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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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Bail jumper claimed to be taking sick child to hospital, Port Authority police charge Bail jumper claimed to be taking sick child to hospital, Port Authority police charge Bail jumper claimed to be taking sick child to hospital, Port Authority police charge
Bail jumper claimed to be taking sick child to hospital, Port Authority police charge BEYOND BERGEN: A Jersey City woman ended up in the county jail after trying to avoid being arrested on a warrant by claiming she was taking her child to the hospital, Port Authority police said. Officers stopped the woman’s black sedan last night at 16th Street and Jersey Avenue for a suspended registration, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said this morning. Asked for her license and registration, 23-year-old Tatina Sapp “said she had no identification and that she was trying to take her child to the hospital due to the fact that the child had ‘a fever’,” he said. Officers summoned EM…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Woman struck by train at Park Ridge station dies Woman struck by train at Park Ridge station dies Woman struck by train at Park Ridge station dies
Woman struck by train at Park Ridge station dies UPDATE: A woman struck by an NJ Transit train at the Park Ridge station last night died at Hackensack UMC a Pascack Valley, authorities said. The 30-something woman was struck “right at the station” around 9:30 p.m. by the No. 1634 train out of Spring Valley to Secaucus, NJ Transit’s Jennifer Nelson told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. A bus took the 12 passengers from the Park and Ride lot to Secaucus Junction as Tri-Boro Ambulance took the woman to the hospital, Nelson said. Service wasn’t interrupted, she added. PHOTO: Joe Mahoney  

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Saddle Brook, Little Falls detectives to compare 7-Eleven holdups by hooded man with large knife Saddle Brook, Little Falls detectives to compare 7-Eleven holdups by hooded man with large knife Saddle Brook, Little Falls detectives to compare 7-Eleven holdups by hooded man with large knife
Saddle Brook, Little Falls detectives to compare 7-Eleven holdups by hooded man with large knife YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Saddle Brook and Little Falls detectives plan to compare notes tomorrow on robberies committed at 7-Elevens in their towns nearly 24 hours apart by a man in a hoodie and mask and carrying a large knife. “We reached out to them earlier today and plan to look at this very closely,” Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler told CLIFFVIEW PILOT tonight. That includes possibly reinterviewing witnesses, given the one significant difference in the holdups: The clerk at the Saddle Brook 7-Eleven on Market Street said the robber who made off with $250 at 2:50 a.m. yesterda…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
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Missing Teaneck man, 20, confirmed suicide victim Missing Teaneck man, 20, confirmed suicide victim Missing Teaneck man, 20, confirmed suicide victim
Missing Teaneck man, 20, confirmed suicide victim UDPATE: The body of a missing 20-year-old Teaneck man was pulled from the Hudson River on Friday after he killed himself, authorities confirmed tonight. Timothy Hamlett, whose parents told police he vanished the night after this past Christmas, had been awaiting trial on charges throwing bricks through the windows of more than a dozen cars and homes in town — including one that sent an 18-year-old woman to the hospital. The 6-foot-tall, 150-pound Hamlett — a former Don Bosco Prep track star — had said he was going to visit a friend in town, his parents said. Timothy Hamlett (Courtesy: T…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Woman brought to HUMC wasn’t infected with Ebola, state health officials say Woman brought to HUMC wasn’t infected with Ebola, state health officials say Woman brought to HUMC wasn’t infected with Ebola, state health officials say
Woman brought to Humc wasn’t infected with Ebola, state health officials say YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: State health officials tonight told CLIFFVIEW PILOT that a woman taken to Hackensack University Medical Center tonight was not infected with the Ebola virus. The HUMC emergency room was on lockdown as Union County EMS arrived with the patient around 8:50 p.m. No other ambulances were allowed in the parking lot as medical workers in hazardous material suits brought her into a quarantine area of the ER. HUMC is designated as an “assessment hospital” where potential Ebola patients receive care for up to four days while awaiting results of a blood test. Just before…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
North Arlington man who masturbated in front of girls, 12, gets five years in prison for each North Arlington man who masturbated in front of girls, 12, gets five years in prison for each North Arlington man who masturbated in front of girls, 12, gets five years in prison for each
North Arlington man who masturbated in front of girls, 12, gets five years in prison for each CVP EXCLUSIVE: A North Arlington man must spend more than two more years behind bars for masturbating in front of two 12-year-old girls at his home in separate instances in 2013. Richard Grossy, 41, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Uruguay, already has been beaten up twice in the Essex County Jail, defense attorney Hussain Gatlin said during Friday’s sentencing in Hackensack. Yet he continues to object to receiving sex offender therapy in a different setting. “I never expected anyone to see me,” he told Superior Court Judge James J. Guida during his sentencing. The judge respo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Englewood police taser man who bit officers after taking woman, daughter, infant granddaughter on drunken car ride Englewood police taser man who bit officers after taking woman, daughter, infant granddaughter on drunken car ride Englewood police taser man who bit officers after taking woman, daughter, infant granddaughter on drunken car ride
Englewood police taser man who bit officers after taking woman, daughter, infant granddaughter on drunken car ride YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An Englewood man who was drunk when he took a woman, her daughter and granddaughter on a wild car ride against their wills had to be tasered when he fought with police who arrested him, authorities said. The 40-year-old woman told police that she, her 14-year-old daughter and one-month-old granddaughter got into the car on their way to a dinner outing with family and friends, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT tonight. Suddenly, Francisco Javier Salazar-Ormaza hit the gas and sped off, driving recklessly, she said. The woman said she smelled alco…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Driver hospitalized, ticketed in Hasbrouck Heights crash Driver hospitalized, ticketed in Hasbrouck Heights crash Driver hospitalized, ticketed in Hasbrouck Heights crash
Driver hospitalized, ticketed in Hasbrouck Heights crash YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A driver was taken with minor injuries to Hackensack University Medical Center — and a motor vehicle summons — after his sedan flipped on Kipp Avenue in Hasbrouck Heights this afternoon. Two residents who heard the crash ran over and pulled the man from his Honda, which was headed west when it struck a curb, then a street sign and then a tree before rolling just before 3:30 p.m., Detective Lt. Michael Colaneri told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Police and firefighters responded. PHOTOS: Rob Knobloch  

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
2 Englewood charged with pot possession after SWAT team raid 2 Englewood charged with pot possession after SWAT team raid 2 Englewood charged with pot possession after SWAT team raid
2 Englewood charged with pot possession after SWAT team raid YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two Englewood men living together in a W. Palisade Avenue apartment raided by a Bergen County Regional SWAT Team, a county narcotic task force and city police last week were charged with pot possession, authorities said today. Charles Williams, 27 (above, left), was ordered held on $10,000 bail and Davon Creighton, 30 (right), released on a court summons after both taken into custody in Thursday’s 6:30 a.m. raid. Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli announced the arrests this afternoon after the single, unemployed defendants were arraigned. MUGSHOTS: Courte…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Detectives charge Peruvian national, 72, alleged accomplice with dealing cocaine out of Cliffside Park Detectives charge Peruvian national, 72, alleged accomplice with dealing cocaine out of Cliffside Park Detectives charge Peruvian national, 72, alleged accomplice with dealing cocaine out of Cliffside Park
Detectives charge Peruvian national, 72, alleged accomplice with dealing cocaine out of Cliffside Park YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and Cliffside Park police arrested a 72-year-old Peruvian national and a borough man who they said were carrying more than five ounces of cocaine for sale along with $2,800 in alleged drug proceeds. Charles Quiroz, 45, was being held on $250,000 bail and Augusto Yong Espinosa, 72, on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail following their arrests Friday. Both are charged with drug distribution. Espinosa, it turned out, also had outstanding warrants from Saddle Brook, Belleville, Clifton and Union City dating bac…

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