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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Hackensack, NJ
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YouTube Channels Livestream Fake Election Results YouTube Channels Livestream Fake Election Results YouTube Channels Livestream Fake Election Results
YouTube Channels Livestream Fake Election Results It was bound to happen: Several YouTube channels broadcast fake presidential election results hours before any state polls closed on Tuesday. At one point, eight of the top 20 videos found under "LIVE 2020 Presidential Election Results" in YouTube search displayed spammed graphics with bogus figures, according to Insider. Similarly, the top four search results for "Presidential Election Results" led to streams with incorrect information, while a search for “Election Results” produced three of the same streams. Tens of thousands of viewers, at minimum, likely watched, experts said. One cha…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Gold's Gym In Paramus Closes For Good Gold's Gym In Paramus Closes For Good Gold's Gym In Paramus Closes For Good
Gold's Gym In Paramus Closes For Good Compact discs officially replaced cassette tapes as the preferred medium of recorded music when Mike Epstein and Art Carril opened Gold’s Gym in Paramus. The partners endured plenty of ups and downs over the past 28 years – mostly ups – and thought they just might survive the COVID crisis when they reopened after a 6-month shutdown. After two months, though, they’ve been unable to continue. With heavy hearts, Mike and Art closed their gym for good Tuesday night -- 8 p.m., to be precise. “It was great to be able to open back up and help people again,” they wrote in a joint post, “but at t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Pregnant Paterson Woman ID'd Accused Killer Before She Died, Authorities Say Pregnant Paterson Woman ID'd Accused Killer Before She Died, Authorities Say Pregnant Paterson Woman ID'd Accused Killer Before She Died, Authorities Say
Pregnant Paterson Woman ID'd Accused Killer Before She Died, Authorities Say UPDATE: An ex-con whom a pregnant Paterson woman identified as her killer shortly before she died was convicted of murder following a jury trial. Donqua “Quay” Thomas, 32, faces a minimum of 30 years in state prison without parole, with the possibility of a lifetime term, when he is sentenced on Sept. 22. The woman he killed, Remy Lee, 31, was two weeks away from delivering their newborn son when Thomas shot her four times in broad daylight in a parking lot at the city’s Brooks-Sloate Terrace co-ops on Oct. 29, 2020, jurors in Paterson found. Thomas had been sitting in a car, waiting …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Egg Harbor Township, NJ
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Atlantic City Man Gets 6½ Years In Fed Pen For $2.5 Million Tax Fraud Atlantic City Man Gets 6½ Years In Fed Pen For $2.5 Million Tax Fraud Atlantic City Man Gets 6½ Years In Fed Pen For $2.5 Million Tax Fraud
Atlantic City Man Gets 6½ Years In Fed Pen For $2.5 Million Tax Fraud An Atlantic City man was sentenced to 6½ years in federal prison for running a $2.5 million “mortgage recovery” tax scam. Kenneth Crawford Jr. will have to serve just about all of the sentence because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. The judge also ordered him to serve three years of supervised release and pay $1,393,511 in restitution to the United States. Crawford led a ring that obtained refunds from the IRS for clients who were facing foreclosure or behind on their mortgage payments and weren’t entitled to them, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Crawford and his accom…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Paterson Police Seize 563 Heroin Folds, 4 Pounds Of Pot, Seven Suspects In Flurry Of Arrests Paterson Police Seize 563 Heroin Folds, 4 Pounds Of Pot, Seven Suspects In Flurry Of Arrests Paterson Police Seize 563 Heroin Folds, 4 Pounds Of Pot, Seven Suspects In Flurry Of Arrests
Paterson Police Seize 563 Heroin Folds, 4 Pounds Of Pot, Seven Suspects In Flurry Of Arrests Paterson police seized 563 heroin folds and more than four pounds of pot while arresting seven men during a series of quick strikes in the city. "Operation Clean Sweep" targeted drug dealers and buyers alike, "one bag, jar and block at a time," Police Director Jerry Speziale said. It began with the arrests of three men carrying a combined 380 heroin folds at the corner of Broadway and Summer Street around 10:30 a.m. Monday, he said. Jamar Ray, 19, and Khayree DrakeFord, 22, both of Paterson had the bulk of heroin between them, Speziale said. A half-hour later, police seized 183 heroin fol…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
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Ex-Jersey City School Board Prez, Jersey Shore Lawyer Charged In $113,000 Embezzlement Schemes Ex-Jersey City School Board Prez, Jersey Shore Lawyer Charged In $113,000 Embezzlement Schemes Ex-Jersey City School Board Prez, Jersey Shore Lawyer Charged In $113,000 Embezzlement Schemes
Ex-Jersey City School Board Prez, Jersey Shore Lawyer Charged In $113,000 Embezzlement Schemes A former Jersey City school board president pulled off a series of embezzlement schemes that netted more than $110,000 with the help of a Jersey Shore attorney, federal authorities said. Sudhan M. Thomas, 45, had previously been the acting executive director of the Jersey City Employment and Training Program (JCETP), which “received substantial amounts of funding from federal grants from the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Thomas -- known as "Tommy" -- paid personal debts and expenses with $45,000 that …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Passaic Driver, 66, Trapped After High Winds Topple Tree Passaic Driver, 66, Trapped After High Winds Topple Tree Passaic Driver, 66, Trapped After High Winds Topple Tree
Passaic Driver, 66, Trapped After High Winds Topple Tree A Passaic driver was hospitalized after what became an extended operation after Monday's high winds knocked a huge tree onto his car. The 66-year-old wagon driver was taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center after the mishap at Passaic Avenue and Boulevard shortly after 10 a.m. Electric saws, a wood chipper and other equipment were summoned as firefighters extricated him. Passaic Avenue was closed between Boulevard and Lafayette Avenue throughout the job. Crushed.Rashon Matto

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Ex-AC Basketball Star Whose Paterson Heroin Killed 48 Users Gets 11 Years In Fed Pen Ex-AC Basketball Star Whose Paterson Heroin Killed 48 Users Gets 11 Years In Fed Pen Ex-AC Basketball Star Whose Paterson Heroin Killed 48 Users Gets 11 Years In Fed Pen
Ex-AC Basketball Star Whose Paterson Heroin Killed 48 Users Gets 11 Years In Fed Pen A former basketball star who led a Paterson-to-Atlantic-City drug ring that peddled heroin connected to 48 heroin overdose deaths and 84 other ODs was sentenced Monday to 135 months in federal prison. Khalif Toombs, 31, of Egg Harbor Township previously admitted directing an operation that regularly brought heroin by the kilo from Paterson into Atlantic City. FBI agents used wiretaps, video surveillance, confidential informants and more to infiltrate the organization, which sold heroin in bags stamped with, among other names, “AK-47,” “Apple,” “Fortnite,” “Rolex,” “Frank Lucas,” “Bentley,” …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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South Jersey Man Snared By FBI Admits Producing Videos Of Sex With Pre-Teen Boy South Jersey Man Snared By FBI Admits Producing Videos Of Sex With Pre-Teen Boy South Jersey Man Snared By FBI Admits Producing Videos Of Sex With Pre-Teen Boy
South Jersey Man Snared By FBI Admits Producing Videos Of Sex With Pre-Teen Boy A South Jersey man busted by the FBI admitted Monday that he made and distributed videos and other images of sex with an underage boy. Andrew Nicholas, 24, of Williamstown, was caught after he sent some of the images to an undercover federal agent in a Kik Messenger group in February 2019, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. The photos and videos depict explicit sex involving the boy and a man, with private parts exposed, that apparently were made at his home, according to an FBI complaint on file in federal court in Camden. Nicholas, who accepted a deal rather than go to trial, has and wi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Apparent Medical Episode Precedes Crash Into Glen Rock Home Apparent Medical Episode Precedes Crash Into Glen Rock Home Apparent Medical Episode Precedes Crash Into Glen Rock Home
Apparent Medical Episode Precedes Crash Into Glen Rock Home The results of a medical exam will determine whether summonses are in store for a Glen Rock driver whose car barreled across a sidewalk and lawn and into another borough resident’s house, authorities said. The crash occurred on Lincoln Avenue, directly across from Van Winkle Avenue, after the 62-year-old driver appeared to suffer some type of medical emergency just after 11 a.m. Sunday, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. The motorist, who seemed “pretty out of it,” drove off the property and continued a short distance onto Van Winkle Avenue, Ackermann said. Police recovered the vehicle befo…

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