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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Teaneck, NJ
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Accused pot dealer who bragged about making bail rigged home with booby traps, Teaneck police say Accused pot dealer who bragged about making bail rigged home with booby traps, Teaneck police say Accused pot dealer who bragged about making bail rigged home with booby traps, Teaneck police say
Accused pot dealer who bragged about making bail rigged home with booby traps, Teaneck police say YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 19-year-old accused pot dealer who bragged about his ability to “always pop bail” rigged his Teaneck home with booby traps, said police who arrested him while seizing more than a pound of marijuana at the residence yesterday. Denzel Castro was being held on $70,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with various counts of drug possession as well as having booby traps in a “drug distribution faclity,” among others, following an investigation that began in May, Police Chief Robert A. Carney said. A first appearance in Teaneck Municipal Court was set for this M…

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Hackensack, NJ
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Off-duty trooper killed in Turnpike crash was police academy classmate of previous NJSP collision victim Off-duty trooper killed in Turnpike crash was police academy classmate of previous NJSP collision victim Off-duty trooper killed in Turnpike crash was police academy classmate of previous NJSP collision victim
Off-duty trooper killed in Turnpike crash was police academy classmate of previous Njsp collision victim UPDATE: An off-duty New Jersey State Police trooper killed in an overnight crash with a tractor-trailer on the Turnpike in Ridgefield was an academy classmate of another trooper killed in a crash two weeks ago. Trooper Glenny Almonte #7358, a 28-year-old National Guard member who was engaged to be married, was pronounced dead at Hackensack University Medical Center following the 1:44 a.m. collision, which authorities said occurred in the southbound lanes of the western spur at mile marker 115.6 near the Vince Lombardi service area. NJSP Trooper Glenny Almonte (Courtesy ERIC CRAFTON) “Th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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Bergenfield ticket broker charged with assaulting New Milford police in mother’s kitchen Bergenfield ticket broker charged with assaulting New Milford police in mother’s kitchen Bergenfield ticket broker charged with assaulting New Milford police in mother’s kitchen
Bergenfield ticket broker charged with assaulting New Milford police in mother’s kitchen YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A self-employed ticket broker from Bergenfield pulled his legs through handcuffs to get his arms in front of him before assaulting New Milford police who went to his mother’s home on a disturbance call, authorities said. “It is best if you handcuff me now for all of your safety,” 35-year-old Andrew Kleber told the responding officers after they found him “intoxicated and stumbling” into his mother’s Holly Street kitchen just before midnight Sunday, Detective Lt. Brian Long told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. Kleber had called police himself, Long said. His mother,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Teen killed trying to jump Route 46 median by car driven by fellow Lodi High School student Teen killed trying to jump Route 46 median by car driven by fellow Lodi High School student Teen killed trying to jump Route 46 median by car driven by fellow Lodi High School student
Teen killed trying to jump Route 46 median by car driven by fellow Lodi High School student YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A double tragedy struck Lodi High School last night when a 16-year-old student trying to jump the median on Route 46 was struck and killed by a car driven by a 19-year-old student, authorities said this morning. No charges or summons were filed against the driver of the Volkwagen Golf after the victim was brought to Hackensack University Medical Center following the 9:15 accident, Anthony Cureton of the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Authorities said the boy was trying to cross with his 12-year-old brother and a friend instead of using the nea…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Off-duty NJSP trooper Glenny Almonte killed in Turnpike crash in Ridgefield Off-duty NJSP trooper Glenny Almonte killed in Turnpike crash in Ridgefield Off-duty NJSP trooper Glenny Almonte killed in Turnpike crash in Ridgefield
Off-duty Njsp trooper Glenny Almonte killed in Turnpike crash in Ridgefield UPDATE: An off-duty New Jersey State Police trooper killed in an overnight crash with a tractor-trailer on the Turnpike in Ridgefield was an academy classmate of another trooper killed in a crash two weeks ago. Trooper Glenny Almonte #7358, a National Guard member who was engaged to be married, was pronounced dead at Hackensack University Medical Center following the 1:44 a.m. collision, which authorities said occurred in the southbound lanes of the western spur at mile marker 115.6 near the Vince Lombardi service area. “The preliminary investigation indicates that the silver Honda Accord…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Hasbrouck Heights detectives arrest Maywood man with 150 bags of heroin behind Route 17 hotel Hasbrouck Heights detectives arrest Maywood man with 150 bags of heroin behind Route 17 hotel Hasbrouck Heights detectives arrest Maywood man with 150 bags of heroin behind Route 17 hotel
Hasbrouck Heights detectives arrest Maywood man with 150 bags of heroin behind Route 17 hotel YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Hasbrouck Heights detectives working a drug investigation with the help of Cresskill police arrested a Maywood man who they said was carrying 150 bags of heroin. Investigators stopped Kevin Ascencio, 25, in his car behind the Holiday Inn on Route 17 and charged him with possession of the heroin in a school zone with the intent to distribute it and possession of drug paraphernalia. They also gave him a trio of summonses for having a brake light out, not inspecting his car and having drugs in a motor vehicle. A Bergen County Sheriff’s Office K-9 unit also responded…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
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Port Authority officer grabs two restaurant workers assaulting patron with stun gun Port Authority officer grabs two restaurant workers assaulting patron with stun gun Port Authority officer grabs two restaurant workers assaulting patron with stun gun
Port Authority officer grabs two restaurant workers assaulting patron with stun gun BEYOND BERGEN: Two employees of a midtown Manhattan restaurant attacked a customer with a stun gun after he complained of being stiffed on his change before Port Authority police said an officer intervened and arrested both men. Officer Katherine Acevedo saw the pair assaulting the 35-year-old victim, punching him in the face and mouth and burning him on the back of his neck with a stun gun, on 9th Avenue around 9:30 last night, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said this afternoon. Both took off when they saw her approaching, but Acevedo grabbed them a short distance away. The victim w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Judge orders arrest of Hillsdale man in Westwood crash that cost hospital nurse hand, part of arm Judge orders arrest of Hillsdale man in Westwood crash that cost hospital nurse hand, part of arm Judge orders arrest of Hillsdale man in Westwood crash that cost hospital nurse hand, part of arm
Judge orders arrest of Hillsdale man in Westwood crash that cost hospital nurse hand, part of arm ONLY ON CVP: A judge in Hackensack today issued an arrest warrant for a Hillsdale man who prosecutors said was under the influence of drugs when he caused a reckless driving crash in Westwood that cost a Holy Name Medical Center nurse his hand and part of his arm. Michael Baba, 55, has used medical problems as an excuse to skip other court appearances since being arraigned more than a year ago in connection with the July 2013 crash, Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Martin Delaney told Superior Court Judge James J. Guida. Guida issued a bench warrant after Delaney asked him to compel Bab…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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FBI charges Fort Lee man, 21, with supporting ISIS FBI charges Fort Lee man, 21, with supporting ISIS FBI charges Fort Lee man, 21, with supporting ISIS
FBI charges Fort Lee man, 21, with supporting ISIS UPDATE: A 21-year-old Fort Lee man who formerly sang in an alternative rock band from Englewood was charged by the federal government with supporting foreign terrorism in Iraq. Federal agents arrested Samuel Rahamin Topaz at his home yesterday on a single charge of conspiring with others to provide “services and personnel to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL),” also known as ISIS, federal authorities announced this afternoon after a U.S. District judge in Newark ordered him held without bail. Samuel Rahamin Topaz They found proof of his desire to travel to Syria to join the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Beekman-Poughquag, NY
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Husband helps Port Authority police stop suicidal woman at GWB Husband helps Port Authority police stop suicidal woman at GWB Husband helps Port Authority police stop suicidal woman at GWB
Husband helps Port Authority police stop suicidal woman at GWB ANOTHER CVP EXCLUSIVE: Two Port Authority police officers intercepted a suicidal woman this afternoon, with help from her husband, just steps from the George Washington Bridge. Alerted to a possible jumper, PAPD Officers Fred Corrubia III and John Battaglia couldn’t find anyone fitting the woman’s description the bridge before spotting her talking on a cellphone near the corner of 178th Street and Cabrini Boulevard at 1:25 p.m., the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “They asked her whether she was just on the bridge,” Pentangelo said, “and she handed them her cellphone. …

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