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
Breaking News
Detectives seek DNA match for blood found at Elmwood Park burglary Detectives seek DNA match for blood found at Elmwood Park burglary Detectives seek DNA match for blood found at Elmwood Park burglary
Detectives seek DNA match for blood found at Elmwood Park burglary YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Detectives collected blood samples after a burglar broke a rear window to get into an Elmwood Park home this afternoon, authorities said. A witness told police the noontime burglar on Elmwood Drive was white, in his late 20s and about six feet tall, wearing blue shorts, a blue baseball cap, a white t-shirt and sneakers, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. “It appeared that he exited through the front door,” Foligno told CLIFFVIEW PILOT late this afternoon. “It was undetermined if anything was actually stolen at this time.” A Bergen County K-9 unit assisted in the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Rutherford off-duty police lieutenant nabs one, detectives seek accomplice in taxi cash theft Rutherford off-duty police lieutenant nabs one, detectives seek accomplice in taxi cash theft Rutherford off-duty police lieutenant nabs one, detectives seek accomplice in taxi cash theft
Rutherford off-duty police lieutenant nabs one, detectives seek accomplice in taxi cash theft YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An off-duty Rutherford police lieutenant last night nabbed one of two Newark men accused of snatching nearly $200 from a female cab driver Saturday night. Police were also obtaining an arrest warrant after identifying the second suspect, who they expected would soon be in custody. Lt. Marc Amatucci was off duty when he spotted 18-year-old Shaki Clemons walking on Orient Way and Summit Avenue around 4:45 p.m. yesterday and began following him, Capt. Patrick Feliciano told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. Amatucci summoned units who stopped Clemons on northbound Rou…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority officer arrests upstate NY driver, seizes shotgun, shells outside Holland Tunnel Port Authority officer arrests upstate NY driver, seizes shotgun, shells outside Holland Tunnel Port Authority officer arrests upstate NY driver, seizes shotgun, shells outside Holland Tunnel
Port Authority officer arrests upstate NY driver, seizes shotgun, shells outside Holland Tunnel BEYOND BERGEN: A Port Authority police officer turned up a 12-gauge shotgun and a baker’s dozen of shells in a car driven by an update New York man outside the Holland Tunnel last night. The officer stopped the 2002 Chevy SUV driven by 24-year-old Adam L. Cook for faulty lights around 7:45 p.m. at 13th and Provost streets in Jersey City, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. Cook volunteered that he had the Winchester firearm near the cargo door after the officer spotted the box of shells in the center console, Pentangelo said. He was charged with illegal …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
No injuries in Garfield house fire No injuries in Garfield house fire No injuries in Garfield house fire
No injuries in Garfield house fire PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Correspondent Damien Danis (top), CLIFFVIEW PILOT Senior Correspondent Kevin Teel (above) PHOTOS: No injuries were reported in a Garfield house fire this morning. It took firefighters 45 minutes or so to put down the blaze, which broke out on Irving Place around 6 a.m. Mutual aid came from Lodi, Rochelle Park, Saddle Brook and Wallngton. The cause wasn’t immediately determined. PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Correspondent Damien Danis  

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
‘Faulty technology’ should stop case against Elmwood Park men charged with recording sex with drunk girl, 15, lawyers argue ‘Faulty technology’ should stop case against Elmwood Park men charged with recording sex with drunk girl, 15, lawyers argue ‘Faulty technology’ should stop case against Elmwood Park men charged with recording sex with drunk girl, 15, lawyers argue
‘Faulty technology’ should stop case against Elmwood Park men charged with recording sex with drunk girl, 15, lawyers argue ONLY ON CVP: Attorneys for four Elmwood Park men accused of videotaping themselves having sex with a drunken 15-year-old girl took the first steps today toward having the charges dismissed. The reason: faulty technology. A grand jury in Hackensack indicted former Elmwood Park High School football players Ashari Wilson, Craig Howe (above, inset) and Justin Draper (above, right), along with a fourth man, Jacardi Barnes, for first-degree aggravated sexual assault of a physically helpless victim, impairing the morals of a minor and filming a child having sex, among other counts. “Technology…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Driver hospitalized after four-car Fair Lawn collision Driver hospitalized after four-car Fair Lawn collision Driver hospitalized after four-car Fair Lawn collision
Driver hospitalized after four-car Fair Lawn collision PHOTOS: A four-vehicle collision in Fair Lawn this afternoon sent one driver to Hackensack University Medical Center with chest pains and required three tows by flatbed. Fair Lawn police and EMS responded to the crash just before 2 p.m. at the intersection of Plaza Road and Berdan Avenue. STORY / PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving  

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Newark man pleads not guilty in cold-blooded killing of popular Hackensack limo driver Newark man pleads not guilty in cold-blooded killing of popular Hackensack limo driver Newark man pleads not guilty in cold-blooded killing of popular Hackensack limo driver
Newark man pleads not guilty in cold-blooded killing of popular Hackensack limo driver YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: Bail today remained at $2 million for a Newark man charged in the cold-blooding killing of a popular Hackensack limousine driver on Route 80 last summer. A defense attorney entered a not guilty plea to the charges read against Mujahideen Abdullah, 26, including first-degree murder and heroin and weapons possession, as loved ones of Jeffrey Mansilla looked on. Mansilla, 39, had launched All Access Car & Limo Company and was about to be married when Abdullah chased him from a nightclub in Belleville to Route 80 in Saddle Brook before dawn on June 12, 2014 , prosec…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Rutherford police seek help identifying thieves who snatched $200 from female cabbie Rutherford police seek help identifying thieves who snatched $200 from female cabbie Rutherford police seek help identifying thieves who snatched $200 from female cabbie
Rutherford police seek help identifying thieves who snatched $200 from female cabbie YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An off-duty Rutherford police lieutenant last night nabbed one of two Newark men accused of snatching nearly $200 from a female cab driver Saturday night. Police were also obtaining an arrest warrant after identifying the second suspect, who they expected would soon be in custody. READ MORE…. PREVIOUS STORY: Rutherford police today released surveillance images of a pair of thieves who snatched nearly $200 from a female cab driver Saturday night. The Classic Taxi cabbie told police she picked up the pair on 1st Street in Newark around 11 p.m., Capt. Patrick Felician…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Garfield career burglar gets 4-year sentence with credit for time served — four days Garfield career burglar gets 4-year sentence with credit for time served — four days Garfield career burglar gets 4-year sentence with credit for time served — four days
Garfield career burglar gets 4-year sentence with credit for time served — four days ONLY ON CVP: A Garfield career criminal with 15 previous felony convictions told a sentencing judge in Hackensack that he was entitled to a year and half of jail-time credit — then got all of four days while being sentencing to four years in state prison for a Little Ferry burglary. Dwayne Thorpe (STORY / PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter Mary K. Miraglia) Dwayne Thorpe, 46, already is serving several state prison terms for burglary convictions out of Bergen, Essex and Middlesex counties. The earliest he could be eligible for parole is January 2017. He’s also facing a burgl…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Newark airline passenger stashed pot in Mary Jane wrappers, authorities charge Newark airline passenger stashed pot in Mary Jane wrappers, authorities charge Newark airline passenger stashed pot in Mary Jane wrappers, authorities charge
Newark airline passenger stashed pot in Mary Jane wrappers, authorities charge YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Talk about taking a nickname too far: A Toms River man checked a bag at Newark Airport that held several Mary Jane candy wrappers filled with pot, Port Authority police said. Baggage screeners on Friday night alerted PAPD officers, who found seven small wrapped bags of marijuana in a larger ziplocked bag, along with a pack of Zig-Zag rolling papers in another, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The officers tracked 49-year-old Gregory Murphy to Gate 85, Pentangelo said. Then they paged him. Murphy was released on a court summons charging hi…

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