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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Edison, NJ
Breaking News
Feds: Convicted Big-Time NJ Ticket Investment Scammer Admits Doing It Again Feds: Convicted Big-Time NJ Ticket Investment Scammer Admits Doing It Again Feds: Convicted Big-Time NJ Ticket Investment Scammer Admits Doing It Again
Feds: Convicted Big-Time NJ Ticket Investment Scammer Admits Doing It Again A Middlesex County man who’d previously been convicted in a ticket resale investment scam admitted in federal court Thursday that he did it again, authorities said. Jeffrey Burd, 61, of Edison, told a U.S. District Court judge during a virtual hearing in Newark that he spent the $447,000 that investors had given him for the purported business on himself. Burd had promised his victims that their money would go toward buying tickets for “high-profile concerts, sporting events, and Broadway shows,” with the profits split between him and them, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachel A. Honig said. Burd “f…

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Egg Harbor Township, NJ
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Ex-AC Mayor Who Spent $86,000 In Youth Sports Donations On Himself Gets 30 Days In Fed Pen Ex-AC Mayor Who Spent $86,000 In Youth Sports Donations On Himself Gets 30 Days In Fed Pen Ex-AC Mayor Who Spent $86,000 In Youth Sports Donations On Himself Gets 30 Days In Fed Pen
Ex-AC Mayor Who Spent $86,000 In Youth Sports Donations On Himself Gets 30 Days In Fed Pen UPDATE: Former Atlantic City Mayor Frank Gilliam was sentenced Thursday to a plea-bargained 30 days in federal prison, 11 months of house arrest and 200 hours of community for scamming donors out of $86,000 that he told them was going to a youth basketball team. Frank Gilliam, 49, used the money on fancy clothes, expensive meals, and trips that were “completely unrelated to the operation of a youth basketball team,” Acting U.S. Attorney Rachel A. Honig said. “I stand before this court a fractured human being,” Gilliam told U.S. District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez via videoconference in Camde…

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Prosecutor: Bergen Detectives Find Several Ounces Of Cocaine In Route 95 Stop Prosecutor: Bergen Detectives Find Several Ounces Of Cocaine In Route 95 Stop Prosecutor: Bergen Detectives Find Several Ounces Of Cocaine In Route 95 Stop
Prosecutor: Bergen Detectives Find Several Ounces Of Cocaine In Route 95 Stop A deliveryman from Maryland was carrying several ounces of cocaine when he was stopped by Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives on Route 95 in Ridgefield Park, authorities said. A Central Judicial Processing Court judge in Hackensack released Giancarlo Hernandez-Pichardo, 31, of Lanham, MD with conditions following his arrest Tuesday. A Bergen County Sheriff’s K-9 gave a positive indication and a search of his vehicle was conducted after Narcotics Task Force detectives stopped Hernandez-Pichardo, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. They found 4½ ounces of coke and arrested him on c…

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Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
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NJ Senate Approves Bill Aimed At Preventing OD Deaths NJ Senate Approves Bill Aimed At Preventing OD Deaths NJ Senate Approves Bill Aimed At Preventing OD Deaths
NJ Senate Approves Bill Aimed At Preventing OD Deaths The New Jersey Senate on Thursday approved a proposed law that would require doctors to prescribe Narcan when writing opioid pain management prescriptions for high-risk patients. At least seven states now require co-prescribing Narcan (naloxone) with opioids: Arizona, Florida, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Washington. Laws in California and Ohio require prescribers to offer naloxone co-prescriptions in certain circumstances. “It can make a difference in New Jersey, as well,” said state Sen. Anthony M. Bucco, R-Boonton, a co-sponsor of the measure, which had bi-partisan su…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
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South Plainfield Man In Domestic Call Charged With Rape Of Underage Victim In Lodi 9 Years Ago South Plainfield Man In Domestic Call Charged With Rape Of Underage Victim In Lodi 9 Years Ago South Plainfield Man In Domestic Call Charged With Rape Of Underage Victim In Lodi 9 Years Ago
South Plainfield Man In Domestic Call Charged With Rape Of Underage Victim In Lodi 9 Years Ago What began with a domestic dispute call in South Plainfield ended in charges against a 45-year-old engineer of sexually assaulting a pre-teen in Lodi nearly a decade ago, authorities said. Joseph Eustace Maina remained held Thursday in the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing this coming Monday in Hackensack, records show. South Plainfield police went to Maina’s Christopher Avenue home on Sunday in response to a report of a domestic dispute, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. They contacted Lodi police and members of Musella’s Special Victims Unit after “it was alleged t…

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Cresskill-Closter, NJ
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How Safe Is Your Chimney? NJ House Fire Serves As Critical Reminder How Safe Is Your Chimney? NJ House Fire Serves As Critical Reminder How Safe Is Your Chimney? NJ House Fire Serves As Critical Reminder
How Safe Is Your Chimney? NJ House Fire Serves As Critical Reminder Firefighters quickly doused a smoky chimney blaze in Cresskill Wednesday night. Fortunately, it didn't cause the kind of damage that's possible when homeowners aren't vigilant. The Chestnut Street resident safely fled the two-alarm 11:30 p.m. blaze, Fire Chief Christopher S. Ulshoefer said. No injuries were reported. The fire, which damaged the first and second floors, was declared under control in about 20 minutes, the chief said. Mutual aid responders at the scene or in coverage included firefighters from Demarest, Dumont and Tenafly. NOTE: A vast majority of the more than 25,000 chimne…

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Elizabeth, NJ
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Costumed Ex-Con Who Sprayed Elizabeth Street With Gunfire Gets 10 Years In Fed Pen Costumed Ex-Con Who Sprayed Elizabeth Street With Gunfire Gets 10 Years In Fed Pen Costumed Ex-Con Who Sprayed Elizabeth Street With Gunfire Gets 10 Years In Fed Pen
Costumed Ex-Con Who Sprayed Elizabeth Street With Gunfire Gets 10 Years In Fed Pen An ex-con who opened fire on an Elizabeth street while wearing a disguise was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in federal prison. Because there’s no parole in the federal prison system, city resident Jarrell L. Daniels, 29, must serve just about all of the sentence handed down in U.S. District Court in Newark. Daniels was wearing a costume and latex gloves when he walked down Irvington Avenue on April 9, 2018 carrying a .45-caliber semi-automatic Masterpiece Arms ACP with 30 additional rounds of ammunition in an extended magazine, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. Coming upon his i…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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14,000 Heroin Folds, Crack, $7,500 Cash Seized In Raid On Paterson Couple's Home 14,000 Heroin Folds, Crack, $7,500 Cash Seized In Raid On Paterson Couple's Home 14,000 Heroin Folds, Crack, $7,500 Cash Seized In Raid On Paterson Couple's Home
14,000 Heroin Folds, Crack, $7,500 Cash Seized In Raid On Paterson Couple's Home A drug-dealing Paterson couple ran a sizable street operation from their home, said police who seized 14,226 heroin folds, 190 vials of crack and $7,541 in proceeds during a raid. Ex-con Joaquin Bennett, 34, already had a criminal history, including involvement in what authorities said was a plot to kidnap a woman, keep her captive in a Paterson home and beat and rob her boyfriend at a Wayne motel. Bennett became a recent target of city detectives who’d received a tip about drug dealing from a single-family home on 19th Avenue, in a quiet East Side neighborhood off 34th Street, Public Safet…

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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Franklin Lakes PD: Alabama Driver Jailed For Loaded Rifles, Handgun Found In Stop Franklin Lakes PD: Alabama Driver Jailed For Loaded Rifles, Handgun Found In Stop Franklin Lakes PD: Alabama Driver Jailed For Loaded Rifles, Handgun Found In Stop
Franklin Lakes PD: Alabama Driver Jailed For Loaded Rifles, Handgun Found In Stop An Alabama driver was jailed after Franklin Lakes police said they found three guns in his vehicle during a traffic stop. The hunting rifles and .22-caliber handgun were “loaded and improperly stored in the vehicle” when Terry Nolan Bagwell, 59, of Cullman, AL was stopped Tuesday afternoon on Dakota Trail, Capt. John Bakelaar said. Bagwell is a also a “certain person not to have a firearm” under New Jersey law for a previous, unspecified offense, according to Bergen County Jail records. He remained held there Thursday pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hacke…

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Hackensack, NJ
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'Sickened By Reports,' Murphy Orders Investigation Of Abuse At Notorious Women's Prison 'Sickened By Reports,' Murphy Orders Investigation Of Abuse At Notorious Women's Prison 'Sickened By Reports,' Murphy Orders Investigation Of Abuse At Notorious Women's Prison
'Sickened By Reports,' Murphy Orders Investigation Of Abuse At Notorious Women's Prison UPDATE: Gov. Phil Murphy appointed a special investigator Wednesday to probe allegations that several inmates were beaten at New Jersey's notorious prison for women. Murphy said he ordered a "full independent investigation," under the direction of former federal prosecutor and ex-state comptroller Matthew Boxer, into what happened at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Hunterdon County on Jan. 11. “I am sickened by the horrific reports of what happened” Murphy said. Female inmates "have long been uniquely vulnerable to abuse" and must be "treated with dignity and respect" li…

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