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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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
DWI driver slams unregistered, uninsured van into Elmwood Park dry cleaners DWI driver slams unregistered, uninsured van into Elmwood Park dry cleaners DWI driver slams unregistered, uninsured van into Elmwood Park dry cleaners
DWI driver slams unregistered, uninsured van into Elmwood Park dry cleaners UPDATE: A drunk driver from Newark took out a traffic signal and street light before his unregistered, uninsured van slammed through the front window of an Elmwood Park dry cleaners tonight. Teresio Castrourdiales, 42, was headed east on Broadway around 8:30 p.m. when he lost control of the van at Iozia Terrace, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. After toppling the traffic signal, the van veered across the median, hopped a curb and slammed into the cleaners’ plate-glass window, he said. Castrourdiales, who wasn’t injured, was issued summonses for DWI, refusing to submit to a breath test…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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Upper Saddle River officers use Narcan to save overdosing heroin user, 21 Upper Saddle River officers use Narcan to save overdosing heroin user, 21 Upper Saddle River officers use Narcan to save overdosing heroin user, 21
Upper Saddle River officers use Narcan to save overdosing heroin user, 21 SHOUT OUT: A pair of Upper Saddle River police officers had the department’s first Narcan save tonight when they rescued a 21-year-old woman who’d overdosed on heroin. Officer Craig Parrella and Officer Anthonly Pulizzano responded to the woman’s parents’ call at a home on the west side of town at 5:20 p.m. and found the woman “unconscious and heavily laboring to breathe,” Detective Lt. Eddie Kane told CLIFFVIEW PILOT tonight. They administered the drug, which brought her around, Kane said. Paramedics then transported her to an area hospital, he said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
DWI driver rams Port Authority cruiser, drives wrong way over NJ Turnpike bridge from Bayonne to Newark DWI driver rams Port Authority cruiser, drives wrong way over NJ Turnpike bridge from Bayonne to Newark DWI driver rams Port Authority cruiser, drives wrong way over NJ Turnpike bridge from Bayonne to Newark
DWI driver rams Port Authority cruiser, drives wrong way over NJ Turnpike bridge from Bayonne to Newark BEYOND BERGEN: A drunk driver who rammed his SUV into the back of a Port Authority police cruiser continued the wrong way on the New Jersey Turnpike extension from Bayonne to Newark this morning before being stopped. Christian Toral Aguirre, 25, of Queens drove his blue BMW X5 into the rear of the cruiser on the eastbound Route 78 extention near the Bayonne exit at 6:30 a.m., pushing the police vehicle into the guardrail and disabling it, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT tonight. Airbags in the cruiser deployed, as well, he said. Aguirre drove west in the eastbound…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn firefighters keep rooftop leaf blaze from spreading Fair Lawn firefighters keep rooftop leaf blaze from spreading Fair Lawn firefighters keep rooftop leaf blaze from spreading
Fair Lawn firefighters keep rooftop leaf blaze from spreading PHOTOS Boyd A. Loving PHOTOS: Fair Lawn firefighters snuffed a rooftop leaf fire before it could damage the interior of a Ruskin Road home early this afternoon. Several 911 calls brought responders to the Cape Cod home at 12:10 p.m. No one was home at the time. The house sustained damage to the roor and siding. PHOTOS Boyd A. Loving

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hasbrouck Heights Snatch Ex-Con From Rt 17 Dumpster After Stolen Car Chase Hasbrouck Heights Snatch Ex-Con From Rt 17 Dumpster After Stolen Car Chase Hasbrouck Heights Snatch Ex-Con From Rt 17 Dumpster After Stolen Car Chase
Hasbrouck Heights Snatch Ex-Con From Rt 17 Dumpster After Stolen Car Chase YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Hasbrouck Heights police nabbed a heroin-addicted ex-con from Wyckoff hiding in a Dumpster behind a Route 17 hotel overnight after he’d stolen his second vehicle of the day. Police began looking for 48-year-old Gregory Prior after he swiped an unregistered 2003 Jeep Liberty from the Dunkin’ Donuts parking lot on Prospect Street in Glen Rock around noon yesterday, investigators told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Prior had been released from state prison this past December after serving five years in connection with a string of Bergen County burglaries and thefts committed while …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
No kudos necessary for rescuing man who jumped from Route 46 bridge in Little Ferry, Bogota canoeist says No kudos necessary for rescuing man who jumped from Route 46 bridge in Little Ferry, Bogota canoeist says No kudos necessary for rescuing man who jumped from Route 46 bridge in Little Ferry, Bogota canoeist says
No kudos necessary for rescuing man who jumped from Route 46 bridge in Little Ferry, Bogota canoeist says ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: A Bogota canoeist brought a 55-year-old Garfield man who jumped from the Winant Avenue bridge into the Hackensack River in Little Ferry this morning safely to shore, then quickly paddled away before anyone could thank him. The man, who was tended to by waiting emergency responders, “told us he tried the same thing in Paterson yesterday,” Little Ferry Police Chief Ralph Verdi told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “He said he was taken to the hospital, released and then jumped from our bridge this morning.” The jumped — whose identity was being withheld by CLIFFVIEW PILOT — leaped …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
UC man struck while checking on disabled car on Route 3 Berry’s Creek bridge in East Rutherford UC man struck while checking on disabled car on Route 3 Berry’s Creek bridge in East Rutherford UC man struck while checking on disabled car on Route 3 Berry’s Creek bridge in East Rutherford
UC man struck while checking on disabled car on Route 3 Berry’s Creek bridge in East Rutherford UPDATE: A 62-year-old Union City man remained in critical condition this morning after he got out to check on his disabled sedan and was injured after another car slammed into his on the Berry’s Creek Bridge on Route 3 in East Rutherford late last night. The driver got out of his 1992 LIncoln Town Car in the second lane from the left of the eastbound bridge and was looking under the hood when it was struck by a 2001 Honda Accord shortly after 11:40 p.m., Lt. Bill Lorenc told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. The impact knocked him onto the windshield of his own sedan, the lieutenant said. H…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Indictments returned against illegal Salvadoran immigrants in heart attack death of Waldwick mother during fight Indictments returned against illegal Salvadoran immigrants in heart attack death of Waldwick mother during fight Indictments returned against illegal Salvadoran immigrants in heart attack death of Waldwick mother during fight
Indictments returned against illegal Salvadoran immigrants in heart attack death of Waldwick mother during fight YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A grand jury returned a manslaughter indictment against a Salvadoran national whose boyfriend’s 45-year-old mother died of a heart attack trying to break up a violent fight between the two in a Waldwick home as their 7-year-old child watched. Claudia Yanira Hernandez Soriano, 25, is named in all six counts of the indictment. Juan Francisco Martinez Rojas, who turned 29 yesterday, is charged with child endangerment and lying to investigators. The couple — both undocumented Salvadoran immigrants — were “punching and scratching each other” after returning overnight …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Dumont man posted photo-shopped pics of local women’s heads onto naked bodies, Lyndhurst police say Dumont man posted photo-shopped pics of local women’s heads onto naked bodies, Lyndhurst police say Dumont man posted photo-shopped pics of local women’s heads onto naked bodies, Lyndhurst police say
Dumont man posted photo-shopped pics of local women’s heads onto naked bodies, Lyndhurst police say CVP EXCLUSIVE: A Dumont man with a history of cyber-harassment was ordered jailed on $10,000 bail after police said he put photos of two different women’s faces onto pictures of naked womens’ bodies. Lyndhurst Police Detective Michael Lemanowicz arrested Donald Moat after being alerted to a photo-shopped image of a local woman — who, like Moat, is 54 years old — on a social media page for motorcycle enthusiasts, Police Chief James O’Connor told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. Charges were pending from a similar incident involving a North Arlington woman, he said. “This is the sixth time…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Glen Rock Jeep thief sought in Rochelle Park purse theft Glen Rock Jeep thief sought in Rochelle Park purse theft Glen Rock Jeep thief sought in Rochelle Park purse theft
Glen Rock Jeep thief sought in Rochelle Park purse theft UPDATE: Rochelle Park detectives were searching for a known offender this afternoon who they said used a Jeep stolen from Glen Rock to snatch a purse from a parking lot shopping cart in their town. YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Hasbrouck Heights police nabbed a heroin-addicted ex-con from Wyckoff hiding in a Dumpster behind a Route 17 hotel overnight after he’d stolen his second vehicle of the day. Police began looking for 48-year-old Gregory Prior after he swiped an unregistered 2003 Jeep Liberty from the Dunkin’ Donuts parking lot on Prospect Street in Glen Rock around noon yesterday, invest…

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