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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Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Recovered bearded collie from Upper Saddle River groomed, good as new Recovered bearded collie from Upper Saddle River groomed, good as new Recovered bearded collie from Upper Saddle River groomed, good as new
Recovered bearded collie from Upper Saddle River groomed, good as new SHOUT OUT: A 9-year-old bearded collie from Upper Saddle River who went missing a week ago today was groomed and good as new after turning up Wednesday outside her family’s house. “I added 10 years to my life and she looks like a puppy,” Robin Urman of Pet ResQ Inc. said jokingly after posting the photo above of Madison last night. Urman swung by the home of John and Leslie Cosares on Wednesday “and there she was on the deck, wagging her tail,” the couple’s daughter, Justine, told CLIFFVIEW PILOT soon after. PHOTOS: Courtesy JUSTINE COSARES Madison looked none the worse for wear, wasn…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Elmwood Park police say Lodi man had 2 ounces of pot for sale Elmwood Park police say Lodi man had 2 ounces of pot for sale Elmwood Park police say Lodi man had 2 ounces of pot for sale
Elmwood Park police say Lodi man had 2 ounces of pot for sale YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Elmwood Park police arrested a 22-year-old Bergen Community College student from Lodi after they said they found him carrying more than two ounces of marijuana for sale. Anthony Padovano was released on a court summons charging him with pot possession with the intent to distribute the drug following the 4:30 p.m. arrest yesterday on Locust Street, Police Chief Michael Foligno said this morning.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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‘King of all Blacks’ from Howard Stern show, wife, sue city of Englewood ‘King of all Blacks’ from Howard Stern show, wife, sue city of Englewood ‘King of all Blacks’ from Howard Stern show, wife, sue city of Englewood
‘King of all Blacks’ from Howard Stern show, wife, sue city of Englewood The man known on the Howard Stern radio show as the “King of All Blacks” and his wife are suing the city of Englewood, claiming that he was demoted from his DPW job and that she was sexually harassed, a published report says. Lawrence Coward and his wife, Jessie, filed separate civil complaints in Hackensack alleging sexual harassment, employee discrimination and retaliation, according to Nj.com. Coward contends that his supervisor told his wife “if she didn’t give into a hug that he would make things hard for her husband at DPW and put him on the back of [a] garbage truck,” his suit conten…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Lodi man charged with impersonating underage girl to attract male porn pics Lodi man charged with impersonating underage girl to attract male porn pics Lodi man charged with impersonating underage girl to attract male porn pics
Lodi man charged with impersonating underage girl to attract male porn pics YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Detectives today arrested a 42-year-old unemployed Lodi man at his home and charged him with using an underage girl’s identity online to get other men to send him pornographic images. Matthew Bolger was being held on $10,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with child endangerment and criminal impersonation. He also was hit with a minor drug charge for a small amount of Ecstasy found during a search of his apartment, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon. Bolger created social media accounts as the girl, whom he knows, then “engage…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Aruba-bound NY woman stopped with gun at JFK Airport checkpoint Aruba-bound NY woman stopped with gun at JFK Airport checkpoint Aruba-bound NY woman stopped with gun at JFK Airport checkpoint
Aruba-bound NY woman stopped with gun at JFK Airport checkpoint BEYOND BERGEN: An upstate New York woman headed to Aruba was caught with a .40-caliber pistol in her bag at JFK Airport, Port Authority police said. The unloaded Glock 26 was found in a carry-on bag that 40-year-old Nerelis Beatriz Wiseman put on the belt for inspection as she prepared to board a Delta flight, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said. Courtesy: PORT AUTHORITY PD Wiseman was arrested on unlawful weapon possession charges. This came after a Brooklyn woman was issued a summons for having a BB gun in her carry-on, Pentangelo said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Ex-con named in Englewood, Teaneck burglaries Ex-con named in Englewood, Teaneck burglaries Ex-con named in Englewood, Teaneck burglaries
Ex-con named in Englewood, Teaneck burglaries YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An ex-con fugitive from North Carolina broke into five homes in Teaneck and Englewood, then fenced what he stole from them, an indictment returned by a grand jury in Hackensack charges. Career burglar Antonio Singletary, 42, has been held in the Bergen County Jail on $300,000 bail since late October, when detectives from both towns spotted him shopping in downtown Englewood and arrested him in a rented vehicle in Teaneck a short time later. Antonio Singletary (MUGSHOT: Courtesy TEANECK PD) A search of the vehicle turned up jewelry, coins, electronics and other va…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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DWI driver refuses to cooperate, Elmwood Park police smash window DWI driver refuses to cooperate, Elmwood Park police smash window DWI driver refuses to cooperate, Elmwood Park police smash window
DWI driver refuses to cooperate, Elmwood Park police smash window YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An Elmwood Park police officer had to break the window of a car being driven by a drunk, unlicensed motorist after he began rocking it back and forth to try and free it from a snowbank, authorities said. Officers were alerted just after midnight today to a Kia station wagon “being driven recklessly” on Boulevard, Police Chief Michael Foligno told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. They found it in the snowbank in front of the Subway, he said. The driver, 35-year-old Jose Arbelo, “appeared highly intoxicated and refused to communicate” with the officers, the chief said…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Customer captures ‘excellent’ cellphone shot of Rochelle Park bank robber Customer captures ‘excellent’ cellphone shot of Rochelle Park bank robber Customer captures ‘excellent’ cellphone shot of Rochelle Park bank robber
Customer captures ‘excellent’ cellphone shot of Rochelle Park bank robber YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A Rochelle Park bank customer suspecting something amiss snapped a cellphone shot of a robbery in progress this morning. The robber — described as dark-skinned and possibly Hispanic, about 25 to 28 years old and 5-foot-10 to 6 feet tall — was carrying only a red plastic bag with “against the odds” written on it during the holdup of the Community Bank of Bergen County, Police Chief Robert Flannelly told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “No gloves. No mask. No weapon. No note,” the chief said. *      *      *      *      *      * YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST (Friday, Feb. 20): Rochelle …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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One stolen Mercedes crashes, other flees after Paramus dealership thefts One stolen Mercedes crashes, other flees after Paramus dealership thefts One stolen Mercedes crashes, other flees after Paramus dealership thefts
One stolen Mercedes crashes, other flees after Paramus dealership thefts YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: One Mercedes crashed on the Garden State Parkway while another kept going after both were swiped from a Route 17 lot in Paramus this morning. *      *      *      *      *      * IMAGE: Courtesy ROCHELLE PARK POLICE CHIEF ROBERT  FLANNELLY YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A Rochelle Park bank customer suspecting something amiss snapped a cellphone shot of a robbery in progress. CLICK HERE…. *      *      *      *      *      * Employees at the Mercedes-Benz dealership told police they were clearing snow off parked vehicles when two men — described only as dark-skinned …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Tractor-trailer snags snowbank on southbound Route 17 in Allendale Tractor-trailer snags snowbank on southbound Route 17 in Allendale Tractor-trailer snags snowbank on southbound Route 17 in Allendale
Tractor-trailer snags snowbank on southbound Route 17 in Allendale PHOTOS: Kimberly Yeo-O’Malley (TOP)Dawn Pantano (ABOVE) UPDATE: A tractor-trailer caught on a snowbank closed two lanes of southbound Route 17 in Allendale and backed up traffic for miles this morning. No injuries were immediately reported in the 8:30 a.m. mishap.  

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