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
DNA match leads to arrest, charges in Fair Lawn home invasion DNA match leads to arrest, charges in Fair Lawn home invasion DNA match leads to arrest, charges in Fair Lawn home invasion
DNA match leads to arrest, charges in Fair Lawn home invasion YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Haledon ex-con who Fair Lawn police said they caught last fall wheeling a stolen bicycle while riding another was tied to a burglary two months earlier, thanks to a DNA match, authorities said today. Clarence Goodman, 53, pushed his way out of the First Street residence after the homeowner awoke at 11:20 p.m. last July 22 and caught him rifling through a bedroom drawer, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Sgt. Anthony Ferreira and Bergen County Sheriff’s Detective Eddie Alicea took over the investigation and logged evidence that Metzler said the intruder left behind. A fo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
New Lodi PD narcotics unit arrests alleged Garfield dealer New Lodi PD narcotics unit arrests alleged Garfield dealer New Lodi PD narcotics unit arrests alleged Garfield dealer
New Lodi PD narcotics unit arrests alleged Garfield dealer YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The Lodi Police Department’s new narcotics unit arrested a 21-year-old Garfield man today after they said they caught him making several drug deals the past two weeks. Edwin A. Rodriguez was being held on $35,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail after his Elizabeth Street home was raided. He’s charged with several counts involving drug possession with the intent to distribute near a school. Unit members and Garfield detectives executed a search warrant today that turned up two ounces of marijuana, $680 in cash, a scale used to weigh the drugs and paraphernalia, Det…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Closter food delivery driver charged with Fort Lee hit and run that seriously injured Cliffside Park woman Closter food delivery driver charged with Fort Lee hit and run that seriously injured Cliffside Park woman Closter food delivery driver charged with Fort Lee hit and run that seriously injured Cliffside Park woman
Closter food delivery driver charged with Fort Lee hit and run that seriously injured Cliffside Park woman YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 36-year-old food delivery driver from Closter was arrested yesterday and charged in a hit-and-run pedestrian crash that left a Cliffside Park woman with serious head and leg injuries a little over a week ago. Joseph R. Zulueta was being held on $50,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with leaving the scene of a crash with serious injuries, endangering an injured victim and hindering his arrest. “We thought she was dead,” one of the first people on the scene told CLIFFVIEW PILOT after the 27-year-old victim was struck a week ago yesterday in the driveway o…

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Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood security guard tackles sex offender who rammed car into building after stealing toilet paper Englewood security guard tackles sex offender who rammed car into building after stealing toilet paper Englewood security guard tackles sex offender who rammed car into building after stealing toilet paper
Englewood security guard tackles sex offender who rammed car into building after stealing toilet paper YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 59-year-old convicted sex offender from Teaneck was drunk when he rammed his car into an Englewood check cashing business after shoplifting $20 of toilet paper, authorities said. A security guard from the H Mart supermarket on Lafayette Avenue was holding down Roderick T. Mitchell outside the Garden State Check Cashing store when officers arrived around 7:30 last night, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell said this afternoon. Roderick T. Mitchell (MUGSHOT: Courtesy NJ DEPT of CORRECTIONS) Mitchell had crashed a 2007 Audi A4 into the building and tried to run after t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Police break off car chase near Yankee Stadium after gunman robs $35,000 in Rolexes from Paramus mall store Police break off car chase near Yankee Stadium after gunman robs $35,000 in Rolexes from Paramus mall store Police break off car chase near Yankee Stadium after gunman robs $35,000 in Rolexes from Paramus mall store
Police break off car chase near Yankee Stadium after gunman robs $35,000 in Rolexes from Paramus mall store YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Fort Lee and Port Authority police chased a getaway car across the George Washington Bridge before breaking off the pursuit near Yankee Stadium in the Bronx after the passenger took a trio of Rolexes worth more than $35,000 at gunpoint from a Paramus mall jewelry store this afternoon. “Fort Lee and Port Authority police were waiting at the approaches when the vehicle sped through the tolls,” a law enforcement source with direct knowledge of the chase told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Officers sped across the span on both the upper and lower levels before the getaway driver of …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Garfield police say Polish national grabbed bar patron’s breast, spit at them, kicked in cruiser divider Garfield police say Polish national grabbed bar patron’s breast, spit at them, kicked in cruiser divider Garfield police say Polish national grabbed bar patron’s breast, spit at them, kicked in cruiser divider
Garfield police say Polish national grabbed bar patron’s breast, spit at them, kicked in cruiser divider UPDATE: A 24-year-old Polish national accused of grabbing a Garfield bar patron’s breast cursed a responding police officer, spit at him and his colleagues and kicked out the plexi-glass divider in the cruiser on the way to headquarters while threatening to kill him and his family, authorities said this afternoon. Mateusz Lubnicki was apparently drunk when the first responding officer found him standing outside the Fregata Tavern on Scudder Street at 5:30 last night, Capt. Darren Sucorowski said. They “advised him that he wasn’t wanted within the bar and wold have to leave,” Sucorowski sa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Excavator falls from trailer onto Route 208 in Wyckoff Excavator falls from trailer onto Route 208 in Wyckoff Excavator falls from trailer onto Route 208 in Wyckoff
Excavator falls from trailer onto Route 208 in Wyckoff PHOTOS: An excavator fell off a trailer onto southbound Route 208 in Wyckoff near Russell Avenue just after noon, tying up traffic. No injuries were reported and no other vehicles were involved, police said. State Department of Transporation authorities said the roadway needed repair. CLIFFVIEW PILOT photos  

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
SUV slams into steps of Fair Lawn home SUV slams into steps of Fair Lawn home SUV slams into steps of Fair Lawn home
SUV slams into steps of Fair Lawn home STORY / PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving PHOTOS: A driver was hospitalized as a precaution after her Lexus SUV slammed into the steps of a Fair Lawn private home and keeled onto the lawn this morning. Fair Lawn police, firefighters and Heavy Rescue responded along with Fuchs Ambulance to the 34st Street residence around 10:45 a.m. A building subcode official inspected. STORY / PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Garfield man, 30, claims he’d been killed, threatens to jump from balcony Garfield man, 30, claims he’d been killed, threatens to jump from balcony Garfield man, 30, claims he’d been killed, threatens to jump from balcony
Garfield man, 30, claims he’d been killed, threatens to jump from balcony YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 30-year-old Garfield man was hospitalized — and issued a summons for being under the influence of drugs — after screaming from a third-floor balcony that he had died and threatening to jump, authorities said. Officers ran to his apartment, where other tenants said he’d been acting irrationally, Police Capt. Darren Sucorowski said this morning. The officers then pulled him inside, Sucorowski said. He continued to “act delusional, repeatedly [saying] that someone had killed him and he had died,” the captain said. The man struggled with police while begging them…

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Wayne trio charged in NYC St. Patrick’s Day brawl Wayne trio charged in NYC St. Patrick’s Day brawl Wayne trio charged in NYC St. Patrick’s Day brawl
Wayne trio charged in NYC St. Patrick’s Day brawl BEYOND BERGEN: A Wayne Valley High School graduate and two current students turned themselves in to the NYPD for a videotaped St. Patrick’s Day brawl that left one victim with a broken eye socket and another with a broken jaw, authorities said. Even though two of the defendants are 17, city police identified them: Perry-Michael Rezzonico and Nelphy Peralta-Reyes. The third is Louis Rezzonico, currently of Jersey City, who turned 21 earlier this month. The NYPD said it began with an argument at O’Brien’s Irish Pub, at 134 West 46th Street, between two 17-year-old boys and the Wayne trio th…

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