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.

Jerry DeMarco's Contributions

Stony Point, NY
Breaking News
Police nab two in shooting of NYPD officers Police nab two in shooting of NYPD officers Police nab two in shooting of NYPD officers
Police nab two in shooting of Nypd officers UPDATE: A 24-year-old Bronx man considered the primary suspect and a 28-year-old parolee were charged in the shooting of two plainclothes NYPD officers last night. Jason Polanco, who records show has a criminal history, was charged with five counts of attempted murder of a police officer, robbery and carjacking after detectives grabbed him as he got off a No. 6 train off E. Tremont Avenue in the Westchester Square section of the Bronx, about four miles from the shooting scene, just before 1 o’clock this afternoon. No fewer than 10 tipsters led detectives to him, authorities confirmed. A…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Cliffside Park man indicted in three knife-point street robberies Cliffside Park man indicted in three knife-point street robberies Cliffside Park man indicted in three knife-point street robberies
Cliffside Park man indicted in three knife-point street robberies YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Thanks to persistent work by two Fairview detectives, a grand jury in Hackensack has indicted a Cliffside Park man for three separate knifepoint robberies in two towns — including one of a hearing-impaired car-wash worker. The hearing-impaired man told police a tall white man with a beard robbed him of $150 and his cellphone at knife-point at the corner of Wilson Avenue and Shaler Boulevard just after midnight Sept. 9. Twelve days later, a woman told police a similar-looking man tried to take her pocketbook as she walked on Day Avenue around 11:30 p.m. — roughly th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack man charged with oral, digital sex with girl beginning when she was 11 Hackensack man charged with oral, digital sex with girl beginning when she was 11 Hackensack man charged with oral, digital sex with girl beginning when she was 11
Hackensack man charged with oral, digital sex with girl beginning when she was 11 EXCLUSIVE: A Hackensack man repeatedly put his tongue and finger in a girl’s vagina beginning when she was 11, an indictment returned by a Bergen County grand jury alleges. Authorities initially said that Omar D. Aguirre-Cascante, 45, had “inappropriate sexual activity” with the girl over the course of two years before he was arrested in October 2013. The 12-count grand jury indictment handed up in Hackensack details alleged offenses that include the oral and digital sex, “intentionally rubbing his penis in his underwear on [the] victim’s vagina,” putting her hand on his penis and touchin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Little Ferry police rescue overdosing heroin user with Narcan Little Ferry police rescue overdosing heroin user with Narcan Little Ferry police rescue overdosing heroin user with Narcan
Little Ferry police rescue overdosing heroin user with Narcan SHOUT OUT: Little Ferry police used Narcan to save the life of an overdosing heroin user this weekend. Officers responding to a parent’s call to a Redneck Avenue home just after 2 p.m. Saturday found the 19-year-old man unresponsive in bed and heroin bags lying around, Detective Ronald Klein Jr. told CLIFFVIEW PILOT tonight. A few minutes after receiving the Narcan, he began to come around, Klein said. He was taken to Holy Name Medical Center.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
License plate at scene leads to arrest of woman in Port Authority police car crash near Lincoln Tunnel License plate at scene leads to arrest of woman in Port Authority police car crash near Lincoln Tunnel License plate at scene leads to arrest of woman in Port Authority police car crash near Lincoln Tunnel
License plate at scene leads to arrest of woman in Port Authority police car crash near Lincoln Tunnel YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A West New York woman drove off after running a light and ramming her Cadillac into a Port Authority police cruiser near the Lincoln Tunnel this morning — but left her license plate behind, authorities said. Port Authority detectives arrested 29-year-old Danielle Rosa about an hour and a half after the crash on northbound Boulevard East, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said tonight. Rosa drove the 2014 Cadillac ATS through the light at Baldwin Avenue — where it struck the PAPD cruiser occupied by two authority officers — then kept going, Pentangelo said. Neithe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
New Year’s Eve driver charged in DWI hit, run crash on Route 4 in Fair Lawn New Year’s Eve driver charged in DWI hit, run crash on Route 4 in Fair Lawn New Year’s Eve driver charged in DWI hit, run crash on Route 4 in Fair Lawn
New Year’s Eve driver charged in DWI hit, run crash on Route 4 in Fair Lawn ONLY ON CVP: A drunk New Year’s Eve driver kept going after his car t-boned another in Fair Lawn, but Paramus police stopped him a short time later, authorities said today. Michael Ortiz, 23, was stopped on Route 4 east moments after the crash at Saddle River Road just before 9 p.m. last Wednesday, Fair Lawn Police Sgt. Brian Metzler said. He was carrying marijuana at the time, Metzler said. Ortiz was taken to Bergen Regional Medical Center for treatment of crash injuries before being released on a summons to appear in Fair Lawn Municipal Court. Police charged him with DWI, reckless d…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Indictment charges Salvadoran illegals with trying to rob Ramapo professor, daughter in Tenafly Indictment charges Salvadoran illegals with trying to rob Ramapo professor, daughter in Tenafly Indictment charges Salvadoran illegals with trying to rob Ramapo professor, daughter in Tenafly
Indictment charges Salvadoran illegals with trying to rob Ramapo professor, daughter in Tenafly YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A grand jury in Hackensack returned indictments against two illegal Salvadoran immigrants from Englewood who were grabbed by quick-moving Tenafly police officer moments after authorities said they tried robbing a Ramapo College professor and his daughter with a pellet gun on a dark street. Edwin Molina, Elvin Gonzalez (MUGSHOTS: Courtesy TENAFLY PD) Officer Jason Heese spotted Edwin Molina, 19, and 20-year-old Elvin Gonzalez a short distance from Tenafly Road near Riveredge Road, where the attempted holdup the night of Sept. 30. The victims told police that on…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack man made Teaneck girl, 11, give him oral sex, indictment charges Hackensack man made Teaneck girl, 11, give him oral sex, indictment charges Hackensack man made Teaneck girl, 11, give him oral sex, indictment charges
Hackensack man made Teaneck girl, 11, give him oral sex, indictment charges ONLY ON CVP: A Hackensack man had an 11-year-old Teaneck girl give him oral sex, an indictment alleges. Quashawn Nowlin, 20, also “touched or kissed” the girl’s breasts sometime between May and September of 2013, a grand jury in Hackensack charged in the aggravated sexual assault indictment returned late last month. Nowlin assaulted the girl no fewer than four times in that span, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said after members of his Special Victims Unit and Teaneck police arrested Nowlin in September. He’s also is charged with impairing the morals of a child. Molinelli …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Fort Lee doctor sentenced to federal house arrest in bribery scheme Fort Lee doctor sentenced to federal house arrest in bribery scheme Fort Lee doctor sentenced to federal house arrest in bribery scheme
Fort Lee doctor sentenced to federal house arrest in bribery scheme YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Fort Lee doctor was sentenced to a year’s house arrest with electronic monitoring as part of three years of federal probation today for taking nearly $225,000 in bribes as part of a long-running scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services, its president, and several associates. Claudio Dicovsky, who had a practice in Paterson, was one of several people arrested, some of whom pleaded guilty last year to violating the Federal Travel Act, following an FBI investigation of Parsippany-based BLS. Federal agents ended up arresting BLS president and part owner, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Tenafly traffic stop leads to heroin, cocaine, pot, arrest of passenger Tenafly traffic stop leads to heroin, cocaine, pot, arrest of passenger Tenafly traffic stop leads to heroin, cocaine, pot, arrest of passenger
Tenafly traffic stop leads to heroin, cocaine, pot, arrest of passenger YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Tenafly police arrested an 18-year-old Paterson man after he claimed ownership of 40 bags of heroin, two bags of pot and two of cocaine following a weekend traffic stop, authorities told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. Officer Jakub Glebocki caught a whiff of marijuana as he approached the 2012 Hyundai Elantra that he’d stopped around 10 p.m. on Prospect Terrace, Capt. John Trainor said. He then spotted some of the drugs in plain view, the captain said. Passenger Isaiah Taylor was being held on $25,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with various counts of …

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