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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Beekman-Poughquag, NY
Breaking News
Trucker covered plates to avoid GWB toll, Port Authority police charge Trucker covered plates to avoid GWB toll, Port Authority police charge Trucker covered plates to avoid GWB toll, Port Authority police charge
Trucker covered plates to avoid GWB toll, Port Authority police charge A Louisiana trucker was caught covering his license plates with plastic film in an attempt to avoid the George Washington Bridge toll this morning, the Port Authority said. Johnnie L. Whittie, 51, of Ferriday, LA drove a 2011 Volvo tractor-trailer through the EZ pass lane, activating a “toll unpaid” sign that caught the attention of PAPD Officer Ed Berdecia, who was standing nearby, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said. A computer check showed the vehicle wasn’t registered. Whittie was charge with theft of service and tampering with public records and was issued summonses. IMAGES: C…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Three heroin buy-and-busts in one night for South Hackensack police Three heroin buy-and-busts in one night for South Hackensack police Three heroin buy-and-busts in one night for South Hackensack police
Three heroin buy-and-busts in one night for South Hackensack police ONLY ON CVP: South Hackensack police charged three Paterson men — one who calls himself “Murder” and wore a belt that hid a knife in the buckle — in separate undercover heroin buy-and-bust operations off Route 46 last night. Arrested were: Tymier Wells, aka “Murder,” 28 (above, left); Quadir Richardson, 24 (middle); Antrone Moody, 42, “aka” Destiny (right) Moody was carrying 200 bags of heroin stamped with street name “I MISS YOU,” Police Capt. Robert Kaiser told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Wells and Richardson were each carrying 50 bags of heroin stamped “LEVELS” and “Magoo,” he said. Wells a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
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Witness saw Cliffside Park guidance counselor’s alleged sex assault of girl, 5, prosecutor says Witness saw Cliffside Park guidance counselor’s alleged sex assault of girl, 5, prosecutor says Witness saw Cliffside Park guidance counselor’s alleged sex assault of girl, 5, prosecutor says
Witness saw Cliffside Park guidance counselor’s alleged sex assault of girl, 5, prosecutor says YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Investigators arrested a longtime Cliffside Park High School guidance counselor and high school, college and professional basketball referee on charges of sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl after interviewing the youngster and a witness, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said today. Edward C. Meier – whose arrest yesterday was reported exclusively in CLIFFVIEW PILOT – became the target of an investigation after “a relative of the victim recently observed what they felt was inappropriate behavior” in Teaneck, where the 60-year-old Meier lives, and told the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Mother charged with causing brain injuries to 10-week-old Palisades Park boy Mother charged with causing brain injuries to 10-week-old Palisades Park boy Mother charged with causing brain injuries to 10-week-old Palisades Park boy
Mother charged with causing brain injuries to 10-week-old Palisades Park boy YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 10-week-old Palisades Park boy remained hospitalized with brain injuries that authorities said were caused by his mother. The infant was in serious but stable condition at Hackensack University Medical Center this morning after suffering a seizure on Saturday, Palisades Park Police Chief Benjamin Ramos told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning He has “bruising between the skull and brain and suffered from subdural hematomas and hemorrhaging,” the chief said. The child’s panicked babysitter ran to the landlord, who dialed 911. An ambulance then took the boy to the eme…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Sanitation workers arrested after returning wandering Ridgewood boy, 4, to grandmother Sanitation workers arrested after returning wandering Ridgewood boy, 4, to grandmother Sanitation workers arrested after returning wandering Ridgewood boy, 4, to grandmother
Sanitation workers arrested after returning wandering Ridgewood boy, 4, to grandmother YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: They seemed like good Samaritans at first, but two sanitation workers from Paterson who found a wandering 4-year-old boy on a Ridgewood street and returned him and his grandmother’s wallet — with items missing — were arrested soon after, police said. The youngster wandered off from the South Maple Avenue home Sunday afternoon, Police Chief John Ward told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Within moments, the garbagemen spotted him a short distance from the house. The pair brought the boy back before his grandmother had even noticed he was gone — but not before taking his grandmoth…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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TOMORROW: Youth symposium to offer practical career advice for Bergen students TOMORROW: Youth symposium to offer practical career advice for Bergen students TOMORROW: Youth symposium to offer practical career advice for Bergen students
Tomorrow: Youth symposium to offer practical career advice for Bergen students SHOUT OUT: A symposium designed to keep kids in school and encourage them to set reachable goals will be held at Ramapo College tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The Youth Symposium will be attended by students from Elmwood Park, Dwight Morrow, Hackensack, Leonia, New Milford, Paramus, Pascack Valley, Saddle Brook, and Teaneck high schools. It is being hosted by the Bergen County Workforce Investment Board and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and will be held in Ramapo’s Student Center in the Friends Hall auditorium. The program “is designed to help students have an increased under…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
SUV totaled after rear-ending crash cushion at Route 3 bridge project in Rutherford SUV totaled after rear-ending crash cushion at Route 3 bridge project in Rutherford SUV totaled after rear-ending crash cushion at Route 3 bridge project in Rutherford
SUV totaled after rear-ending crash cushion at Route 3 bridge project in Rutherford ONLY ON CVP: A Ford Escape slammed into an impact attenuator on Route 3 in Rutherford around noon, sending the SUV driver to the hospital. None of the J. Fletcher Creamer crews working the Ridge Road bridge renovation project was injured in the left-lane crash. The Escape was towed, while Creamer employees drove away the truck with the damaged attenuator. Attenuators — more commonly known as crash or cowboy cushions — are designed to protect workers and reduce damage to structures in the event of a crash during a bridge or road project. They absorb the colliding vehicle’s energy. STOR…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Wood-Ridge crash sends car into apartment stoop Wood-Ridge crash sends car into apartment stoop Wood-Ridge crash sends car into apartment stoop
Wood-Ridge crash sends car into apartment stoop ONLY ON CVP: Both drivers were hospitalized following a crash in Wood-Ridge that sent one car barreling across a sidewalk, a lawn and into the stoop of a nearby garden apartment. Witnesses told police the driver of a Toyota sedan pulled suddenly onto Hackensack Avenue from the post office and was slammed by a Toyota SUV around 5:45 p.m. The SUV continued on, knocking down a lamp post and crashing into the apartment steps, Detective Joseph T. Rutigliano, Jr. told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Firefighters had to cut her from the car, he said. Both she and the other female driver were taken to Hacke…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Back-seat passenger hospitalized after utility pole crash in Ridgewood Back-seat passenger hospitalized after utility pole crash in Ridgewood Back-seat passenger hospitalized after utility pole crash in Ridgewood
Back-seat passenger hospitalized after utility pole crash in Ridgewood ONLY ON CVP: A back-seat passenger was taken to the Valley Hospital this afternoon after the car she was in crashed into a utility pole in Ridgewood. No outages were reported as a result of the 12:30 p.m. crash at the intersection of Linwood and Jeffers avenues. The driver wasn’t injured. The four-door Mercury sedan was removed by a flatbed tow truck. Linwood Avenue was closed in both directions from Paramus Road to Jeffer Avenue for 90 minutes after the 12:30 p.m. crash. Ridgewood police, firefighters and EMS workers responded. PSE&G stabilized the pole after the vehicle was remo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Garfield police nab two Polish nationals, two others in street attack that hospitalized pair Garfield police nab two Polish nationals, two others in street attack that hospitalized pair Garfield police nab two Polish nationals, two others in street attack that hospitalized pair
Garfield police nab two Polish nationals, two others in street attack that hospitalized pair YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: One Garfield police officer chased off four men — two of them Polish nationals —  who were beating on two others and another stopped their car a short distance away, leading to arrests yesterday. Both victims were hospitalized, one with facial fractures and the other requiring stitches, following the assault yesterday afternoon after a party at the Wisla Center, a Polish social center, Detective Capt. Darren Sucorowski told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Officer Sebastian Tyburski was at the corner of Main and Union as the party let out when a passerby alerted him to the brawl n…

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