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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Hackensack, NJ
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Five female drivers taken to two hospitals after seven-vehicle crash in Bergenfield Five female drivers taken to two hospitals after seven-vehicle crash in Bergenfield Five female drivers taken to two hospitals after seven-vehicle crash in Bergenfield
Five female drivers taken to two hospitals after seven-vehicle crash in Bergenfield PHOTOS: A chain-reaction crash caused by a tractor-trailer and involving six other vehicles in Bergenfield this afternoon sent five female drivers to two area hospitals with injuries that authorities didn’t consider serious. The 53-foot tractor-trailer, registered to JB Hunt, was traveling eastbound on New Bridge Road approaching the intersection of South Prospect Avenue when it struck the rear of a vehicle waiting in the left turn lane, Police Chief Michael Carr said tonight. The impact sent that vehicle into another vehicle also waiting to turn left onto South Prospect, he said. Th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
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Federal judge convicts Teaneck man of failing to register as sex offender Federal judge convicts Teaneck man of failing to register as sex offender Federal judge convicts Teaneck man of failing to register as sex offender
Federal judge convicts Teaneck man of failing to register as sex offender YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A federal judge in Newark today convicted a New York sex offender of failing to register when he moved to Teaneck in September 2013. Richard Joseph, 42, used the aliases “Richard Beltre,” “Joseph Richards” and “Aaron Joseph,” among others, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said. U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton convicted Joseph following a bench trial of one count of failing to register or update a registration as required by law. The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (“SORNA”) requires that all sex offenders who travel in interstate or foreign comm…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Moonachie, Hackensack men, boy charged in rapes of girl, 10 Moonachie, Hackensack men, boy charged in rapes of girl, 10 Moonachie, Hackensack men, boy charged in rapes of girl, 10
Moonachie, Hackensack men, boy charged in rapes of girl, 10 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Detectives took a Moonachie construction worker and a 15-year-old boy into custody, and were searching for a second man, in connection with a series of rapes of a 10-year-old Hackensack girl. The investigation began after the girl told her mother that each “forcibly engaged in inappropriate sexual activity…individually and on separate occasions,” Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon. Members of Molinelli’s Special Victims Unit and the Hackensack Police Department, in turn, seized the teen on Monday, then took 54-year-old Vincente Cunalata into custody y…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Fugitive animal rescue operator who had dead, emaciated dogs at Dumont house jailed Fugitive animal rescue operator who had dead, emaciated dogs at Dumont house jailed Fugitive animal rescue operator who had dead, emaciated dogs at Dumont house jailed
Fugitive animal rescue operator who had dead, emaciated dogs at Dumont house jailed YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The owner and operator of a Newark non-profit animal rescue charged with having two dead dogs and a half-dozen emaciated canines at her Dumont home is no longer a fugitive: She was arrested this morning. PHOTOS: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SPCA ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A judge in Hackensack today ordered the owner and operator of a Newark non-profit animal rescue back to jail and set another court appearance for next Tuesday on charges stemming from the discovery of two dead dogs and a half-dozen emaciated canines at her Dumont home. READ MORE…. Gabrielle Ganter was bein…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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Arson investigators probe blaze at abandoned Curtiss Wright building in Wood-Ridge Arson investigators probe blaze at abandoned Curtiss Wright building in Wood-Ridge Arson investigators probe blaze at abandoned Curtiss Wright building in Wood-Ridge
Arson investigators probe blaze at abandoned Curtiss Wright building in Wood-Ridge YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Arson investigators were looking into what was deemed a suspicious fire at an abandoned Curtiss Wright test cell in Wood-Ridge this afternoon. UPDATE: Five juveniles face Family Court hearings for their roles in an arson fire yesterday in an abandoned building in the Curtiss Wright complex in Wood-Ridge. READ MORE…. The three-alarm blaze broke out among old pallets and tires around 1:10 p.m. in an area where engines were tested, Police Chief Joseph Rutigliano told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Carlstadt, Hasbrouck Heights, Little Ferry, Mooonachie and Wallington responders we…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Hudson County GOP chairman busted for DWI in Jersey City Hudson County GOP chairman busted for DWI in Jersey City Hudson County GOP chairman busted for DWI in Jersey City
Hudson County GOP chairman busted for DWI in Jersey City UPDATE: Hudson County Republican Party Chairman Jose O. Arango, the head of one of the few immigrants to win a seat in the New Jersey Legislature and one of the youngest to serve as an assemblyman, was arrested on DWI charges in Jersey City last night, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. Arango, who last August became the “Chair of Chairs” for the Association of New Jersey Republican Party County Chairs, was stopped by Port Authority police on 14th Street near Manila Avenue at 1:30 a.m. because his 2009 Nissan swerving with its headlights off, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Rochelle Park lieutenant rescues opiate overdose victim, 58, with Narcan Rochelle Park lieutenant rescues opiate overdose victim, 58, with Narcan Rochelle Park lieutenant rescues opiate overdose victim, 58, with Narcan
Rochelle Park lieutenant rescues opiate overdose victim, 58, with Narcan SHOUT OUT: A Rochelle Park police lieutenant rescued a 58-year-old opiate overdose victim in the department’s first-ever Narcan save. Lt. Dean Pinto responded to the 3 p.m. call Saturday and conducted CPR while administering the dose that brought the woman around, Police Chief Robert Flannelly told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. The Rochelle Park Volunteer Ambulance Corps took the woman to Hackensack University Medical Center, the chief said. She’s since been “improving on a daily basis,” he said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Teen counselor charged with sexual assaults of Fair Lawn English-language student, 6 Teen counselor charged with sexual assaults of Fair Lawn English-language student, 6 Teen counselor charged with sexual assaults of Fair Lawn English-language student, 6
Teen counselor charged with sexual assaults of Fair Lawn English-language student, 6 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Authorities charged a 17-year-old volunteer at a Fair Lawn school that teaches English to children with sexually assaulting a 6-year-old student. The boy, who was a counselor with the English Language Learner (ELL) Summer Enrichment Program at the Lyncrest Elementary School on Morlot Avenue, “forcibly engaged in inappropriate sexual activity on numerous occasions” with the girl, who was a student there, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this morning. The boy was being held at the Bergen County Juvenile Detention Center in Teterboro on a delinquency co…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Ski-masked robber takes $800 at gunpoint from Lodi 7-Eleven Ski-masked robber takes $800 at gunpoint from Lodi 7-Eleven Ski-masked robber takes $800 at gunpoint from Lodi 7-Eleven
Ski-masked robber takes $800 at gunpoint from Lodi 7-Eleven YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Lodi police released a surveillance image this morning of a robber wearing a ski mask who took $800 at gunpoint overnight from a local 7-Eleven. An employee was mopping the floor near the coffee aisle at 3:50 a.m. when the robber entered the Main Street convenience store “brandishing a black semi-automatic handgun” at 3:50 a.m., Lt. Robert Salerno said. He was wearing a wool hat with eye cutouts and a mouth cutout, the lieutenant said. The robber then “led the employee behind the counter and demanded the money from the register” before fleeing with the cash, he s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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Rutherford police match dumbbells after attempted deli burglary Rutherford police match dumbbells after attempted deli burglary Rutherford police match dumbbells after attempted deli burglary
Rutherford police match dumbbells after attempted deli burglary YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Kearny man who Rutherford police said tried to smash a deli window with a dumbbell in an attempted burglary was arrested overnight after officers found the matching weight in his friend’s apartment. Officers responding to a burglary alarm at the Forest Dairy & Deli on Spring Dell just after 2:30 a.m. found the 20-pound weight lodged in the window pane of the front door, Capt. Patrick Feliciano said this morning. Detective Sgt. Thomas Lewis reviewed surveillance footage with the owner and joined a search of the area. At 3:46 a.m., Lewis and both Sgt. David D…

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