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
Breaking News
Feds: NJ Couple's Online Dating Scam Costs Those Looking For Love $6 Million Feds: NJ Couple's Online Dating Scam Costs Those Looking For Love $6 Million Feds: NJ Couple's Online Dating Scam Costs Those Looking For Love $6 Million
Feds: NJ Couple's Online Dating Scam Costs Those Looking For Love $6 Million A married South Jersey couple orchestrated an online dating scam that wooed victims out of more than $6 million, federal authorities said. Martins Friday Inalegwu, 31, and his wife, Steincy Mathieu, 24, both of Burlington County’s Maple Shade, employed several accomplices – many of them living in Nigeria – to romance victims online and then take their money, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Craig Carpenito said. After making initial contact through dating and social media sites with phony identities, the thieves struck up what appeared to be romantic relationships with the victims either throug…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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2020 New York City Marathon Cancelled 2020 New York City Marathon Cancelled 2020 New York City Marathon Cancelled
2020 New York City Marathon Cancelled What was to be the 50th running of the New York City Marathon, scheduled for Nov. 1, was cancelled Wednesday by COVID-19. New York Road Runners (NYRR), the event organizer, said it decided to cancel the world’s largest marathon "due to coronavirus-related health and safety concerns for runners, spectators, volunteers, staff, and the many partners and communities that support the event." The 50th running of the TCS New York City Marathon is now scheduled for Nov. 7, 2021. "While the marathon is an iconic and beloved event in our city, I applaud New York Road Runners for putting the health a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
UPDATE: Missing Retired Law Enforcement Officer Found With Stab Wound In Bergen County Park UPDATE: Missing Retired Law Enforcement Officer Found With Stab Wound In Bergen County Park UPDATE: Missing Retired Law Enforcement Officer Found With Stab Wound In Bergen County Park
Update: Missing Retired Law Enforcement Officer Found With Stab Wound In Bergen County Park The search for a distraught retired law enforcement officer ended when rescuers found him bleeding from an apparently self-inflicted stab wound in a wooded area of a Bergen County park early Tuesday evening. The 66-year-old victim's wound wasn't considered life-threatening, responders said. Rescuers carried him out of the woods on a stretcher in the Dunkerhook area of Saddle River County Park in Paramus a few miles from his home after concerned loved ones called police. A waiting Paramus Medical Services rig took him to Hackensack University University Medical Center with a police escort …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
Breaking News
Longtime Hudson County Political Fixer Tied To JC Mayor Indicted By Federal Grand Jury Longtime Hudson County Political Fixer Tied To JC Mayor Indicted By Federal Grand Jury Longtime Hudson County Political Fixer Tied To JC Mayor Indicted By Federal Grand Jury
Longtime Hudson County Political Fixer Tied To JC Mayor Indicted By Federal Grand Jury A federal grand jury returned an indictment Tuesday against a former political operative from Hudson County who’s accused of evading taxes on payments from builders and developers to expedite their projects, among other crimes. Thomas “Tommy” Bertoli, 62, a North Bergen native now living in Matawan, has worked political campaigns throughout the state for more than 40 years -- among them, Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop’s successful 2005 council run and victorious 2013 mayoral campaign. Federal authorities zeroed in on the Bertoli’s dealings with builders and developers through several of…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: No Proof Lodi Man Charged With Cresskill Mom Murder Tried Recruiting Girl For Sex Authorities: No Proof Lodi Man Charged With Cresskill Mom Murder Tried Recruiting Girl For Sex Authorities: No Proof Lodi Man Charged With Cresskill Mom Murder Tried Recruiting Girl For Sex
Authorities: No Proof Lodi Man Charged With Cresskill Mom Murder Tried Recruiting Girl For Sex Authorities said Tuesday that they’ve found no proof that a 19-year-old Lodi man accused of killing a Cresskill woman in her home was a predator who recruited the victim's 14-year-old daughter for the sex trade. Questions were raised after Victor Rosasco established a GoFundMe page in remembrance of his wife, Divna, who was stabbed to death in her home before her body was dumped in a shallow creek in Overpeck Park in Teaneck last week. Nicolas Coirazza stabbed and slashed 51-year-old Divna Rosasco several times, then got the victim’s daughter to help in what became a bungled attempt to dis…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: NJ State Trooper Seizes 2 Handguns, Drugs From Philly Pair On AC Expressway Authorities: NJ State Trooper Seizes 2 Handguns, Drugs From Philly Pair On AC Expressway Authorities: NJ State Trooper Seizes 2 Handguns, Drugs From Philly Pair On AC Expressway
Authorities: NJ State Trooper Seizes 2 Handguns, Drugs From Philly Pair On AC Expressway State Police seized two guns along with some heroin and pot from two Philadelphia men and a Pennsylvania companion after a stop on the Atlantic City Expressway, authorities said Tuesday. Trooper John Fallon stopped their car for a traffic violation on the westbound expressway in Winslow Township on Saturday, State Police said in a release. Dante Johnson-Simmons, 25, was carrying a .380-caliber gun and marijuana, and Latal Turner, 19, had a .40-caliber handgun and heroin, they said. Johnson-Simmons and Turner, both of Philadelphia, were arrested on drug and weapons charges. A third man, Ca…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
GOTCHA! Hackensack Bare-Knuckle Boxing Champ Wanted For Killing Woman In DWI Crash Surrenders GOTCHA! Hackensack Bare-Knuckle Boxing Champ Wanted For Killing Woman In DWI Crash Surrenders GOTCHA! Hackensack Bare-Knuckle Boxing Champ Wanted For Killing Woman In DWI Crash Surrenders
Gotcha! Hackensack Bare-Knuckle Boxing Champ Wanted For Killing Woman In DWI Crash Surrenders UPDATE: A bare-knuckle boxing champion from Hackensack surrendered to New Jersey State Police on vehicular homicide charges in the death of a woman in a drunk-driving crash. was being sought for the drunk-driving death of a woman in a crash that seriously injured her husband. “Bobby Gunn,” as he’s known in the sports world, had been a fugitive until Monday, when State Police said he turned himself in at the Woodstown Station in Pilesgrove, Salem County. Robert Gunn Jr. was driving a northbound Dodge Ram 3500 that crossed into oncoming traffic on Route 635 in Salem County’s Upper Pittsgrov…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Franklin Township, NJ
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Authorities Smash California-To-NJ Pot Smuggling Ring Following Hackensack Traffic Stop Authorities Smash California-To-NJ Pot Smuggling Ring Following Hackensack Traffic Stop Authorities Smash California-To-NJ Pot Smuggling Ring Following Hackensack Traffic Stop
Authorities Smash California-To-NJ Pot Smuggling Ring Following Hackensack Traffic Stop It began with a driver who Hackensack police said they caught with three large bags of pot and some THC during a traffic stop. It ended in the takedown of a Somerset County-based operation that authorities said shipped marijuana by the pound from California to New Jersey. Hackensack police said they found a five-gallon bucket containing bags of pot, along with the THC cartridges, when they stopped Victor I. Chihimie, 22, of Madison last month for a traffic violation. City police detectives quickly found that Chihimie “was receiving multiple suspicious packages [at] a residence on Edgew…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Police: PalPark Plumber Secretly Recorded Video In Tenafly Woman's Bathroom Police: PalPark Plumber Secretly Recorded Video In Tenafly Woman's Bathroom Police: PalPark Plumber Secretly Recorded Video In Tenafly Woman's Bathroom
Police: PalPark Plumber Secretly Recorded Video In Tenafly Woman's Bathroom A Palisades Park plumber secretly recorded video of a Tenafly customer by hiding his cellphone in her bathroom, said authorities who wonder whether there may be other victims. Tenafly police nabbed Eric Maldonado, 46, at the woman’s home after she discovered his cellphone “positioned in an unusual location actively recording” video in a specific bathroom he suspiciously insisted on using, Captain Michael deMoncada said Tuesday. Police charged Maldonado with two counts of invasion of privacy and released him on a summonses pending a court hearing. Now they’re trying to determine whether th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Judge: 7-Eleven Not Liable For South Jersey Robbery Shooting That Partially Paralyzed Clerk Judge: 7-Eleven Not Liable For South Jersey Robbery Shooting That Partially Paralyzed Clerk Judge: 7-Eleven Not Liable For South Jersey Robbery Shooting That Partially Paralyzed Clerk
Judge: 7-Eleven Not Liable For South Jersey Robbery Shooting That Partially Paralyzed Clerk A federal judge rejected a claim that 7-Eleven is responsible for injuries suffered by a South Jersey clerk who was left partially paralyzed after he was shot and beaten during a robbery. Individual franchisees – and not the 7-Eleven Corp -- are responsible for day-to-day control of their stores, U.S. District Judge Joseph Rodriguez said in tossing out the lawsuit filed by Adil Boutahli. Boutahli – who went on to become a world-class wheelchair tennis player – was working the overnight shift sol at a 7-Eleven in Pennsauken in January 2014 when three robbers pistol-whipped and shot him four …

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