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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Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: Police Nab Jersey Shore Man Who Went To Morris Park For Sex With Minor Authorities: Police Nab Jersey Shore Man Who Went To Morris Park For Sex With Minor Authorities: Police Nab Jersey Shore Man Who Went To Morris Park For Sex With Minor
Authorities: Police Nab Jersey Shore Man Who Went To Morris Park For Sex With Minor A Jersey Shore man who authorities said arranged to meet an underage girl for sex in a Morris County park was arrested on a trio of charges – including violating state coronavirus emergency orders. Robert Murphy, 19, of Bayville contacted the girl through social media, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal aid. Her parents found out and called police, who were waiting when Murphy showed up at Community Park in Morris Plains -- 85 miles from his Ocean County home -- around 11 p.m. Tuesday. Parks throughout New Jersey have been off-limits under executive orders aimed at stemming the spread…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: NYC Man Blames Jews For COVID-19, Assaults Fort Lee Dunkin' Donuts Customer Authorities: NYC Man Blames Jews For COVID-19, Assaults Fort Lee Dunkin' Donuts Customer Authorities: NYC Man Blames Jews For COVID-19, Assaults Fort Lee Dunkin' Donuts Customer
Authorities: NYC Man Blames Jews For Covid-19, Assaults Fort Lee Dunkin' Donuts Customer A Queens man threatened a Jewish customer at a Dunkin' Donuts in Fort Lee, telling him that “Jews are responsible” for the coronavirus and deliberately bumping into him, authorities charged. Afrim Haxhaj, 30, of Jackson Heights confronted the victim in the shop on Monday, telling him to leave and blaming Jews for COVID-19, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. He also told him not to come back, Grewal said. When the victim returned to the Dunkin Donuts on Tuesday, Haxhaj threatened him again, “saying he does not want Jews in his neighborhood and bumping his chest into the victim,” …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Turns Out Hydroxychloroquine Isn’t Miracle Drug, Experts Say Turns Out Hydroxychloroquine Isn’t Miracle Drug, Experts Say Turns Out Hydroxychloroquine Isn’t Miracle Drug, Experts Say
Turns Out Hydroxychloroquine Isn’t Miracle Drug, Experts Say It turns out an anti-malarial drug hasn’t been the “game changer” as some thought it would be in fighting the coronavirus. It could even prove harmful, experts warn. Researchers have reported no benefit from using hydroxychloroquine in U.S. veterans hospitals, saying they found more deaths among those given the drug than under standard care. In addition, a panel of experts convened by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases recommended that physicians don’t use a suggested combo of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin for the treatment of COVID-19 patients because of poten…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Detectives Check Neighborhood Surveillance Cams, Charge Clifton Man With Firing Gun Detectives Check Neighborhood Surveillance Cams, Charge Clifton Man With Firing Gun Detectives Check Neighborhood Surveillance Cams, Charge Clifton Man With Firing Gun
Detectives Check Neighborhood Surveillance Cams, Charge Clifton Man With Firing Gun Authorities on Wednesday said they arrested a Clifton man after a surveillance camera captured images of him firing a gun into the air. Officers responding to a shots-fired call Monday in the area of Highland and Hope avenues found evidence of a crime scene but no victim, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Acting Clifton Police Chief Thomas Rinaldi said in a joint release. Surveillance cameras in the area helped them identify the shooter as Erik Aroche-Domingues, 25, they said. Detectives arrested Aroche-Domingues on Tuesday and recovered a handgun, Valdes and Rinaldi said. T…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
Breaking News
Bayonne Ex-Con Charged With Murder In Shooting Death Of Jersey City Man Bayonne Ex-Con Charged With Murder In Shooting Death Of Jersey City Man Bayonne Ex-Con Charged With Murder In Shooting Death Of Jersey City Man
Bayonne Ex-Con Charged With Murder In Shooting Death Of Jersey City Man Authorities on Wednesday charged a Bayonne ex-con with murder in the shooting death of a man on a Jersey City street the night before. Bernard Wilson, 27, gunned down 38-year-old Abimael Fuentes on Brinkerhoff Street between Monticello and Bergen avenues around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said Wednesday. Fuentes was taken with an abdominal gunshot wound to Jersey City Medical Center, where Suarez said he was pronounced deceased at 1:41 a.m.  Members of Suarez's Homicide Unit seized Wilson at his home Wednesday morning and recovered two guns, the pro…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Feds Smash Hundreds Of Online Coronavirus Scams -- And Tell You What To Look For Feds Smash Hundreds Of Online Coronavirus Scams -- And Tell You What To Look For Feds Smash Hundreds Of Online Coronavirus Scams -- And Tell You What To Look For
Feds Smash Hundreds Of Online Coronavirus Scams -- And Tell You What To Look For Federal authorities said they've gotten help from domain providers and others in smashing hundreds of online sites exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to commit fraud and other crimes. As of Tuesday, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) had received and reviewed more than 3,600 complaints related to COVID-19 scams, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Many of them “operated from websites that advertised fake vaccines and cures, operated fraudulent charity drives, delivered malware, or hosted various other types of scams,” federal officials said in a release. To attract traffic, t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Obituaries
An Irish Wake During A Modern Plague: How COVID-19 Denied Heartbroken Family A Proper Goodbye An Irish Wake During A Modern Plague: How COVID-19 Denied Heartbroken Family A Proper Goodbye An Irish Wake During A Modern Plague: How COVID-19 Denied Heartbroken Family A Proper Goodbye
An Irish Wake During A Modern Plague: How Covid-19 Denied Heartbroken Family A Proper Goodbye Coronavirus didn't exist when Eileen Callaghan of Bergenfield was diagnosed  with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma last fall. It was here in full force, though, when her daughters recently had to leave the 88-year-old Irish family matriarch at the ER door. One of them, Bridget Callaghan-Kane, wrote about her family's experience with their mom's subsequent death "and the world we find ourselves living in at this time in history." An Irish Wake During A Modern Plague Anyone with a drop of Irish blood knows what an Irish wake is, the going-away party that was thrown for an Irish man or woman…

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by Bridget Callaghan-Kane
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Oakland Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting Two Kids Oakland Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting Two Kids Oakland Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting Two Kids
Oakland Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting Two Kids An unemployed Oakland man sexually assaulted two pre-teens, authorities said Wednesday. Leonel DeJesus-Alvarado, 36, was arrested after Oakland police received a 911 call Monday that the child had been illegally touched at a local residence, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. An investigation with the prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit determined that he “sexually touched one juvenile on one occasion and another juvenile on multiple occasions,” Musella said. DeJesus-Alvarado, of Riverside Drive, remained held Wednesday in the Bergen County Jail pending his first appearance in Centr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
Breaking News
Bayonne Ex-Con Charged With Murder In Shooting Death Of Jersey City Man Bayonne Ex-Con Charged With Murder In Shooting Death Of Jersey City Man Bayonne Ex-Con Charged With Murder In Shooting Death Of Jersey City Man
Bayonne Ex-Con Charged With Murder In Shooting Death Of Jersey City Man Authorities charged a Bayonne ex-con with murder in the Tuesday night shooting death of a man on a Jersey City street. Bernard Wilson, 27, gunned down 38-year-old Abimael Fuentes on Brinkerhoff Street between Monticello and Bergen avenues around 10:30 p.m., Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said Wednesday. Fuentes was taken with an abdominal gunshot wound to Jersey City Medical Center, where Suarez said he was pronounced deceased at 1:41 a.m.  Members of Suarez's Homicide Unit seized Wilson at his home Wednesday morning and recovered two guns, the prosecutor said. They char…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Saddle Brook, Fair Lawn Police Combine To Catch Accused Home Burglar Saddle Brook, Fair Lawn Police Combine To Catch Accused Home Burglar Saddle Brook, Fair Lawn Police Combine To Catch Accused Home Burglar
Saddle Brook, Fair Lawn Police Combine To Catch Accused Home Burglar Saddle Brook and Fair Lawn police teamed up to nab a repeat offender following a residential burglary. No one was home when Adam Zengel, 23, of New Brunswick entered the Saddle Brook home near the corner of North Midland Avenue and Rosol Lane through a rear window sometime overnight Monday into Tuesday, Detective Capt. John Zotollo said. Zengel fled with several expensive electronic items, he said. Saddle Brook police identified and caught him with help from Fair Lawn police, Zotollo said. Zengel's criminal record includes mostly minor drug-related arrests out of several municipalities in…

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