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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Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Police say prosecution could follow scrawling of ‘bomb’ on Tenafly High School bathroom wall Police say prosecution could follow scrawling of ‘bomb’ on Tenafly High School bathroom wall Police say prosecution could follow scrawling of ‘bomb’ on Tenafly High School bathroom wall
Police say prosecution could follow scrawling of ‘bomb’ on Tenafly High School bathroom wall UPDATE: Tenafly police tonight said they will identity and possibly prosecute whomever scrawled the word “bomb” on a high school bathroom wall — which forced an evacuation and brought the Bergen County bomb squad, a K9 unit and local police this afternoon. “Our department will look to identify the source as well as the intent of the author,” Police Capt. Michael deMoncada said. “If warranted, we will look to have the individual prosecuted to the full extent of the law.” Several years ago, he recalled, a group of teens in a similar instance were sentenced to extended probation and fined mo…

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Pascack Valley, NJ
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Narcan save commendations for Hillsdale officers Narcan save commendations for Hillsdale officers Narcan save commendations for Hillsdale officers
Narcan save commendations for Hillsdale officers SHOUT OUTS: Two Hillsdale police officers who secured their department’s first Narcan save were commended last night for saving the 19-year-old woman, who was overdosing on heroin. Officers Ryan Norton and Mike Camporeale responded around 10 p.m. April 15 with Sgt. John Carty and turned the victim over to the Hillsdale Ambulance Corps. after reviving her with the nalaxone, Police Chief Robert Francaviglia said. She was taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, he said. “Thanks to the officers training they were quickly able to identify this as an overdose and were able to administer th…

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Lodi Detectives Bust Out-Of-Towners With Pot Lodi Detectives Bust Out-Of-Towners With Pot Lodi Detectives Bust Out-Of-Towners With Pot
Lodi Detectives Bust Out-Of-Towners With Pot YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Saddle Brook woman and two Garfield men were busted by Lodi narcotics detectives who said they caught them smoking a blunt. Investigators were watching as passenger the 23-year-old passenger  got out of a white Jeep parked in an abandoned lot and entered a South Main Street deli, Lt. Robert Salerno said this afternoon. After coming out, he began rolling a cigar packed with marijuana, Salerno said. A second passenger “was seen by the detectives throwing a blunt wrapper on the sunroof,” he said. The detectives approached the vehicle and found marijuana and para…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen authorities charge NYC man with molesting sleeping Hackensack woman, 22 Bergen authorities charge NYC man with molesting sleeping Hackensack woman, 22 Bergen authorities charge NYC man with molesting sleeping Hackensack woman, 22
Bergen authorities charge NYC man with molesting sleeping Hackensack woman, 22 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A commercial real estate agent from Manhattan’s Yorkville section was being held on at $200,000 bail, charged with molesting a Hackensack woman while she slept. The 24-year-old woman told investigators that “she had socialized” with 36-year-old George G. Bibb and a female acquaintance the night of June 20 last year, then “awoke the following morning to (him) engaging in sexual activity with her without her consent,” Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon. She then had a sexual assault examination at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, whose s…

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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
CVP readers cry for help thwarting GWB suicides CVP readers cry for help thwarting GWB suicides CVP readers cry for help thwarting GWB suicides
CVP readers cry for help thwarting GWB suicides WHAT WE THINK: Rekindled talk of the George Washington Bridge as a “suicide magnet” is an emotional issue clouded by statistics — and fueled by strong opinions — following a recent spate of deaths. Eight people so far this year have jumped from the bridge, including an unidentified 30-something woman this morning and a 22-year-old Midwestern honor student who authorities said flew to New York City from Minneapolis by way of Chicago hours before killing herself yesterday. Last month, there were four in nine days. That means only two jumped the first three months of 2015. CLIFFVIEW PILOT …

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Beekman-Poughquag, NY
Breaking News
Second GWB jumper in less than 24 hours carried backpack, no ID Second GWB jumper in less than 24 hours carried backpack, no ID Second GWB jumper in less than 24 hours carried backpack, no ID
Second GWB jumper in less than 24 hours carried backpack, no ID UPDATE: A 30-something Asian woman who jumped to her death from the George Washington Bridge this morning — the 8th person to do so this year and second in less than 24 hours — wasn’t carrying identification, Port Authority police said. A witness reported seeing the woman jump around 11:20 a.m. from the closed north walkway, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Responding Port Authority police officers could see her and her backpack in the water, he said. The NYPD Harbor Patrol Unit removed the body and pack 10 minutes later and brought them to the Dyckman Boat Basin …

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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Suspicious package at Newark Airport deemed harmless Suspicious package at Newark Airport deemed harmless Suspicious package at Newark Airport deemed harmless
Suspicious package at Newark Airport deemed harmless BEYOND BERGEN: A suspicious bag found at the foot of a wheelchair near the screening area at Newark Airport’s Terminal C this morning turned out to be harmless, Port Authority police said. “Anybody who’d gone through screening already didn’t have to be rescreened,” the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “Those waiting were moved out.” A bomb dog indicated the package around 9:30 a.m., Pentangelo said. The Essex County Bomb Squad responded. The all-clear was given around 11:15 a.m. “No significant delays were being reported,” he said.

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Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Bicyclist carrying food falls into moving truck in Ridgewood Bicyclist carrying food falls into moving truck in Ridgewood Bicyclist carrying food falls into moving truck in Ridgewood
Bicyclist carrying food falls into moving truck in Ridgewood ONLY ON CVP: A 40-year-old visitor from Florida was hospitalized this morning after he fell off his bicycle against the side of a truck on a Ridgewood street. The victim told police he was riding one-handed on a South Maple Street sidewalk, with food in his other hand, when he tried to steer between a trash can and a planter, lost his balance and fell into the roadway around 8:40 a.m. Fortunately for him, a 58-year-old moving truck driver from Jersey City who was headed the cyclist’s way “saw him losing his balance and immediately slowed down,” Ridgewood Police Chief John Ward said. The…

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Northern Valley, NJ
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NJ PBA president: Christie ‘Presidential Ambition Tour’ relies on pension lies NJ PBA president: Christie ‘Presidential Ambition Tour’ relies on pension lies NJ PBA president: Christie ‘Presidential Ambition Tour’ relies on pension lies
NJ PBA president: Christie ‘Presidential Ambition Tour’ relies on pension lies NJ PBA PRESIDENT WRITES: My members and I continue to be amazed by the fact that Governor Christie is brazen enough to travel the country touting pension reform as his landmark accomplishment while unions from across the state will be sitting in the Supreme Court today trying to force him to comply with his own plan. Unfortunately, from the time he was Candidate Chris Christie in 2009 he has never been honest with our members or the public about his intentions for our pensions, so it is not terribly surprising to see the governor trying to boost his presidential aspirations on false prom…

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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen Catholic soccer player from Wyckoff released without bail on rape charges Bergen Catholic soccer player from Wyckoff released without bail on rape charges Bergen Catholic soccer player from Wyckoff released without bail on rape charges
Bergen Catholic soccer player from Wyckoff released without bail on rape charges UPDATE: A Bergen Catholic High School senior soccer player surrendered to NYPD detectives yesterday to face charges of raping a Manhattan College student after a concert. Authorities accused Kevin Convery, 18, of Wyckoff of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old student at the school’s Bronx campus in Riverdale a week and a half ago. “Convery allegedly met the woman at a concert in the college gym and was invited back to her dorm room the night they met,” CBS2 reported. “The pair engaged in consensual kissing, but when it turned sexual, the woman said she did not want to engage in sexual rel…

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