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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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Investigators Probe Crash Involving Disgraced Former Elmwood Park Mayor, Police Car Investigators Probe Crash Involving Disgraced Former Elmwood Park Mayor, Police Car Investigators Probe Crash Involving Disgraced Former Elmwood Park Mayor, Police Car
Investigators Probe Crash Involving Disgraced Former Elmwood Park Mayor, Police Car The Bergen County Sheriff’s Office was investigating a weekend crash involving former Elmwood Park Mayor Frank Caramagna and a borough police vehicle, Daily Voice has learned. Investigators were examining the contention that Caramagna, who resigned after being arrested on voter fraud charges earlier this year, made an illegal U-turn on Market Street, causing Sunday’s accident, authorities confirmed. Both Caramagna, 74, and a borough officer were briefly hospitalized with injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening after the police car rammed the former mayor’s vehicle on the passenger…

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Teaneck, NJ
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Teaneck Laborer Charged With Sexual Assault Teaneck Laborer Charged With Sexual Assault Teaneck Laborer Charged With Sexual Assault
Teaneck Laborer Charged With Sexual Assault A Teaneck laborer was charged with sexually assaulting a woman in town two years ago. Rodrigo Villagomez, 61, spent five days in the Bergen County Jail before being released Monday following a detention hearing in Hackensack. He's charged with sexual assault and criminal sexual contact.

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Hackensack, NJ
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NJ Referee Suspended Two Seasons For Forcing Wrestler, 16, To Cut Hair Before Match NJ Referee Suspended Two Seasons For Forcing Wrestler, 16, To Cut Hair Before Match NJ Referee Suspended Two Seasons For Forcing Wrestler, 16, To Cut Hair Before Match
NJ Referee Suspended Two Seasons For Forcing Wrestler, 16, To Cut Hair Before Match A New Jersey referee who forced a high school wrestler to cut his hair before a match was suspended for the next two seasons, authorities announced Wednesday. Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal, who announced the decision in tandem with the state Division on Civil Rights, also mandated anti-bias training for officials and staff involved in high athletics across the state. At the same time, the DCR issued guidelines that explain when treating people differently due to their hairstyle may violate the state’s anti-discrimination laws, in an effort to help prevent further issues. The guidelines…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bookkeeper From Paterson Charged With Embezzling $100,000 From Bergen Food Distributor Bookkeeper From Paterson Charged With Embezzling $100,000 From Bergen Food Distributor Bookkeeper From Paterson Charged With Embezzling $100,000 From Bergen Food Distributor
Bookkeeper From Paterson Charged With Embezzling $100,000 From Bergen Food Distributor A bookkeeper from Paterson embezzled $100,000 from a Bergen County food distributor that she worked for, authorities charged. Stefany Carolina Urias “took customer payments via checks and money orders without her employer’s authorization,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. She then “altered and deposited” checks and money orders made payable to the wholesale food distribution company into her account, he said. Musella’s Financial Crimes Unit arrested Urias in Passaic on charges of theft, forgery, falsifying records and criminal computer activity, the prosecutor said. She was pro…

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Paterson, NJ
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Authorities: Car Thieves, Burglars Continue To Prowl North Jersey, Hawthorne PD Nabs Two Authorities: Car Thieves, Burglars Continue To Prowl North Jersey, Hawthorne PD Nabs Two Authorities: Car Thieves, Burglars Continue To Prowl North Jersey, Hawthorne PD Nabs Two
Authorities: Car Thieves, Burglars Continue To Prowl North Jersey, Hawthorne PD Nabs Two A caller led Hawthorne police to two teens who they said were seen on surveillance video rifling through vehicles while the owners slept. Officers found Devin Paredes of Prospect Park and Jazyre Kearney of Paterson, both 18, in the area of Goffle Road and Macfarlan Avenue, Detective Sgt. Matthew Hoogmoed said. Both said they didn’t have identification “and were just headed home from a party,” Hoogmoed said. On the ground near them officers found several items that appeared stolen, including an AAA membership card and a key, the sergeant said. “Officers went to the house of the name that a…

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Newark, NJ
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Whitney Houston Hologram Tour Dates Announced Whitney Houston Hologram Tour Dates Announced Whitney Houston Hologram Tour Dates Announced
Whitney Houston Hologram Tour Dates Announced The Whitney Houston hologram tour is scheduled to come to North America in the fall of next year after a string of shows that begin in Mexico on Jan. 23, its promoters announced Tuesday. “An Evening With Whitney: The Whitney Houston Hologram Tour” features the hologram image of the Newark-born singer, who died in 2012, performing digitally remastered versions of her hits accompanied by a live band and backup vocalists. Songs will include “I Will Always Love You,” “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me),” “The Greatest Love of All” and “Higher Love,” the promoters said. Houston's estate…

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Workers Burned In Explosion At Carlstadt Cosmetics Plant Workers Burned In Explosion At Carlstadt Cosmetics Plant Workers Burned In Explosion At Carlstadt Cosmetics Plant
Workers Burned In Explosion At Carlstadt Cosmetics Plant A mixture at a Carlstadt cosmetics plant exploded Tuesday, seriously injuring a worker, authorities said. The 58-year-old employee was taken to St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston after she was burned in the explosion at JCS Global Distribution around 1 p.m., Detective Sgt. John Cleary said. The victim had been mixing cosmetic products in a 55-gallon barrel at the Barrell Avenue plant when the mixture exploded, Cleary said. "No other workers were in the immediate area when the explosion occurred," the sergeant said, "but the building was evacuated as a precaution." OSHA was notified…

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Pascack Valley, NJ
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Montvale Tax Preparer Gets 6 Years In Federal Pen For Collecting Returns With Dead Man's ID Montvale Tax Preparer Gets 6 Years In Federal Pen For Collecting Returns With Dead Man's ID Montvale Tax Preparer Gets 6 Years In Federal Pen For Collecting Returns With Dead Man's ID
Montvale Tax Preparer Gets 6 Years In Federal Pen For Collecting Returns With Dead Man's ID A tax preparer from Montvale was sentenced Tuesday to six years in federal prison for using a dead man's identity and a Las Vegas P.O. box to illegally collect refunds from the IRS -- while he was already awaiting trial on charges of helping scam the government out of more than $1.6 million. Wayne Dunich-Kolb, 54, must serve the entire term because there is no parole in the federal prison system. From 2006-2008, Dunich-Kolb grossed $500,000 to $657,000 per year – but claimed a total of only $400 for 2006, $526 for 2007 and $489 for 2008 on his own federal income tax returns, U.S. Attorney C…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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SEEN HER? Driver Busted In Paterson With Guns Driving Jeep Owned By Missing Woman SEEN HER? Driver Busted In Paterson With Guns Driving Jeep Owned By Missing Woman SEEN HER? Driver Busted In Paterson With Guns Driving Jeep Owned By Missing Woman
Seen HER? Driver Busted In Paterson With Guns Driving Jeep Owned By Missing Woman A driver caught with shotguns in Paterson was driving the Jeep of a woman who's been missing since the Jersey Shore home they shared was burned last week in a fire, said authorities who sought the public's help finding her. Jacquelin Terrulli, 65, had not been seen nor heard from since Thursday's three-alarm blaze consumed the Ocean Township residence, authorities said. The man she lived with 49-year-old Ronald Teschner, was arrested in Paterson the following morning driving Terrulli's 2019 Jeep Cherokee, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni said. Police found shotguns in the…

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Fort Lee, NJ
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FBI Nabs Accused Accomplice In $4M Manhattan Diamond District Heist, Ringleader May Be In NJ FBI Nabs Accused Accomplice In $4M Manhattan Diamond District Heist, Ringleader May Be In NJ FBI Nabs Accused Accomplice In $4M Manhattan Diamond District Heist, Ringleader May Be In NJ
FBI Nabs Accused Accomplice In $4M Manhattan Diamond District Heist, Ringleader May Be In NJ With one of three men wanted in a $4 million armed robbery in Manhattan’s Diamond District last month nabbed by the FBI in Florida, authorities continued searching for the ringleader, who they said may be hiding out in New Jersey or the Stamford area in Connecticut. Pedro Davila, a 27-year-old Bronx native with Harlem connections, was captured by surveillance cameras during the brazen noontime holdup on Aug. 25 at Avianne & Co. Jewelers on West 47th Street, authorities said. Davila, who was identified through facial recognition technology, was scheduled for an appearance in U.S. Distri…

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