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
Bergen-led task force ties pair nabbed in Englewood break-in to three-county burglary spree Bergen-led task force ties pair nabbed in Englewood break-in to three-county burglary spree Bergen-led task force ties pair nabbed in Englewood break-in to three-county burglary spree
Bergen-led task force ties pair nabbed in Englewood break-in to three-county burglary spree YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two men arrested by members of a special task force moments after an Englewood burglary have been tied to no fewer than a dozen residential daytime break-ins in three counties, authorities said. Special Investigations Squad officers who’d been tailing them said they watched Tuesday as 46-year-old Daniel Gomez of Union City (above, right) picked up Julio Ponce, 33 (above, left) at his Clifton home in a van and headed to Englewood, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli confirmed late this morning. “Shortly after 10 a.m. task force officers notified police in Eng…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Ex-con caught with cocaine, guns in East Rutherford chase takes plea in bid to spare girlfriend prison time Ex-con caught with cocaine, guns in East Rutherford chase takes plea in bid to spare girlfriend prison time Ex-con caught with cocaine, guns in East Rutherford chase takes plea in bid to spare girlfriend prison time
Ex-con caught with cocaine, guns in East Rutherford chase takes plea in bid to spare girlfriend prison time ONLY ON CVP: A fugitive ex-con who sheriff’s officers at the Bergen County Jail nabbed talking with his girlfriend about taking over his cocaine business took a plea deal in Hackensack today that he hoped would spare her time behind bars. Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Keith Travers (STORY / PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter Mary K. Miraglia) “Everything was my fault,” Marcus Carter, 36, told the judge while requesting leniency for 25-year-old Charmaine Coit. Two officers with the Bergen County Sheriff’s Intelligence Unit quickly sniffed out the conspiracy last May, rec…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Beloved Mahwah horse suffers for hours, dies, after falling into farm feeder Beloved Mahwah horse suffers for hours, dies, after falling into farm feeder Beloved Mahwah horse suffers for hours, dies, after falling into farm feeder
Beloved Mahwah horse suffers for hours, dies, after falling into farm feeder YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A severely wounded horse flailed in agony for four hours as her owner and others tried to free her from a mechanical feeder pit on a Mahwah farm before she and died, her owner told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. “Everybody is so very saddened by the situation,” attorney George F. Surgent said of the death last week of Belle, whom he said he’d had for more than 30 years. “We all tried our best to get Belle out,” Surgent said. “We worked for hours to try to get her up. Maybe it was the ice. I don’t know. She never had a problem with the feeder before.” Mahwah Poli…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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Pedestrian on elevated tracks killed by train in Garfield Pedestrian on elevated tracks killed by train in Garfield Pedestrian on elevated tracks killed by train in Garfield
Pedestrian on elevated tracks killed by train in Garfield PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Correspondent Rob Cochrane BREAKING NEWS: A man was struck and killed by an NJ Transit train on an overpass east of the Garfield station this afternoon in what authorities told CLIFFVIEW PILOT initially appeared to be an accident. About 100 people were aboard when the adult black male was struck as he walked on the elevated platform over River Drive near Hobart Place at 2:03 p.m., a source with direct knowledge of the incident told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The Waldwick-bound No. 1259 train continued roughly 300 yards before coming to a full stop. Service on the Bergen…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
2 men hospitalized in van rescue after steel structure on tractor-trailer rams Route 3 overpass 2 men hospitalized in van rescue after steel structure on tractor-trailer rams Route 3 overpass 2 men hospitalized in van rescue after steel structure on tractor-trailer rams Route 3 overpass
2 men hospitalized in van rescue after steel structure on tractor-trailer rams Route 3 overpass PHOTOS (ABOVE): Courtesy ABC-7(TOP): CLIFFVIEW PILOT UPDATE: AirMed One flew a van driver to Hackensack University Medical Center while his passenger was transported by ambulance after a steel structure carrying by a tractor-trailer slammed into the Paterson Plank Road overpass on eastbound Route 3 in Secaucus and landed on them early this afternoon, responders told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Westbound Route 3 in the area was reopened tonight but the eastbound lanes remained closed indefinitely while the wreckage was removed and engineers tried to determine how much the bridge structure may have b…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack man objects to charges that he forced Teaneck girl, 11, into oral sex Hackensack man objects to charges that he forced Teaneck girl, 11, into oral sex Hackensack man objects to charges that he forced Teaneck girl, 11, into oral sex
Hackensack man objects to charges that he forced Teaneck girl, 11, into oral sex ONLY ON CVP: A 20-year-old Hackensack man repeatedly shook his head “no” yesterday as a prosecutor accused him of sexually assaulting an 11-year old girl. Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Kristin DeMarco formally read charges against Quashawn Nowlin of Lehigh Street of first-degree aggravated sexual assault of a child under 13, second -degree sexual contact and impairing the morals of a minor during a brief court appearance in Hackensack. The 5-foot-11, 200-pound Nowlin, standing beside defense attorney P.J. Koulikoros, shook his head as DeMarco read the charges. He didn’t speak. Koul…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Police seize weapons from Teaneck auto detailer, 68, following alleged bank threats Police seize weapons from Teaneck auto detailer, 68, following alleged bank threats Police seize weapons from Teaneck auto detailer, 68, following alleged bank threats
Police seize weapons from Teaneck auto detailer, 68, following alleged bank threats YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Authorities seized three guns from a 68-year-old Teaneck auto detailer while arresting him on charges of threatening a bank clerk yesterday. An employee at the Chase Bank branch on Ayers Court told responding Teaneck officers just after 1 o’clock yesterday afternoon that John Heywang “had made several threatening statements while conducting business at the bank,” Capt. John A. Faggello said this morning. “One of the statements made reference to a weapon,” he said, without elaborating. A law enforcement source told CLIFFVIEW PILOT that Heywang claimed to have “the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Police charge Bergenfield man with fighting officer who caught him smoking pot at Englewood Cliffs lookout Police charge Bergenfield man with fighting officer who caught him smoking pot at Englewood Cliffs lookout Police charge Bergenfield man with fighting officer who caught him smoking pot at Englewood Cliffs lookout
Police charge Bergenfield man with fighting officer who caught him smoking pot at Englewood Cliffs lookout YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Bergenfield man fought with a Palisades Interstate Parkway police officer who caught him smoking pot at the Rockefeller Lookout in Englewood Cliffs before he was taken into custody just after midnight today, authorities said. Officer Joseph Villone was conducting a routine check of a parked vehicle when he smelled burning marijuana and saw 23-year-old Bernard Sevilla toking up, Police Chief Michael Coppola said this morning. “I’m not getting out,” Coppola said Sevilla told the officer after he was ordered out of the car. Villone ordered him out again, “at which…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Police hunt Megan’s Law fugitive accused of sexually assaulting Englewood sisters Police hunt Megan’s Law fugitive accused of sexually assaulting Englewood sisters Police hunt Megan’s Law fugitive accused of sexually assaulting Englewood sisters
Police hunt Megan’s Law fugitive accused of sexually assaulting Englewood sisters ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: Five months after he was originally charged — and a week after being indicted on charges of sexually assaulting two teenage sisters — a convicted Megan’s Law offender from Englewood remained a fugitive this morning. Jesus H. Restrepo, 49, fled in September after learning that Englewood detectives had obtained a warrant for his arrest on first-degree sexual assault charges for what they said was a pair of incidents nearly eight years apart. An indictment returned by a grand jury in Hackensack last week accuses Restrepo of digitally penetrating a 14-year-old girl’s vagina…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
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‘Hello, Dolly!’ replica rifle prompts lockdown at Northern Valley High School in Demarest ‘Hello, Dolly!’ replica rifle prompts lockdown at Northern Valley High School in Demarest ‘Hello, Dolly!’ replica rifle prompts lockdown at Northern Valley High School in Demarest
‘Hello, Dolly!’ replica rifle prompts lockdown at Northern Valley High School in Demarest YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Northern Valley Regional High School in Demarest briefly went on lockdown this morning, drawing officers from no fewer than 10 area police agencies, after two parents mistook a prop gun from a school play for the real thing. CLIFFVIEW PILOT broke the story just after 8 a.m. of police converging on the school, searching the auditorium and hallways, after the parent reported seeing a dark-haired female with a gray sweatshirt carrying in what might have been a rifle around 7:40 a.m. It actually was a World War II-era M-1 replica being used in a production of “Hello, D…

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