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
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Garfield man charged with stabbing Lodi girlfriend’s ex after hiding in closet Garfield man charged with stabbing Lodi girlfriend’s ex after hiding in closet Garfield man charged with stabbing Lodi girlfriend’s ex after hiding in closet
Garfield man charged with stabbing Lodi girlfriend’s ex after hiding in closet YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 19-year-old Garfield man hid in his Lodi girlfriend’s closet with a kitchen knife, then stabbed her ex-boyfriend several times in the chest — after which she was cut on the arm as she wrested the weapon from him, police said tonight. Nicholas Damico hid himself because he’d discovered the ex was outside the woman’s Central Avenue house and was “looking to see who[m] she was now dating,” Lodi Police Capt. Donald Scorzetti told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The ex-boyfriend found him just after 3 p.m., struggled with Damico and was stabbed, Scorzetti said. “The girlfriend pul…

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Hackensack, NJ
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Kidnapping charges returned against man who police said broke broomstick over Garfield woman’s head Kidnapping charges returned against man who police said broke broomstick over Garfield woman’s head Kidnapping charges returned against man who police said broke broomstick over Garfield woman’s head
Kidnapping charges returned against man who police said broke broomstick over Garfield woman’s head YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Passaic man who police said held his ex-girlfriend captive after breaking a broomstick over her head and dragging her from her Garfield apartment on New Year’s Day was indicted on first-degree kidnapping charges. Elvis Valerio, 35, kicked open the 23-year-old victim’s dead-bolted Orchard Street door and threatened to kill her younger sister if she called police, Garfield Police Lt. Richard Uram told CLIFFVIEW PILOT following his arrest. Area surveillance images show Valerio walking toward the apartment with the broom in his hand and several minutes later pulling …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Accused ‘Taxi Cab Bandit’ indicted in Elmwood Park, South Hackensack, Hackensack robbery spree Accused ‘Taxi Cab Bandit’ indicted in Elmwood Park, South Hackensack, Hackensack robbery spree Accused ‘Taxi Cab Bandit’ indicted in Elmwood Park, South Hackensack, Hackensack robbery spree
Accused ‘Taxi Cab Bandit’ indicted in Elmwood Park, South Hackensack, Hackensack robbery spree YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Clifton man dubbed the “Taxi Cab Bandit” was named in a nine-count indictment charging him with robbing an Elmwood Park bank, a Hackensack CVS and a Route 46 motel in South Hackensack, along with two botched attempts of local fast-food restaurants. Six of the counts in the indictment returned by a grand jury in Hackensack against 31-year-old Gregory Morehouse are first-degree charges involving a deadly weapon and “the threat of immediate bodily injury.” Morehouse wore the same dark, hooded sweatshirt with white inner lining in the CVS New Year’s Eve holdup in Hac…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Police officer from Bergen sheriff’s office nabs Teaneck man who fled in stolen car Police officer from Bergen sheriff’s office nabs Teaneck man who fled in stolen car Police officer from Bergen sheriff’s office nabs Teaneck man who fled in stolen car
Police officer from Bergen sheriff’s office nabs Teaneck man who fled in stolen car A Bergen County Sheriff’s police officer who chased a Teaneck man driving a stolen car from Fort Lee overnight went to his house a short time later and arrested him. Officer Matt Bartlett of the sheriff’s Bureau of Police Services tried stopping 28-year-old Shawne Wolfe on westbound Route 4 after he blew a red lght in Fort Lee around 2:30 a.m., BCSO spokesman Anthony Cureton told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Wolfe turned off onto Teaneck Road and then down Bogert Street, where he pulled into a driveway and took off through local backyards, Cureton said. Bartlett quickly identified him, went to his …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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April 17: Ridgefield PBA beefsteak dinner, comedy night for Special Olympics New Jersey April 17: Ridgefield PBA beefsteak dinner, comedy night for Special Olympics New Jersey April 17: Ridgefield PBA beefsteak dinner, comedy night for Special Olympics New Jersey
April 17: Ridgefield PBA beefsteak dinner, comedy night for Special Olympics New Jersey SHOUT OUT: The 7th annual Ridgefield PBA 330 Beefsteak Dinner and Comedy Night to raise money for Special Olympics New Jersey comes up later this month at the Palisadium in Cliffside Park. “It’s gotten so popular over the years that it’s outgrown the capacity of our community center,” Sgt. Robert Meurer told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. There will be a huge tricky tray and door prizes. All proceeds collected by the PBA — which so far has raised $75,000 — will go directly to Special Olympics New Jersey. *      *      *      *      *      * WHAT: 7th Annual Ridgefield PBA Local 330 Beefsteak Dinn…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Police charge Hackensack man, 74, with sexually touching Bogota girl Police charge Hackensack man, 74, with sexually touching Bogota girl Police charge Hackensack man, 74, with sexually touching Bogota girl
Police charge Hackensack man, 74, with sexually touching Bogota girl MUGSHOT: A 74-year-old Hackensack man was being held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with inappropriately touching a Bogota teenager. City police arrested Peter Sigmon yesterday after the girl’s father went to police, said Capt. Timothy Lloyd, the officer in charge of the department. The girl, now 15, was 14 when the first alleged incident occurred last August, he said. MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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2 years in fed pen for former Paterson councilman caught taking bribes 2 years in fed pen for former Paterson councilman caught taking bribes 2 years in fed pen for former Paterson councilman caught taking bribes
2 years in fed pen for former Paterson councilman caught taking bribes BEYOND BERGEN: A former Paterson City Council president was sentenced in Newark today to 24 months in federal prison for taking $10,000 in bribes from an FBI informant posing as a real estate developer. Anthony Davis, 50, previously admitted accepting $5,000 in cash from the government cooperator, who posed as an out-of-state real estate developer seeking pull with the city. Davis met with the developer in Wayne in the summer of 2012 and “discussed the possibility of accepting additional money from [him] in exchange for a letter from Davis to the developer’s lender indicating that the Pat…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Brother of fugitive Ramsey auto dealer held on $1M bail Brother of fugitive Ramsey auto dealer held on $1M bail Brother of fugitive Ramsey auto dealer held on $1M bail
Brother of fugitive Ramsey auto dealer held on $1M bail YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The brother of fugitive Afzal “Bobby” Khan, a former Ramsey luxury car dealer wanted by federal authorities for defrauding dozens of customers and lenders, was being held on $1 million bail in the Bergen County following his arrest in South Jersey. Anil A. Iqbal, 36, sold a 2013 Lamborghini on consignment for $368,274 to a Nevada man from his brother’s Emporio Motors on Route 17 last April 14 and never gave the owner the money, Ramsey Police Chief Bryan Gurney told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. Ramsey Detective Brad Smith investigated and obtained a warrant for Iqb…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Two reject pleas, headed to trial for trafficking gun used in Hackensack police shootout Two reject pleas, headed to trial for trafficking gun used in Hackensack police shootout Two reject pleas, headed to trial for trafficking gun used in Hackensack police shootout
Two reject pleas, headed to trial for trafficking gun used in Hackensack police shootout ONLY ON CVP: Two men charged with trafficking a handgun that a fleeing fugitive used to shoot at Hackensack police have rejected a final seven-year state prison plea deal from prosecutors and will go to trial in June. Both Jerry “Angel” Nunez of Cliffside Park and Jorge Alberto Rodriguez of Pembroke Pines, FL, have been behind bars since July 25, 2013 and would have nearly two years of jail credit each by the time their trial begins. Accepting the plea deal offered would end up freeing both in five years. Jerry “Angel” Nunez, Jorge Alberto Rodriguez (STORY / PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Cour…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Man who sued NYPD after shootout arrested on warrant in Cliffside Park Man who sued NYPD after shootout arrested on warrant in Cliffside Park Man who sued NYPD after shootout arrested on warrant in Cliffside Park
Man who sued Nypd after shootout arrested on warrant in Cliffside Park EXCLUSIVE REPORT: A former Harlem resident dubbed the “Swiss Cheese Man” after an NYPD shootout 4½ years ago left him with more than two dozen bullet holes was picked up by city police on a fugitive warrant today at a Cliffside Park apartment where he’d been living, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. Angel Alvarez, 28, was being held in the Bergen County Jail pending an extradition hearing. Alvarez is already facing major drug-trafficking charges in Bergen County following his arrest last May 31 in Fort Lee. He posted $100,000 bail four days later and was released from the Bergen County Jail pe…

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