Jerry DeMarco

Senior Reporter

[email protected]

FOLLOW ON

Facebook Twitter Linkedin

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.

Jerry DeMarco's Contributions

Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Lawyer calls assault weapon report against Saddle Brook gun enthusiast ‘hyperbolic hysteria’ Lawyer calls assault weapon report against Saddle Brook gun enthusiast ‘hyperbolic hysteria’ Lawyer calls assault weapon report against Saddle Brook gun enthusiast ‘hyperbolic hysteria’
Lawyer calls assault weapon report against Saddle Brook gun enthusiast ‘hyperbolic hysteria’ EXCLUSIVE REPORT: The attorney for a Saddle Brook gun collector found with a stockpile of firearms, gunpowder and ammunition after police said his wife stabbed him said yesterday that his client was unfairly denied entry into a special program that would have cleared his record based on a mistaken belief that he had assault weapons. A report by an oversight committee denying 65-year-old Robert Lintner entry to the Pre-Trial Intervention Program is full of “hyperbolic hysteria” that includes a comment that the guns are “designed for nothing other than killing on a large scale,” defense attor…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Bronx man accused of impersonating police officer in chase of Cliffside Park driver in Fort Lee hit and run Bronx man accused of impersonating police officer in chase of Cliffside Park driver in Fort Lee hit and run Bronx man accused of impersonating police officer in chase of Cliffside Park driver in Fort Lee hit and run
Bronx man accused of impersonating police officer in chase of Cliffside Park driver in Fort Lee hit and run YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Port Authority police yesterday interrupted a chase involving a Bronx man who they said impersonated a police officer while pursing a pickup truck driver from Cliffside Park who tried to flee across the George Washington Bridge after hitting his car in Fort Lee. Officers Juan Guzman and Steven Pisciotta were on duty at the bridge around 9:45 a.m. when they spotted the white pickup with a snow plow being chased by a black Honda SUV with a red and white flashing light bar inside the windshield and flashing strobe lights on the front and rear, the authority’s Joseph Pen…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Elmwood Park police grab suicidal man who intended to step in front of train Elmwood Park police grab suicidal man who intended to step in front of train Elmwood Park police grab suicidal man who intended to step in front of train
Elmwood Park police grab suicidal man who intended to step in front of train YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: NJ Transit trains through Bergen County were temporarily halted while authorities searched for a suicidal man whom they believed intended to step in front of a train last night. Elmwood Park police eventually found the 39-year-old borough man on the tracks behind English Avenue Park and brought him to Bergen Regional Medical Center for an evaluation, Police Chief Michael Foligno told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Foligno said said the Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office called his office around 7 p.m. with a report of a man who “intended to commit suicide by stepping in front of a…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Death by auto charges returned against North Bergen DWI driver in Edgewater bicycle crash Death by auto charges returned against North Bergen DWI driver in Edgewater bicycle crash Death by auto charges returned against North Bergen DWI driver in Edgewater bicycle crash
Death by auto charges returned against North Bergen DWI driver in Edgewater bicycle crash UPDATE: A grand jury in Hackensack today indicted a North Bergen interior designer on death by auto charges for killing a 61-year-old bicyclist on River Road in Edgewater last year while driving drunk. Siobhan Stokley, 41, remained free on $15,000 bail in connection with the 10:50 p.m. crash last May 12. Siobhan Stokley (MUGSHOT: Courtesy BCPO) Tony Tyson of Jersey City slammed his head on the pavement after being hit in the right lane by Stokley’s 2007 Hummer H2, authorities said at the time. He was hospitalized in critical condition and pronounced dead nearly 48 hours later. Stokley…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Leonia man charged in sex assault on girl gets postponement following audio problems on interrogation discs Leonia man charged in sex assault on girl gets postponement following audio problems on interrogation discs Leonia man charged in sex assault on girl gets postponement following audio problems on interrogation discs
Leonia man charged in sex assault on girl gets postponement following audio problems on interrogation discs ONLY ON CVP: A construction worker accused of sticking his fingers into a 16-year-old girl’s vagina and putting her hand on his penis in his van after offering her a ride last summer got a new court date after his attorney said he couldn’t hear his client’s recorded interrogation by detectives. Wilfredo Arias, 49, hid behind veteran defense attorney Frank Lucianna after spotting a CLIFFVIEW PILOT correspondent. Wilfredo Arias (STORY / PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Correspondent Mary K. Miraglia) “Your honor, I need a new date of March 16 because the audio discs are inaudible,” the 92-year-old…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
East Rutherford couple charged in brazen robbery of Little Ferry nail salon customers East Rutherford couple charged in brazen robbery of Little Ferry nail salon customers East Rutherford couple charged in brazen robbery of Little Ferry nail salon customers
East Rutherford couple charged in brazen robbery of Little Ferry nail salon customers ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A brazen December 2012 armed robbery at a Little Ferry nail salon was committed by an East Rutherford couple who later locked a 71-year-old woman in a car trunk while they went shopping with her credit cards during a Christmas season crime spree, detectives said today. Joseph DeFreitas, 43, is headed to state prison for 25 years after pleading guilty three months ago to carjacking in the kidnapping-robbery of the elderly woman in Parsippany on Dec. 29, 2012. SURVEILLANCE IMAGE: Courtesy LITTLE FERRY PD His accused accomplice, 53-year-old Marilyn Nadeau, cut a deal wit…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Cliffside Park butcher charged with sexually assaulting girl Cliffside Park butcher charged with sexually assaulting girl Cliffside Park butcher charged with sexually assaulting girl
Cliffside Park butcher charged with sexually assaulting girl YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Cliffside Park butcher is charged with sexually assaulting a 7-year-old girl. Julio Peralta-Aguilar, 47, of 1st Street was being held on $250,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with aggravated sexual assault and child endangerment. The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit and Cliffside Park police arrested him after the girl “disclosed what had occurred to her mother, who took the child to Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck to be examined,” Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said today. The Division of Child Protection and Permanency (DCP&…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Wallington detectives charge two in burglary thanks to alert neighbor Wallington detectives charge two in burglary thanks to alert neighbor Wallington detectives charge two in burglary thanks to alert neighbor
Wallington detectives charge two in burglary thanks to alert neighbor YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Thanks to an alert upstairs neighbor, Wallington detectives today charged down two women with burglarizing a local residence looking for drug money late last month. “Christine, it’s the wrong house,” the tenant told police one of them tell the other before she took down the license plate number of the silver Volkswagen that they drove off in following the Jan. 30 incident, Lt. Shawn Kudlacik told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Detectives traced the car to a Wayne woman whose daughter, 20-year-old Christine N. Brigida (above, left), used to live in Wallington, he said. Brigida …

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood police seek public’s help nailing thugs in clerk beatings Englewood police seek public’s help nailing thugs in clerk beatings Englewood police seek public’s help nailing thugs in clerk beatings
Englewood police seek public’s help nailing thugs in clerk beatings HAVE YOU SEEN THEM? Englewood police today released surveillance images in the hopes of catching members of two groups involved in apparently unrelated crimes that began as shopliftings. The first involved a pack of thugs who set upon a gas station attendant at a Route 4 Mobil station after he tried to stop them from stealing candy, cigarettes and lighters around 2:30 a.m. Jan. 25. Joining the group was another man who police said was wearing white “Bull Dogs” jacket (photos, above and below). The group, believed to be from the Bronx and having just attended an Englewood party, then too…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
NJSP trooper OK after cruiser skids on Route 80 NJSP trooper OK after cruiser skids on Route 80 NJSP trooper OK after cruiser skids on Route 80
Njsp trooper OK after cruiser skids on Route 80 PHOTOS: A New Jersey State Police trooper escaped serious injury when his cruiser spun out on Route 80 in Elmwood Park near the Garfield border this afternoon. PHOTOS: Matt Ciccone  

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Prev Page 2034 of 2958 2,032 2,033 2,034 2,035 2,036 Next
20,331 - 20,340 of 29,573 articles