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
Jail, not prison, for guard who sexually assaulted boy at Rutherford hotel Jail, not prison, for guard who sexually assaulted boy at Rutherford hotel Jail, not prison, for guard who sexually assaulted boy at Rutherford hotel
Jail, not prison, for guard who sexually assaulted boy at Rutherford hotel EXCLUSIVE REPORT: “Not a day goes by that I don’t remember,” a teenager told a judge in Hackensack who sentenced a security guard to a year in the county jail for sexually assaulting the boy as he slept in a Rutherford hotel room during a class trip. ”This will never be over for me, no matter where I go or what I do,” said the victim, now 18, as Jose Olivares watched with his attorney from the defense table. Olivares, 27, of Jersey City, was working security at the hotel when he hung out with the group of upstate New York teens staying there after a day in Manhattan. Two months ago, he …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack customer service rep molested girl, 9, indictment charges Hackensack customer service rep molested girl, 9, indictment charges Hackensack customer service rep molested girl, 9, indictment charges
Hackensack customer service rep molested girl, 9, indictment charges YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 31-year-old customer service representative from Hackensack repeatedly molested a local girl over the course of more than a year, beginning when she was nine, a indictment returned by a grand jury alleges. Favio F. Maldonado was arrested a year ago this month by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit and Hackensack police after the girl “disclosed to her mother that [he] touched her over and under her clothing on several occasions,” Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said at the time. The mother went to city police, who Molinelli said notified his o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Jail For Man Who Molested Boy At Rutherford Hotel Jail For Man Who Molested Boy At Rutherford Hotel Jail For Man Who Molested Boy At Rutherford Hotel
Jail For Man Who Molested Boy At Rutherford Hotel RUTHERFORD, N.J. — "Not a day goes by that I don't remember,” a teenager told a judge in Hackensack who sentenced a security guard to a year in the county jail for sexually assaulting the boy as he slept in a Rutherford hotel room during a class trip. ”This will never be over for me, no matter where I go or what I do," said the victim, now 18, as Jose Olivares watched with his attorney from the defense table. Olivares, 27, of Jersey City, was working security at the hotel when he hung out with the group of upstate New York teens staying there after a day in Manhattan in September …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hillsdale man, 50, dies after train mishap Hillsdale man, 50, dies after train mishap Hillsdale man, 50, dies after train mishap
Hillsdale man, 50, dies after train mishap UPDATE: A 50-year-old Hillsdale man died at Hackensack University Medical Center tonight after losing his arm when he was struck by a train that was later stopped in Emerson, an NJ Transit spokesperson told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The victim apparently tried to board the train while it was moving and was injured around 4:20 p.m., multiple sources said. “The crew didn’t even realize what happened,” an official source with direct knowledge of the incident told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “The train made two others stops.” AirMed One landed at the George White School in Hillsdale and collected the victim, w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities cancel alert for missing Demarest girl, 15 Authorities cancel alert for missing Demarest girl, 15 Authorities cancel alert for missing Demarest girl, 15
Authorities cancel alert for missing Demarest girl, 15 A 15-year-old Demarest girl reported missing more than a week ago was found, Demarest police announced. Michelle Hong, who was last seen the morning of Sept. 4, was reported in stable condition. No further details were released.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Washington Township police say neighborhood stranger had heroin, arrest warrant Washington Township police say neighborhood stranger had heroin, arrest warrant Washington Township police say neighborhood stranger had heroin, arrest warrant
Washington Township police say neighborhood stranger had heroin, arrest warrant YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Washington Township police said they arrested a transient whom they found carrying heroin after the caught him walking around a neighborhood. Alerted by a White Birch Road resident to a stranger wearing a backpack walking in the area of Washington School around 9 p.m. Tuesday, officers asked James Laube whether he needed help, Police Chief Glenn Hooper said this afternoon. Laube showed them a New Jersey driver’s license and “went on to explain [that] he was between living arrangements in town and another county,” the chief said. He later “changed his story as to …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
TSA agent charged with swiping airline passenger’s $7,500 watch TSA agent charged with swiping airline passenger’s $7,500 watch TSA agent charged with swiping airline passenger’s $7,500 watch
TSA agent charged with swiping airline passenger’s $7,500 watch BEYOND BERGEN: Port Authority police arrested a TSA agent at JFK Airport who they said swiped a $7,500 men’s Diamond Watch from a passenger and then destroyed it when she discovered that investigators were on to her. Margo Louree-Grant, 41, of Brooklyn, snatched the watch as it passed through an electronic screener on Aug. 26, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Investigators arrested her Wednesday night on charges of grand larceny, possession of stolen property and official misconduct, he said. MUGSHOT: Courtesy PORT AUTHORITY PD

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Maywood Inn’s Twin Door Tavern Celebrates 60 Years Maywood Inn’s Twin Door Tavern Celebrates 60 Years Maywood Inn’s Twin Door Tavern Celebrates 60 Years
Maywood Inn’s Twin Door Tavern Celebrates 60 Years MAYWOOD, N.J. — As he marks 100 years since his family began keeping saloons, David Rivara of Glen Rock is also celebrating the 60th anniversary of what’s now the Maywood Inn’s Twin Door Tavern. “We were born into a life of servitude and drudgery,” the Hoboken-born enterpreneur jokes when discussing the appeal to three generations of his family of giving people a welcome — and welcoming — retreat from everyday life. It began with the popular Hotel Victor in Hoboken in 1915 and continued in 1955 with the even-more widely-known Maywood Inn (and, later, Victor’s Maywood Inn), opened by his fat…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Elmwood Park police bust two within hours on heroin charges Elmwood Park police bust two within hours on heroin charges Elmwood Park police bust two within hours on heroin charges
Elmwood Park police bust two within hours on heroin charges YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Elmwood Park police made a pair of heroin arrests hours apart yesterday. Officers charged Carl Walters, 24, with having 10 bags of the drug, along with a syringe and paraphernalia after taking him into custody in the Kmart parking lot on Broadway around 3:40 p.m., Police Chief Michael Foligno said. They also charged him with hindering for providing false information to a law enforcement officer, Foligno said. Around 8 p.m., they arrested 36-year-old Eric Hoffman of Nanuet on Locust Street after the chief said they caught him with 60 bags of heroin. Both were re…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
2 stable, plane remains after Cresskill crash landing 2 stable, plane remains after Cresskill crash landing 2 stable, plane remains after Cresskill crash landing
2 stable, plane remains after Cresskill crash landing PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT (top); Annette Di Maggio Eichler (above) UPDATE: Two occupants who were hospitalized after their single-engine Coast Guard auxiliary plane crash-landed in a Cresskill athletic field yesterday were in stable condition this morning, authorities said. Meanwhile the plane remained at the edge of a bank of trees in Regan Field next to the Cresskill Swim Club off 3rd Street (photos, above), pending a National Transportation Safety Board investigation. “If it was another hour from now this field would have been packed with kids playing football,” Cresskill Police Chief…

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