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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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Felony murder arrest made in killing of Fort Lee man found in Bronx car trunk Felony murder arrest made in killing of Fort Lee man found in Bronx car trunk Felony murder arrest made in killing of Fort Lee man found in Bronx car trunk
Felony murder arrest made in killing of Fort Lee man found in Bronx car trunk YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Bergen County authorities have charged a Fort Lee man with murder in the killing of another borough resident and were searching for at least one other suspect, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. Andre Jamal “Boogie” Thompson, 25, was in custody at Prince George’s County Correctional Center in Maryland awaiting extradition to Bergen County, Prosecutor John L. Molinelli confirmed early this afternoon. Jordan Johnson / Carriage House, Fort Lee Molinelli said Thompson lured 24-year-old Jordan Johnson “to an apartment he sometimes utilized in Fort Lee,” where he killed John…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Mother’s runaway SUV nearly crushes Fair Lawn girl, 5 Mother’s runaway SUV nearly crushes Fair Lawn girl, 5 Mother’s runaway SUV nearly crushes Fair Lawn girl, 5
Mother’s runaway SUV nearly crushes Fair Lawn girl, 5 ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A 5-year-old Fair Lawn girl came within inches of having her mother’s SUV crush her head after it rolled down their driveway, dragging the mother, before hitting a snowbank across the street. Officer Gerard Graziano and Eric Eleschewich were driving past on patrol at 9:18 a.m. when they saw the 2010 Toyota Rav4 rolling down the Malcom Terrace driveway dragging the 39-year-old mother with it. The woman’s 8-year-old and 5-year-old daughters were knocked to the ground by the open driver’s side door, and a tire “rolled right past the 5-year-old’s head,” Sgt. Brian Metzler t…

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Federal authorities seeking death penalty against leader of Newark’s ‘most violent street gang’ Federal authorities seeking death penalty against leader of Newark’s ‘most violent street gang’ Federal authorities seeking death penalty against leader of Newark’s ‘most violent street gang’
Federal authorities seeking death penalty against leader of Newark’s ‘most violent street gang’ BEYOND BERGEN: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has given federal prosecutors in New Jersey the authority to seek the death penalty against the leader of what’s been dubbed “the most violent street gang in Newark.” It would become the second capital case tried in the history of New Jersey’s federal courts; the other was in 2007. Formal notice of intent to seek capital punishment was presented in court today to 30-year-old Farad Roland, leader of the South Side Cartel gang, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said. Roland and two-codefendants are named in a 24-count federal RICO indictment ch…

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Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
SUV rolls on PIP near Alpine lookout SUV rolls on PIP near Alpine lookout SUV rolls on PIP near Alpine lookout
SUV rolls on PIP near Alpine lookout CLIFFVIEW PILOT photos PHOTOS: A driver escaped without injury after an SUV rolled onto its side on the northbound Palisades Interstate Parkway near the Alpine Lookout this morning. An initial basic life support call was cancelled following the Ford Freestyle crash just before 11 a.m.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
$300,000 bail for Saddle Brook man charged with sexually assaulting girl, 9 $300,000 bail for Saddle Brook man charged with sexually assaulting girl, 9 $300,000 bail for Saddle Brook man charged with sexually assaulting girl, 9
$300,000 bail for Saddle Brook man charged with sexually assaulting girl, 9 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 38-year-old man who briefly lived in Saddle Brook was arrested over the weekend and charged with sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl. Daniel Sean O’Brien was being held on $300,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and child endangerment in connection with a Jan. 31 incident, records show. The girl “disclosed what had occurred to a coordinator from the NJ Child Abuse Prevention Program (NJCAP) who was speaking at her school,” Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon while confirming the …

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Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Waldwick police grab Brooklyn trio with 125 phony credit cards Waldwick police grab Brooklyn trio with 125 phony credit cards Waldwick police grab Brooklyn trio with 125 phony credit cards
Waldwick police grab Brooklyn trio with 125 phony credit cards YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Waldwick police arrested a Brooklyn trio over the weekend who they said were carrying more than 125 bogus credit cards. A suspicious-persons report on Saturday brought Sgt. Robert Woessner to the Walgreens on Crescent Avenue, where he arrested all three, Lt. Douglas Moore told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. Held on $50,000 bail each in the Bergen County Jail, charged with credit card theft, credit card fraud and the false use of credit cards are Ashley Powell, 25, and Janeil Graham, 26. Held on $15,000 bail, charged with credit card theft and possession fo a false…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Park Ridge man takes 20-foot mall leap — and gets arrested, hospitalized Park Ridge man takes 20-foot mall leap — and gets arrested, hospitalized Park Ridge man takes 20-foot mall leap — and gets arrested, hospitalized
Park Ridge man takes 20-foot mall leap — and gets arrested, hospitalized BEYOND BERGEN: A 21-year-old Park Ridge man leaped 20 feet from the second level of the Palisades Center Mall in Nyack this afternoon on a what sources said was a $50 bet from a friend — and ended up with a busted leg and a court date on reckless endangerment charges. Clarkstown police said they found Nicholas DiBlasi on the floor — conscious but dazed and apparently intoxicated — after the 12:25 p.m. stunt in a well-trafficked pedestrian area near Macy’s, according to the Nyack Free Press.

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Hackensack, NJ
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Toddler was in crib when Closter man strangled, stabbed wife then stabbed himself in murder-suicide Toddler was in crib when Closter man strangled, stabbed wife then stabbed himself in murder-suicide Toddler was in crib when Closter man strangled, stabbed wife then stabbed himself in murder-suicide
Toddler was in crib when Closter man strangled, stabbed wife then stabbed himself in murder-suicide UPDATE: A Closter man strangled and stabbed his wife once in the chest with a kitchen knife before stabbing himself in the chest in their bedroom as their 15-month-old son lay in his crib nearby, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. A motive for the murder-suicide hadn’t yet been determined, he said. The parents of Michael Tabacchi, 27, found his body and that of 41-year-old Denise Iran Pars Tabacchi in their High Street home after receiving a text from their son “asking them to come to the house” around 11 p.m. Friday, Molinelli told CLIFFVIEW PIL…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
To protect and shovel To protect and shovel To protect and shovel
To protect and shovel SHOUT OUT: Paramus Police Reserve Sgt. Tom Meyers stopped on his rounds and grabbed a shovel today to help this woman clear her property so people could cross at the corner of East Midland and Forrest avenues. CLIFFVIEW PILOT PHOTO: James Dobak

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Hackensack, NJ
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Hudson man in 10-pound pot bust charged with molesting, threatening to kill Fair Lawn woman Hudson man in 10-pound pot bust charged with molesting, threatening to kill Fair Lawn woman Hudson man in 10-pound pot bust charged with molesting, threatening to kill Fair Lawn woman
Hudson man in 10-pound pot bust charged with molesting, threatening to kill Fair Lawn woman ONLY ON CVP: A Union City man caught with more than 10 pounds of marijuana in his car trunk when he was stopped for speeding in Delaware late last month was indicted by a grand jury in Hackensack this week on charges of stalking, molesting and threatening to kill a Fair Lawn woman. The four-count indictment charges 27-year-old George E. Bolzoni with grabbing the 44-year-old alleged victim’s vagina “over her clothes to degrade or humiliate [her] for sexual gratification” on Oct. 28. Bolzoni, who was graduated from Weehawken High School, studied physical education at Kean University and cla…

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