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
Scammer tells judge of ‘Resident Evil’ before admitting Saddle Brook Mercedes theft Scammer tells judge of ‘Resident Evil’ before admitting Saddle Brook Mercedes theft Scammer tells judge of ‘Resident Evil’ before admitting Saddle Brook Mercedes theft
Scammer tells judge of ‘Resident Evil’ before admitting Saddle Brook Mercedes theft ONLY ON CVP: A man accused of stealing a Saddle Brook man’s car — not once but twice — invoked characters from the “Resident Evil” film-video series before accepting a plea deal in Hackensack of four years in prison. Quintin Lewis, 34, of Bloomfield admitted writing bogus checks using the routing and account numbers of a former employer to buy the car off Craigslist and pay his rent and cable bill, among other expenses. First, however, he told the judge that his indictment was a mistake, that “this is a civil case, your honor” and that there were corporate takeovers that “we didn’t know a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Indictment for ex-con in Mahwah Home Depot brawl with security guard Indictment for ex-con in Mahwah Home Depot brawl with security guard Indictment for ex-con in Mahwah Home Depot brawl with security guard
Indictment for ex-con in Mahwah Home Depot brawl with security guard ONLY ON CVP: An ex-con who police said knocked over planes and flowers during a tussle with a Mahwah Home Depot security guard who caught him shoplifting was indicted by a grand jury in Hackensack. Rene H. Ruggio is charged with using force while committing a theft at the Route 17 store on June 3. The security guard recognized the 50-year-old Ruggio of Long Island from a previous incident and stopped him as he tried to sneak out of the store with more than $2,000 worth of power tools, electrical and plumbing supplies and a microwave oven hidden beneath a large bag of grass seed, Mahwah Po…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Fort Lee bluesman John D’Amato set to tug heart strings at benefit for Children’s Organ Transplant Association Fort Lee bluesman John D’Amato set to tug heart strings at benefit for Children’s Organ Transplant Association Fort Lee bluesman John D’Amato set to tug heart strings at benefit for Children’s Organ Transplant Association
Fort Lee bluesman John D’Amato set to tug heart strings at benefit for Children’s Organ Transplant Association SHOUT OUT: Guitarist John D’Amato is lending his “Born Blue Tour” for his latest CD to a cause that’s literally close to his heart — the Children’s Organ Transplant Association — in a special benefit show later this month at Mexicali Live in Teaneck. D’Amato took up the cause after hearing about 17-year-old Johnny Damato of Fort Lee (no relation), who was born with a rare heart defect and received a life-saving emergency heart transplant two summers ago. “I was born with a condition known as Coarctation of the Aorta [a narrowing of part of the aorta, the major artery leading out of the he…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
DEA busts Rutherford trio in Oxycodone ring DEA busts Rutherford trio in Oxycodone ring DEA busts Rutherford trio in Oxycodone ring
DEA busts Rutherford trio in Oxycodone ring YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Three Rutherford residents are among 16 people charged by federal authorities with participating in a ring that illegally obtained and distributed Oxycodone using bogus prescriptions. Johnny Horvath, 45, Daniel Horvath, 25, and 20-year-old Monica “Becky” Horvath are related to Victoria Horvath, 42, of Elizabeth, who federal authorities have identified as one of the organization’s ringleader. Horvath was supplied by pharmacist Vincent Cozzarelli, 77, who owns Rossmore Pharmacy in Belleville, “even though he knew the prescriptions were fraudulently obtained,” U.S. At…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bergenfield police seek hit-run vehicle that struck Teaneck woman, 60 Bergenfield police seek hit-run vehicle that struck Teaneck woman, 60 Bergenfield police seek hit-run vehicle that struck Teaneck woman, 60
Bergenfield police seek hit-run vehicle that struck Teaneck woman, 60 HAVE YOU SEEN THIS VEHICLE? Bergenfield police this afternoon issued a surveillance photo of a hit-and-run SUV that struck a 60-year-old pedestrian this morning. It’s a silver or white, late-model Mercedes Benz SUV, possibly an ML350, 450 or 550, that may have damage on the front passenger side headlamp, bumper or fender. Maria Cano of Teaneck was crossing East Clinton Avenue at South Washington Avenue when she was struck by the eastbound vehicle at 6:20 a.m., police said this afternoon. The SUV then continued east toward Tenafly, they said. Cano was taken to Hackensack University …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
23 Bergen police departments get grants for ‘Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over’ enforcement beginning Friday 23 Bergen police departments get grants for ‘Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over’ enforcement beginning Friday 23 Bergen police departments get grants for ‘Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over’ enforcement beginning Friday
23 Bergen police departments get grants for ‘Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over’ enforcement beginning Friday PUBLIC SAFETY: A total of 23 law enforcement agencies in Bergen County are receiving $5,000 each from the state to conduct a “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign, beginning this Friday and running through Sept. 1, in the public safety ramp-up to Labor Day. Local and state police will conduct sobriety checkpoints and roving patrols, looking for motorists who may be driving while intoxicated. “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” is a national campaign designed to raise awareness about the dangers of drinking and driving through high-visibility enforcement and public education tools, includ…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Tipster leads Lyndhurst police to arrest in frontstep package theft Tipster leads Lyndhurst police to arrest in frontstep package theft Tipster leads Lyndhurst police to arrest in frontstep package theft
Tipster leads Lyndhurst police to arrest in frontstep package theft YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A citizen helped Lyndhurst police foil a vexing problem with a phone tip that led to the arrest of a 56-year-old Paterson man charged with stealing a package from a resident’s front steps. Sgt. Richard Jarvis, responding to the call in the 600 block of Third Avenue, spotted Flavio Arandi a block east near Orient Way, Capt. John Valente told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The package was found in a recycling bin next to a nearby residence, Valente said. It was opened but the contents — a pair of shoes — were still inside, he said. Jarvis and Officer Chris Cuneo took Arandi into…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
North Arlington $41 street robbery could get Egyptian national 5 years in prison North Arlington $41 street robbery could get Egyptian national 5 years in prison North Arlington $41 street robbery could get Egyptian national 5 years in prison
North Arlington $41 street robbery could get Egyptian national 5 years in prison ONLY ON CVP: Prosecutors have offered an Egyptian native five years in prison in exchange for a guilty plea to robbing two countrymen in North Arlington of $41 with a starter pistol. It was just after 3:40 a.m. this past March 10 when the victims, both 20, told police that Ahmed Alaidy approached them on Harding Avenue near Morgan Place, pointed what looked like a silver revolver and demanded cash, Police Chief Louis Ghione told CLIFFVIEW PILOT at the time. A Kearny police officer who heard his colleagues’ alert found Alaidy a short time later on the Belleville Turnpike, the chief said. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fairfield, CT
Breaking News
NJ authorities go to court to put ‘As Seen on TV’ company out of business NJ authorities go to court to put ‘As Seen on TV’ company out of business NJ authorities go to court to put ‘As Seen on TV’ company out of business
NJ authorities go to court to put ‘As Seen on TV’ company out of business AS SEEN HERE FIRST: The New Jersey company known for its “As Seen on TV” products used illegal tactics to sell “Instabulbs,” the “Olde Brooklyn Lantern” and the “Pocket Hose” to investigators, say state authorities who aim to shut it down. The state Attorney General and Division of Consumer Affairs have filed a complaint against Telebrands Corp. of Fairfield, alleging a series of violations of New Jersey’s Consumer Fraud Act. Specifically, the complaint says, the company: subjected customers on the phone and online to a lengthy ordering process, sometimes lasting over half an hour; “…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Beekman-Poughquag, NY
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Port Authority police, good Samaritan stop GWB jumper Port Authority police, good Samaritan stop GWB jumper Port Authority police, good Samaritan stop GWB jumper
Port Authority police, good Samaritan stop GWB jumper SHOUT OUTS: A passing bicyclist and a pair of quick-moving Port Authority police officers prevented a man from jumping to his death from the George Washington Bridge, authorities said this morning. The good Samaritan alerted Officers Jeffery Barnable and Teresa Jeffery of the would-be jumper near the bridge’s New York tower around 6:30 last night, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said. They spotted the 21-year-old upstate New York man, who turned and took off on the southside pedestrian walkway, he said. He was heading over the rail when additonal responding officers grabbed him, Penta…

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