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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Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
It’s the height of tax scam phone call season, IRS warns It’s the height of tax scam phone call season, IRS warns It’s the height of tax scam phone call season, IRS warns
It’s the height of tax scam phone call season, IRS warns PUBLIC SAFETY: Nearly five months after April 15, tax scams are continuing to do serious damage — because many of the victims aren’t aware that the IRS will NEVER call anyone for money. The government also doesn’t email anyone for Social Security numbers, birthdates, bank account numbers, passwords or other personal identification. “The first IRS contact with taxpayers on a tax issue is likely to occur via mail,” the Internal Revenue Service said in a consumer alert issued this morning. Local police departments say they’ve been inundated with reports from local victims of tax fraud and …

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hearing delayed for Ridgewood physician in weapons, explosives case when shrink doesn’t show Hearing delayed for Ridgewood physician in weapons, explosives case when shrink doesn’t show Hearing delayed for Ridgewood physician in weapons, explosives case when shrink doesn’t show
Hearing delayed for Ridgewood physician in weapons, explosives case when shrink doesn’t show YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Whether a Ridgewood physician found with explosive chemicals and firearms in his basement apartment nearly two years ago is mentally fit to stand trial remained an open question today after a state psychiatrist failed to show up for a final competency hearing in Hackensack. Both the judge and attorneys for both sides waited 4½ hours before Richard Rivera was returned to the Bergen County Jail from a holding cell in the courthouse. The hearing will be rescheduled once the judge can get a commitment from the psychiatrist for a new date. Rivera’s legal representatio…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
New Bergen County prosecutors bring judges, and their boss, full circle New Bergen County prosecutors bring judges, and their boss, full circle New Bergen County prosecutors bring judges, and their boss, full circle
New Bergen County prosecutors bring judges, and their boss, full circle SHOUT OUTS: Four new assistant Bergen County prosecutors took office yesterday in a festive ceremony in Hackensack. Two former Superior Court judges who now serve in the state Appellate Divsion, Jonathan Harris and Ellen Koblitz, returned to the county courthouse to swear in three of the appointees. Koblitz told the crowd of nearly 200 attendees that one of them — her most recent law clerk, Anthony Talarico — is going to work for her very first, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli. First Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor John Higgins (STORY / PHOTOS: Mary K. Miraglia, CLIFFVIEW …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack Blue & Gold Scholarship Fund makes a huge difference in young lives Hackensack Blue & Gold Scholarship Fund makes a huge difference in young lives Hackensack Blue & Gold Scholarship Fund makes a huge difference in young lives
Hackensack Blue & Gold Scholarship Fund makes a huge difference in young lives SHOUT OUT: Hackensack High School guidance counselor Ed Acciardi had no idea when he created the Hackensack Blue & Gold Scholarship Fund 15 years ago that it would make such a difference. In that time, the fund has awarded more than $300,000 in scholarships to help economically disadvantaged Hackensack students attend colleges, universities and technical schools that they otherwise couldn’t afford. The result? Bright, driven, skilled young people who succeed — in school and in life. Many have gone on to careers in medicine, sales, industry, media, science, technology and education. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood man beats one victim with belt, hits other with brick, Bergenfield police charge Englewood man beats one victim with belt, hits other with brick, Bergenfield police charge Englewood man beats one victim with belt, hits other with brick, Bergenfield police charge
Englewood man beats one victim with belt, hits other with brick, Bergenfield police charge YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An Englewood man beat one person with a belt and hit another with a brick before a Bergenfield police officer intervened and arrested him, authorities said. Alejandro Gonzalez, 24, was being held on $40,500 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with aggravated assault, simple assault and weapons possession, records show. Officer Joseph Arrigo was on patrol around 3 a.m. Sunday when he “came upon an altercation” on Portland Avenue at West Clinton, Capt. Cathy Madalone said. Arrigo “immediately turned on his emergency lights and sirens and requested additional un…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Maywood morning fire similar to March arsons Maywood morning fire similar to March arsons Maywood morning fire similar to March arsons
Maywood morning fire similar to March arsons YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Investigators suspect a deliberately set blaze at a Maywood apartment complex today is connected to a pair of nearby arson fires that occurred at the same time of the early morning six months ago, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. Police and firefighters responded to Windsor Court at 5:30 a.m. today after someone using an accelerant set a homemade door mat hanging on a railing on fire, Police Chief David Pegg said this afternoon. Evidence was collected by the Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification after a search by members of the sheriff’s and Bergen …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Hasbrouck Heights Korean War veteran kills wife, her brother-in-law in murder-suicide Hasbrouck Heights Korean War veteran kills wife, her brother-in-law in murder-suicide Hasbrouck Heights Korean War veteran kills wife, her brother-in-law in murder-suicide
Hasbrouck Heights Korean War veteran kills wife, her brother-in-law in murder-suicide UPDATE: A Hasbrouck Heights Korean war veteran shot his wife’s brother-in-law dead, and then her, before turning the gun on himself this morning, authorities said. Angelo Talignani, 85, of Burr Place went to 84-year-old Anthony Gentile’s home four doors down, killed him with one of his guns in his bedroom, then returned home and shot his wife, Antoinette, 82, before killing himself with the same .22-caliber handgun around 7:30 a.m., ,Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli said at a news conference. “We don’t know if there was any type of scuffle or argument,” Molinelli said, adding that …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Duck carcasses spill across Route 17 in Rochelle Park Duck carcasses spill across Route 17 in Rochelle Park Duck carcasses spill across Route 17 in Rochelle Park
Duck carcasses spill across Route 17 in Rochelle Park YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Chunks of duck carcasses that fell from a tractor-trailer bound for Newark raised a stench and closed a stretch of southbound Route 17 in Rochelle Park this afternoon. The driver of the upstate New York truck told police that the load shifted when he swerved to avoid a car that cut him off around 3:30 p.m., Sgt. Glenn Burnet said. The rig was headed to a plant in Newark that burns the carcasses and then sells the grease for everyday products, such as soap, he told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Carcass pieces began falling from the top of the trailer onto the road, as well as …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Cliffside Park man charged with sexually abusing girl, 11 Cliffside Park man charged with sexually abusing girl, 11 Cliffside Park man charged with sexually abusing girl, 11
Cliffside Park man charged with sexually abusing girl, 11 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Guatemalan national from Cliffside Park man remained held on $500,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail today, nearly a week after being arrested on charges of sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl he knew. Luis Higinio Elias Velasco, 41, is charged with aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and child endangerment, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon. Velasco, of Cottage Lane, was taken into custody by members of Molinelli’s Special Victims Unit and Cliffside Park police last Wednesaday after the girl talked to a state child welfare cas…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Tractor-trailer collides with passenger train in Paterson Tractor-trailer collides with passenger train in Paterson Tractor-trailer collides with passenger train in Paterson
Tractor-trailer collides with passenger train in Paterson YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: No injuries were reported after an 18-wheeler that pulled onto the tracks in Paterson hit an NJ Transit passenger train. The gates were lowering when the tractor-trailer driver pulled onto the tracks around 11:15 p.m. at Fifth Avenue and East 11th Street, NJ Transit’s Courtney Carroll told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. It collided with the Hoboken-bound No. 58 train from Port Jervis, damaging two of its three cars — “broken windows and some scratches,” Carroll said. None of the 200 customers or crew members aboard the train was injured, Carroll said. They were transferred t…

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