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
DWI driver careens over wall, through yards after crash, Waldwick police say DWI driver careens over wall, through yards after crash, Waldwick police say DWI driver careens over wall, through yards after crash, Waldwick police say
DWI driver careens over wall, through yards after crash, Waldwick police say ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A 19-year-old Waldwick man drove his car over a rock wall and through the front and rear yard of a residence while fleeing a DWI crash before he was grabbed by Mahwah police last night, authorities told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The driver whose car was struck from behind on Crescent Avenue in Waldwick around 10:30 p.m. followed Michael Avakian to the Farm Estates condominium complex, Lt. Douglas Moore said. Avakian’s Toyota Solaris careened through the Durante Road property and continued into Mahwah, where he was arrested, Moore said. Waldwick Police Officer Adam Garcia charg…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Fire in abandoned Bogota house deemed suspicious Fire in abandoned Bogota house deemed suspicious Fire in abandoned Bogota house deemed suspicious
Fire in abandoned Bogota house deemed suspicious ONLY ON CVP: A suspicious two-alarm fire that began on a small bookshelf gutted an abandoned Bogota house tonight. The 2½-story wood-frame Central Avenue house, at the corner of James Street near a firehouse, had been vacant for several years and the source of previous trouble for emergency responders. Fire officials said they were trying to determine the cause of the fire, which they said began on the bookshelf in the rear of the house. “No accelerants or fire starters were found in the building,” they told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “No power or gas to this home, so it didn’t start that way. It…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn woman, 22, struck by SUV hospitalized Fair Lawn woman, 22, struck by SUV hospitalized Fair Lawn woman, 22, struck by SUV hospitalized
Fair Lawn woman, 22, struck by SUV hospitalized ONLY ON CVP: A 22-year-old Fair Lawn woman was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center tonight after she was struck by an SUV. The woman was in the crosswalk on Fair Lawn Avenue at the on-ramp to Route 208 north adjacent to Chandler Drive when she was struck just before 6:30 p.m. Her injuries didn’t appear life-threatening. No summonses were immediately issued to the driver. STORY / PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Senior Correspondent Boyd A. Loving STORY / PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Senior Correspondent Boyd A. Loving

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
South Hackensack police find 400 bags of heroin, arrest Sex, Money, Murder member South Hackensack police find 400 bags of heroin, arrest Sex, Money, Murder member South Hackensack police find 400 bags of heroin, arrest Sex, Money, Murder member
South Hackensack police find 400 bags of heroin, arrest Sex, Money, Murder member ONLY ON CVP: A purported member of the Sex, Money, Murder set of the Bloods was arrested by members of the South Hackensack Police Vice/Narcotics Team with 400 bags of heroin, authorities said. Jihlil Allen Davidson, 24, was being held on $75,000 bail, charged with distributing heroin, following his arrest last night at the Congress Inn Motel on Route 46. Police also seized $1,400 in cash, Police Capt. Robert Kaiser told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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SATURDAY: Wood-Ridge PBA toy drive for infants to young teens SATURDAY: Wood-Ridge PBA toy drive for infants to young teens SATURDAY: Wood-Ridge PBA toy drive for infants to young teens
Saturday: Wood-Ridge PBA toy drive for infants to young teens SHOUT OUT: Sunny, comfortable weather is forecast for tomorrow’s third annual Wood-Ridge PBA Local #313 Toy Drive for infants to young teens. All gifts will go to Big Brothers, Big Sisters. Along with new, unwrapped toys and other gifts, police will be accepting gift cards from Toys R Us, Wal-Mart, Target, KMart and Game Stop. Refreshments will be served. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the borough police garage, 85 Humboldt St., and is co-sponsored by the Italian American Police Society of NJ.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Task force nabs 3 in Englewood heroin deal Task force nabs 3 in Englewood heroin deal Task force nabs 3 in Englewood heroin deal
Task force nabs 3 in Englewood heroin deal YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A buy-and-bust led to the arrests of three people who authorities said were selling heroin on the streets of Englewood. After watching a series of street deals, an undercover detective with the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotic Task Force arranged to buy 20 bricks of heroin from 38-year-old Jama Robinson of Hackensack, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon. They took Robinson into custody, along with Damar Palmar, 27, and 29-year-old Jasmine Jemmott, both of Englewood, and charged them with drug distribution and possession offenses…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Four indicted on 19 counts in Edgewater luxury high-rise robbery Four indicted on 19 counts in Edgewater luxury high-rise robbery Four indicted on 19 counts in Edgewater luxury high-rise robbery
Four indicted on 19 counts in Edgewater luxury high-rise robbery YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: As expected, a grand jury in Hackensack returned indictments today against four people charged in the home-invasion robbery of developer Fred Daibes at his Edgewater high-rise apartment. Adonis Sepulveda (STORY / PHOTOS: Mary K. Miraglia, CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter) CLIFFVIEW PILOT reported exclusively on Tuesday that the indictments would be coming after a judge in Hackensack ordered all four to submit to DNA testing (SEE: Indictments due, DNA samples ordered in Edgewater luxury high-rise home invasion). Jorge Valencia — a Colombian national who auth…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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Ridgewood, Glen Rock officers deserve praise for disarming emotionally troubled man with knife Ridgewood, Glen Rock officers deserve praise for disarming emotionally troubled man with knife Ridgewood, Glen Rock officers deserve praise for disarming emotionally troubled man with knife
Ridgewood, Glen Rock officers deserve praise for disarming emotionally troubled man with knife A PUBLISHER WRITES: No one organizes a rally or a march when police resolve a deadly threat without anyone getting hurt, so it was nice to see an awards ceremony last night for a quartet of Ridgewood police officers and a Glen Rock cop working as an EMT who swiftly and safely disarmed and subdued a troubled 55-year-old man who pulled a knife on them. Officers were called to the Chestnut Street home of James Brown on Nov. 18 by a maintenance worker who was having a dispute with him. Brown cooperated at first, agreeing to go to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, they said. Then he…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Woman runs screaming into Englewood police HQ after son threatens suicide by cop Woman runs screaming into Englewood police HQ after son threatens suicide by cop Woman runs screaming into Englewood police HQ after son threatens suicide by cop
Woman runs screaming into Englewood police HQ after son threatens suicide by cop YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An Englewood woman broke free of her son’s grip and ran into city police headquarters screaming after he threatened to commit suicide by cop when she sought to have him psychologically evaluated, authorities said. Ricardo Waite, 27, had been threatening other household members, the 50-year-old woman told detectives, when she tried taking him to police headquarters for an evaluation Tuesday night. “As she approached the station, Waite allegedly threatened to assault her in front of police officers and do something to make them shoot him,” Detective Capt. Timothy Tor…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Tenafly police rescue overdosing heroin addict with Narcan Tenafly police rescue overdosing heroin addict with Narcan Tenafly police rescue overdosing heroin addict with Narcan
Tenafly police rescue overdosing heroin addict with Narcan SHOUT OUTS: Two Tenafly police officers rescued a victim suffering a heroin overdose in a residence last night, in the department’s first Narcan save. Lt. Ralph Lawrance and Sgt. Nicholas Roux found the 23-year-old man unconscious, unresponsive and having difficulty breathing just before 10:30 p.m., Capt. Michael deMoncada told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. Roux administered two doses of Narcan, and the man quickly regained consciousness as his breathing improved, deMoncada said. The Tenafly Volunteer Ambulance Corps took him to Englewood Medical Center, where he was recovering.

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