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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Hamilton Township, NJ
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Masked NJ Barbershop Robber Who Held Gun To Boy's Head Takes Plea Masked NJ Barbershop Robber Who Held Gun To Boy's Head Takes Plea Masked NJ Barbershop Robber Who Held Gun To Boy's Head Takes Plea
Masked NJ Barbershop Robber Who Held Gun To Boy's Head Takes Plea A convicted armed robber had been out of state prison barely a month when he grabbed a boy at a Camden barbershop last year, put a gun to his head and forced employees and customers to empty cash and belongings into a bag. Benjamin Daye, 34, pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges in exchange for what he hopes will be leniency at sentencing, admitting that he grabbed the child in a headlock, forced everyone to the floor and fled with $754 and a customer’s wallet. Daye was wearing a mask when he entered the Federal Street shop in the middle of the afternoon on Nov. 23, 2019, put the gun …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Wayne PD: 1,280 Heroin Folds Found On PA Man Who Hid On Floor During Highway Stop Wayne PD: 1,280 Heroin Folds Found On PA Man Who Hid On Floor During Highway Stop Wayne PD: 1,280 Heroin Folds Found On PA Man Who Hid On Floor During Highway Stop
Wayne PD: 1,280 Heroin Folds Found On PA Man Who Hid On Floor During Highway Stop Wayne police nabbed a Pennsylvania man with 1,280 heroin folds after they found him hiding on the floor of the back seat of a vehicle stopped following a suspicious set of circumstances, authorities said. It began when a Mountain View merchant alerted officers to a man carrying a crowbar in the parking lot of his business. Questioned by police, the man said he’d driven there from the Poconos to help a friend with his disabled vehicle, Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. The vehicle, parked nearby, clearly had been damaged in a crash, Daly said. The man said he couldn’t find his friend – “Tony…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
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NJ: Couple Covered Up Hiring Criminals, Drug Addicts As Drivers For Unsafe School Buses NJ: Couple Covered Up Hiring Criminals, Drug Addicts As Drivers For Unsafe School Buses NJ: Couple Covered Up Hiring Criminals, Drug Addicts As Drivers For Unsafe School Buses
NJ: Couple Covered Up Hiring Criminals, Drug Addicts As Drivers For Unsafe School Buses The owners of an Essex County-based school bus company whose driver OD'd and crashed with 12 special-needs kids on board hired criminals and drug addicts, put unsafe vehicles on the road and tried to cover it all up, state authorities charged. Ahmed Mahgoub, 62, and his wife, Faiza Ibrahim, 47, both of East Hanover, knowingly hired drivers for F&A Transportation who “did not hold valid commercial driver’s licenses or required license endorsements, as well as drivers who had criminal histories or were using illegal drugs,” Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. The couple doctored vehic…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Paterson Detectives Chase Down Gunmen After Interrupting Attempted Gas Station Robbery Paterson Detectives Chase Down Gunmen After Interrupting Attempted Gas Station Robbery Paterson Detectives Chase Down Gunmen After Interrupting Attempted Gas Station Robbery
Paterson Detectives Chase Down Gunmen After Interrupting Attempted Gas Station Robbery Paterson detectives nabbed two gunmen who looked like they were about to rob a city gas station, authorities said. Detectives Yamil Pimienta and Mohammad Bashir spotted four suspect acting suspiciously around a vehicle stopped near the Power Gas station on 21st Avenue at Madison Street shortly before 10 p.m. Wednesday, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. One of them was wearing a full face mask, he said. As the detectives approached, the vehicle drove off with two occupants while two other men tried to hide behind a parked car, Speziale said. Both then took off on foot down Madison Stree…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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South Hackensack PD: Officer Nabs 3 With Drug Assortment In Middle Of Route 46 South Hackensack PD: Officer Nabs 3 With Drug Assortment In Middle Of Route 46 South Hackensack PD: Officer Nabs 3 With Drug Assortment In Middle Of Route 46
South Hackensack PD: Officer Nabs 3 With Drug Assortment In Middle Of Route 46 A South Hackensack police officer nabbed three people carrying an assortment of drugs after he found them stopped in a car in the fast lane outside a Route 46 motel, authorities said. Officer Kyle Skelley rolled up on a Nissan sedan outside the Congress Inn on the highway’s eastbound side at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday, Capt. Robert Chinchar said. He quickly discovered active warrants for two of the occupants, Susan A. Smith, 36, and Dwayne L. Sweet, 39, both unemployed, of Paterson, Chinchar said. A consent search of the vehicle turned up heroin, crystal meth, Ecstasy, illegally obtained Xanax pill…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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ICE Puts Hold On Landscaper Jailed For Sexually Assaulting Cliffside Park Pre-Teen ICE Puts Hold On Landscaper Jailed For Sexually Assaulting Cliffside Park Pre-Teen ICE Puts Hold On Landscaper Jailed For Sexually Assaulting Cliffside Park Pre-Teen
ICE Puts Hold On Landscaper Jailed For Sexually Assaulting Cliffside Park Pre-Teen ICE has issued a detainer on a Guatemalan national charged with the statutory rape of a Cliffside Park pre-teen. Fairview police received the tip that led to the arrest two weeks ago of Ervin Figueroa-Osuna, a 20-year-old landscaper who lives in the Cumberland County town of Bridgeton, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Detectives from Musella’s Special Victims Unit learned that Figueroa-Osuna “engaged in multiple acts of sexual penetration with the child over the course of four weeks,” the prosecutor said. Anyone under the age of 16 is deemed incapable of consenting to sex, under…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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BUSTED! Feds Charge NJ Postal Carrier With Dumping Election Ballots BUSTED! Feds Charge NJ Postal Carrier With Dumping Election Ballots BUSTED! Feds Charge NJ Postal Carrier With Dumping Election Ballots
Busted! Feds Charge NJ Postal Carrier With Dumping Election Ballots Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested a postal carrier from Kearny who they said dumped 1,875 pieces of mail -- including general election ballots and campaign flyers – instead of delivering them. Nicholas Beauchene, 26, was nabbed by special agents of the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General after a Saddle Brook man reported finding dumped bundles of mail in a dumpster behind a North Arlington bank. Beauchene tossed 1,875 pieces of mail – including 99 general election ballots destined for residents in West Orange and 276 campaign flyers from local candidates for West Orang…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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SEEN HIM? Wayne Police ID Peeper Who Took Upskirt Pic Of Woman In Mall Bathroom Stall SEEN HIM? Wayne Police ID Peeper Who Took Upskirt Pic Of Woman In Mall Bathroom Stall SEEN HIM? Wayne Police ID Peeper Who Took Upskirt Pic Of Woman In Mall Bathroom Stall
Seen HIM? Wayne Police ID Peeper Who Took Upskirt Pic Of Woman In Mall Bathroom Stall Wayne police turned to the public Wednesday for help finding a Newark fugitive who they said took an “upskirt” photo of a woman using a toilet in a Willowbrook Mall bathroom. Aware that authorities were searching for him, Mohammad Abass, 40, fled the area and was believed to be in upstate New York or Vermont, Detective Capt. Daniel Daly said. He may be driving a gray or silver 2004 Honda Accord with New Jersey license plates: A12LGM. The woman told police she was using the facilities at Macy’s on Aug. 14 when the man “reached under from the stall beside her while holding a cellphone from …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Firefighters Douse Mahwah Basement Blaze Near Rockland Border Firefighters Douse Mahwah Basement Blaze Near Rockland Border Firefighters Douse Mahwah Basement Blaze Near Rockland Border
Firefighters Douse Mahwah Basement Blaze Near Rockland Border Firefighters doused a basement blaze Wednesday that severely damaged a Mahwah home near the Upper Saddle River and Rockland borders. No injuries were reported in the two-alarm blaze, which broke out shortly after 3:15 p.m. on Tam-O-Shanter Drive in the Scotch Hills section of the township barely a quarter-mile from Airmont, NY. Mutual aid responders either at the scene or in coverage included firefighters from Ramsey, Midland Park, Allendale, Upper Saddle River, Oakland, Franklin Lakes, Waldwick and Wyckoff, Tallman, Suffern and Hillburn. Several companies provided mutual aid in the Ma…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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Murder Charged Against Rutherford Man Who Claimed Brother He Hacked Dead Had Demons Inside Him Murder Charged Against Rutherford Man Who Claimed Brother He Hacked Dead Had Demons Inside Him Murder Charged Against Rutherford Man Who Claimed Brother He Hacked Dead Had Demons Inside Him
Murder Charged Against Rutherford Man Who Claimed Brother He Hacked Dead Had Demons Inside Him UPDATE: A Rutherford man claimed that he was trying to remove demons from his younger brother's body after he stabbed, slashed and hacked him dead, soaking the apartment they shared in blood, responders said. A recorded history of domestic violence ended when Uriel Adames-Gomez, 29, dialed 911 shortly before 8 p.m. Tuesday and said he'd just stabbed Gabriel Adames-Gomez, 26. Adames-Gomez told borough police that "he had stabbed and killed his brother," Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Officers responding to the call found Adames-Gomez in front of the Union Avenue building acros…

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