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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Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
WATCH: Woman steals tip jar from Bergenfield bakery WATCH: Woman steals tip jar from Bergenfield bakery WATCH: Woman steals tip jar from Bergenfield bakery
Watch: Woman steals tip jar from Bergenfield bakery VIDEOS: Courtesy La Placita Bakery and Cafe YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A pair of surveillance videos show a woman stealing a tip jar from a Bergenfield bakery. CLIFFVIEW PILOT broke the story over the weekend of the Saturday theft from La Placita Bakery and Cafe on Washington Avenue. Employees who were shocked by the surveillance video, which show the woman snatching the jar when no one’s looking and quickly leaving. It held an estimated $200 in tips accumulated throughout the day — based on the usual Saturday amount, they said. WATCH: The 20-something woman seemed to talk with s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Two-family Rutherford house fire KO’d Two-family Rutherford house fire KO’d Two-family Rutherford house fire KO’d
Two-family Rutherford house fire KO’d NEWSBREAK: Two residents got out OK and no injuries were immediately reported in a Rutherford two-family house fire this afternoon. Carlstadt, Lyndhurst, North Arlington and Wallington firefighters responded to the 2:40 p.m. three-alarm call at the 2½-story residence on Eastern Way or as backup. Responders said the blaze apparently began in the kitchen. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS PHOTO: Mark Rella

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
North Bergen contractor in Paramus stop had $100,000 of cocaine for sale, prosecutor says North Bergen contractor in Paramus stop had $100,000 of cocaine for sale, prosecutor says North Bergen contractor in Paramus stop had $100,000 of cocaine for sale, prosecutor says
North Bergen contractor in Paramus stop had $100,000 of cocaine for sale, prosecutor says YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Detectives acting on a tip busted a North Bergen contractor in Paramus, seizing more than an ounce of cocaine from him — and then nearly six more pounds during a search of his apartment, authorities said. Investigators following Nelson R. Roldan, 40, from his 83rd Street apartment stopped him in Paramus last Thursday afternoon after “they received information of possible drug distribution,” Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon. Search warrants led to the discovery and seizure of the cocaine — worth an estimated $100,000 on the street — in …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Hero recalls catching baby before train slams car at dangerous Elmwood Park train crossing Hero recalls catching baby before train slams car at dangerous Elmwood Park train crossing Hero recalls catching baby before train slams car at dangerous Elmwood Park train crossing
Hero recalls catching baby before train slams car at dangerous Elmwood Park train crossing A CVP READER WRITES: News that a BMW was struck in Elmwood Park at one of the most dangerous railroad crossings in the U.S. brought me back to the night I nearly saw three people killed by a train — and caught a baby — at that same spot I was in my late 20s, heading home from the office during rush hour, when I was stopped at the Midland Avenue crossing. From the corner of my right eye, I could see a car straddling the tracks, unable to move. Two women and an infant were inside. The Author I could hear the train coming (it doesn’t stop there — just powers right through), but they coul…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Ramsey police charge Route 17 driver with hundreds of illegal prescription pills, $6,000 cash Ramsey police charge Route 17 driver with hundreds of illegal prescription pills, $6,000 cash Ramsey police charge Route 17 driver with hundreds of illegal prescription pills, $6,000 cash
Ramsey police charge Route 17 driver with hundreds of illegal prescription pills, $6,000 cash YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The driver of a car stopped for speeding on Route 17 was carrying hundreds of prescription pill and nearly $6,000 cash, Ramsey police said. Sgt. Michael Parise was monitoring northbound traffic just before midnight last night when he spotted the 2009 black Acura with Vermont license plates speeding near the Extended Stay Hotel, Police Chief Bryan Gurney said early this afternoon. As the sergeant tried to pull him over, the driver — Identified as 44-year-old Lawrence Jackson of Proctor, VT — made an unsafe lane change before stopping at Williams Drive, he said. Pa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority police revive passenger, 64, at Newark Airport Port Authority police revive passenger, 64, at Newark Airport Port Authority police revive passenger, 64, at Newark Airport
Port Authority police revive passenger, 64, at Newark Airport SHOUT OUT: Port Authority police resuscitated a 64-year-old passenger having a seizure at Newark Airport yesterday. Officers responded to Terminal C Gate 108 just after 12:30 p.m. and found the unresponsive victim on the floor, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said this morning. Officer Charles McDevitt conducted CPR and summoned additional units. A single shock from a defibrillator revived the woman, who was conscious and breathing when she was taken to University Hospital at 1:10 p.m., he said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Edgewater police charge Englewood man with $1,800 riverfront restaurant robbery Edgewater police charge Englewood man with $1,800 riverfront restaurant robbery Edgewater police charge Englewood man with $1,800 riverfront restaurant robbery
Edgewater police charge Englewood man with $1,800 riverfront restaurant robbery YOU SAW HIM HERE FIRST: An Englewood man covering his face with a knit hat and pointing an imitation handgun took $1,800 from the Crabhouse restaurant in Edgewater and was arrested at his home by borough police soon after, authorities said this morning. Damien G. Elliott, 22, entered an office at the River Road restaurant on the Hudson River with the weapon late Saturday night, Police Chief William Skidmore said. He told an employee not to move, then grabbed the cash and ran to the Edgewater Commons Mall parking lot, the chief said. The employee followed the robber, then called police. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Lodi personal trainer who police said fled DUI crashes indicted on vehicular assault charges Lodi personal trainer who police said fled DUI crashes indicted on vehicular assault charges Lodi personal trainer who police said fled DUI crashes indicted on vehicular assault charges
Lodi personal trainer who police said fled DUI crashes indicted on vehicular assault charges ONLY ON CVP: A Lodi personal trainer who police said was impaired when he crashed his pickup truck twice in a distance of six blocks in Carlstadt, was indicted last week on vehicular assault charges. Julio Delacruz was still sitting in his Dodge RAM 1500, “dazed and incoherent,” when officers responded to a 9:45 p.m. crash at 10th Street and Division Avenue last Nov. 14, authorities said at the time. The truck had just plowed into a Honda Accord, headed up onto a sidewalk and crashed into a retaining wall, they said. Authorities said Delacruz, who wasn’t injured, was fleeing a crash mom…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Elmwood Park police bust more out-of-towners on drug charges Elmwood Park police bust more out-of-towners on drug charges Elmwood Park police bust more out-of-towners on drug charges
Elmwood Park police bust more out-of-towners on drug charges YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Elmwood Park had a trio of double arrests of out-of-towners — including a 50-something couple from Saddle Brook — in a span of less than five hours. It began at 4:45 p.m. Friday when they stopped 19-year-old Robert Beliveau of Saddle Brook and Anthony Peraino, 23, of Lodi on East 55th Street and charged them with possession of a small amount of marijuana, having it in a motor vehicle and being under its influence, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. At 8:30 p.m., they arrested and charged Ridgefied residents Timothy Park, 23, and Seung Sohn, 24, with drug possession…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgewood police pluck air rifle from stream bed Ridgewood police pluck air rifle from stream bed Ridgewood police pluck air rifle from stream bed
Ridgewood police pluck air rifle from stream bed CVP EXCLUSIVE: Ridgewood police retrieved an air rifle from a stream bed tonight. Officer Darin “Ricky” Thomas took the gun to headquarters after retrieving it from a wooded area near North Park after a North Road resident called at 7 p.m. STORY / PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving  

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