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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Northern Highlands, NJ
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Bergen Sheriff’s Local 134 hosting benefit dinner for widow, daughters of Lt. Brian Beutel Bergen Sheriff’s Local 134 hosting benefit dinner for widow, daughters of Lt. Brian Beutel Bergen Sheriff’s Local 134 hosting benefit dinner for widow, daughters of Lt. Brian Beutel
Bergen Sheriff’s Local 134 hosting benefit dinner for widow, daughters of Lt. Brian Beutel TRIBUTE: Tickets are still available for a benefit dinner hosted by Bergen County Sheriff’s PBA Local 134 for the widow and five daughters of Sheriff’s Lt. Brian Beutel, who collapsed and died earlier this year during a charity basketball tournament for the Tomorrows Children’s Fund. There will be a 4-hour open bar, tricky tray and DJ at the buffet dinner on Wed., July 22 (7-11 p.m.) at the Venetian in Garfield (546 River Dr.). Tickets are $100. Lt. Brian Beutel INFO: Nick Di Iorio (201) 390-3040 ([email protected]) Jordan Kalender (201) 481-9966 ([email protected]) Ed Alicea (201) 873-…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
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Fire consumes Ridgewood taco restaurant delivery car Fire consumes Ridgewood taco restaurant delivery car Fire consumes Ridgewood taco restaurant delivery car
Fire consumes Ridgewood taco restaurant delivery car PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving PHOTOS: An engine fire early this evening destroyed a Volkswagen Jetta being used as a delivery vehicle for a Ridgewood restaurant. The car was parked behind Tito Burrito’s when the blaze broke out just after 5 p.m. Ridgewood firefighters responded. The vehicle was removed via flatbed tow truck. PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving  

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Delays in case of pair charged with vehicular homicide in 2012 GSP death of Teaneck woman Delays in case of pair charged with vehicular homicide in 2012 GSP death of Teaneck woman Delays in case of pair charged with vehicular homicide in 2012 GSP death of Teaneck woman
Delays in case of pair charged with vehicular homicide in 2012 GSP death of Teaneck woman YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The vehicular homicide trial of two men for the death of a passenger during a road rage crash on the Garden State Parkway in Washington Township three years ago last week will be delayed amid maneuvers by their defense attorneys. CLIFFVIEW PILOT photoby Mary Elizabeth Grubbs Lawyers for Thomas J. Vanderweit of Saddle Brook (above, right) and John C. Emili of Rockland County (above, left) were back before a judge today in bids to have recorded statements excluded and their clients tried separately. Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Martin Delaney vowed to “vig…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
East Rutherford bank forger asks judge to return him to prison so he can finish college credits East Rutherford bank forger asks judge to return him to prison so he can finish college credits East Rutherford bank forger asks judge to return him to prison so he can finish college credits
East Rutherford bank forger asks judge to return him to prison so he can finish college credits CVP EXCLUSIVE: A Brooklyn man who admitted defrauding an East Rutherford bank today in a Hackensack courtroom had an unusual request for the judge: Send him back to prison today so that he can more quickly complete college courses he’s taking there. Authorities ordinarily hold a convicted defendant at the Bergen County Jail until sentencing. Quaran S. Chance, however, told Superior Court Judge James J. Guida that he’d rather be immediately sent back to prison out of state — where he’s serving a six-year term for another conviction — and not attend a scheduled Aug. 14 sentencing. The jud…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Rochelle Park police officer nabs ID thief, seizes bogus licenses, credit cards in traffic stop Rochelle Park police officer nabs ID thief, seizes bogus licenses, credit cards in traffic stop Rochelle Park police officer nabs ID thief, seizes bogus licenses, credit cards in traffic stop
Rochelle Park police officer nabs ID thief, seizes bogus licenses, credit cards in traffic stop YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Rochelle Park police officer intercepted a confessed identity thief who was carrying five driver’s licenses with his photo and other people’s names, along with five matching credit cards, authorities said. Officer Ryan Burke stopped a Ford Explorer with Maryland registration for erratic driving Saturday afternoon on Essex Street off southbound Route 17, Detective Sgt. James DePreta said this afternoon. Burke “spoke with both the driver and passenger and found their accounts of where they were heading extremely different,” DePreta said. After obtaining the drive…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Woman says purse was snatched after she stopped to ask directions in Lodi Woman says purse was snatched after she stopped to ask directions in Lodi Woman says purse was snatched after she stopped to ask directions in Lodi
Woman says purse was snatched after she stopped to ask directions in Lodi YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Turkish immigrant told Lodi police that a strong-armed robber ran up and snatched her purse after she pulled over to ask directions. The woman said she stopped on Union Street near Pine Street around 3 p.m. Friday when the bandit ran up from behind and grabbed the purse and bolted toward Williams Street in Hasbrouck Heights, Police Chief Vincent Quatrone said this morning. It contained a Turkish passport and green card, a Social Security card, a Massachusetts driver’s license and a TD Bank card, he said. She described him as white, bearded, about 5-foot-10 and …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Detectives charge Elmwood Park retiree, 78, with watching porn in front of girl, 6 Detectives charge Elmwood Park retiree, 78, with watching porn in front of girl, 6 Detectives charge Elmwood Park retiree, 78, with watching porn in front of girl, 6
Detectives charge Elmwood Park retiree, 78, with watching porn in front of girl, 6 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli this morning confirmed the arrest of a 78-year-old Elmwood Park retiree charged watching porn in front of a 6-year-old girl. Vincent Anello was arrested on child endangerment charges Thursday by members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit and Elmwood Park police after the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency “learned of what had occurred between [Anello] and the victim and notified” his office, Molinelli said. Anello, who is married, remained held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Mahwah gas main struck, no evacuations necessary, police say Mahwah gas main struck, no evacuations necessary, police say Mahwah gas main struck, no evacuations necessary, police say
Mahwah gas main struck, no evacuations necessary, police say UPDATE: No evacuations were required but some Mahwah business owners reported a faint odor of natural gas after a construction crew struck a main this morning. The crew was doing roadway work when it hit the main at the intersection of Island Road and McKee Drive around 10:40 a.m., Police Chief James Batelli told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “It was not deemed to be at a dangerous level and it was not necessary for employees to leave,” he said. Mahwah police and firefighters immediately responded. A PSE&G crew was expected soon after.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Hackensack grand jury adds three more victims against lawyer accused of threatening judges Hackensack grand jury adds three more victims against lawyer accused of threatening judges Hackensack grand jury adds three more victims against lawyer accused of threatening judges
Hackensack grand jury adds three more victims against lawyer accused of threatening judges EXCLUSIVE REPORT: A grand jury in Hackensack has charged an Essex County lawyer awaiting trial for threatening two New Jersey judges with doing the same to a Millburn rabbi and a husband and wife who operate a high-end South Orange restaurant. Michael L. Brendzel, 67, was in court in Hackensack last week for arguments by his attorney for written transcripts of tape-recorded phone calls for his trial when the indictment was returned. Brendzel’s cases were transferred to Bergen County this January after he fled an Essex County warrant and was arrested in New York City, where prosecutors say…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Route 4 maneuver by Leonia officer ends crash-filled chase of carjacker in stolen Englewood Cliffs police cruiser Route 4 maneuver by Leonia officer ends crash-filled chase of carjacker in stolen Englewood Cliffs police cruiser Route 4 maneuver by Leonia officer ends crash-filled chase of carjacker in stolen Englewood Cliffs police cruiser
Route 4 maneuver by Leonia officer ends crash-filled chase of carjacker in stolen Englewood Cliffs police cruiser UPDATE: A Leonia police officer ended a low-speed chase with a man who stole an Englewood Cliffs police cruiser yesterday by bumping the car with his, sending it onto the lawn of a Route 4 car dealership in Paramus. Sereymanta Kong, 22, of Wallingford, CT (above) had just stuck his tongue out at a New Milford police officer before hitting his car and sending it into the westbound highway median, where it was struck by another borough cruiser. That’s when Leonia Officer Erik Goodell “decided he had to do something immediately,” Leonia Police Chief Thomas Rowe told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Englew…

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