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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Teaneck, NJ
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Teaneck Goes On Virtual Coronavirus Lockdown, All Of Bergen Could Soon Be Next, Tedesco Warns Teaneck Goes On Virtual Coronavirus Lockdown, All Of Bergen Could Soon Be Next, Tedesco Warns Teaneck Goes On Virtual Coronavirus Lockdown, All Of Bergen Could Soon Be Next, Tedesco Warns
Teaneck Goes On Virtual Coronavirus Lockdown, All Of Bergen Could Soon Be Next, Tedesco Warns UPDATE: County Executive Jim Tedesco warned that all of Bergen could soon go on virtual lockdown in response to the coronavirus the way Teaneck did on Sunday. Gov. Phil Murphy ordered all New Jersey schools closed by Wednesday. Teaneck’s township manager on Sunday ordered a host of businesses in town either closed or restricted to the number of people they can serve until further notice, as the township becomes what its mayor called “ground zero” for COVID-19 in New Jersey. Immediately afterward, Tedesco urged the 1 million or so residents throughout Bergen County to pay close attenti…

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Hackensack, NJ
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Elective Surgeries Postponed At All NJ Hackensack Meridian Hospitals Amid COVID-19 Outbreak Elective Surgeries Postponed At All NJ Hackensack Meridian Hospitals Amid COVID-19 Outbreak Elective Surgeries Postponed At All NJ Hackensack Meridian Hospitals Amid COVID-19 Outbreak
Elective Surgeries Postponed At All NJ Hackensack Meridian Hospitals Amid Covid-19 Outbreak Hackensack Meridian Health on Sunday postponed all elective surgical procedures for two weeks, starting this Tuesday, following a request from the U.S. surgeon general. “This temporary measure will allow our hospitals to enact preparedness plans we have been developing for weeks to create capacity and continue to deliver high quality care during the anticipated surge in COVID-19 cases,” HMH said in a statement. Hackensack Meridian Health -- which has more than a dozen hospitals in six counties -- began prohibiting visitors, with certain exceptions, at its hospitals and nursing and rehab fac…

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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Indian Hills HS Lacrosse Star From Oakland, Long Island Teammate Killed In NC Crash Indian Hills HS Lacrosse Star From Oakland, Long Island Teammate Killed In NC Crash Indian Hills HS Lacrosse Star From Oakland, Long Island Teammate Killed In NC Crash
Indian Hills HS Lacrosse Star From Oakland, Long Island Teammate Killed In NC Crash A former star lacrosse player for Indian Hills High School in Oakland was killed along with a teammate from Long Island in a car crash in North Carolina, authorities said. Ann Wray, a sophomore agribusiness major at the University of Mount Olive, was in a Jeep with six classmates that was t-boned by a dump truck on a two-lane highway in town shortly before 1 a.m. Friday, the North Carolina Highway Patrol reported. Wray and teammate Madison Mergl of Sayville, in Suffolk County, were killed, authorities said. Five other occupants were airlifted to the Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
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North Arlington Dad Shared 2,350 Child Porn Files, Authorities Charge North Arlington Dad Shared 2,350 Child Porn Files, Authorities Charge North Arlington Dad Shared 2,350 Child Porn Files, Authorities Charge
North Arlington Dad Shared 2,350 Child Porn Files, Authorities Charge A North Arlington father of two young children trafficked 2,350 child pornography images online, authorities charged. Jonathan Mancinelli, 34, remained held Sunday in the Bergen County Jail – awaiting a first court appearance -- after detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Cyber Crimes Unit raided his Stover Avenue home on Friday. Mancinelli “used the Internet to view, download, and possess digital files depicting nude and/or sexually explicit prepubescent children, and also share approximately 2,350 such files online,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The married Manci…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Hackensack PD: Fleeing Ex-Con Who Tried Climbing Into Ex's Window Falls 4 Floors Down Air Shaft Hackensack PD: Fleeing Ex-Con Who Tried Climbing Into Ex's Window Falls 4 Floors Down Air Shaft Hackensack PD: Fleeing Ex-Con Who Tried Climbing Into Ex's Window Falls 4 Floors Down Air Shaft
Hackensack PD: Fleeing Ex-Con Who Tried Climbing Into Ex's Window Falls 4 Floors Down Air Shaft A Hackensack ex-con fell four stories down an air shaft while trying to escape police after trying to climb into his ex-girlfriend's window before dawn Sunday, authorities said. Alec Parker, 34, climbed a fire escape and was trying to get into his ex-girlfriend’s Main Street apartment when responding officers arrived shortly after 4:30 a.m., Detective Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. They tried to talk with him, but Parker fled up the fire escape to the roof, then entered the stairwell and forced his way into his ex-girlfriend’s apartment, DeWitt said. He then ran into her bathroom and through t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Paterson PD: Hooker Who Hightailed It Chased Down Paterson PD: Hooker Who Hightailed It Chased Down Paterson PD: Hooker Who Hightailed It Chased Down
Paterson PD: Hooker Who Hightailed It Chased Down Picture, if you will, a woman in fishnets and high heels running from police and you have some idea of what happened in Paterson this weekend. Responding to complaints about street walkers hitting up passing drivers and pedestrians for sex, city police hit Van Houten Street in the middle of the afternoon Saturday and arrested two women on prostitution charges, authorities said. Members of the department’s Vice/ABC unit ended up taking two working woman into custody, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Arrested in the area of Van Houten and East 18 streets was Charlotte A. Best, 40,…

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Middletown, NJ
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Monmouth Motorcyclist Airlifted After Crash Near GSP In Holmdel Monmouth Motorcyclist Airlifted After Crash Near GSP In Holmdel Monmouth Motorcyclist Airlifted After Crash Near GSP In Holmdel
Monmouth Motorcyclist Airlifted After Crash Near GSP In Holmdel A motorcyclist who wiped out overnight Sunday near the Garden State Parkway in Monmouth County was airlifted to Jersey Shore University Medical Center, authorities said. The 38-year-old Hazlet resident “failed to negotiate” a curve on Holmdel Road just before the Line Road fork and struck an embankment on the southbound side shortly before 1 a.m., Holmdel police said. Responding Officer James Corrigan found him conscious but incoherent, they said. Members of the Holmdel First Aid Squad and MonOc treated the victim at the scene before Hackensack Meridian Health’s AirMed One airlifted him to…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Police: Stubbornest Little Whorehouse In Paterson Raided Again Police: Stubbornest Little Whorehouse In Paterson Raided Again Police: Stubbornest Little Whorehouse In Paterson Raided Again
Police: Stubbornest Little Whorehouse In Paterson Raided Again It wasn’t long after Paterson police raided a brothel above a city storefront that men were once again coming and going all hours of the day and night, authorities said. No sooner had they released manager Felipe Valdez, 44, on drug and prostitution charges than he was back in business, they said. ABC/Vice Unit members earlier this month raided the second-floor Main Street apartment, above a ground-floor business that offers travel, tax and mortgage services, after receiving complaints from merchants and residents. They arrested Valez, as well as two accused hookers – one 35 from the Bronx…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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COVID-19: Group Meetings Cancelled In NJ, NY Complicate Addiction Recovery COVID-19: Group Meetings Cancelled In NJ, NY Complicate Addiction Recovery COVID-19: Group Meetings Cancelled In NJ, NY Complicate Addiction Recovery
Covid-19: Group Meetings Cancelled In NJ, NY Complicate Addiction Recovery Social distancing is something that people recovering from addiction can least afford, especially amid a worldwide pandemic that only ramps up the anxiety.  But concerns that hospitals and churches have about the coronavirus has eliminated group meetings in New Jersey and New York. And no one knows for how long. From Bayonne to Boonton, the list of cancelled Northern New Jersey Alcoholics Anonymous meetings continued to grow on Saturday. Paramus, Hoboken, Montclair, West Orange, Saddle River -- anywhere someone in need might find a meeting now can't. At the same time, the arm of AA th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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In Cold Blood: Paterson Dealer Gets 40 Years For Killing NY Buyer, Wounding Companion In Cold Blood: Paterson Dealer Gets 40 Years For Killing NY Buyer, Wounding Companion In Cold Blood: Paterson Dealer Gets 40 Years For Killing NY Buyer, Wounding Companion
In Cold Blood: Paterson Dealer Gets 40 Years For Killing NY Buyer, Wounding Companion A 22-year-old Paterson man who shot a New York State drug buyer dead and pumped four bullets into a woman who was with him will be in his 60s before he’ll be eligible for parole after being sentenced Friday. Jurors in September 2018 convicted Zamaire Barden of murder, attempted murder and weapons offenses following a trial in Paterson that lasted nearly a week. Barden, who was 17 at the time, sold drugs to Dennis Gillespie of Warwick in April 2015, Senior Assistant Prosecutor Allan Nawrocki told the jury. After contacting him for more, Gillespie returned the next day with Rachel Knight, Na…

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