up in seconds. It was so scary." It took under an hour to knock down the main body of the blaze, which apparently broke out in the rear of the home. It …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
‘Want A Ride? Candy?’: Community On Alert After Paramus Kids Are Approached ‘Want A Ride? Candy?’: Community On Alert After Paramus Kids Are Approached ‘Want A Ride? Candy?’: Community On Alert After Paramus Kids Are Approached
‘Want A Ride? Candy?’: Community On Alert After Paramus Kids Are Approached Paramus police turned to the public for help Tuesday following a pair of troubling incidents involving children and a spiky-haired stranger in an SUV. Authorities aren’t sure whether they the driver who approached a 10-year-old girl Monday is the same one who frightened an 8-year-old boy riding his bike last month. The girl was walking on Van Binsberger Boulevard near Midland Avenue, her parents told police, when a man in what was described as a “jungle-looking,” dark-colored SUV – possibly a Jeep Wrangler – pulled up to her around 3:20 p.m., Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. “Do you wa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
New Milford PD: Hackensack Driver, 17, Nodded Out In Head-On Crash That Injured Dumont Woman New Milford PD: Hackensack Driver, 17, Nodded Out In Head-On Crash That Injured Dumont Woman New Milford PD: Hackensack Driver, 17, Nodded Out In Head-On Crash That Injured Dumont Woman
New Milford PD: Hackensack Driver, 17, Nodded Out In Head-On Crash That Injured Dumont Woman A 17-year-old Hackensack driver fell asleep behind the wheel an instant before a head-on collision in New Milford that injured a Dumont motorist, authorities said. The young driver's northbound Hyundai Elantra crossed into the oncoming lane and slammed into the Volkswagen Tiguan just off the corner of East Woodland Road just after 7 p.m. Monday, Detective Lt. Kevin Van Saders said. The 22-year-old SUV driver was taken to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center by members of the Little Ferry Volunteer Ambulance Corps, Van Saders said. She sustained a fractured wrist, he said, adding that the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Clifton Man Admits Threatening Paterson Police Chief Over Race, Religion Clifton Man Admits Threatening Paterson Police Chief Over Race, Religion Clifton Man Admits Threatening Paterson Police Chief Over Race, Religion
Clifton Man Admits Threatening Paterson Police Chief Over Race, Religion UPDATE: A Clifton man admitted that he sent Paterson’s first Muslim police chief threatening texts because of his race, religion and nationality, authorities said. Stefan Keco, 29, told a Superior Court judge in Paterson on Monday that he sent the texts to Chief Ibrahim Baycora on Feb. 26 “with the purpose to terrorize him and in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror,” Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes said. Baycora had been sworn to the position only a few weeks before receiving the threats. The threats “caused a disruption to the day-to-day operations of the poli…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Carlstadt Resident Who Fired Shots Outside Home Was Annoyed By Loud Music, Noise Police: Carlstadt Resident Who Fired Shots Outside Home Was Annoyed By Loud Music, Noise Police: Carlstadt Resident Who Fired Shots Outside Home Was Annoyed By Loud Music, Noise
Police: Carlstadt Resident Who Fired Shots Outside Home Was Annoyed By Loud Music, Noise UPDATE: A Carlstadt resident who fired several shots from a handgun outside his home apparently was pissed about a neighbor's "loud parties and noise," authorities said Tuesday. David Knoll had no history of arrests before Sunday, when police took him into custody for firing three to five shots "in the direction of people and property" across the street from his Division Avenue home, Detective Sgt. John Cleary said. A caller who reported the shots told police the 62-year-old engineer was reloading the black handgun, Cleary said. Responding borough officers -- backed up by colleagues from s…

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