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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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Power returned to hundreds in Mahwah after utility pole snaps Power returned to hundreds in Mahwah after utility pole snaps Power returned to hundreds in Mahwah after utility pole snaps
Power returned to hundreds in Mahwah after utility pole snaps UPDATE: Hundreds of Mahwah customers got their power back tonight after workers replaced a toppled utility pole. Age and weather took their toll on the pole at Campgaw Road and Seminary Drive whose base snapped earlier today. As many as 770 customers were without power for several hours. The number dwindled to 35 before 6:30 p.m., a spokesman for Orange & Rockland Utilities told the Nyack Free Press tonight.

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Hackensack, NJ
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Rockland man held on held on $100,000 bail in Mahwah arson fire Rockland man held on held on $100,000 bail in Mahwah arson fire Rockland man held on held on $100,000 bail in Mahwah arson fire
Rockland man held on held on $100,000 bail in Mahwah arson fire YOU SAW HIM HERE FIRST: Authorities have charged a Rockland County man with setting a fire last week that tore through a 2½-story wood-frame house under construction on a Mahwah cul-de-sac. Antonio Almodovar, 19, who lives in a Pomona trailer park, was ordered held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail on charges of aggravated arson, burglary and failure to report a fire following a first appearance in Municipal Court, Police Chief James Batelli said. PHOTOS: Courtesy MAHWAH FIRE DEPARTMENT A source told CLIFFVIEW PILOT that Almodovar is an acquaintance of the former owner, who sol…

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Hackensack, NJ
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Hackensack firefighters snuff pickup truck fire Hackensack firefighters snuff pickup truck fire Hackensack firefighters snuff pickup truck fire
Hackensack firefighters snuff pickup truck fire ONLY ON CVP: Hackensack firefighters made quick work of this pickup truck fire at the corner of State and Atlantic streets late this morning.  

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Hasbrouck Heights girl with cerebral palsy gets special holiday visit from female NJ State Police trooper Hasbrouck Heights girl with cerebral palsy gets special holiday visit from female NJ State Police trooper Hasbrouck Heights girl with cerebral palsy gets special holiday visit from female NJ State Police trooper
Hasbrouck Heights girl with cerebral palsy gets special holiday visit from female NJ State Police trooper THANKSGIVING SHOUT OUT: An 8-year-old Hasbrouck Heights girl with severe cerebral palsy had one of her fondest holiday wishes granted with a visit from a female New Jersey state trooper who served in Iraq. Yet it was the trooper who insisted that she was most grateful. “She has such an inspiring story, so much more than I can even describe,” Trooper Alina Spies told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. Giulianna Moore beamed through the day that trooper spent with her, her mother, Pasqualina, her two sisters — 10-year-old Angelina and 2½-year-old Isabella — and other family members. “Her mot…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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NJ court gives hero firefighter accidental disability pension NJ court gives hero firefighter accidental disability pension NJ court gives hero firefighter accidental disability pension
NJ court gives hero firefighter accidental disability pension PUBLIC SAFETY: An heroic Jersey City firefighter who rescued two people after breaking down the front door of a burning building is entitled to an accidental disability pension for a resulting back injury, a state appeals court ruled. The Board of Trustees of the Police and Firemen’s Retirement System refused to give James Moran the accidental disability pension, saying that his 2010 injury didn’t meet the definition of an “undesigned and unexpected” trauma. “Simply kicking in a door or intentionally using one’s back to force entry does not constitute an ‘unexpected happening,’ ” the PFRS…

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Florida man claimed to be juvenile in credit card fraud ring, Ridgefield Park police say Florida man claimed to be juvenile in credit card fraud ring, Ridgefield Park police say Florida man claimed to be juvenile in credit card fraud ring, Ridgefield Park police say
Florida man claimed to be juvenile in credit card fraud ring, Ridgefield Park police say CVP EXCLUSIVE: A Florida man was being held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail after authorities discovered that he wasn’t a juvenile, as he’d claimed, while being arrested by Ridgefield Park police as part of a credit card fraud ring. Robert Ellis Norris, 22 (top left, above), was at the Bergen County Juvenile Detention Center in Teterboro when authorities discovered his true identity, Ridgefield Park Polie Capt. Daniel Hippe told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. He was immediately charged and brought to the county jail, Hippe said. Norris was in a car with three other Florida men when a villa…

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Rutherford, NJ
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Suicidal Wood-Ridge man hands knife to police, ends standoff Suicidal Wood-Ridge man hands knife to police, ends standoff Suicidal Wood-Ridge man hands knife to police, ends standoff
Suicidal Wood-Ridge man hands knife to police, ends standoff CVP EXCLUSIVE: A group of officers from four towns ended an intense standoff with a knife-wielding Wood-Ridge man by getting him to surrender, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. The 31-year-old Hillcrest Avenue man began screaming at officers from Wood-Ridge, Carlstadt, Hasbrouck Heights and Moonachie to get out as they arrived Monday night. “He told the officers to kill him or he would kill himself,” Detective Joseph Rutigliano Jr. told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. He then began advancing on them with the weapon, Rutigliano said. “The officers showed great restraint, giving him some room,” he said. “T…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Dumont window washer dies after falling from ladder behind Norwood home Dumont window washer dies after falling from ladder behind Norwood home Dumont window washer dies after falling from ladder behind Norwood home
Dumont window washer dies after falling from ladder behind Norwood home ONLY ON CVP: A 62-year-old window washer from Dumont died after falling from a ladder outside a Norwood home today. The Dyer Court homeowner told police she came home the middle of this afternoon and found the self-employed contractor dead on her rear deck. He’d apparently landed on his head hours earlier, emergency responders told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The Bergen County Medical Examiner pronounced him dead at the scene through Hackensack University Medical Center paramedics. “He must have gotten there around 8 a.m. and was cleaning gutters and washing windows when the homeowner left,” Pol…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Prosecutor: Ramapo College students took turns raping unconscious woman in dorm while others watched, laughed Prosecutor: Ramapo College students took turns raping unconscious woman in dorm while others watched, laughed Prosecutor: Ramapo College students took turns raping unconscious woman in dorm while others watched, laughed
Prosecutor: Ramapo College students took turns raping unconscious woman in dorm while others watched, laughed CVP EXCLUSIVE: Two Ramapo College students took turns raping an unconscious fellow student in a dorm room while others watched and laughed after one of them carried her there on his back from a frat party, a prosecutor told a judge in Hackensack today. Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Catherine Fantuzzi described the Nov. 15 assaults in graphic detail during a bail hearing this afternoon for one of the two men, 18-year-old Nakeem Gardner of Paterson (photos above, below). The 19-year-old victim went to a fraternity party on campus the night before, met co-defendant Christian Lopez, 24, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Washington Township police cite store for selling booze to boy, 17 Washington Township police cite store for selling booze to boy, 17 Washington Township police cite store for selling booze to boy, 17
Washington Township police cite store for selling booze to boy, 17 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Washington Township liquor store was working with police after officers busted them for selling alcohol to a 17-year-old boy without identification, authorities said. Township Liquor turned over a half-dozen bogus Maryland driver’s licenses and “obtained a machine to verify the validity of any driver’s license used to provide proof of a person’s age when attempting to purchase an alcoholic beverage,” Police Chief Glenn Hooper said. This came after a one-hour surveillance Saturday night led to a complaint against the youth buying the booze and the store.

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