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
Marine charged in Ridgewood church shooting ordered held on $100,000 bail Marine charged in Ridgewood church shooting ordered held on $100,000 bail Marine charged in Ridgewood church shooting ordered held on $100,000 bail
Marine charged in Ridgewood church shooting ordered held on $100,000 bail YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A judge in Hackensack ordered a U.S. Marine corporal charged with shooting up a Ridgewood church held on $100,000 bail on weapons and criminal mischief charges. Joseph M. Galli, 21, was brought before the judge in a courtroom at the Bergen County Jail yesterday after being transferred Wednesday from Onslow County, North Carolina, where he’d been held after military police at Camp LeJune took him into custody earlier this month. “New Jersey drive,” Galli (right, with Norrell, left) posted on his Facebook page on Dec. 8 Galli is charged with participating with his …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Paramus police charge Fair Lawn woman, 83, from Ridgewood liquor store thefts with pedestrian hit and run Paramus police charge Fair Lawn woman, 83, from Ridgewood liquor store thefts with pedestrian hit and run Paramus police charge Fair Lawn woman, 83, from Ridgewood liquor store thefts with pedestrian hit and run
Paramus police charge Fair Lawn woman, 83, from Ridgewood liquor store thefts with pedestrian hit and run UPDATE: An 83-year-old Fair Lawn who was arrested for shoplifting booze two months ago in Ridgewood was charged with leaving the scene of a crash in Paramus that sent a 55-year-old man to the hospital. Carla Doylew was released on a summons to appear in court on charges of leaving the scene of an accident with injuries, failing to yield to a pedestrian, careless driving and obstruction, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. Mario Garing was in moderate condition with several broken bones and head bruises at Hackensack Medical Center after being struck just after 5:30 p.m. at the intersecti…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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NJ Assembly approves monitoring devices for convicted stalkers NJ Assembly approves monitoring devices for convicted stalkers NJ Assembly approves monitoring devices for convicted stalkers
NJ Assembly approves monitoring devices for convicted stalkers PUBLIC SAFETY: Convicted stalkers would be required to wear electronic monitoring devices under a proposed bill approved unanimously by the state Assembly today. The measure, which now goes to the state Senate, would allow judges to order stalkers convicted of a second or subsequent offense against the same victim to be fitted with a GPS device so police can track the stalker’s movements. “This bill provides law enforcement with an ideal method of using the available technology to track people who are obsessed with intimidating and harming other individuals and preventing them from gettin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Romanian ringleader admits historic ATM skimming scheme that hit Englewood bank, others Romanian ringleader admits historic ATM skimming scheme that hit Englewood bank, others Romanian ringleader admits historic ATM skimming scheme that hit Englewood bank, others
Romanian ringleader admits historic ATM skimming scheme that hit Englewood bank, others YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A native of Romania who was arrested in Sweden and extradited to the United States admitted today to directing one of the largest ATM skimming schemes in history, stealing $5 million from banks in Englewood and elsewhere. Marius Vintila, a/k/a “Dan Girneata,” 31, has been held without bail since being brought to the U.S. last February. Vintila fled in July 2013 as federal agents in New Jersey arrested members of his crew. He was caught in Sweden two months later. Federal authorities charged 16 people, eleven of whom pleaded guilty, in what U.S. Attorney Paul J. F…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Agent heading FBI office in Newark retires effective immediately Agent heading FBI office in Newark retires effective immediately Agent heading FBI office in Newark retires effective immediately
Agent heading FBI office in Newark retires effective immediately Aaron T. Ford, the special agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Newark division, announced today that he’s retiring effective tomorrow. Ford was with four different FBI divisions in his 30-year bureau career. This Monday he begins working as head of PSEG’s Business Assurance and Resilience department, the FBI said. PHOTO: Courtesy drsloopnews.blogspot.com

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
George Jetson would hate 2015 George Jetson would hate 2015 George Jetson would hate 2015
George Jetson would hate 2015 A TRAVELER WRITES: Random, half-asleep thoughts at the airport at 4 a.m.: What if the rumored new animated Jetsons movie was set in 2015 instead of 2062? George Jetson would have to go through security every day before getting in his car, eventually causing him to kill a slow moving TSA agent in his Skypad Apartments garage. His boy, Elroy, would take the fall. Apple would introduce Rosie the Robot as the first iMaid and begin selling apps for “Window Cleaning,” “Bathroom Scrubbing,” “Zombies vs. Republicans” and “Bring Me a Moscow Mule” at only $1.99 each. THE AUTHORBob Michelin For …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Wyckoff police say reports of coyote ‘pack’ attack on dog is inaccurate Wyckoff police say reports of coyote ‘pack’ attack on dog is inaccurate Wyckoff police say reports of coyote ‘pack’ attack on dog is inaccurate
Wyckoff police say reports of coyote ‘pack’ attack on dog is inaccurate PUBLIC SAFETY: Wyckoff Police Chief Benjamin Fox said animal control officers determined that a local dog was found with puncture wounds that don’t indicate an attack by a “pack” of coyotes, as one resident had claimed. “Nobody ever saw the dog held by the throat. Nobody ever saw a ‘pack’ of coyotes,” Fox told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “Apparently the dog was outside, and some puncture wounds on the back of the neck were observed. “Animal control states that the woman reported that shortly after she saw a coyote in her driveway,” he said. “That’s much different than a ‘pack’ of coyotes that had…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Passenger in stop swallows small bags of pot, Elmwood Park police say Passenger in stop swallows small bags of pot, Elmwood Park police say Passenger in stop swallows small bags of pot, Elmwood Park police say
Passenger in stop swallows small bags of pot, Elmwood Park police say YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 23-year-old local woman tried swallowing several small bags of marijuana during a traffic stop last night, Elmwood Park police said this morning. Jasmin Jeter, who was a passenger in the car stopped on Elmwood Terrace around 9:30 p.m., was charged with drug possession and destruction of evidence after officers “detected a strong odor of raw marijuana emanating from her breath,” Police Chief Michael Foligno said. “An ambulance and paramedic unit were notified and examined her,” the chief said. “She eventually refused medical treatment and was transported to police…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Ramsey bookkeeper indicted on charges of stealing $500,000 to feed gambling habit Ramsey bookkeeper indicted on charges of stealing $500,000 to feed gambling habit Ramsey bookkeeper indicted on charges of stealing $500,000 to feed gambling habit
Ramsey bookkeeper indicted on charges of stealing $500,000 to feed gambling habit YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Ramsey flooring company bookkeeper who police said had a gambling habit systematically stole $500,000 over the past four years by forging the owner’s signature, an indictment returned today by a grand jury in Hackensack alleges. Monica Arencibia, 50, of Dumont “engaged in transactions involving property [that] a reasonable person would believe to be derived from criminal activity, to facilitate or promote the criminal activity, and did so knowing the transaction was designed in whole or part to conceal or disguise the nature, location, source, ownership or control …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Police in NJ ready to fight rumored merger of state, municipal pensions in court Police in NJ ready to fight rumored merger of state, municipal pensions in court Police in NJ ready to fight rumored merger of state, municipal pensions in court
Police in NJ ready to fight rumored merger of state, municipal pensions in court WHAT NOW: New Jersey police union members are considering a legal challenge to rumored attempts to “save” the state’s cash-strapped pension fund by merging it with the healthy municipal pension fund, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. Such a move would jack up already steep local property taxes of force cuts in service, opponents warn. “This is a disaster and will set back all PFRS members contributions and local employer contributions to ‘bail out’ the State once again for not making their mandated contributions into the Pension System,” retired Englewood Cliffs Police Lt. Tod J. Coletta said.…

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