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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West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
Airline pilot grabs NYC man running out airport checkpoint exit Airline pilot grabs NYC man running out airport checkpoint exit Airline pilot grabs NYC man running out airport checkpoint exit
Airline pilot grabs NYC man running out airport checkpoint exit BEYOND BERGEN: An airline pilot grabbed a 20-year-old Harlem man and held him for police after he ran through a security checkpoint and out a door at JFK Airport early this morning, Port Authority police said. Police who took Claudio Duran into custody around 6 a.m. found that he drove to JFK in a white 2014 Isuzu truck reported stolen two hours earlier in Manhattan, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said. Duran was charged with grand larceny, possession of stolen property and two trespassing counts. There were no injuries, he said. MUGSHOT: Courtesy PORT AUTHORITY PD

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Driver, 84, charged after crash that leaves motorcyclist serious but stable Driver, 84, charged after crash that leaves motorcyclist serious but stable Driver, 84, charged after crash that leaves motorcyclist serious but stable
Driver, 84, charged after crash that leaves motorcyclist serious but stable UPDATE: A 20-year-old motorcyclist remained in serious but stable condition with head and neck injuries at Hackensack University Medical Center this morning after he was thrown across the hood of a sedan driven by an 82-year-old Fair Lawn man at a Paramus intersection last night. Daniel Shea landed on the sidewalk after the 2011 Ford Fusion driver cut him off and his 2005 Suzuki 650 collided with it just after 6:15 p.m. at the intersection of West Midland Avenue and Green Valley Road, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The Fusion then slammed head-on into a 2005 Toyota H…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
$50,000 bail for Saddle Brook man who police said broke rival’s eye socket in church parking lot fight over woman $50,000 bail for Saddle Brook man who police said broke rival’s eye socket in church parking lot fight over woman $50,000 bail for Saddle Brook man who police said broke rival’s eye socket in church parking lot fight over woman
$50,000 bail for Saddle Brook man who police said broke rival’s eye socket in church parking lot fight over woman ANOTHER CVP EXCLUSIVE: An arranged church parking lot fight over a woman sent one 19-year-old Saddle Brook man to the hospital with a broken eye socket and another to jail. Believing that Xhoreno “Joe” Shehu was dating the mother of his 6-month-old child, the victim told police that he agreed to meet his rival Wednesday night in the parking lot of St. Phillips Church off Saddle River Road. No sooner did they get out of their cars than Shehu knocked the other man down with one punch, surveillance video shows. Then he repeatedly kicked him, Police Chief Robert Kugler told CLIFFVIEW PILOT …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
River Vale man charged with dumping helpless Hillsdale heroin user behind Lodi shopping center River Vale man charged with dumping helpless Hillsdale heroin user behind Lodi shopping center River Vale man charged with dumping helpless Hillsdale heroin user behind Lodi shopping center
River Vale man charged with dumping helpless Hillsdale heroin user behind Lodi shopping center ANOTHER CVP EXCLUSIVE: A 26-year-old River Vale man was being held on $20,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail after Lodi police arrested him last night on charges of abandoning an incapacitated 19-year-old Hillsdale heroin addict behind a shopping center. A passerby found the woman in the strip mall parking lot off Essex Street and called police just before 10:30 p.m. Sunday, Capt. Donald Scorzetti told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. EMTs responded and took her to Hackensack University Medical Center, he said. River Vale police picked up Joseph Ciaccio at his Westwood Avenue home yesterda…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Franklin Lakes police charge homeowner, detain teens in drinking party Franklin Lakes police charge homeowner, detain teens in drinking party Franklin Lakes police charge homeowner, detain teens in drinking party
Franklin Lakes police charge homeowner, detain teens in drinking party YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Nearly 20 teens scattered into the woods after Franklin Lakes police busted an underage drinking party last night and issued a summons to the 50-year-old homeowner. Several juveniles were detained and later released to their parents pending Family Court hearings. Police intend to issue delinquency complaints against several other teens, as well, once they’ve investigated further, Lt. John Bakelaar told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. Kenneth Mathieson was charged with maintaining a nuisance after Sgt. Mark McCombs and Officers Nicholas Klein and Donald Wison respon…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Two more out-of-towners charged in separate Elmwood Park drug arrests Two more out-of-towners charged in separate Elmwood Park drug arrests Two more out-of-towners charged in separate Elmwood Park drug arrests
Two more out-of-towners charged in separate Elmwood Park drug arrests YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Elmwood Park police continued their public campaign to stop drugs coming through their town from Paterson with the separate arrests yesterday of men from Bogota and Cliffside Park. Vincent Barbarino, 30, of Bogota was charged with drug possession — for what Police Chief Michael Foligno said was a vial of cocaine, three bags of marijuana and two prescription pills — as well as with possession of drug paraphernalia, being under the influence of a controlled dangerous substance and hindering his own apprehension by providing false information after he was stopped yester…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority police arrest 3 in Holland Tunnel road rage brawl Port Authority police arrest 3 in Holland Tunnel road rage brawl Port Authority police arrest 3 in Holland Tunnel road rage brawl
Port Authority police arrest 3 in Holland Tunnel road rage brawl BEYOND BERGEN: A road rage incident that Port Authority police said began during a merge into the Holland Tunnel in Manhattan ended with three men arrested after a brawl in Jersey City. Two men got out of their 2013 Chevy Impala at 14th and Erie streets yesterday afternoon and pulled out the driver of a 2012 Mercedes Benz Sprinter van, who’d armed himself with a box cutter, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said this morning. Port Authority Police Officers John Defilippo and Officer David Narvaez responded. The van driver, Norbert Lozaro, 28, of Elizabeth (above, left), had an active wa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Cable repair man indicted in sex assaults of Fairview woman, 71, Ridgefield Park resident, 60 Cable repair man indicted in sex assaults of Fairview woman, 71, Ridgefield Park resident, 60 Cable repair man indicted in sex assaults of Fairview woman, 71, Ridgefield Park resident, 60
Cable repair man indicted in sex assaults of Fairview woman, 71, Ridgefield Park resident, 60 ANOTHER CVP EXCLUSIVE: A cable TV repairman forced himself on two Bergen County women — putting his mouth on the breasts and vagina of a 71-year-old Fairview woman and his hands on the breasts and buttocks of a 60-year-old Ridgefield Park resident — after breaking into their homes, an indictment returned in Hackensack yesterday alleges. Now unemployed, 32-year-old Jonathan Malave was working as a cable service technician when he “engaged in inappropriate sexual activity” with the Ridgefield Park woman in her home in July 2014 and with the Fairview woman in her home a month later, Bergen Cou…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: Englewood, Fort Lee burglary crew takes $170,000 in valuables VIDEO: Englewood, Fort Lee burglary crew takes $170,000 in valuables VIDEO: Englewood, Fort Lee burglary crew takes $170,000 in valuables
Video: Englewood, Fort Lee burglary crew takes $170,000 in valuables YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: Englewood and Fort Lee police are hoping surveillance video helps nail a three-member burglary crew responsible for taking nearly $170,000 in jewelry, cash and electronics from a trio of tenants. The bandits struck on March 16 — first on Edwin Avenue in Fort Lee at 11 a.m. and then, 90 minutes later, in the Brownstone apartment complex just off Route 4 and South Brunt Street, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Each time, the female crew member went to the building entrances and waited, Torell said. When someone either used a key or was buzzed in, s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen County Jail under Saudino again gets national accreditation Bergen County Jail under Saudino again gets national accreditation Bergen County Jail under Saudino again gets national accreditation
Bergen County Jail under Saudino again gets national accreditation SHOUT OUT: The “gold standard” by which jails and prison are measured has once again honored the Bergen County Jail, Sheriff Michael Saudino announced this afternoon. The BCJ was one of only four county jails in New Jersey found in 100% compliance with all 45 mandatory standards, as well as 96 non-mandatory ones, in the latest “Core Jail Standards Audit” by the American Correctional Assocation. That gives the Hackensack lokcup the unique distinction of holding three separate accreditations, including from the New Jersey Association of Chiefs of Police and the National Commission on Correc…

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