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
Accused Englewood Cliffs home invasion duo gets month to take pleas or go to trial Accused Englewood Cliffs home invasion duo gets month to take pleas or go to trial Accused Englewood Cliffs home invasion duo gets month to take pleas or go to trial
Accused Englewood Cliffs home invasion duo gets month to take pleas or go to trial ONLY ON CVP: A judge in Hackensack gave two Bronx men charged in an Englewood Cliffs home invasion that netted more than $75,000 in cash and jewelry a month yesterday to take plea deals or go to trial. Authorities said Jory Powell (above, left) and parolee Isiah Freeman (above, right) broke into the house in August 2013, pointed a .38-caliber handgun at an elderly woman and assaulted her after pretending to be PSE&G workers checking a gas leak. They then fled with $75,000 in cash and jewelry, police said. Although she declined medical attention at first, the woman went to an area hosp…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Lodi narcotics unit nabs Passaic woman with crack, Oxy, $2,200 cash Lodi narcotics unit nabs Passaic woman with crack, Oxy, $2,200 cash Lodi narcotics unit nabs Passaic woman with crack, Oxy, $2,200 cash
Lodi narcotics unit nabs Passaic woman with crack, Oxy, $2,200 cash YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Passaic woman was carrying 10 grams of crck, 25 Oxycodone pills and $2,200 in alleged proceeds when Lodi police stopped her yesterday, authorities said. Shirley Ferro, 34, was being held on $25,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail after she was arrested on Outwater Lane by members of the new Lodi police narcotic unit, Capt. Donald Scorzetti told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Shirley Ferro (Courtesy: LODI PD) Ferro is charged with various drug possession counts with the intent to distribute them near a school. MUGSHOT: Courtesy LODI PD

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by Jerry DeMarco
Beekman-Poughquag, NY
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Bronx trucker charged with ducking $13,000 in GWB tolls Bronx trucker charged with ducking $13,000 in GWB tolls Bronx trucker charged with ducking $13,000 in GWB tolls
Bronx trucker charged with ducking $13,000 in GWB tolls YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A trucker wanted for ducking $13,000 in tolls told Port Authority police that he “wanted to save money” when they caught him at the George Washington Bridge earlier today. Kerron D. Maittia, 38, of the Bronx was after the license plate on his 1996 Kenworth truck registered a hit for officers on the lookout for evaders as it passed through the GWB upper toll plaza stopped at 9 a.m., the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT tonight. Maittia, who’d racked up no fewer than 100 violations, was using a passenger car EZPass transponder, which shorted the Por…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Minivan plows into New Milford nail salon Minivan plows into New Milford nail salon Minivan plows into New Milford nail salon
Minivan plows into New Milford nail salon YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A mini-van bounced off two cars before plowing into the rear of a New Milford nail salon tonight, bursting pipes in the building. The 40-year-old driver told police that “she may have stepped on the gas rather then the brake” before her minivan crashed into Lina’s Top Nails and Spa on River Road at 5:45 p.m., Sgt. Brian Long told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “The nail salon was open but luckily no one was in that area when the car hit the building,” Sgt. Brian Clancy said. The driver, who was alone, declined medical treatment, he said. Building inspectors red-tagged the sto…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Ho-Ho-Kus man charged with spraying own feces on neighbor’s house, swing set Ho-Ho-Kus man charged with spraying own feces on neighbor’s house, swing set Ho-Ho-Kus man charged with spraying own feces on neighbor’s house, swing set
Ho-Ho-Kus man charged with spraying own feces on neighbor’s house, swing set EXCLUSIVE REPORT: A Ho-Ho-Kus man who caused a pair of mid-90s blackouts that affected more than 32,000 Bergen County customers is accused of storing up his own excrement and shooting it at his neighbor’s house in a dispute over a heating pipe. News of the Wednesday arrest of William J. Krywos, 42, were first reported here exclusively yesterday. More details emerged this morning. “There is a pipe on his neighbor’s house that emits a little bit of steam,” Krywos’s attorney, Frank Lucianna, told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “It’s connected with his heating system.” After getting into a dispute over…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Teaneck street brawl leads to arrest of Garfield man, 19, with pot, pills Teaneck street brawl leads to arrest of Garfield man, 19, with pot, pills Teaneck street brawl leads to arrest of Garfield man, 19, with pot, pills
Teaneck street brawl leads to arrest of Garfield man, 19, with pot, pills YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 19-year-old Garfield man who police believe was involved in a street brawl was arrested after officers found him carrying pot and pills for sale, authorities said. Police responding to a report of a dozen or so people fighting in the 800 block of Prince Street last night tried interviewing those who didn’t scatter, but they “were not cooperative and stated that they were not involved,” Police Chief Robert A. Carney said this afternoon. Officers searching for the others spotted Corrie Brown walking on Cherry Lane with blood on his clothing, so they talked to him —…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Illegal Salvadoran immigrant indicted on attempted murder charges in Englewood housemate stabbing Illegal Salvadoran immigrant indicted on attempted murder charges in Englewood housemate stabbing Illegal Salvadoran immigrant indicted on attempted murder charges in Englewood housemate stabbing
Illegal Salvadoran immigrant indicted on attempted murder charges in Englewood housemate stabbing YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: An illegal alien from El Salvador who police said stabbed his Englewood housemate late last summer was indicted on attempted murder and illegal weapons charges. Jose Wilbur Hernandez-Cerrito, 23, remained held on $500,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, with an INS detainer to keep him there if he posts. The 27-year-old victim was brought to Hackensack University Medical Center after being stabbed in the heart before dawn on Aug. 21 in the West Palisade Avenue house where the two lived. Hernandez surrendered to police at a bus stop a few blocks down the street aft…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Elmwood Park police add new officer Elmwood Park police add new officer Elmwood Park police add new officer
Elmwood Park police add new officer SHOUT OUT: Officer Bernadette Yates, who’s worked both in Newark and with the Middlesex County Sheriff’s Office, is Elmwood Park’s newest police officer. Yates was hired under the inter-governmental transfer program, coming from Middlesex after two years as Newark police officer, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. Foligno noted that Yates the department’s second female hire and second African-American. “In an attempt to diversify our police force we have hired four minority officers in the past two years — two are Hispanic and two African-American,” the chief told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “It i…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Council defeats anti-nepotism policy after appeal from Saddle Brook police chief Council defeats anti-nepotism policy after appeal from Saddle Brook police chief Council defeats anti-nepotism policy after appeal from Saddle Brook police chief
Council defeats anti-nepotism policy after appeal from Saddle Brook police chief SHOUT OUT: An emotional appeal by Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler was still in their ears as Township Council members voted down an anti-nepotism policy last night. Kugler is as proud as a father can be of his daughter, Shayna, who became a Bergen County sheriff’s officer 16 months ago. But the fact that she had to pursue the position after being rejected in their hometown made it imperative, he said, that he do all he can to prevent that from ever happening to anyone again. “We take competitive civil service examinations with literally thousands of others and rank according to sc…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Bill to protect NJ stalking victims advances Bill to protect NJ stalking victims advances Bill to protect NJ stalking victims advances
Bill to protect NJ stalking victims advances PUBLIC SAFETY: Stalking in violation of a restraining order could become a third-degree crime in New Jersey — with possible jail or prison time and sizable fines — if a bill advanced by the state Senate Judiciary Committee this morning is approved by the Legislature. “Violations of stalking restraining orders are both common and often associated with significant danger to victims,” said the sponsor of S-2540/A-3841, state Sen. Kevin O’Toole (R-Bergen, Essex, Morris, Passaic). “We need to give survivors all the protection we can to assure that they won’t be re-victimized,” O’Toole said.

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