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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Cherry Hill, NJ
Breaking News
NJ Man Who Shared Infant Porn, Bestiality Pics Gets 8 Years In Fed Pen NJ Man Who Shared Infant Porn, Bestiality Pics Gets 8 Years In Fed Pen NJ Man Who Shared Infant Porn, Bestiality Pics Gets 8 Years In Fed Pen
NJ Man Who Shared Infant Porn, Bestiality Pics Gets 8 Years In Fed Pen Shared videos and photos of men abusing young children -- and even infants -- are sending a South Jersey man to federal prison for a plea-bargained eight years. Bruce Jackson, 32, must serve just about all of the sentence because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. Federal Homeland Security Investigations agents said they found files 61 videos and seven photos shared on a public peer-to-peer network from the IP address of a Bridgeton home in Cumberland County owned by the mother of Jackson’s children. The images included one of a man and pre-pubescent female, both naked, having…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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HEROES: Port Authority PD Saves OD Victim At GWB Bus Station HEROES: Port Authority PD Saves OD Victim At GWB Bus Station HEROES: Port Authority PD Saves OD Victim At GWB Bus Station
Heroes: Port Authority PD Saves OD Victim At GWB Bus Station Port Authority Police Officer Kyle Chmura knows an overdose when he sees one. Responding to a call of a man down in a third-floor bathroom stall at the George Washington Bridge bus station in Washington Heights, Chmura immediately began a sternum rub in an attempt to revive the 50-year-old victim. Chmura and backup Officer Chris Figueroa then gave the man oxygen and two blasts of Narcan that eventually brought him around, Port Authority spokeswoman Lenis Valens said. EMS arrived, continued care and took the victim to nearby Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center for further treatment, Valens…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
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NJ Tax Preparer Gets 5 Years In Fed Pen For $1.6M IRS Scam NJ Tax Preparer Gets 5 Years In Fed Pen For $1.6M IRS Scam NJ Tax Preparer Gets 5 Years In Fed Pen For $1.6M IRS Scam
NJ Tax Preparer Gets 5 Years In Fed Pen For $1.6M IRS Scam A twice-convicted tax preparer who helped New Jersey clients scam the IRS out of $1.6 million is headed to federal prison for the next five years. Joseph Kenny Batts, 52, of Elkridge, MD became the third of five men sentenced for preparing bogus tax returns at Tax Pro’s and Tax Solutions & Associates in Essex and Union counties. Batts, who already had a federal tax fraud conviction on his record, was the only one of the group to go to trial. U.S. District Judge Michael A. Shipp convicted him of conspiracy to defraud the United States, as well as five counts of aiding in preparing fals…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Haledon PD: Pennsylvania Pot Dealer, Wanted Paterson Man Bagged In Stop Haledon PD: Pennsylvania Pot Dealer, Wanted Paterson Man Bagged In Stop Haledon PD: Pennsylvania Pot Dealer, Wanted Paterson Man Bagged In Stop
Haledon PD: Pennsylvania Pot Dealer, Wanted Paterson Man Bagged In Stop An out-of state-driver had a Paterson passenger beside him and a book bag packed with two pounds of pot in the trunk when Haledon police stopped his sedan for having a busted rear license-plate bulb, authorities said. Officer Jeffrey Welsh stopped the 2012 Honda sedan on West Broadway near Cliff Street shortly before 10:30 p.m. Saturday. Welsh quickly smelled marijuana, searched the driver – identified as Edwardo Rivera, 32, of East Stroudsburg, PA – and found him carrying $897 in suspected drug money in his pants pocket, Lt. George Guzman said. Backed up by Police Officer Semir Celoski an…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Expectant Grandpa From Hackensack Passes Suddenly, Pascack Valley Rallies For Family Expectant Grandpa From Hackensack Passes Suddenly, Pascack Valley Rallies For Family Expectant Grandpa From Hackensack Passes Suddenly, Pascack Valley Rallies For Family
Expectant Grandpa From Hackensack Passes Suddenly, Pascack Valley Rallies For Family Clouds had finally parted for Mike Mancinelli after what had been a particularly dark series of losses. Then, in an instant, he too was gone. The Park Ridge native had just recently learned that he was at last becoming a grandfather. He'd been out for an early breakfast Wednesday with his daughter, Paula, who’s expecting a boy. Later that day, a massive heart attack took his life. “He was so excited to be a grandpa,” wrote his niece, Jennifer Mancinelli. “Finally something happy in Mike’s life - he would soon be getting baby hugs.” Mancinelli, 62, had worked in the printing industry for …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Ex-Con Caught With Gun Near Lawmaker's News Conf Charged In Shooting Of Paterson Boy, 15 Ex-Con Caught With Gun Near Lawmaker's News Conf Charged In Shooting Of Paterson Boy, 15 Ex-Con Caught With Gun Near Lawmaker's News Conf Charged In Shooting Of Paterson Boy, 15
Ex-Con Caught With Gun Near Lawmaker's News Conf Charged In Shooting Of Paterson Boy, 15 UPDATE: A little more than 20 months after a 15-year-old boy was shot on Paterson’s Eastside, authorities have charged a second city man with trying to kill him. Nyedair Parker, a 28-year-old ex-con with an adult criminal history that began soon after he turned 18, remained held in the Passaic County Jail on attempted murder and various weapons charges, including being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Authorities accused him and Isaiah Snead, then 18, in the shooting of the 15-year-old victim near the corner of 11th Avenue and East 28th Street — about a block from Rosa Parks Ar…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
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Profitable (Uh, Teachable) Moment For Boy Who Found 10 Bucks On Ground, What Would YOU Do? Profitable (Uh, Teachable) Moment For Boy Who Found 10 Bucks On Ground, What Would YOU Do? Profitable (Uh, Teachable) Moment For Boy Who Found 10 Bucks On Ground, What Would YOU Do?
Profitable (Uh, Teachable) Moment For Boy Who Found 10 Bucks On Ground, What Would YOU Do? Young Michael Lindenberg just wanted to do the right thing when he showed up with his dad at Ridgewood police headquarters holding a $10 bill. Michael told Sgt. Kyle Finch that he’d found it on the ground, Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke said. He and his father thought the right thing to do was to bring it to police to see whether anyone had reported losing it, the chief said. Finch told Michael that late July day that he would log it in as found property in the hopes that the owner came forward. If no one did after six months, the sergeant said, Michael could have it. Time passed an…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
New Milford PD: How Are We Doing? New Milford PD: How Are We Doing? New Milford PD: How Are We Doing?
New Milford PD: How Are We Doing? New Milford residents and merchants are invited to give their opinion of the borough police department as part of a process known as accreditation. Members of the department and borough employees are encouraged to call, as well, during the scheduled phone-in period between 10-11 a.m. Monday, Feb. 15. THE NUMBER: (201) 739-4232 Or email comments to [email protected]. Telephone comments are limited to 5 minutes and “must address the agency’s ability to comply with the accreditation standards,” Police Chief Brian T. Clancy said. (You can also write to the at New Jersey State As…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
SEEN HIM? FBI Offers $5,000 For Help Catching Accused Kidnapper Of Paterson Businessman, 70 SEEN HIM? FBI Offers $5,000 For Help Catching Accused Kidnapper Of Paterson Businessman, 70 SEEN HIM? FBI Offers $5,000 For Help Catching Accused Kidnapper Of Paterson Businessman, 70
Seen HIM? FBI Offers $5,000 For Help Catching Accused Kidnapper Of Paterson Businessman, 70 The FBI turned to the public for help finding a New York City man wanted for the brutal beating and armed kidnapping of a 70-year-old Paterson bodega owner. Reginald J. Law, 35, has a tattoo on one arm of the familiar “laugh now/cry later” mask and a tattoo on his torso of a woman, the bureau said. Surveillance footage shows Law and an accomplice bursting into the Easter Grocery and Food Market at 10th Avenue and East 28th Street last Oct. 8. While one grabbed owner Miguel Espejo in a chokehold, the other pointed a gun at him. The trio wrestled in front of the counter, knocking over items…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: Who Gunned Down Hawthorne Woman, 41, Outside Paterson School? UPDATE: Who Gunned Down Hawthorne Woman, 41, Outside Paterson School? UPDATE: Who Gunned Down Hawthorne Woman, 41, Outside Paterson School?
Update: Who Gunned Down Hawthorne Woman, 41, Outside Paterson School? Whoever shot a 41-year-old Hawthorne woman found critically wounded behind a Paterson public school now faces murder charges following her death. Although the original report of shots fired at 1:51 a.m. Wednesday directed police to Dover and Oak streets, officers reported finding Nasreen Yashi behind No. 15 school up the street. She’d been shot several times, they said. Yashi died of her injuries the next day at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said. They didn’t disclose a possible motive nor whethe…

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