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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Newark, NJ
Breaking News
Released Video Shows Fatal Newark Police Shooting Released Video Shows Fatal Newark Police Shooting Released Video Shows Fatal Newark Police Shooting
Released Video Shows Fatal Newark Police Shooting Home surveillance video shows a South Orange man being shot and killed by a Newark police detective after rushing the officer. Captured from across the street, the video released this week by state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal shows Carl Dorsey III, 39, running at Detective Rod Simpkins as the plainclothes investigator got out of the passenger side of an unmarked police vehicle just after midnight on New Year’s Day. The pair collide and spin around, as Simpkins shoots Dorsey with his service weapon as he falls backwards. SEE: Dorsey Shooting The video is the only footage of the fatal…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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15-Year-Old Paterson Armed Robber Caught With Loaded Gun, Among 3 Weapons Seized In Three Days 15-Year-Old Paterson Armed Robber Caught With Loaded Gun, Among 3 Weapons Seized In Three Days 15-Year-Old Paterson Armed Robber Caught With Loaded Gun, Among 3 Weapons Seized In Three Days
15-Year-Old Paterson Armed Robber Caught With Loaded Gun, Among 3 Weapons Seized In Three Days Three guns in three days were seized in separate incidents by Paterson detectives, including one carried by a 15-year-old armed robber, authorities said. Investigators watched several deals at Broadway and Summer Street, an area notorious for drugs and shootings, before moving in on Jamir King, 22, as he got into an SUV, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. The driver, Tremaine Jones, 30, stuffed some crack vials into a bag as they approached and then took off on foot, Speziale said. Detective Suquan Garry chased down Jones while Detectives William Hermann and Brian Culmone grabbed …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
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Prosecutor: Garfield School Bus Aide Contacted Juvenile Sex Assault Victim For Jailed Attacker Prosecutor: Garfield School Bus Aide Contacted Juvenile Sex Assault Victim For Jailed Attacker Prosecutor: Garfield School Bus Aide Contacted Juvenile Sex Assault Victim For Jailed Attacker
Prosecutor: Garfield School Bus Aide Contacted Juvenile Sex Assault Victim For Jailed Attacker A Garfield school bus aide and a jailed Wallington man awaiting trial on charges of sexually assaulting a pre-teen were charged with contacting the victim. Floridaliz DeJesus, 56, was charged with contempt of a court order after she reached out to the victim on behalf of Pedro Perez, 31, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Friday. Detectives from Musella’s Special Victims Unit arrested Perez a year ago Saturday (Jan. 23, 2020) after city police received a tip and alerted them. He has remained held in the Bergen County Jail since then, charged with first-degree aggravated sexual assa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Marlton-Evesham, NJ
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'We Need More Men!': NJ Activist, Correctional Officer Among Latest Charged In Capitol Riot 'We Need More Men!': NJ Activist, Correctional Officer Among Latest Charged In Capitol Riot 'We Need More Men!': NJ Activist, Correctional Officer Among Latest Charged In Capitol Riot
'We Need More Men!': NJ Activist, Correctional Officer Among Latest Charged In Capitol Riot A South Jersey mom who’s become one of the most recognizable “Reopen New Jersey” activists and a Monmouth County correctional officer were among the latest people charged with the riot at the U.S. Capitol building earlier this month. “Men, we need more men,” Stephanie Hazelton, 49, of Medford, shouts on a video as she waves her arm on the Capitol steps in an attempt to get more muscle to help break through an entrance on Jan. 6. “More people, we gotta keep going,” says Hazelton, who’s also known as Ayla Wolf, as she wipes her eyes of lingering pepper spray and records the events on her cell…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Edison, NJ
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All For $20,000: New Brunswick Meter Reader Who Took Bribes To Cut Bills Gets 5 Years In Prison All For $20,000: New Brunswick Meter Reader Who Took Bribes To Cut Bills Gets 5 Years In Prison All For $20,000: New Brunswick Meter Reader Who Took Bribes To Cut Bills Gets 5 Years In Prison
All For $20,000: New Brunswick Meter Reader Who Took Bribes To Cut Bills Gets 5 Years In Prison A former New Brunswick Water Department meter reader who took payoffs to help reduce customers’ water bills by as much as 90% was sentenced Friday to five years in state prison. Guillermo Quinones, 51, of Somerset joins two former co-workers who also got five-year state prison terms: Joseph DeBonis, a 58-year-old former senior account clerk from Toms River, and William Ortiz, 59, of North Brunswick, a former meter reader. Their scheme “cost the city hundreds of thousands of dollars,” said Thomas Eicher, director of the state Office of Public Integrity and Accountability. Ten residents accu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Saddle Brook Man, 23, Says He Was Carjacked In Passaic, Details Scarce Saddle Brook Man, 23, Says He Was Carjacked In Passaic, Details Scarce Saddle Brook Man, 23, Says He Was Carjacked In Passaic, Details Scarce
Saddle Brook Man, 23, Says He Was Carjacked In Passaic, Details Scarce A 23-year-old Saddle Brook man told police he was carjacked at gunpoint in Passaic late Thursday. The victim said he was assaulted by more than one person as he got out of the car near the corner of River Drive and Westervelt Place shortly after 11 p.m. The robbers took his keys and fled with the vehicle, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Passaic Police Chief Luis A. Guzman said in a brief release Friday. They didn’t identify the type of vehicle, direction of flight, how many suspects were believed involved or what any of them looked like, saying: "More information will be re…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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Sedan, SUV Collide In New Milford Sedan, SUV Collide In New Milford Sedan, SUV Collide In New Milford
Sedan, SUV Collide In New Milford Two drivers escaped serious injury in a crash Friday afternoon in New Milford. Bystanders got the female driver out of a Toyota Camry after it was knocked onto the driver's side by a Toyota 4Runner at the corner of Henley Avenue and River Road shortly before 2 p.m. Both she and the SUV driver didn't appear seriously injured, they said. Borough police and EMS from Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck responded. Police were investigating the cause. The sedan and SUV collided.Joseph Dillon for DAILY VOICE

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack PD Raids Apartment, Seizes 461 Heroin Folds, Oxy, Cash, Ex-Con Hackensack PD Raids Apartment, Seizes 461 Heroin Folds, Oxy, Cash, Ex-Con Hackensack PD Raids Apartment, Seizes 461 Heroin Folds, Oxy, Cash, Ex-Con
Hackensack PD Raids Apartment, Seizes 461 Heroin Folds, Oxy, Cash, Ex-Con Hackensack police raided an ex-con’s apartment Friday and seized 461 heroin folds, 82 Oxycodone pills, pot and $1,170 in drug proceeds, authorities said.  Cyrus Maurice Hammond, 27, had been dealing in the neighborhood of mid-rise and garden apartment buildings near Hackensack High School and Carver Park, Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. Records show that the unemployed Hammond already had a history of drug-related arrests and convictions in Hackensack and Englewood. Thanks to the work of Narcotics Detective Nart Marza, police raided the Quail Heights apartment on Prospect Avenue, turned up …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cherry Hill, NJ
Breaking News
Feds Charge South Jersey Air Force Officer With Trafficking Child Porn Feds Charge South Jersey Air Force Officer With Trafficking Child Porn Feds Charge South Jersey Air Force Officer With Trafficking Child Porn
Feds Charge South Jersey Air Force Officer With Trafficking Child Porn An Air Force officer from Camden County had child porn videos and images on his cellphone that he shared with others through a cloud, said federal authorities who took him into custody. Federal agents began investigating Ryan Osinski, 31, of Cherry Hill, following a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that “images of child sexual abuse were shared from an IP address assigned to Osinski’s residence,” Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Rachael A. Honig said Friday. They found “numerous images and videos of child sexual abuse” on his phone, as well as links and fol…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
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Police: Lyndhurst Senior, 78, Victimized By Con Artist Police: Lyndhurst Senior, 78, Victimized By Con Artist Police: Lyndhurst Senior, 78, Victimized By Con Artist
Police: Lyndhurst Senior, 78, Victimized By Con Artist ELDER FRAUD: A Lyndhurst senior was befriended by a drug user whose intentions were no good, authorities said. The thief was caught, however, thanks to a real friend, they said. The 78-year-old victim didn’t know that Melissa Kaups, 39, of Lyndhurst has a drug-related criminal history stretching back more than 20 years, authorities said. The victim suddenly discovered Kaups in her home one day, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. Kaups said she was “checking on her,” he said. The woman later found two sterling silver necklaces missing from her bedroom dresser and told a friend who called p…

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