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
Elmwood Park Police Help Crack Route 17 Gas Station Holdup Elmwood Park Police Help Crack Route 17 Gas Station Holdup Elmwood Park Police Help Crack Route 17 Gas Station Holdup
Elmwood Park Police Help Crack Route 17 Gas Station Holdup ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- Borough police helped their Hasbrouck Heights colleagues arrest a man who they said tried to rob a Route 17 gas station attendant last night. Pablo M. Perez, 37, of Newark pulled into the Shell station on the northbound highway in a black Chevy SUV just after 6:30 p.m. and assaulted the attendant, shouting, "Give me the money!" Hasbrouck Heights Detective Lt. Michael Colaneri Jr. told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. The attendant struggled with him, and Perez got back into the SUV and took off, Colaneri said. Hasbrouck Heights police issued an alert after inte…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Ramsey Police Charge 2 In Credit Card Fraud Ramsey Police Charge 2 In Credit Card Fraud Ramsey Police Charge 2 In Credit Card Fraud
Ramsey Police Charge 2 In Credit Card Fraud RAMSEY, N.J. -- Two Brooklyn men arrested after trying to pass a bogus credit card had 14 others, as well as an automated rear license plate cover, Ramsey police said. Both fled the Walgreens on North Franklin Turnpike in a white BMW with New York license plates after the card was declined around 5 p.m. yesterday, Police Chief Bryan Gurney said. Hearing an alert issued by his Ramsey colleagues, Mahwah Police Officer John Rodriguez stopped the BMW on northbound Route 17 near the Sheraton Crossroads. Both men provided bogus Pennsylvania driver's licenses, Gurney said. After bringing them to…

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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Medical emergency leaves SUV stuck over driveway of Leonia home Medical emergency leaves SUV stuck over driveway of Leonia home Medical emergency leaves SUV stuck over driveway of Leonia home
Medical emergency leaves SUV stuck over driveway of Leonia home PHOTOS: An SUV landed in a precarious spot, hanging over the driveway of a Fort Lee Road home in Leonia, after the driver had a medical episode this afternoon, police said. A tow company used a crane to remove the vehicle. PHOTOS: Courtesy LEONIA PD  

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Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Insanity defense looming for Ho-Ho-Kus man in mother’s murder Insanity defense looming for Ho-Ho-Kus man in mother’s murder Insanity defense looming for Ho-Ho-Kus man in mother’s murder
Insanity defense looming for Ho-Ho-Kus man in mother’s murder YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Ho-Ho-Kus man charged with stabbing and beating his mother to death in her home last fall will most likely plead insanity or incompetence, a prosecutor said this morning. An attorney for Nicholas Piotti, 25, is having him evaluated” with an eye to a defense of either mental incompetence or insanity,” Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Danielle Grootenboer told a judge in Hackensack. Grootenboer said she won’t offer a possible plea deal until she knows the outcome of the psychiatric evaluation. Defense attorney John Weichsel — joined by Brian Neary as co-counsel…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Saddle Brook police rescue heroin user, 54, at local hotel Saddle Brook police rescue heroin user, 54, at local hotel Saddle Brook police rescue heroin user, 54, at local hotel
Saddle Brook police rescue heroin user, 54, at local hotel SHOUT OUT: Saddle Brook police made their first-ever Narcan save this weekend, of a 54-year-old Paterson man who’d overdosed on heroin in a local hotel. Summoned by a friend, officers found the victim unconscious and barely breathing with a syringe sticking out of his leg Saturday afternoon, Police Chief Robert Kugler told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Officers Adam Georgaros and Darrin Williams administered a dosage of Narcan and the man came around, the chief said. Saddle Brook Ambulance and paramedics responded and took him to Hackensack University Medical Center, where he was reported in stable …

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Elmwood Park police seize 70 bags of heroin, arrest two in Route 46 stop Elmwood Park police seize 70 bags of heroin, arrest two in Route 46 stop Elmwood Park police seize 70 bags of heroin, arrest two in Route 46 stop
Elmwood Park police seize 70 bags of heroin, arrest two in Route 46 stop YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Elmwood Park police seized 70 bags of heroin while arresting a couple after a traffic stop on Route 46. Suzanne Ottomanelli, 35, of Saddle Brook and Nicholas Austeri, 28, of Lodi were released on court summonses after Friday 9:30 p.m. stop. They were charged with possession of the heroin, as well as with prescription drugs and a hypodermic syringe.

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Pascack Valley, NJ
Your Community
Slain Girl's Memory Spawns Hillsdale Child Safety Day Slain Girl's Memory Spawns Hillsdale Child Safety Day Slain Girl's Memory Spawns Hillsdale Child Safety Day
Slain Girl's Memory Spawns Hillsdale Child Safety Day HILLSDALE, N.J. -- The first-ever Joan's Joy Child Safety Fun Fest in memory of a 7-year-old Brownie Scout killed by a neighbor more than four decades ago is set for Sept. 20 at a sculpture and garden dedicated to her at the Hillsdale train station. “No one can replace your hands in the circle of doing good,” said Rosemarie D'Alessandro, who made helping other parents and abused children her life’s mission after her daughter's April 1973 murder. Scheduled from noon to 4 p.m., the free family event aims to promote child safety education amid live music by The Tenafly School of Rock House Ban…

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority lieutenant catches Pennsylvania driver with stolen CitiBike Port Authority lieutenant catches Pennsylvania driver with stolen CitiBike Port Authority lieutenant catches Pennsylvania driver with stolen CitiBike
Port Authority lieutenant catches Pennsylvania driver with stolen CitiBike BEYOND BERGEN: A Port Authority police lieutenant helping a colleague with another matter nabbed a Pennsylvania driver with a stolen CitiBike before dawn today. Lt. Joseph Macaluso was assiting another officer near the Holland Tunnel in Jersey City when a Dodge Ram pickup nearly sideswiped his patrol car and abruptly stopped at a red light at 14th Street and Jersey Avenue, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. In the open truck bed he spotted the bicycle. Macaluso pulled over the driver, who had no identification, Pentangelo said. A DMV check found that …

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
2nd annual Car, Truck and Bike show set for sons of Ridgefield Park’s Steve Sulborsky 2nd annual Car, Truck and Bike show set for sons of Ridgefield Park’s Steve Sulborsky 2nd annual Car, Truck and Bike show set for sons of Ridgefield Park’s Steve Sulborsky
2nd annual Car, Truck and Bike show set for sons of Ridgefield Park’s Steve Sulborsky SHOUT OUT: Central Bergen Local 86 expects an even bigger turnout next month than last year at its second annual Car, Truck and Bike show to help raise funds for the son of the late Ridgefield Park Police Sgt. Steven A. Sulborsky. The Sept. 13 event is set to run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 100 Challenger Road in Ridgefield Park, a large, flat, newly paved parking lot with easy access from Route 80 and the Turnpike. Entry is $15 for pre-registered vehicles and $20 the day of the event (Free for spectators). Each registration includes a welcome packet with promotional items and coupons, en…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
NAACP Lauds Maywood PD For Restraint In Gun Incident NAACP Lauds Maywood PD For Restraint In Gun Incident NAACP Lauds Maywood PD For Restraint In Gun Incident
NAACP Lauds Maywood PD For Restraint In Gun Incident MAYWOOD, N.J. -- The president of the Bergen County NAACP chapter praised two borugh police officers who held their fire when a 19-year-old suspect moved his hands toward the waistband of his shorts, where they could see the butt of what turned out to be a pellet gun. “As America is entrenched in the debate of excessive use of force by police officers against people of color, the Bergen County NAACP would be remise if we didn’t recognize the restraints of your officers as they averted a situation that could have resulted in serious injury or death,” Anthony Cureton wrote to Maywood Police Ch…

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