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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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
One-Man Crime Spree: Authorities Charge Paterson Man In Shooting, Stabbing, Holdups One-Man Crime Spree: Authorities Charge Paterson Man In Shooting, Stabbing, Holdups One-Man Crime Spree: Authorities Charge Paterson Man In Shooting, Stabbing, Holdups
One-Man Crime Spree: Authorities Charge Paterson Man In Shooting, Stabbing, Holdups Authorities charged a Paterson man with a shooting that led to a stabbing, a home invasion and a robbery just weeks apart. Angel Florian, 19, was accused of a Jan. 18 robbery on East 22nd Street in Paterson. Florian also shot at an 18-year-old city man and missed, after which another assailant stabbed the intended victim on North 4th Street the night of Feb. 6, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said Thursday. The second assailant hadn’t been identified, they said. Florian also wielded a gun when he and two accomplices entered a Godwin A…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Israel’s Largest Bank Pays $900 Million In Offshore Tax Evasion Scheme, Soccer Payoffs Israel’s Largest Bank Pays $900 Million In Offshore Tax Evasion Scheme, Soccer Payoffs Israel’s Largest Bank Pays $900 Million In Offshore Tax Evasion Scheme, Soccer Payoffs
Israel’s Largest Bank Pays $900 Million In Offshore Tax Evasion Scheme, Soccer Payoffs Israel’s largest bank and a Swiss subsidiary agreed in federal court in Manhattan on Thursday to pay $874.27 million to the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and the New York State Department of Financial Services to settle offshore tax-evasion charges. At the same time, Bank Hapoalim B.M. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Hapoalim (Switzerland) Ltd., agreed to pay more than $30 million to the United States to resolve a federal investigation into their roles in laundering bribes and kickbacks to the world governing body for soccer. As part of the tax-evasion settlement, Bank Hapoalim B.M.&…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Middletown, NJ
Breaking News
TONIGHT: Join ‘Lean On Me’ Global Singalong With Steve Van Zandt TONIGHT: Join ‘Lean On Me’ Global Singalong With Steve Van Zandt TONIGHT: Join ‘Lean On Me’ Global Singalong With Steve Van Zandt
Tonight: Join ‘Lean On Me’ Global Singalong With Steve Van Zandt #LEANONUS: The musical equivalent of banging pots outside comes tonight when 60 SiriusXM stations play the late Bill Withers tune “Lean On Me,” thanks in large part to New Jersey’s own Steve Van Zandt. But that’s not all.  Van Zandt has asked music teachers, students and others to honor first responders and healthcare workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic by also recording their own version of the 1972 pop classic during today's “Worldwide Day of Gratitude." Known variously in his career as “Miami Steve,” “Little Steven” and Silvio Dante, the bandana-wearing rocker from Middl…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
Breaking News
Hip-Hopping NJ Firefighter Channels Wu-Tang Clan: COVID-19 'Ain’t Nuthin’ To Be Stuck With' Hip-Hopping NJ Firefighter Channels Wu-Tang Clan: COVID-19 'Ain’t Nuthin’ To Be Stuck With' Hip-Hopping NJ Firefighter Channels Wu-Tang Clan: COVID-19 'Ain’t Nuthin’ To Be Stuck With'
Hip-Hopping NJ Firefighter Channels Wu-Tang Clan: Covid-19 'Ain’t Nuthin’ To Be Stuck With' WATCH: A New Jersey firefighter has tapped into classic hip-hoppers Wu-Tang Clan for a video warning that COVID-19 “ain’t nuthin’ to be stuck with.” Some listeners will instantly get the play on words from a classic 1992 Wu cut in the “#CovidCalls” video dropped Wednesday by Michael Sarno, who’s also an EMT and Afghanistan combat veteran. Jump cuts of responders in action mix with Sarno posting up at the Belleville and Bloomfield firehouses: “The Wuhan virus ain’t nuthin’ to be stuck with/There’s no place to hide when we step inside the room/Boys in blue, prepare for this doom and damn/We’…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Weather
Silver Lining: Relentless Rain, Wind Give Way To Warmth This Weekend Silver Lining: Relentless Rain, Wind Give Way To Warmth This Weekend Silver Lining: Relentless Rain, Wind Give Way To Warmth This Weekend
Silver Lining: Relentless Rain, Wind Give Way To Warmth This Weekend The rain and high winds that’ll lay on New Jersey through Thursday should give way to warmer weather on Friday, one of the area’s most prominent weather experts said. “Saturday should be no worse than partly sunny with highs reaching the 60s just about everywhere,” meteorologist Joe Cioffi said late Thursday morning. “Sunday could turn out to be warm with highs reaching into the 70s in many areas, provided we get enough sun,” he added. For now, flood watches and wind advisories remained in place for much of New Jersey as stormy weather inched its way northward. More flooding was expected …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
SEE ANYTHING? Passaic Pedestrian, 49, Struck In Hit-Run Dies SEE ANYTHING? Passaic Pedestrian, 49, Struck In Hit-Run Dies SEE ANYTHING? Passaic Pedestrian, 49, Struck In Hit-Run Dies
SEE Anything? Passaic Pedestrian, 49, Struck In Hit-Run Dies A 49-year-old Passaic pedestrian who was critically injured by a hit-and-run driver died of his injuries, authorities said. Charges against whoever was responsible will include death by auto (vehicular homicide) following the death of Paresh Rana. Rana died Tuesday, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Passaic Police Chief Luis A. Guzman announced on Thursday. Rana was crossing Pennington Avenue when he was struck and critically injured by a southbound vehicle at the corner of Gregory Avenue in the city around 8 p.m. Sunday. He was pronounced dead at Saint Joseph’s Regiona…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
FAKE NEWS: Warning Of Thieves Using Chemically-Laced COVID-19 Masks To Rob Residents Won't Die FAKE NEWS: Warning Of Thieves Using Chemically-Laced COVID-19 Masks To Rob Residents Won't Die FAKE NEWS: Warning Of Thieves Using Chemically-Laced COVID-19 Masks To Rob Residents Won't Die
Fake NEWS: Warning Of Thieves Using Chemically-Laced Covid-19 Masks To Rob Residents Won't Die The folks at Facebook thought they’d killed a viral “warning” that villains were going door to door handing out coronavirus protective masks doused with chemicals to knock out unsuspecting victims and rob them. But it still won’t go away. Facebook yanked the bogus post, along with two stunt videos in which people acted out the scenario, as part of its fight against false news and bad info. “False information,” a warning that replaced both videos now says. “Checked by independent fact-checkers.” Yet people are still sharing the actual image -- not just in the U.S. but around the world – on …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson Police Chase Down Accused Gunman In January Shooting Paterson Police Chase Down Accused Gunman In January Shooting Paterson Police Chase Down Accused Gunman In January Shooting
Paterson Police Chase Down Accused Gunman In January Shooting He gave them the slip a month ago, but this time Paterson detectives captured a 19-year-old resident wanted for a January shooting in one of the city’s deadliest neighborhoods. Leighmeir Singletary tried to run again after investigators spotted him Tuesday night on Godwin Avenue, authorities said. Detectives had obtained a warrant for Singletary’s arrest following an Jan. 11 shooting on nearby Summer Street. He got away the first time police chased him, on March 16, in the same neighborhood, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Middletown, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Jersey Shore Driver Shatters Car Windows With Steel, Glass Ammo In Slingshot Spree Police: Jersey Shore Driver Shatters Car Windows With Steel, Glass Ammo In Slingshot Spree Police: Jersey Shore Driver Shatters Car Windows With Steel, Glass Ammo In Slingshot Spree
Police: Jersey Shore Driver Shatters Car Windows With Steel, Glass Ammo In Slingshot Spree A Wall Township man drove around town shattering car windows with a slingshot, said police who arrested him. Officer Chris Mason arrested Mark Shatkus, 35, Tuesday night after he smashed the rear passenger window of one driver on Allaire Road and the front passenger window of another on Belmar Boulevard near Route 35 using steel and glass projectiles, police said Wednesday in a statement. Shatkus, who drove around in an SUV, also shattered the front passenger window of a car parked in a lot off Belmar Boulevard, they said. No injuries were reported. Police charged Shatkus with aggravated …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson PD: Child Molester Caught Dealing, Over 600 Heroin Folds, Crack Vials Seized Paterson PD: Child Molester Caught Dealing, Over 600 Heroin Folds, Crack Vials Seized Paterson PD: Child Molester Caught Dealing, Over 600 Heroin Folds, Crack Vials Seized
Paterson PD: Child Molester Caught Dealing, Over 600 Heroin Folds, Crack Vials Seized Paterson police seized 480 heroin folds, 121 crack vials and more than $7,600 cash while arresting a registered sex offender who recently served five years in state prison on a gun conviction. Narcotics detectives raided the 12th Avenue apartment on Wednesday after watching Jaquan Housey sell drugs, City Police Director Jerry Speziale said. They arrested Housey, 31, and Jason West, 42, of Lawrence Street, who they said bought dozens of crack vials from him with the intention of reselling them. Housey was released from state prison this past October after serving five years of a seven-year …

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