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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Beekman-Poughquag, NY
Breaking News
Port Authority police seize 3,380 cartons of illegal cigarettes in GWB stop Port Authority police seize 3,380 cartons of illegal cigarettes in GWB stop Port Authority police seize 3,380 cartons of illegal cigarettes in GWB stop
Port Authority police seize 3,380 cartons of illegal cigarettes in GWB stop YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Port Authority police found 3,380 cartons of various cigarettes without tax stamps in a truck stopped late last night for illegally traveling on the lower level of the George Washington Bridge. A computer check after the 2013 white Chevrolet truck was stopped around 11 p.m. found that Corey J. O’Neil, 30, had his license revoked for DWI, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. O’Neil — who along with his two passengers is from Salamanca in upstate New York — told the officers he was transporting cigarettes, Pentangelo said. They als…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Englewood ex-con threatens lawyer Englewood ex-con threatens lawyer Englewood ex-con threatens lawyer
Englewood ex-con threatens lawyer ONLY ON CVP: Sentencing for an Englewood ex-con was postponed in Hackensack yesterday after he threatened his lawyer. “I’m finding the attorney/client relationship between you has been irretrievably broken down,” Superior Court Judge Frances M. McGrogan told Rameesh Dula. Dula, 31, who’s accused in both a 2013 burglary in Tenafly and what became a police chase from Englewood to Paramus last year, denied threatening anyone. “We had a little disagreement,” he told the judge. “I don’t feel like he’s been doing what he said he was going to do for me. “As far as saying I made a threat agai…

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Hackensack, NJ
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Suspension without pay for Port Authority police officer charged with assaulting Wallington firefighter during charity football game Suspension without pay for Port Authority police officer charged with assaulting Wallington firefighter during charity football game Suspension without pay for Port Authority police officer charged with assaulting Wallington firefighter during charity football game
Suspension without pay for Port Authority police officer charged with assaulting Wallington firefighter during charity football game YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The Port Authority suspended one of its police officers without pay after Wallington police charged him with assaulting a volunteer firefighter during a flag football game last weekend, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. The authority’s Joseph Pentangelo confirmed tonight that 36-year-old Stanley M. O’Neill Jr. of Hackensack was suspended after he was charged in connection with last Saturday’s incident during the David J. Popek Jr. Man of Steel Football Tournament at the Wallington High School field. Steven Ventura Witnesses said O’Neill hit 22-year-old firefighter Ste…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Wallington man found asleep at wheel of taxi had heroin, burglary proceeds, police charge Wallington man found asleep at wheel of taxi had heroin, burglary proceeds, police charge Wallington man found asleep at wheel of taxi had heroin, burglary proceeds, police charge
Wallington man found asleep at wheel of taxi had heroin, burglary proceeds, police charge A Polish national found asleep at the wheel of a cab at a Wallington intersection had several empty bags of heroin, an unused bag of the drug and stolen electronics, jewelry and credit cards, authorities said. A caller just after midnight Wednesday told responding officers that the taxi had been stopped at Van Winkle Avenue and Mercer Street, the engine running, for nearly an hour, Police Chief Carmelo Imbruglia said. Asked for his paperwork, Dominik Frydel, 22, said he had no license, Imbruglia said. An NCIC check found an outstanding warrant from Passaic County while a search turned u…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Toms River man dies in suicide leap from Fort Lee Historic Park Toms River man dies in suicide leap from Fort Lee Historic Park Toms River man dies in suicide leap from Fort Lee Historic Park
Toms River man dies in suicide leap from Fort Lee Historic Park YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 42-year-old Toms River man jumped to his death from Fort Lee Historic Park atop the Palisades this afternoon, authorities confirmed tonight. Palisades Interstate Parkway police who found Eddie Griffin after being summoned to Henry Hudson Drive south of the Edgewater entrance at 1:42 p.m. learned that he “intended to harm himself after leaving his home earlier in the day,” PIP Police Chief Michael Coppola said. Griffin was “unconscious and unresponsive,” said Coppola, who joined his officers at the scene. CPR was conducted and Fort Lee EMS brought Griffin to Eng…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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Garfield, Wallington home burglaries added to charges against Jersey Shore man Garfield, Wallington home burglaries added to charges against Jersey Shore man Garfield, Wallington home burglaries added to charges against Jersey Shore man
Garfield, Wallington home burglaries added to charges against Jersey Shore man UPDATE: Criminal complaints continued to pile up against a Jersey Shore man when Garfield police charged him in connection with a pair of local burglaries. Wallington and Garfield police were looking for James Pellett, 26, of Neptune, when Clifton police arrested him on Tuesday. An investigation by Garfield Detective Sgts. Joseph Delaney and Mario Pozo and Detective Marc Amos led to charges against Pellett in connection with a June 12 burglary on Willard Street, in which electronics were stolen, and a June 18 break-in on Wessington Avenue, in which jewelry and electronics were taken. Th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
NY man, 27, charged with having sex with Closter girl, 15 NY man, 27, charged with having sex with Closter girl, 15 NY man, 27, charged with having sex with Closter girl, 15
NY man, 27, charged with having sex with Closter girl, 15 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An upstate New York deliveryman was charged by members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit with statutory rape after a police officer caught him and a borough girl in a local park. David J. Clarke, 27, was being held without bail in the Dutchess County Jail pending extradition to New Jersey after authorities took him into custody in Poughkeepsie yesterday, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon. Clarke is charged with sexual assault and child endangerment in connection with a relationship that authorities said occur…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Police chase down Teaneck man who kicked in apartment doors Police chase down Teaneck man who kicked in apartment doors Police chase down Teaneck man who kicked in apartment doors
Police chase down Teaneck man who kicked in apartment doors YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and Englewood working another investigation last night chased down and caught a repeat probation violator from Teaneck who they said had just kicked down doors in an apartment house burglary. Uniformed officers were searching for 28-year-old Dwayne Buchanan when the investigators spotted him in the area of West Palisade Avenue and Knickerbocker Road around 8:30 p.m., Detective Capt. Timothy Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. They approached and idenified themselves and “the chase was on” for several blo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgefield Park man charged in car-hopping Bogota burglaries Ridgefield Park man charged in car-hopping Bogota burglaries Ridgefield Park man charged in car-hopping Bogota burglaries
Ridgefield Park man charged in car-hopping Bogota burglaries YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Bogota police arrested a Ridgefield Park man who they said was carrying burglary proceeds after they caught him “car hopping.” Officers alerted by a Chestnut Avenue caller at 1:44 a.m. Wednesday said they retrieved proceeds from a resident’s lawn from two vehicle burglaries while taking Nelson M. Castellon into custody. The 5-foot-7-inch, 350-pound Castellon apparently got into the open cars by testing doors along the darkened street, Police Chief John C. Burke said. The chief advised owners to remove valuables and lock their vehicles — even if it’s in their home…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Police charge Port Authority officer with assaulting firefighter during Wallington charity football game Police charge Port Authority officer with assaulting firefighter during Wallington charity football game Police charge Port Authority officer with assaulting firefighter during Wallington charity football game
Police charge Port Authority officer with assaulting firefighter during Wallington charity football game YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Port Authority police officer broke several bones in a Wallington volunteer firefighter’s face after sucker-punching him during a flag football game last weekend, authorities confirmed. Stanley M. O’Neill Jr. of Hackensack was released without bail pending a court hearing in connection with last Saturday’s incident during the David J. Popek Jr. Man of Steel Football Tournament at the Wallington High School field, Police Chief Carmelo Imbruglia said this afternoon, confirming an earlier CLIFFVIEW PILOT report. The Port Authority told CLIFFVIEW PILOT tonight that i…

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