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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Ridgefield, CT
Breaking News
Ridgefield man had heroin, crack, Oxy for sale, police charge Ridgefield man had heroin, crack, Oxy for sale, police charge Ridgefield man had heroin, crack, Oxy for sale, police charge
Ridgefield man had heroin, crack, Oxy for sale, police charge YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two Ridgefield police officers checking out a report of local drug dealing arrested a borough man who they said was carrying 40 decks of heroin, a small amount of crack and a prescription bottle of Oxycodone. Called to the area of Studio Road and Bergen Boulevard near the Bergen Boulevard School yesterday, Officers Kyle Ruppert and Dante Monterosso found and arrested Salvatore Lombardo III, 39, Detective Lt. Jason Wejnert told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Lombardo was being held on $25,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with various counts of having drugs with the int…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Dogs, cats, parakeets, lizard among nearly 80 live, dead animals removed from Westwood home Dogs, cats, parakeets, lizard among nearly 80 live, dead animals removed from Westwood home Dogs, cats, parakeets, lizard among nearly 80 live, dead animals removed from Westwood home
Dogs, cats, parakeets, lizard among nearly 80 live, dead animals removed from Westwood home STORY / PHOTOS: Daily Voice Reporter Cecilia Levine YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Authorities last night and this morning removed nearly 80 live and dead animals — including dogs, cats, parakeets and a lizard — from a Westwood home where they said they found “horrific” conditions. Complaints were being drafted against sisters Linda McRae and Allyson DiPasquale, law enforcement authorities told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Investigators in hazardous material garb removed several dogs and cats from the single-family Lincoln Boulevard house near Fourth Avenue this morning — including a cat in a mesh net wh…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Driver hospitalized after truck hits pole, tips in Leonia Driver hospitalized after truck hits pole, tips in Leonia Driver hospitalized after truck hits pole, tips in Leonia
Driver hospitalized after truck hits pole, tips in Leonia PHOTOS: Courtesy LEONIA PD UPDATE: A driver was hospitalized this morning with injuries that police said weren’t life-threatening after his truck struck a utility pole in Leonia and landed on its side. The truck was headed north on Willowtree Road when the crash occurred, Police Chief Thomas Rowe told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The load shifted and the truck keeled, he said. Firefighters and police responded, along with a tow company. PHOTOS: Courtesy LEONIA PD    

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
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Garfield fugitive in 10-year-old series of taxi cab robberies captured in Albania, returned to Bergen Garfield fugitive in 10-year-old series of taxi cab robberies captured in Albania, returned to Bergen Garfield fugitive in 10-year-old series of taxi cab robberies captured in Albania, returned to Bergen
Garfield fugitive in 10-year-old series of taxi cab robberies captured in Albania, returned to Bergen YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Garfield man who avoided authorities for nearly a decade for his role in what they said were a half-dozen armed taxi cab robberies in Bergen County was behind bars after the U.S. Marshals Service captured him in Albania. Now 25, Indrit Shehi was 16 when authorities said he and three other teens who dubbed themselves “the Bravehearts” robbed people in Garfield, Lodi and Wallington. He remained a fugitive after skipping arraignment on first-degree armed robbery and weapons possession charges out of Lodi in 2006. The arrest resulted from an investigation by member…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Maywood officers use ‘great restraint’ when suspect reaches for waistband pellet gun, chief says Maywood officers use ‘great restraint’ when suspect reaches for waistband pellet gun, chief says Maywood officers use ‘great restraint’ when suspect reaches for waistband pellet gun, chief says
Maywood officers use ‘great restraint’ when suspect reaches for waistband pellet gun, chief says YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: For a split second, Maywood police didn’t know what a 19-year-old Hackensack man who had the butt of a gun sticking out of his waistband was doing last night when he tried to adjust his falling shorts. He then raised his hands and complied with the officers’ orders to hit the ground, Police Chief David Pegg told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. Responding to the call just before 9 p.m. of a man flashing a gun in Memorial Park, Officers Walter Moussou and Christopher Nichols spotted Joshua Dubose riding away on a bicycle, Pegg said. The officers stopped Dubose and …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Fugitive pair in R.I. shooting nabbed by Port Authority police at bus station Fugitive pair in R.I. shooting nabbed by Port Authority police at bus station Fugitive pair in R.I. shooting nabbed by Port Authority police at bus station
Fugitive pair in R.I. shooting nabbed by Port Authority police at bus station BEYOND BERGEN: Port Authority police at the midtown Manhattan bus terminal yesterday grabbed two men wanted for shooting another man in Rhode Island who were switching buses on their way to Philadelphia. PAPD officers got the call from police in Newport, R.I. — along with photographs — just after midnight, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Around 7:15 a.m., they spotted Christopher Rodriguez, 22, of Newport and 20-year-old Joshua Melendez Torres of Mooresville, N.C. and took them into custody pending extradition proceedings, he said. Both are accused of shooting a …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Swerving dump truck mounts Route 208 divider in Fair Lawn Swerving dump truck mounts Route 208 divider in Fair Lawn Swerving dump truck mounts Route 208 divider in Fair Lawn
Swerving dump truck mounts Route 208 divider in Fair Lawn PHOTOS: Courtesy Fair Lawn PD PHOTOS: A dump truck hauling stone to Englewood ended up on a divider on southbound Route 208 in Fair Lawn this morning after the driver swerved to avoid stopped traffic, police said. No injuries were reported after the fully loaded Mack dump truck, owned by Phillips Trucking of Hawthorne, clipped a box truck and ended up on the divider just after 8 a.m, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Fair Lawn Heavy Rescue cleaned up a diesel fuel leak. Borough firefighters responded, as well. Route 208 was down to one lane in both directions for an undetermined amount of tim…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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New Milford police charge former special needs student with back-to-back Krauszers burglaries New Milford police charge former special needs student with back-to-back Krauszers burglaries New Milford police charge former special needs student with back-to-back Krauszers burglaries
New Milford police charge former special needs student with back-to-back Krauszers burglaries YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: It didn’t take New Milford police detectives long to track down and charge a 21-year-old former special needs student who they said stolen several packs of cigarettes — yet left most of them behind — during a pair of overnight burglaries at a local Krauszers. Ryan Wiechnicki was charged with burglary, theft and criminal mischief following the River Road break-in through a front door window just before 2 a.m. yesterday, Detective Kevin Van Saders said. Detectives who reviewed the store’s video surveillance also tied Wiechnicki to a previous attempted burglary at the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack police officers carry disabled resident from apartment fire Hackensack police officers carry disabled resident from apartment fire Hackensack police officers carry disabled resident from apartment fire
Hackensack police officers carry disabled resident from apartment fire UPDATE: Two Hackensack police officers who carried a disabled resident from a garden apartment fire were briefly hospitalized for smoke inhalation along with a trio of firefighters last night. The two-alarm blaze began on a mattress just after 9:30 p.m. and extended up an exterior wall to the attic of the building on Polifly Road near Lodi Street, Fire Capt. Justin Derevyanik told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Five of six residents who were displaced got out on their own. Hackensack Police Sgt. Benny Marino and Officer William Moyano carried the sixth from the burning building, Capt. Timothy Lloyd t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Dump Truck Mounts Route 208 Divider In Fair Lawn Dump Truck Mounts Route 208 Divider In Fair Lawn Dump Truck Mounts Route 208 Divider In Fair Lawn
Dump Truck Mounts Route 208 Divider In Fair Lawn A dump truck hauling stone to Englewood ended up on a divider on southbound Route 208 in Fair Lawn this morning after the driver swerved to avoid stopped traffic, police said. No injuries were reported after the fully loaded Mack dump truck, owned by Phillips Trucking of Hawthorne, clipped a box truck and ended up on the divider just after 8 a.m, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Fair Lawn Heavy Rescue cleaned up a diesel fuel leak. Borough firefighters responded, as well. Route 208 was down to one lane in both directions for an undetermined amount of time awaiting New Jersey Department of Transpor…

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