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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Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
GWB suicide jumper from East Rutherford was stopped by Port Authority police at same spot last month GWB suicide jumper from East Rutherford was stopped by Port Authority police at same spot last month GWB suicide jumper from East Rutherford was stopped by Port Authority police at same spot last month
GWB suicide jumper from East Rutherford was stopped by Port Authority police at same spot last month CVP EXCLUSIVE: A 38-year-old East Rutherford man who jumped to his death from the lower level of the George Washington Bridge yesterday — moments before another man committed suicide from the upper level — had been stopped from doing so by Port Authority police last month at the exact same spot, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. The man was threatening to jump when two PAPD officers snatched him off the outer railing the night of Feb. 16. An hour or so earlier, East Rutherford police notified the PAPD that the distraught Asian man had been reported missing and was believed headed there, as CLI…

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Lyndhurst, NJ
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North Arlington woman charged with trying to use dogs to stop police North Arlington woman charged with trying to use dogs to stop police North Arlington woman charged with trying to use dogs to stop police
North Arlington woman charged with trying to use dogs to stop police YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A North Arlington woman was charged with threatening to use two dogs to hold back police from arresting her boyfriend on open warrants yesterday. Detective Augustino Fiola saw 45-year-old Dominick Fina entering the first-floor Eagle Street apartment of Carolyn Craig, 49, around 3:30 p.m., Police Chief Louis Ghione told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. Aware of open warrants for Fina’s arrest, the detective summoned backups who surrounded the building. A short time later, former North Arlington resident Daniel Reagan, 45, walked out. Reagan, of Catskill, NY, was arre…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Port Authority police arrest Paterson man in PATH train stabbing Port Authority police arrest Paterson man in PATH train stabbing Port Authority police arrest Paterson man in PATH train stabbing
Port Authority police arrest Paterson man in PATH train stabbing BEYOND BERGEN: Port Authority police at Newark’s Penn Station today arrested a Paterson man wanted in a stabbing aboard a PATH train yesterday. Michael Stradford, 43, was wearing the same clothing he had on during yesterday’s assault, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said this afternoon. He was arrested without incident on charges of assault and weapons possession, Pentangelo said, adding that NJ Transit police had issued an arrest warrant for Stradford for theft of services. MUGSHOT: Courtesy PORT AUTHORITY PD

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Two jump to deaths from GWB minutes apart Two jump to deaths from GWB minutes apart Two jump to deaths from GWB minutes apart
Two jump to deaths from GWB minutes apart YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: In what appears a tragic coincidence, a man jumped to his death from the upper level of the George Washington Bridge this afternoon moments after another leaped from the lower level, Port Authority police said. * * * * * * CVP EXCLUSIVE: A 38-year-old East Rutherford man who jumped to his death from the lower level of the George Washington Bridge yesterday — moments before another man committed suicide from the upper level — had been stopped from doing so by Port Authority police last month at the exact same spot, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. READ MORE…. * * * * …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Mahwah firefighters douse vacant home blaze Mahwah firefighters douse vacant home blaze Mahwah firefighters douse vacant home blaze
Mahwah firefighters douse vacant home blaze UPDATE: Workers gutting a Mahwah house for future demolition ignited a fire that quickly spread this afternoon before responders put it down. The call from Brookwood Drive in the Masonicus section came in as a chimney fire just before 1:30 p.m., responders told CLIFFVIEW PILOT, adding that the workers apparently started it for warmth. Flames quickly spread to the walls and garage, they said. All five township companies responded, along with Ramsey FAST and a Tallman, NY engine.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Off-duty Garfield police sergeant interrupts snow blower theft Off-duty Garfield police sergeant interrupts snow blower theft Off-duty Garfield police sergeant interrupts snow blower theft
Off-duty Garfield police sergeant interrupts snow blower theft YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An off-duty Garfield police sergeant interrupted a snow blower theft, leading to a pair of overnight arrests. The pair took off in a black 2008 Acura when Sgt. Joseph Delaney approached them at Garwood Court North and asked what they were doing, Capt. Darren Sucorowski said this afternoon. Delaney went after them while alerting backups. Officers Robert Napolitano and Radoslaw Kata stopped the car on Ray Street at Columbus Avenue a short time later, Sucorowski said. Eric Diaz, 29, of Bloomfield and 25-year-old Jeremy Vandunk of Paterson were charged with theft. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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NY man had sex with one Passaic girl, 14, explicit chats with other, 13, FBI charges NY man had sex with one Passaic girl, 14, explicit chats with other, 13, FBI charges NY man had sex with one Passaic girl, 14, explicit chats with other, 13, FBI charges
NY man had sex with one Passaic girl, 14, explicit chats with other, 13, FBI charges YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Warwick, N.Y. man already imprisoned until at least 2020 was charged federally in Newark today with crossing state lines to have sex with one underage Passaic County girl and having sexually explicit online chats with another — both of whom knew other minors on a handwritten list that authorities said he was carrying along with duct tape, handcuffs and a knife when he finally was arrested. An FBI complaint charges 42-year-old Clifford W. Wares with one count of the production of child pornography and one count of interstate travel to engage in illicit sexual conduc…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Rockland County brothers busted in Paramus, Hawthorne bank robberies Rockland County brothers busted in Paramus, Hawthorne bank robberies Rockland County brothers busted in Paramus, Hawthorne bank robberies
Rockland County brothers busted in Paramus, Hawthorne bank robberies YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Police this afternoon confirmed that they’ve arrested two heroin-addicted brothers from Rockland County in connection with the robberies of a TD Bank in Paramus last Friday and another bank in Hawthorne yesterday. Craig Raymond Gunset and George Gunset of Sloatsburg were both found passed out in a car parked at a Route 17 gas station just before 1 a.m., a little over seven hours after the Chase Bank on Lafayette Avenue in Hawthorne was robbed, authorities said. IMAGES: Courtesy PARAMUS PD In plain view were heroin and needles, authorities said. Hasbrouck Height…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Pothole damages more than a dozen cars on NJ Turnpike in Ridgefield Park Pothole damages more than a dozen cars on NJ Turnpike in Ridgefield Park Pothole damages more than a dozen cars on NJ Turnpike in Ridgefield Park
Pothole damages more than a dozen cars on NJ Turnpike in Ridgefield Park UPDATE: A line of cars continued to wait for tow trucks in the northbound local-lane shoulder of the New Jersey Turnpike in Ridgefield Park after hitting a pothole this morning. At least a dozen cars sustained flat tires near mile marker 119, New Jersey State Police confirmed. The state DOT sent a crew to patch the hole.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Judge rejects pre-trial intervention for Old Tappan man in Emerson woman’s heroin death Judge rejects pre-trial intervention for Old Tappan man in Emerson woman’s heroin death Judge rejects pre-trial intervention for Old Tappan man in Emerson woman’s heroin death
Judge rejects pre-trial intervention for Old Tappan man in Emerson woman’s heroin death CVP EXCLUSIVE: An Old Tappan man charged with manslaughter in the heroin-inducted overdose death of an Emerson woman has been denied entry into a pre-trial intervention program for the second time. Christopher Benvenuto (STORY / PHOTO: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter Mary K. Miraglia) Supporting a Bergen County assistant prosecutor’s decision, Presiding Suprior Court Judge Liliana DeAvila-Silebi said the refusal to alow Christopher Benvenuto, 28, into the diversionary program was neither a “clear error in judgment” nor a “patent and gross abuse of discretion.” As a result, the pr…

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