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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West Milford, NJ
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Late-Night Blaze Destroys West Milford Home Late-Night Blaze Destroys West Milford Home Late-Night Blaze Destroys West Milford Home
Late-Night Blaze Destroys West Milford Home No one was home when a roaring fire consumed a West Milford home Monday night, displacing its three residents, responders said. The blaze broke out in the 2½-story Cape Cod on Macopin Road, south of Bubbling Springs Park, just after 8:45 p.m., Police Detective Sgt. Eric Darnsteadt said. The fire went to four alarms a little over an hour later and then a fifth 20 or so minutes after that.  All six West Milford fire companies and two units from West Milford First Aid Squad were joined by firefighters from Ringwood, Bloomingdale, Wanaque, Pompton Lakes, Kinnelon, and Highland Lakes, Darnstea…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Troubled Naked Man Runs Out Of Hackensack Cemetery Troubled Naked Man Runs Out Of Hackensack Cemetery Troubled Naked Man Runs Out Of Hackensack Cemetery
Troubled Naked Man Runs Out Of Hackensack Cemetery An emotionally troubled River Edge man ran naked and bleeding from Hackensack Cemetery on Tuesday after apparently trying to dig up a grave there, authorities said. Temperatures had barely topped freezing when a police officer working a traffic detail on Kinderkamack Road outside the Madison Arms apartment complex spotted the 31-year-old man as he emerged from behind the cemetery near the River Edge border and Route 4 shortly before 10:30 a.m., they said. He was bleeding, apparently from digging with his hands in the cold ground, responders said. The man was taken to New Bridge M…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Knife-Wielding Ex-Con Caught After Threatening Pizza Makers, Wayne PD Says Knife-Wielding Ex-Con Caught After Threatening Pizza Makers, Wayne PD Says Knife-Wielding Ex-Con Caught After Threatening Pizza Makers, Wayne PD Says
Knife-Wielding Ex-Con Caught After Threatening Pizza Makers, Wayne PD Says Wayne police captured an ex-con who they said threatened some local pizzeria employees with a knife. Khalil Bakho, 56, had stood in the doorway of Brother Bruno’s Pizza, Deli and Bagels on Hamburg Turnpike, pointed at the workers and made a slicing motion across his throat with the knife, Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. A responding officer searching the area moments later spotted Bakho, of Wayne, slouching in the driver’s seat of a parked vehicle, Daly said. Bakho was arrested after the officer found the knife under his seat, he said. He was sent to the Passaic County Jail to await a firs…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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DWI Motorist From Rockland Drives Wrong Way On Route 208, Oakland PD Says DWI Motorist From Rockland Drives Wrong Way On Route 208, Oakland PD Says DWI Motorist From Rockland Drives Wrong Way On Route 208, Oakland PD Says
DWI Motorist From Rockland Drives Wrong Way On Route 208, Oakland PD Says A Rockland woman was drunk when she drove the wrong way on Route 208, police in Oakland said. Marie Heller, 61, of Nanuet had driven her 2003 Honda Pilot north in the southbound lanes shortly after 1:30 a.m. Monday, Lt. Christian Eldridge said.  Somehow, it didn't hit anything. Officer Michael Griffin, responding to a call from the Oakland First Aid Squad, stopped Heller after she tried getting onto Route 287, he said. Police processed Heller at headquarters, temporarily impounded her car and released her to a responsible adult pending a Municipal Court hearing under John's Law, Eldr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
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Manhunt Ends: Immigration Detainee Who Escaped From Essex Jail Captured, ICE Says Manhunt Ends: Immigration Detainee Who Escaped From Essex Jail Captured, ICE Says Manhunt Ends: Immigration Detainee Who Escaped From Essex Jail Captured, ICE Says
Manhunt Ends: Immigration Detainee Who Escaped From Essex Jail Captured, ICE Says A Guatemalan national who escaped from the jail in Essex County while awaiting a deportation hearing is back in federal custody, authorities said. ICE agents captured Luis Cordon-Guzman, 31, on Saturday, ending an extensive manhunt involving several law enforcement agencies, Newark ICE-ERO Field Officer Director John Tsoukaris announced. “As a result of the investigatory efforts of the dedicated men and women of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Newark Field Office, this criminal alien is back behind bars," Tsoukaris said Monday night. “Our officers worked day and night over this past …

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
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Roaring Fire Consumes West Milford Home Roaring Fire Consumes West Milford Home Roaring Fire Consumes West Milford Home
Roaring Fire Consumes West Milford Home A roaring fire consumed a West Milford home Monday night. The speed and intensity of the blaze made an initial search of the Macopin Road house impossible, responders said, adding that firefighters later learned that no one was home. Mutual aid companies from Highland Lakes, Kinnelon, Pompton Lakes, Ringwood, Upper Greenwood Lake and elsewhere assisted their West Milford colleagues, who requested tankers after the blaze broke out in the 2½-story Cape Cod, south of Bubbling Springs Park, just after 8:45 p.m. The fire went to four alarms a little over an hour later and then a fifth 20 or so…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Highland Lakes-Vernon, NJ
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COVID-19: Feds Nab Fleeing Sussex Man Accused Of Pocketing $5.6M Small Biz Pandemic Loan COVID-19: Feds Nab Fleeing Sussex Man Accused Of Pocketing $5.6M Small Biz Pandemic Loan COVID-19: Feds Nab Fleeing Sussex Man Accused Of Pocketing $5.6M Small Biz Pandemic Loan
Covid-19: Feds Nab Fleeing Sussex Man Accused Of Pocketing $5.6M Small Biz Pandemic Loan A Sussex County man who collected $5.6 million in federal COVID-19 pandemic loans that he wasn't entitled to was about to board a flight to Pakistan when federal agents arrested him, authorities said. Azhar Sarwar Rana, 30, of Newton, took the money -- designed to keep struggling small businesses afloat during the pandemic – and invested millions in the stock market, made a payment to a luxury car dealership and sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to accounts in Pakistan, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Rana submitted an application for a stimulus loan under the federal Paycheck Prote…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Jersey Shore 'Patient Broker' Gets 13 Months For Bribing Drug Users Into Out-Of-State Rehab Jersey Shore 'Patient Broker' Gets 13 Months For Bribing Drug Users Into Out-Of-State Rehab Jersey Shore 'Patient Broker' Gets 13 Months For Bribing Drug Users Into Out-Of-State Rehab
Jersey Shore 'Patient Broker' Gets 13 Months For Bribing Drug Users Into Out-Of-State Rehab A Jersey Shore man was sentenced today to 13 months in federal prison for bribing drug addicts to enroll in rehab centers as far away as California in order to collect kickbacks for himself. Peter J. Costas, 27, of Red Bank, took a deal from the government rather than go to trial, pleading guilty via teleconference with a federal judge in Newark this past May to conspiring to commit health care fraud in exchange for the sentence. He’ll have to serve just about all of his sentence because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. Costas paid some addicts several thousand dollars to us…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Paterson PD: Detectives Nab Dealing Duo, Seize 375 Crack Vials, 100 Heroin Folds Paterson PD: Detectives Nab Dealing Duo, Seize 375 Crack Vials, 100 Heroin Folds Paterson PD: Detectives Nab Dealing Duo, Seize 375 Crack Vials, 100 Heroin Folds
Paterson PD: Detectives Nab Dealing Duo, Seize 375 Crack Vials, 100 Heroin Folds Paterson detectives nabbed two city drug dealers who were slinging heroin and crack after they watched several deals go down, authorities said. Responding to complaints, investigators set up surveillance at a notorious open-air drug market on Auburn Street. In a span of less than 90 minutes, five different buyers came up – including one on a bicycle – and bought drugs from Kahiem Lowe, 29, and Jesus Rolan, 37, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Uniformed units picked off the buyers after they left before detectives went into a deserted Auburn Street home and found Lowe and Rolan i…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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NJSP: CT Man Points Gun At Troopers During Route 287 Chase, Four Firearms Recovered NJSP: CT Man Points Gun At Troopers During Route 287 Chase, Four Firearms Recovered NJSP: CT Man Points Gun At Troopers During Route 287 Chase, Four Firearms Recovered
Njsp: CT Man Points Gun At Troopers During Route 287 Chase, Four Firearms Recovered A Connecticut passenger pointed a handgun at a New Jersey State Police trooper during a pursuit on Route 287, authorities said Monday. The pursuit, which began in Boonton, ended in a Mahwah park with the gunman and driver in custody and four weapons seized, NJSP Trooper Charles Marchan said. A trooper tried to stop the Jeep Cherokee for a traffic violation on northbound Route 287 in Boonton Township shortly after 11 a.m. Sunday, Marchan said. The driver, identified as ex-con Theron Brown, 22, of Bridgeport, CT, hit the gas instead and sped off, he said. At one point during the subsequent …

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