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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Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Palisades Interstate Parkway police seize 400 bags of heroin, arrest two from upstate NY Palisades Interstate Parkway police seize 400 bags of heroin, arrest two from upstate NY Palisades Interstate Parkway police seize 400 bags of heroin, arrest two from upstate NY
Palisades Interstate Parkway police seize 400 bags of heroin, arrest two from upstate NY YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Palisades Interstate Parkway police seized nearly a third of a pound of heroin and arrested a pair of 22-year-old men from upstate New York men following a traffic stop yesterday. Officer Michael Griffin stopped a blue 2013 Acura for having tinted windows and brake light covers on the northbound Palisades Interstate Parkway near Exit 2 in Alpine around 4 p.m., Police Chief Michael Coppola said this morning. The smell of burnt marijuana wafted from the front passenger window, so Griffin called for backups and was joined by Officers Greg Kimbro, Martin Clancy and Tim…

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Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Bergenfield PBA beefsteak fundraiser features NYC comedians Bergenfield PBA beefsteak fundraiser features NYC comedians Bergenfield PBA beefsteak fundraiser features NYC comedians
Bergenfield PBA beefsteak fundraiser features NYC comedians SHOUT OUT: Bergenfield PBA Local 309 is hosting an Oct. 10 beefsteak comedy fundraiser featuring comedians Mark Demayo — a retired New York City police detective (above, left) — and John Mulrooney, both New York City natives. The event will run from 7 p.m. to midnight at Conlon Hall on North William Street. There will be a tricky tray and 50/50. DONATION: $50 (includes beefsteak, beer, wine, soda) CONTACT: Ahmed Alagha (973-261-3175) or Dave Tortora (201-230-2846)

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Former Fair Lawn serviceman shoots himself dead Former Fair Lawn serviceman shoots himself dead Former Fair Lawn serviceman shoots himself dead
Former Fair Lawn serviceman shoots himself dead UPDATE: A suicidal Fair Lawn man shot himself dead with a police officer outside his door just after midnight this morning. The 33-year-old victim shot himself with a rifle around 12:30 a.m. after the officer responded to a call of a woman screaming out a window for help at the Hollow Run apartment complex on Sperber Road a half-hour earlier, Ronald Patterson told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The Fair Lawn Volunteer Ambulance Corps was summoned. The Bergen County Sheriff’s Office Bureau of Criminal Identification collected evidence.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
PHOTOS: No injuries in NJ Turnpike SUV fire PHOTOS: No injuries in NJ Turnpike SUV fire PHOTOS: No injuries in NJ Turnpike SUV fire
Photos: No injuries in NJ Turnpike SUV fire TOP: Deserie BrzoskoABOVE, BELOW: Jeanine Hunter Torres PHOTOS: No injuries were reported after an SUV hauling a trailer caught fire near Exit 16W on the northbound New Jersey Turnpike earlier today. PHOTO: Jeanine Hunter Torres

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Three Sent To Prison For Trafficking Gun Used In Hackensack Police Shootout Three Sent To Prison For Trafficking Gun Used In Hackensack Police Shootout Three Sent To Prison For Trafficking Gun Used In Hackensack Police Shootout
Three Sent To Prison For Trafficking Gun Used In Hackensack Police Shootout Three men got prison terms yesterday for their roles in trafficking a gun from Florida that a fleeing fugitive used to shoot at Hackensack police. And all could be free in months. New Jersey “doesn’t have the toughest gun laws in the country for no reason,” Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Danielle Grootenboer said at the sentencings. “These cases serve as a cautionary tale that anybody with guns anywhere anyway is going to be prosecuted.” Grootenboer singled out Jerry Nunez, 24, of Cliffside Park, who was featured on the NBC prison docudrama “Lockup,” recorded at the Bergen County Jail…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
4 Wood-Ridge juveniles accused of setting Avalon garage fire 4 Wood-Ridge juveniles accused of setting Avalon garage fire 4 Wood-Ridge juveniles accused of setting Avalon garage fire
4 Wood-Ridge juveniles accused of setting Avalon garage fire PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Correspondent Damien Danis CVP EXCLUSIVE: Wood-Ridge police took four juveniles from the Avalon apartment complex into custody for setting a fire tonight that destroyed four garages at the development. The quartet was “fooling around with matches, lit some charcoal and it apparently got away from them,” Police Chief Joseph Rutigliano told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The row of four garages behind Building No. 4 were “a total loss,” Rutigliano said. Firefighters who made quick work of the blaze were barely finished when Lt. Michael O’Donnell and his team gathered enough i…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Mystery helicopter over Waldwick ‘no cause for concern,’ police say Mystery helicopter over Waldwick ‘no cause for concern,’ police say Mystery helicopter over Waldwick ‘no cause for concern,’ police say
Mystery helicopter over Waldwick ‘no cause for concern,’ police say UPDATE: A black helicopter with a military-type medical insignia hovered briefly over Waldwick tonight and was “no cause for concern,” police told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “We don’t who it belongs to, but it appears to be some sort of medivac,” Lt Douglas Moore said tonight. “It flew over Waldwick, hoveredover some homes and fled the area.” Speculation that authorities were hunting a fugitive was false, Moore said. “We do not have a fugitive on the loose,” he said. “They went right over my house,” Moore told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “They circled for awhile and were gone. “One possible thought is t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Truck driven by Fair Lawn boy, 17, kills motorcyclist Truck driven by Fair Lawn boy, 17, kills motorcyclist Truck driven by Fair Lawn boy, 17, kills motorcyclist
Truck driven by Fair Lawn boy, 17, kills motorcyclist YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 48-year-old Hawthorne motorcyclist was killed in Fair Lawn this afternoon when his bike was struck by a pickup truck driven by a 17-year-old local boy, police told CLIFFVIEW PILOT tonight. Sameh Elgendy succumbed to his injuries at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center a short time after the 3:15 p.m. crash, Lt. Joseph Dawicki said. No summonses were immediately issued to the Ford F-150 driver, who Dawicki said was turning from southbound River Road onto Berdan Avenue when it struck Elgency’s Harley Davidson headed north on River Road. An investigation was conti…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Passerby firefighters save woman, pit bulls from Paramus house blaze Passerby firefighters save woman, pit bulls from Paramus house blaze Passerby firefighters save woman, pit bulls from Paramus house blaze
Passerby firefighters save woman, pit bulls from Paramus house blaze CVP EXCLUSIVE: Two volunteer firefighters passing by this afternoon got a woman and her two pit bulls out of a Paramus house moments before it was engulfed in flames, killing the owner’s cat. Shawn Hagal told CLIFFVIEW PILOT that he and Ryan Meyers had just delivered dirt to Bergen Regional Medical Center for a paving materials company and were returning a pair of tri-axle dump trucks to their employer’s Newark yard when he saw the smoke from the Farview Avenue fire around 2:20 p.m. “As soon as we got closer, I saw the fire in back,” said Hagal, a Fairview firefighter who lives in Ridgefi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Closter woman, 60, becomes 14th GWB suicide of 2015 Closter woman, 60, becomes 14th GWB suicide of 2015 Closter woman, 60, becomes 14th GWB suicide of 2015
Closter woman, 60, becomes 14th GWB suicide of 2015 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The body of a 60-year-old Closter woman who jumped from the George Washington Bridge this morning was recovered from the Hudson River about 70 minutes later, Port Authority police told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. She was taken to nearby St. Luke’s Hospital, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The woman jumped midspan around 11:20 a.m., he said.  

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