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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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Wyckoff crash gives new meaning to carpooling Wyckoff crash gives new meaning to carpooling Wyckoff crash gives new meaning to carpooling
Wyckoff crash gives new meaning to carpooling YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: An 84-year-old Cliffside Park man and his 79-year-old female companion were rescued by family members after he drove his car into his daughter’s pool yesterday. The driver “mistakenly stepped on the gas instead of the brake” after reaching the end of the Joshua Lane driveway, sending the 2006 Audi A-6 crashing through a fence and into the drink around 1:20 p.m., Wyckoff Police Chief Benjamin Fox said. “Fortunately there were no injuries to anyone,” Fox said this morning. A tow truck with a crane removed the Audi. IMAGE: Courtesy WYCKOFF PD

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Heart attack victim in Lincoln Tunnel crash dies Heart attack victim in Lincoln Tunnel crash dies Heart attack victim in Lincoln Tunnel crash dies
Heart attack victim in Lincoln Tunnel crash dies UPDATE: A 49-year-old Summit man involved in a crash in the Lincoln Tunnel’s Manhattan-bound center tube this morning died of a  heart attack, Port Authority police said. A 2013 BMW entered the Manhattan-bound tube at a high rate of speed around 8:20 a.m. and collided with a 2007 Mercedes livery minivan, which was pushed into a jitney bus on the New York side of the tunnel, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The Summit man, who was a passenger in the minivan, was in cardiac arrest when PAPD arrived, Pentangelo said. He was taken to St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, …

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Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Carlstadt warehouse fire quickly put down Carlstadt warehouse fire quickly put down Carlstadt warehouse fire quickly put down
Carlstadt warehouse fire quickly put down OVERNIGHT: Firefighters made quick work of a machine and pallet fire at a Carlstadt warehouse. Moonachie and Wood-Ridge firefighters assisted at the Meadow Lane fire, which broke out before 4 a.m. EMTs from Carlstadt and Moonachie responded, as well. PHOTOS: Justin Derevyanik (CLICK HERE for more)

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Violent crime drops in Bergen County Violent crime drops in Bergen County Violent crime drops in Bergen County
Violent crime drops in Bergen County PUBLIC SAFETY: Bergen County has gotten safer from last year to this, led by two very different municipalities, Englewood and Ridgewood. Englewood police reported a dramatic reduction in violent crime, from 65 for the six months of 2013 to 38 for the first six months of this year — part of an overall reduction in violent and property crime throughout the county. A huge chunk of that drop comes from a reduction in the number of weapons-involved assaults (including hands), from 44 to 18, according to the New Jersey State Police Uniform Crime Report for January-June of last year compared wit…

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Teaneck, NJ
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NYC playwright, St. John’s professor blames ‘senior moment’ for lying to police about laptop thefts NYC playwright, St. John’s professor blames ‘senior moment’ for lying to police about laptop thefts NYC playwright, St. John’s professor blames ‘senior moment’ for lying to police about laptop thefts
NYC playwright, St. John’s professor blames ‘senior moment’ for lying to police about laptop thefts EXCLUSIVE REPORT (ONLY ON CVP): An off-Broadway playwright and St. John’s University professor told CLIFFVIEW PILOT that he concocted the story he told police about having two laptops stolen from him at the Port Authority bus terminal in Manhattan. “A senior moment, stupidity, time to retire — all of the above,” Larry Myers said were responsible for his behavior. Surveillance video showed that Myers wasn’t carrying a shoulder bag when he walked into the terminal from 42nd Street on Monday, as he’d originally told Port Authority police. The 65-year-old playwright, director and professor …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Car careens into Route 4 motel parking lot in Fair Lawn, two vehicles struck Car careens into Route 4 motel parking lot in Fair Lawn, two vehicles struck Car careens into Route 4 motel parking lot in Fair Lawn, two vehicles struck
Car careens into Route 4 motel parking lot in Fair Lawn, two vehicles struck YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: The male driver of an older-model Toyota Camry was taken by ambulance to Hackensack University Medical Center after crashing into two parked cars in a Fair Lawn hotel parking lot this morning. The car apparently crashed through shrubs as it barreled into the lot outside the Hyatt Place Hotel on Route 4 (Broadway) around 10 a.m. A silver Nissan Quest van and a black Jeep Grand Cherokee that was pushed onto the sidewalk were damaged. The driver’s injuries weren’t believed to be life-threatening. Fair Lawn police, EMS workers and both Fire Company 3 and Heavy Rescu…

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Wood-Ridge couple seeks help in fight for increased childhood cancer research funding Wood-Ridge couple seeks help in fight for increased childhood cancer research funding Wood-Ridge couple seeks help in fight for increased childhood cancer research funding
Wood-Ridge couple seeks help in fight for increased childhood cancer research funding GO GOLD: “Mom, my body aches.” September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and a Wood-Ridge couple whose 13-year-old son died of AML leukemia is reminding people to “Go Gold” in the hopes of increasing scarce funding for pediatric cancer research. Local athletic teams are sporting gold socks, schools are sponsoring Crazy Hair Day and other events and Times Square will be lighting itself gold, among other events. Linda and Richard Venezia have been a driving force behind the movement, thanks to their Benjamin’s Hope 4 the Future foundation — named for their first-born son, who died i…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Ho-Ho-Kus man remains hospitalized on $2M bail in mother’s murder, not talking or eating Ho-Ho-Kus man remains hospitalized on $2M bail in mother’s murder, not talking or eating Ho-Ho-Kus man remains hospitalized on $2M bail in mother’s murder, not talking or eating
Ho-Ho-Kus man remains hospitalized on $2M bail in mother’s murder, not talking or eating YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Ho-Ho-Kus man charged with stabbing and beating his 63-year-old mother to death in their home overnight remained held at Bergen Regional Medical Center on $2 million tonight, several hours after he apparently hyperventilated while being questioned by detectives. Nicholas Piotti, 24, remained secured to his hospital bed under guard, charged with murder and weapons offenses in the brutal killing of Karen Spector Piotti. The former lacrosse player at Ridgewood High School, Marist College and St. John’s University was “breathing normally,” a law enforcement source…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood ex-con accused of firing shot that nearly hit daughter’s crib indicted Englewood ex-con accused of firing shot that nearly hit daughter’s crib indicted Englewood ex-con accused of firing shot that nearly hit daughter’s crib indicted
Englewood ex-con accused of firing shot that nearly hit daughter’s crib indicted ONLY ON CVP: An Englewood ex-con who was nearly stabbed to death by his ex’s new boyfriend after he fired a gunshot through the floor that came within feet of his 3-year-old daughter’s crib was indicted on a variety of charges last week. Sule Ouhuru took his ex-girlfriend’s legally registered carbine rifle after holding her against her will in her Englewood home and firing the .45-caliber shot that nearly hit their daughter on Jan. 9, 2013, an indictment returned in Hackensack says. He then took off in her 2004 Honda Accord, it says. Ouhuru — who spent nearly five years in prison for a …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Ecuadoran national from Hackensack raped, molested Moonachie girl, indictment says Ecuadoran national from Hackensack raped, molested Moonachie girl, indictment says Ecuadoran national from Hackensack raped, molested Moonachie girl, indictment says
Ecuadoran national from Hackensack raped, molested Moonachie girl, indictment says ONLY ON CVP: An Ecuadoran national from Hackensack raped a Moonachie girl over a period of several years, beginning when she was nine years old, authorities have charged. Grand jurors in Hackensack last week returned an eight-count indictment against 25-year-old Luis Remache that includes two aggravated sexual assault charges. The assaults began in September 2009, when Remache began molesting the girl, and continued with intercourse until a year ago today, the indictment says. It also charges him with masturbating in front of her. Investigators from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Spec…

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