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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Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Authentic-Looking Handguns Land Motorist In Jail Following Haworth Stop Authentic-Looking Handguns Land Motorist In Jail Following Haworth Stop Authentic-Looking Handguns Land Motorist In Jail Following Haworth Stop
Authentic-Looking Handguns Land Motorist In Jail Following Haworth Stop They look real, they’re illegal and they can actually cause harm -- especially if an officer mistakes one for the real thing -- authorities said after a Haworth police sergeant found a driver from the Bronx carrying two imitation handguns. One is an airsoft imitation Glock handgun that Sgt. Gianluca Ragone said he found in a jacket under the seat after stopping Roberto Velasquez, 21, for traffic and motor vehicle violations on Schraalenburgh Road late Wednesday. The other is a CO2-powered replica of a 1911 Colt .45 found in the trunk, Lt. Justin Fox said. Ragone got Velasquez’s consent to …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bristol, PA
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PA Driver Admits Retaliating For NJ Traffic Ticket With Bogus Liens Against 32 Officials PA Driver Admits Retaliating For NJ Traffic Ticket With Bogus Liens Against 32 Officials PA Driver Admits Retaliating For NJ Traffic Ticket With Bogus Liens Against 32 Officials
PA Driver Admits Retaliating For NJ Traffic Ticket With Bogus Liens Against 32 Officials A Pennsylvania man admitted that he filed bogus liens against 32 current or former public officials in New Jersey after he got a traffic ticket in Morris County. Solomon Lightner, 41, of East Stroudsburg, took a deal, pleading guilty to witness tampering in exchange for what will be probation, rather than go to trial. Lightner also terminated the filings, authorities said. The trouble began when Lightner filed a fraudulent lien against the Denville police officer who wrote him up – and, as a result, was required to testify against him in court, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said.…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
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More Charges Filed Against Accused Teaneck Child Sex Abuser After Domestic Violence Arrest More Charges Filed Against Accused Teaneck Child Sex Abuser After Domestic Violence Arrest More Charges Filed Against Accused Teaneck Child Sex Abuser After Domestic Violence Arrest
More Charges Filed Against Accused Teaneck Child Sex Abuser After Domestic Violence Arrest UPDATE: Prosecutors have filed additional charges of child sex abuse against a former personal fitness trainer from Teaneck, records show. August Samek, 47, has remained jailed since he was accused of domestic violence assault nearly a month ago. Additional allegations of sex with minors that emerged following that arrest have kept him behind bars. Samek originally was arrested in August 2019 by Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives who charged the married Canadian national with sexually abusing a pre-teen.  Samek spent 18 days in the Bergen County Jail before a judge released him. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Vandals Paint Graffiti At Home Of Bergen Sheriff Amid ICE Protests Vandals Paint Graffiti At Home Of Bergen Sheriff Amid ICE Protests Vandals Paint Graffiti At Home Of Bergen Sheriff Amid ICE Protests
Vandals Paint Graffiti At Home Of Bergen Sheriff Amid ICE Protests Support for a group of ICE detainees participating in a hunger strike at the Bergen County Jail got personal when someone spray-painted graffiti at Sheriff Anthony Cureton’s home. “FREE THEM ALL.” was written in block letters below which spatters of red paint ran down a garage door, on an outdoor trash can and along part of the driveway of the sheriff's home in Englewood. The vandals struck sometime after 9 p.m. Tuesday, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said, while seeking the public's help finding those responsible. The attack follows protests the past week at the county jail run by …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Norwood Crash Takes Out Traffic Light For 3rd Time This Year Norwood Crash Takes Out Traffic Light For 3rd Time This Year Norwood Crash Takes Out Traffic Light For 3rd Time This Year
Norwood Crash Takes Out Traffic Light For 3rd Time This Year A Norwood traffic light was toppled Wednesday during a crash for the third time since February. No serious injuries were reported in the crash after a driver ran a red light at the intersection of Tappan Road and Broadway shortly before 2 p.m., responders said. Norwood police and firefighters responded. Detours were in place. ****** ALSO SEE: A motorist who fled Ringwood police was captured after gunshots were fired on Route 287 in Mahwah before dawn Wednesday, responders said. https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/mahwah/police-fire/wild-police-chase-ends-on-route-287-with-shots-fired…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
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NJ Feds: Oxy Doc Admits Trading Drugs For Sex NJ Feds: Oxy Doc Admits Trading Drugs For Sex NJ Feds: Oxy Doc Admits Trading Drugs For Sex
NJ Feds: Oxy Doc Admits Trading Drugs For Sex A Staten Island doctor who saw patients from New Jersey admitted deliberately keeping some of them hooked by trading opioids for sex, federal authorities said. Joseph Santiamo, 65, “knowingly prescribed dangerous quantities of oxycodone – and, even more egregiously, solicited sexual favors from certain patients” in exchange for writing them additional opioid scripts, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said Wednesday. Although he specialized in geriatric care, many of Santiamo's patients were "well under 40 years old" and "dealing with pain and addiction,” Carpenito said. Others didn’t even have…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Wild Police Chase Ends On Route 287 With Shots Fired, Driver In Custody Wild Police Chase Ends On Route 287 With Shots Fired, Driver In Custody Wild Police Chase Ends On Route 287 With Shots Fired, Driver In Custody
Wild Police Chase Ends On Route 287 With Shots Fired, Driver In Custody A motorist who fled Ringwood police was captured after gunshots were fired on Route 287 in Mahwah before dawn Wednesday, responders said. A Ringwood officer apparently came upon the sleeping driver near the Monksville Reservoir boat launch and tapped on the window of the white SUV around 5:30 a.m. The startled motorist put the vehicle in gear and either hit him or his cruiser as she took off down Skyline Drive toward the interstate, responders said. “There was never any indication that the officer was seriously hurt,” one told Daily Voice. The driver got onto northbound Route 287 before s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Sussex Dump Truck Driver Charged With Vehicular Homicide In Route 3 Crash Death Of Girl, 1 Sussex Dump Truck Driver Charged With Vehicular Homicide In Route 3 Crash Death Of Girl, 1 Sussex Dump Truck Driver Charged With Vehicular Homicide In Route 3 Crash Death Of Girl, 1
Sussex Dump Truck Driver Charged With Vehicular Homicide In Route 3 Crash Death Of Girl, 1 The driver of a dump truck involved in a summertime crash that killed a 1-year-old girl on Route 3 in Clifton was arrested and charged with vehicular homicide, authorities announced Tuesday. Chad Hines, 41, of Wantage remained free pending a first appearance Wednesday in Central Judicial Processing Court in Paterson, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Clifton Police Chief Thomas Rinaldi said in a joint announcement. Jamie Yarrish, 25, of Clifton had her infant daughter, Jaelynn, with her when a 2005 Mack Conventional Cab dump truck driven by Hines struck her 2019 Honda Civic o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Crash Sends Jeep Into Paramus Bank Crash Sends Jeep Into Paramus Bank Crash Sends Jeep Into Paramus Bank
Crash Sends Jeep Into Paramus Bank A driver sustained a minor injury after a collision Monday night sent her Jeep into a former Paramus bank building. Both vehicles were towed after the crash on South Fairview Avenue near the Rochelle Park border shortly before 8:30 p.m. Paramus and Rochelle Park police and Rochelle Park firefighters and EMS were among the responders. A building inspector also was summoned to check what used to be the Columbia Bank building. The driver sustained a minor injury in the Paramus crash, responders said.Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE Boyd A. Loving took the photos and contributed to this acc…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Reputed Mob Boss, Trash-Hauling Giant Carmine 'Papa Smurf' Franco Of Ramsey Dies Reputed Mob Boss, Trash-Hauling Giant Carmine 'Papa Smurf' Franco Of Ramsey Dies Reputed Mob Boss, Trash-Hauling Giant Carmine 'Papa Smurf' Franco Of Ramsey Dies
Reputed Mob Boss, Trash-Hauling Giant Carmine 'Papa Smurf' Franco Of Ramsey Dies Carmine “Papa Smurf” Franco, a reputed Genovese Crime Family boss who became a leader and innovator in the trash hauling industry in New Jersey, Rockland and Westchester, died Monday following complications from COVID-19. Franco, 85, who’d recently lived in the Bears Cove townhouse development in Ramsey, made his name in the waste industry over a five-decade career. He designed and built the country’s first materials recovery facility and New Jersey’s first transfer station, among other projects, and led the charge that produced a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against the Rockland town of Clark…

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