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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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority police help thwart escape attempt by wolverine at Newark Airport Port Authority police help thwart escape attempt by wolverine at Newark Airport Port Authority police help thwart escape attempt by wolverine at Newark Airport
Port Authority police help thwart escape attempt by wolverine at Newark Airport BEYOND BERGEN: A 40-pound wolverine who was flown into Newark Airport on his way to Norway from the Alaska State Zoo was scratching his way out of a carrier in a transport van when Port Authority officers stopped him yesterday. A vet from the Bronx Zoo was brought in to tranquilize the wolverine, who was then moved to a secure container after the 3:30 p.m. incident at Terminal C, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said this afternoon. No one was injured, he said. “The wolverine had made a hole in his metal carrier, which was being carried in a transport van, in an attempt to escape,” Pen…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Soccer pro who fell from grace tells prom-bound Elmwood Park youngsters of his fatal DWI mistake Soccer pro who fell from grace tells prom-bound Elmwood Park youngsters of his fatal DWI mistake Soccer pro who fell from grace tells prom-bound Elmwood Park youngsters of his fatal DWI mistake
Soccer pro who fell from grace tells prom-bound Elmwood Park youngsters of his fatal DWI mistake PUBLIC SAFETY: As juniors and seniors at Elmwood Park High School listened intently this morning, former pro soccer player Matthew Maher told them how he had the world on a string before getting into a crash while driving drunk that killed a 55-year-old father of six. Maher, who turned 31 this past Monday, was a role model, active in his community and accomplished in athletics and academics, before his (literally) fatal mistake on March 7, 2009. Matthew Maher (Courtesy NJ DEPT of CORRECTIONS) Released from prison last August after more than 4½ years behind bars, he’s been telling his st…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Men charged with prostituting teen sisters following Fort Lee motel bust Men charged with prostituting teen sisters following Fort Lee motel bust Men charged with prostituting teen sisters following Fort Lee motel bust
Men charged with prostituting teen sisters following Fort Lee motel bust YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Three men caught by Fort Lee police at a local motel were charged with trafficking two 17-year-old sisters as prostitutes, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli announced this morning. The North Jersey operation was uncovered after a Fort Lee police officer spotted Yadir Araujo, a 52-year-old auto mechanic from Elizabeth, sitting in a car parked outside the motel before dawn Sunday. As the officer approached, Araujo “attempted to avoid being seen by slumping down below view of the windshield,” the prosecutor said. The officer spotted several condoms in the v…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Ex-girlfriend of ex-con gets 3 years in prison for Bergen County Jail drug conspiracy Ex-girlfriend of ex-con gets 3 years in prison for Bergen County Jail drug conspiracy Ex-girlfriend of ex-con gets 3 years in prison for Bergen County Jail drug conspiracy
Ex-girlfriend of ex-con gets 3 years in prison for Bergen County Jail drug conspiracy EXCLUSIVE REPORT: Conspiring by phone with her now-ex-boyfriend to distribute cocaine while he was in the Bergen County Jail got a Staten Island woman a three-year state prison sentence, leaving her mother to care for her 7-year-old son. Charmaine Coit, 25, could be free in nine months after pleading guilty to conspiracy. Meanwhile, her former partner in crime, ex-con Marcus Carter, moved last week to withdraw his own guilty plea of two months ago, which was intended to spare Coit by putting the full weight on him. Two officers with the Bergen County Sheriff’s Intelligence Unit quickly …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
NJ Consumer Affairs launches first app in U.S. to monitor prescription drug purchases NJ Consumer Affairs launches first app in U.S. to monitor prescription drug purchases NJ Consumer Affairs launches first app in U.S. to monitor prescription drug purchases
NJ Consumer Affairs launches first app in U.S. to monitor prescription drug purchases PUBLIC SAFETY: New Jersey this week became the first U.S. state to launch its own prescription monitoring app so physicians and pharmacists can identify patients or others who might be “doctor shopping” to collect large amounts of medications. The free app for Apple smartphone and handheld device collects detailed information on prescriptions filled in New Jersey for controlled dangerous substances (CDS) – the category of drugs that includes potentially addictive opiate painkillers – and HGH, state officials said. GET IT HERE: https://appsto.re/us/oUv23.i (Android and Windows Mobile ver…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Voting open in Bergen prosecutor’s ‘Choose Not to Use’ anti-drug contest for youngsters Voting open in Bergen prosecutor’s ‘Choose Not to Use’ anti-drug contest for youngsters Voting open in Bergen prosecutor’s ‘Choose Not to Use’ anti-drug contest for youngsters
Voting open in Bergen prosecutor’s ‘Choose Not to Use’ anti-drug contest for youngsters VOTE NOW: Voting continues through Sunday for Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli’s “Choose Not to Use” poster contest for area schoolchildren. Twenty-four finalists at each middle- and high school grade level from 5th to 12th grade have been selected as finalists in the contest, which asks entrants to show why or how they won’t use drugs. To view the entries and vote, click here: BERGEN “CHOOSE NOT TO USE” CONTEST Each voter is asked to select a favorite entry from among three finalists from each grade by clicking on the “Choose Not to Use contest” icon. One vote per email addre…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Woman made up story of being robbed by masked men at mall, Paramus police say Woman made up story of being robbed by masked men at mall, Paramus police say Woman made up story of being robbed by masked men at mall, Paramus police say
Woman made up story of being robbed by masked men at mall, Paramus police say YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A woman who told Paramus police that she was robbed of $1,700 outside Bergen Town Center by two men in ski masks who threw her to the ground made it all up, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said tonght. Lola R. Brock, 44, of Hopatcong was charged with theft and filing a false police report following an investigation led by Detective Keith Dimascio. She posted $1,500 bail and was released this afternoon. Officers reponded at 10:45 a.m. to the report of a robbery on the third floor of the parking garage. Brock, who had a cut on her head, told them that she was at the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Man whose body was found in Hudson River parked in Fort Lee, jumped from GWB, police say Man whose body was found in Hudson River parked in Fort Lee, jumped from GWB, police say Man whose body was found in Hudson River parked in Fort Lee, jumped from GWB, police say
Man whose body was found in Hudson River parked in Fort Lee, jumped from GWB, police say YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 28-year-old East Brunswick man whose body was pulled from the Hudson River a quarter-mile north of the George Washington Bridge late this afternoon jumped from the bridge after parking his sedan in Fort Lee, Port Authority police said tonight. Police at first didn’t have a report of a jumper but subsequently spoke with a witness who said the man “walked up to railing, climbed over, and jumped without notice,” the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT tonight. The body was brought to the 125th Street boat basin in Manhattan around 4:50 p.m. and taken …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Elmwood Park police get body cameras for all officers Elmwood Park police get body cameras for all officers Elmwood Park police get body cameras for all officers
Elmwood Park police get body cameras for all officers PUBLIC SAFETY: The future of policing is now in Elmwood Park, where every officer is wearing a body camera bought with forfeiture money from drug-related cash seizures. The department has had state-required dashboard cams in all patrol cruisers the past several years, but these are “unable to capture an encounter any tie an officer goes out of view of the camera,” Police Chief Michael Foligno told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. PHOTO TOP: Elmwood Park Detective Andrew Draing, Officers Michael Johnson and Francesca RodriguezIMAGES: Courtesy ELMWOOD PARK PD So the department purchased th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Cliffside Park Mayor Gerald Calabrese, 90: arrangements, donation information Cliffside Park Mayor Gerald Calabrese, 90: arrangements, donation information Cliffside Park Mayor Gerald Calabrese, 90: arrangements, donation information
Cliffside Park Mayor Gerald Calabrese, 90: arrangements, donation information TRIBUTE: A funeral Mass for longtime Cliffside Park Mayor Gerald “Gerry” Calabrese is set for 10 a.m. Friday at Epiphany Church. Visiting will be from 2 to 8 p.m. Thursday at AK Macagna Funeral Home, 495 Anderson Avenue: (201) 945-7100 / http://www.akmacagnafuneralhome.com Services will be at the funeral home at 9 a.m. Friday, followed by a procession to the church. Entombment after the Mass will be in Madonna Mausoleum off Jones Road in Fort Lee. Donations may be made to the a non-profit 501(c)3 Gerald A. Calabrese Scholarship Fund, 620 Anderson Ave., Cliffside Park 07010. An era of …

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