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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Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Northvale Firefighters Christen New Engine With Wetdown Northvale Firefighters Christen New Engine With Wetdown Northvale Firefighters Christen New Engine With Wetdown
Northvale Firefighters Christen New Engine With Wetdown NORTHVALE, N.J. -- The Northvale Volunteer Fire Department welcomed its new Engine 262 -- a 2015 Pierce Arrow XT -- with a weekend wetdown. Today's event on Union Street off Paris Avenue featured food, drink, music, t-shirts, mugs -- and, of course, streams of tank water. "Thank you guys for the tremendous amount of fun, great music, good food and drinks today!," wrote Carolina Huc, who took one of the photos above. "My family and I congratulate you for the new engine and thank you for all that you do for our beautiful town!"

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen Police Chiefs Foundation Helps Renovate Vet's Home Bergen Police Chiefs Foundation Helps Renovate Vet's Home Bergen Police Chiefs Foundation Helps Renovate Vet's Home
Bergen Police Chiefs Foundation Helps Renovate Vet's Home RUTHERFORD, N.J.: A project to renovate the home of a borough U.S. Air Force veteran received a $3,500 boost from the Bergen County Police Chiefs Association in conjunction with the Bergen County Police Chiefs Foundation. “We are happy to partner with Rebuilding Together Bergen County to renovate the home of one of our local servicemen, Alex Mello,” said Emerson Police Chief Donald Rossi, who chairs the foundation. This is the fourth time since 2012 that the group has supported Rebuilding Together Bergen County in repairing a veteran’s home. Accepting the check at her group’s Glen Rock off…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Wallington DWI motorist gets probation for high-speed police chase, crash Wallington DWI motorist gets probation for high-speed police chase, crash Wallington DWI motorist gets probation for high-speed police chase, crash
Wallington DWI motorist gets probation for high-speed police chase, crash CVP EXCLUSIVE: “Someone could have been killed,” a judge in Hackensack yesterday told a Wallington motorcyclist as she sentenced him to probation for two years for leading a police chase while drunk. Karol Brutkowski, 34, was clocked as fast as 72 miles an hour in a 25 mph zone and at times crossed into traffic, Superior Court Judge Margaret M. Foti said. Foti said she’d have been more lenient if not for those factors. Brutkowski, who had a previous DWI conviction, accepted a pre-indictment plea, which allows prosecutors to avoid presenting a case to a grand jury — and produces more len…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
‘Bring Change’ produces $2,000 donation from TD Bank to Fair Lawn Food Pantry ‘Bring Change’ produces $2,000 donation from TD Bank to Fair Lawn Food Pantry ‘Bring Change’ produces $2,000 donation from TD Bank to Fair Lawn Food Pantry
‘Bring Change’ produces $2,000 donation from TD Bank to Fair Lawn Food Pantry SHOUT OUT: TD Bank donated $2,000 to the Fair Lawn Food Pantry yesterday as part of its “Bring Change” campaign to raise more than $1 million to support local organizations. Its Penny Arcade served as the hub for TD Bank to match up to $2,000 in coins redeemed over the course of “Green Friday,” culminating in the presentation of a check. A total of 500 “Green Friday” events are scheduled through February 2016. Demand for help from the food pantry, which serves several hundred families, continues to grow. Donations will be used to provide bags of groceries, as well as much needed back-…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Tennessee man charged with sexually assaulting girl in Hackensack beginning 20 years ago Tennessee man charged with sexually assaulting girl in Hackensack beginning 20 years ago Tennessee man charged with sexually assaulting girl in Hackensack beginning 20 years ago
Tennessee man charged with sexually assaulting girl in Hackensack beginning 20 years ago FROM YESTERDAY: Bergen County detectives arrested a Tennessee man in Connecticut after a 27-year-old woman reported that he’d sexually abused her at his previous home in Hackensack over the course of seven years, beginning when she was 7. Extradition proceedings were under way for Alex Safanova, 62, who was taken into custody in Lebanon, CT on Wednesday after Special Victims Unit investigators tracked him to a family member’s home there from Dayton, TN, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said yesterday. Safanova, who is married, faces two counts of aggravated sexual assault and on…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Missing South Carolina man, 85, shows up at Lincoln Tunnel, Port Authority police say Missing South Carolina man, 85, shows up at Lincoln Tunnel, Port Authority police say Missing South Carolina man, 85, shows up at Lincoln Tunnel, Port Authority police say
Missing South Carolina man, 85, shows up at Lincoln Tunnel, Port Authority police say BEYOND BERGEN: A missing 85-year-old South Carolina man was being reunited with his family after he asked a Port Authority police officer for directions near the Lincoln Tunnel last night. The man appeared confused when he pulled up to Officer Michael Cavezza on Boulevard East in a 1993 Chrysler New Yorker around 7 p.m., the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said this morning. Cavezza “asked the driver where he wanted to go and the man uttered statements the officer couldn’t understand,” Pentangelo said. “The man’s statements led the officer to believe he was confused.” The man eventually p…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Wallington Man Gets Probation For Police Chase, Crash Wallington Man Gets Probation For Police Chase, Crash Wallington Man Gets Probation For Police Chase, Crash
Wallington Man Gets Probation For Police Chase, Crash “Someone could have been killed,” a judge in Hackensack yesterday told a Wallington motorcyclist as she sentenced him to probation for two years for leading a police chase while drunk. Karol Brutkowski, 34, was clocked as fast as 72 miles an hour in a 25 mph zone and at times crossed into traffic, Superior Court Judge Margaret M. Foti said. Foti said she'd have been more lenient if not for those factors. Brutkowski accepted a pre-indictment plea, which allows prosecutors to avoid presenting a case to a grand jury -- and produces more lenient sentences as a result. Police said they tried t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
On Your Side
TD Bank Donates $2,000 To Fair Lawn Food Pantry TD Bank Donates $2,000 To Fair Lawn Food Pantry TD Bank Donates $2,000 To Fair Lawn Food Pantry
TD Bank Donates $2,000 To Fair Lawn Food Pantry FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- TD Bank donated $2,000 to the Fair Lawn Food Pantry yesterday as part of its "Bring Change" campaign to raise more than $1 million to support local organizations. Its Penny Arcade served as the hub for TD Bank to match up to $2,000 in coins redeemed over the course of "Green Friday," culminating in the presentation of a check. A total of 500 "Green Friday" events are scheduled through February 2016. Demand for help from the food pantry, which serves several hundred families, continues to grow. Donations will be used to provide bags of groce…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Rutherford police seek help finding hit-and-run motorist who struck bicyclist on Route 17 Rutherford police seek help finding hit-and-run motorist who struck bicyclist on Route 17 Rutherford police seek help finding hit-and-run motorist who struck bicyclist on Route 17
Rutherford police seek help finding hit-and-run motorist who struck bicyclist on Route 17 PUBLIC ALERT: Rutherford police are seeking the public’s help finding a motorist who fled after his car struck a bicyclist on Route 17 who was headed from New York City to Pennsylvania. The 32-year-old victim, from Bronson, Mich., had stopped on the median between the southbound highway and the north service road near the Route 3 interchange to tend to a mechanical problem, Police Chief John Russo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The driver was in the center land and “tried to make a last-ditch attempt to merge onto the service road by cutting across the median” when his dark-colored sedan with Mary…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
$500,000 bail for California trucker accused of trafficking teen girls for sex at Elmwood Park hotel $500,000 bail for California trucker accused of trafficking teen girls for sex at Elmwood Park hotel $500,000 bail for California trucker accused of trafficking teen girls for sex at Elmwood Park hotel
$500,000 bail for California trucker accused of trafficking teen girls for sex at Elmwood Park hotel YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 53-year-old Mexican national from California was ordered held on $500,000 bail on charges of trafficking two teenage girls to work as escorts after Bergen County authorities arrested him in Elmwood Park. Bogart Velasco of Fresno was charged with “recruiting and employing two juvenile females to work as prostitutes in an on-going illicit prostitution operation that conducted business in and around the northern New Jersey area,” Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this morning. Elmwood Park police got a call Wednesday night from a woman in Fresno who sa…

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