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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Rivertowns, NY
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Port Authority police say DWI driver plowed over cones in restricted Holland Tunnel area Port Authority police say DWI driver plowed over cones in restricted Holland Tunnel area Port Authority police say DWI driver plowed over cones in restricted Holland Tunnel area
Port Authority police say DWI driver plowed over cones in restricted Holland Tunnel area BEYOND BERGEN: A drunk driver with a suspended license and an outstanding warrant plowed over cones in a restricted area headed into the Holland Tunnel in Jersey City overnight before a Port Authority police lieutenant stopped him. PAPD Lt. Joseph Macaluso ordered Nldamak J. Ashman, 37, of Irvington out of the 2003 Ford Expedition SUV around 1 a.m. after it barreled through a restricted employee-only zone, crashed into a cone line and entered the flow of traffic with cones wedged underneath, severely damaging a tire and rim, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said. Ashman “was unsteady on …

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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Franklin Lakes Animal Hospital donates pet oxygen masks to Wyckoff Fire Department Franklin Lakes Animal Hospital donates pet oxygen masks to Wyckoff Fire Department Franklin Lakes Animal Hospital donates pet oxygen masks to Wyckoff Fire Department
Franklin Lakes Animal Hospital donates pet oxygen masks to Wyckoff Fire Department SHOUT OUT: The Franklin Lakes Animal Hospital last week donated pet oxygen masks to the Wyckoff Fire Department. TOP (left to right): Dr Alan Pomerantz, Andrea LaCorte, Kathy DeBlock. WFD Chief Lou Graglia, Capt. Matt Omaggi and Firefighters Scott Amantea, Chris Repetto and Pete Cascardo

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Sleeping driver escapes injury in Little Ferry crash Sleeping driver escapes injury in Little Ferry crash Sleeping driver escapes injury in Little Ferry crash
Sleeping driver escapes injury in Little Ferry crash PHOTO: A driver escaped after he fell asleep and his sedan rammed into a parked construction truck on Route 46 in Little Ferry before dawn yesterday. Little Ferry EMS tended to the victim after the 5 a.m. crash.  

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Driver OK after crashing into tree in Glen Rock Driver OK after crashing into tree in Glen Rock Driver OK after crashing into tree in Glen Rock
Driver OK after crashing into tree in Glen Rock PHOTOS: A driver refused medical treatment after her Chevrolet HHR downed a street sign and hit a tree in Glen Rock late this afternoon. Glen Rock police and EMS responded to the afternoon crash on Harristown Road near Radburn Road. The vehicle was removed by a flatbed tow truck. PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving

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Pascack Valley, NJ
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Popular Oradell dentist from Washington Township pulled from backyard swimming pool Popular Oradell dentist from Washington Township pulled from backyard swimming pool Popular Oradell dentist from Washington Township pulled from backyard swimming pool
Popular Oradell dentist from Washington Township pulled from backyard swimming pool EXCLUSIVE: A popular dentist from Washington Township was pulled from the bottom of his backyard swimming pool this afternoon and rushed to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood in grave condition. Police received a frantic 911 call from Alan Mischel’s wife around 1:50 p.m. after she jumped in and pulled him out, responders told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. They found the Oradell dentist unresponsive, his skin blue, and conducted CPR, they said. Mischel was taken from the President Road to the hospital with a police escort. His condition couldn’t immediately be determined. Washington Township Police w…

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Pascack Valley, NJ
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Elderly Driver Rams Minivan Into Westwood Home Elderly Driver Rams Minivan Into Westwood Home Elderly Driver Rams Minivan Into Westwood Home
Elderly Driver Rams Minivan Into Westwood Home WESTWOOD, N.J. -- An elderly driver who neighbors said shouldn't have been behind the wheel refused medical attention after he plowed a minivan into a Westwood home. The driver was backing up from his home directly across the street around 7 p.m. July 30 when the vehicle accelerated into the house, witnesses told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. He tried to free it and the van struck the house again, before the tires spun and dug in, they said. The Emerson Volunteer Ambulance Corps checked him out, along with two children who were upstairs in the house and were shaken up by the crash Emerson and Westwood…

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Bergenfield, NJ
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Port Authority police pot stop yields $41,000 in suspected drug money from couple at Holland Tunnel Port Authority police pot stop yields $41,000 in suspected drug money from couple at Holland Tunnel Port Authority police pot stop yields $41,000 in suspected drug money from couple at Holland Tunnel
Port Authority police pot stop yields $41,000 in suspected drug money from couple at Holland Tunnel YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Port Authority police seized more than $41,000 in suspected drug proceeds from a Kearny man and a Miami woman whose pot-reeking vehicle was stopped exiting the Holland Tunnel in Jersey City. Officer John Adams stopped the black 2008 Honda after smelling burning marijuana Thursday night, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. The driver couldn’t produce a driver’s license (which was suspended) or registration, he said. Asked about the car’s ownership, 39-year-old Manuel G. Rodriquez “gave conflicting statements and volunteered that he…

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Hackensack, NJ
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8 years for Garfield ex-con in Elmwood Park convenience store robbery 8 years for Garfield ex-con in Elmwood Park convenience store robbery 8 years for Garfield ex-con in Elmwood Park convenience store robbery
8 years for Garfield ex-con in Elmwood Park convenience store robbery CVP EXCLUSIVE: A heroin-addicted Garfield ex-con was sentenced to eight years in state prison yesterday for robbing an Elmwood Park convenience store last summer using a stolen motorcycle. Ariel Drapczynski, 31, wil serve at least six years and eight months — concurrent with the same sentence for a similar holdup in Wanaque — before he’s eligible for parole. Ariel Drapczynski (STORY / PHOTO: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter Mary K. Miraglia) Drapczynski took his plea after prosecutors struck a deal with his co-defendant in the Passaic County robbery to testify against him. Tomasz M…

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Hackensack, NJ
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Lyndhurst couple rescued from roof, cats die in overnight house fire Lyndhurst couple rescued from roof, cats die in overnight house fire Lyndhurst couple rescued from roof, cats die in overnight house fire
Lyndhurst couple rescued from roof, cats die in overnight house fire YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Responders rescued a Lyndhurst couple who climbed onto a lower roof from a second-floor bedroom during an overnight house blaze. The 45-year-old man and 35-year-old woman were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center to be treated for smoke inhalation after Lyndhurst Fire Chief Paul Haggerty and Police Sgt. Andrew Marmorato used a ground ladder to reach them on the peaked lower roof, Police Capt. John Valente told CLIFFVIEW PILOT following the 3:51 a.m. fire. At the same time, Officers Nick Abruscato and Joseph White tried getting into the basement and first f…

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Tappan-Blauvelt, NY
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Dramatic rescue: North Bergen police officers grab suicidal girl, 16, high atop Palisades Dramatic rescue: North Bergen police officers grab suicidal girl, 16, high atop Palisades Dramatic rescue: North Bergen police officers grab suicidal girl, 16, high atop Palisades
Dramatic rescue: North Bergen police officers grab suicidal girl, 16, high atop Palisades YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A suicidal 16-year-old girl was balanced precariously outside a North Bergen bridge over the Palisades, contemplating the straight 200-foot drop, when a pair of township police officers grabbed her in a dramatic rescue before dawn this morning. A jogger flagged down NBPD Officers Kevin Rodriguez and George Debal around 5 a.m. after hearing the West New York girl crying and finding her on the ledge of a retaining wall, high above River Road, on what locally has been called “suicide bridge,” Police Capt. Patrick Irwin told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Boulevard East 76th Street …

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