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
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Passaic Man Molested Three Underage Victims Over Course Of Decade, Authorities Charge Passaic Man Molested Three Underage Victims Over Course Of Decade, Authorities Charge Passaic Man Molested Three Underage Victims Over Course Of Decade, Authorities Charge
Passaic Man Molested Three Underage Victims Over Course Of Decade, Authorities Charge Three people reported being molested by a Passaic man while they were children, authorities said Wednesday. Ricardo Palma, 31, was arrested Tuesday detectives from the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit and Passaic police. A separate incident at a residence in Passaic last October drew the attention of both agencies, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Passaic Police Chief Luis A. Guzman said Wednesday. They “identified and interviewed” three alleged victims who “reported being touched sexually” by Palma while in his care from April 2008 through September 2019, be…

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Paterson, NJ
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Paterson Man, 64, Charged With Repeated Sex Assaults On 10-Year-Old Victim Paterson Man, 64, Charged With Repeated Sex Assaults On 10-Year-Old Victim Paterson Man, 64, Charged With Repeated Sex Assaults On 10-Year-Old Victim
Paterson Man, 64, Charged With Repeated Sex Assaults On 10-Year-Old Victim A 64-year-old Paterson man repeatedly sexually assaulted a 10-year-old victim, authorities charged. A judge previously ordered that Julio Largo-Veletanga remain held in the Passaic County Jail on charges of aggravated sexual assault, attempted aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, child endangerment and hindering his arrest, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said Wednesday. Valdes didn’t say when that arrest was made or by which agency. She did say that an April 9 arraignment was scheduled in Central Judicial Processing Court in Paterson on an indictment returned by a grand …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Indictment: Haledon Man Raped Underage Victim Indictment: Haledon Man Raped Underage Victim Indictment: Haledon Man Raped Underage Victim
Indictment: Haledon Man Raped Underage Victim A 35-year-old Haledon man who authorities said raped an underage victim was indicted by a grand jury in Paterson. Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes didn’t say Wednesday when the indictment on multiple sex assault charges was returned against Salvador Navarro. She also didn't say when he was arrested or by which agency. Valdes did say that a judge at some point allowed Navarro to go free pending the outcome of the case. She also said that the alleged assaults “took place at a residence in the [b]orough of Haledon from February 4, 2018 through November 9, 2019.” Valdes is charged…

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Paterson, NJ
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Authorities: Day Care Sitter, 65, Indicted For Raping Passaic Girl, 8 Authorities: Day Care Sitter, 65, Indicted For Raping Passaic Girl, 8 Authorities: Day Care Sitter, 65, Indicted For Raping Passaic Girl, 8
Authorities: Day Care Sitter, 65, Indicted For Raping Passaic Girl, 8 A 65-year-old Passaic man who authorities said raped an 8-year-old city girl he was babysitting was indicted by a grand jury in Paterson. Juan Jiminez has been free since a judge released him with conditions following his arrest last July. Jimenez was watching the girl at a daycare located in an apartment at 70 Passaic Street when he sexually assaulted her, the indictment alleges. Detectives from Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes’s Special Victims Unit arrested Jimenez on charges of aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and child endangerment for “engaging in acts of sexual p…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Authorities: Wayne Homeowner Leads Police To Porch Pirate From Paramus Authorities: Wayne Homeowner Leads Police To Porch Pirate From Paramus Authorities: Wayne Homeowner Leads Police To Porch Pirate From Paramus
Authorities: Wayne Homeowner Leads Police To Porch Pirate From Paramus A porch pirate from Paramus was picked up by Wayne police after a homeowner prevented her from retrieving a credit card delivered to the resident’s address, authorities said. Detectives seized Betty Corniel, 30, and her vehicle after she approached the homeowner, said there’d been a package delivery mix-up and asked to be called once it arrived, Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. The homeowner retrieved the package when it showed up, then spotted Corniel looking for it – including going through the resident’s mailbox, Daly said. Responding detectives found that the name on the package didn’t m…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Attendant, 60, Found Dead At Route 46 Gas Station, No Foul Play Suspected Attendant, 60, Found Dead At Route 46 Gas Station, No Foul Play Suspected Attendant, 60, Found Dead At Route 46 Gas Station, No Foul Play Suspected
Attendant, 60, Found Dead At Route 46 Gas Station, No Foul Play Suspected Authorities don't suspect any wrongdoing in the death of a 60-year-old attendant whose body was found at a Little Ferry gas station early Wednesday. The day-shift attendant called police shortly before 7 a.m. after coming to work and finding his co-worker's body at the desk of the Sunoco station store on eastbound Route 46 at the Bergen Turnpike, an interchange once known as the "Little Ferry Circle" at the foot of the Winant Avenue Bridge over the Hackensack River. The man apparently had been texting with his ex-girlfriend before he died, the chief said, adding that there were no signs of …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Indictment: Sex Offender, Felons Drove Unsafe Buses For NJ Company Without Checks, Drug Tests Indictment: Sex Offender, Felons Drove Unsafe Buses For NJ Company Without Checks, Drug Tests Indictment: Sex Offender, Felons Drove Unsafe Buses For NJ Company Without Checks, Drug Tests
Indictment: Sex Offender, Felons Drove Unsafe Buses For NJ Company Without Checks, Drug Tests A Paterson-based school bus company owner from Wayne and his manager hired criminals as drivers – including a registered sex offender – and covered it up, a state grand jury indictment charges. Shelim Khalique, the 52-year-old owner/operator of A-1 Elegant Tours on Paterson Street, and manager Henry Rhodes, 57, of Paterson, hired drivers without background checks or mandatory drug tests while operating unsafe buses, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Personnel files seized in 2019 revealed that A-1 – which has serviced Essex, Hudson, Passaic and Union counties -- employed several…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Rochelle Park Police Nab Four In Sketchy SUV, Seize Kilo Of Cocaine, $20,000 Cash Rochelle Park Police Nab Four In Sketchy SUV, Seize Kilo Of Cocaine, $20,000 Cash Rochelle Park Police Nab Four In Sketchy SUV, Seize Kilo Of Cocaine, $20,000 Cash
Rochelle Park Police Nab Four In Sketchy SUV, Seize Kilo Of Cocaine, $20,000 Cash Four out-of-towners were about to leave for Puerto Rico when Rochelle Park police found them with a kilo of cocaine and $20,000 in cash at a local hotel, authorities said. The quartet told police they were on their way back home when Sgt. Jared Shatkin alerted Detective Brian Gallina and fellow officers to their suspicious rented Chevy Blazer in the hotel parking lot Monday morning, Lt. James DePreta said. They converged on the vehicle, interviewed the four occupants and discovered that they'd arrived in the U.S. on Saturday, made some drug deals and were planning to return home when they w…

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Newark, NJ
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Dr. Oz Helps Port Authority PD Resuscitate Stricken Traveler At Newark Airport Dr. Oz Helps Port Authority PD Resuscitate Stricken Traveler At Newark Airport Dr. Oz Helps Port Authority PD Resuscitate Stricken Traveler At Newark Airport
Dr. Oz Helps Port Authority PD Resuscitate Stricken Traveler At Newark Airport Celebrity physician Dr. Oz helped Port Authority police resuscitate a stricken traveler at Newark Airport, authorities said. PAPD Officer Jeffrey Croissant saw the 60-year-old New Jersey man go down in the Terminal A baggage claim area shortly after 11 p.m. Monday, authority spokeswoman Lenis Valens said. He "looked like a tree falling," the officer said. Croissant rushed over and found the man wasn’t breathing and didn’t have a pulse, Valens said. The officer summoned backup, began CPR and was joined by Mehmet Oz, who’d just gotten off the flight and was at the carousel when he saw the c…

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Fort Lee, NJ
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Second Gas Station Robbery In Four Days Near GWB Just Like The First Second Gas Station Robbery In Four Days Near GWB Just Like The First Second Gas Station Robbery In Four Days Near GWB Just Like The First
Second Gas Station Robbery In Four Days Near GWB Just Like The First The script was nearly the same when armed robbers held up a second gas station in four days near the George Washington Bridge, authorities said. This time, a gang of five held up a LukOil station on Fletcher Avenue in Fort Lee shortly after 9 a.m. Sunday, Police Capt. Ricky Mirkovic said. The robbers commanded an employee and patron in the store not to call police, then demanded money, Mirkovic said. One of them had a silver folding knife and anther made a gesture beneath his sweatshirt as if he had a gun, the captain said. One of the robbers took money from one register and then tried to…

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