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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Fort Lee co-op board violated resident’s political free-speech rights in leafletting case, NJ Supreme Court rules Fort Lee co-op board violated resident’s political free-speech rights in leafletting case, NJ Supreme Court rules Fort Lee co-op board violated resident’s political free-speech rights in leafletting case, NJ Supreme Court rules
Fort Lee co-op board violated resident’s political free-speech rights in leafletting case, NJ Supreme Court rules YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The board of directors of a Fort Lee co-op violated the political-speech rights of a resident running for election to the board when it prohibited him from distributing leaflets about his candidacy, the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously ruled today. Robert Dublirer was trying to deliver a message that was “akin to and should be treated as political speech, which is entitled to the highest level of protection in our society,” the high court found. “Dublirer’s right to free speech [under the state Constitution] outweighs the Board’s concerns about the use of the a…

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Hackensack, NJ
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Bogota man charged with hitting special needs son, 4 Bogota man charged with hitting special needs son, 4 Bogota man charged with hitting special needs son, 4
Bogota man charged with hitting special needs son, 4 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Bogota man who speaks only Korean was arrested on child abuse charges by police who said he beat his 4-year-old special needs son. Officers responding to a neighbor’s report of a disturbance took 33-year-old Hongyoul Lee of Queen Anne Road into custody yesterday after finding bruises on the boy’s body, Detective Capt. James Sepp told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. Sorting things out was difficult immediately after the 1:20 p.m. call, because Lee doesn’t speak English, the boy doesn’t speak and the mother wasn’t home, Sepp said. The state Division of Child Protec…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Convict discusses plea deal in 6-town police chase that ended in shooting in Bogota Convict discusses plea deal in 6-town police chase that ended in shooting in Bogota Convict discusses plea deal in 6-town police chase that ended in shooting in Bogota
Convict discusses plea deal in 6-town police chase that ended in shooting in Bogota CVP EXCLUSIVE: Plea negotiations continued this week for a convict charged with leading police on a high-speed, six-town Bergen County chase from Paramus to Bogota that ended in gunfire. Franceso Piserchia, 40, is currently serving prison sentences of three and five years, respectively, for drug, resisting and terroristic threat convictions out of Bergen and Passaic counties. Admitted to Northern State Prison in Newark in February 2012, he comes up for parole in a little under three weeks. Piserchia (Courtesy NJDOC) Piserchia also is named in two separate domestic violence indictments…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Indictment charges father with attempted murder, child endangerment in Maywood scissor stabbing of mother of 3 Indictment charges father with attempted murder, child endangerment in Maywood scissor stabbing of mother of 3 Indictment charges father with attempted murder, child endangerment in Maywood scissor stabbing of mother of 3
Indictment charges father with attempted murder, child endangerment in Maywood scissor stabbing of mother of 3 ONLY ON CVP: A Hackensack man endangered his three children — ages 16, 9 and 22 months — when he stabbed their mother several times in the head with a pair of scissors in Maywood in an attempted murder, a grand jury indictment charges. Kelly Jones, 42, and the victim were in her car with their three children in the back seat on April 5 when he “became enraged and started assaulting her with a pair of scissors,” Maywood Police Chief David Pegg told CLIFFVIEW PILOT at the time. The 36-year-old victim stopped the car so the children could get out, then ran from the vehicle. Maywood police …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
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Teaneck police grab pair after Bergenfield homeowner interrupts burglary Teaneck police grab pair after Bergenfield homeowner interrupts burglary Teaneck police grab pair after Bergenfield homeowner interrupts burglary
Teaneck police grab pair after Bergenfield homeowner interrupts burglary A Bergenfield homeowner interrupted an afternoon burglary, and utility workers helped lead police to two suspects, authorities said this morning. The Norfolk Street homeowner said a man forced his way through the front door just after 1 o’clock yesterday afternoon and then ran when confronted, Capt. Cathy Madalone said. Members of a PSE&G crew working in the area saw the suspect run by and get into a car with a getaway driver, she said. Descriptions were broadcast and Teaneck police stopped a vehicle on Forest Avenue. Witnesses identified the pair as being involved in the break-in, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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Woman, 22, killed after stepping in front of train near Rutherford station Woman, 22, killed after stepping in front of train near Rutherford station Woman, 22, killed after stepping in front of train near Rutherford station
Woman, 22, killed after stepping in front of train near Rutherford station UPDATE: A 22-year-old Passaic woman stepped in front of a passenger train just west of the Rutherford train station just after 5 p.m. and was killed, an NJ Transit spokeswoman told CLIFFVIEW PILOT tonight. “She stood on the tracks and did not move when the engineer sounded the horn,” the spokeswoman said. Roughly 500 riders were transferred to another train after the #53 out of Hoboken to Port Jervis struck and killed the woman tonight.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Primary defendant in Ramapo College dorm rape has bail lowered to $300,000 Primary defendant in Ramapo College dorm rape has bail lowered to $300,000 Primary defendant in Ramapo College dorm rape has bail lowered to $300,000
Primary defendant in Ramapo College dorm rape has bail lowered to $300,000 YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A Ramapo College student who prosecutors said carried an unconscious woman to a dorm room on his back from a frat party before he and a fellow student took turns raping her had his bail reduced by $50,000 to $300,000 by a judge in Hackensack this afternoon. Christian Lopez (STORY / PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Correspondent Mary K. Miraglia) A defense attorney said the family of Christian Lopez, 24, of Secaucus, is working to raise the $30,000 necessary to secure a bondsman to post the full bail. Lopez said nothing apart from speaking quietly with his law…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Human trafficking raid on Fairview neighborhood brothel produces indictment Human trafficking raid on Fairview neighborhood brothel produces indictment Human trafficking raid on Fairview neighborhood brothel produces indictment
Human trafficking raid on Fairview neighborhood brothel produces indictment ONLY ON CVP: An illegal Mexican immigrant running a brothel at a Fairview residence was indicted by a grand jury in Hackensack on charges of promoting prostitution and eluding human trafficking investigators by hiding in the basement when he saw them coming. Fairview police teamed up with federal Homeland Security agents and detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office to arrest 49-year-old Antonio Miguel Ramirez Lima and another illegal Mexican immigrant, Edelia Osorio-Martinez, 30, of Astoria, Queens, following a late July raid on Cliff Street. Federal agents took custody of Os…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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Mahwah man threatened to shoot Ho-Ho-Kus police sergeant, others after 5-town chase, indictment charges Mahwah man threatened to shoot Ho-Ho-Kus police sergeant, others after 5-town chase, indictment charges Mahwah man threatened to shoot Ho-Ho-Kus police sergeant, others after 5-town chase, indictment charges
Mahwah man threatened to shoot Ho-Ho-Kus police sergeant, others after 5-town chase, indictment charges YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A grand jury has returned an indictment against a Mahwah man who authorities said crashed his car during a police chase and then acted as if as if he had a gun in his waistband — threatening to use it — in an intense drama that played out on the side of the Garden State Parkway. Officers privately told CLIFFVIEW PILOT at the time that Jabari Dickson appeared clearly intent on commiting suicide by cop but wasn’t given the satisfaction. Dickson was doing 85 miles an hour on southbound Route 17 around 3 a.m. July 7 when Sgt. Michael LaCroix tried stopping his 1998 Nis…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Bergen County sheriff’s officers promoted Bergen County sheriff’s officers promoted Bergen County sheriff’s officers promoted
Bergen County sheriff’s officers promoted SHOUT OUTS: A trio of Bergen County sheriff’s officers were officially promoted yesterday — one to lieutenant and two to sergeant — all filling previously vacated positions, Sheriff Michael Saudino said this afternoon. New Lt. Lewis Morrell has been with the sheriff’s office 24 years and previously oversaw a robust warrant squad as Detective Bureau supervisor. Morell also led a group of local volunteers who participated in the Louisiana recovery after Hurricane Katrina. He also was president of PBA Local 134 for 12 years. New Sgt. Thomas Braney, who will be assigned to the Homeland Securi…

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