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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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Wood-Ridge police nab accused ID thief flushing bogus driver’s license, credit cards in fast-food restroom Wood-Ridge police nab accused ID thief flushing bogus driver’s license, credit cards in fast-food restroom Wood-Ridge police nab accused ID thief flushing bogus driver’s license, credit cards in fast-food restroom
Wood-Ridge police nab accused ID thief flushing bogus driver’s license, credit cards in fast-food restroom ONLY ON CVP: Wood-Ridge police said they caught a Brooklyn man trying to flush a bogus driver’s license and credit and gift cards down the toilet of a Route 17 Wendy’s after responding to a call from workers at the restaurant next door. Employees at the T.G.I. Friday’s said 36-year-old Kendall Jones snatched back a $500 gift card he tried to cash and hustled out the door last Friday night. He ran toward the Wendy’s, they told Officers Mark Torsiello and Jerry Onembo. The pair found Jones in the men’s room trying to flush the license, four credit cards and gift cards from the Bahama Bree…

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Hackensack, NJ
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State charges well-known Hackensack surgeons with taking kickbacks for referrals State charges well-known Hackensack surgeons with taking kickbacks for referrals State charges well-known Hackensack surgeons with taking kickbacks for referrals
State charges well-known Hackensack surgeons with taking kickbacks for referrals UPDATE: Two orthopedic surgeons — one from Franklin Lakes and the other Hackensack — are among seven doctors charged with taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks from the owner of a network of diagnostic imaging centers in Bergen County and elsewhere in New Jersey in exchange for referrals. James W. Cahill of Franklin Lakes referred hundreds of scans worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from his Hackensack office to the illicit organization run by Rehan “Ray” Zuberi, the owner of Diagnostic Imaging Affiliates (DIA) of Hackensack, Acting Attorney General John Hoffman said this…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Port Authority police request Ebola travel ban at Newark, JFK Port Authority police request Ebola travel ban at Newark, JFK Port Authority police request Ebola travel ban at Newark, JFK
Port Authority police request Ebola travel ban at Newark, JFK FROM NJ.COM: A nationwide group representing airport law enforcement officers — including Port Authority police at Newark and JFK — is calling for a ban on commercial air travel to the U.S. from countries with Ebola outbreaks. The group was drafting a letter to Congress seeking the travel ban, along with a requirement that American medical personnel and Ebola patients traveling from the affected West African countries be flown on military aircraft, Nj.com is reporting. “We’re calling for a restriction on flights from these afflicted countries,” said Bobby Egbert of the Port Authority Poli…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Bergen sheriff’s Quality of Life detail nets 3 in Elmwood Park heroin bust Bergen sheriff’s Quality of Life detail nets 3 in Elmwood Park heroin bust Bergen sheriff’s Quality of Life detail nets 3 in Elmwood Park heroin bust
Bergen sheriff’s Quality of Life detail nets 3 in Elmwood Park heroin bust YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Members of Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino’s Quality of Life detail arrested three Paterson man found carrying 340 bags of heroin in Elmwood Park last night. Detectives from Saudino’s office and Hackensack police approached 23-year-old Jason Wright as he left a Broadway convenience store and identified themselves as police officers, Saudino said. Wright took off on foot across the street and was grabbed after a brief chase, he said. He was carrying several small waxed-paper folds of heroin, the sheriff said. In a vehicle parked nearby, the investigators gra…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Wyckoff police find addict who sold grandmother’s car for heroin sleeping in her shed after burglary Wyckoff police find addict who sold grandmother’s car for heroin sleeping in her shed after burglary Wyckoff police find addict who sold grandmother’s car for heroin sleeping in her shed after burglary
Wyckoff police find addict who sold grandmother’s car for heroin sleeping in her shed after burglary YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A heroin addict out on bail for stealing his 88-year-old grandmother’s car from a Wyckoff church parking lot and then selling it for heroin was again arrested by borough police and charged with breaking into her house last week. Police Chief Benjamin Fox said they found Arthur Garlick, 23, sleeping in the woman’s Grandview Avenue shed last Friday. A screen had been removed and a rear window to the house broken, after which a bedroom door was pried open, the chief said. Garlick, who used to live there, remained held on $5,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charge…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Former engineer from Mahwah gets 18 months, deportation, for stealing secrets from Becton Dickinson Former engineer from Mahwah gets 18 months, deportation, for stealing secrets from Becton Dickinson Former engineer from Mahwah gets 18 months, deportation, for stealing secrets from Becton Dickinson
Former engineer from Mahwah gets 18 months, deportation, for stealing secrets from Becton Dickinson YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A former Mahwah man was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison, after which he’ll be deported, for stealing trade secrets worth millions of dollars from Franklin Lakes-based medical technology giant Becton, Dickinson for a self-administered, disposable medication injector. Ketankumar “Ketan” Maniar, a 38-year-old Indian national, also was ordered to pay $32,454 in restitution and forfeit any items used in his crimes, including computers and storage devices. Maniar had pleaded guilty in federal court in Trenton in May to a complaint charging him with two cou…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Union City bus passenger released after pepper-spraying driver outside Paramus Park Mall Union City bus passenger released after pepper-spraying driver outside Paramus Park Mall Union City bus passenger released after pepper-spraying driver outside Paramus Park Mall
Union City bus passenger released after pepper-spraying driver outside Paramus Park Mall YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A lone passenger who pepper-sprayed an NJ Transit bus driver outside the Paramus Park Mall this morning was released without bail on aggravated assault charges. The male driver of the #168 bus from the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan to the mall was treated at Hackensack University Medical Center for injuries that weren’t deemed life-threatening following the 9:30 a.m. incident, NT Transit’s William Smith told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Christopher Thomas, 28, of Union City was charged with aggravated assault and released on a summons to appear in Municipal Court…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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U.S. court allows suit against Mordaga after lawyer for slain Tenafly mobster’s family kills himself U.S. court allows suit against Mordaga after lawyer for slain Tenafly mobster’s family kills himself U.S. court allows suit against Mordaga after lawyer for slain Tenafly mobster’s family kills himself
U.S. court allows suit against Mordaga after lawyer for slain Tenafly mobster’s family kills himself YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Hours before a federal appeals court ruled that family members of a reputed organized-crime associate from Tenafly can sue the former Bergen County prosecutor’s chief of detectives in connection with his unsolved mob-style murder, their lawyer killed himself in a South Jersey hotel. William H. Buckman The death of civil rights attorney William Buckman, which authorities ruled a suicide, adds a twist to the history of a lawsuit filed by the heirs of Frank P. Lagano. CLIFFVIEW PILOT was the first to report when U.S. District Court Judge Faith Hochberg dismissed …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Benefit dinner with NY Giants for family of Wayne girl with inoperable brain tumor planned Benefit dinner with NY Giants for family of Wayne girl with inoperable brain tumor planned Benefit dinner with NY Giants for family of Wayne girl with inoperable brain tumor planned
Benefit dinner with NY Giants for family of Wayne girl with inoperable brain tumor planned SHOUT OUT: Tickets are going fast for a beefsteak dinner next month featuring current and former New York Giants to benefit the family of little Lily LaRue Anderson, who has an inoperable brain tumor. You can even wear your Lily Hoodie — they just came in. With no prior signs, the spry, bubbly Wayne girl was diagnosed five months ago with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG). The tumor sits in the middle of the brain stem — which holds our “wiring” for motor control and sensation — and can’t be removed. It’s a particularly cruel disease:  The median overall survival term is 9 mont…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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Driver OK in rain-slicked Route 17 rollover in Saddle River Driver OK in rain-slicked Route 17 rollover in Saddle River Driver OK in rain-slicked Route 17 rollover in Saddle River
Driver OK in rain-slicked Route 17 rollover in Saddle River ONLY ON CVP: A pickup truck landed on its side on southbound Route 17 in Saddle River during the heavy rainstorm. The driver complained of neck and back pain after the 10 p.m. crash but refused to be taken to a hospital by ambulance. The vehicle was righted and removed by a flatbed tow truck. The right shoulder and right and center lanes were closed. Responders included Saddle River police, firefighters and EMS (Fuchs Medical Services) workers. Upper Saddle River and Allendale police assisted. STORY/PHOTO: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Correspondent Boyd A. Loving

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