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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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
FBI offers $20G to help find former Ramsey luxury car dealer Afzal ‘Bobby’ Khan FBI offers $20G to help find former Ramsey luxury car dealer Afzal ‘Bobby’ Khan FBI offers $20G to help find former Ramsey luxury car dealer Afzal ‘Bobby’ Khan
FBI offers $20G to help find former Ramsey luxury car dealer Afzal ‘Bobby’ Khan HAVE YOU SEEN HIM? New Jersey’s FBI director this morning announced a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Afzal “Bobby” Khan, a former Ramsey luxury car dealer charged with defrauding dozens of customers and lenders. Khan, 33, defrauded customers of and lenders to Emporio Motor Group in Ramsey from at least December 2013 through September 2014, obtaining loans for vehicles he had no title for and selling them on consignment without paying the owners, Newark Field Office Special Agent in Charge Richard M. Frankel said. “For example,” Frankel said, “Emporio submitted a l…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities seek help finding Fort Lee hit and run driver who mowed down pedestrian Authorities seek help finding Fort Lee hit and run driver who mowed down pedestrian Authorities seek help finding Fort Lee hit and run driver who mowed down pedestrian
Authorities seek help finding Fort Lee hit and run driver who mowed down pedestrian ALERT: A 27-year-old pedestrian remained hospitalized in serious condition as authorities searched for the driver who fled the scene after hitting her in the driveway of a Fort Lee parking garage last night. Investigators said they’re looking for a black, four-door Toyota Camry — from 1997-1999 — that they believe has both passenger-side and front-end damage. The victim was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with head and leg injuries after she was struck around 8 p.m. in the driveway of the parking garage for the Northbridge Co-Op Apartments at 2200 N. Central Road, which lead…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
A daughter’s loving tribute: Bergen Sheriff’s Lt. Brian Beutel worked hard, loved family A daughter’s loving tribute: Bergen Sheriff’s Lt. Brian Beutel worked hard, loved family A daughter’s loving tribute: Bergen Sheriff’s Lt. Brian Beutel worked hard, loved family
A daughter’s loving tribute: Bergen Sheriff’s Lt. Brian Beutel worked hard, loved family A DAUGHTER WRITES: My father was the most hardworking man I have ever met. His work ethic and diligence inspired me to be the young woman that I am today. Vanessa Beutel Both he and my mother pushed me to excel academically so that I may attend the university of my choice, an opportunity neither of them had. My goal in life has always been, and forever will be, to make my parents proud of me. He was also the most family-oriented man I’ve ever met. He had five daughters to provide for and people contantly joked about how difficult it must have been to live in a house with six women. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Former Englewood hair salon operator gets 28 years in repeated rape of former girlfriend that brought SWAT team Former Englewood hair salon operator gets 28 years in repeated rape of former girlfriend that brought SWAT team Former Englewood hair salon operator gets 28 years in repeated rape of former girlfriend that brought SWAT team
Former Englewood hair salon operator gets 28 years in repeated rape of former girlfriend that brought SWAT team YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An Englewood hair products entrepreneur was sentenced in Hackensack today to 28 years in prison for confining, threatening and repeatedly raping a former lover in an incident that forced a SWAT team to tear-gas his house. Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Catherine Fantuzzi (STORY / PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter Mary K. Miraglia) James McDowell — aka Sisa Butu — will have to serve at leat 24 years of the term, making him 77 before he’ll be eligible for parole. Superior Court Judge James J. Guida cited several factors — including that McDowell, 5…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen multi-agency task force ties five to two-state, five-county burglary spree Bergen multi-agency task force ties five to two-state, five-county burglary spree Bergen multi-agency task force ties five to two-state, five-county burglary spree
Bergen multi-agency task force ties five to two-state, five-county burglary spree YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An ongoing investigation that began six months ago has led to the arrests of five men and the recovery of hundreds of valuables stolen in no fewer than 40 daytime residential burglaries in five counties, including Rockland. The haul includes jewelry, electronics, antique coins, cellphones, a safe and three of seven guns stolen from a Washington Township home — in what Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli late this afternoon called “one of the largest recoveries of stolen proceeds in recent years.” A multi-jurisdictional task force consisting of detectives fro…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen sheriff’s police officer nabs 2 in Fort Lee stop, seizes heroin, bogus credit cards, $8,741 cash Bergen sheriff’s police officer nabs 2 in Fort Lee stop, seizes heroin, bogus credit cards, $8,741 cash Bergen sheriff’s police officer nabs 2 in Fort Lee stop, seizes heroin, bogus credit cards, $8,741 cash
Bergen sheriff’s police officer nabs 2 in Fort Lee stop, seizes heroin, bogus credit cards, $8,741 cash YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A routine traffic stop by the Bergen County Sheriff’s new Bureau of Police Services led to the arrests of two Dominican nationals and the seizure of heroin, various credit cards in different names and $8,741 in cash. Officer Robert Duboue, an experienced narcotics detector, stopped their vehicle for an non-signaled lane change on eastbound Route 46 in Fort Lee yesterday and obtained a content to search it after smelling marijuana, said BCSO spokesman Anthony Cureton. Jose Gregorio Martinez, 48 (above, left), and 23-year-old Julio Moya Nunez (right) were being held …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn police charge package thief Fair Lawn police charge package thief Fair Lawn police charge package thief
Fair Lawn police charge package thief YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: After identifying him with from their Glen Rock colleagues, a Fair Lawn detective this afternoon arrested a Paterson man and charged him with swiping a package from a resident’s porch. In the box: $12.09 worth of crayons. Detective Paul Donohue was checking the area of Market Street and Clark Street when he found 57-year-old Flavio Arandi at 1:15 p.m., Sgt. Brian Metzler asid. Arandi was released on a court summons charging him with theft. CLIFFVIEW PILOT published the above image, taken from surveillance video, yesterday. “He walked up my friend’s driveway o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Driver charged with assaulting Fair Lawn police after overnight DWI crash Driver charged with assaulting Fair Lawn police after overnight DWI crash Driver charged with assaulting Fair Lawn police after overnight DWI crash
Driver charged with assaulting Fair Lawn police after overnight DWI crash YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An intoxicated, unlicensed South Hackensack man elbowed one Fair Lawn police officer and pushed another after pretending he wasn’t driving in an overnight crash that sent the other driver to the hospital, authorities said. Anthony Cozzubbo, 29, told officers that a woman was driving his 2001 Ford Escape when it collided on Maple Avenue at River Road with a 206 Honda Civic just after 4:30 a.m., Sgt. Brian Metzler said. The 24-year-old Honda driver was taken Fair Lawn Volunteer Ambulance to St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Paterson with neck, back and arm injuries, Met…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
SUV rams utility pole in Ridgefield Park SUV rams utility pole in Ridgefield Park SUV rams utility pole in Ridgefield Park
SUV rams utility pole in Ridgefield Park PHOTO: Three occupants were taken to the hospital with injuries that responders said weren’t life-threatening after an SUV car struck a pole at 2nd Street and Railroad Avenue below Route 80 in Ridgefield Park this afternoon. PSE&G joined emergency responders at the scene. STORY / PHOTO: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Senior Correspondent Kevin Teel

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority police make 12th suicide save of 2015 at GWB Port Authority police make 12th suicide save of 2015 at GWB Port Authority police make 12th suicide save of 2015 at GWB
Port Authority police make 12th suicide save of 2015 at GWB SHOUT OUT: Port Authority police made their 12th suicide save of the year at the George Washington Bridge this morning after they talked a Warren County man who climbed onto the closed north walkway away from the railing. A bridge security guard alerted officers to the 52-year-old trespasser near the bridge’s New York tower at 11:17 a.m., the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Officers Richard Toledo and Scott Lehr found him “looking over the outer railing down towards the Hudson River,” Pentangelo said. The Blairstown man, who told them of a history of schizophrenia an…

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