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
County jails shouldn’t cave to ACLU demands to release ICE detainees County jails shouldn’t cave to ACLU demands to release ICE detainees County jails shouldn’t cave to ACLU demands to release ICE detainees
County jails shouldn’t cave to ACLU demands to release ICE detainees WHAT WE THINK: You think of wardens who run New Jersey’s jails as no-nonsense types who aren’t easily intimidated, but at least two have already caved to threats from the ACLU and released illegal immigrants over the objections of federal authorities. At a time when illegals seem to be at the center of some of the state’s most horrendous crimes, “some county jails are releasing defendants who may be eligible to be deported” based on a recent court ruling, as Nj.com notes today. “When serious criminal offenders are released to the streets in a community, rather than to ICE custody, it unde…

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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Two struck utility poles, two DWI arrests, three days apart in Wyckoff Two struck utility poles, two DWI arrests, three days apart in Wyckoff Two struck utility poles, two DWI arrests, three days apart in Wyckoff
Two struck utility poles, two DWI arrests, three days apart in Wyckoff ONLY ON CVP: At the same time of morning three days apart — 12:09 a.m. — Wyckoff police received calls of light poles struck in town and arrested the drivers for DWI, among other offenses. Sgt. Brian Zivkovich and Officer Michael Teegan responded to Sicomac Avenue near the Franklin Lakes border on Nov. 8 a report that a car had struck a utility pole. Lucas J. Franco, 23, was charged with DWI, reckless driving, possession of marijuana and possession of narcotics paraphernalia after failing a breath test, Benjamin C. Fox. He was released to his mother pending an appearance in Municipal Cour…

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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Playing the percentages, police conduct Thanksgiving buckle up campaign Playing the percentages, police conduct Thanksgiving buckle up campaign Playing the percentages, police conduct Thanksgiving buckle up campaign
Playing the percentages, police conduct Thanksgiving buckle up campaign PUBLIC SAFETY: Local police and other law enforcement agencies have joined a national effort to deliver a message to all Thanksgiving drivers: buckle up. Thanksgiving traditionally puts more people on the road than at any other time during the year, statistically raising the risk of crashes. Hundreds will die. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that proper seat belt use reduces the risk of fatal injury to front seat passengers by 45%, and the risk of moderate to serious injury by half. Consider: In 2012, more than 300 people were killed in crashes on …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Driver escapes with cuts and bruises in Kinderkamack Road rollover in Emerson Driver escapes with cuts and bruises in Kinderkamack Road rollover in Emerson Driver escapes with cuts and bruises in Kinderkamack Road rollover in Emerson
Driver escapes with cuts and bruises in Kinderkamack Road rollover in Emerson ONLY ON CVP: An elderly driver was partially ejected but conscious and alert when emergency responders removed him from overturned car following a chain-reaction crash on Kinderkamack Road in Emerson this afternoon. A Ford Escape and Dodge Charger had collided in front of him when the Toyota Matrix driver apparently swerved to the right and caught the Charger’s rear passenger-side bumper in the southbound lane near Etna Avenue. His car then partially rolled up the side of the Charger and overturned. Emerson Engine 26 and Rescue 28 stabilized the car on its side with wooden blocks and st…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Three held on $350,000 bail each in shooting at Cliffside Park high rise Three held on $350,000 bail each in shooting at Cliffside Park high rise Three held on $350,000 bail each in shooting at Cliffside Park high rise
Three held on $350,000 bail each in shooting at Cliffside Park high rise YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Three people were being held in the Bergen County Jail on $350,000 bail each — one of them an ex-convict charged with attempted murder — in connection with a shooting during a robbery at a Cliffside Park hi-rise. The victim remained in critical but stable condition with a gunshot wound in the abdomen at Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen following the Wednesday night holdup at the Greenhouse on Anderson Avenue. Ex-con Wessan Abulaban, 34 (above left), was charged with attempted murder, two counts of robbery by force, aggravated assault, conspiracy and a host …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Lyndhurst man held in cocaine, Oxycodone bust Lyndhurst man held in cocaine, Oxycodone bust Lyndhurst man held in cocaine, Oxycodone bust
Lyndhurst man held in cocaine, Oxycodone bust YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Detectives seized $2,000 worth of cocaine and Oxycodone and nearly $6,000 in cash while arresting an unemployed Lyndhurst man at his home, authorities said today. Investigators watched the Kingsland Avenue home 43-year-old Charles Quiroz for two weeks before moving in with a search warrant on Thursday, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon. They arrested Quiroz after discovering “multiple bags of cocaine, numerous oxycodone pills” and the cash, the prosecutor said. Quiroz was being held on $35,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail after bein…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Prison sentence, deportation for Guatemalan who molested Fairview girl, 8, in front of sister Prison sentence, deportation for Guatemalan who molested Fairview girl, 8, in front of sister Prison sentence, deportation for Guatemalan who molested Fairview girl, 8, in front of sister
Prison sentence, deportation for Guatemalan who molested Fairview girl, 8, in front of sister ONLY ON CVP: An illegal Guatemalan immigrant will be deported after serving three years in state prison for sexually assaulting an 8-year old girl in front of her younger sister in Fairview. Abraham A. Chumil, 33, who was living in North Bergen at the time, was sentenced in Hackensack yesterday to four years and three months without parole. But he received credit for the 446 days he’s spent in the Bergen County Jail since his Aug. 27, 2013 arrest. Before he’s deported Chumil must submit a DNA sample for the national registry. Chumil pleaded guilty in June to a single second-degree count…

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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
JC man indicted in 6-pound heroin bust at GWB JC man indicted in 6-pound heroin bust at GWB JC man indicted in 6-pound heroin bust at GWB
JC man indicted in 6-pound heroin bust at GWB ONLY ON CVP: A grand jury in Bergen County this week indicted a Jersey City man on charges of having more than six pounds of pure heroin when police stopped him at the George Washington Bridge. The heroin possession counts against 25-year-old Ernis Beato — one first-degree and two third-degree — include being within 1,000 feet of Fort Lee High School. Beato remained free today on $250,000 bail, posted a little over two weeks after his June 25 arrest. Beato was coming from Philadelphia when he was stopped, Fort Lee police said. The federal government has estimated the street-sale price…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen sheriff’s Community Outreach Unit seeks 300 Thanksgiving turkeys for those in need Bergen sheriff’s Community Outreach Unit seeks 300 Thanksgiving turkeys for those in need Bergen sheriff’s Community Outreach Unit seeks 300 Thanksgiving turkeys for those in need
Bergen sheriff’s Community Outreach Unit seeks 300 Thanksgiving turkeys for those in need SHOUT OUT: Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino’s Community Outreach Unit is participating in this year’s annual Thanksgiving Turkey Drive sponsored by the Center for Food Action. The unit hopes to help the CFA meet this year’s goal of providing Thanksgiving meals to 11,200 neighbors in need by collecting 300. Sheriff’s officers will pick up the turkeys next Thursday and Friday, Nov. 20-21. Donated turkeys must be frozen. TO SCHEDULE A PICKUP: (201) 336 3540 / or Officer Aret Yesiltepe: (201) 602-9845

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Runaway tire on Route 17 in Wood-Ridge causes crash, damages cars Runaway tire on Route 17 in Wood-Ridge causes crash, damages cars Runaway tire on Route 17 in Wood-Ridge causes crash, damages cars
Runaway tire on Route 17 in Wood-Ridge causes crash, damages cars ONLY ON CVP: Wood-Ridge police were trying to determine where a tire came from that bounded onto Route 17 at the start of the evening rush, hitting three different cars and causing a crash. The first car was hit by the runaway tire just after 5 p.m. Thursday on the highway’s northbound side — minutes after a separate multi-car crash on southbound 17, Detective Joseph Rutigliano Jr. told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The first vehicle stopped and was rear-ended by another as the tire flew over the divider and struck two separate cars, Rutigliano said. The driver of the third vehicle kept going and di…

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