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
Englewood Bond gang associate and girlfriend charged with scheming from jail to intimidate witness Englewood Bond gang associate and girlfriend charged with scheming from jail to intimidate witness Englewood Bond gang associate and girlfriend charged with scheming from jail to intimidate witness
Englewood Bond gang associate and girlfriend charged with scheming from jail to intimidate witness EXCLUSIVE REPORT: Speaking in code from the Bergen County Jail, a state prison convict from Englewood who was dubbed the “virtual poster child” of persistent offenders schemed with his girlfriend to intimidate a witness and then destroy evidence, authorities have charged. An indictment returned by a grand jury in Hackensack accuses Dammen McDuffie, 40, and 43-year-old Jennifer Boschen of Bound Brook (both above) of conspiring to intimidate a witness in his case by installing a GPS device on the Teaneck victim’s car while McDuffie was being held in the Bergen County Jail. They also discuss…

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Lyndhurst, NJ
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Lyndhurst police officers save man overdosing on fentanyl patch Lyndhurst police officers save man overdosing on fentanyl patch Lyndhurst police officers save man overdosing on fentanyl patch
Lyndhurst police officers save man overdosing on fentanyl patch YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Lyndhurst police revived an 18-year-old man who they said overdosed overnight while chewing on fentanyl patches. Police were summoned via a 911 call to a Van Eyck Court apartment at 2:12 a.m., Police Chief James O’Connor told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this moring. A family member told Sgt. Donna Niland and Officers Paul Haggerty, Nicholas Abruscato and Robert Fernandez that loved ones found the victim unresponsive in a bedroom and brought him into the kitchen, where they found a fentanyl patch in his mouth that they immediately removed. “He had blueish-gray skin tone and w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Wallington arrest stems neighborhood pot traffic Wallington arrest stems neighborhood pot traffic Wallington arrest stems neighborhood pot traffic
Wallington arrest stems neighborhood pot traffic Complaints about pedestrian and vehicular traffic brought Wallington police to a neighborhood where they ended up arresting a man who they said was selling marijuana there. Omar Fouad, 21, kept both hands in the front pockets of his hooded sweatshirt after apparently trying to discard something in his console when officers approached his Toyota mini-van for having a broken taillight on Fradkin Street last week, Lt. Shawn Kudlacik told CLIFFVIEW PILOT yesterday. From the open driver’s window they could smell a strong odor of raw marijuana, he said. Ordered to step out, Fouad “became agit…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Overnight Bogota fire knocked Overnight Bogota fire knocked Overnight Bogota fire knocked
Overnight Bogota fire knocked PHOTOS: A firefighter sustained a hand injury in an overnight house fire in Bogota that was contained to a dining room in an unoccupied home under renovation. Englewood, Hackensack, Teaneck and Ridgefield Park firefighters joined their Bogota colleagues at the two-alarm Orchard Terrace blaze just after 4 a.m. The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Arson Investigation Unit was summoned because the home was vacant and the cause wasn’t immediately determined. STORY / PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Correspondent Damien Danis

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Crash at Ramsey garden nursery sends driver to hospital Crash at Ramsey garden nursery sends driver to hospital Crash at Ramsey garden nursery sends driver to hospital
Crash at Ramsey garden nursery sends driver to hospital UPDATE: A motorist was hospitalized after a Toyota SUV collided with a BMW and then careened into the corner of a greenhouse at a Ramsey nursery this afternoon. No one was in the outdoor structure when the crash occurred around 4:15 p.m. outside the Ramsey Nursery & Garden Center on N. Franklin Turnpike, Ramsey Police Sgt. Vasili Pieratos told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The driver was taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood with a minor injury, he said. Police were investigating.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
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Tenafly contractor from Norwood charged with tax fraud Tenafly contractor from Norwood charged with tax fraud Tenafly contractor from Norwood charged with tax fraud
Tenafly contractor from Norwood charged with tax fraud YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The owner of a Tenafly landscaping business had a first court appearance before a federal judge in Newark today on charges of failing to report $842,953 in income and $46,118 in self-employment tax. Glen Latz of Norwood was indicted by a grand jury last week for two counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns following an investigation by the the IRS-Criminal Investigation Newark Field Office and U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman’s office. While owning and operating Latz Construction Service and Structural Building Supplies, a stone construct…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Paramus police chase mall shoplifters to Paterson Paramus police chase mall shoplifters to Paterson Paramus police chase mall shoplifters to Paterson
Paramus police chase mall shoplifters to Paterson NEWSBREAK: Concerned about citizen safety, Paramus police broke off a pursuit at the Paterson border of two men in a green Oldsmobile who shoplifted razors and hair care products from the CVS at the Bergen Town Center this afternoon. CHECK BACK FOR DETAILS

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Wallington neighbor charged with package delivery theft Wallington neighbor charged with package delivery theft Wallington neighbor charged with package delivery theft
Wallington neighbor charged with package delivery theft ONLY ON CVP: A Wallington woman told police investigating a series of delivery thefts that she snatched a package of shirts sent to her neighbor and then tossed them in the trash, authorities said. Responding to her neighbor’s call yesterday at the Jasontown Apartment complex, Officer Victor Urgiles spoke with Theresa Porcelli, who admitted taking the shirt package, opening it and then discarding what she found inside, Lt. Shawn Kudlacik told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. The neighbor ordered a second package and collected it before Porcelli,48, could get it, Kudlacik said. “She watch…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Guatemalan immigrant charged with sexually abusing Palisades Park girl, 4 Guatemalan immigrant charged with sexually abusing Palisades Park girl, 4 Guatemalan immigrant charged with sexually abusing Palisades Park girl, 4
Guatemalan immigrant charged with sexually abusing Palisades Park girl, 4 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A married construction worker from Guatelmalan sexually abused a 4-year-old Palisades Park girl, authorities who arrested him earlier today said. Israel Duarte, 45, was being held on $150,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with sexual assault and child endangerment. The girl “disclosed what had taken place to her mother and her pediatrician,” Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon. The pediatrician contacted the Division of Child Protection and Permanency (DCP&P), which then alerted his Special Victims Unit, the prosecutor sai…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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3 had $56,000 worth of Molly, psychedelic derivative, $112,000 cash in Fort Lee, Edgewater, detectives charge 3 had $56,000 worth of Molly, psychedelic derivative, $112,000 cash in Fort Lee, Edgewater, detectives charge 3 had $56,000 worth of Molly, psychedelic derivative, $112,000 cash in Fort Lee, Edgewater, detectives charge
3 had $56,000 worth of Molly, psychedelic derivative, $112,000 cash in Fort Lee, Edgewater, detectives charge YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Detectives seized more than two pounds of a club drug commonly used as a substitute for Molly and nearly a pound of MDMA itself while arresting three people in Fort Lee and Edgewater. One of them, 31-year-old Fernando Bautista, tossed the MDMA into the Hudson River while investigators were executing a search warrant at his City Place apartment in Edgewater, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli. If sold on the street, it would have fetched an estimated $16,000, the prosecutor said. The other two — identified as Alejandra Arbelaez, 26, and Angel Tejada, 33 — …

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