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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Englewood, NJ
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Englewood Police Search For Gunman In Second Apartment Complex Shooting In Less Than 24 Hours Englewood Police Search For Gunman In Second Apartment Complex Shooting In Less Than 24 Hours Englewood Police Search For Gunman In Second Apartment Complex Shooting In Less Than 24 Hours
Englewood Police Search For Gunman In Second Apartment Complex Shooting In Less Than 24 Hours SEE ANYTHING? Englewood police were searching for a shooter who wounded a city man Thursday night at the same apartment complex where someone else was shot the night before.  The 28-year-old victim was taken by private vehicle to an area hospital with a gunshot wound to the leg from the 5:45 p.m. shooting at the Park View Terrace Apartments in the area of Third and Fourth streets, Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said. His injury wasn't considered life-threatening, the deputy chief said. The night before, police chased down a city man who they said shot a rival he was having an on…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Hackensack Driver Who Tried Fleeing After Hitting Paramus Shopper, Cashier Charged With Assault Hackensack Driver Who Tried Fleeing After Hitting Paramus Shopper, Cashier Charged With Assault Hackensack Driver Who Tried Fleeing After Hitting Paramus Shopper, Cashier Charged With Assault
Hackensack Driver Who Tried Fleeing After Hitting Paramus Shopper, Cashier Charged With Assault A Hackensack driver who tried to flee after his car struck a 65-year-old shopper and a cashier helping her load groceries into her car at the Paramus ShopRite was charged with two counts of assault by auto, authorities said. Gary Mongelli, 68, "reported a mechanical failure" of his 2015 Nissan Versa after he put it into reverse in the lot of the eastbound Route 4 supermarket and struck the Hackensack shopper and 33-year-old female cashier following the afternoon crash last Saturday, police said at the time. However, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Friday that Mongelli put the car…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Wayne Driver, 22, Charged With Vehicular Homicide In Death Of Paterson Motorist Wayne Driver, 22, Charged With Vehicular Homicide In Death Of Paterson Motorist Wayne Driver, 22, Charged With Vehicular Homicide In Death Of Paterson Motorist
Wayne Driver, 22, Charged With Vehicular Homicide In Death Of Paterson Motorist A 22-year-old Wayne man was arrested this week and charged with death by auto for a summer crash that killed a Paterson man. Why Asante Cugliari was charged in the Aug. 9 death of Gustavo Marte, 58, wasn’t explained in a brief statement released by Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora following a court appearance Thursday in Paterson. Their statement only said that Cugliari was arrested Wednesday and charged with death by auto and vehicular homicide “based on the results of [an] investigation” by the prosecutor’s office and city police. Respond…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Prosecutor: Fleeing Suspect Breaks Into Franklin Lakes Home, Assaults Terrified Woman Prosecutor: Fleeing Suspect Breaks Into Franklin Lakes Home, Assaults Terrified Woman Prosecutor: Fleeing Suspect Breaks Into Franklin Lakes Home, Assaults Terrified Woman
Prosecutor: Fleeing Suspect Breaks Into Franklin Lakes Home, Assaults Terrified Woman A suspect fleeing police broke into a Franklin Lakes woman’s home, knocked her down and tried to hide in her chimney before he was captured, authorities said. Then he inexplicably smiled for his mugshot. Justin M. Gonzalez, 24, hopped out of a parked car and took off on foot as Oakland police responded to a suspicious person’s report on Brook Hollow Road before dawn last Friday Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Gonzalez, of the Hudson Valley, NY town of Livingston Manor, got away, but not for long, the prosecutor said. Several hours later, Franklin Lakes and Oakland police respo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lakewood, NJ
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Feds: Second Reputed Mob Associate Admits Role In Jersey Shore Drug Operation Feds: Second Reputed Mob Associate Admits Role In Jersey Shore Drug Operation Feds: Second Reputed Mob Associate Admits Role In Jersey Shore Drug Operation
Feds: Second Reputed Mob Associate Admits Role In Jersey Shore Drug Operation A Toms River man on Thursday became the second reputed associate of the DeCavalcante crime family to take a plea deal from the government in connection with a Jersey Shore drug bust. Detectives from the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office discovered several ounces of coke during a warranted search of the home of Jason Vella, 39, in September 2019, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Also arrested in the takedown was Mario Galli III, 28, also of Toms River, who was sentenced in July to more than six plea-bargained years in federal prison for a pound of cocaine and a 9mm FEG Model PGK-9HP gun lo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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KILLER HEROIN: Paterson Mills Raided, Gang Members Busted, 21,000 Heroin Folds, $110G Seized KILLER HEROIN: Paterson Mills Raided, Gang Members Busted, 21,000 Heroin Folds, $110G Seized KILLER HEROIN: Paterson Mills Raided, Gang Members Busted, 21,000 Heroin Folds, $110G Seized
Killer Heroin: Paterson Mills Raided, Gang Members Busted, 21,000 Heroin Folds, $110G Seized A dozen members of a violent gang that put 50,000 doses of lethal heroin and over two pounds of crack a week on the streets of Paterson were arrested by city and state authorities in a major takedown, authorities said Thursday. The leaders, members and associates of the "42-50" subset were slinging heroin connected to eight overdose deaths and 14 nonfatal ODs at open-air drug markets where shootings were common before last week’s roundup, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Among them was accused ringleader Marvin Goodman, 29, who was wounded in a drive-by shooting at the corner o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
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Prosecutor: Garfield Man Pulls Gun On SWAT Team During Drug Raid Prosecutor: Garfield Man Pulls Gun On SWAT Team During Drug Raid Prosecutor: Garfield Man Pulls Gun On SWAT Team During Drug Raid
Prosecutor: Garfield Man Pulls Gun On SWAT Team During Drug Raid A tragedy was averted when a Garfield man pulled a gun on a Bergen County Regional SWAT team member during a drug raid and was quickly disarmed, authorities said. Detectives obtained a warrant to search the longtime Farnham Avenue home of Mario Ardizzone, a 44-year-old unemployed mason, after identifying him as a drug dealer, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Thursday. Adrizzone pulled a .45-caliber handgun loaded with hollow-point ammo and pointed it at a SWAT team member who’d accompanied the prosecutor’s detectives and Garfield police during Wednesday's, Musella said. He was "d…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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PD: Fleeing Englewood Gunman Captured After Shooting Rival In Back PD: Fleeing Englewood Gunman Captured After Shooting Rival In Back PD: Fleeing Englewood Gunman Captured After Shooting Rival In Back
PD: Fleeing Englewood Gunman Captured After Shooting Rival In Back An Englewood gunman shot another city man he'd been having an ongoing issue with, said authorities who captured him after a brief chase Wednesday. Then he smiled for his mugshot. Javante Nunnally, 26, was being held Thursday in the Bergen County Jail, charged with attempted murder, weapons offenses and resisting arrest, among other counts. The 34-year-old victim was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center in critical condition after he was shot in the back around 9 p.m. Wednesday at Park View Terrace and Third Street, Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said. Detectives who wer…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
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Prosecutor: Detectives Nab Garfield Business Owner, Passaic Pal With 9 Pounds Of Coke, $89,000 Prosecutor: Detectives Nab Garfield Business Owner, Passaic Pal With 9 Pounds Of Coke, $89,000 Prosecutor: Detectives Nab Garfield Business Owner, Passaic Pal With 9 Pounds Of Coke, $89,000
Prosecutor: Detectives Nab Garfield Business Owner, Passaic Pal With 9 Pounds Of Coke, $89,000 Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives seized the owner of a Garfield appliance business and an unemployed Passaic man after finding nearly nine pounds of cocaine and $89,000 in suspected proceeds following a traffic stop in Elmwood Park. Alexon J. Collado, 32, of Passaic tried to hide a backpack stuffed with $30,000 in drug money when detectives stopped the vehicle driven by Enoc Suarez-Pimentel, 34, Prosecutor Mark Musella said Thursday Bergen County Sheriff’s K-9 Roy alerted the Narcotic Task Force members to drugs in the vehicle, producing a search that turned up three kilos of cocaine i…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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Passaic County Man Accused Of Pulling Gun On Bergenfield Business Owner Passaic County Man Accused Of Pulling Gun On Bergenfield Business Owner Passaic County Man Accused Of Pulling Gun On Bergenfield Business Owner
Passaic County Man Accused Of Pulling Gun On Bergenfield Business Owner A Passaic County man pulled a gun on a Bergenfield business owner during a dispute, authorities charged. Bergenfield police issued an arrest warrant for Noe Rodriguez, 42, of Bloomingdale following the Oct. 3 incident, Detective Lt. William Duran said. Bloomingdale police picked up Rodriguez on Tuesday and turned him over to their Bergenfield colleagues. Rodriguez remained held Wednesday in the Bergen County Jail pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack on simple assault and weapons charges.

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