Jerry DeMarco

Senior Reporter

[email protected]

FOLLOW ON

Facebook Twitter Linkedin

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.

Jerry DeMarco's Contributions

Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Paramus police seek ex-Hooters waitress in pepper-spraying incident Paramus police seek ex-Hooters waitress in pepper-spraying incident Paramus police seek ex-Hooters waitress in pepper-spraying incident
Paramus police seek ex-Hooters waitress in pepper-spraying incident YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Authorities were looking for a former Hooters waitress who they said pepper-sprayed a current one tonight at the Paramus restaurant on Route 17. The assailant got into a Jeep Cherokee that fled southbound on the highway, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The victim wasn’t seriously injured in the 8:35 p.m. attack, responders said. Assault charges — or possibly aggravated assault — were expected.

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Cliffside Park man stable after jumping from Route 120 overpass outside MetLife Stadium Cliffside Park man stable after jumping from Route 120 overpass outside MetLife Stadium Cliffside Park man stable after jumping from Route 120 overpass outside MetLife Stadium
Cliffside Park man stable after jumping from Route 120 overpass outside MetLife Stadium UPDATE: A 28-year-old Cliffside Park man remained in stable condition with a head injury after he jumped from the Route 120 bridge outside MetLife Stadium tonight, authorities said. The man was unconscious when brought to Hackensack Unversity Medical Center and a woman he was with had a cut on her arm in the incident, which occurred around 6:20 p.m., responders told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. There was a Monster Jam event at the stadium scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.  

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Northvale man charged with getting girls to send him sex photos Northvale man charged with getting girls to send him sex photos Northvale man charged with getting girls to send him sex photos
Northvale man charged with getting girls to send him sex photos ONLY ON CVP: A Northvale man originally charged with posing as a teenage girl to get an 11-year-old victim to send him sexual photographs did the same thing to at least two other youngsters, authorities said. Detectives originally arrested Briane Bulaon on charges of showing pornographic images to another 11-year-old child when they discovered that he ” engage[d] in a prohibited sexual act or in the simulation of such an act,” which “caused [another child] to be nude for the purpose of sexual stimulation.” Bulaon used social media “to pose as a teenage girl and initiate an online relation…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Police can’t ‘shoot him in the leg’ Police can’t ‘shoot him in the leg’ Police can’t ‘shoot him in the leg’
Police can’t ‘shoot him in the leg’ A LAW ENFORCEMENT VETERAN WRITES: As a former police firearms instructor of many years, I can tell you that no officer is ever trained to shoot to kill. Officers are taught to shoot for “center mass.” This is designed for two things: First, it greatly increases the likelihood of the shot hitting the intended target under extreme stress, thereby minimizing the chance of missing or hitting someone else. Expecting an officer to shoot someone in an arm or leg is simply ridiculous under stress conditions. Secondly, hitting someone center mass provides the greatest likelihood of stopping …

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
South Jersey man charged with having Hackensack girl, 12, send images touching herself South Jersey man charged with having Hackensack girl, 12, send images touching herself South Jersey man charged with having Hackensack girl, 12, send images touching herself
South Jersey man charged with having Hackensack girl, 12, send images touching herself ONLY ON CVP: A South Jersey man convinced a 12-year-old Hackensack girl he was Skype-ing with to stick her finger into her vagina, an indictment returned this week alleges. A parent contacted police after catching the girl sending images to Joshua A. Vangorden in January 2013, authorities said at the time. City detectives then went to Burlington County, seized digital evidence and arrested him on charges of sexual assault and child endangerment. Vangorden, 22, who had worked the previous two years at Fort Dix, posted $200,000 bail the following day and was released from the Bergen Count…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Six years for Allendale man in Hackensack park shooting, police chase after wife says he didn’t mean it Six years for Allendale man in Hackensack park shooting, police chase after wife says he didn’t mean it Six years for Allendale man in Hackensack park shooting, police chase after wife says he didn’t mean it
Six years for Allendale man in Hackensack park shooting, police chase after wife says he didn’t mean it YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An Allendale man won’t be eligible for parole until the end of 2018 for firing a revolver at his wife and another man in Hackensack’s Foschini Park and then leading police on a wild chase, ramming his SUV into two of their cars and injuring three officers. Presiding Superior Court Judge Susan J. Steel sentenced James Thompson in Hackensack this afternoon to six years in state prison — minus 527 days of jail credit — after his wife told her that he lost his job that day and “didn’t go [to the park] with the intent of harm.” “Prior to this, Jim has never been in any …

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
South Hackensack police revive heroin victim, 32, in motel South Hackensack police revive heroin victim, 32, in motel South Hackensack police revive heroin victim, 32, in motel
South Hackensack police revive heroin victim, 32, in motel SHOUT OUT: A 32-year-old heroin user from Emerson still had a needle in her arm when a pair of South Hackensack police officers found her in a Route 46 motel bathroom and revived her with Narcan overnight. A man who was staying with her dialed 911 around 4 a.m., Capt. Robert Kaiser told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. Officers Stephen Knatz and Gary Yannettif found “no pulse or vital signs” and immediately began CPR, Kaiser said. An initial Narcan dose got no response, but a second blast revived her around, he said.

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Elmwood Park store clerk in Hasbrouck Heights drug case busted again by narcotics detectives Elmwood Park store clerk in Hasbrouck Heights drug case busted again by narcotics detectives Elmwood Park store clerk in Hasbrouck Heights drug case busted again by narcotics detectives
Elmwood Park store clerk in Hasbrouck Heights drug case busted again by narcotics detectives YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 20-year-old Elmwood Park store clerk accused of selling undercover detectives Bergen County detectives two ounces of pot in April and May already was facing drug charges out of Hasbrouck Heights. Joshua Swift and a 16-year-old boy were passengers in a vehicle whose driver refused to give Hasbrouck Heights police consent to search it following a Feb. 7 traffic stop on Boulevard and Columbus Avenue, Detective Lt. Michael Colaneri told CLIFFVIEW PILOT last night. A Bergen County Sheriff’s K-9 unit dog indicated drugs in the 2013 Toyota, so the trio was released and …

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
SUVs damaged when car trailer tips on Route 80 exit ramp in Saddle Brook SUVs damaged when car trailer tips on Route 80 exit ramp in Saddle Brook SUVs damaged when car trailer tips on Route 80 exit ramp in Saddle Brook
SUVs damaged when car trailer tips on Route 80 exit ramp in Saddle Brook PHOTOS: Two brand-news SUVs were seriously damaged when a trailer on a Dodge pickup tipped on the westbound Route 80 ramp to Pehle Avenue near the Garden State Parkway in Saddle Brook around 1:30 this afternoon. Firefighters responded to clean up a fuel spill while police assisted the New Jersey State Police with traffic control and the investigation, Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The driver wasn’t injured, he said. PHOTOS:Rob Metzdorf /CLIFFVIEW PILOT  

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Elmwood Park police charge teen with selling pot from parents’ home Elmwood Park police charge teen with selling pot from parents’ home Elmwood Park police charge teen with selling pot from parents’ home
Elmwood Park police charge teen with selling pot from parents’ home A 17-year–old Elmwood Park boy who sold pot out of his parents house was headed to a court hearing, borough police said. A 6-week undercover investigation ended when the boy was taken into custody for selling an ounce of marijuana, Police Chief Michael Foligno said this morning. He was released to his parents pending a hearing in the Family Division of Superior Court in Hackensack.

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Prev Page 1931 of 2958 1,929 1,930 1,931 1,932 1,933 Next
19,301 - 19,310 of 29,573 articles