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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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Infant, mother hospitalized after Ridgefield crash Infant, mother hospitalized after Ridgefield crash Infant, mother hospitalized after Ridgefield crash
Infant, mother hospitalized after Ridgefield crash ONLY ON CVP: A 27-year-old Lodi woman and her 1-year-old child were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with injuries that police said weren’t life-threatening after a crash on busy Grand Avenue in Ridgefield this morning. The two were headed south in a Toyota Camry just before 11 a.m. when it collided with an SUV driven by a 72-year-old Leonia man making a left off Slocum Avenue to go north, Ridgefield Police Chief Thomas J. Gallagher told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Airbags in both vehicles deployed, the chief said. The SUV driver refused medical attention, he said. CLIFFVIEW PILOT…

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Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Skateboader headed to work hospitalized in Paramus crash Skateboader headed to work hospitalized in Paramus crash Skateboader headed to work hospitalized in Paramus crash
Skateboader headed to work hospitalized in Paramus crash YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 22-year-old man headed to work in Paramus this morning was hospitalized with moderate injuries after getting knocked off his skateboard by a turning vehicle, police said. The victim complained of elbow and chest pain, with possible rib injuries, after he struck the mirror and windshield of a car driven by a 69-year-old woman just after 8:30 a.m., Deputy Police Chief Robert Guidetti said. He was headed north on Farview Avenue, making a right onto eastbound Spring Valley Avenue, when the westbound driver apparently cut the corner too close, Guidetti told CLIFFVIEW …

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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Elmwood Park police arrest Bogota man with half-pound of pot outside Wendy’s Elmwood Park police arrest Bogota man with half-pound of pot outside Wendy’s Elmwood Park police arrest Bogota man with half-pound of pot outside Wendy’s
Elmwood Park police arrest Bogota man with half-pound of pot outside Wendy’s YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Elmwood Park police nabbed a 20-year-old Bogota man with half a pound of marijuana last night in the parking lot of a local fast-food restaurant. Joel Rosario was released on a court summonses for drug possession following his arrest outside the Wendy’s on Route 46, Police Chief Michael Foligno said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Driver had pot, knife outside Holland Tunnel, Port Authority police charge Driver had pot, knife outside Holland Tunnel, Port Authority police charge Driver had pot, knife outside Holland Tunnel, Port Authority police charge
Driver had pot, knife outside Holland Tunnel, Port Authority police charge YOU READ IT HER FIRST: A Pennsylvania man found with 2½ ounces of pot outside the Holland Tunnel in Manhattan said he was carrying a knife “for [my] protection,” Port Authority police said. Lt. Joseph Macaluso stopped the 2000 black Hyundai for not having an inspection sticker yesterday afternoon. The license plates, it turned out, belonged to another car, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said this morning. The driver — 31-year-old Waylon R. Clarke of Tobyanna — didn’t have insurance, either, he added. After the car was impounded, officers taking inventory smelled raw marijuana and d…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Fire severely damages Saddle Brook two-family home Fire severely damages Saddle Brook two-family home Fire severely damages Saddle Brook two-family home
Fire severely damages Saddle Brook two-family home CLIFFVIEW PILOT photos CLIFFVIEW PILOT photos PHOTOS: Fire drove two Saddle Brook families from their homes tonight. The 6th Street blaze quickly spread from a first-floor bedroom to the apartment above before blowing through the attic. Elhasan Bader and Bella(CLIFFVIEW PILOT photos) Bbut everyone was able to get out safely — including tenant Elhasan Bader and Bella, his 4-year-old German Shepherd, as well as the family cat, Police Chief Robert Kugler told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Bader lives downstairs with his wife, three children and pets. A single mother with three children lives ups…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Driver in overturned Route 287 tractor-trailer in Mahwah dies Driver in overturned Route 287 tractor-trailer in Mahwah dies Driver in overturned Route 287 tractor-trailer in Mahwah dies
Driver in overturned Route 287 tractor-trailer in Mahwah dies     UPDATE: A tractor-trailer driver whose his rig overturned on the flyover entrance ramp from Route 17 to Route 287 in Mahwah this afternoon died amid intense efforts by paramedics to revive him, authorities tonight confirmed. The rig from Brockton, MA, which was trucking a load of cranberries to Boston, “tipped as it went around the curve” around 4:15 p.m., a responder told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “It hit the fence and landed on the guard rail.” A surgeon from St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center was summoned to amputate the driver’s leg to free him, but firefighters cut away a portion of…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Shooting death of South Hackensack store owner still a mystery Shooting death of South Hackensack store owner still a mystery Shooting death of South Hackensack store owner still a mystery
Shooting death of South Hackensack store owner still a mystery ALERT: Authorities today turned to the public for a second time for help solving the murder of a South Hackensack store owner from Rockland County who was found shot six times in the head at his Route 46 shop two months ago. Richard Zarriello of Chestnut Ridge in Ramapo was found “lying in a pool of blood inside” his Clean Sweep Chimney Depot early the night of April 12, a Sunday, after South Hackensack police were asked to conduct a welfare check on him, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said. He’d been shot “multiple times,” the prosecutor said. “The investigation to date has…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Local, county police head off reported fight between Fair Lawn, Garfield teens Local, county police head off reported fight between Fair Lawn, Garfield teens Local, county police head off reported fight between Fair Lawn, Garfield teens
Local, county police head off reported fight between Fair Lawn, Garfield teens NEWSBREAK: Authorities responded in force this afternoon to a report of a planned brawl between Fair Lawn and Garfield High School students in Garfield. A Garfield High School resource officer got a tip “there was going to be some type of fight or rumble” at Belmont Park at 4 p.m., a law enforcement source told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. City police and members of Bergen County Bureau of Police Services units responded. “There were some kids from Fair Lawn in the area, pretending they didn’t know what was up,” one officer said. “They were dispersed.” FILE PHOTO: Boyd A. Loving

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Lodi police arrest trio in car on pot charges Lodi police arrest trio in car on pot charges Lodi police arrest trio in car on pot charges
Lodi police arrest trio in car on pot charges YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Lodi police investigating a call of a suspicious vehicle arrested three men on drug charges after they said they caught them smoking pot. Released on drug possession summonses after yesterday’s 11:30 a.m. arrests in the 300 block of Farnham Avenue were Matthew Balkin, 22 (above, left), of Fair Lawn, Samuel Taylor, 26 (above, middle), of Lyndhurst and 22-year-old Magno Becilla-Abadie (above, right) of Union City. MUGSHOTS: Courtesy LODI PD

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Fort Lee police say girl, 17, called in threat to ‘kill everyone’ at special ed school Fort Lee police say girl, 17, called in threat to ‘kill everyone’ at special ed school Fort Lee police say girl, 17, called in threat to ‘kill everyone’ at special ed school
Fort Lee police say girl, 17, called in threat to ‘kill everyone’ at special ed school YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 17-year-old girl was released to her parents on a delinquency complaint of calling in a threat to a Fort Lee special education school that she was “going to kill everyone,” authorities said this morning. The call came in to administrative staff at the YCS School at 3:11 p.m. yesterday, Capt. Stanley Zon said. “The school had already dismissed the student population and only faculty and administrative staff were still present,” Zon said. “Through caller identification of the phone number and familiarity of the voice, YCS staff were available to recognize the cal…

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