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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Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Police urge drivers not to leave unlocked running vehicles unattended Police urge drivers not to leave unlocked running vehicles unattended Police urge drivers not to leave unlocked running vehicles unattended
Police urge drivers not to leave unlocked running vehicles unattended PUBLIC SAFETY: An Englewood man didn’t think twice when he left his SUV running outside while running into the house to get his kids for school — and neither did most other victims who’ve had their vehicles stolen from them. The Englewood man heard a crash outside as a thief sped off with his 2001 Toyota Highlander, which later crashed into a bus in Fair Lawn. “Invest in an extra key or remote start,” said Police Capt. John Valente of Lyndhurst, where no fewer than three vehicles have been swiped from driveways this year. “Don’t leave an unlocked car running in the morning.” Bergen Coun…

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Hackensack, NJ
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Trial set for Colombian national in Fairview bathtub killing of Baby Victoria, 1 Trial set for Colombian national in Fairview bathtub killing of Baby Victoria, 1 Trial set for Colombian national in Fairview bathtub killing of Baby Victoria, 1
Trial set for Colombian national in Fairview bathtub killing of Baby Victoria, 1 CVP EXCLUSIVE: A judge yesterday set a fall trial date for a Colombian national who was living in Fairview when authorities say he killed his girlfriend’s 1-year-old girl by beating her and holding her head under water in a bathtub. Presiding Superior Judge Liliana DeAvila-Silebi set an Oct. 4 date in Hackensack after the prosecutor in what is the oldest active murder prosecution in Bergen County said yesterday that she won’t offer Yoher Jiminez, 28, a plea deal. Jimenez and his attorney were seeking a charge less than murder, Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Maria Rockfol said, and she…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Fort Lee police nab four, seek fifth, caught stealing 200 gallons of gas Fort Lee police nab four, seek fifth, caught stealing 200 gallons of gas Fort Lee police nab four, seek fifth, caught stealing 200 gallons of gas
Fort Lee police nab four, seek fifth, caught stealing 200 gallons of gas YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Four people from Queens tried running and were arrested, and a fifth remained at large, after Fort Lee police said they caught them with 200 gallons of stolen gasoline loaded into a van at a Route 4 service station. Officers Brett Howard and Tony Pickens rolled up after a caller summoned them to the Shell station on westbound Route 4 Monday afternoon. They found the group loaded containers full of gas into an Econoline van, Detective Capt. Stanley Zon said. One of them yelled, “Cops!” and they all scattered in different directions, he said. “Several ran into Ro…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
2 indicted on robbery charges in Hackensack Applebee’s dine-and-dash 2 indicted on robbery charges in Hackensack Applebee’s dine-and-dash 2 indicted on robbery charges in Hackensack Applebee’s dine-and-dash
2 indicted on robbery charges in Hackensack Applebee’s dine-and-dash YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two men who police said clipped an Applebee’s manager with their car after double-dooring the restaurant were indicted today on robbery charges. Keith Koeppel, 56, of Lodi Michael Comas, 24, of Cliffside Park are accused of “using force upon and / or inflicting bodily injury” with a Cadillac Escalade on the manager following a theft last Oct. 14. The manager, who refused medical attention, told police that the pair spoke to one another in English and Hebrew while in the Hackensack Avenue restaurant just off westbound Route 4. When they left without paying, he cha…

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Hackensack, NJ
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10th-grade boy recovering after fracturing skull, spine in Indian Hills gym fall 10th-grade boy recovering after fracturing skull, spine in Indian Hills gym fall 10th-grade boy recovering after fracturing skull, spine in Indian Hills gym fall
10th-grade boy recovering after fracturing skull, spine in Indian Hills gym fall UPDATE: A 10th-grader at Indian Hills High School in Oakland was in the Intensive Care Unit at Hackensack University Medical Center, expected to recover from his injuries, after fracturing his skull and spine during a gym horseplay mishap this morning. A source with direct knowledge of the 7:45 a.m. incident told CLIFFVIEW PILOT that the boy had climbed a set of mats to get to a ladder that school personnel use to hang netting for sports practices when he plunged several feet, missing a pad and hitting his head on the floor. The boy was conscious, his mother with him, as he was airlift…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Englewood woman torched car for insurance, boyfriend tried to cover, indictment says Englewood woman torched car for insurance, boyfriend tried to cover, indictment says Englewood woman torched car for insurance, boyfriend tried to cover, indictment says
Englewood woman torched car for insurance, boyfriend tried to cover, indictment says YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An Englewood woman torched her car in an attempt to collect on the insurance and her boyfriend tried to cover for her, a grand jury in Hackensack charged. Katima Mccullough, 33, “was behind on car payments and dodging repossession,” Detective Capt. Timothy Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT following her September 2013 arrest. Police and firefighters responding to the fire call found McCullough’s 2007 Nissan Murano ablaze on Elmore Avenue in the city’s Fourth Ward, Torell said. “No one was in or around the vehicle and the responding firefighters immediately saw signs of…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Selfless lieutenant ‘touched lives of many,’ Bergen sheriff says Selfless lieutenant ‘touched lives of many,’ Bergen sheriff says Selfless lieutenant ‘touched lives of many,’ Bergen sheriff says
Selfless lieutenant ‘touched lives of many,’ Bergen sheriff says TRIBUTE: Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino today thanked the mourners and well-wishers from his office, law enforcement and beyond who supported the family of the late Lt. Brian Beutel. The popular officer and father of five from Westwood was cremated before services at the Becker Funeral Home (photo, above). “Another link in the chain of brotherhood has been broken, but we have lasting memories of [Beutel],” Saudino said, “as he has touched the lives of many through the love of his job and unselfish contributions to the community of Bergen County and beyond. “Let our prayers contin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Responders free driver in Teterboro head-on crash Responders free driver in Teterboro head-on crash Responders free driver in Teterboro head-on crash
Responders free driver in Teterboro head-on crash PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Senior Correspondent Kevin Teel (top), CLIFFVIEW PILOT (above) PHOTOS: Emergency responders extricated a male driver and took him to the hospital following a head-on crash outside Teterboro Airport this afternoon. Little Ferry and Hasbrouck Heights firefighters freed the man, whose leg was pinned beneath the dashboard of his Chevy Cavalier in the 11 a.m. crash on Industrial Avenue. Hasbrouck Heights EMS transported him to Hackensack University Medical Center. The driver of the other car, a BMW 750Li, refused medical attention for head bruises. Moonachie Firs…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Fugitive family found in Palisades Park claim to be running from bankrobbing grandfather Fugitive family found in Palisades Park claim to be running from bankrobbing grandfather Fugitive family found in Palisades Park claim to be running from bankrobbing grandfather
Fugitive family found in Palisades Park claim to be running from bankrobbing grandfather EXCLUSIVE REPORT: A fugitive couple wanted in three states were living with their four children under assumed names in Palisades Park when borough police found them yesterday — thanks to a California rental car investigator. Authorities in Florida, Georgia and Washington State helped confirm the identities of Cedric Frierson, 40, and Daeva Frierson, 47, who were being held on $10,000 bail each in the Bergen County Jail this morning. Frierson told detectives that he’d been on the run from his father, a convicted bank robber captured by FBI agents outside a Lyndhurst hotel following a strin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield, CT
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Ridgefield airline employee caught swiping $576 from passenger’s wallet, Port Authority police say Ridgefield airline employee caught swiping $576 from passenger’s wallet, Port Authority police say Ridgefield airline employee caught swiping $576 from passenger’s wallet, Port Authority police say
Ridgefield airline employee caught swiping $576 from passenger’s wallet, Port Authority police say YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A United Airlines employee from Ridgefield was caught snatching $576 from a passenger’s wallet in a screening tub at Newark Airport yesterday, Port Authority police said. Surveillance video showed Joseph A. Bruno, 52, removing the cash after the 57-year-old West Caldwell victim put his wallet in the Terminal C tub around 5 a.m., the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The victim immediately reported the money missing, Pentangelo said. Authority officers found Bruno a short distance away and arrested him. The cash was returned to the victim, who …

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