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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Monsey, NY
Breaking News
Head-on NY State Thruway crash kills 2 Head-on NY State Thruway crash kills 2 Head-on NY State Thruway crash kills 2
Head-on NY State Thruway crash kills 2 ALERT: A double-fatal head-on crash on the northbound New York State Thruway near Exit 15 in Suffern this morning has backed traffic into New Jersey. The northbound lanes were closed and being detoured at Exit 14B. Southbound lanes were moving very slowly following the 6:50 a.m. wrong-way collision involving a pickup truck and an SUV. Northbound Route 17 was also clogged.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
22-count indictment brought in brutal South Hackensack strip club brawl 22-count indictment brought in brutal South Hackensack strip club brawl 22-count indictment brought in brutal South Hackensack strip club brawl
22-count indictment brought in brutal South Hackensack strip club brawl YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A wild South Hackensack strip-club brawl in which two men were deliberately hit by a car, another was stabbed and a fourth was bashed in the head with a hammer has produced a 22-count indictment. The Jan. 27-28 overnight melee outside Twins Plus Lounge brought a host of law enforcement agencies, leading to charges against six men. Four of them were named in the indictment returned today by a grand jury in Hackensack. The most serious counts were brought against Ernest Brodie and Anthony Pate, who are each charged with the attempted murders of Lukasz Dziewiatkowsk…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
NY man charged with groping woman on flight from Tokyo to Newark NY man charged with groping woman on flight from Tokyo to Newark NY man charged with groping woman on flight from Tokyo to Newark
NY man charged with groping woman on flight from Tokyo to Newark YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Federal agents at Newark Airport arrested an upstate New York man who they said groped a fellow passenger’s breast and tried to shove his hand down her blouse on a flight from Tokyo. Eun Jong Lee, 47, of Ithaca was brought before a judge in U.S. District Court in Newark this afternoon. The FBI charged him with abusive sexual contact. “While the plane was in the air, the woman — who did not know Lee — fell asleep,” U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said this afternoon. “She awoke to find Lee’s hand on the front of her shirt, touching her breast through her clothing. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Former Garfield pizza deliveryman charged with molesting second child Former Garfield pizza deliveryman charged with molesting second child Former Garfield pizza deliveryman charged with molesting second child
Former Garfield pizza deliveryman charged with molesting second child YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Mexican national living in Garfield originally charged with molesting an 11-year-old girl did the same to a 7-year-old boy — and left the younger child alone with the older one for nearly a month, an indictment returned in Hackensack alleges. Eduardo Romero also exposed the children to “narcotic paraphernalia, CDS, and open containers of alcohol,” the indictment charges. Members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit and Garfield police arrested Romero on March 10 on charges of sexually assaulting the girl between the end of last October the begin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
NJ court overturns murder conviction of man accused of pushing wife off Palisades NJ court overturns murder conviction of man accused of pushing wife off Palisades NJ court overturns murder conviction of man accused of pushing wife off Palisades
NJ court overturns murder conviction of man accused of pushing wife off Palisades UPDATE: A New Jersey appeals court today overturned the 2011 conviction of a former Army major and Special Forces member for pushing his wife 120 feet to her death from the Rockefeller Lookout in Englewood Cliffs 22 years ago — and sent the case back to Hackensack for a retrial. “The state’s evidence was by no means overwhelming,” the three-judge Appellate Division panel said in its decision. Superior Court Judge Patrick Roma (FILE PHOTO: Mary K. Miraglia) The judges also ruled that now-retired Superior Court Judge Patrick Roma should have barred hearsay testimony from friends and a cou…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Small wonder: We’re flying in tin cans Small wonder: We’re flying in tin cans Small wonder: We’re flying in tin cans
Small wonder: We’re flying in tin cans A TRAVELER WRITES: For many years, “Honey I Shrunk the Airplane” wasn’t the story for those of us who traveled by air. Steve Miller didn’t sing “tiny old jet airliner.” We had “jumbo jets.” Man Planes. Size mattered with our manly planes. There was the “Air Bus,” the Boeing 747 and then the 787. My entire graduating high school class would have fit comfortably back then. Today? Not so much. The airlines, in order to save money, have cut down on size and space. THE AUTHORBob Michelin I knew in advance that my Embracer Jet today was going to be small. I mean, who goes to Atlanta in Augu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Monsey, NY
Breaking News
Port Authority police officer stops 2 in stolen car Port Authority police officer stops 2 in stolen car Port Authority police officer stops 2 in stolen car
Port Authority police officer stops 2 in stolen car BEYOND BERGEN: A Port Authority police officer arrested two Essex County women after discovering that the car he stopped for having tinted windows was stolen. Port Authority Police Officer Joshua Oliveri stopped the black 1999 Volkswagon sedan for several violation on Route 139 in Jersey City last night, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said. After a computer check showed it reported stolen Friday afternoon, the officer found both the ignition and an exterior door lock assembly popped, he said. Oliveri also reported finding a leatherman and two screwdrivers in the car. Taken into custo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
State officials say Englewood, Saddle Brook glass companies ripped off customers State officials say Englewood, Saddle Brook glass companies ripped off customers State officials say Englewood, Saddle Brook glass companies ripped off customers
State officials say Englewood, Saddle Brook glass companies ripped off customers YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A trio of related companies in Englewood and Saddle Brook caused water damage to homes by improperly installing shower doors and glass, state officials said this morning in announcing a lawsuit against the firms and their two principals. The New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs has filed the suit in Hackensack against J&L Glass & Construction Corp. and Its All Glass Corp., both in Saddle Brook, and Glass Dynamix Corp. of Englewood, as well as their principals, Joel R. Tobia and Evelyn Perez. The businesses, among other things, “incorrectly installed repl…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Lyndhurst police investigate nightclub stabbing Lyndhurst police investigate nightclub stabbing Lyndhurst police investigate nightclub stabbing
Lyndhurst police investigate nightclub stabbing YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Lyndhurst detectives were reviewing surveillance video from a nightclub brawl that sent a man to the hospital with two stab wounds in his chest, one that punctured a lung. The fight broke out just before 2 a.m. at Riva Blue on Riverside Avenue near Kings Court, Capt. John Valente told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The new nightclub restaurant was packed with 350 or so attendees for an event called “Live Love Sundays,” featuring hip-hop performers and deejays. Responding officers found the 21-year-old South Orange victim on the second floor of the club, “covered in a great dea…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Police rescue residents from roof in raging Cliffside Park fire Police rescue residents from roof in raging Cliffside Park fire Police rescue residents from roof in raging Cliffside Park fire
Police rescue residents from roof in raging Cliffside Park fire PHOTOS: A trio of Cliffside Park police officers rescued three people this morning from a raging house fire that officials believe may have been sparked by an unattended candle. Six victims in all were reported treated for smoke inhalation in the Lafayette Avenue blaze, which broke out downstairs around 6:30 a.m. and quickly shot up through the two-family house. Three were already outside when emergency responders arrived. Three others had to climb out the window to the roof, where Officers Nick Franolic, Yakup Zoklu and Scott Young helped two men and a woman down a ladder. “You could…

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