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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Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Fire severely damages Glen Rock home Fire severely damages Glen Rock home Fire severely damages Glen Rock home
Fire severely damages Glen Rock home OVERNIGHT: An overnight bedroom fire believed caused by a night light severely damaged a Glen Rock home, displacing three residents and their dog. All got out safely thanks to working smoke detectors, firefighters said. Police arrived around 1 a.m. to find flames coming through a second-floor front window of the 2½-story Dean Street house. The blaze then blew through the attic before it was declared under control at 3:30 a.m. Joining Glen Rock firefighters at the scene were Fair Lawn FAST and colleagues from Hawthorne, Midland Park and Ridgewood, with Paramus providing mutual aid. Rid…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Washington Township police make arrests in cellphone shipments to unsuspecting customers Washington Township police make arrests in cellphone shipments to unsuspecting customers Washington Township police make arrests in cellphone shipments to unsuspecting customers
Washington Township police make arrests in cellphone shipments to unsuspecting customers YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Investigators were exploring the possible connections between a Bronx couple arrested in Washington Township while trying to collect cellphones that scammers had sent to a local address and a 25-year-old Passaic man caught doing the same thing in Rochelle Park two days earlier. As CLIFFVIEW PILOT originally reported last week, Rochelle Park police responding to a call from a Rochelle Avenue resident that a strange man was banging on her door on March 11 said they found their suspect, Duany Perez-Clemente, talking to her neighbor. Perez-Clemente told Sgt. Dan Urban …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Maywood judge gives Hackensack man 27 days in county jail for posing as legally blind twin to duck traffic tickets Maywood judge gives Hackensack man 27 days in county jail for posing as legally blind twin to duck traffic tickets Maywood judge gives Hackensack man 27 days in county jail for posing as legally blind twin to duck traffic tickets
Maywood judge gives Hackensack man 27 days in county jail for posing as legally blind twin to duck traffic tickets CVP EXCLUSIVE: A Maywood judge today sentenced a Hackensack man to 27 days in jail today for claiming that he was his legally blind, non-existent twin brother in an attempt to duck traffic tickets. Municipal Court Judge George Savino asked 58-year-old Olawale Agoro if he was the man who lied to him earlier. Agoro, in turn, denied ever lying. He was immediately taken to the Bergen County Jail after being sentenced. Agoro was fist brought before Savino last year after Maywood Police Officer Matthew Parodi issued him five summonses — including for driving an uninsured vehicle while on the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Wyckoff pastor charged with exchanging sex vids, texts with youth group girls Wyckoff pastor charged with exchanging sex vids, texts with youth group girls Wyckoff pastor charged with exchanging sex vids, texts with youth group girls
Wyckoff pastor charged with exchanging sex vids, texts with youth group girls UPDATE: A youth pastor in a Wyckoff church engaged in inappropriate sexual activity with five underage members of his congregation — including exchanging sexually explicit videos with two of them, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon. David M. Hayman, 37, of Oradell was being held on $250,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged two counts of sexual assault and five of child endangerment — occurring between 2003-2013 following his arrest yesterday. Two of the girls were 16 when the married Hayman began exchanging the videos, Molinelli said. Two others were als…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Special needs student who molested boy, 3, at Leonia firehouse gets indefinite commitment to treatment facility Special needs student who molested boy, 3, at Leonia firehouse gets indefinite commitment to treatment facility Special needs student who molested boy, 3, at Leonia firehouse gets indefinite commitment to treatment facility
Special needs student who molested boy, 3, at Leonia firehouse gets indefinite commitment to treatment facility YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A “severely challenged” 20-year-old Leonia man with special needs was sentenced today to an indefinite commitment in a secure treatment facility for molesting a 3-year-old boy whom he’d pinned in a locker at the borough firehouse. Depending on how he does, Darius Levine could spend the rest of his life at Amwell House, a center for developmentally challenged offenders in Salem County. All sides agreed that the decision was in the best interests of Levine, who admitted in September that he placed the child’s hand over his erect penis under his clothes in June 2013. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen Sheriff’s Lt. Brian Beutel donates organs, services set for Monday Bergen Sheriff’s Lt. Brian Beutel donates organs, services set for Monday Bergen Sheriff’s Lt. Brian Beutel donates organs, services set for Monday
Bergen Sheriff’s Lt. Brian Beutel donates organs, services set for Monday Even in death, Bergen County Sheriff Lt. Brian Beutel is giving to others: His organs will be harvested. Memorial services for the popular officer and father of five will be from 4-8 p.m. Monday at the Becker Funeral Home, 291 Kinderkamack Road in Westwood, after which he’ll be cremated. *        *        *        *        *        * TRIBUTES to his character, integrity, love for his family, friends and colleagues and enthusiasm for life mounted for Bergen County Sheriff’s Lt. Brian Beutel, who collapsed and died during a charity basketball tournament at FDU in Hackensack for the Tomorr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Elmwood Park police pop pair for pot Elmwood Park police pop pair for pot Elmwood Park police pop pair for pot
Elmwood Park police pop pair for pot YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Amid what has been a stream of heroin arrests, Elmwood Park police made a pair of pot busts yesterday. At 4:25 p.m. they arrested Stephen Gaspari, 50, of Hackensack, on River Drive near Locust Street and released him on a court summons after they found him carrying a half-ounce of marijuana, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. At 8:30 p.m., they arrested and released Kyle Osbourne, 18, of Fair Lawn, for having a small amount of pot, along with drug paraphernalia, and with being under the influence of drugs after they found him in the Pathmark parking lot on Broadway…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Fort Lee save overdosing victim with Narcan, arrest friend Fort Lee save overdosing victim with Narcan, arrest friend Fort Lee save overdosing victim with Narcan, arrest friend
Fort Lee save overdosing victim with Narcan, arrest friend YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Fort Lee man who returned to the Starbucks parking lot after using the bathroom to find borough police saving his overdosing friend’s life with Narcan was arrested when officers said they found him carrying pot. A concerned citizen dialed 911 and began CPR at the instructions of Dispatcher Donna Iafelice on Wednesday, Capt. Stephen Gallagher said. Responding Officers Stephen Domenick and John C. Klein found the victim “barely breathing, with a very light pulse,” and continued first aid, Gallagher said. Domenick then administered a dose of Narcan to the victim, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Online contacts investigated in search for missing Oakland woman, 30 Online contacts investigated in search for missing Oakland woman, 30 Online contacts investigated in search for missing Oakland woman, 30
Online contacts investigated in search for missing Oakland woman, 30 UPDATE: Authorities searching for a missing Oakland woman were investigating a few people she met online, among other leads, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. “There was a date, and she was planning on returning but never did,” a source with direct knowledge of the disappearance of 30-year-old Meaghan “Meg” Elizabeth McCallum ten days ago. McCallum has a long history of mental illness, is ‎bi-ploar and stopped taking her medication, authorities said. Loved ones fear this may have played a role in her disappearance after leaving her grandmother’s house in Montvale around 3 a.m. March 10 (a we…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
2 Port Authority officers OK after being shot when gun discharges during cleaning 2 Port Authority officers OK after being shot when gun discharges during cleaning 2 Port Authority officers OK after being shot when gun discharges during cleaning
2 Port Authority officers OK after being shot when gun discharges during cleaning BEYOND BERGEN: A gun that accidentally went off while being cleaned by a Port Authority Police officer at a Port Newark police facility in Elizabeth yesterday pierced his left hand and struck an officer standing nearby in the thigh, authorities confirmed this morning. According to authority spokesman Steve Coleman: “About 2:15 p.m. [yesterday], a Port Authority Police officer assigned to the Commercial Vehicle Inspection unit was cleaning his weapon inside a police facility at Port Newark when the weapon accidently discharged. “The bullet pierced the officer’s left hand and then struck …

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