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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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Elmwood Park man gets probation for chasing girlfriend with machete Elmwood Park man gets probation for chasing girlfriend with machete Elmwood Park man gets probation for chasing girlfriend with machete
Elmwood Park man gets probation for chasing girlfriend with machete ONLY ON CVP: An Elmwood Park man who chased his girlfriend with a machete after smashing in the window of his car with it took a plea yesterday that kept him out of prison. By pleading out before a grand jury could consider an indictment, Edison Ortiz got a year’s probation. Edison Ortiz (STORY / PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter Mary K. Miraglia) Police in late October said Ortiz, a 45-year-old legal resident from the Dominican Republic, pulled the machete from his car trunk after his girlfriend locked herself inside during an argument and smashed the driver-side window with …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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New charge against convicted Teaneck Megan’s Law offender involving boy, 9 New charge against convicted Teaneck Megan’s Law offender involving boy, 9 New charge against convicted Teaneck Megan’s Law offender involving boy, 9
New charge against convicted Teaneck Megan’s Law offender involving boy, 9 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A registered sex offender from Teaneck arrested last weekend on charges of having “inappropriate sexual activity” with several children ranging from 3 to 5 years old also did the same with a 9-year-old boy from town, authorities have charged. Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon. William Romero Kooney, a 41-year-old software engineer, had his $750,000 bail boosted by $150,000 as a result. Kooney was registered in 2009 as a Megan’s Law offender for sexually assaulting a Passaic County girl under 13 and possessing child pornography (SEE: C…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn police save heroin overdose victim, 19, from Bergenfield with Narcan Fair Lawn police save heroin overdose victim, 19, from Bergenfield with Narcan Fair Lawn police save heroin overdose victim, 19, from Bergenfield with Narcan
Fair Lawn police save heroin overdose victim, 19, from Bergenfield with Narcan SHOUT OUT: Fair Lawn police rescued an overdosing car passenger with Narcan in the parking lot of an adult day care center this afternoon. A caller at Broadway Adult Daycare summoned police at 1:50 p.m., Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Officers Louis Evangelista, Michael O’Brien, Luke Hintzen, Robert Manning and Michael Franco found the 19-year-old Bergenfield man unresponsive in a 2000 Chevrolt with New York license plates, he said. Evangelista administered a single dose of Narcan and the man responded soon after, Metzler said. Fair Lawn Volunteer Ambulance EMTs Tamar Lesnoy and Jon Ryan to…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Driver, girl shared naked photos on school bus, Mahwah police charge Driver, girl shared naked photos on school bus, Mahwah police charge Driver, girl shared naked photos on school bus, Mahwah police charge
Driver, girl shared naked photos on school bus, Mahwah police charge YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 41-year-old bus driver and 12-year-old girl he transported to and from a Mahwah private school showed naked photos of themselves to one another while alone on the bus, Police Chief James Batelli said this afternoon in announcing the Paterson man’s arrest on sexual assault charges. Eddie Toste-Sanchez, who drove for the Sussex/Wantage School District while working for FSZ Transportation, was being held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail after being taken into custody at the school late yesterday, Batelli said. “Recently, the student’s mother voiced her con…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
SUV sandwiched, passenger extricated in Route 80 chain-reaction pileup in Elmwood Park SUV sandwiched, passenger extricated in Route 80 chain-reaction pileup in Elmwood Park SUV sandwiched, passenger extricated in Route 80 chain-reaction pileup in Elmwood Park
SUV sandwiched, passenger extricated in Route 80 chain-reaction pileup in Elmwood Park CLIFFVIEW PILOT photo YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An SUV was smashed between a car carrier and a tractor-trailer in a chain-reaction crash that severely damaged at least two other cars on westbound Route 80 in Elmwood Park this morning. NOTE: No fewer than six emergency responders and witnesses at the scene told CLIFFVIEW PILOT there was no evidence of a car falling from the carrier, as was reported elsewhere (more below). The pileup began around 11:20 a.m. when  a Lancaster County, PA tractor-trailer hauling organic produce became disabled in the center lane just after Exit 62, police sai…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Saddle Brook VAC annual Fish & Chips Dinner coming up Saddle Brook VAC annual Fish & Chips Dinner coming up Saddle Brook VAC annual Fish & Chips Dinner coming up
Saddle Brook VAC annual Fish & Chips Dinner coming up SHOUT OUT: The Saddle Brook Volunteer Ambulance Corp. hosts its annual Fish and Chips Dinner from 5-8 p.m. Friday, April 3rd at the ambulance building on Market Street. Eat in or take out. DONATION: $12 Although tickets will be available at the door, quantities will be limited. Ambulance corps members are sellng tickets from 7 p.m. to midnight every day. INFO / TICKETS: Jessica Sanchez (VP): [email protected] OR: Call the ambulance building any night between 7 p.m.-midnight at (201) 368-8935

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Homeless man killed by NJ Transit train in Hackensack identified Homeless man killed by NJ Transit train in Hackensack identified Homeless man killed by NJ Transit train in Hackensack identified
Homeless man killed by NJ Transit train in Hackensack identified YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 55-year-old man struck and killed by a passenger train in Hackensack last night was homeless and “known in the area,”authorities told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Jack Stewart Engle, who had an extensive petty criminal history stretching back two decades, was carrying various identification when he walked onto the tracks and stood in the train’s path near the Atlantic Street crossing just before 8 p.m. Engle was free on $3,500 bail following an incident in Hackensack last fall in which he was charged with improper behavior. His criminal history included dozens of arrests, mo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Driver, 19, who led police on two-county chase was free on bail for Garfield thefts Driver, 19, who led police on two-county chase was free on bail for Garfield thefts Driver, 19, who led police on two-county chase was free on bail for Garfield thefts
Driver, 19, who led police on two-county chase was free on bail for Garfield thefts UPDATE: A 19-year-old Clifton man who led police on a car and foot chase that ended when he was tackled on a Hasbrouck Heights street before dawn yesterday was free on bail on charges that he swiped cellphones from three Garfield boys. Kevin Acosta was being held in the Passaic County Jail on what are now much more serious charges, including aggravated assault with a weapon and resisting arrest, along with more than a dozen traffic offenses. Acosta was free on $25,000 bail after being arrested by Garfield police on theft charges last August when Passaic police said they tried to pull him …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Accused car thief in stolen SUV that rammed Bergen police last fall shot dead in Newark Accused car thief in stolen SUV that rammed Bergen police last fall shot dead in Newark Accused car thief in stolen SUV that rammed Bergen police last fall shot dead in Newark
Accused car thief in stolen SUV that rammed Bergen police last fall shot dead in Newark UPDATE: An accused car thief who was with an Irvington ex-con shot dead after he repeatedly ramming police vehicles with a stolen SUV was shot dead himself last night, authorities confirmed today. Jemmaine T. Bynes, 31, of East Orange had been free since he posted $75,000 bail and was released from the Bergen County Jail in November, two months after the fateful night. He was pronounced dead before midnight last night after someone shot him several times in an apartment complex courtyard near the intersection of South 10th Street and Woodland Avenue, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Beekman-Poughquag, NY
Breaking News
Port Authority police officers stop two GWB jumpers in 20 minutes Port Authority police officers stop two GWB jumpers in 20 minutes Port Authority police officers stop two GWB jumpers in 20 minutes
Port Authority police officers stop two GWB jumpers in 20 minutes YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Port Authority police made two suicide saves at the George Washington Bridge within 20 minutes of one another this afternoon. Family members said they feared a 51-year-old Manhattan woman would jump today when rookie Officers Cesar Moreno and Terence McPike spotted her pacing back and forth on the south walkway around 4 p.m. The officers, who recently completed anti-suicide training, convinced her to come with them to the bus station at the Washington Heights end of the span, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said. At 4:20 p.m., Officers Edgardo Bote and Thomas R…

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