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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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Case closed: Elmwood Park man, 100, slit wrists after killing sleeping wife with ax, prosecutor says Case closed: Elmwood Park man, 100, slit wrists after killing sleeping wife with ax, prosecutor says Case closed: Elmwood Park man, 100, slit wrists after killing sleeping wife with ax, prosecutor says
Case closed: Elmwood Park man, 100, slit wrists after killing sleeping wife with ax, prosecutor says UPDATE: A 100-year-old Elmwood Park man killed his 88-year-old wife with an ax while she slept Sunday night, then killed himself by slitting his wrists with a knife in a bathroom, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said in formally declaring the incident a murder-suicide and closing the investigation this afternoon. The bodies of Michael and Rosalia Juskin were found on the first floor of their two-story Spruce Street home near Jan Court at 8:40 a.m. yesterday after a relative dialed 911, Molinelli said. “The caller went to the residence to check on the two after family members we…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Newark man tells federal judge he made sex videos, photos of girl in tractor-trailer cab Newark man tells federal judge he made sex videos, photos of girl in tractor-trailer cab Newark man tells federal judge he made sex videos, photos of girl in tractor-trailer cab
Newark man tells federal judge he made sex videos, photos of girl in tractor-trailer cab BEYOND BERGEN: A Newark man admitted today in federal court that he conned a young girl into sex that he took videos and photos of in the cab of a tractor-trailer. Pedro Rios, 59, pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a child and possession of child pornography for five separate incidents from March 2008 through November 2011. He also admitted possessing child pornography when he was arrested in February of 2013. Rios, who will be required to register as a sex offender, was scheduled for a July 7 sentencing. U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman credited special agents of the FBI Newark Di…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Judge tells Englewood massage therapist to take plea or be tried for molesting customers Judge tells Englewood massage therapist to take plea or be tried for molesting customers Judge tells Englewood massage therapist to take plea or be tried for molesting customers
Judge tells Englewood massage therapist to take plea or be tried for molesting customers ONLY ON CVP: An Englewood massage therapist charged with molesting a half-dozen female customers has two weeks to either take a plea or go to trial. An indictment returned last April accuses Colombian national Felipe Cruz, 53, of nearly dozen counts of “unwanted sexual contact” and three counts of sexual assault by digital penetration. Cruz has remained held on $25,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail — down from an original $75,000 — since Englewood police and members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office arrested him on Nov. 22, 2013. Superior Court Judge Frances McGrogan told Cruz y…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Scammers still sending cellphones to unsuspecting customers, showing up at their homes Scammers still sending cellphones to unsuspecting customers, showing up at their homes Scammers still sending cellphones to unsuspecting customers, showing up at their homes
Scammers still sending cellphones to unsuspecting customers, showing up at their homes PUBLIC SAFETY: Despite widespread publicity, phone insurance scammers have continued to send packages to unsuspecting citizens that they can then snatch up, Wyckoff Police Chief Benjamin Fox warned today. A William Way resident summoned Fox’s officers yesterday after seeing a black passenger “missing many teeth” get out of a blue van and snatch a package left at the front door of a neighbor’s home across the street. “It is believed that they are having iPhones and other merchandise shipped to different addresses,” Fox said. “They then check the delivery tracking system and take the packag…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Missing Dumont man’s drowning accidental, Teaneck police confirm Missing Dumont man’s drowning accidental, Teaneck police confirm Missing Dumont man’s drowning accidental, Teaneck police confirm
Missing Dumont man’s drowning accidental, Teaneck police confirm UPDATE: Teaneck police this morning officially confirmed that a man whose body was found on a Hackensack River mud bank about 25 feet from shore this weekend accidentally drowned. John Tonincelli, 47, of Dumont, who police said had a schizo-affective disorder, was reported missing by his mother last Nov. 27 after he didn’t show up for Thanksgiving dinner at the Woodcrest Health Care Center in New Milford. He was last seen Nov. 25 on Atlantic Street in Hackensack, authorities said at the time, adding that he didn’t drive or use public transportation, often walked around the western end of …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Man charged with Teaneck drive-by shooting says he was Paramus mall Easter bunny Man charged with Teaneck drive-by shooting says he was Paramus mall Easter bunny Man charged with Teaneck drive-by shooting says he was Paramus mall Easter bunny
Man charged with Teaneck drive-by shooting says he was Paramus mall Easter bunny YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 19-year-old Teaneck man charged with firing drive-by shots at two township homes last week gave his occupation during booking as the Easter Bunny at a Paramus mall, multiple sources told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “He was told to quit playing around,” one officer said in the hours following Hibbert’s overnight arrest Sunday. “But he provided his hours, what days he worked.” It was never formally verified, however. Also arrested over the weekend and yesterday were four alleged accomplices, Teaneck Police Chief Robert Carney announced this morning. In both incidents, Car…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
NYC woman, 51, among six nabbed by Englewood police in gas station beating robbery NYC woman, 51, among six nabbed by Englewood police in gas station beating robbery NYC woman, 51, among six nabbed by Englewood police in gas station beating robbery
NYC woman, 51, among six nabbed by Englewood police in gas station beating robbery YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Five young Bronx men and a 51-year-old woman have been arrested and charged in the beating robbery of an Englewood gas station attendant earlier this year, authorities announced this morning. Armed with arrest warrants, a team of Englewood and NYPD detectives swept through several locations in the Bronx last Thursday and, by day’s end, had all five men under arrest and booked at the 44th Precinct, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Yesterday the sixth suspect, Ebenita Wright, was charged with simple assault and hindering after she surrendered at E…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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Saddle Brook ‘gentle giant’ dispatcher, special police officer had huge heart Saddle Brook ‘gentle giant’ dispatcher, special police officer had huge heart Saddle Brook ‘gentle giant’ dispatcher, special police officer had huge heart
Saddle Brook ‘gentle giant’ dispatcher, special police officer had huge heart TRIBUTE: He was a gentle giant, with a heart that was even bigger, those who knew Gregory Korczak said. Despite losing a portion of his leg to diabetes a few years ago, he had a strong will and was determined to serve his community as a Special Police Officer and dispatcher — and was proud of it. Gregory W. “Goose” Korczak suffered a massive heart attack at his home while preparing for his family’s Easter celebration on Sunday. Gregory W. “Goose” Korczak Despite efforts from fellow police officers who were there within minutes, as well as aid from ambulance corps members and paramedic…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Potential Ebola-affected boy remains quarantined at HUMC Potential Ebola-affected boy remains quarantined at HUMC Potential Ebola-affected boy remains quarantined at HUMC
Potential Ebola-affected boy remains quarantined at Humc EXCLUSIVE REPORT: A 4-year-old potential Ebola patient from was being kept overnight as a precaution at Hackensack University Medical Center after his temperature shot to 103 degrees during a flight to Newark International Airport from New Guinea, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. The boy’s mother and brother were discharged soon after New Jersey State Police escorted their ambulance to the hospital. Hospital officials said the patient hadn’t been exposed to the virus and was being treated for traveling symptoms. He remained there through Tuesday afternoon. HUMC — designated as an “assessmen…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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NJSP charge sleeping driver, 71, in Woodcliff Lake GSP crash that seriously injured woman NJSP charge sleeping driver, 71, in Woodcliff Lake GSP crash that seriously injured woman NJSP charge sleeping driver, 71, in Woodcliff Lake GSP crash that seriously injured woman
Njsp charge sleeping driver, 71, in Woodcliff Lake GSP crash that seriously injured woman EXCLUSIVE REPORT: A nurse from The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood was flown to Hackensack University Medical Center with serious injuries after a sedan driven by her husband was rear-ended on the northbound Garden State Parkway at the Woodcliff Lake-Hillsdale border by one driven by a 71-year-old New York City mant who apparently fell asleep, authorities confirmed. New Jersey State Police charged Barry Weintraub, a former Bergen County resident from downtown Manhattan, with assault by auto and released him on a summons. The 66-year-old victim, her 68-year-old husband and Weintraub, who walk…

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