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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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood police seek help finding fugitive in Wounded Warrior scam Englewood police seek help finding fugitive in Wounded Warrior scam Englewood police seek help finding fugitive in Wounded Warrior scam
Englewood police seek help finding fugitive in Wounded Warrior scam HAVE YOU SEEN HIM? Englewood police are seeking the public’s help finding one of two men who they said scammed well-meaning citizens by pretending to solicit funds for the Wounded Warrior Project. Responding officers issued summonses to Paul Doyle, 36, of Paterson (above, left) and 36-year-old Butler resident John Szkapiak (right) after catching the pair with two buckets filled with $500 in cash outside the ShopRite in the downtown Palisade Court shopping center on Aug. 3. Both were wearing camouflage pants at a table they’d set up, complete with an American flag draped over it and Wounde…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Former A&P exec gets 3 years, ordered to pay $3.2M for scalping tix to U2, Super Bowl, Yankees playoffs Former A&P exec gets 3 years, ordered to pay $3.2M for scalping tix to U2, Super Bowl, Yankees playoffs Former A&P exec gets 3 years, ordered to pay $3.2M for scalping tix to U2, Super Bowl, Yankees playoffs
Former A&P exec gets 3 years, ordered to pay $3.2M for scalping tix to U2, Super Bowl, Yankees playoffs YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A former senior official at A&P supermarkets’ Montvale headquarters was sentenced today to three years in federal prison — and ordered to pay $3.2 million in restitution — for scalping thousands of promotional tickets meant for employees to Yankee playoff games, a Super Bowl and concerts by Bon Jovi, Lady Gaga and U2. John R. Moritz, 45, pleaded guilty to wire fraud in March, admitting that he pocketed $1.2 million privately selling more than 7,000 tickets online without his colleagues’ knowledge. Moritz, of Mason, Ohio, was senior vice-president of marketing f…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
10 years in federal prison for two-time Totowa sex offender 10 years in federal prison for two-time Totowa sex offender 10 years in federal prison for two-time Totowa sex offender
10 years in federal prison for two-time Totowa sex offender UPDATE: A two-time sex offender from Totowa who already was under lifetime Megan’s Law supervision was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for possession of child pornography. Anthony Chiampi, 49, admitted having the 63 disks of images and videos depicting child sexual abuse — some of it involving prepubescent minors — that supervisors on a routine visit to his home said they found him with in March 2013. U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman credited the N.J. State Parole Board and special agents of the FBI Newark Division’s Child Exploitati…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield, CT
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Ridgefield detective answers newspaper ad, makes prostitution bust Ridgefield detective answers newspaper ad, makes prostitution bust Ridgefield detective answers newspaper ad, makes prostitution bust
Ridgefield detective answers newspaper ad, makes prostitution bust YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Female escort ads in the Bergen Record classified section led to a prostitution bust at a Ridgefield motel, authorities said this afternoon. Ridgefield Detective Joseph Castellitto led the operation after spotting the ads, Capt. Richard Besser told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “In the female escort section it said ‘Ridgefield,’ point-blank,” he said. A woman answered when Castellito and an investigator from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office contacted the number listed, Besser said. She said her place of business was the Days Inn motel on westbound Route 46, he said. …

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Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgewood police officers snuff attic fire Ridgewood police officers snuff attic fire Ridgewood police officers snuff attic fire
Ridgewood police officers snuff attic fire SHOUT OUT: Ridgewood Police Officers Raymond Tarino and John Ward Jr. were in the right place at the right time this afternoon when they heard a alert of an “unknown-type” fire nearby. They rushed two blocks up Circle Avenue, made sure everyone was out of the house, then snuffed the attic fire with an extinguisher. Firefighters ventilated the house and returned it to the owners a half-hour or so later. No injuries were reported. A child playing with a lighter apparently ignited the small blaze, which damaged a rug and some third-floor subflooring. STORY / PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Cor…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Brooklyn man admits robbing Paramus T-Mobile, other electronics stores Brooklyn man admits robbing Paramus T-Mobile, other electronics stores Brooklyn man admits robbing Paramus T-Mobile, other electronics stores
Brooklyn man admits robbing Paramus T-Mobile, other electronics stores YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Brooklyn man today admitted his role in brazen armed robberies of a Paramus T-Mobile and five other electronics stores in New Jersey and New York in which employees and customers were tied up and had guns pointed at them. Federal agents arrested Carl Williams, 30, in July last year and charged him and three other men in connection with the holdups, which stretched from June 2012 to the following January. Two of the robbers brought three employees and a customer to the back of the T-Mobile store at Park Place in Paramus on Jan. 16, 2013, and forced them to lie on …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Adult, juvenile charged with Lodi armed robbery Adult, juvenile charged with Lodi armed robbery Adult, juvenile charged with Lodi armed robbery
Adult, juvenile charged with Lodi armed robbery YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Lodi police with help from their Hackensack colleagues arrested a Garfield man and a juvenile last night in connection with a daylight armed robbery in Memorial Park a little over two weeks go. Tyrone Frost, 20, was being held on $125,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with robbery and weapons possession for the 4:15 p.m. holdup. The 17-year-old boy, meanwhile, was at the Juvenile Detention Center in Teterboro on a complaint charging him with robbery. Frost had a gun when he and his accomplice approached a teen in the park and took his cellphone, a $150 wa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Hasbrouck Heights war vet who killed wife, friend, self was stopped from suicide before, source says Hasbrouck Heights war vet who killed wife, friend, self was stopped from suicide before, source says Hasbrouck Heights war vet who killed wife, friend, self was stopped from suicide before, source says
Hasbrouck Heights war vet who killed wife, friend, self was stopped from suicide before, source says ONLY ON CVP: A Hasbrouck Heights Korean war veteran who shot his wife and her brother-in-law before turning the gun on himself yesterday had been hospitalized after a suicide attempt two years ago, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. Angelo Talignani “had a knife to his neck. He cut himself and was bleeding,” a law enforcement source said this morning. Police officers who responded to the Jan. 14, 2012 call at the Burr Place home that Talignani shared with his wife, Antoinette, “got him to drop it,” the source told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. He was then taken to Bergen Regional Medical Center, he said. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Convict in Garfield child rape, kidnapping, assaults could be freed when he’s 65 Convict in Garfield child rape, kidnapping, assaults could be freed when he’s 65 Convict in Garfield child rape, kidnapping, assaults could be freed when he’s 65
Convict in Garfield child rape, kidnapping, assaults could be freed when he’s 65 ONLY ON CVP: A 35-year-old convict could be out of prison a month after his 65th birthday after being re-sentenced for breaking into the Garfield home of a 13-year-old girl he’d been sexually abusing, spraying her siblings with Mace and kidnapping her. A judge in Hackensack let stand the original 60-year state prison sentence given to Joseph Randone in June 2012 after jurors convicted him of the assaults. Ordered by a state appeals court to recalculate Randone’s parole eligibility, Superior Court Judge Edward A. Jerejian knocked it down yesterday from nearly 38 years to a little over 29. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
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‘Hostage’ phone scam nearly costs Wyckoff man $900 ‘Hostage’ phone scam nearly costs Wyckoff man $900 ‘Hostage’ phone scam nearly costs Wyckoff man $900
‘Hostage’ phone scam nearly costs Wyckoff man $900 PUBLIC SAFETY: The “hostage scam” nearly claimed a victim in Wyckoff who stopped a $900 transfer just in time to a thief who convinced him that his brother had been kidnapped. The “hostage scam” grew legs roughly two years ago, with scammers demanding cash in return for the release of a relative who couldn’t pay for car crash damages. Westwood Police Chief Frank Regino said residents recently have reported such calls in his town. This time, Wyckoff Police Chief Benjamin Fox said, a 49-year-old borough resident got a call demanding the $900 for the release of his brother. The man bough…

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