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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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Angel gone to Heaven: Lily LaRue Anderson, 6 Angel gone to Heaven: Lily LaRue Anderson, 6 Angel gone to Heaven: Lily LaRue Anderson, 6
Angel gone to Heaven: Lily LaRue Anderson, 6 Family photos TRIBUTE: Not expected to make it to last Christmas, a bubbly Wayne girl who won countless hearts of those who learned of her inoperable brain tumor passed this morning, a day after Easter. Lily LaRue Anderson was 6. With no prior signs, Lily was diagnosed last May with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG). Lily (family photos) The tumor sat in the middle of her brain stem — which holds the “wiring” for motor control and sensation — and couldn’t be removed. It’s a particularly cruel disease: The median overall survival term is 9 months. Lily lasted 11. In that…

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Rutherford, NJ
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Union City men stopped in swerving car in Carlstadt had quarter-pound of pot, police say Union City men stopped in swerving car in Carlstadt had quarter-pound of pot, police say Union City men stopped in swerving car in Carlstadt had quarter-pound of pot, police say
Union City men stopped in swerving car in Carlstadt had quarter-pound of pot, police say YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Carlstadt police charged a plumber and floor cleaner from Union City with having a quarter-pound of pot in their car after stopping it for swerving across two lanes of traffic, authorities said tonight. Officer Jason Colombo was on patrol in the area of Route 120 and 16th Street when he saw the white Chrysler suddenly cut across two lanes of traffic to the shoulder at 12:40 a.m. Thursday, Detective John Cleary told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The driver, 26-year-old Seydel Valdes-Valdes (above, right), didn’t signal, Cleary said. He had a suspended driver’s license, as well…

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Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Wyckoff house blaze doused Wyckoff house blaze doused Wyckoff house blaze doused
Wyckoff house blaze doused YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Wyckoff doctor’s home was empty when a two-alarm fire of initially-unknown origin broke out, engulfing the front door and causing extensive smoke and water damage this afternoon, authorities said. Wyckoff firefighters who were joined at the two-story Terhune Terrace home by colleagues from Franklin Lakes, Hawthorne, Ho-Ho-Kus, Midland Park, Oakland, Ramsey and Waldwick just after 3:45 p.m. quickly doused the flames, Police Chief Benjamin Fox said. Investigators were trying to determine the cause, Fox said. “The home has been declared uninhabitable and the owner…

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Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority police find Lyndhurst vet, rescue choking dog Port Authority police find Lyndhurst vet, rescue choking dog Port Authority police find Lyndhurst vet, rescue choking dog
Port Authority police find Lyndhurst vet, rescue choking dog YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: With most area veterinarians off for Easter Sunday, quick-moving Port Authority police officers saved a dog who was having trouble breathing by escorting the worried owner and his pet to an emergency vet in Lyndhurst. The Jersey City owner drove up to Officer Tom Feuker ‘s cruiser outside the Holland Tunnel at 4:10 p.m. yesterday and said he couldn’t find a vet for Julius, his 10-year-old Maltese, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. The officer tried but couldn’t clear the obstruction, but officers found the emergency vet and got …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Five Bergen contractors among 31 cited for not having NJ registration Five Bergen contractors among 31 cited for not having NJ registration Five Bergen contractors among 31 cited for not having NJ registration
Five Bergen contractors among 31 cited for not having NJ registration YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Five Bergen County contractors were among 30 statewide cited by the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs for violations the first three months of 2015, officials announced this afternoon. The DCA is seeking nearly $400,000 in restitution and civil penalties from those cited, Acting New Jersey Attorney General John J. Hoffman said. They include: • Agnello Construction of Mahwah • Brownies Tree Service of Garfield • Durango Travertine of Ridgefield • Home Care of Oakland • Medina Floors and Construction of Palisades Park Others cited include A&E Improvemen…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Father, son swindled Hasbrouck Heights widow, authorities charge Father, son swindled Hasbrouck Heights widow, authorities charge Father, son swindled Hasbrouck Heights widow, authorities charge
Father, son swindled Hasbrouck Heights widow, authorities charge ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A Jersey Shore investment adviser and his father were being held in the Bergen County Jail on charges of swindling a Hasbrouck Heights widow out of $175,000. Andrew George Lesnak, 82, of Hampton Bays, Long Island (above, left), and his son, 53-year-old Andrew Michael Lesnak of Toms River, were being held on $75,000 bail each, charged with a variety of theft-related offenses alleged in a grand jury indictment. The younger Lesnak (above, right) was an investment advisor to the 69-year-old widow and her husband, who died in 2007, leaving her no nearby relatives or people s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
River Edge man forced, threatened boy, 16, into oral sex, indictment alleges River Edge man forced, threatened boy, 16, into oral sex, indictment alleges River Edge man forced, threatened boy, 16, into oral sex, indictment alleges
River Edge man forced, threatened boy, 16, into oral sex, indictment alleges ONLY ON CVP: “Do not tell anyone about this or else,” a River Edge man told a 15-year-old boy after giving him oral sex, an indictment returned by a grand jury in Hackensack alleges. Jonah Llull, 19, also held the Hackensack boy down and grabbed the youngster’s crotch last July, the indictment says. No details were disclosed when detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit and River Edge police arrested Llull in September after interviewing the boy. The seven-count indictment returned last week accuses Llull of grabbing the boy twice, unlawfully restraining him a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
9 hospitalized after SUV rams jitney bus on Fair Lawn shoulder 9 hospitalized after SUV rams jitney bus on Fair Lawn shoulder 9 hospitalized after SUV rams jitney bus on Fair Lawn shoulder
9 hospitalized after SUV rams jitney bus on Fair Lawn shoulder YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Seven jitney bus passengers, the driver and the driver of an SUV that rammed into it on the shoulder of Broadway in Fair Lawn this morning were taken to area hospitals, police said. The 2005 Ford Explorer, operated by a 47-year-old Fair Lawn woman, was headed east on Broadway near 34th Street when it struck the bus, whose driver had stopped on the shoulder to load and unload passengers just before 9 a.m., Sgt. Brian Metzler said. The Explorer driver was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with a neck injury, he said. The 56-year-old male bus driver from…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack woman acted in self-defense in stabbing friend, jurors find Hackensack woman acted in self-defense in stabbing friend, jurors find Hackensack woman acted in self-defense in stabbing friend, jurors find
Hackensack woman acted in self-defense in stabbing friend, jurors find EXCLUSIVE REPORT: A jury in Hackensack found that a city woman acted in self-defense when she stabbed a former female friend who burst into her South Hackensack apartment to dispute a hospital bill for an emergency room visit. Defense attorney Ian Silvera told jurors that Nilajah Sumter was frightened when the woman confronted her in December 2013. She grabbed the knife out of fear and left the woman with superficial chest and hand wounds, he said. The incident began when Sumter called the woman to tell her about the emergency room bill following a crash a few weeks earlier. Both were d…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority police stop wrong-way DWI driver headed toward Holland Tunnel exit Port Authority police stop wrong-way DWI driver headed toward Holland Tunnel exit Port Authority police stop wrong-way DWI driver headed toward Holland Tunnel exit
Port Authority police stop wrong-way DWI driver headed toward Holland Tunnel exit BEYOND BERGEN: A drunk driver was headed the wrong way toward a Holland Tunnel exit when Port Authority police said they arrested him early yesterday. Ayomide Akinboye, 19, of Carteret was driving a 2014 Nissan Rogue east in the westbound lanes of Marin Boulevard in Jersey City toward exiting tunnel traffic when officers got him to roll down his window at 5 a.m. and smelled alcohol on his breath, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said. He “appeared disoriented and confused” and had bloodshot eyes, Pentangelo said. Once Akinboye got out, he “was unsteady on his feet and steadied himself …

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