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
Police: Missing Teens Used For Sex At Elmwood Park Hotel Police: Missing Teens Used For Sex At Elmwood Park Hotel Police: Missing Teens Used For Sex At Elmwood Park Hotel
Police: Missing Teens Used For Sex At Elmwood Park Hotel ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- 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 at a local hotel. 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…

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Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
$40,000 bail posted by naked man in cowboy hat tasered by Ridgewood police $40,000 bail posted by naked man in cowboy hat tasered by Ridgewood police $40,000 bail posted by naked man in cowboy hat tasered by Ridgewood police
$40,000 bail posted by naked man in cowboy hat tasered by Ridgewood police YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Ridgewood man wearing only a cowboy hat and wielding a bottle was tasered by police after he charged officers investigating a neighborhood burglary, witnesses told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Officers responding to a 9:30 a.m. report of an Olivia Street burglary in which two teens were at home spotted evacuated the house but found no intruders. A short time later however, they spotted Craig D. Andrews, 48, coming down the street at them carrying a glass beer bottle and a bag and yelling, Police Chief John Ward said. Officers ordered him to stop, but he continued advancing…

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
‘S’ tattoo leads to charges in Englewood bus stop robbery ‘S’ tattoo leads to charges in Englewood bus stop robbery ‘S’ tattoo leads to charges in Englewood bus stop robbery
‘S’ tattoo leads to charges in Englewood bus stop robbery YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A distinctive tattoo helped Englewood detectives identify a Newark man who they said robbed a woman at a local bus stop. Detective Carlos Marte tracked down Pablo M. Perez, who’d been arrested for an attempted Hasbrouck Heights holdup the night before Tuesday night’s robbery, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The 57-year-old North Bergen victim said she was sitting at the bus stop at the corner of Broad and East Sheffield Avenues around 6 p.m. when the robber pulled up in a black Chevy SUV, got out and snatched her pocketbook. “He also grabbed …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Saddle Brook police say heroin-using postal carrier had 1,000 undelivered pieces of mail in car Saddle Brook police say heroin-using postal carrier had 1,000 undelivered pieces of mail in car Saddle Brook police say heroin-using postal carrier had 1,000 undelivered pieces of mail in car
Saddle Brook police say heroin-using postal carrier had 1,000 undelivered pieces of mail in car YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A postal carrier with a criminal history had more than 1,000 pieces of undelivered mail dating back three months in the trunk of his car after Saddle Brook police found him with used bags of heroin, a syringe and a glass pipe, authorities said. Sgt. Jeff Panagia and Officer Adam Georgaros took 37-year-old Dominic Damiani into custody after finding him with the drug paraphernalia in the parking of the KFC on Market Street, Police Chief Robert Kugler told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Damiani has an arrest history in Bergen County dating back to 2002, including charges of drug po…

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Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood police hunt gunman who robbed Jackson Hole Diner owner Englewood police hunt gunman who robbed Jackson Hole Diner owner Englewood police hunt gunman who robbed Jackson Hole Diner owner
Englewood police hunt gunman who robbed Jackson Hole Diner owner YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Englewood detectives were reviewing surveillance video from the gunpoint robbery of an owner of the Jackson Hole Diner outside the popular eatery before dawn this morning. “We believe it was an inside job, based on a variety of factors,” Detective Capt. Timothy Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. “He apparently knew when the diner closes, that money was being brought from there and that it was a significant amount.” The victim had just left after closing when the gunman ambushed him, demanding money, and took off with an undisclosed amount of cash around 12…

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Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Bergenfield doctor charged with inappropriately touching patient, staff Bergenfield doctor charged with inappropriately touching patient, staff Bergenfield doctor charged with inappropriately touching patient, staff
Bergenfield doctor charged with inappropriately touching patient, staff A Bergenfield doctor touched the private parts of current and former employees — one of whom he bit on the cheek — and at least one patient at his Dumont office, authorities charged. Raja K. Jagtiani, a 54-year-old internist, remained free on $20,000 bail after he was released from the Bergen County Jail yesterday. He was arrested hours earlier on charges of criminal sexual contact, assault and harassment, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said. The investigation by Molinelli’s Special Victims Unit began after an employee told Bergenfield police that she “was touched on her bre…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Father in Englewood chop-shop operation arrested, son still a fugitive Father in Englewood chop-shop operation arrested, son still a fugitive Father in Englewood chop-shop operation arrested, son still a fugitive
Father in Englewood chop-shop operation arrested, son still a fugitive YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An Englewood man wanted in the investigation of a local chop shop operation was arrested after showing up for a meeting with his probation officer on another matter. His son, meanwhile, remained a fugitive this afternoon, authorities said. Bergen County Sheriff’s officers at the county probation officer took Robert “Greg” Callahan into custody Monday after arrest warrants turned up, Englewood Detective Capt. Timothy Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Callahan. 53. was being held on $210,000 bail in the county jail. Meanwhile, authorities continued to look for his fug…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Postman Didn't Deliver 1,000 Pieces, Saddle Brook Police Say Postman Didn't Deliver 1,000 Pieces, Saddle Brook Police Say Postman Didn't Deliver 1,000 Pieces, Saddle Brook Police Say
Postman Didn't Deliver 1,000 Pieces, Saddle Brook Police Say SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- A postal carrier with a criminal history had more than 1,000 pieces of undelivered mail dating back three months in the trunk of his car after Saddle Brook police found him with used bags of heroin, a syringe and a glass pipe, authorities said. Sgt. Jeff Panagia and Officer Adam Georgaros took 37-year-old Dominic Damiani into custody after finding him with the drug paraphernalia in the parking of the KFC on Market Street, Police Chief Robert Kugler told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Damiani has an arrest history in Bergen County dating back to 2002, including charges of drug posses…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Cliffside Park detectives nab man in motorcycle, van thefts Cliffside Park detectives nab man in motorcycle, van thefts Cliffside Park detectives nab man in motorcycle, van thefts
Cliffside Park detectives nab man in motorcycle, van thefts YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Aiming to crack a series of vehicle thefts, Cliffside Park detectives arranged to see a motorcycle that stolen from town — and arrested a suspect. Albert Salcedo, 35, was riding the stolen bike before Paterson police took him into custody, Detective Sgt. Michael Giampietro told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The motorcycle was one of three stolen from early April through June, Giampietro said. “Coincidently on the same nights two of the motorcycles were stolen we also had two vans stolen, which were recovered abandoned in Little Falls and Paterson just days [later],” he said. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Tow trucks collide on Route 208 in Wyckoff, drivers hospitalized Tow trucks collide on Route 208 in Wyckoff, drivers hospitalized Tow trucks collide on Route 208 in Wyckoff, drivers hospitalized
Tow trucks collide on Route 208 in Wyckoff, drivers hospitalized YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 38-year-old driver from Sussex County was extricated by firefighters after his tow truck — carrying a vintage 1950s-era Cadillac — struck the rear of another truck on southbound Route 208 in Wyckoff this morning. PHOTO: All Points Towing Damian J. Addis was driving the flatbed truck owned by Austin Towing in Ramsey when is it the other truck, owned by JML Towing of Wayne and driven by 29-year-old Anthony L. Ortiz, as it slowed for traffic just after 10 a.m., Police Chief Benjamin C. Fox. The front truck also was carrying a vehicle but wasn’t in any way related …

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