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
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‘Everyone wins,’ sheriff’s PBA president says after Tedesco has Donovan pay-freeze suit dismissed ‘Everyone wins,’ sheriff’s PBA president says after Tedesco has Donovan pay-freeze suit dismissed ‘Everyone wins,’ sheriff’s PBA president says after Tedesco has Donovan pay-freeze suit dismissed
‘Everyone wins,’ sheriff’s PBA president says after Tedesco has Donovan pay-freeze suit dismissed SHOUT OUT: Fulfilling a key campaign promise, new Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco made sure today that the county heeds an order from New Jersey’s highest court that sheriff’s officers receive their legally-bargained pay raises. By filing a “stipulation of dismissal” with the state Supreme Court, attorneys for the county officially ended a protracted legal battle waged by the former executive, Kathleen Donovan, whom Tedesco ousted from office in the November election. Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino (PHOTO: Mary K. Miraglia, CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter) “The people of …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Guatemalan native charged with threatening to kill Englewood mother after sexually abusing daughter, 15, at Bible study Guatemalan native charged with threatening to kill Englewood mother after sexually abusing daughter, 15, at Bible study Guatemalan native charged with threatening to kill Englewood mother after sexually abusing daughter, 15, at Bible study
Guatemalan native charged with threatening to kill Englewood mother after sexually abusing daughter, 15, at Bible study YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An illegal Guatemalan immigrant threatened to kill a 15-year-old Englewood girl’s mother after she confronted him about inappropriately touching and sending lewd material to her daughter after meeting her at a Bible study class, authorities said. Luis Perez, 31, was arrested at his home early Saturday by detectives from Englewood and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit on charges of criminal sexual contact, child endangerment, threats to kill and transmitting obscene material to a minor. The alleged behavior “began when the young girl and Per…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Memorial set for popular owner of Cliffside Park’s Gill’s Tavern Memorial set for popular owner of Cliffside Park’s Gill’s Tavern Memorial set for popular owner of Cliffside Park’s Gill’s Tavern
Memorial set for popular owner of Cliffside Park’s Gill’s Tavern TRIBUTE: Sophie Gill Kolonics was a teenager when she began working behind her dad’s bar on Bender Place in Cliffside Park, just below Palisade Avenue above Gorge Road. Kolonics, who went on to own and operate Gill’s Tavern, turning it into an Eastern Bergen institution, died of a heart attack Friday while surrounded by loved ones. She was 87 and still working — more than 50 years after she’d started. Now Gill’s is opening its doors for a memorial and its Facebook page to remembrances of the woman with the perpetual smile. “She was like a mom to me,” wrote Francie Donovan. “[M]any nites…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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PHOTOS: Worker who fell below GWB hoisted 80 feet to safety PHOTOS: Worker who fell below GWB hoisted 80 feet to safety PHOTOS: Worker who fell below GWB hoisted 80 feet to safety
Photos: Worker who fell below GWB hoisted 80 feet to safety PHOTOS: A privately-contracted worker who fell while inspecting cables below the George Washington Bridge this morning was hoisted 80 feet to safety by a Port Authority police rescue team. Officers lifted the 47-year-old worker in a basket 80 feet up the side of an interior wall of the bridge tower to a catwalk on the New Jersey side after he slipped and fell nearly 15 feet in the 8:45 a.m. mishap, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. They then carried him up several flights of stairs, he said. Fort Lee EMS took him to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center with injuri…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Elmwood Park police nab 2 from Paterson in stolen car Elmwood Park police nab 2 from Paterson in stolen car Elmwood Park police nab 2 from Paterson in stolen car
Elmwood Park police nab 2 from Paterson in stolen car YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Elmwood Park police responding to the GPS tracking of a stolen car arrested two Paterson residents this morning after finding them at a Route 46 gas station. Sgt. John Harris and Officers Michael Ingrasselino and Michael Kempe nabbed the pair just after 8 a.m. in the parking lot of the Valero service station on the highway’s eastbound side, Police Chief Michael Foligno told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Moments earlier, Foligno’s officers had recwieved an alert from a Paterson company that the vehicle had been stolen was pinged to the area of the TD Bank on Market Street and Mi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson dealers now delivering heroin to Bergen County, police say Paterson dealers now delivering heroin to Bergen County, police say Paterson dealers now delivering heroin to Bergen County, police say
Paterson dealers now delivering heroin to Bergen County, police say EXCLUSIVE REPORT: Paterson street dealers have taken a new tack in response to increased police pressure on Bergen County addicts coming into the city to buy heroin: They’re delivering. Now police throughout Bergen are taking steps to stop a growing legion of teenage couriers, take them into custody and seize both the drugs and their vehicles. Last week, Tenafly police caught an inner-city delivery trio in town with 132 bags of heroin and 10 bags of crack cocaine. This came just days after they arrested another man in the same car with 40 bags of heroin, two bags of pot and two of cocai…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Hasbrouck Heights pastor says he’s sorry for punching boy Hasbrouck Heights pastor says he’s sorry for punching boy Hasbrouck Heights pastor says he’s sorry for punching boy
Hasbrouck Heights pastor says he’s sorry for punching boy UPDATE: A Hasbrouck Heights pastor told The Daily News that a video in which he says he punched a boy for being a “smart aleck” was taken out of context. “My intention in the sermon was to make a point of how God can use our mistakes,” Pastor Eric Dammann of the Bible Baptist Church told the newspaper. “The viral clip does not show the whole sermon, where I say what I did was wrong. “I do not endorse child abuse or the punching of children,” he said. As of this morning the 50-second clip had gotten nearly 1.8 million hits on YouTube after being taken down from the church’s web site: …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Beekman-Poughquag, NY
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Ridgefield officer dragged by minivan suspended after DUI Ridgefield officer dragged by minivan suspended after DUI Ridgefield officer dragged by minivan suspended after DUI
Ridgefield officer dragged by minivan suspended after DUI UPDATE: A Ridgefield police officer who made news when he was dragged by a minivan whose driver was trying to flee was suspended without pay after his second DWI arrest, law enforcement sources confirmed. Kevin Nebbia, who was taken into custody in Washington Heights last Tuesday and given a Nov. 10 court date, has gone into rehab, they said. SEE: Driver who dragged Ridgefield officer, hit police cars in wrong-way Route 46 chase held on $250,000 bail

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Jersey City man blocks driveway while answering Wood-Ridge warrant, arrested on drug charges Jersey City man blocks driveway while answering Wood-Ridge warrant, arrested on drug charges Jersey City man blocks driveway while answering Wood-Ridge warrant, arrested on drug charges
Jersey City man blocks driveway while answering Wood-Ridge warrant, arrested on drug charges YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Jersey City man turning himself in on a traffic warrant at Wood-Ridge police headquarters blocked a driveway with his car — and was arrested after drugs were found inside, authorities said. Mohammad Khan, 23, was being processed Friday when offices spotted the car blocking a FIrst Street driveway, Detective Joseph Rutigliano Jr. told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. A passenger told Officer Mark Torsiello that his friend, Khan, was at headquarters posting bail for a traffic warrant, Rutigliano said. Torsiello detected an odor of marijuana, so Rutigliano escorted Khan back to h…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Park Ridge police seek help cracking burglaries Park Ridge police seek help cracking burglaries Park Ridge police seek help cracking burglaries
Park Ridge police seek help cracking burglaries DID YOU SEE SOMETHING? Park Ridge police are hoping someone saw something that would help them solve a pair of connected home burglaries. The break-ins occurred sometime between 3-6 p.m. Thursday, they said. Someone got in without force through the rear door of a home on Park Avenue near Capri Terrace, ransacked the place and took a small amount of jewelry, Police Capt. Joseph Rampolla said. In the other burglary, a rear glass door was broken and a substantial amount of jewelry and a laptop were taken from a master bedroom, Rampolla said. No residents were home at the time of the brea…

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