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
Burglary, theft charges mount against heroin-addicted Garfield woman Burglary, theft charges mount against heroin-addicted Garfield woman Burglary, theft charges mount against heroin-addicted Garfield woman
Burglary, theft charges mount against heroin-addicted Garfield woman UPDATE: Charges continued to mount against a former Garfield cleaning woman who authorities said has a heroin habit after police in Boonton charged her with stealing nearly $3,000 worth of jewelry from a home where she worked last year. Detectives from the Morris County town served a warrant on the 23-year-old Aleksandra Polkowska at the Bergen County Jail, where she remained held on charges from three different local towns on a combined $50,000 bail. Garfield police arrested her boyfriend, 26-year-old Dariusz Soltys, last Wednesday after spotting him in the area of a break-in burglary th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Federal indictment charges former Fort Lee bank official with embezzling $1.2M Federal indictment charges former Fort Lee bank official with embezzling $1.2M Federal indictment charges former Fort Lee bank official with embezzling $1.2M
Federal indictment charges former Fort Lee bank official with embezzling $1.2M YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A federal grand jury in Newark today indicted a former assistant vice-president at BankAsiana in Fort Lee on charges of embezzling more than $1.2 million from her employer. Miye Chon, 34, of Englewood Cliffs — also known as Karen Chon — made a series of unauthorized transfers from customers’ CDs into the bank’s vault cash account, then walked out with the money over the course of several years, the indictment alleges. Dozens of illegal transfers typically went for tens of thousands of dollars at a time, although one was for $100,000, it says, in charging Chon with …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bread truck driver indicted in Carlstadt hit and run death of East Rutherford contractor Bread truck driver indicted in Carlstadt hit and run death of East Rutherford contractor Bread truck driver indicted in Carlstadt hit and run death of East Rutherford contractor
Bread truck driver indicted in Carlstadt hit and run death of East Rutherford contractor YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A North Bergen bread delivery truck driver was indicted by a grand jury in Hackensack yesterday in the hit-and-run death of a Carlstadt business owner. Joseph Eizaguirre, 23, fell asleep at the wheel of a Schripps European Bread Company around 4:30 a.m. last July 26 on Paterson Plank Road/Route 120, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli told CLIFFVIEW PILOT at the time. The truck struck and killed Boro Atanasoski, a 63-year-old Macedonian immigrant who lived in Brooklyn and owned Faith Environmental, Inc., a hazardous materials and asbestos removal contractor …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Jurors in Hackensack find Bergenfield man not guilty in Englewood home invasion robbery Jurors in Hackensack find Bergenfield man not guilty in Englewood home invasion robbery Jurors in Hackensack find Bergenfield man not guilty in Englewood home invasion robbery
Jurors in Hackensack find Bergenfield man not guilty in Englewood home invasion robbery YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Jurors in Hackensack this afternoon found a Bergenfield man not guilty on all counts in a New Year’s Eve 2012 armed robbery at an alleged drug den in Englewood after they disregarded DNA evidence that placed him at the scene. Michael L. Barrett smiled broadly and hugged defense attorney Joseph A. Raia after the verdict, which followed less than a day combined of deliberations beginning Friday. Barrett “said all along that he wasn’t involved,” Raia told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “We have the greatest justice system in the world, and it was on display today.” Prosecutors pr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Saddle River doctor admits diverting millions in cash to avoid taxes Saddle River doctor admits diverting millions in cash to avoid taxes Saddle River doctor admits diverting millions in cash to avoid taxes
Saddle River doctor admits diverting millions in cash to avoid taxes YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Saddle River doctor who owned three immediate care facilities in Hudson County admitted in federal court today that he diverted more than $5.8 million in insurance payments to pay his mortgage, his sons’ college tuition and other personal expenses. Medhat El Amir pleaded guilty to tax evasion and “corruptly endeavoring to impede the due administration” of the Internal Revenue Code. El Amir admitted conducting a bogus $2.5 million sale of his Mill Road home to his sister as part of the scheme to keep the property out of reach of the IRS. Meanwhile, he “made all …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Little Ferry man charged with fighting with police Little Ferry man charged with fighting with police Little Ferry man charged with fighting with police
Little Ferry man charged with fighting with police ONLY ON CVP: A Little Ferry man who’s has previous run-ins with police tumbled down several stairs with officers after taking a swing at one of them, authorities said. Rocky Minotti, 28, was being held on $60,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with three counts of aggravated assault on police, resisting arrest and criminal mischief. Officers called to his grandmother’s Grand Street house found that Minotti had broken a window trying to get in — to retrieve a phone charger, he told them, Detective Ronald Klein told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Officer Adam Warne was walking him down the sta…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Snapped bracket suspected after downed utility wire clotheslines SUV on Route 17 in Mahwah Snapped bracket suspected after downed utility wire clotheslines SUV on Route 17 in Mahwah Snapped bracket suspected after downed utility wire clotheslines SUV on Route 17 in Mahwah
Snapped bracket suspected after downed utility wire clotheslines SUV on Route 17 in Mahwah UPDATE: Authorities suspect a snapped strap or bracket for the downing of utility cable that fell across Route 17 in Mahwah this afternoon, clotheslining an SUV. “A preliminary cause although not confirmed is that a strap/bracket holding the cable to the utility pole may have broken and the entire cable came down under the weight,”Police Chief James Batelli told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The highway was partially reopened at 2:10 p.m. and was completely clear a little over a half-hour later. No injuries were reported when the Verizon cable, containing thousands of wires, landed across the front …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority police, tunnel and bridge agent help revive heart attack victim at GWB Port Authority police, tunnel and bridge agent help revive heart attack victim at GWB Port Authority police, tunnel and bridge agent help revive heart attack victim at GWB
Port Authority police, tunnel and bridge agent help revive heart attack victim at GWB SHOUT OUT: The George Washington Bridge’s upper level was briefly shut down last night as Port Authority police and a tunnel and bridge agent helped save a 54-year-old Jersey City Heights man who coded while suffering a heart attack. Luis Feliciano’s 17-year-old son called police at 5:56 p.m. from the car, which was stopped in a westbound lane just off the bridge near Lemoine Avenue. “When we located him, the father had no pulse,” an officer told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Officers Krystal Armenti and Lionel Gonzalez began CPR while Tunnel and Bridge Agent Fayrouz Halabi set up a defibrillator. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Worker knocked out in fall outside Closter temple Worker knocked out in fall outside Closter temple Worker knocked out in fall outside Closter temple
Worker knocked out in fall outside Closter temple YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A worker was hospitalized after falling seven feet from scaffolding outside a Closter temple this morning, authorities said. The 52-year-old Greenlawn, NY man was moved by a co-worker after falling and losing consciousness outside Temple EmanuEl on Piermont Road just before 10 a.m., Police Chief Dennis Kaine told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Closter police sercured him for Closter First Aid and Paramedics arrived, who took the victim to Hackensack University Medical Center with injuries to his head, back and ribs, the chief said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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FBI posts $20,000 reward on 9th anniversary of Brazilian exchange student’s disappearance FBI posts $20,000 reward on 9th anniversary of Brazilian exchange student’s disappearance FBI posts $20,000 reward on 9th anniversary of Brazilian exchange student’s disappearance
FBI posts $20,000 reward on 9th anniversary of Brazilian exchange student’s disappearance BEYOND BERGEN: On the 9th anniversary of her disappearance, the FBI is offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whomever kidnapped a Brazilian exchange student from Newark. Carla Vicentini arrived in the U.S. on Jan. 19, 2006 and began working at a White Castle restaurant on Route 46 in Ledgewood while living at the nearby Roxbury Motel. On Feb. 5, 2006 she moved into an apartment with a roommate on Ferry Street in Newark. The Portugese-speaking Vicentini was 22 years old when she visited her roommate at the Adega Bar and Grill on Ferry …

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