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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Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood man chased in domestic assault tosses bags of pot, police say Englewood man chased in domestic assault tosses bags of pot, police say Englewood man chased in domestic assault tosses bags of pot, police say
Englewood man chased in domestic assault tosses bags of pot, police say YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An Englewood man arrested by police on a domestic violence charge tossed nearly two dozen bags of marijuana while he was being chased while holding on to more than $1,000 in alleged proceeds, authorities said. Dante Dixon, 33, remained held on $45,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with domestic violence assault, evidence tampering and various drug possession counts, including near public housing and a city park. Reponding Officer Andrew Chytrak was met by a woman who followed Dixon out of a 4th Ward apartment around 9 o’clock Christmas night, saying that …

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Beekman-Poughquag, NY
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Rookie Port Authority police officers stop woman in fur coat from GWB suicide try Rookie Port Authority police officers stop woman in fur coat from GWB suicide try Rookie Port Authority police officers stop woman in fur coat from GWB suicide try
Rookie Port Authority police officers stop woman in fur coat from GWB suicide try SHOUT OUT: After heading to the George Washington Bridge to commit suicide and finding the walkway closed last week, a 26-year-old New York City woman with a bottle of whiskey in her full-length fur coat returned to accomplish the deed this afternoon but was rescued by a pair of rookie Port Authority rookie police officers. It was the 74th intervention this year — double last year’s total — and the eighth this month. Officers Samantha Koch and Tom McPike spotted the visibly upset woman on the south walkway about midspan around 4 o’clock this afternoon, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo to…

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Englewood, NJ
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Englewood police, human trafficking task force bust brothel, arrest alleged madam Englewood police, human trafficking task force bust brothel, arrest alleged madam Englewood police, human trafficking task force bust brothel, arrest alleged madam
Englewood police, human trafficking task force bust brothel, arrest alleged madam YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The owner apparently had no idea that a brothel was being run from of a home on Englewood’s south side — complete with surveillance cameras, financial records and washing machines and dryers to clean bedsheets and towels — city police said. Englewood police arrested the alleged madam, a 51-year-old Flushing, Queens woman, and let three much younger Chinese women go who admitted they were freely working for her following a Christmas Eve bust on Brookside Avenue, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. They grabbed all four as they pulled up in a 2013 Le…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Teaneck police seek help finding missing prep star charged in brick-throwing spree Teaneck police seek help finding missing prep star charged in brick-throwing spree Teaneck police seek help finding missing prep star charged in brick-throwing spree
Teaneck police seek help finding missing prep star charged in brick-throwing spree HAVE YOU SEEN HIM? Teaneck police were seeking the public’s help finding a missing 20-year-old man charged three months ago with throwing bricks through the windows of more than a dozen cars and homes — including one that sent an 18-year-old woman to the hospital. His parents told police they last saw Timothy Hamlett when he left his Wilson Avenue home around 6 p.m. the day after Christmas saying he was going to visit a friend in town. The 6-foot-tall, 150-pound Hamlett — a former Don Bosco Prep track star — was wearing jeans, a blue or purple zippered Adidas jacket with a hood and sneake…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Fair Lawn police dishing up popular ‘Coffee with a Cop’ Fair Lawn police dishing up popular ‘Coffee with a Cop’ Fair Lawn police dishing up popular ‘Coffee with a Cop’
Fair Lawn police dishing up popular ‘Coffee with a Cop’ SHOUT OUT: Fair Lawn police officers continue their popular “Coffee With a Cop” series on Jan. 6 at Fisher’s Cafe on Fair Lawn Avenue. The department encourages citizens to come and discuss community issues, build relationships – and drink coffee — from 9:30-11:30 a.m. The coffee is free. Part of a massive effort by local police nationwide, Coffee With A Cop “provides a unique opportunity for community members to ask questions and learn more about the department’s work in Fair Lawn’s neighborhoods,” Sgt. Brian Metzler said. “The majority of contacts law enforcement has with the public…

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Ridgewood, NJ
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Shots fired through window of Ridgewood church Shots fired through window of Ridgewood church Shots fired through window of Ridgewood church
Shots fired through window of Ridgewood church YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Detectives were at the scene of the Old Paramus Reformed Church in Ridgewood trying to determine who fired dozens of rifle shots into the side of the building, several of which went through a stained glass window. “There’s minimal damage inside the church but there are holes in the stained-glass window,” village Police Chief John Ward told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. “It happened when no one was inside.” There are no known motives or threats received by the Glen Avenue church or the pastor, he said. The shots apparently were fired overnight Christmas evening …

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Body of Cliffside Park police officer killed in crash escorted to funeral home by motorcade Body of Cliffside Park police officer killed in crash escorted to funeral home by motorcade Body of Cliffside Park police officer killed in crash escorted to funeral home by motorcade
Body of Cliffside Park police officer killed in crash escorted to funeral home by motorcade TRIBUTE: A motorcade of more than two dozen vehicles, including motorcycle units, escorted the body of Cliffside Park Special Police Officer Stephen Petruzzello to Macagna’s Funeral Home tonight, a little over 12 hours after he died of injuries sustained when he and fellow rookie officer Thaier (Theo) Abdallah were hit by an SUV Saturday night. “This took my breath away,” one witness said moments after watching the procession pass. “RIP and condolences to his family.” “Just saw this on Forest Ave,” said another. “My heart just stopped.” Borough officials earlier today made Petruzzell…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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VIDEO: NYPD officers turn their backs on diBlasio at hero’s funeral VIDEO: NYPD officers turn their backs on diBlasio at hero’s funeral VIDEO: NYPD officers turn their backs on diBlasio at hero’s funeral
Video: Nypd officers turn their backs on diBlasio at hero’s funeral VIDEO: Hundreds of NYPD officers were joined by thousands of colleagues from across the U.S. in turning their backs on New York City Mayor diBlasio as he spoke during the funeral for Officer Rafael Ramos in Queens earlier today. The funeral at Christ Tabernacle Church was broadcast to thousands of police who gathered outside who joined their city brethren in protest of the rhetoric by diBlasio and others that they say directly contributed to the cold-blooded executions of Ramos and Officer Wenjian Liu as they sat in their cruiser on a Brooklyn street corner. All turned back again for NYPD…

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Hackensack, NJ
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Outgoing Saddle Brook mayor independently appoints police sergeants Outgoing Saddle Brook mayor independently appoints police sergeants Outgoing Saddle Brook mayor independently appoints police sergeants
Outgoing Saddle Brook mayor independently appoints police sergeants A PUBLISHER WRITES: We were counting down the weeks until Saddle Brook Mayor Karen Chamberlain left office, but now it’s down to days — and will probably include counting the hours and even minutes after she appointed two police officers to sergeant without so much as a word to either the chief or his deputy, who happens to be replacing her as mayor come Thursday. Chamberlain on Christmas Eve “orchestrated an unnecessary and unfair promotional process within the police department” when she “hastily presided over a promotion ceremony” Police Chief Robert Kugler said. There were no review p…

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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Port Authority police make 72nd GWB save thanks to suicide hotline Port Authority police make 72nd GWB save thanks to suicide hotline Port Authority police make 72nd GWB save thanks to suicide hotline
Port Authority police make 72nd GWB save thanks to suicide hotline YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A man who failed to kill himself with a drug overdose was rescued from the George Washington Bridge after he used one of the suicide hotline phones on the south walkway — the 72nd save this year on the Hudson River span, Port Authority police said. After taking a subway from his Brooklyn home, the man picked up one of the seven phones yesterday around 3 p.m. and spoke with a counselor, “relaying his intention to jump from the bridge,” the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The operator called the PAPD, whose officers “quickly arrived and intercepte…

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