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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Monsey, NY
Breaking News
Unlicensed driver bolts, chased down by Port Authority officers near Holland Tunnel Unlicensed driver bolts, chased down by Port Authority officers near Holland Tunnel Unlicensed driver bolts, chased down by Port Authority officers near Holland Tunnel
Unlicensed driver bolts, chased down by Port Authority officers near Holland Tunnel BEYOND BERGEN: A Port Authority police officer was checking paperwork after stopping a rental truck on an approach to the Holland Tunnel yesterday when the driver hopped out and took off, authorities said. Joined by authority detectives in the area on an unrelated matter, Officer Nicholas Colletti chased the man down after he ducked into a construction site and couldn’t make it over a concrete wall. Colletti had stopped the 2011 GMC U-Haul truck as it headed onto NY Plaza from the Watts Street, in violation of “All Trucks Must Use Canal Street” signs, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo tol…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Minor injuries for elderly driver after car overturns in Dumont crash Minor injuries for elderly driver after car overturns in Dumont crash Minor injuries for elderly driver after car overturns in Dumont crash
Minor injuries for elderly driver after car overturns in Dumont crash ONLY ON CVP: An elderly driver was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with minor injuries after his car overturned in a crash in Dumont this morning, responders told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The driver of a Porsche involved in the 8 a.m. collision with the Honda on East Madison Avenue at Colonial Parkway, two blocks west of the monument, wasn’t injured, they said. “It was a relatively slow impact,” one responder said. “It caught the vehicle at just the right angle to flip it. “The driver had his seatbelt on or it would have been much worse.”

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
FBI agents take accused Lodi, Toms River bank robber into federal custody FBI agents take accused Lodi, Toms River bank robber into federal custody FBI agents take accused Lodi, Toms River bank robber into federal custody
FBI agents take accused Lodi, Toms River bank robber into federal custody ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: FBI agents today took a Queens man charged with robbing both the Hudson City Savings in Lodi on Monday and a PNC Bank branch in Toms River three weeks ago into federal custody from the Bergen County Jail. A scheduled first court appearance for 38-year-old Michael Cassano at the jail in Hackensack was scrapped in favor of federal prosecution, authorities told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. Local police said Cassano held up both banks using an airsoft gun that he placed on the counter in each. After taking $4,000 from the HCSB on Essex Street just before 2:45 p.m. on Mon…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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Tractor-trailer rear-ends van on Route 17 in Upper Saddle River Tractor-trailer rear-ends van on Route 17 in Upper Saddle River Tractor-trailer rear-ends van on Route 17 in Upper Saddle River
Tractor-trailer rear-ends van on Route 17 in Upper Saddle River STORY / PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: Two people were hospitalized after a tractor-trailer rear-ended a commercial van on northbound Route 17 in Upper Saddle River this morning, nearly sending it into a nearby stream. The 6:40 a.m. crash between Pleasant Avenue and East Allendale Road brought Upper Saddle River police, firefighters and EMS, along with Mahwah Fire Department Co 2 Hazmat, which cleaned up a hydraulic fluid spill. Upper Saddle River Ambulance Corps took the victims to Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern with what Detective Lt. Edward Kane said weren’t life-…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
McDonald’s tractor-trailer rams Rochelle Park building off Route 17, spills hundreds of meals McDonald’s tractor-trailer rams Rochelle Park building off Route 17, spills hundreds of meals McDonald’s tractor-trailer rams Rochelle Park building off Route 17, spills hundreds of meals
McDonald’s tractor-trailer rams Rochelle Park building off Route 17, spills hundreds of meals ALL PHOTOS COURTESY: Bergen Brookside Auto Body & Towing ONLY ON CVP: A McDonalds tractor-trailer struck a divider, hit a vacant building and landed on its side on Route 17 in Rochelle Park overnight, spilling more than 1,000 breakfast sandwiches and other meal items. The 38-year-old driver from Middletown, N.Y. was uninjured but was taken to the hospital as a precaution, Rochelle Park police told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. Heavy duty wreckers from Bergen Brookside Auto Body and Towing righted the rig around 10 o’clock this morning as the contents were offloaded with a backhoe. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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One hospitalized after sprinkler douses fire sparked by heater at Paramus nursing home One hospitalized after sprinkler douses fire sparked by heater at Paramus nursing home One hospitalized after sprinkler douses fire sparked by heater at Paramus nursing home
One hospitalized after sprinkler douses fire sparked by heater at Paramus nursing home YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: One resident was hospitalized with a minor injury following an overnight fire at a Paramus nursing home that was contained to the room where it started. A self-contained heating and air-conditioning unit at the Care One at the Cupola (Pine Rest Nursing Home) on West Ridgewood Avenue “caught the curtains and plastic blinds” shortly before 12:15 a.m., but a sprinkler quickly doused the blaze, Bergen County Executive James Tedesco told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Fire doors contained the smoke to a single corridor, he said. “All patients were evacuated into staging areas in th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Bergen freeholders make it official: County police folded into Sheriff’s Office Bergen freeholders make it official: County police folded into Sheriff’s Office Bergen freeholders make it official: County police folded into Sheriff’s Office
Bergen freeholders make it official: County police folded into Sheriff’s Office UPDATE: With only one of their members objecting, the Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders tonight agreed to fold the county police department into the county sheriff’s office . Voting against it was Republican Freeholder Maura DeNicola, who has opposed the move from the outset, sayng she doesn’t believe it will save money or improve policing. Going with the will of voters in the final 6-1 tally on two ordinances were Freeholders John Felice, David Ganz, Thomas Sullivan, Steve Tanelli, Tracy Zur and Joan Voss. The November election of James Tedesco, who backed the plan, over incumb…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Midland Park father, son charged with child porn possession after son is accused of having sex with girl, 13 Midland Park father, son charged with child porn possession after son is accused of having sex with girl, 13 Midland Park father, son charged with child porn possession after son is accused of having sex with girl, 13
Midland Park father, son charged with child porn possession after son is accused of having sex with girl, 13 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Investigators found child pornography on the computers of both a 19-year-old Midland Park man accused of having sex with a 13-year-old girl and his father, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon in announcing their arrests. While arresting James Stoldt on sexual assault and child endangerment charges yesterday, investigators seized computer equipment found in the Busteed Drive home that he shares with his father, 57-year-old Richard Stoldt, and mother, the prosecutor said. “Computer media used by each, separate and distinct from one another,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
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Teaneck police officer helps resuscitate man who collapsed while praying at synagogue Teaneck police officer helps resuscitate man who collapsed while praying at synagogue Teaneck police officer helps resuscitate man who collapsed while praying at synagogue
Teaneck police officer helps resuscitate man who collapsed while praying at synagogue SHOUT OUT: A Teaneck police officer helped resuscitate a man who collapsed while praying at a local synagogue this morning. A doctor who was at at Congregation Rinat Ysrael on West Englewood Avenue began CPR after finding no pulse on the 54-year-old victim just before 6:30 a.m., witnesses said. Officer Richard Factor arrived moments later, administered a shock from a deibrillator and began chest compressions, Lt. Andrew McGurr told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The four-year department veteran continued CPR as EMTs from the Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps administered a second shock, TVAC Capt. Iz…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Man living out of Jeep indicted for assault weapon, other firearms found after Wood-Ridge crash Man living out of Jeep indicted for assault weapon, other firearms found after Wood-Ridge crash Man living out of Jeep indicted for assault weapon, other firearms found after Wood-Ridge crash
Man living out of Jeep indicted for assault weapon, other firearms found after Wood-Ridge crash EXCLUSIVE: A Pennsylvania man who police said was living out of his Jeep was indicted by a grand jury on charges of illegally having an assault firearm, a rifle, a shotgun and a revolver with him when the vehicle was rear-ended on a Moonachie Avenue overpass. Police at the time said they discovered the guns after Michael J. Maletta (above) signed a consent form so that he could get an inventory of the Jeep’s contents before it was towed following the Nov. 6, 2013 crash. Maletta, 47, was carrying an operable Armalite M-15 5.56 assault rifle, a Remington 870 shotgun, a .22-caliber Beeman ri…

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