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
Grand jury charges Passaic man with Valentine’s Day sex abuse of Garfield girl, 9 Grand jury charges Passaic man with Valentine’s Day sex abuse of Garfield girl, 9 Grand jury charges Passaic man with Valentine’s Day sex abuse of Garfield girl, 9
Grand jury charges Passaic man with Valentine’s Day sex abuse of Garfield girl, 9 ONLY ON CVP: A year ago today, a Passaic man sexually assaulted a 9-year-old Garfield girl, an indictment returned in Hackensack this week charges. Jaime Vazquez, 35, had the girl touch his penis on Valentine’s Day 2014, the indictment alleges. The girl told her mother what allegedly occurred and they went to Garfield police, according to Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli. Detectives from the prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit interviewed the girl “at a children’s advocacy center in the state where the victim and her family now reside,” Molinelli said last summer. During the i…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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SUV wasn’t the first to fall from the Route 80 bridge in Hackensack SUV wasn’t the first to fall from the Route 80 bridge in Hackensack SUV wasn’t the first to fall from the Route 80 bridge in Hackensack
SUV wasn’t the first to fall from the Route 80 bridge in Hackensack ONLY ON CVP: The survival of two women whose SUV fell 60 feet from a Route 80 bridge in Hackensack yesterday reminded some of an Upper Saddle River woman who survived a similar plunge in almost the same spot more than 20 years ago. Joanne Klein was behind the wheel of a Ford Explorer that hit an uncovered storm drain at a construction site in the highway’s eastbound local lanes around 5:50 a.m. one December 1994 morning. The SUV went over the side and landed in a soft patch of riverbank mud Like yesterday, it landed right side up. Klein was taken to Hackensack University Medical Cente…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Fairview police find 2 women headed to methadone clinic with loaded gun, pot after crash Fairview police find 2 women headed to methadone clinic with loaded gun, pot after crash Fairview police find 2 women headed to methadone clinic with loaded gun, pot after crash
Fairview police find 2 women headed to methadone clinic with loaded gun, pot after crash YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Fairview police investigating a crash involving two women headed to a New York City methadone clinic said they found the driver under the influence of some type of drug and her passenger reaching into her purse, where she had a loaded .25-caliber handgun. Sgt. Joseph Bucco stopped both cars after a witness flagged him down following the crash at Fairview and Bergenwood avenues just before noon yesterday. The driver of a 2001 Mercedes, 35-year-old Angela Vazquez of Palisades Park (above left), was apparently under the influence, Deputy Police Chief Martin Kahn said.…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Rochelle Park brother, sister held after indictment alleges rape of girl Rochelle Park brother, sister held after indictment alleges rape of girl Rochelle Park brother, sister held after indictment alleges rape of girl
Rochelle Park brother, sister held after indictment alleges rape of girl ONLY ON CVP: A Rochelle Park woman joined her brother in the Bergen County Jail today after a grand jury indicted him for sexually abusing a girl for more than a year beginning when she was 4 and her with coaxing the youngster to lie. Joanna Marie Ringwald, 28, was charged with child abuse in the investigation of 21-year-old Richard W. Rodriguez, the indictment returned by a grand jury in Hackensack yesterday alleges. Rodriguez, who has a history of burglary, theft and failure to pay support arrests, is charged in the indictment with first-degree aggravated sexual assault of the girl thro…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Hasbrouck Heights drug raid yields $26,000 worth of crystal meth, coke, pot, $38,000 cash Hasbrouck Heights drug raid yields $26,000 worth of crystal meth, coke, pot, $38,000 cash Hasbrouck Heights drug raid yields $26,000 worth of crystal meth, coke, pot, $38,000 cash
Hasbrouck Heights drug raid yields $26,000 worth of crystal meth, coke, pot, $38,000 cash YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Detectives arrested two men and seized $26,000 worth of crystal meth, cocaine, pot and anabolic steroids, along with $38,000 in cash, after a traffic stop and search of a Hasbrouck Heights home. Members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Narcotic Task Force and Hasbrouck Heights police were watching 45-year-old Steve Lebron as he entered and then left the home of Jose L. Vazquez, 48, a short time later Wednesday night. He got into a car that they then stopped and searched, finding $8,000 in cash and several grams of meth, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Photographer captures rescue in Hackensack River bridge plunge Photographer captures rescue in Hackensack River bridge plunge Photographer captures rescue in Hackensack River bridge plunge
Photographer captures rescue in Hackensack River bridge plunge PHOTOS: Brett M. Dzadik (BrettsFirePhotos.com) PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT contributing photographer Brett M. Dzadik was on the scene this morning after an SUV hit a snowbank and went airborne off the side of a Route 80 bridge in Hackensack, landing 40 feet from the river. Two young women in the Toyota Rav-4 — the 23-year-old driver from Bergenfield and her passenger, a 25-year-old Garfield woman, survived with relatively minor back and neck injuries after being rescued by Hackensack firefighters. The SUV was headed east on the highway when another vehicle cut them off around 7;10 a.m., Ha…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Elmwood Park police say DWI Paterson driver backed car into cruiser, took off Elmwood Park police say DWI Paterson driver backed car into cruiser, took off Elmwood Park police say DWI Paterson driver backed car into cruiser, took off
Elmwood Park police say DWI Paterson driver backed car into cruiser, took off A drunk driver backed her car into an Elmwood Park police cruiser at a red light on Route 46 and then tried taking off before the officer chased her down, authorities said. Officer Michael Goldyn was stopped behind 21-year-old Keisanna Franceis of Paterson when her car hit his, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. She then took off on eastbound Route 46, he said. Goldyn pursued her a quarter-mile and pulled her over, the chief said. Because a local police vehicle was involved, the Bergen County Police Department was contacted to investigate. The BCPD charged Franceis with DWI. Elmwo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack man posed as fake twin to duck traffic tickets in Maywood, Rochelle Park, police say Hackensack man posed as fake twin to duck traffic tickets in Maywood, Rochelle Park, police say Hackensack man posed as fake twin to duck traffic tickets in Maywood, Rochelle Park, police say
Hackensack man posed as fake twin to duck traffic tickets in Maywood, Rochelle Park, police say YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Hackensack man was being bars today after authorities said he repeatedly tried to duck traffic tickets in both Maywood and Rochelle Park by claimed to be his non-existent twin brother — and legally blind. Maywood Police Officer Matthew Parodi stopped 58-year-old Olawale Agoro in Maywood last July 31 and issused him five summonses — including for driving an uninsured vehicle while on the suspended list. At his Municipal Court appearance, Agoro told the judge that he wasn’t driving because he’s legally blind and that his twin brother was using his name, Maywood Pol…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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Hasbrouck Heights police grab trio after finding pot, LSD, pills, mushrooms Hasbrouck Heights police grab trio after finding pot, LSD, pills, mushrooms Hasbrouck Heights police grab trio after finding pot, LSD, pills, mushrooms
Hasbrouck Heights police grab trio after finding pot, LSD, pills, mushrooms YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Hasbrouck Heights police took two men and a 16-year-old boy into custody and seized more than an ounce and a half of pot, nearly a dozen sheets of LSD and small amounts of mushrooms and prescription pills after a patrol officer witnessed a drug deal. Officer Brad Dussault pulled over a 2013 Toyota on Boulevard and Columbus Avenue just after 8 p.m. last Saturday after witnessing a drug deal, Detective Lt. Michael Colaneri told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Spotting drug paraphernalia out in the open, he sought consent to search the car, but the driver refused, Colaneri said. S…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Garfield man indicted on charges of raping woman while she slept Garfield man indicted on charges of raping woman while she slept Garfield man indicted on charges of raping woman while she slept
Garfield man indicted on charges of raping woman while she slept YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Garfield man who authorities said raped a woman while she slept in his apartment after the two hung out earlier that night was indicted by a grand jury in Hackensack. The four-count indictment charges Adam Niemira, 28, with first-degree aggravated sexual assault for having forced intercourse with and fondling the breasts of a victim whom he “knew or should have known was physically helpless, mentally defective or mentally incapacitated” last Aug. 15. The 26-year-old woman told authorities that she awoke in Niemira’s second-floor Woods Street apartment to find him…

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