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
Englewood man crashes stolen SUV into bus in Fair Lawn Englewood man crashes stolen SUV into bus in Fair Lawn Englewood man crashes stolen SUV into bus in Fair Lawn
Englewood man crashes stolen SUV into bus in Fair Lawn YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An Englewood man crashed a stolen SUV into an NJ Transit bus in Fair Lawn this morning, sending the driver to the hospital with a back injury. Gary Gamble, 29, was being held at Fair Lawn police headquarters late this morning pending transfer to the Bergen County Jail on $25,000 bail. Gamble, who had an outstanding theft warrant out of Newark, took the 2001 Toyota Highlander from in front of a 4th Ward home on Layfayette Place in Englewood after the owner left it running while he went inside to get his children for school just before 7 a.m., Detective Capt. Timothy…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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Young teen establishes fund to help Glen Rock family of 3 burned out by fire Young teen establishes fund to help Glen Rock family of 3 burned out by fire Young teen establishes fund to help Glen Rock family of 3 burned out by fire
Young teen establishes fund to help Glen Rock family of 3 burned out by fire HOW YOU CAN HELP: Thanks to a 14-year-old high school freshman, a community is rallying around a Glen Rock family whose home was damaged beyond repair by fire over the weekend. The mother, daughter and 7th-grade granddaughter “lost all of their belongings except for the clothes on their backs,” said Nick Jennings after the 1 a.m. second-floor bedroom fire on Saturday spread through the 2½-story Dean Street house, displacing three residents and their dog. They were staying in a Route 208 hotel and seeking a rental in Glen Rock while they look to rebuild. Meanwhile, local families were co…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
The legend of longtime Glen Rock Police Chief Neil Finn The legend of longtime Glen Rock Police Chief Neil Finn The legend of longtime Glen Rock Police Chief Neil Finn
The legend of longtime Glen Rock Police Chief Neil Finn TRIBUTE: A legend is not a made-up story but a true story made somewhat bigger than life as circumstances warrant. Former Glen Rock Police Chief Neil Finn, who died Friday at 88 was just such a legend. Some parts of the legend weren’t 100% accurate, but the facts, more often than not, were actually better that the stories. The key to the legend was that Neil was a Marine during World War II. The fact is that he volunteered as a kid and served as a Navy Corpsman — a combat medic — during the Battle of Shuri Castle on Okinawa, the very last ground engagement the Marines fought against the J…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Trio of traffic stops yield Elmwood Park police 72 bags of heroin, half-ounce of pot Trio of traffic stops yield Elmwood Park police 72 bags of heroin, half-ounce of pot Trio of traffic stops yield Elmwood Park police 72 bags of heroin, half-ounce of pot
Trio of traffic stops yield Elmwood Park police 72 bags of heroin, half-ounce of pot YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Elmwood Park police yesterday seized 72 bags of heroin and a half-ounce of pot during a trio of traffic stops in less than seven hours. Nicholas Persico Jr., 34, of Elmwood Park, was carrying 50 bags of heroin when officers stopped his car on River Drive near the Route 46 ramp at 2:18 p.m., Police Chief Michael Foligno said. Ashley Rankin, 22, of Nanuet was carrying 12 bags of heroin when she was stopped three hours later on Locust Street, Foligno said. Darrel Williams, 23, of Paterson, was carrying the marijuana when he was stopped on East 54th Street at 9:12 p.…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Accused Fair Lawn car thief chest-bumped, spit at officer, Paramus police charge Accused Fair Lawn car thief chest-bumped, spit at officer, Paramus police charge Accused Fair Lawn car thief chest-bumped, spit at officer, Paramus police charge
Accused Fair Lawn car thief chest-bumped, spit at officer, Paramus police charge ONLY ON CVP: A 24-year-old Clifton man wanted by Fair Lawn police crashed a stolen car in Paramus, then chest-bumped an officer and spit in his face after he was caught trying to run away, authorities said. Footprints in yesterday’s overnight snow — reported stolen out of Fair Lawn — led Officer Gil Maynard to Eddie R. Gonzalez on Paramus Road moments after he crashed the stolen 2002 Lincoln Continental just after midnight, Deputy Police Chief Robert Guidetti told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. “He denied being the car, but the officer found him trying to discard the keys in the snow,” Gui…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Route 4 ‘Gasoline Alley’ robber had lookout, Englewood police say Route 4 ‘Gasoline Alley’ robber had lookout, Englewood police say Route 4 ‘Gasoline Alley’ robber had lookout, Englewood police say
Route 4 ‘Gasoline Alley’ robber had lookout, Englewood police say YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Police believe a masked man who took more than $1,000 at gunpoint robbed a westbound Route 4 service station convenience store in Englewood overnight had an accomplice. The 5-foot-2-inch gunman, who spoke with an Hispanic accent, hit the Exxon Tiger Mart in the area known as Gasoline Alley just just west of the South Van Brunt Street on/off ramp before midnight (see surveillance image), Detective Capt. Timothy Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. No shots were fired and the clerk was unharmed, he said. “We believe there are a number of people who were in the area at the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson man who police say robbed Saddle Brook bank to buy heroin indicted Paterson man who police say robbed Saddle Brook bank to buy heroin indicted Paterson man who police say robbed Saddle Brook bank to buy heroin indicted
Paterson man who police say robbed Saddle Brook bank to buy heroin indicted YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Paterson man who police said bought hundreds of bags of heroin after robbing a Saddle Brook bank of roughly $4,500 last summer was indicted yesterday by a grand jury in Hackensack. Saddle Brook detectives investigating the Sept. 19 holdup at the Spencer Savings Bank in the Terra Mini Mall on Market Street were scouring area hotels when they found the getaway car — a four-door, gold 2000 Mazda Millenia — in the parking lot of the Ramada Inn off the Garden State Parkway in Rochelle Park, authorities said at the time. Soon after, William Petrucelli II emerged from t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
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Ridgewood responders free dog’s paw from treadmill Ridgewood responders free dog’s paw from treadmill Ridgewood responders free dog’s paw from treadmill
Ridgewood responders free dog’s paw from treadmill ONLY ON CVP: Ridgewood emergency responders freed a terrier whose paw got caught in a treadmill late this morning. The North Murray Avenue homeowner was bitten trying to free the dog but declined hospitalization after police and firefighters responded around 11 a.m., Police Chief John Ward told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The dog was fine, he said. The terrier’s rear paw was stuck between the tread roller and the side rail, so responders loosened the rail.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Arrangements for longtime Glen Rock Police Chief Neil Finn, 88 Arrangements for longtime Glen Rock Police Chief Neil Finn, 88 Arrangements for longtime Glen Rock Police Chief Neil Finn, 88
Arrangements for longtime Glen Rock Police Chief Neil Finn, 88 Neil Finn, who was Glen Rock’s police chief for 33 years, died at home on Friday. He was 88. Finn was appointed in July 27, 1948, became chief a decade later and retired on Nov. 30, 1991. A lifetime Glen Rock resident, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II and was a member of Thomas D. Egan V.F.W. Post 850 of Glen Rock, the F.B.I. Possible Club and the Bergen County Police Chiefs Association, for which he served as honorary chief the year that he retired. *        *        *        *        *        * TRIBUTE: A legend is not a made-up story but a true story made somewhat…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Indictment returned against South Korean man in Teaneck pellet gun sex assault Indictment returned against South Korean man in Teaneck pellet gun sex assault Indictment returned against South Korean man in Teaneck pellet gun sex assault
Indictment returned against South Korean man in Teaneck pellet gun sex assault YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A South Korean national from Teaneck described as mentally challenged stuck his finger into a woman’s vagina while pointing a pellet gun at her as she struggled, an indictment returned by a grand jury in Hackensack yesterday alleges. Bum S. Suh – who made headlines after authorities reported him missing four years ago – was arrested by Teaneck police following the alleged May 11, 2014 sexual assault, during which they said the gun discharged several times. The 10-count indictment also accuses Suh of groping the 33-year-old woman after tackling her. She eventually…

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