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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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Radio host ‘Dr. Al’ indicted in Bergen for unlicensed practice of medicine, surgery Radio host ‘Dr. Al’ indicted in Bergen for unlicensed practice of medicine, surgery Radio host ‘Dr. Al’ indicted in Bergen for unlicensed practice of medicine, surgery
Radio host ‘Dr. Al’ indicted in Bergen for unlicensed practice of medicine, surgery ANOTHER CVP EXCLUSIVE: More than three years after Bergen County authorities arrested him, former radio show host Alan “Dr. Al” Lupinacci was indicted by a grand jury in Hackensack yesterday on charges of practicing medicine and conducting surgery without the license he lost after being convicted of sexually assaulting female patients. Lupinacci, 68, whose weekly live radio show “Learn to be Healthy,” aired on WMCA New York 570 AM, lost his license in 1995 after pleading guilty to 10 counts of criminal sexual contact with female patients. Lupinacci served a year in prison and then was ord…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Monsey, NY
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DWI fugitive sex offender arrested after driving through closed Lincoln Tunnel lane DWI fugitive sex offender arrested after driving through closed Lincoln Tunnel lane DWI fugitive sex offender arrested after driving through closed Lincoln Tunnel lane
DWI fugitive sex offender arrested after driving through closed Lincoln Tunnel lane BEYOND BERGEN: A fugitive sex offender wanted by police in Florida had an open bottle of Remy Martin at his feet and alcohol on his breath when he was was stopped overnight for going through a closed Lincoln Tunnel toll booth, Port Authority police said. Ricardo Hernandez, 40, Queens stumbled and tripped after getting out of his 2001 Chrysler following the 2:30 a.m. stop, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said. He also had an open bottle of Scotch behind his seat and a phony driver’s license, then failed a field sobriety test, Pentangelo said. Officer Brian Cassidy took Hernandez into c…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Wyckoff mother whose infant son ingested heroin has preterm boy Wyckoff mother whose infant son ingested heroin has preterm boy Wyckoff mother whose infant son ingested heroin has preterm boy
Wyckoff mother whose infant son ingested heroin has preterm boy CVP EXCLUSIVE REPORT: A Wyckoff woman whose 9-month-old son was hospitalized last year after ingesting heroin that she and her boyfriend had left lying around gave birth to another boy at Hackensack University Medical Center on Saturday, multiple sources told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Tara Bradbury had entered the Bergen County Jail  on Feb. 5 and remained held there voluntarily, instead of prison, as part of an intensively supervised drug court program. Although the baby wasn’t due for several weeks, sources with direct knowledge of the matter said that Bradbury was admitted to HUMC on Friday in …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
ID thief arrested after returning stolen BMW to Tenafly dealer for service, authorities say ID thief arrested after returning stolen BMW to Tenafly dealer for service, authorities say ID thief arrested after returning stolen BMW to Tenafly dealer for service, authorities say
ID thief arrested after returning stolen BMW to Tenafly dealer for service, authorities say CVP EXCLUSIVE: A Harlem fashion stylist who prosecutors said bought a $78,000 BMW using another person’s identity at a Tenafly dealership was arrested after he returned it for service, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. Now local and federal investigators are looking into similar crimes elsewhere that might be linked to him. Dramion Coombs was carrying personal identifying information for no fewer than 10 people when Tenafly police arrested him late last summer, an indictment returned by a grand jury in Hackensack earlier this week alleges. Coombs conspired with a female accomplice to use ano…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Elmwood Park police release transvestite hooker, local man after robbery call Elmwood Park police release transvestite hooker, local man after robbery call Elmwood Park police release transvestite hooker, local man after robbery call
Elmwood Park police release transvestite hooker, local man after robbery call ONLY ON CVP: A tranvestite prostitute and a local man were both released without charges after giving Elmwood Park police differing accounts of what initially was reported as a street robbery, authorities confirmed this morning. The man “picked up the prostitute in Paterson and drove to Elmwood Park” overnight, Police Chief Michael Foligno told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. A dispute followed after they pulled into the parking lot of the Elmwood Shopping Center on Broadway, he said. Officers responding to the driver’s report of a robbery located the purported bandit — a 6-foot-2-inch black man weari…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Drivers OK after both cars overturn in NJ Turnpike 18W crash Drivers OK after both cars overturn in NJ Turnpike 18W crash Drivers OK after both cars overturn in NJ Turnpike 18W crash
Drivers OK after both cars overturn in NJ Turnpike 18W crash PHOTOS: Courtesy Justin Derevyanik YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: Both drivers escaped with minor injuries after their cars overturned in an overnight collision near the Exit 18W toll plaza on the New Jersey Turnpike. Both were out of their cars when emergency responders including Carlstadt firefighters and EMS and New Jersey State Police arrived following the 4 a.m. crash.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Beekman-Poughquag, NY
Breaking News
GWB driver with 10+ license suspensions caught with pound of pot, Port Authority PD says GWB driver with 10+ license suspensions caught with pound of pot, Port Authority PD says GWB driver with 10+ license suspensions caught with pound of pot, Port Authority PD says
GWB driver with 10+ license suspensions caught with pound of pot, Port Authority PD says BEYOND BERGEN: An upstate New York man whose license was suspended more than 10 times was carrying a pound of pot when he was stopped changing lanes onto the George Washington Bridge in Washington Heights without signaling this afternoon, Port Authority police said tonight. Officer Jeff Haner (above, left) was on marked patrol when he stopped the 2012 Chevrolet Impala at the 179th Street entrance to the bridge, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said. Asked for his license, the driver — identified as 34-year-old Anthony Thompson of Johnson City (above, right) — said he wasn’t carrying it, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Acne-pocked bandit robs Paramus bank Acne-pocked bandit robs Paramus bank Acne-pocked bandit robs Paramus bank
Acne-pocked bandit robs Paramus bank UPDATE: A bandit described as white, in his 30s, with possible acne scars on his face  robbed a Paramus bank tonight after passing a note and implying that he had a weapon, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. The robber fled the TD Bank on South Paramus Road at the Garden State Parkway exit on the Rochelle Park border just after 6:30 p.m. wearing a checkered hoodie under a black Carhartt-style jacket and over what looks like a billed cap and sunglasses, Ehrenberg said. He was about 5-foot-4, with a chin-strap-style beard and “physically implied that he was armed with a weapon,” the chief…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Fairview police hope sketch yields suspect after woman finds burglar in bedroom Fairview police hope sketch yields suspect after woman finds burglar in bedroom Fairview police hope sketch yields suspect after woman finds burglar in bedroom
Fairview police hope sketch yields suspect after woman finds burglar in bedroom YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A Fairview homeowner who found a burglar in her son’s bedroom helped produce a sketch that police hope will lead to a suspect. The resident told police that she found him in her home — directly across Anderson Avenue from police headquarters — just before noon Monday, Deputy Police Chief Martin Kahn told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. He was described as white, light-skinned, English-speaking but possibly Hispanic, in his early-to-mid-20s, about 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-8 and 140 to 150 pounds. He was wearing a black hoodie, over which he had a gray jacket with an insi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Help Palisades Park family of 6 burned out by fire Help Palisades Park family of 6 burned out by fire Help Palisades Park family of 6 burned out by fire
Help Palisades Park family of 6 burned out by fire SHOUT OUT: An urgent drive is under way to help six members of a Palisades Park family burned out of their duplex last night. The downstairs couple and their adult son, who has autism, and the upstairs couple with their 3-year-old son all got our of the house with only the clothes on their backs, friends told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “They were left with nothing, literally. They couldn’t salvage anything,” one said this afternoon. “Right now they’re at a relative’s house in a small room.” There’s concern for the downstairs son son, who is used to routine. Both he and his father are on disabilit…

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