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
Residential, commercial lighting contractor K Hanrahan Enterprises offers fast, professional service Residential, commercial lighting contractor K Hanrahan Enterprises offers fast, professional service Residential, commercial lighting contractor K Hanrahan Enterprises offers fast, professional service
Residential, commercial lighting contractor K Hanrahan Enterprises offers fast, professional service CVP ADVERTISER: You’ve seen the work of K Hanrahan Enterprises electrical and lighting contractors. Pick a local mall or big-box store. Or drive past Seasons Restaurant in Washington Township and marvel at “the tree.” Supermarkets. Gas stations. Hotels. Convenience stores. Or maybe a neighbor’s house. The Fair Lawn-based company specializes in outdoor and indoor lighting, repair and installation, with a fleet of fully-stocked bucket trucks, service vehicles and a warehouse with every type of light, pole or fixture you’d need for any job, large or small. That not only keeps costs down fo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: ‘Hostage situation’ at Clifton store a swatting hoax VIDEO: ‘Hostage situation’ at Clifton store a swatting hoax VIDEO: ‘Hostage situation’ at Clifton store a swatting hoax
Video: ‘Hostage situation’ at Clifton store a swatting hoax PHOTOS: Ron Bombaro BEYOND BERGEN: SWAT team members, police and other emergency responders descended on a video game store in a Clifton shopping complex tonight for a purported hostage-taking that turned out to be a “swatting” hoax, authorities told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. No arrests had been made as of just before 10 p.m. as Clifton detectives conducted an investigation, William Maer, a Passaic County Sheriff’s spokesman said. The call for assistance to Digital Press Videogames on Piaget Avenue off Route 46 just after 7 p.m. was apparently from a gamer, claiming that “men with shotguns were…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Hillsdale teen ticketed for careless driving in Woodcliff Lake train station crash Hillsdale teen ticketed for careless driving in Woodcliff Lake train station crash Hillsdale teen ticketed for careless driving in Woodcliff Lake train station crash
Hillsdale teen ticketed for careless driving in Woodcliff Lake train station crash PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT (top), Erica Balch (above) YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 17-year-old Hillsdale boy was cited for careless driving after his plowed an SUV through a corner of the Woodcliff Lake train station and into the waiting room late this afternoon. No one was injured after the 4:45 p.m. crash and service at the Broadway station wasn’t affected, Nancy Snyder of NJ Transit told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The building, however, sustained significant damage after being struck by the silver 2005 Toyota Highlander. The ticket machine is on the platform and no vendors work at the facility…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Jamaican national charged in series of sex assaults of Englewood girl, 14 Jamaican national charged in series of sex assaults of Englewood girl, 14 Jamaican national charged in series of sex assaults of Englewood girl, 14
Jamaican national charged in series of sex assaults of Englewood girl, 14 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 49-year-old Jamaican national from Teaneck raped, sodomized and molested a then-14-year-old Englewood girl over a four-month period five years ago, according to an indictment returned yesterday. Authorities originally said Kevin Wright sexually assaulted the girl several times when they announced his July 30 arrest last summer. The indictment handed up yesterday in Hackensack outlines a series of alleged acts between March and July 2009 that include intercourse, giving and getting oral sex, masturbation, digital penetration and touching the girl’s breasts and vag…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Indictment against GWB road-rage driver for ramming 2 cars, biting Port Authority police officer Indictment against GWB road-rage driver for ramming 2 cars, biting Port Authority police officer Indictment against GWB road-rage driver for ramming 2 cars, biting Port Authority police officer
Indictment against GWB road-rage driver for ramming 2 cars, biting Port Authority police officer ONLY ON CVP: A Princeton man who police said rammed his pickup truck into two other vehicles on the George Washington Bridge, then got out and jumped on the hood of one of them before hopping a barrier, running into traffic and biting a police officer was named in a nine-count indictment returned in Hackensack this week. Scott Parsons, 56, is charged with assault with a deadly weapon against two adults and two children in the Aug. 24 incident. It also charges him with assaulting a Port Authority police officer whom they said he bit. Parsons rammed his red, 1991 GMC pickup into a 2012 Ho…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Garfield man had sex with underage girl, indictment says Garfield man had sex with underage girl, indictment says Garfield man had sex with underage girl, indictment says
Garfield man had sex with underage girl, indictment says ONLY ON CVP: A grand jury in Hackensack returned an indictment yesterday containing a variety of sexual assault charges involving a 14-year-old girl against a Garfield man. Anthony Novel Rentas, 27, remained held on $125,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, nearly ten months after his May 31 arrest by members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit and Garfield police. The indictment charges Rentas with penile/vaginal penetration, digital penetration, giving and receiving oral sex and touching the girl’s breasts and buttocks. It also charges him with impairing the morals o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Sedan pushed into Fairview building, pedestrian OK after being struck Sedan pushed into Fairview building, pedestrian OK after being struck Sedan pushed into Fairview building, pedestrian OK after being struck
Sedan pushed into Fairview building, pedestrian OK after being struck YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Fairview police were trying to determine why a driver lost control of her Land Rover, which pushed a parked sedan through the front and entirely into a Fairview laundry this morning. They were also investigating a crash several blocks away that injured a female pedestrian. The 35-year-old Fairview pedestrian was expected to be released from Hackensack University Medical Center later today after being struck crossing Anderson Avenue near the borough library just after 8 a.m. (photo below) No summonses were issued to the 42-year-old female driver, also from Fairview,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Bergen authorities charge 5 with having bogus driver’s licenses in others’ names Bergen authorities charge 5 with having bogus driver’s licenses in others’ names Bergen authorities charge 5 with having bogus driver’s licenses in others’ names
Bergen authorities charge 5 with having bogus driver’s licenses in others’ names YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An aggressive campaign to root out driver’s license fraud sparked charges against six people — one of them a fugitive — by Bergen County authorities. The state Motor Vehicle Commission and Division of Criminal Justice co-managed the anti-fraud initiative using cutting edge facial scrub software to find people who have licenses in different names. They referred six for further investigation to detectives in the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office White Collar Crimes Squad, who found that those charged obtained licenses in other people’s names after their driving privi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Probation for cousin who stole more than $50G in family valuables upsets East Rutherford victims Probation for cousin who stole more than $50G in family valuables upsets East Rutherford victims Probation for cousin who stole more than $50G in family valuables upsets East Rutherford victims
Probation for cousin who stole more than $50G in family valuables upsets East Rutherford victims CVP EXCLUSIVE: Nine members of a family who came to court in Hackensack today — one in a T-shirt that included the slogans “Revenge is sweet” and “Payback’s a bitch” — were upset when a relative received probation for looting their homes of more than $50,000 in valuables. Superior Court Judge Edward A. Jerejian, who was bound by the terms of a plea bargain, told 59-year-old John Chiodo that he still could go to prison if he doesn’t fully fulfill the requirements of the either deal or his probation. That includes paying restitution for what he stole, the judge said. Chiodo, a grandson of…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Mahwah man embezzled more than $800,000 from Armenian Missionary Association, Paramus police charge Mahwah man embezzled more than $800,000 from Armenian Missionary Association, Paramus police charge Mahwah man embezzled more than $800,000 from Armenian Missionary Association, Paramus police charge
Mahwah man embezzled more than $800,000 from Armenian Missionary Association, Paramus police charge YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A former employee of member of the Paramus-based Armenian Missionary Association of America embezzled more than $800,000 in donations from the organization over eight years, buying himself electronic equipment that he sold to launder the money, along with a $30,000 car, authorities said. Tigran Melkonyan, 42, of Mahwah, was charged with theft, money laundering and corporate misconduct following a month-long investigation by Paramus investigators led by Detective Dmitriy Mazur, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said this afternoon. Melkonyan, who resigned his position …

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