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
Breaking News
Accused police impersonator with loaded gun, ammo, fake ID indicted in Fort Lee traffic stop Accused police impersonator with loaded gun, ammo, fake ID indicted in Fort Lee traffic stop Accused police impersonator with loaded gun, ammo, fake ID indicted in Fort Lee traffic stop
Accused police impersonator with loaded gun, ammo, fake ID indicted in Fort Lee traffic stop ONLY ON CVP: A Burlington County man who Fort Lee police said claimed to be a New York City cop after they found him carrying a loaded gun, ammo and fake police ID cards while driving on the shoulder to the George Washington Bridge was indicted on weapons and impersonation charges. Detective Philip Ross stopped the 2008 Jeep Wrangler “on the right shoulder passing vehicles stopped in heavy traffic” the night of June 21, Capt. Stanley Zon said at the time. George Santos, 44, of Willingboro, “immediately identified himself as a police officer with the New York City Sanitation police departm…

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Hackensack, NJ
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Fallen machinery breaks legs of Saddle Brook warehouse worker, 19 Fallen machinery breaks legs of Saddle Brook warehouse worker, 19 Fallen machinery breaks legs of Saddle Brook warehouse worker, 19
Fallen machinery breaks legs of Saddle Brook warehouse worker, 19 ONLY ON CVP: A 19-year-old worker at a Saddle Brook beer, wine and spirits warehouse had both legs broken tonight when a several-hundred-pound piece of machinery came loose and fell off a truck onto him. Ambulance workers took the Wayne resident to Hackensack University Medcal Center after Saddle Brook Rescue stablized the machinery and got him out following the 5:30 p.m. accident at the LAK Warehousing facility on Kenny Place. “Something came loose and fell on him,” Police Chief Robert Kugler told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “His legs were broken, not crushed. “He was lucky,” the chief said. “He …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Plea deal could free man who sexually assaulted Rochelle Park boy in less than a year Plea deal could free man who sexually assaulted Rochelle Park boy in less than a year Plea deal could free man who sexually assaulted Rochelle Park boy in less than a year
Plea deal could free man who sexually assaulted Rochelle Park boy in less than a year ONLY ON CVP: A New York man who sexually assaulted a Rochelle Park couple’s teenage son after they gave him a home tearfully asked forgiveness today before a judge in Hackensack gave him a plea-bargained sentence that could free him in less than a year. Aldred Redick, 40, has 457 days of jail credit that will be applied to his eight-year sentence. He’ll be eligible for parole sometime next summer. That didn’t please Presiding Superior Court Judge Liliana DeAvila-Silebi. “What bothers me is that he threatened and demeaned the child after the assault to keep him from reporting the crime,”…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Grand jury indicts 3 in ‘savage’ beating, robbery of Englewood diner worker Grand jury indicts 3 in ‘savage’ beating, robbery of Englewood diner worker Grand jury indicts 3 in ‘savage’ beating, robbery of Englewood diner worker
Grand jury indicts 3 in ‘savage’ beating, robbery of Englewood diner worker ONLY ON CVP: A grand jury in Hackensack has indicted three men in what Englewood police called the “savage” beating and robbery of a Guatemalan immigrant who was nearly killed. The May 29 attack landed the local diner worker in Englewood Medical Center in critical condition, with eight broken bones in his face and an eye so damaged that he might lose sight in it, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT at the time. “The beating was so severe that we put the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Squad on standby, based on what our officers saw and what the medical staff to…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Trumbull-Monroe, CT
Breaking News
Lodi, Garfield police investigate violent attempted street robberies Lodi, Garfield police investigate violent attempted street robberies Lodi, Garfield police investigate violent attempted street robberies
Lodi, Garfield police investigate violent attempted street robberies YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Detectives in Lodi and Garfield were comparing notes following a violent pair of attempted street robberies on back-to-back nights. A 14-year-old boy was in custody after one of the victims told Lodi police that he was walking on Hancock Street last night when someone hit him in the back of the head, knocking him down. When he turned, the 60-year-old man said, the would-be robber punched him in the face, Lt. Robert Salerno told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Another bandit then tried rifling through his pockets, the man said, but he fought them off and chased them a short dist…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Shot from below: Dump truck crashes through roof of underground Hillsdale parking garage Shot from below: Dump truck crashes through roof of underground Hillsdale parking garage Shot from below: Dump truck crashes through roof of underground Hillsdale parking garage
Shot from below: Dump truck crashes through roof of underground Hillsdale parking garage YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: The rear of a two-ton dump truck toting hot asphalt crashed through the roof of an underground parking garage outside a Hillsdale pizzeria this afternoon. No serious injuries were immediately reported when the pavement in a strip mall parking lot gave way in front of Ray’s Pizza on Broadway just before 1 p.m., opening a rectangular crater roughly 15 feet long. A Hummer parked in the garage below was slightly damaged, responders at the scene told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. No further collapse appeared likely, they said. Emergency responders from Hillsdale, Westwood, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Trial opens for aspiring singer charged with raping Teaneck boy, 14 Trial opens for aspiring singer charged with raping Teaneck boy, 14 Trial opens for aspiring singer charged with raping Teaneck boy, 14
Trial opens for aspiring singer charged with raping Teaneck boy, 14 ONLY ON CVP: A Teaneck man who’d been groomed for a musical career repaid his benefactors by sodomizing their 14-year old son the evening the boy planned to celebrate a special high school accomplishment, a prosecutor told jurors in Hackensack yesterday. A defense lawyer for William “Pierre” Sanders, in turn, questioned whether the victim’s story wasn’t “a bunch of hooey.” Sanders, 34, assaulted the boy in the family’s studio apartment, then tried to drive him to the event, Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Demetra Maurice said during yesterday’s openings in the sex trial. Assistant Be…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Deadline next Friday to register for the 2014 River Vale Junior Police Academy Deadline next Friday to register for the 2014 River Vale Junior Police Academy Deadline next Friday to register for the 2014 River Vale Junior Police Academy
Deadline next Friday to register for the 2014 River Vale Junior Police Academy SHOUT OUT: Time is running out to register for the 2014 River Vale Junior Police Academy: The deadline is Oct. 10. Registration is ONLINE ONLY: www.RiverValeNJ.org The academy is open to River Vale residents in the 7th and 8th grades who will: Learn about computer crimes; Experience the intensity of a real raging fire; Learn how to investigate a crime scene — and lift fingerprints; See the effects of alcohol with “fatal vision” goggles; Tour the Bergen County police & fire academies; Meet and speak with jail or prison inmates; See a K9 Unit in action; a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority police find pot in backpack of man answering marijuana charges in Fort Lee court Port Authority police find pot in backpack of man answering marijuana charges in Fort Lee court Port Authority police find pot in backpack of man answering marijuana charges in Fort Lee court
Port Authority police find pot in backpack of man answering marijuana charges in Fort Lee court YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Connecticut man came to Fort Lee Municipal Court to answer marijuana-related charges yesterday with pot, rolling papers and cigar-blunt paper, said Port Authority police, who arrested him. Richard Thompson, 32, of Stamford originally was stopped and arrested ner the George Washington Bridge in May for having pot in a motor vehicle, driving under the influence and driving with a suspended license, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said. Yesterday, his backpack was searched as part of standard procedure as he arrived at court to answer those charges, Pentangelo sai…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Lyndhurst overnight shed fire ruled suspicious Lyndhurst overnight shed fire ruled suspicious Lyndhurst overnight shed fire ruled suspicious
Lyndhurst overnight shed fire ruled suspicious YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Authorities in Lyndhurst were investigating a suspicious overnight fire in a shed. The Lyndhurst fire official, in conjunction with the borough police Criminal Investigations Division, is looking into the blaze, which was reported at 3:27 a.m. at 475 Stuyvesant Avenue. No injuries were reported.

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