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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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Car ends up on Route 46 divider in Saddle Brook Car ends up on Route 46 divider in Saddle Brook Car ends up on Route 46 divider in Saddle Brook
Car ends up on Route 46 divider in Saddle Brook PHOTO: Steve Bailey caught this shot last night of a sedan on a Route 46 divider at 5th Street in Saddle Brook. “Perfectly balanced, all wheels up,” he said. No one was injured in the mishap, Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

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Hackensack, NJ
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Accounts clash in charity flag football game brawl that injured volunteer Wallington firefighter Accounts clash in charity flag football game brawl that injured volunteer Wallington firefighter Accounts clash in charity flag football game brawl that injured volunteer Wallington firefighter
Accounts clash in charity flag football game brawl that injured volunteer Wallington firefighter EXCLUSIVE REPORT: The outcome of charges against a Port Authority police officer accused of sucker-punching a volunteer Wallington firefighter who he said called him a racial epithet during a charity flag football game will come down to witnesses’ testimony. Attorneys for both men gave CLIFFVIEW PILOT differing accounts of what occurred in the final moments of the the David J. Popek Jr. Man of Steel Football Tournament championship game on June 20 at the Wallington High School field. Attorney S. Emile Lisboa said his client, 36-year-old PAPD Officer Stanley M. O’Neill Jr., went up to inte…

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Pascack Valley, NJ
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Undercover detectives charge Hillsdale woman with selling Percocet, Xanax Undercover detectives charge Hillsdale woman with selling Percocet, Xanax Undercover detectives charge Hillsdale woman with selling Percocet, Xanax
Undercover detectives charge Hillsdale woman with selling Percocet, Xanax YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 47-year-old Hillsdale woman was arrested after authorities said she sold five dozen Percocets and more than two dozen Xanax to an undercover detective from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office. Detectives from the BCPO’s Narcotic Task Force took Laura Carn into custody a short time after the $1,035 Tuesday sale in Hillsdale, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon. It was the third time she’d sold to an undercover, he said. A judge ordered her held on $50,000 bail on drug distribution charges. MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
5th Narcan save for Lodi police 5th Narcan save for Lodi police 5th Narcan save for Lodi police
5th Narcan save for Lodi police SHOUT OUT: A Lodi police officer made the department’s fifth Narcan save earlier today when he rescued a 20-year-old woman who’d overdosed on heroin. Police Officer Nicholas Nobre found the woman on the floor of the Woodside Avenue residence, Detectie Capt. Donald Scorzetti said. Her eyelids were half shut and her skin was blue, he said. Nearby were hypodermic syringes and several empty wax paper folds. The first Narcan blast wasn’t effective, but the second had her mumbling and her eyes moving, Scorzetti said. Emergency medical techs took her to Hackensack University Medical Center…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority police officer injured by DWI driver on GWB Port Authority police officer injured by DWI driver on GWB Port Authority police officer injured by DWI driver on GWB
Port Authority police officer injured by DWI driver on GWB YOU READ IT HERE FIRST (UPDATE): A Bronx driver registered a .185 blood-alcohol content — more than twice the legal limit — after his car struck one driven by a Port Authority police officer from behind on the lower level of the George Washington Bridge this morning. The PAPD officer was stopped near the New York tower with her emergency lights on, conducting a security check, when her SUV was struck by a 2000 Subaru at 5:25 a.m., the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Ramon Infante “had a strong scent of alcohol on his breath and was unsteady on his foot,” Pentangelo sai…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Franklin Lakes police nab trio in bogus credit card theft Franklin Lakes police nab trio in bogus credit card theft Franklin Lakes police nab trio in bogus credit card theft
Franklin Lakes police nab trio in bogus credit card theft YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Franklin Lakes police charged a trio of alleged thieves with using a bogus credit card at the local Stop & Shop. Officers who were called to the Franklin Avenue store on Sunday arrested Lymel Ratliff, 25, and Kirt Cole, 26, both of Brooklyn, and 20-year-old Jaerria Jordan of Detroit, Detective Lt. John Bakelaar said this afternoon. All three were ordered held on $25,000 bail each in the Bergen County Jail. Oakland police and the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office assisted.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen County Public Safety Operations Center assumes Teaneck 911 calls Bergen County Public Safety Operations Center assumes Teaneck 911 calls Bergen County Public Safety Operations Center assumes Teaneck 911 calls
Bergen County Public Safety Operations Center assumes Teaneck 911 calls PUBLIC SAFETY: Teaneck has become Bergen County’s largest municipality to have the county handle its 911 calls. The Bergen County Communications Center began handling the emergency calls yesterday after what County Executive Jim Tedesco called a “seamless transition” from Teaneck dispatching. “This is exactly what the operations center was built for — to give municipalities the opportunity and ability to share services through the county at an affordable price,” Tedesco (above, left) said. This way, he said, “taxpayers can benefit from the savings while maintaining safe and efficient em…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Northvale PD graduates Junior Police Academy Class #8 Northvale PD graduates Junior Police Academy Class #8 Northvale PD graduates Junior Police Academy Class #8
Northvale PD graduates Junior Police Academy Class #8 SHOUT OUT: The Northvale Police Department held graduation in Hogan Park today for its eighth Junior Police Academy Class. Launched in 2008, the program directed by Sgt. Robert Pizzi exposed students to various facets of law enforcement — criminal investigation, firearms safety and motor vehicle stops — during an intensive week. The class took field trips to the Bergen County Jail and the 911 Memorial Museum at Ground Zero in Manhattan and had demonstrations and guest lectures from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, Fort Lee Police Department Motorcycle Patrol Unit, Bergen County Regi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
1 injured, three dehydrated in church group trail hike along Palisades 1 injured, three dehydrated in church group trail hike along Palisades 1 injured, three dehydrated in church group trail hike along Palisades
1 injured, three dehydrated in church group trail hike along Palisades UPDATE: A total of 17 children who were part of a church group on a Hudson River shore trail hike were brought to Palisades Interstate Parkway Police headquarters tonight to await their parents after one sustained an ankle injury and three others became dehydrated. Closter EMS and Closter Rescue responded, and the group was moved to the Alpine Boat Basin, PIP Police Chief Michael Coppola said tonight. The Westchester County Police Marine Unit assisted, Coppola said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Mob-involved Saddle River man who leaped to death from HUMC parking deck was wanted by federal authorities Mob-involved Saddle River man who leaped to death from HUMC parking deck was wanted by federal authorities Mob-involved Saddle River man who leaped to death from HUMC parking deck was wanted by federal authorities
Mob-involved Saddle River man who leaped to death from Humc parking deck was wanted by federal authorities UPDATE: A 59-year-old Saddle River man who jumped more than 50 feet to his death from the top of the parking garage at Hackensack University Medical Center today was a Genovese organized crime family associate who was to have turned himself in yesterday to federal authorities, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. Edward Cobb, a father of three and former U.S. Navy Seal who was a “high-level player in Blackwater,” was being treated at the hospital for breast cancer and melanoma, sources said. Cobb was to have surrendered to the U.S. Marshals Service yesterday but didn’t show, leading a U.S. Distri…

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