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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Hackensack, NJ
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Four Injured In Hackensack Rollover Four Injured In Hackensack Rollover Four Injured In Hackensack Rollover
Four Injured In Hackensack Rollover Four occupants required medical attention after their sedan overturned Saturday afternoon in Hackensack, responders said. All four got out of their Toyota after it rolled at the corner of Main and East Salem streets around 1:30 p.m. They were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center. Hackensack firefighters and police were among the responders and assisted with triage. All four occupants self-extricated following the rollover on Main Street at East Salem Street in Hackensack.,Jerry DeMarco ****** ALSO SEE: A driver who fled the scene after knocking down a traffic light in Totowa…

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Paterson, NJ
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Police: Hit-Run Driver Found At Wayne Go-Go Bar After Crash Topples Totowa Traffic Pole Police: Hit-Run Driver Found At Wayne Go-Go Bar After Crash Topples Totowa Traffic Pole Police: Hit-Run Driver Found At Wayne Go-Go Bar After Crash Topples Totowa Traffic Pole
Police: Hit-Run Driver Found At Wayne Go-Go Bar After Crash Topples Totowa Traffic Pole A driver who fled the scene after knocking down a traffic light in Totowa overnight was found at a go-go bar in Wayne about an hour and a half later, responders said. Overall details remained sketchy, but police said a BMW toppled the pole on Totowa Road at Hillery Street/Riverview Avenue near the Woodland Park border and kept going shortly before 1 a.m. Police closed the intersection and summoned a PSE&G crew after the pole was left lying on power lines. Alerts were broadcast and the fleeing vehicle was found, along with the driver, around 2:30 a.m. at Lace Gentlemens Club on Galesi D…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
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Supermarket Worker From Kearny Struck By Jeep In Lyndhurst Supermarket Worker From Kearny Struck By Jeep In Lyndhurst Supermarket Worker From Kearny Struck By Jeep In Lyndhurst
Supermarket Worker From Kearny Struck By Jeep In Lyndhurst A 50-year-old Lyndhurst supermarket employee from Kearny was struck and injured walking to work early Saturday, authorities said. The woman apparently had just gotten off a bus at the Kingsbridge train station and was crossing Ridge Road just north of Milton Avenue when she was thrown about 15 feet by a Jeep at 6:30 a.m., Lyndhurst Police Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. The 34-year-old driver from Fairfield told police he was coming over the crest of the bridge over the railroad tracks on northbound Ridge Road (Route 17) and “there she was.” The woman hit her head, had facial injuries a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Ecuadoran Fugitive In Hackensack Child Sex Case Returned After Being Taken Into Custody Ecuadoran Fugitive In Hackensack Child Sex Case Returned After Being Taken Into Custody Ecuadoran Fugitive In Hackensack Child Sex Case Returned After Being Taken Into Custody
Ecuadoran Fugitive In Hackensack Child Sex Case Returned After Being Taken Into Custody A fugitive Ecuadoran national from Hackensack who was apprehended on Long Island was returned to New Jersey this week to face charges of raping a pre-teen. ICE placed a detainer on Jorge Luis Mora, 37, whom a local judge in Hackensack ordered held in the Bergen County Jail pending trial following his extradition Friday from New York. Mora became a fugitive after detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office charged him earlier this year with sexually assaulting the victim in Hackensack in 2013. He already had a criminal record, with arrests in 2017 for harassment and violating a co…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
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Wallington Detectives Arrest Local Man In Theft Of Donation Jar For Sick Kids Wallington Detectives Arrest Local Man In Theft Of Donation Jar For Sick Kids Wallington Detectives Arrest Local Man In Theft Of Donation Jar For Sick Kids
Wallington Detectives Arrest Local Man In Theft Of Donation Jar For Sick Kids A drug user snatched a jar filled with donations for sick children from the counter of a Wallington deli before he was identified and arrested by detectives, authorities said. Adrian Siwek, 30, was wearing a gray hooded NASA sweatshirt and knit cap when he entered the Super Deli on Wallington Avenue on Monday and diverted the casher’s attention away from the plastic container, Police Capt. Shawn Kudlacik said. Detective Lt. Joseph Rock identified the borough resident by reviewing the store surveillance video after the owner reported the theft on Thursday, Kudlacik said. Detective Brian Ros…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
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Bergen Businessman In Previous Coach-Stalking Case Charged With Tax Evasion Bergen Businessman In Previous Coach-Stalking Case Charged With Tax Evasion Bergen Businessman In Previous Coach-Stalking Case Charged With Tax Evasion
Bergen Businessman In Previous Coach-Stalking Case Charged With Tax Evasion A once-renowned Bergen County businessman who has had more than his share of publicized predicaments is now in hot water with the IRS. David Kushner, a 55-year-old real-estate investor and property manager from of Cresskill, ducked hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal income taxes without even getting creative, the government alleges. He simply “deposited payments and income from the businesses and elsewhere into the accounts and then used most of the funds for personal expenses,” Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. Kushner also “failed to file any income tax returns, faile…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Mahwah Financial Advisor Siphoned $1 Million From 98-Year-Old Widow's Account, State Says Mahwah Financial Advisor Siphoned $1 Million From 98-Year-Old Widow's Account, State Says Mahwah Financial Advisor Siphoned $1 Million From 98-Year-Old Widow's Account, State Says
Mahwah Financial Advisor Siphoned $1 Million From 98-Year-Old Widow's Account, State Says A financial adviser from Mahwah pocketed nearly $700,000 and diverted another $300,000 or so of a 98-year-old widow’s money, said state authorities who stripped him of his ability to operate any longer in New Jersey. John Joseph Cahill, 71, used the woman’s bank account to write and cash $693,990 worth of checks, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Friday. Cahill also used the account to pay his daughter, his wife, and various others more than $300,000 to provide unexplained services to the woman, the attorney general said. Cahill had been granted power of attorney for the victim,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Route 17 Bank In Paramus Robbed Route 17 Bank In Paramus Robbed Route 17 Bank In Paramus Robbed
Route 17 Bank In Paramus Robbed Paramus police released surveillance photos Monday of a man who robbed a Route 17 bank on Friday wearing a hooded “Planned Parenthood” sweatshirt. The robber handed a teller at the Citibank on the northbound highway a note shortly before 2 p.m. that said to “hand over the money or [he] would begin shooting,” Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. The teller gave the robber nearly $5,000 in cash, Ehrenberg said. The bandit then ran toward the Fashion Center parking lot, he said. No weapon was shown. Ehrenberg described the robber as black, between 40 and 50 years old and roughly 200 pounds…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Police: Drugged Bergen Dad's Car Stalls On RR Tracks With Boy, $110,000 Cash Inside Police: Drugged Bergen Dad's Car Stalls On RR Tracks With Boy, $110,000 Cash Inside Police: Drugged Bergen Dad's Car Stalls On RR Tracks With Boy, $110,000 Cash Inside
Police: Drugged Bergen Dad's Car Stalls On RR Tracks With Boy, $110,000 Cash Inside Elmwood Park police who rescued a local driver and his young son after their car got stuck on railroad tracks found the man under the influence of drugs and $110,000 in cash in a bag, authorities said. Officers responding to the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway freight line found Asad Ali with his 11-year-old son in a Toyota Corolla with no license plates shortly before 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. Ali, who was disoriented and appeared impaired by drugs, said his credentials were in a backpack in the trunk, so the officers let him retrieve it, Foligno said…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
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COVER-UP: Essex Correctional Officers Beat Detainee As Sergeant Stood By, Feds Charge COVER-UP: Essex Correctional Officers Beat Detainee As Sergeant Stood By, Feds Charge COVER-UP: Essex Correctional Officers Beat Detainee As Sergeant Stood By, Feds Charge
Cover-up: Essex Correctional Officers Beat Detainee As Sergeant Stood By, Feds Charge Three Essex County correctional officers beat a federal detainee as a sergeant stood by, said authorities who charged all four with civil rights violations. The detainee – who was being held pending a federal trial -- squirted a mixture of urine, yogurt, and milk onto a correctional officer at the Essex County Correctional Facility (ECCF) the evening of Aug. 17, 2020, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said Friday. The detainee was brought to a disciplinary cell and beaten by Officers Angel Chaparro, 38, Damion James, 40, and Luis Ortiz, 29, in front of Sgt. Herman Pride, 51, Honig said.…

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