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
School Custodian From Clifton Charged With Emailing Himself Child Porn School Custodian From Clifton Charged With Emailing Himself Child Porn School Custodian From Clifton Charged With Emailing Himself Child Porn
School Custodian From Clifton Charged With Emailing Himself Child Porn An Essex County school janitor from Clifton emailed himself more than 100 child porn images, said authorities who arrested him. Christopher Lucas, 30, was identified by the Passaic County Sheriff’s Department Internet Crimes Against Children Unit. Lucas, who was hired by the North Caldwell public school system this past September, sent himself 133 still image and video files of child sexual abuse via email, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik and Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said in a joint statement. Sheriff’s detectives arrested Lucas on Thursday and charged him with distributing, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Elizabeth, NJ
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NJ Contractor Admits Using Check Casher To Duck $1.7M In Federal Taxes NJ Contractor Admits Using Check Casher To Duck $1.7M In Federal Taxes NJ Contractor Admits Using Check Casher To Duck $1.7M In Federal Taxes
NJ Contractor Admits Using Check Casher To Duck $1.7M In Federal Taxes A Union County contractor admitted cheating the federal government out of $1.7 million in personal and corporate income taxes. Olger Fallas, 49, of Union, told a U.S. District Court judge in Newark via videoconference this week that he used a check-cashing business to pocket payments form customers to his Essex County companies, Olger Fallas Painting and Olger Fallas Properties. He also admitted depositing hundreds of thousands of dollars in customer payments into bank accounts that weren’t associated with either business. Rather than go to trial, Fallas accepted a deal from the governmen…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Fire Ravages Passaic Multi-Family Home, Displaces 18 Fire Ravages Passaic Multi-Family Home, Displaces 18 Fire Ravages Passaic Multi-Family Home, Displaces 18
Fire Ravages Passaic Multi-Family Home, Displaces 18 VIDEO: Eight families were displaced by an intense fire that destroyed a Passaic multi-family home Friday night. No injuries were reported. Flames blew through the roof, part of which collapsed less than a half-hour after the four-alarm blaze broke out on the second floor of the wood-frame building at Hope and Highland avenues around 8 p.m. "Thank God everyone is out, safe and accounted for," Mayor Hector Carlos Lora said. Eighteen people in all received temporary food, lodging and clothing thanks to the Red Cross and the city. Most were able to find shelter with family, Lora said. Fir…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Armed Robbers Nabbed After Stolen Car Chase From Paterson To Newark Ends In Crash, Police Say Armed Robbers Nabbed After Stolen Car Chase From Paterson To Newark Ends In Crash, Police Say Armed Robbers Nabbed After Stolen Car Chase From Paterson To Newark Ends In Crash, Police Say
Armed Robbers Nabbed After Stolen Car Chase From Paterson To Newark Ends In Crash, Police Say A police chase from Paterson to Newark ended with the arrests of three armed robbers after they crashed a stolen SUV on Route 21, authorities said. Detectives Yamil Pimienta and Mohammad Bashir stopped the Mazda CX5 – reported stolen out of Jersey City – near the corner of 10th Avenue and East 24th Street shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday. They’d gotten out and were approaching the vehicle when the driver first backed up a bit and then hit the gas and sped away, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. The detectives chased the SUV through Clifton and Passaic on southbound Route 20, then …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Prosecutor: Hackensack Man Set Fire To His Apartment, Then Sat Down Prosecutor: Hackensack Man Set Fire To His Apartment, Then Sat Down Prosecutor: Hackensack Man Set Fire To His Apartment, Then Sat Down
Prosecutor: Hackensack Man Set Fire To His Apartment, Then Sat Down Authorities charged a Hackensack man with setting fire to his apartment after police said they found him sitting there near a flaming section of carpet. City police responding late Thursday afternoon to complaints of a several “loud banging and shattering noises” coming from the Clinton Place apartment near the Maywood border found Ryan O. Dennis, 29, sitting alone inside, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. A “section of carpet in a bedroom was on fire,” Musella said. Officers doused the blaze, determined that Dennis started it and took him into custody, the prosecutor said. The …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
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UPDATE: Springsteen Was 'Visibly Swaying,' Refused Breath Test, Federal Summonses Say UPDATE: Springsteen Was 'Visibly Swaying,' Refused Breath Test, Federal Summonses Say UPDATE: Springsteen Was 'Visibly Swaying,' Refused Breath Test, Federal Summonses Say
Update: Springsteen Was 'Visibly Swaying,' Refused Breath Test, Federal Summonses Say A federal park ranger who arrested Bruce Springsteen after stopping the veteran rocker on the Jersey Shore reported that he “strongly” smelled of alcohol, had “glassy eyes” and was “visibly swaying back and forth” during a DWI field test. Springsteen also refused a breath test following the Nov. 14 stop at the Gateway National Recreation Area near the Sandy Hook Lighthouse shortly after 4 p.m., Park Service Officer R.L. Hayes wrote on a trio of summonses. “The Boss,” 71, reportedly was chatting with fans that sunny Saturday on the federally-owned, six-mile-long barrier split in Middletown b…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
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HEROES: Port Authority Police Rescue Stricken Woman At Newark Airport HEROES: Port Authority Police Rescue Stricken Woman At Newark Airport HEROES: Port Authority Police Rescue Stricken Woman At Newark Airport
Heroes: Port Authority Police Rescue Stricken Woman At Newark Airport A Newark Airport traveler was shaking violently, the left side of her face drooping, when Port Authority Police Officers Mark Burkhardt and Jason Nielsen responded to a cleaner’s urgent call for help. Thinking she was having a stroke or seizure, the officers helped with the woman’s breathing and monitored her vitals until paramedics arrived. Command officers hadn’t realized the severity of Lisa Kirby’s situation until her husband called to thank them, Port Authority spokeswoman Lenis Valens said. It turned out she’d suffered a brain aneurism, Valens said. “If there was one missing link, m…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Teacher At School That Principal Left Gets 6 Months No-Pay For Hitting Student, Touching Others Teacher At School That Principal Left Gets 6 Months No-Pay For Hitting Student, Touching Others Teacher At School That Principal Left Gets 6 Months No-Pay For Hitting Student, Touching Others
Teacher At School That Principal Left Gets 6 Months No-Pay For Hitting Student, Touching Others Already dealing with the mysterious departure of their principal and vice-principal, parents of students at Wyckoff’s middle school learned this week that a teacher there was recently disciplined for inappropriately touching students. As with the abrupt departure of Eisenhower Middle School Principal Christopher Iasiello and Assistant Principal Christopher Giordano, parents this week said they had no idea that an arbitrator two weeks ago upheld a six-month suspension without pay for teacher Scott Levy. No announcements were made nor information shared, parents in the northwest Bergen Count…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hamilton Township, NJ
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Reign Of Terror: Feds Charge Ex-Con, 22, In Series Of Armed Carjackings, Robberies In Trenton Reign Of Terror: Feds Charge Ex-Con, 22, In Series Of Armed Carjackings, Robberies In Trenton Reign Of Terror: Feds Charge Ex-Con, 22, In Series Of Armed Carjackings, Robberies In Trenton
Reign Of Terror: Feds Charge Ex-Con, 22, In Series Of Armed Carjackings, Robberies In Trenton A 22-year-old ex-con from Trenton who’s already served 2½ years in state prison could face significantly more federal time if convicted of a string of gunpoint carjackings and robberies. Joshua Perez, 22, was taken into custody after pointing a gun at officers during a raid of his home, authorities said Thursday. Investigators had identified Perez as one of three armed robbers responsible for a Oct. 10 carjacking, another on Dec. 5 and the robbery later than night of a local gas station, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachel A. Honig said. Surveillance cameras captured video of Perez and two other r…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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4 Juveniles Nabbed After Stolen Vehicle Tumbles Into Passaic River 4 Juveniles Nabbed After Stolen Vehicle Tumbles Into Passaic River 4 Juveniles Nabbed After Stolen Vehicle Tumbles Into Passaic River
4 Juveniles Nabbed After Stolen Vehicle Tumbles Into Passaic River Police nabbed four juveniles after they bailed out of a stolen car that landed in the Passaic River in Clifton. Miraculously, none of them were seriously injured, authorities said. Undercover Passaic police officers tried to pull the sedan over on northbound Route 21 Wednesday night when the driver hit the gas, Mayor Hector Carlos Lora said. The vehicle -- reported stolen Sunday from Market Street -- sped off as the officers pulled back out of concern for conditions on the snow-slicked road, Lora said. Soon after, it careened off the highway and landed in the drink just north of Ackerman…

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