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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Lyndhurst, NJ
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BUSTED: Lyndhurst PD Nabs Ex-Con Wanted In Multi-Thousand-Dollar Clifton Thefts BUSTED: Lyndhurst PD Nabs Ex-Con Wanted In Multi-Thousand-Dollar Clifton Thefts BUSTED: Lyndhurst PD Nabs Ex-Con Wanted In Multi-Thousand-Dollar Clifton Thefts
Busted: Lyndhurst PD Nabs Ex-Con Wanted In Multi-Thousand-Dollar Clifton Thefts GOTCHA! A Bloomfield ex-con wanted for shoplifting thousands of dollars worth of merchandise from a Clifton supermarket was captured by Lyndhurst police as he tried to swipe nearly $450 worth of soap in their town, authorities said. A team of Lyndhurst detectives and uniformed officers converged on the Stop & Shop after a security officer at the Lewandowski Street supermarket recognized Quaire Wilson, 31, and called them, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. Wilson’s picture had been sent to area Stop & Shop stores following a pair of thefts of more than $1,000 each from a Clifton loc…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Fair Lawn PD: Tailgating DWI Driver Caught After 100MPH Chase, Crash At 208/287 Ramp Fair Lawn PD: Tailgating DWI Driver Caught After 100MPH Chase, Crash At 208/287 Ramp Fair Lawn PD: Tailgating DWI Driver Caught After 100MPH Chase, Crash At 208/287 Ramp
Fair Lawn PD: Tailgating DWI Driver Caught After 100MPH Chase, Crash At 208/287 Ramp A drunk Passaic County driver led police on a late-night chase up Route 208 at speeds that reached 100 miles an hour before crashing his pickup truck at the on-ramp to Route 287 in Franklin Lakes, authorities said. Sean Fachner, 39, of Hewitt started out by speeding up behind Fair Lawn Police Officer Brad Pindyck’s marked patrol cruiser on northbound Route 208 shortly before midnight Wednesday, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Pindyck pulled over to avoid a possible collision, then tried to stop Fachner's 2019 Chevy Silverado truck, he said. Fachner hit the gas, then pretended to stop on the shoul…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Tragedy Avoided When Ridgewood Police Convince Troubled Man To Drop Knife Tragedy Avoided When Ridgewood Police Convince Troubled Man To Drop Knife Tragedy Avoided When Ridgewood Police Convince Troubled Man To Drop Knife
Tragedy Avoided When Ridgewood Police Convince Troubled Man To Drop Knife HEROES: A troubled Ridgewood man pulled a knife Thursday morning on village police, who avoided a possible standoff when they convinced him to drop it, authorities said. Officers responding to a report of a man having a mental health emergency at a Heights Road garden apartment complex found him “very agitated,” Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke said. Resisting their initial suggestions that he go to a hospital, the 40-year-old resident went to a bedroom, returned with a knife and threatened to harm himself and them, Lutchke said. The officers – using extensive training in de-escalation tech…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Mayors Rejected Bribe Attempts By Fired Bergen Sheriff's Department Head, Report Says Mayors Rejected Bribe Attempts By Fired Bergen Sheriff's Department Head, Report Says Mayors Rejected Bribe Attempts By Fired Bergen Sheriff's Department Head, Report Says
Mayors Rejected Bribe Attempts By Fired Bergen Sheriff's Department Head, Report Says UPDATE: A department head who was fired from the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office picked the wrong guys when he tried bribing one former and one current North Jersey mayor, according to a published report. Omid Bayati, 39, was charged with trying to bribe a senior official at the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission to advance his career after taking a job there, state authorities announced Wednesday. Former Fair Lawn Mayor John Cosgrove, who was appointed to the commission in 2019, later told New Jersey Globe that he was the official. SEE: Official wears wire after sewerage commissioners…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Marlton-Evesham, NJ
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Feds: NJ Man Who Sent Links To Investigator For $20 Had 22,000 Child Sex Abuse Images Feds: NJ Man Who Sent Links To Investigator For $20 Had 22,000 Child Sex Abuse Images Feds: NJ Man Who Sent Links To Investigator For $20 Had 22,000 Child Sex Abuse Images
Feds: NJ Man Who Sent Links To Investigator For $20 Had 22,000 Child Sex Abuse Images For just $20, a South Jersey man sent an undercover investigator links to websites that contained images of child sexual abuse, but that was nothing compared to what later turned up, federal authorities said. Homeland Security agents who raided the Willingboro home of Al-Fahim Medina, 22, found more than 22,000 illegal images, including those of “prepubescent children being sexually abused,” Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. It all began last January, Honig said, when the undercover agent found coded online language offering the sale of child pornography on Twitter. The Twitter…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
US Top Cop: 'A Lot' More Charges Coming Against Capitol Rioters, No Resources Spared US Top Cop: 'A Lot' More Charges Coming Against Capitol Rioters, No Resources Spared US Top Cop: 'A Lot' More Charges Coming Against Capitol Rioters, No Resources Spared
US Top Cop: 'A Lot' More Charges Coming Against Capitol Rioters, No Resources Spared Federal charges filed against 70 or so people identified as participating in the seizing of the U.S. Capitol building by a violent mob last week apparently are only the beginning, the country's top law enforcement official warned. The FBI has gathered more than 100,000 digital tips from the public and has more than 170 additional investigations going, Acting Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen said Wednesday. “There is a lot more to come,” Rosen warned. At the same time, the attorney general had a message for anyone considering their own form of criminal disobedience (click on video above to…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Franklin Township, NJ
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Feds: NJ Job Recruiter Pays Fine, Back Pay For Not Referring Eligible Non-US Citizens Feds: NJ Job Recruiter Pays Fine, Back Pay For Not Referring Eligible Non-US Citizens Feds: NJ Job Recruiter Pays Fine, Back Pay For Not Referring Eligible Non-US Citizens
Feds: NJ Job Recruiter Pays Fine, Back Pay For Not Referring Eligible Non-US Citizens A Somerset County IT staffing agency agreed to pay a fine to the government and back pay to a worker to settle claims that it discriminated against work-authorized non-U.S. citizens, federal authorities said Wednesday. Recruiters at Collabera, Inc., of Basking Ridge deliberately “refused to pass on to clients non-U.S. citizens who held permanent work authorization unless they could provide an unexpired immigration document,” the U.S. Department of Justice said in a release. “On at least 39 occasions, Collabera required non-U.S. citizens to present specific documentation to prove their work …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Passaic Sheriff: Paterson Man, 19, Caught Trafficking Child Porn Passaic Sheriff: Paterson Man, 19, Caught Trafficking Child Porn Passaic Sheriff: Paterson Man, 19, Caught Trafficking Child Porn
Passaic Sheriff: Paterson Man, 19, Caught Trafficking Child Porn A Paterson man was caught trafficking child porn, authorities said Wednesday. Douglas Mauricio Rivera-Alvarenga, 19, was arrested by members Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik’s Internet Crime Against Children Task Force following an investigation into “several video files of child sexual abuse that were uploaded to an online cloud service,” the sheriff said. Detectives also seized several computer devices that will be examined for more potential evidence, he said. Rivera-Alvarenga was sent to the Passaic County Jail to await a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hamilton Township, NJ
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How Easy Was It For FBI To Find NJ Man Who Had Ashli Babbitt’s Blood On His Hands? How Easy Was It For FBI To Find NJ Man Who Had Ashli Babbitt’s Blood On His Hands? How Easy Was It For FBI To Find NJ Man Who Had Ashli Babbitt’s Blood On His Hands?
How Easy Was It For FBI To Find NJ Man Who Had Ashli Babbitt’s Blood On His Hands? He literally had Ashli Babbitt’s blood on his hands. But that wasn’t what made it simple for the FBI to find and arrest Mercer County’s Thomas Baranyi for his role in last week’s attack on the U.S. Capitol building. Baranyi, a 28-year-old Peace Corps volunteer from Ewing who ended up in a viral video showing a reporter his bloody hand, was charged by the FBI Tuesday with disorderly conduct and being in a restricted building. Following a video-conferenced hearing in Newark, U.S. District Judge Cathy Waldor released the former wannabe U.S. Marine on a $100,000 unsecured bond and prohibited hi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
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Ex-Con Admits Cutting Female Postal Carrier During Carjacking That Led To Newark Chase, Crash Ex-Con Admits Cutting Female Postal Carrier During Carjacking That Led To Newark Chase, Crash Ex-Con Admits Cutting Female Postal Carrier During Carjacking That Led To Newark Chase, Crash
Ex-Con Admits Cutting Female Postal Carrier During Carjacking That Led To Newark Chase, Crash An ex-con told a federal judge in Newark on Wednesday that he assaulted a postal carrier with a box cutter while carjacking her SUV. The U.S. Postal Service carrier was taking a break behind the wheel of Dodge Durango on June 6 when Wallace Johnson, 32, of Newark, walked up and held the knife to her throat, cutting her skin, in the 80s block of Cedar Avenue, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. Johnson “demanded that the postal employee get out of the car and leave everything inside,” Honig said. “After the postal employee got out of the car, Johnson got [in] and drove away.” City p…

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