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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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Fairview pallet fire put down Fairview pallet fire put down Fairview pallet fire put down
Fairview pallet fire put down ONLY ON CVP: A 10-foot-high section of pallets burned at a Fairview business tonight, sending a smoke column visible from as far as Teterboro Airport and beyond. The 100-by-50-foot section of pallets burned at a household and commercial storage company on Fairview Avenue, drawing firefighters from Fairview, Cliffside Park and Fort Lee, among others. No immediate injuries were reported and no damage was reported to the building. PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Correspondent Kevin Teel  

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Fort Lee, NJ
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15th annual Andiamo Motorcycle Run draws more than 1,200 riders, lots more supporters 15th annual Andiamo Motorcycle Run draws more than 1,200 riders, lots more supporters 15th annual Andiamo Motorcycle Run draws more than 1,200 riders, lots more supporters
15th annual Andiamo Motorcycle Run draws more than 1,200 riders, lots more supporters SHOUT OUT: The Paramus PD added a 2015 Harley Davidson police motorcycle during a raffle at the 15th Annual Andiamo Restaurant Benefit Motorcycle Run, which drew more than 1,200 riders today. What began as a way by restaurateur Don Dickstein to buy a cycle for Cresskill police in 1999 has raised more than $1 million for, among others, Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, JDF, Special Olympics NJ and various local charities. This year’s nearly 60-mile event centered, as usual, on the Hardenburgh Avenue restaurant in Haworth and continued with a run across the George Washington Bridge …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Ridgefield Park man believed assaulted actually had medical emergency, police say Ridgefield Park man believed assaulted actually had medical emergency, police say Ridgefield Park man believed assaulted actually had medical emergency, police say
Ridgefield Park man believed assaulted actually had medical emergency, police say YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Ridgefield Park man in his 60s who was hospitalized with serious injuries that police at first suspected may have been caused in an assault this morning actually fell, authorities confirmed. No foul play was involved and no suspects were being sought, Police Capt. Daniel Hippe told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Borough detectives were joined by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Major Crimes Unit, the county sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification, and the BCPD after the man was found unconscious outside the building at 38 Central Boulevard, between Second and Third streets, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn police say Haledon man tried stealing two bicycles at once Fair Lawn police say Haledon man tried stealing two bicycles at once Fair Lawn police say Haledon man tried stealing two bicycles at once
Fair Lawn police say Haledon man tried stealing two bicycles at once A 52-year-old Haledon man wheeling a stolen bicycle while riding another tried running off before being caught by Fair Lawn police, authorities said. Officer Edward Egan tried to stop Clarence Goodman on Morlot Avenue at Essex Place around 12:45 a.m. Friday, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. When Goodman took off on Dewey Place, Egan summoned backup, Metzler said. Both bikes were stolen from an Essex Place garage, he said. Officer Kevin Wood spotted and grabbed Goodman, who was charged with burglary, theft and obstruction. He was being held on $25,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail.

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Paterson, NJ
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Teen runners hospitalized after collapsing at Darlington Lake event in Mahwah Teen runners hospitalized after collapsing at Darlington Lake event in Mahwah Teen runners hospitalized after collapsing at Darlington Lake event in Mahwah
Teen runners hospitalized after collapsing at Darlington Lake event in Mahwah YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Three teenaged runners were taken to the hospital and two were treated at the scene after collapsing in this morning’s intense heat during a high school cross-country event at Darlington County Park in Mahwah. Police were called around 11:30 a.m. when a 15-year-old girl collapsed from heat exhaustion more than two hours after the start of a 5K Big North Conference event featuring runners from various Bergen and Passaic county high schools, Lt. Scott Cherven told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Three others suffered the same fate, as well as a fifth teen who had an asthma attack —…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Virtual kidnapper threatens ‘bullet in the head’ to Washington Township woman’s husband Virtual kidnapper threatens ‘bullet in the head’ to Washington Township woman’s husband Virtual kidnapper threatens ‘bullet in the head’ to Washington Township woman’s husband
Virtual kidnapper threatens ‘bullet in the head’ to Washington Township woman’s husband PUBLIC SAFETY: A Washington Township woman was frightened at first when a caller said that her husband had been abducted and would “get a bullet in the head” if she didn’t wire $1,500 – another in a series of “virtual kidnapping” calls that are quickly spreading throughout the U.S. She actually relaxed a bit when the caller said her daughter also was being held and would suffer the same fate: She knew the woman was away at college. She then called her husband, who was safe and sound, as well. It didn’t end there, though: The daughter also got a call. Like her mother, she was told that…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Bright red car, heavyset man sought in attempted luring of teenage girls Bright red car, heavyset man sought in attempted luring of teenage girls Bright red car, heavyset man sought in attempted luring of teenage girls
Bright red car, heavyset man sought in attempted luring of teenage girls HAVE YOU SEEN HIM? Palisades Interstate Parkway police tonight released a sketch of a driver in his 50s who two teenage girls said tried to lure them into his car just off the Palisades Interstate Parkway in Englewood Cliffs yesterday afternoon. One of the girls, a 16-year-old, said she was running with friends on Henry Hudson Drive when a bright red Toyota Camry headed south pulled alongside them, Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Chief Michael Coppola said this morning. The driver tried to get them to come with him, she said, but they ran off and called police. The girl described th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Police impersonator had .357 Magnum near Lincoln Tunnel, Port Authority PD says Police impersonator had .357 Magnum near Lincoln Tunnel, Port Authority PD says Police impersonator had .357 Magnum near Lincoln Tunnel, Port Authority PD says
Police impersonator had .357 Magnum near Lincoln Tunnel, Port Authority PD says YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Hoboken man caught with a .357 Magnum, hollow-point bullets and several police shields outside the Lincoln Tunnel told a Port Authority police officer he was a cop, authorities said this morning. The genuine officer pulled over a 2010 Jeep Cherokee at Willow Avenue and 19th Street in Weehawken last night for having an unreadable license plate, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. As 64-year-old Jose M. Quinones got out of the car, the officer spotted an empty nylon handgun holster on his right hip. Jose M. Quinones (Courtesy: PAPD) When he …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Fort Lee police release details of how they removed barricaded man from apartment Fort Lee police release details of how they removed barricaded man from apartment Fort Lee police release details of how they removed barricaded man from apartment
Fort Lee police release details of how they removed barricaded man from apartment UPDATE: Fort Lee police this afternoon confirmed that they stormed the apartment of a distraught man who barricaded himself inside last night after threatening to hurt his family and blow up the building and took him into custody without incident. Members of the Fort Lee Police Emergency Services unit finally went in after four hours without a resolution to the standoff at 2160 Center Avenue, a mid-rise complex (behind George Washington Bridge Plaza) that was the scene of a fire earlier this summer. The unidentified man “threatened violence” to responding officers after refusing to let th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Decon needed for firefighters exposed to bug bomb at Oakland nail salon Decon needed for firefighters exposed to bug bomb at Oakland nail salon Decon needed for firefighters exposed to bug bomb at Oakland nail salon
Decon needed for firefighters exposed to bug bomb at Oakland nail salon UPDATE: Several firefighters had to be decontaminated tonight after they were exposed to fumigation chemicals at an Oakland nail salon. Members of the Northwest Bergen Decon Task Force from Mahwah, Ho-Ho-Kus and Allendale sent trucks to Pure Skin Salon and Spa in the 400 block of Ramapo Valley Road to create the decontamination area in response to the call around 7:30 p.m. Firefighters from Wyckoff, Midland Park and Ridgewood also responded, as did the Bergen County Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Team. Sources said the business was being fumigated without signs, and that firefig…

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