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
Bergen bomb squad called after mortar round falls from car in Route 17 crash in Upper Saddle River Bergen bomb squad called after mortar round falls from car in Route 17 crash in Upper Saddle River Bergen bomb squad called after mortar round falls from car in Route 17 crash in Upper Saddle River
Bergen bomb squad called after mortar round falls from car in Route 17 crash in Upper Saddle River YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A mortar round that fell from a car in a four-vehicle crash on Route 17 in Upper Saddle River this morning — requiring response from the Bergen County Bomb Squad — turned out to be harmless, authorities said. The World War II-era shell was “an heirloom the driver said was given to him by his grandfather,” Detective Lt. Edward Kane told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. It popped out and landed under a vehicle that rolled onto its roof in the 8:15 a.m. crash, which Kane said was caused by an erratic driver. “We called the Bomb Squad to be on the safe side,” he said. “Luckily, it w…

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Paterson, NJ
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Elmwood Park motel heroin OD victim, companion with 70 bags can’t be charged under NJ law Elmwood Park motel heroin OD victim, companion with 70 bags can’t be charged under NJ law Elmwood Park motel heroin OD victim, companion with 70 bags can’t be charged under NJ law
Elmwood Park motel heroin OD victim, companion with 70 bags can’t be charged under NJ law YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 41-year-old overdose victim who had 70 bags of heroin in an Elmwood Park motel room came to in the ambulance on the way to the hospital last night — but neither he nor the woman he was with could be charged because of New Jersey’s overdose protection law, police said. Officers responding to the Town House Motel at 8:20 p.m. on eastbound Route 46 found the Philadelphia, PA victim face down on the floor, Police Chief Michael Foligno said this morning. “He was breathing but unresponsive,” the chief said. They also found the caller, identified as 25-year-old Britta…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Edgewater police accuse DWI crash driver of pretending to be passenger Edgewater police accuse DWI crash driver of pretending to be passenger Edgewater police accuse DWI crash driver of pretending to be passenger
Edgewater police accuse DWI crash driver of pretending to be passenger YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Union City man who claimed to be a passenger in an overnight drunk-driving crash on River Road in Edgewater was actually the driver, police said. Ricardo Medrano-Sanchez, 25, told responding officers that he was a passenger in a soutbound 2005 Toyota Corolla that swerved across the oncoming lane and slammed into an unoccupied West Nyack taxi cab — sending it spinning 180 degrees counter-clockwise into the roadway — around 2:15 a.m., Capt. Alex Hanna told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. However, the officers found two genuine passengers nearby, both 22 years old, an…

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
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Bergen sheriff’s officers will transport all prisoners from local departments to jail under consolidation plan Bergen sheriff’s officers will transport all prisoners from local departments to jail under consolidation plan Bergen sheriff’s officers will transport all prisoners from local departments to jail under consolidation plan
Bergen sheriff’s officers will transport all prisoners from local departments to jail under consolidation plan UPDATE: Bergen County Sheriff’s officers will take over transporting all prisoners from local police departments to the county jail, no matter the time, providing instant benefits once their office absorbs the county police department, Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said yesterday. This will free up local police — especially in the middle of the night, when staffing levels are lower, the prosecutor said. Consolidating the Bergen County Police Department into the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office will immediately require some major changes — but no one will lose his or her job, under a Memorand…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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Mahwah DWI driver 3x over limit charged with leaving scene of crash — at Upper Saddle River police headquarters Mahwah DWI driver 3x over limit charged with leaving scene of crash — at Upper Saddle River police headquarters Mahwah DWI driver 3x over limit charged with leaving scene of crash — at Upper Saddle River police headquarters
Mahwah DWI driver 3x over limit charged with leaving scene of crash — at Upper Saddle River police headquarters YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 55-year-old Mahwah woman registered more than three times the legal limit for alcohol when she fled the scene of an accident in the parking lot of Upper Saddle River police headquarters, police said. It was the second time she’d been busted for DWI in less than two months, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. Police watched Stacey Longden hit a parked vehicle with her car as she tried to make a U-turn outside headquarters Monday night, Detective Lt. Edward Kane. She then drove the wrong way in an apparent attempt to flee the West Saddle River Road complex, he said. O…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Wallington pizzeria owner snatches toy gun from would-be robber, holds her for police Wallington pizzeria owner snatches toy gun from would-be robber, holds her for police Wallington pizzeria owner snatches toy gun from would-be robber, holds her for police
Wallington pizzeria owner snatches toy gun from would-be robber, holds her for police EXCLUSIVE: A would-be female robber locked the door of a Wallington pizzeria, pulled out a black gun and stuck it in the chest of the owner — who ripped it from her hands after realizing it was a fake and held her until police arrived, along with help from a cook, authorities said this afternoon. Lacey Gilbert, who turns 30 this Sunday, was being held on $250,000 bail after police said she tried holding up K&J Pizza & Frozen Yogurt with a toy gun colored with a black Sharpie, apparently for drug money. She was wearing a black coat, beanie, scarf and boots, along with eyeglasses, w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Monsey, NY
Breaking News
Rockland rabbi admits aiding scheme to kidnap, torture Jewish man into divorce Rockland rabbi admits aiding scheme to kidnap, torture Jewish man into divorce Rockland rabbi admits aiding scheme to kidnap, torture Jewish man into divorce
Rockland rabbi admits aiding scheme to kidnap, torture Jewish man into divorce YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An Orthodox rabbi from Rockland County pleaded guilty in federal court in Trenton today to his role in a scheme to kidnap and torture a Jewish man into granting his wife a religious divorce. Martin Wolmark, 56, the head of Yeshiva Shaarei Torah in Monsey, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiring to travel in interstate commerce to commit extortion. Authorities said eight men went to a warehouse in Edison with the intent of forcing the man into a “get” — a divorce document that, under Jewish law, must be presented by a husband to his wife in order to divo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
East Rutherford couple charged with profiting from $1M mortgage scam East Rutherford couple charged with profiting from $1M mortgage scam East Rutherford couple charged with profiting from $1M mortgage scam
East Rutherford couple charged with profiting from $1M mortgage scam YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An East Rutherford couple conspired with an attorney who had offices in Hudson County in a $1 million mortgage fraud scheme, an indictment handed up by a state grand jury today charges. Luis Percy, 45, and his 38-year-old wife, Maria, articipated in a short-sale scheme concocted by Andrys Sofia Gomez, 47, of Chatham that employed straw buyers to flip a home in East Rutherford and two in Paterson for a much higher price by using an accomplice or the identity of an unwitting buyer. “In each case, money was borrowed for the higher-priced sale and the bank was not info…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Jewelry, cash gone, boyfriend kidnapped, Fort Lee woman tells police Jewelry, cash gone, boyfriend kidnapped, Fort Lee woman tells police Jewelry, cash gone, boyfriend kidnapped, Fort Lee woman tells police
Jewelry, cash gone, boyfriend kidnapped, Fort Lee woman tells police YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Fort Lee police were searching for the live-in boyfriend of a woman after their 12th-floor high-rise apartment was burglarized and she reported him kidnapped. Jordan Johnson, 24, drives a 2013 BMW X550 Gran Turismo, Police Chief Keith Bendul said early this afternoon. His girlfriend, Megan Faulkner, also 24, told police when she arrived at a Harlem location where they were to meet overnight, Johnson “was nowhere to be found,” Bendul said. “She said she tried to contract him numerous times and there was no reply,” the chief said. She then returned to find their …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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Fire rips through Rutherford building Fire rips through Rutherford building Fire rips through Rutherford building
Fire rips through Rutherford building TOP PHOTO: Joey VenturaPHOTO ABOVE: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Correspondent Damien Danis UPDATE: Investigators were trying to determine the cause of a three-alarm overnight fire in a mixed use building in Rutherford. No injuries were reported in the blaze, which broke out at just before 3 a.m. in a Park Avenue building across from the train station that houses the Eros Cafe and After Athens restaurant and drew firefighters and EMS workers from nearly a dozen towns. It apparently began in the basement and quickly spread, emergency workers at the scene said. Firefighters who contained the fire t…

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